If you were to turn off someones fridge and as a result of that, the stock was deemed to be ruined, surely a logged call to the plod would be able to be called upon if any charges resulted in court action. A number plate then obviously would be traced to an employer, or a hire firm which then will have the details of the employer/hirer.
Doesn’t seem sensible to me to run the risk of a criminal damage charge for the sake of a running fridge. I have pulled fridges myself through the day, and WHENEVER POSSIBLE I would park away from closed curtains. However if this is not possible, then I would not pull an infringement to avoid disturbing someones sleep.
We are all just trying to do a job at the end of the day. Or night.
Steve-o:
Punchy Dan:
Parked on the motorgrill recently there was what I thought to be a fridge running which is unusual on there ,30 mins later it’s still running ,just iam getting out to turn it off a 7.5 tonner appears ,turns out he’d been sat with the engine running !
Turn my fridge off I’ll phone your employer
I am the employer so you’d be phoning me ! ,and it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve turned a fridge off or pulled another drivers keys out and thrown them ,as for key board warriors I thought they are the ones hiding behind the username ?
Punchy Dan:
Steve-o:
Punchy Dan:
Parked on the motorgrill recently there was what I thought to be a fridge running which is unusual on there ,30 mins later it’s still running ,just iam getting out to turn it off a 7.5 tonner appears ,turns out he’d been sat with the engine running !
Turn my fridge off I’ll phone your employer
I am the employer so you’d be phoning me ! ,and it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve turned a fridge off or pulled another drivers keys out and thrown them ,as for key board warriors I thought they are the ones hiding behind the username ?
That’s fine a call to the police and then some negative publicity will work wonders.
No one likes a grass son.
Chris1207:
Was anyone in at Washington services NB late last night? There was a wee bit of drama after some [zb] with a fridge (that sounded like a 747 taking off) rocked up at 2:30am and proceeded to park (well, attempt to) next to all the non-fridge trucks instead of over the other side. Made a [zb] of parking it as he took about 4 shunts, revving the ■■■■■■■■ off it AND had his [zb] reversing alarm turned on. Then, to add insult to injury, once he finally got it in… he sat there with it idling and still in reverse (beeep, beeep, beeeeeeep, etc) for a good few minutes before someone finally snapped and got out to “have a word” with him 
Couple minutes of raised voices etc, the last thing i heard was “NAW!, [zb] off” slam before Mr Fridge [zb] [zb] off into the darkness.
Was mildly amusing, though not at 2:30am. A side note: It seems tramping is turning me into a curtain-twitcher 
Fisticuffs sb aswell , i stopped for a cappachino £3.50 or something for half a cup but is was either take it or leave it . Robbing bar stewards !
Punchy Dan:
Call your mum too .
So you wouldn’t mind if someone opened your trailer doors and wrecked your load then ?
bald bloke:
Punchy Dan:
Call your mum too .
So you wouldn’t mind if someone opened your trailer doors and wrecked your load then ?
i wouldn’t park with a fridge running after 9 pm if that’s what the sign says ,you’d look a bit daft ringing the police telling them someone turned my fridge off because I didn’t comply with the truckstop owners conditions ?
Punchy Dan:
bald bloke:
Punchy Dan:
Call your mum too .
So you wouldn’t mind if someone opened your trailer doors and wrecked your load then ?
i wouldn’t park with a fridge running after 9 pm if that’s what the sign says ,you’d look a bit daft ringing the police telling them someone turned my fridge off because I didn’t comply with the truckstop owners conditions ?
Surely its not down to you to police the site rules. You’ve could of caused criminal damage by shutting his fridge off so you’re in the zb instead of getting the owners of the site to either tell him to turn it off or ask him to leave.
You’re not safe anywhere really. There’s a (usually) quiet spot I park at when doing a certain run we do. Off the main road and close to a McDonalds. Once another truck pulled up alongside me and had a break with the engine running. Might have been running his aircon as it was 25 degrees but even so, not good doing that next to a unit with the curtains closed.
As a night tramper it’s horrendous. If you think folk are loud at night you should hear them in the middle of the day. Absolutely no one gives a stuff that you’re trying to sleep. I was woken up once by a bloke breaking a pallet down with a hammer about 5 feet from my unit. Once finished he dumped the bits into some bushes. Imagine someone trying that on an MSA at night, he’d be lynched 
Radar19:
Punchy Dan:
bald bloke:
Punchy Dan:
Call your mum too .
So you wouldn’t mind if someone opened your trailer doors and wrecked your load then ?
i wouldn’t park with a fridge running after 9 pm if that’s what the sign says ,you’d look a bit daft ringing the police telling them someone turned my fridge off because I didn’t comply with the truckstop owners conditions ?
Surely its not down to you to police the site rules. You’ve could of caused criminal damage by shutting his fridge off so you’re in the zb instead of getting the owners of the site to either tell him to turn it off or ask him to leave.
Yeh iam bricking it ,criminal damage shocking .
Juddian:
If you drive a fridge, or any lorry that makes a racket, you should use a bit of common sense and some courtesy but that seems to be too difficult for some.
A standard break on the services at night can usually park somewhere near the pumps by the exit where every can get round and you don’t need to block the pumps up like Birds used to at Hilton Park regularly, simlarly if you have to park near sleeping drivers or delivering to a supermarket near houses you can pull up before the lorry park or (supermarket) somewhere away from the site a couple of minutes out and shut the fridge down.
Just takes a bit of thought.
