I occasionally deliver to landfill sites, quarries and waste dumps (we carry heavy engineering parts for a local company) and most of these sites have a wheel wash on the way out, so that we’re not dragging mud for miles after leaving.
Last week I delivered some huge pallets (IBC’s) of liquid coolant to the new Arla Foods factory being built just outside Aylesbury. They are still very much in the building stage on site, and to get around you have to drive through some pretty deep mud. Once directed to where I was being unloaded, I obviously had to get out of the cab and duly proceeded to collect a heck of a lot of mud on my boots. I scraped as much off as I could before I left, but still plenty enough to make a pretty unseemly mess on my cab floor. On leaving, I asked security where the wheel wash was because my wheel were absolutely caked.
“Ain’t got one driver” came the reply, so I ended up trailing mud all the way out on the access road, and was still leaving faint tracks on the A41.
Is it too much to ask for some running water? Even if it doesn’t clean the truck, I resent that I was spreading mud around the floor of my cab because of a lack of facilities!
