If you don’t like going to tescos etc, get a job that doesn’t involve going to tescos etc. is that rocket science?
interlog:
One problem with demurrage. One thing charging it and expecting to be paid for it when delayed but would the haulier accept a hefty fine when being late for a delivery? It works both ways. Sometimes best not to wish for certain things!
Another option, for regular deliveries ie daily, would be to swap trailers, their shunters could put it on bay when they were ready to tip it. Might work out well for everyone concerned.
It would work well but remember Tesco shunters are lazy (too much red tape within anyway so h+s card would be played) & it’s hard to find in job that doesn’t involve going into tesco, gone are tho good ol’ days you could pick & choose…
Pimpdaddy:
It would work well but remember Tesco shunters are lazy (too much red tape within anyway so h+s card would be played) & it’s hard to find in job that doesn’t involve going into tesco, gone are tho good ol’ days you could pick & choose…
thats why happysack goes tescos when it’s quiet on chip liners 
because he doesn’t have a choice! 
then he has to use the same oxygen as his stobrat " MUCKERS! " 
JLS Driver SOS:
I hear that when you arrive at a Tesco RDC now, you have to tether your truck to the pole outside the loading bays.
neigh lad!
rigga70:
And to be fair if drivers or screwdrivers i shall call them stopped pulling of bays with red lights still on,there would be none of this,just be patient we are getting paid for sitting on our arse …!
but to be fair if they never bs you that you’ll only be five mins once you’ve been sat on our arse ( and getting paid for the pleasure! 
) for over seven hours or more and you’ve repeatedly told them you’re going to run out of time! 
that’s why IRATE drivers used to pull off bays twenty plus years ago! It’s not rocket science!
If you think some RDC’s are a bit lacking in facilities…try collecting from some of the produce firms…then you will really learn about “lack of facilities”!
I haven’t come across any food in the many Tescos I have been to.
At Snodland, you collect your little bullet and are herded across the road into a tiny damp stinking porta-cabin, that really is a [zb] hole
I went back to my cab in Jan at Avonmouth, as I was ill and just wanted to lie down whilst being tipped . . I got a right snotty rollicking when I went back for my keys !!
DonutUK:
If you think some RDC’s are a bit lacking in facilities…try collecting from some of the produce firms…then you will really learn about “lack of facilities”!
but bears do [zb] in the woods! as drivers, we’re our own worst enemy’s if you let us get trampled on 
they’ll keep on tramping!
espresso:
I haven’t come across any food in the many Tescos I have been to.At Snodland, you collect your little bullet and are herded across the road into a tiny damp stinking porta-cabin, that really is a [zb] hole
I went back to my cab in Jan at Avonmouth, as I was ill and just wanted to lie down whilst being tipped . . I got a right snotty rollicking when I went back for my keys !!
Why didn’t you ask to uncouple the unit from the trailer and park the unit away from it? Problem surely solved?
Fatboy slimslow:
Pimpdaddy:
It would work well but remember Tesco shunters are lazy (too much red tape within anyway so h+s card would be played) & it’s hard to find in job that doesn’t involve going into tesco, gone are tho good ol’ days you could pick & choose…thats why happysack goes tescos when it’s quiet on chip liners
Once in two two years!
Wouldn’t such things work if Drivers had to pull the air lines, drop the legs whilst remaining coupled up, with their air lines locked away or something.
Don’t some places actually have things that lock over the air lines anyway?
That way, the driver can hang onto the keys, stop in the truck if necessary and would struggle to pull off a bay with the brakes on?
Or is it that that is too obvious and wouldn’t work?
So there’s some bird offering you hot food, served at your seat & you’re still not happy, what you want a ■■■■■■■■ while you wait?
They’re tipping your load, you’re a driver, Jesus wept, drivers MOAN all the time about F all.
Silver_Surfer:
So there’s some bird offering you hot food, served at your seat & you’re still not happy, what you want a ■■■■■■■■ while you wait?They’re tipping your load, you’re a driver, Jesus wept, drivers MOAN all the time about F all.
Read the post properly, the food was going cold in metal containers.
And it’s not the offering of food, it’s the 3 half hour services in what is a 24 hour operation.
Thankfully I have a job that doesn’t involve RDC deliveries very often, yesterday was a one off due to it being the only load north that was on offer at a reasonable rate.
espresso:
I haven’t come across any food in the many Tescos I have been to.At Snodland, you collect your little bullet and are herded across the road into a tiny damp stinking porta-cabin, that really is a [zb] hole
I went back to my cab in Jan at Avonmouth, as I was ill and just wanted to lie down whilst being tipped . . I got a right snotty rollicking when I went back for my keys !!
Can’t you not leave any valuables in the cab, and then leave it unlocked?
As far as I know at Snodland, the theft is all footstaff out of the warehouse, not among the combinations on the bays by “other drivers”. 
I went back to my cab in Jan at Avonmouth, as I was ill and just wanted to lie down whilst being tipped . . I got a right snotty rollicking when I went back for my keys !!
I never hand over the keys to the truck, I give them my car keys. You’re then free to go back to your cab anytime, simples 
Fergi:
I went back to my cab in Jan at Avonmouth, as I was ill and just wanted to lie down whilst being tipped . . I got a right snotty rollicking when I went back for my keys !!
I never hand over the keys to the truck, I give them my car keys. You’re then free to go back to your cab anytime, simples
Yep. But I’ve got a bloody Alfa logo on mine, so I asked a bloke in a Nuneaton garage long time ago and he gave me some old Iveco keys. Actually the foreign blokes says, this problem doesn’t exist in Europe, this is a part of the biggest ■■■■■■■■ in Britain well known as; “Health and Safety”.
Ok, don’t eat their food, bring a sandwich and a book, simples.
I can’t see why you can’t go into their canteen. who’s to know your delivering to tesco and not a tesco driver ?
interlog:
One problem with demurrage. One thing charging it and expecting to be paid for it when delayed but would the haulier accept a hefty fine when being late for a delivery? It works both ways. Sometimes best not to wish for certain things!
They do fine.