Found this video on Youtube about a artic driver spending a day delivering to BM stores. Double decker trailer loaded with 40 plus pallets all of which had to be moved to the tail-lift before they were forked off to go into the store. Lot of drinks & 1 tonne pallets all moved with a manual pallet truck. As he says towards the end, he spends more time unloading than driving. No wonder no-one wants these jobs… 
At least he never faced the cobbled route of pain with a missing wheel on one corner.
He’s done…
Another video like this which I left a comment on.
This is where the agency comes into it’s own. When B&M can’t find anyone to do the job for more than a day, they call the agency. The problem they have now is, the agency haven’t got anyone they can send. The army that they had sat at home waiting for a text cos ‘we’re slammed this week’ went home.
For this kind or work there are solutions if they listen to the drivers but, it’s all about bums on seats and keeping costs down so customers keep buying cheap goods so, they still aren’t listening.
■■■■ em
Watched him do his daily checks and that was that….mind you, some of our Europeans don’t even go that far….as long as the card goes in, it’s good to go
At least there is no hi-viz crap at B&M but someone needs to learn to drive a sweeping brush before loading those trailers. My pet hate with a mucky deck.
Seems like a decent bloke though!
Ive just finished store deliveries to go on containers.
I love my new job,never going back to that again
Yikes! 
Not seen inside one of these retail DDs before - but where’s the runner-stops, and other safety devices to stop that low ceiling coming down on your head?
The DDs I’ve seen - have winched up cables that should they snap on one side, would have a potentially loaded upper deck come down AND tilt sideways, likely to be dislodged from any runners at that point as well.
Danger Danger!
As for the hefting of mightyweight pallets wedged in, and in that “Sword of Damocles hanging over one’s head” (That ain’t no crime)
Yep… I think that job can go up as one for the “F… That!” list - for anything less than what a secret agent gets paid as per “danger at work premium”…
Winseer, on the lifting floor trailers, if the blocks are not in place, you don’t go under. Anyway, the one in the video doesn’t appear to be a lifting floor, but one which has a tail-lift that goes all the way up.
I personally don’t see the issue with moving the goods to the back door with a pallet truck, but I don’t think I would enjoy doing the top deck very much to be fair. Moving the goods on the trailer on level ground is a walk in the park though; I don’t see what the fuss is about.
Sploom:
Ive just finished store deliveries to go on containers.
I love my new job,never going back to that again
Dont blame you.Easy job and no load interaction.I should have done it years ago.I get home fresh and happy daily
Backing on to loading bay at stores or taking off with a forklift and you think that’s hard lol, try pushing cages up a precinct or bouncing them up kerbs, fighting kids off and smackheads ect etc, because you can’t get parked up near stores.
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I regularly see drivers struggling along the pavement to reach this M’Colls in Penzance near me.
Bar Steward of a place to deliver to and nowhere to park anywhere nearby
yourhavingalarf:
He’s done…Another video like this which I left a comment on.
This is where the agency comes into it’s own. When B&M can’t find anyone to do the job for more than a day, they call the agency. The problem they have now is, the agency haven’t got anyone they can send. The army that they had sat at home waiting for a text cos ‘we’re slammed this week’ went home.
For this kind or work there are solutions if they listen to the drivers but, it’s all about bums on seats and keeping costs down so customers keep buying cheap goods so, they still aren’t listening.[zb] em
well said
High street front door store deliveries are kind of different from either bays, forklift off or tail-lift in the yard type store deliveries. No doubt the hardest of the lot is high street front door in terms of the work and stress involved. The class 2 guys generally get paid reasonably well for it though.
The o/p seemed to be suggesting that getting the stuff to the back to be forked off is hard. Not really, but granted the driver in the video had to work at height and do two floors. But how heavy can the pallets be with 40 of them?
I can’t believe the snowflakes who think they shouldn’t have to touch a pallet truck.
Noremac:
Winseer, on the lifting floor trailers, if the blocks are not in place, you don’t go under. Anyway, the one in the video doesn’t appear to be a lifting floor, but one which has a tail-lift that goes all the way up.I personally don’t see the issue with moving the goods to the back door with a pallet truck, but I don’t think I would enjoy doing the top deck very much to be fair. Moving the goods on the trailer on level ground is a walk in the park though; I don’t see what the fuss is about.
