Benjie83:
Couple of questions I’d like to raise if I may to the chiller pros…
Firstly, Is it usual practice for a chiller to be used for anything other than chilled/frozen goods?
I mean it’s gonna look dodgy if the consignment notes say pallets of durex, yet she’s set to minus 25, and sealed up.
I mean don’t get me wrong I’ve wished for some pre chilled rubber over the friction stick in my time but it’s a bit odd.
Secondly, now surely 39 bodies are gonna add some weight to the trailer, and as yet no mention of cargo/amount I’ve seen…?
Which leads me to wonder if he noticed it were maybe feeling odd, so if empty apart from the pour souls in it, I’d presume passed at time of movement maybe they were causing a issues…
Or it felt heavier and so he felt it best to pull up somewhere quiet and check as if you know the Essex area it’s a vosa picknic spot, and being a young OD, nice rig, unusual registration process of wagon, and him being from across the shores maybe he just panicked as I’m sure Alot of us would and dived down a bolt hole before getting potentially crucified.
Now you may say Ooooh he went and hid, he’s guilty but I’m sorry to say if my home, job, income maybe at stake I’d be having a panic too, especially if i knew I’m done for regardless due to the bollox of law, and maybe he simply were tired and overlooked the obvious…
So it’s now a case of damage limitations…
Thirdly, I’m no expert on how long one of these needs to be running when empty to get it to the required temp for say its next load, but I’d assume not long IF empty, and would it be pre sealed for hygiene reasons even when empty if it were say going to be used for specialist goods like pharmaceuticals?
Alot of missing pieces in this case, like Where’s he been since coming over for a Bob tail session and all the other variations to the tale.
I feel press have been bang outta line plastering him out there, as at end of the day if he is guilty of anything it would have been made public in time, but as of yet…(unless the dark forces know otherwise or are playing otherwise…)…
Lads innocent till proven and should be treated as such.
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Fridges are used as said for anything and everything. Either a single or dual temp setup. Dual temp has a bulkhead so you can have say frozen at the front of the trailer set to minus 25 and say ambient at in our case 16° for our food product. Temp is set by the consignee as to what it should be set too.
So it would only be obvious if is stated frozen goods yet the temp or temps were not set to frozen.
An empty fridge will take longer to get to its set temp than a loaded fridge, the more space is taken up by the load the quicker it will reach the set temp.
Also where he opened the trailer is an odd one, right outside an old DHL depot that is no ljbher in use, probably one of the quieter areas around thay estate, but only a spitting distance from the 24hr big blue food bus where drivers congregate and also where all the idiot boy racers meet and drive like lunatics around that road every night pretty much. There is quite a decent amount of traffic flow around there.
So if the plan was to open the trailer and let the people out to be collected then it would be an odd place to do it where people may see things. You’d think you’d choose the quietest spot going.
As always the news reports get mixed and muddled by people. Around Purfleet it is common knowledge of minbusses waiting to collect illegals beijf smuggled in but I don’t think Eastern Avenue is one of this places, its just too busy in my eyes.
As for the whole seal business, it’s your right as a driver to know what’s being hauled and that it’s been loaded and restrained suitably before moving the trailer. The only sensible option is to have it opened at the port by officials and re sealed by them. Customs can inspect the trailer and reseal it and loads don’t get rejected as long as there is paperwork for doing so.
We have inbound loads coming in from Europe, and every one stays sealed until it goes on our bay, however some have been opened and resealed at ports for customs checks.
Paperwork is often tucked into the last pallets by thr Irish drivers that come into our place to collect loads from us for Ireland. We seal them up before they leave and I guarantee those seals will be broken before they get to the destination.
When we were dropping them at Liverpool docks the paperwork was always put in the back of the trailer and sealed.
The containers we take to Dirft are always sealed with a bolt, when we collect an empty or returned load there is a set of bolt cutters at the exit gate for you to remove the seal and check the contents or that it’s empty.
Practises will vary from company to company and probably port to port, but as the driver its your responsibility once you hook up to it, to ensure its safe to travel and that includes checking the oad for security and it’s safe to travel. It really is odd that so many drivers will happily collect something they have no knowledge of its safety.
Lots of people with there opinions on the driver and others arrested. But as far as I understand he has been charged now from news reports, which means the CPS believe there is enough evidence to charge and take it to court. It doesn’t automatically mean he is guilty and is one of the downfalls of our amazing justice system.
If enough evidence points your way you can be found guilty by a jury even when innocent, which is why sometimes innocent people go to jail for crimes they did not commit. Thankfully its probably rare it happens but it does happen.
