FarnboroughBoy11:
It didnt look like he raised the air on the trailer at all though to compensate for the incline. My trailer arse would have been in the air and the unit dumped to the ground.
And he didnt raise the mid lift when stuck in snow on his last drop, (could have been tag overload so I’ll let him off on that but still I doubt he was heavy over the pin by the time he got to his last drop)
Thought that myself.
I had a dolly of coke go over and off the tail lift today,zb me do them bottles go off when they get shook up 
,the old geezer got sprayed to zb ,if looks could kill .
By my reckoning, he’d dropped the unit airbags, but not put trailer up.
Problem with that trailer (think we’ve only got 1 or 2) is that its got a “Low Noise Auto Ramp Tail lift”. So the tail lift comes down, then you have a bank of 4 switches to lower each of the ramps. However, there’s sensors underneath so that you can’t accidentally drop a flap when its at the top. SOME, have an override switch, but for some strange reason, not all do.
Also, the pavement is also on a slope, so if the tail lift is level, the ramp will touch down at the uphill end, but maybe be 3 inches away from the ground at the downhill end.
The ambient cages; it’s a sad fact that the pickers in the warehouse just don’t give a toss. If I had a penny for every time I’d filled in a bad load report for cages like that I’d buy Tesco. Unfortunately no-one has been seriously hurt enough for Distribution to take notice yet. Most store managers agree and forward complaints regularly.
Splitting the weight amongst cages is sometimes done, however, if it’s fresh, flowers on the bottom shelf and Orange Juice on top shelf, ambient, then it’s crisps and bog roll on the bottom, beer on top.
Most people will agree that once something starts to go off a tail lift, stand well back and let it go, it’s easier to wash away bottles of pop than your blood…
localboy:
We have to deal with this sort of thing every day at the co-op! One of the worst is Lyme Regis and the Tesco lorry is double manned ( we are not!). The driver of the tesco wagon told me they can’t adjust the level too much on the trailers because the automatic tail-lift flaps won’t operate because they have some kind of angle sensor on them. I have not seen the programme yet so don’t know if this was the reason.
i agree mate i done lyme regis for co op when at chelston and agree how more drivers arnt hurt baffles me !! complain then they say do it now and we will look into it !! H/S bloke at chelston was that far up bosses bum it was waste of time saying anything !! worse job i ever had glad to get out of trolley work !! you done eldene at swindon mate ? penzance ? they are even worse !!
martinviking:
Is it just me, but watching Stobart’s last night, Phil the Scouser was delivering to the Tesco store in Ulverston, Lake District, on a hill. Struggling with cages of reasonably light ambient goods & then he came to the cages of pop, on the wet deck, running down hill !I was so glad that the program highlighted the problems we can come across in our everyday duties.
That delivery was potentially Fatal, if he’d been behind the coke/lemonade & couldn’t slow it down, that cage could have come off the back of that Poxy tail lift, straight on top of Phil. Then he was struggling to hold the rest of the cages in the wagon.
Where was Tesco/Stobart’s Risk assessment for this store delivery, 1st point I would put across would be that this delivery Will be a 2 man delivery (meaning 2 men on the back of the wagon, not 1 on the wagon & 1 doing Tesco’s back door staff’s work for them) along with all the usual BS of PPE.
I thought his name was Jim not Phil 
Just saying 
tango boy:
martinviking:
Is it just me, but watching Stobart’s last night, Phil the Scouser was delivering to the Tesco store in Ulverston, Lake District, on a hill. Struggling with cages of reasonably light ambient goods & then he came to the cages of pop, on the wet deck, running down hill !I was so glad that the program highlighted the problems we can come across in our everyday duties.
That delivery was potentially Fatal, if he’d been behind the coke/lemonade & couldn’t slow it down, that cage could have come off the back of that Poxy tail lift, straight on top of Phil. Then he was struggling to hold the rest of the cages in the wagon.
Where was Tesco/Stobart’s Risk assessment for this store delivery, 1st point I would put across would be that this delivery Will be a 2 man delivery (meaning 2 men on the back of the wagon, not 1 on the wagon & 1 doing Tesco’s back door staff’s work for them) along with all the usual BS of PPE.
I thought his name was Jim not Phil
Jim, Phil, Bert, Andy, Ralph, Susan, Gladis ! doesn’t really matter (I was just putting my point across)
Well noticed though
localboy:
We have to deal with this sort of thing every day at the co-op! One of the worst is Lyme Regis and the Tesco lorry is double manned ( we are not!). The driver of the tesco wagon told me they can’t adjust the level too much on the trailers because the automatic tail-lift flaps won’t operate because they have some kind of angle sensor on them. I have not seen the programme yet so don’t know if this was the reason.
same here but in a rigid, full cages of pop/alchohol, around 20 drops a day , single manned…no help whatsoever from anyone! …he made it look hard work tbf…
i have to say ive done a lot worse than that! try 2 pallets of wine stacked high 980kg each on a massive hill on a rigid that you cant move anything apart from change the tail lift angle on and thats hard i didnt see what his problem was it didnt look like that much of a hill looked a bit dressed up for teley
You’ll probably find it way all over dramatised for TV, which can’t be a bad thing really. The sooner the general public see what truck drivers have to deal with the better!
was he bringing them down the lorry , or off the tail lift ■■ ,
my instructions are simple, i get to the store by following a very good route map, which includes how to park on slopes , then at the store, i put them on the taillift, i dont bring them off the taillift , along paths, into shops ,or put the returns on thats the shops job
i find that if you rush, you get payed less, so why rush, do a bit have a cuppa, do a bit more , watch the minions struggling , if it takes a hour for them to move them so be it , iam in no rush , today the bright sparks blocked the taillift with returns so they couldnt get the stuff off , took them half a hour to notice
but you would be amazed how many dont use suspension to level the trailers
why not just turn the truck round
That has to be a Budgens delivery, done them many times, what a ■■■■ of a job.
Sapper
well its cracking today , only got 2 drops , nice and easy ,and someones done this, looks like its gonna be a 15hr today , keerrrrchiiinnggg!!!
Brilliant! Shame you can’t block them in from behind. Phone the local traffic warden and helpfully point it out to them.
holliefabbabe:
well its cracking today , only got 2 drops , nice and easy ,and someones done this, looks like its gonna be a 15hr today , keerrrrchiiinnggg!!!
you sound as if nothing bothers you in your work, nice attitude to have.
well believe it or not , i got a ticket , for parking in a disabled area , as the normal spot was taken up with 3663s finest , with a erm issue, called a cracked sump, god knows how he did that on that low kerb ,
Then the nice large ethinc lady (the one under the tail lift starts on the one fingered salutes and coffee jar shaking, in front of hobby bobby and the lady rozzer, amazing because if a called her a bone idle fat ■■■■■ iam sure i would of been told off, but hay ho ,
anyway both cars front and back were asked to moved , they were allowed to reverse the wrong way down a one way street by a 18 year old femail rozzer, who then told me i was being reported to my employer due to my attatude , lol
anyway, they think they achived so much by blocking me in, for me to get a ticket, but overall i earnt another £30, put the price of there sandwiches up , and had some fun in the process,