Hello everyone, please be patient with me I only passed Class 1 3 weeks ago today and I find myself going to Asda RDC Didcot on Sunday night.
I am told they have a wheel locking system for the trailer, can anyone give any advice at all about this system please.
Many thanks
glabrate:
Hello everyone, please be patient with me I only passed Class 1 3 weeks ago today and I find myself going to Asda RDC Didcot on Sunday night.I am told they have a wheel locking system for the trailer, can anyone give any advice at all about this system please.
Many thanks
Not used one for a while.But they have a bar that moves back between the wheels as you reverse back.When you are onto the door.The bar sits between the wheels while your tipped.Then when empty and pull away.The bar moves along also.Nothing too it really and pretty much straight forward.
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It’ll be something like the one in the picture below. As said, the bar locks the trailer wheel from going forward. Feels a bit weird driving forward when it’s unlocked. Keep the speed down and you’ll be fine.
Check in at the goods in office firstly, give them your delivery notes, they will give you a bay number.
Take off your ratchet straps, if the load needed it, undo the trailer internal straps, and stow them at the front headboard of the trailer, so when they unload, the internals are free.
Reverse slowly in to the wheel guidance, keeeping in a straight line.
Once on the bay, the system locks in to place.
Before all that, open the trailer doors ,and secure them.
Go back to goods in, hand in your lorry keys and wait for a few hours in the drivers waiting room.
Any damaged goods, they will reject the damaged goods pallet or refuse the whole load.
If that happens, do not leave site without ringing your planner or manager.
Maybe a vending machine is available while waiting.
Lock the cab, and take a mobile phone, in case of any problems while tipping.
There may be a button to press too on the wall. This will activate the bay and turn the light red.
Once tipped and got a green pull off
Let the gatehouse know if you have a tailift as some of these dock locks are not compatible with certain tailifts
Make sure you align your trailer straight, and if in doubt, get out and check. Clearance for a tail lift has already been mentioned, but also make sure your under run bar is clear.
As you back up to the bar, you will notice a resistance, as if running up to a wheel stop. You need to give a bit more power, to initiate the lock bar to move, which feels a bit weird the first time. If in doubt, or unsure, ask another driver, or the goods in staff, to watch you back.
Just take your time reversing onto the bay … go gently as your trl wheels go over the bar … if you look, you will see the bar come up between your trl wheels.
Just be aware … once you start to go over the bar … you get to a point where you then CAN NOT pull out to take another shunt … you need to be dead straight BEFORE you commit to the last few feet.
This might sound complicated … it ISN’T … once you see how it works, it will make sense.
If you look on You Tube … there might be video of how these bay locking bars work.
And don’t lower your Trailer too much or not at all, some of these locking systems don’t like it and you will catch your mud gard. This results in a broken plastic wing of your axles and a possible Call Out for somebody to fix your wing and mud guard.
Ask the Gatehouse or better Goods In or the Shunter how they want it, but even than get out and look.
This is what they use in the States, when the red light is on it’s engaged and when the green light is on it isn’t. The fun starts when they flick the green on but the lock doesn’t disengage but you don’t know and just want to get the hell out of there and put your foot to the floor then hear the ICC bumper bar at the back of the trailer break off 
I daresay those descriptions will be correct for that site, but be aware different types exist.
In some the driver moves a slider along a rail, and then pushes a bar between the wheels.
Another type the system is similar but is done automatically.
Had another type recently, different again, you lift trailer,slowly reverse wheels up to bar, a second bar then comes out, you select neutral and the whole truck is slowly pulled onto the bay. Handbrake on, job done. It works well, but when some one breaks it (and they will) it`ll be a big repair bill for someone!
Just same as reversing onto any bay, but for gods sake make sure you open the back doors before backing on as you cant move forward to fix that. 
Will feel a little odd as mentioned when moving off as there’s more resistance but if it moves thats fine, it sorts itself. Unless it breaks in which case it rips your axles off.
The banana bars are more your enemy esp in mudguards.