Maybe I’ve been spoiled by only driving the “dead man’s switch buttons” DD trailers of the courier firms Yodel, RM, and Fedex in the past…
I didn’t realize there was so much H&S disparity between the different kinds of DD trailer across many differing firms… 
The feature I’m just not seeing in this video is the bits that stick out that provide support for the entire floor, should one of the cables snap, and the floor suddenly try to drop on one side - with load on it in particular…
There’s also the 6 foot high clearance when I, and a lot of other blokes (and a few ladies too…) - need to stoop over to do anything with a pump truck underneath it all.
Noremac:
Winseer, on the lifting floor trailers, if the blocks are not in place, you don’t go under. Anyway, the one in the video doesn’t appear to be a lifting floor, but one which has a tail-lift that goes all the way up.I personally don’t see the issue with moving the goods to the back door with a pallet truck, but I don’t think I would enjoy doing the top deck very much to be fair. Moving the goods on the trailer on level ground is a walk in the park though; I don’t see what the fuss is about.
I agree. However, the issues he’s struggling with are common in this type of work and caused solely by bad management. Either one of two things need to happen : 1. the warehouse staff are not allowed to use electric pallet trucks, only manual ones, or 2. the driver is provided with an electric pallet truck. Why? Well, the warehouse staff are the ones who are happily overloading the pallets, safe in the knowledge that their electric pallet truck won’t have any problem moving it across the warehouse and onto the trailer. They also know that the electric pallet truck has the power to force an overloaded pallet alongside another to jam them in like sardines. Neither of these would be easy to do with a manual pallet truck. Of course, the driver demonstrates this as he struggles to pull them out and move them.
The issue with the debris on the decks could easily be fixed by management stipulating to the warehouse staff that the decks need to be swept out before loading.
But as usual in this industry, no-one gives a [zb] and “it’s not my problem/job”, so the drivers will continue to leave as the job is too much hassle, the revolving door of willing agency staff will dwindle and B&M will continue to cry to the RHA about driver shortages when the solution to their problem is staring them right in the face 
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Winseer:
Yikes!Not seen inside one of these retail DDs before - but where’s the runner-stops, and other safety devices to stop that low ceiling coming down on your head?
The DDs I’ve seen - have winched up cables that should they snap on one side, would have a potentially loaded upper deck come down AND tilt sideways, likely to be dislodged from any runners at that point as well.Danger Danger!
As for the hefting of mightyweight pallets wedged in, and in that “Sword of Damocles hanging over one’s head” (That ain’t no crime)
Yep… I think that job can go up as one for the “F… That!” list - for anything less than what a secret agent gets paid as per “danger at work premium”…
Winseer the tail lift run ups act as two things (1) ramps for load/offload (2) they fold upright as “stops”. As for stopping the upper deck malfunctioning there are at least 4 locking devices which lock under the top deck two on each side. Fixed top deck the tail lift goes to the top
lolipop:
they fold upright as “stops”.
From my…
Own days of rookie ■■■■ ups, they stop cages 99% of the time. 
yourhavingalarf:
lolipop:
they fold upright as “stops”.From my…
Own days of rookie ■■■■ ups, they stop cages 99% of the time.
Learnt that lesson on 1st day at Woolies August 90
Silly o clock start, got thrown set of keys and envelope with pod, seal etc. Skegness, know where that is, he mumbled
induction over
Luckily a couple of drivers in the mess room put me onto the store, explained about tail lift, cow bells, seal etc
Arrived at store back door folded the four flaps flat so the deck is clear, rang buzzer to get manager to break seal.
Breaks seal, lift shutter, wheel 1st cage, heavy with sweets, straight off the back. Manager says, “they usually put the back flaps up”
Heanor was my favourite, not, drop, facing uphill on what seemed like a 1 in 4 gradient
whisperingsmith:
I regularly see drivers struggling along the pavement to reach this M’Colls in Penzance near me.Bar Steward of a place to deliver to and nowhere to park anywhere nearby
Does the car park to the rear not serve as a service area?
Noremac:
Winseer, on the lifting floor trailers, if the blocks are not in place, you don’t go under. Anyway, the one in the video doesn’t appear to be a lifting floor, but one which has a tail-lift that goes all the way up.I personally don’t see the issue with moving the goods to the back door with a pallet truck, but I don’t think I would enjoy doing the top deck very much to be fair. Moving the goods on the trailer on level ground is a walk in the park though; I don’t see what the fuss is about.
Raul said that this trailer had a fixed floor.