Places like that are dic-kheadednous gone mad. It’s amazing they don’t just implode into a decreasing ball of stationary matter made up of worry, health and safety signs, hi viz colouring and disclaimers. Kind of like a celestial ‘event horizon’ of health and safety. Suprised all their employees in the canteen aren’t rigamortis’d into one fixed position, unable or dare to move due fear of eating related injury, scalding, crushing, burning, hijack, bombing, acts of god…
You know this has come from? Some clown somewhere sued some company or other, EU law is very driven and all of a sudden the whole European industrial world catches the cold of disclaimer. That’s what it’s about. Yet in some places blokes working for the same multinational are loading aircraft and ships being paid 10 pounds a month working 80 -100 hour weeks eating scant food, wearing rags, and those goods are received with warm hand by said companies in the UK. One word for those in control…and it rhymes with two faced capricious pricks.
THE ■■■■■ in Goods in thought she was the dogs nuts but acted more like the dogs loaf … she told me I’d be ages I told her I didn’t think so not for 1 pallet and that I was on time … hour later I went in for me notes and she refused well I didn’t need the notes to get off site nor the gate pass as a simple "open or I bust the gate " I think the guys on security knew the score as I never had crap off them .
many years ago, I was there when a big jock with hands the size of shovels! one arrowed her right on the beak! she flew off her chair right into the office!
Hi. Wilkinsons shop in halifax many years ago approach is downhill dead end then blind reverse uphill with substansial wall and bollards on right with having to kiss the wall to make the turn if you were lucky a member of staff would banks you in but as always when you tell people to SHOUT and wave they neither SHOUT or wave so innifectually its no help
smithfeild market on a sunday night total free for all
Linlithgow for refractory fire bricks . down hill reverse with a 90 degree right halfway down brick walls both sides bump and scrape all the way in stupid tight
but then again im such an EXPERT … i can mess up a straight reverse… no problem lol
Robert Dyas in Enfield. ■■■■■■■■ of a place, the loading bays are on a slope that if you have weight on and you have to shunt to get the right position you can rip your rear wheel arches off. The bay’s are so close that if you have trucks on bays either side of you, you can’t open the door enough to get out so hope you don’t get the trots whilst tipping
Oh and the prick on the goods in desk is the biggest sour faced ■■■■ I’ve ever encountered. Every time you go he goes off on one as though it’s your fault you are delivering the stock THEY ordered
JD Sports in Rochdale. Last time I was there it was 3 hours for 8 pallets and when I was finally told they would let me out for good behaviour the thieving ■■■■■ had nicked the pallet truck from my wagon. It took 10 minutes for them to admit they had taken it, and another 15 before they opened the bay door to give it me back. ■■■■■■■■
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Robert Dyas in Enfield. [zb] of a place, the loading bays are on a slope that if you have weight on and you have to shunt to get the right position you can rip your rear wheel arches off. The bay’s are so close that if you have trucks on bays either side of you, you can’t open the door enough to get out so hope you don’t get the trots whilst tipping
Oh and the prick on the goods in desk is the biggest sour faced [zb] I’ve ever encountered. Every time you go he goes off on one as though it’s your fault you are delivering the stock THEY ordered
There’s two miserable sods there, a young kid and a fat bloke. Every time we go in with a double decker they moan and whinge about it. “We can’t tip it outside, it has to go on a bay” but they always do tip it anyway.
B & Q Wandsworth, low bridge one side so drive in and reverse out blind onto a tight double parked road with impatient twunts not giving you an inch. And if you have to wait watch out for parking nazis…
Freight Dog:
It’s amazing they don’t just implode into a decreasing ball of stationary matter made up of worry, health and safety signs, hi viz colouring and disclaimers. Kind of like a celestial ‘event horizon’ of health and safety.
That’s best comment on health and safety I’ve read for a while.
jetsilver:
B & Q Wandsworth, low bridge one side so drive in and reverse out blind onto a tight double parked road with impatient twunts not giving you an inch. And if you have to wait watch out for parking nazis…
We used to deliver flower pots there as our trailers are 14 foot 11 they wouldn’t go under the bridge so you had to turn left where the waste depot is then blind side reverse around the corner and reverse the wrong way down a one way street which the locals use as a cut through to avoid the lights.
The tossers on goods in said they couldn’t act as a banksman to watch you down the street so I refused to do it as I wasn’t going to be done by the old bill if I caused an RTA by doing said stupid reverse. First time I went I had a flat trailer on so could get under the bridge
Also as you know no ■■■■■■ stops for you down the smoke either
Lees cliff hall, Folkestone, Long, narrow reverse down the cliff to the loading door. Cardiff arena, curved, ramp into arena with railings either side and not much room for error. Madrid arena when they had recently refurbished and had to chisel the concrete away to get trucks in.
3 wheeler:
I had a new car delivered today , I had to get in and his screw his unit around until the cab was half way through my hedge before reversing out of our close.
The driver was near in tears saying no way could he get it out again.
The bit I find funny was on his notes…it said “plenty of room to turn”
I had told them to call me from the main road and I would met them…as there is NO room, and a sodding ditch down one side where the old bill dropped a Vauxhall van about 2yrs ago !!!
Poor sod was not an agency either , but he was in his probation period…and I did not tell his boss either So out of decency I will not name and shame as I think he has learned to put a coat on and walk in and look in future , Like you old hands would !!!
Yep been there. Had one yesterday 6pm small cul de sac 2 cars on and 1 to pick up. Of course no room to park the truck let alone 2 other cars I need to take off cause there to big for the top deck!
toby1234abc:
It is shut down now, but Woolies
At Swindon, narrow unloading bays.
Pillars and posts that got hit daily.
The “punishment bay” reserved if you were late or had attitude.
The floor was littered with mirrors and other bits of truck that became a cropper.
You could be there six hours or more.
+1.
Turned up one day at 10:30 am for a tip booked for 10:45. I pulled out at 19:15. The last three hours on the dock. For 6 lifts of 16 pallets of pyrex dishes.
And it was alright for the big boys. Go in with a rigid and you could not open your door.
London is a piece of ■■■■ compared to Woolworths Swindon.
and woollies castleton 
Swindon too was a PITA 
one arrowed her right on the beak! 
right into the office! 
so hope you don’t get the trots whilst tipping 