Edit: I remember one not working on a rigid as it wouldn’t for the wheel config, but only cone across auto ones so far. Suspect ASDA will have an auto one as they don’t want the complications of people doing things manually.
This might be a daft question, bit what happens if you drive a reefer and sit, doors open for ages waiting to e unloaded? Are they liable for the loads’ temperature going out of the permitted range?
I deliver chilled/frozen but done via handball so I always close the freezer doors or pull them up tight when load picking.
Muckaway:
This might be a daft question, bit what happens if you drive a reefer and sit, doors open for ages waiting to e unloaded? Are they liable for the loads’ temperature going out of the permitted range?
I deliver chilled/frozen but done via handball so I always close the freezer doors or pull them up tight when load picking.
I once went to a del with maybe a dozen or so frozen plts to tip with them. Told me to back straight on bay. They left me over an hour before they started to tip me. I eventuality got a green, so pulled off. Half of my plts had been loaded back on. Asked them why they were getting refused? Reason given that my trl wasn’t down to temp!
mbax81:
Muckaway:
This might be a daft question, bit what happens if you drive a reefer and sit, doors open for ages waiting to e unloaded? Are they liable for the loads’ temperature going out of the permitted range?
I deliver chilled/frozen but done via handball so I always close the freezer doors or pull them up tight when load picking.I once went to a del with maybe a dozen or so frozen plts to tip with them. Told me to back straight on bay. They left me over an hour before they started to tip me. I eventuality got a green, so pulled off. Half of my plts had been loaded back on. Asked them why they were getting refused? Reason given that my trl wasn’t down to temp!
If you can do a printout before you break the cold chain ie open the doors do it , if not enable the time date location stamp on your phone’s camera
nick2008:
mbax81:
Muckaway:
This might be a daft question, bit what happens if you drive a reefer and sit, doors open for ages waiting to e unloaded? Are they liable for the loads’ temperature going out of the permitted range?
I deliver chilled/frozen but done via handball so I always close the freezer doors or pull them up tight when load picking.I once went to a del with maybe a dozen or so frozen plts to tip with them. Told me to back straight on bay. They left me over an hour before they started to tip me. I eventuality got a green, so pulled off. Half of my plts had been loaded back on. Asked them why they were getting refused? Reason given that my trl wasn’t down to temp!
If you can do a printout before you break the cold chain ie open the doors do it , if not enable the time date location stamp on your phone’s camera
Yeah. Im sure our fridges can all be monitored from the office, so even without a print out it can be established what the temp had been en route, and on arrival.
Personally I think that day they were just short on freezer space, and they just accepted the goods they needed, and sent back what they were in no rush for.
glabrate:
Hello everyone, please be patient with me I only passed Class 1 3 weeks ago today and I find myself going to Asda RDC Didcot on Sunday night.I am told they have a wheel locking system for the trailer, can anyone give any advice at all about this system please.
Many thanks
All good advice from above and as mentioned you’ll need to give it slightly more wellie when reversing, don’t forget to press the big red button next to the bay drivers side which will turn the light to red and you’ll be allowed to sit in your cab with your keys too.
You might be allowed to sit in the cab … but I think most ASDA RDC’s still take your keys from you … if you want to keep your keys so that radio / elec. windows etc still work … get yourself an old set of keys … farm tractor / old truck … and hand those in … don’t give them your CAR keys … and then forget to get them back 
… not that I would ever do anything like this at ASDA 
The Rustler:
You might be allowed to sit in the cab … but I think most ASDA RDC’s still take your keys from you … if you want to keep your keys so that radio / elec. windows etc still work … get yourself an old set of keys … farm tractor / old truck … and hand those in … don’t give them your CAR keys … and then forget to get them back
If there’s wheel locks you can keep your keys and stay in the cab as your wheels are locked until the warehouse bods turn the light back to green for you then you’re good to carry on.
If you have a standard type tail lift, many of these bays have a hole under the ramp, you can drop the tailboard and the plate goes under the cut away.
It also gives a safe refuge if you are likely to be squashed between a trailer and the loading bay.
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