Have you delivered to a TESCO RDC recently?

[rob_k]

Rikki-UK:

What is your point Rikki

We already have an article on The Insider about HSE practices at RDC’s, This has led to a response directly to us from TESCO’s.

However if we cannot show the claims that are made in the article are true for a number of drivers then they can be dismissed as just a single persons experiences.

Barrie at Truckersworld and other websites are actively persuing TESCO’s over this policy of forcing drivers to wait extended periods in areas that clearly do not allow drivers to rest suffciently. WE are supporting those actions by using the magazine part of the site to bring this issue to the fore, and using our larger membership/web user numbers to gain facts and opinion from drivers

Good shout Rikki . Glad that the site is supporting the case. Excellent.

[jammymutt]

kitkat:
maybe a letter to TRUCK & DRIVER and other trucker’s mag’s would be a good idea.I think you’d get a more accurate number.

A phone call to James Whale a man who has the utmost respect for those of us who drive lorries might be a good option too, at the end of the day hes a journalist and he has a lot of power also that guy on BBC radio 2 in the morning who relies on lorry drivers listening to his show whatsisname the sock guy but i wouldnt bet on any support from the BBC?.

Its about time the press were involved thats one of the only ways it will change when public awareness is raised.

[paul_midway]

And its because of the above mentioned treatment of drivers and ridiculous waiting times the company i work for refuses to deliver to any tesco rdc , they wants they have to come and gets …

[hitch]

if your going to the beeb try you and yours Radio 4

bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/

[dafmad]

Krankee:
I presume that you were in the ambient section. A backrest. Luxury.

Try the chilled section.

Nope, it was the chilled dept, had chilled on for them.

[rikki-uk]

Links to Articles on this subject on The Insider

Main feature.
On a lighter note

[rob_k]

Rikki-UK:
On a lighter note

Superb .

[bones]

Rikki-UK:
Links to Articles on this subject on The Insider

On a lighter note

Very funny

[dafmad]

I’d like Mr Tesco and or Mr Exel to explain to us just how them being in possession of the vehicle keys and falsely imprisoning the driver in their thrid world facilities makes unloading safe all of a sudden ? We have heard of one incident, that may well be due to their own failings of not providng and using suitable equipment. Now thousands of drivers are affected by their primative, ill thought out, one sided practices, which actually fail H&S rulings.
In comparison, when a rare event such as a plane crash happens, there are investigations and new safety measures put in place if needed, but the passengers aren’t told to go and sit on the wings to make it safe. Because there might be a 5000 to 1 chance (probably lots more) of a crash, do the airlines say to the passengers, well to make it safe, we’ll take your passport, that’ll make it safe.
When you might get in or out of a bus, does the driver give you the keys, to make it safe ?

[convoy]

Rikki-UK:
Links to Articles on this subject on The Insider

On a lighter note

Very good

[andyroo]

DAFMAD:
Tesco’s Chepstow. Believed to be run by Exel.

I don’t believe they wrote ‘till tipped’ on the sign.

When they train forklift drivers, do they give them a certificate that says…

“this fella wos name is writ here can drive the forks now squire”

Couldn’t they find anyone who can write proper english for a sign, I’m not a grammar ■■■■ or opposed to slang, but there’s a difference between everyday speech and when you write a sign.

[blue222]

Got 5.30 Harlow in morning. My colleague went this morning and told me what a crap 2hrs he had there.
Will take camera and post report here 2morrow.
Right now I’m thinking of bedding down on a canteen table or taking the load back…
Which would upset them more?

Been going to Harlow for 9 years. Not a happy bunny right now.

[kitkat]

Was talking to a couple of driver’s from Currieuropeon today,i know they deliver to Tesco’s at Livingston so i asked them what they where like.They said that once you go onto the bay to load/unload you then hand your key’s into the office.You are then given two choice’s.

1.Return to the truck
2.or sit in their driver’s room supplied with drink’s machine (hot/cold) plus a tv to pass your time.They can also use the canteen.

[Lucy]

Bump.

[david5l]

Lucy:
Bump.

Not another one, so close to the last , you must like maternity

[Lucy]

Where’s that frying pan…

[krankee]

Tesco, Doncaster, according to my sources, Driver’s Waiting Area is signed, but must be about 80 yards from the office, so how is one to know when the vehicle is tipped.

Unlike Middleton, the toilet is signed as ‘Gents’, but similar to Middleton one toilet pan with a door than has long since lost any semblance of a lock.

Three seats of the type that are swivel plastic that are found in 'bus stops. Unusable because the area also serves as a cleaner’s store and a long handled broom extended along the back of them. And this for upwards of ten vehicles that may be on the bays at any one time.

Perhaps an opportunity for people to sit there until they run out of hours and then refuse to move off the bay for 11/9 hours.

On the subject of Welham Green. ‘Rumour Control’ suggests that the incident involved one of Turner’s ‘Eastern European’ drivers who, having awoken from slumber, looked in the ‘wrong’ mirror, saw a green light, moved into the driving seat and then moved off.

In all my years on these forums, although I have bemoaned the design characteristics of vehicles whereby, with the keys removed, the radio (and windows) are inoperative, I don’t think I have ever slated the practice of handing in keys. In fact, I know ■■■■ well that where a practice exists that a driver has been allowed to retain keys, that I have advocated engaging the trailer brake purposefully to prevent the (reported) circumstances that happened at Welham Green.

If the systems at Welham Green were defficient, then deal with that. If the systems at other locations have, over the years, proved effective, then why change them?

[thebear]

Well, I am shocked!!
I had a tip at Tesco’s, Chepstow this afternoon. I was chatting to one of our drivers on the way there and he was going on about having to sit in the Office till tipped. I informed him I was in the mood for a row (the reason being I had asked for an early finish and it looked like I wasn’t getting it) so we would see.
I was booked in for 530pm. I turned off the A34 onto the M4 at just after 2pm so had loads of time to spare. Then I got caught up in the accident down by J18!! Took me just over 2 hours from 17 to 18!! I arrived at Chepstow at 1740. Was booked in and sent straight round to bay 49. Now I know I only had one product on…24 pallets of icebergs but thats no reason for what happened next seeing as I was in a foul mood!!
My blue sheet I got back from Tesco’s said… Arrived: 1740 On bay:1745 Off bay: 1810 Departed:1820!!!
At no time was I instructed to sit in the Office despite the big signs everywhere about it. None of the other drivers on the bays were in the Office so it would seem it all depends on who is in the Office whether this latest stupid rule is applied. The toilet was out of order and I was directed to another one with good manners.
All in all, I have to say, an enjoyable visit!!! Makes a change!!

[wheel_nut]

I loaded in Michelin this week, and at both sides of the loading bay was a big notice about drivers not being loaded if the trucks keys are not locked in the key box I placed my keys in the box and the fork truck driver said, “I shouldnt bother with that mate, we dont use that now”

Common Sense Rules, obviously not in Tescos though!

[rob_k]

Can we have an update please Rikki