Not to bothered about aldi. Don’t enjoy lidl much as you tip it in no time then wait hours for paperwork. Most aldi places don’t have a drinks or water machine. How do they get away with this? Surely walking around a warehouse there should be access to drinking water. Could be interesting if a driver collapses in summer due to heat exhaustion!!
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My issue isn’t having to tip, it’s the fact that you wouldn’t ask a ‘warehouse operative’ or whatever bs name they have these days to drive the truck as ‘part of their job’.
Personally I’d rather sit there for 3 hours drinking tea and getting paid while someone else lifts and carries. But, then again, I’m always an advocate of most money for least effort! 
switchlogic:
madmackem:
switchlogic:
If you can’t drive an electric pallet truck well I’d question wether you should be driving an HGV for a living…Missing the point I think. Got nothing to do with being able to operate an electric pump truck, but more whether we should even be using it in the first place. HGV drivers, not warehouse operatives.
Part of the job I’m afraid. Some places you have to tip yourself some not. I just had to help unload 300 (dead) lambs in Frankfurt market and while it’s rare we have to help with hanging loads when we do we simply get on with it. Lidl & Aldi RDCs are actually my favourite of the big supermarket RDCs. Given choice between an hour in and out (delivering fresh & frozen goods) of a Lidl tipping myself or 3/4 hours sat in a Tesco waiting room if take the former any time. Truck driving has never been only driving and nothing else, it has lots of aspects. Must dash, got to wash trailer out (doing so doesn’t make me a cleaner
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Please tell me you got Bertie to film that and the trip to Frankfurt is out soon…!!
Truckulent:
My issue isn’t having to tip, it’s the fact that you wouldn’t ask a ‘warehouse operative’ or whatever bs name they have these days to drive the truck as ‘part of their job’.Personally I’d rather sit there for 3 hours drinking tea and getting paid while someone else lifts and carries. But, then again, I’m always an advocate of most money for least effort!
You can’t really use other jobs to define what truck driving involves. Just because warehouse staff aren’t asked to drive (I actually bet some are) doesn’t mean truck driving doesn’t involve loading and unloading. Everyone seems to lament the old days but I swear to god if some of you actually went back and did what drivers had to do in those days you’d die of shock.
So how is that some drivers are expected to unload and some aren’t? If you ordered 6 metres of concrete you wouldn’t expect to get it out of the lorry by yourself would you while the driver sits in his cab?
Or some furniture arriving at your day and the driver sitting in his cab while you help yourself?
So why can’t you get stuck in to the back of your curtain sider? It’s not as if it’s handball up a flight of stairs, it’s an electric pallet truck.
I never had an issue with Aldi self tip, never done Lidl, but it’d be the same approach. Just crack on with the job
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TrackTrucker:
Can you imagine their faces in the office at Aldi Swindon, when, after giving me the key to an electric pallet truck and telling me to do their job for them, I handed them my HGV1 keys and asked them to drive my truck back to the depot! “I can’t do that” one replied, “and neither can I do YOUR bloody job for no extra money” said I
Yes I can imagine the look on their faces was complete indifference.
They’ve seen and heard it all before thousands of times. They are employees doing their job as instructed by their management, do you really believe they care if you refuse to tip? To them you will be just another obnoxious ■■■■ to be dealt with as quickly and easily as possible, so If you refuse to tip then as far as they’re concerned, it’s bye bye driver and we’ll see the load delivered by someone else tomorrow.
I’m kinda curious as to when exactly truck drivers decided to distance them selves from their responsibility for the load.
Too many years ago to think about now, when I started the job on fridges we had to check every pallet that went on the truck for product, quantities and temperature, and if it wasn’t right then it didn’t go on until it wasn’t sorted. Same checks at the receiving end. And there was a good chance the driver was expected to push the pallets on and off at each end. It wasn’t hard work, it helped keep us fit. Mind you, I was quite thankful I came into it late enough to have missed the ‘everything is handballed’ era.
I really don’t get this “not my job” attitude these days, so many slag off modern H&S rules yet try to run and hide behind them to avoid a little bit of work.
It’s not hard work, it will help keep you fit a lot better than sitting in a dingy RDC waiting room trying desperately to avoid the ex SAS driver intent on telling you his entire made up bull ■■■■ life story.
It’s not difficult work, 1 button makes it go forward, 1 button makes it go backwards, and the other makes it go up and down. If you’re reading this then you’ve mastered a smart phone, tablet or laptop, an electric pump truck is by comparison a ■■■■ of ■■■■.
I dread to think how you’d get on with tipping 900 hanging lambs in Rungis overnight when you tell them it’s not your job to be in the back helping.
Stop being a big girls blouse, just get on and do the job and if you really have a problem with self tips then it’s your employer you need to take it up with, not the staff at the tip.
Like he’d ever find his way in or out of Rungis lol.
tomo3607:
said what is it he said an electric pump truck sait im a truck driver and sped off down the isles
brill, I do like riding the electric trucks, but for actual work i’d rather use a manual one and some brute force.
Went to Lidl Bridgend the other week and seeing as only been driving permanent two months im still green and learning.I pulled up onto the bay and sat in cab for ten minutes waiting to be tipped! 
After sitting there I asked another driver what the crack is and of course he explained. Gave me a quick demonstration how to operate the electric pallet truck and ramp.
mick.mh2racing:
So how is that some drivers are expected to unload and some aren’t? If you ordered 6 metres of concrete you wouldn’t expect to get it out of the lorry by yourself would you while the driver sits in his cab?
