Today I made a collection of shredded scrap metal out of EMR Bootle, as I was waiting to get loaded (5 flamin’ hours!) I saw a twin axle, rear steer Tesco box trailer being weighed in, it was being pulled by a plain white tractor unit. The trailer looked in good shape, maybe 10 years old max and had a tail lift. The trailer was dropped in the yard and later presumably pulled to bits by the mechanical grabs. In the corner of the yard I saw a load of ex-Tesco trailer chassis, all smashed up in a big pile.
I just can’t understand why Tesco would scrap trailers like this? Surely they would have a value on the open market. The ones I saw looked to be short “urban” trailers, so maybe they have a limited market and couldn’t be used for general haulage. Maybe Tesco just don’t want them being sold on and used by a competitor?
The wheels and tyres were removed from the scrapped trailers but all other valuable parts like lights, axles and legs were left on and crushed.
waynedl:
Does seem a waste, whizzing light units and mud guards at least off wouldn’t take long.
Legs would take a bit longer, but are also worth a lot more.
This is Tesco we are talking about here. In fact supermarkets in general. You should see the amount of perfectly good food that disappears into their skips everyday, it’s no wonder they aren’t interested in salvaging a few old truck parts.
Well if it’s a box trailer it’ll have been a fridge, so limited use I’d have thought (as compared to say a curatinsider).
Tesco aren’t replacing their rear steers with new rear steers, just conventional running geared 10 metre trailers. Apparently the maintenance costs are too high on them.
waynedl:
Does seem a waste, whizzing light units and mud guards at least off wouldn’t take long.
Legs would take a bit longer, but are also worth a lot more.
From the state of the ones we used to have a Widnes, and the Curtainsider variants that I run into that are from Goole and Lichfield, there’s not much point in component recovery as they’re “shagged”.
They’re on double tyres, i.e. not super singles, so not sure what use the mudguards would be?
I’m no mechanic, but I can’t see that there’d be an amazing market for pretty knackered components? I’d say the scrap value probably outwieghs the re-sale and stripping the trailer costs?
waynedl:
Does seem a waste, whizzing light units and mud guards at least off wouldn’t take long.
Legs would take a bit longer, but are also worth a lot more.
This is Tesco we are talking about here. In fact supermarkets in general. You should see the amount of perfectly good food that disappears into their skips everyday, it’s no wonder they aren’t interested in salvaging a few old truck parts.
It doesn’t go into skips anymore, it all gets bagged up, frozen and then put back onto the trailers that deliver the fresh food…
Lankytim:
Today I made a collection of shredded scrap metal out of EMR Bootle, as I was waiting to get loaded (5 flamin’ hours!) I saw a twin axle, rear steer Tesco box trailer being weighed in, it was being pulled by a plain white tractor unit. The trailer looked in good shape, maybe 10 years old max and had a tail lift. The trailer was dropped in the yard and later presumably pulled to bits by the mechanical grabs. In the corner of the yard I saw a big pile of ex-Tesco trailer chassis, all smashed up in a big pile.
I just can’t understand why Tesco would scrap trailers like this? Surely they would have a value on the open market. The ones I saw looked to be short “urban” trailers, so maybe they have a limited market and couldn’t be used for general haulage. Maybe Tesco just don’t want them being sold on and used by a competitor?
The wheels and tyres were removed from the scrapped trailers but all other valuable parts like lights, axles and legs were left on and crushed.
It all seemed like a bit of a waste to me.
5 hours are u on containers ? they dont have time to strip them down ive got 3 sets of back lights off them free of charge I run in and out of there crap hole but rates are good a couple of years ago carlsburg weighed in 50 45 foot tautliners in there nothing wrong with them MADNESS. They all had alloy wheels on and good tyres bought 16 wheels with tyres for £40 each
all the on date food gets sold off on sunday afternoon for 10 pence an item,well it did up to a couple of years ago,dont know if they still do it,loaves 10p,mince packs 10p,veg 10p,think they got fed up of all the fighting for it though.
waynedl:
Does seem a waste, whizzing light units and mud guards at least off wouldn’t take long.
Legs would take a bit longer, but are also worth a lot more.
This is Tesco we are talking about here. In fact supermarkets in general. You should see the amount of perfectly good food that disappears into their skips everyday, it’s no wonder they aren’t interested in salvaging a few old truck parts.
It doesn’t go into skips anymore, it all gets bagged up, frozen and then put back onto the trailers that deliver the fresh food…
Probably an attempt to stamp out the lazy in-store activity I witnessed when doing my stint as a Tesco shop lackey. The damages used to be allowed to build up to the point where it was an epic job to sort out, so one evening the whole lot would miraculously disappear & the compactor skip suspiciously full. We are talking tins of soup with a dent in etc.
As far as I am aware, the in store bakeries still over-produce on purpose to keep the shelves full, then sling the lot at the close of play.
Daytrunker:
Girlfriend works for tesco at a tesco express every day they throw 4 bin bags of cakes away plus the fresh and sandwiches waste of food and money
If they give that sort of stuff away and someone gets I’ll then it’ll be Tesco who are liable, that’s the main reason it all gets chucked
I run in and out of there crap hole but rates are good a couple of years ago carlsburg weighed in 50 45 foot tautliners in there nothing wrong with them MADNESS. They all had alloy wheels on and good tyres bought 16 wheels with tyres for £40 each 