One of my old Kwik Save mates didn’t switch the fridge off before delivering to Thamesmead, as he backed into the shop (daytime) an old kitchen fridge (the irony) dropped from top of the block of flats smashed to pieces right beside his cab…he switched the fridge off next time…
Not at Tibshelf you can’t if I have to go to Woodall on a night I normally park in the car park where a lot of other park for a break we can leave the fridge running np
taz1972:
animal:
Juddian:
If you drive a fridge, or any lorry that makes a racket, you should use a bit of common sense and some courtesy but that seems to be too difficult for some.
A standard break on the services at night can usually park somewhere near the pumps by the exit where every can get round and you don’t need to block the pumps up like Birds used to at Hilton Park regularly, simlarly if you have to park near sleeping drivers or delivering to a supermarket near houses you can pull up before the lorry park or (supermarket) somewhere away from the site a couple of minutes out and shut the fridge down.
Just takes a bit of thought.
One of my old Kwik Save mates didn’t switch the fridge off before delivering to Thamesmead, as he backed into the shop (daytime) an old kitchen fridge (the irony)
dropped from top of the block of flats smashed to pieces right beside his cab…he
switched the fridge off next time…
You back at work now ■■
Not at Tibshelf you can’t if I have to go to Woodall on a night I normally park in the car park where a lot of other park for a break we can leave the fridge running np
That didn’t work
Are you back at work after jumping off trailers ■■
One of the few downsides of being a “nighter” is that all the irritations described in the OP could happen to you during the daylight hours whilst the nigher is trying to get a kip (even if at home in bed!) - and no bugger gives a ■■■■.
When I have just pulled a 18:00-09:00 shift, just got home at 10am, in bed by 11, and then come dinner time in the hot summer heat 1pm - some dustcart/delivery van with blowing exhaust, footy yobs (if a saturday pm) or even rows in the house next door. FFS Once you wake up after only 2 hours in bed with an outside temperature of 30+ I can’t get back to bloody sleep again! 
Puts paid to going back in after “minimum rest” as well of course… 
Winseer:
One of the few downsides of being a “nighter” is that all the irritations described in the OP could happen to you during the daylight hours whilst the nigher is trying to get a kip (even if at home in bed!) - and no bugger gives a ■■■■.
When I have just pulled a 18:00-09:00 shift, just got home at 10am, in bed by 11, and then come dinner time in the hot summer heat 1pm - some dustcart/delivery van with blowing exhaust, footy yobs (if a saturday pm) or even rows in the house next door. FFS Once you wake up after only 2 hours in bed with an outside temperature of 30+ I can’t get back to bloody sleep again!
Puts paid to going back in after “minimum rest” as well of course…
You’ve just described my life
But you forgot Ice Cream men and tat vans 
Punchy Dan:
bald bloke:
Punchy Dan:
Call your mum too .
So you wouldn’t mind if someone opened your trailer doors and wrecked your load then ?
i wouldn’t park with a fridge running after 9 pm if that’s what the sign says ,you’d look a bit daft ringing the police telling them someone turned my fridge off because I didn’t comply with the truckstop owners conditions ?
Then again if I had to keep the fridge going all night I wouldn’t park somewhere where it had to be turned off I’ll find another place, there seems to be too many people willing to turn fridges off at night who don’t care about the consequences for the load or driver as a lot of these fridges these days are monitored from the office computer, I’m sure the driver of these fridges ain’t exactly too chuffed about nighting out with the fridge running either.
I’ve dabbled with fridge work for Frigoscandia a while back, decent money, top notch motor, but could I ■■■■ sleep hitched to a fridge 
So bad, that I had to jack in the end. (I needed my beauty sleep, and it was playing havoc with my chisled good looks )
As for parking, I always parked with consideration to others, but what used to ■■■■ me was if I was parked on my own first, and then somebody parked beside me and went on to moan about the noise.
Reckon I would not be amused if somebody had knocked the reefer off through the night though…even if it would help me with my sleep probs.
MSAs should let fridges park in the coach parks. I know coaches full go god knows who spend shed loads of money but it’s rare to see a coach park full even in the day in the middle of summer. At night they’re mostly empty.
taz1972:
taz1972:
animal:
Juddian:
If you drive a fridge, or any lorry that makes a racket, you should use a bit of common sense and some courtesy but that seems to be too difficult for some.
A standard break on the services at night can usually park somewhere near the pumps by the exit where every can get round and you don’t need to block the pumps up like Birds used to at Hilton Park regularly, simlarly if you have to park near sleeping drivers or delivering to a supermarket near houses you can pull up before the lorry park or (supermarket) somewhere away from the site a couple of minutes out and shut the fridge down.
Just takes a bit of thought.
One of my old Kwik Save mates didn’t switch the fridge off before delivering to Thamesmead, as he backed into the shop (daytime) an old kitchen fridge (the irony)
dropped from top of the block of flats smashed to pieces right beside his cab…he
switched the fridge off next time…
You back at work now ■■
Not at Tibshelf you can’t if I have to go to Woodall on a night I normally park in the car park where a lot of other park for a break we can leave the fridge running np
That didn’t work
Are you back at work after jumping off trailers ■■
Yep back at work also a change of job ( less hours more pay suits me better ) now back to pulling a fridge at night although I never pan in a MSA or truck park find somewhere else ok most of time my fridge is off as mostly empty load late at night but yep can sleep with it on
There was once parked in Carnforth a few years ago nobody in as was a friday night then another arctic follows in where does he park ■■? yep right next to me when had whole of park to chose from