Or some furniture arriving at your day and the driver sitting in his cab while you help yourself?
So why can’t you get stuck in to the back of your curtain sider? It’s not as if it’s handball up a flight of stairs, it’s an electric pallet truck.
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Always better to be as awkward as possible and then sit there for three hours or more getting angry about why lorry drivers are treated like ■■■■■. The answer to that one is simple: It’s exactly what many are.
switchlogic:
Truckulent:
My issue isn’t having to tip, it’s the fact that you wouldn’t ask a ‘warehouse operative’ or whatever bs name they have these days to drive the truck as ‘part of their job’.Personally I’d rather sit there for 3 hours drinking tea and getting paid while someone else lifts and carries. But, then again, I’m always an advocate of most money for least effort!
You can’t really use other jobs to define what truck driving involves. Just because warehouse staff aren’t asked to drive (I actually bet some are) doesn’t mean truck driving doesn’t involve loading and unloading. Everyone seems to lament the old days but I swear to god if some of you actually went back and did what drivers had to do in those days you’d die of shock.
I wonder how today’s drivers would feel about hand balling 10ton of bricks? Bags of flour? Milk churns?
Work shy tossers.
I try to take the positives from every situation.
3 hours pay for doing nothing at tesco.
Not boring at Aldi.
commonrail:
I try to take the positives from every situation.
3 hours pay for doing nothing at tesco.
Not boring at Aldi.
I manage to pretend I don’t care about being treated like a child at tesco, but only just. If I ever lose it, it’s likely to involve the police.
Aldi I can cope with. Yes, they expect you to work. That is because they treat you like an adult, capable of operating complicated machinery.
Truck drivers are a strange breed. They’ll whinge and moan the face off everyone about having to sit for three hours while some one unloads them yet when they get a chance to take 30 mins to unload their own wagon themselves they ■■■■ and moan about being drivers not warehouse operatives.
I like doing Aldi or Lidl as when you’re on the bay it’s up to you to a certain degree of how long it takes.
The-Snowman:
Truck drivers are a strange breed. They’ll whinge and moan the face off everyone about having to sit for three hours while some one unloads them yet when they get a chance to take 30 mins to unload their own wagon themselves they ■■■■ and moan about being drivers not warehouse operatives.
This is something that also baffles me, as I’ve come across drivers that will moan that they have too much work, then moan when they don’t have enough for any overtime. Couple that with with them also moaning about being flat out, and then moaning about waiting, the only conclusion I come come to is that they are stuck in puberty! 
switchlogic:
If you can’t drive an electric pallet truck well I’d question wether you should be driving an HGV for a living…
Question away young Luke.
Being physically disabled, I can drive a truck (sitting down) but can’t and won’t use an electric or manual pallet truck (walking and moving around).
I’ve only been in a self-tip place once and had a whale of a time, hobbling about with my walking stick, making a scene and refusing to take orders from some bawbag in a warehouse who’s trying to pull a fast one and get somebody else to do their work for them, whilst they sit in the canteen drinking tea and laughing with their mates at the thick drivers working away for nothing.
ThrustMaster:
switchlogic:
If you can’t drive an electric pallet truck well I’d question wether you should be driving an HGV for a living…Question away young Luke.
Being physically disabled, I can drive a truck (sitting down) but can’t and won’t use an electric or manual pallet truck (walking and moving around).
I’ve only been in a self-tip place once and had a whale of a time, hobbling about with my walking stick, making a scene and refusing to take orders from some bawbag in a warehouse who’s trying to pull a fast one and get somebody else to do their work for them, whilst they sit in the canteen drinking tea and laughing with their mates at the thick drivers working away for nothing.
That’s a very different situation to the one the whingers on this post are moaning about
Edit: that last bit is rubbish. If you’re working for nothing when self tipping that’s between you and your boss
If there was no loading dock and the pallets had to be loaded or unloaded outside by a forklift into a box type van /trailer the pallets would be pulled or put on the back door and the driver would have to pull them along the trailer,effectively self tipping.
ThrustMaster:
whilst they sit in the canteen drinking tea and laughing with their mates at the thick drivers working away for nothing.
You’re kidding me right?..
No one can do that at Aldi warehouses. The whole thing is structured that every single minute is devoted to picking, checking, loading or doing something towards getting the stuff into the stores.
It’s one of the many reasons that they’re taking market share from Tesco’s, Asda and Sainsbury’s.
I’m not thick and I don’t care for the inference that I am. I earn a ■■■■ good living delivering to Aldi and all I have to do is wheel off a few pallets, it’s onehelluva difference from ■■■■■■■ 20 tons off by hand.
If you’re unable to deliver to these kind of places I suggest you tell yer boss.
switchlogic:
ThrustMaster:
switchlogic:
If you can’t drive an electric pallet truck well I’d question wether you should be driving an HGV for a living…Question away young Luke.
Being physically disabled, I can drive a truck (sitting down) but can’t and won’t use an electric or manual pallet truck (walking and moving around).
I’ve only been in a self-tip place once and had a whale of a time, hobbling about with my walking stick, making a scene and refusing to take orders from some bawbag in a warehouse who’s trying to pull a fast one and get somebody else to do their work for them, whilst they sit in the canteen drinking tea and laughing with their mates at the thick drivers working away for nothing.
That’s a very different situation to the one the whingers on this post are moaning about
wait til you break a leg in THEIR warehouse! 
bet they’ll never drive you home and I’ll bet you a pound to a pinch of sheet you gaffer won’t pay YOUR wages whilst recuperating for eight weeks. 
carry on, AS YOU WERE. 