this is the bloke your on about, seems a top man…
double post… 
I have done supermarket/high street store work for the past 20 odd years and i could write a book àbout it. Working for a small supermarket chain they thought a 40 foot fridge trailer would fit in any store, no nice service road it was reverse into the car park to the front door. To be a proper driver to had to reverse into a car or for maximum points knock a wall down, Ideally on top of a park car 
Once you got in then tip the trailer yourself with the tailift and fight with the cages across the car park and push them in to the store while trying not to run a shopper over. Once you got load off then you got to put all the empty cages and RSU cages back on. It kept you fit and if you really keen you could go back and do a 2nd run.
You had to be on top of the job to do this sort of work, you had to get into nearly impossible places every day which was a challenge but I enjoyed it. I doing easier store work now but you do as much Manuel work as you do driving which suits me by keeping fit. I see alot of drivers come and go who come for the decent rate but carnt hack the work.
Winseer:
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…
The reason you’re not seeing any of the safety stuff for the moving deck is that it’s not a moving deck. He says so right at the start of the video. No cables, nothing to go “twang” - the floor is an integral structural part of the trailer.
Noremac:
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.
I hurt my back moving heavy pallets of antifreeze off the back of a double decker.luckily,it healed but it took nearly a year for the pain to go.The way I look at it,if there are two jobs payibg the same,I dont see tge point picking tge one involvibg moving heavy pallets,unless it was maybd 2 or 3 pound an hour more
job for the masochist . id noticed a guy walking on the side of his shoes recently and wondered if he was disabled or bowlegged or both but later told me he did it cos it hurt to walk that way.
In this day and age where an increasing amount of firms won’t even allow you onto the trailer bed or will do so onky with special sets of steps I’m surprised there’s no working at height thing stipulating that he must wear some form of harness and a hard hat and goggles type of thing.
Don’t mind the cage work tbh. 9/10 times it’s very easy but you do get the odd ■■■■ drop or overloaded cage.
I’ve no issue getting the shop staff to handball it in of needs be.
The only thing that really ■■■■■■ me off are top heavy cages. They go back to the depot and the office staff, if they have any problem with it, are free to drag it off the back of the truck and show me how it’s not so bad…
Surprisingly all my cages have been loaded properly in recent weeks…
> shullbit:
> > whisperingsmith:
> > I regularly see drivers struggling along the pavement to reach this M’Colls in Penzance near me.
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> > Bar Steward of a place to deliver to and nowhere to park anywhere nearby
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> > Google Maps
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> Does the car park to the rear not serve as a service area?
There is no rear entrance. Palmer & Harvey and Muller’s Milk really struggle with their roll cages.
whisperingsmith:
> shullbit:
> > 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
> >
> > Google Maps
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> Does the car park to the rear not serve as a service area?There is no rear entrance. Palmer & Harvey and Muller’s Milk really struggle with their roll cages.
I’d dump it half on the pavement outside the shop on the other side. The single yellow kerb marking means no loading but only at certain times. Scrolling up the street a bit there is a sign which shows loading is permitted 0915-1030 and 1300-1600 and overnight 1845-0845. The latter leaves plenty of window for deliveries, assuming that the shop is open for at least some of those hours.
Only thing is they’d need to only half fill the tets so you can pull them up the hill to the back of your truck. I don’t think dropping the air out of the arse end would make enough of a difference as it looks a bit steep. Or maybe get the garage to make up some wheel leveller ramps like they have for motorhomes and drive the front wheels onto those to level the load bed?
Roymondo:
Winseer:
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…The reason you’re not seeing any of the safety stuff for the moving deck is that it’s not a moving deck. He says so right at the start of the video. No cables, nothing to go “twang” - the floor is an integral structural part of the trailer.
So, to load the upper deck, one presumably needs a special docking bay with two tiers on it…
This “unloading with a pump truck” - is for a loaded lower deck only, meaning that the times the upper deck is in use - that method of loading/unloading is simply not viable…
I’m gobsmacked that anyone could come up with a DD solution that daft in practice!
Moving decks OR loaded/unloaded for you on a special bay - seem like the proper solutions…
I must plead my former ignorance at not thinking such a daft system as what the store delivery DDs use - had ever been put into practice. 
Emons 2Win can get their Double Decker trailers under 4.0m high with fixed decks.
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Wheel Nut:
Emons 2Win can get their Double Decker trailers under 4.0m high with fixed decks.Fixed the link
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I like getting on the back and doing a bit. Beats vegetating in the cab all day on bays, waiting for other lazy gits to sort it. Give me Aldi/Lidls etc. any day.
Don’t get me wrong, you can keep cages into convenience stores, handball and all that crap but I wouldn’t consider moving pallets to the back of the trailer hard work.
firm I work for as got double decks for cage work for high street shops. they are 13.8ft . only good thing about them is we don’t empty them on return to depot.
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jowett1969:
firm I work for as got double decks for cage work for high street shops. they are 13.8ft . only good thing about them is we don’t empty them on return to depot.Sent from my SM-F926B using Tapatalk
13.8 thats less than some normal trailers,most DD are closer to 16 ft, your trailers can`t leave much headroom to work standing upright on the bottom deck.
it’s not too bad working inside trailer, worse part is them bloody barn doors, got to remember not park next posts or other objects stopping opening doors, other single deck trailers got roller shutters
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I watched Raul’s You-tube, and some others. Seems like a top bloke!.
It got me thinking. Is there a thing one could buy to weigh a pallet on a pallet-truck? A presssure pad thing? (I know that there are trucks with scales in them but that would be a pain to take into work every day!)
Just had a google… Quite expensive!
