This is a regular drop of ours
We drive in through the gate and then stop. A guy on a forklift comes and takes my notes, they open the container up, one of them jumps in with a pump truck and pumps it off to his mate on the forks. They then come upto my window and give me my notes back and i drive out of a gate by the red trailer.
Now we’ve all just had a memo. If any of us turn up to that premises with no high viz we will be refused entry from the site. Why would that be, any guesses?
Could it be that they are members of that rare breed
of humans who can not see unless the person is wearing
a Hi–Viz vest.■■?
That place looks familiar Mike - where is it 
They must of employed a partially sighted fork-lift driver.
I once took my HI-VIS home to wash it ,forgot to take it with me in the morning.On the tipper sent to quarry told at the weigh bridge dont come back without it.Drove to the job spoke to gaffer he says you might find a spare in the works van ,picked up the dirtiest garment ever back to quarry explained not taking the PEE weigh bridge guy happy so long as your wearing it the rules are being complied with everyone happy.
To answer the OP’s question; site rules will probably say that ALL personnel on the site will wear a hi-viz. You are on the site; the fact that you do not have to leave your cab is immaterial. From a gaffer’s point of view, the rule is easier to enforce if everyone complies in the first place.
Just as an aside; surely you would go round the back before leaving to check that the doors are properly shut? 
Madness, isn’t it? Especially when, like us, the vehicles are all bright yellow. If I get pulled for not having one on when I’m in the cab I generally reply with “Because I’m wearing my Hi-Viz Lorry”. Rarely works, but gives everyone a smile.
this makes i larf.
quick story for you.
i loading cars out of heathrow park hotel airport for a corby based transporter company,hadnt been there that long.walking down the yard to get my next car,a fellow woman driver(not having a go at women drivers,just happened this was the case)that worked for the same firm had a right go at me for not wearing my hi viz,as per yard rules.she then proceeded to jump into a car and manage to break the landspeed record from load lane to truck(about 500 yards).
she was not happy when i asked her if she minded keeping to the 10 mph speed limit as per yard rules.
oh yea of double standards!!
watch out the hi viz polis are about!!
Is it so the people can see you when you walk near the yellow skip on the right of the photo■■? 
I find they make you invisible. Stand at a transport desk with paperwork in hand for 10 minutes nobody takes a blind bit of notice, but the second you take it off suddenly you’re the centre of everyones attention! The only people who need to wear them in my opinion are motorway workers and people who direct aeroplanes at airports.
They do make people invisible,the idea was that you would stand out but everyone cant stand out.
mike i know exactly wa u mean at the place u have posted above as u know it used to b our job off acl, and we got told to take them at all times then the firm put signs outside their gates stating that hi-viz vests needed to b worn no idea y as we wud either b in our cabs or in the back of the box with the pump truck !
also if u look at the 18 shed on the left side of the entrance to the warehouse next time u r there, look at the dents were my container caught it ooppps !!! 
Lucy:
Madness, isn’t it? Especially when, like us, the vehicles are all bright yellow. If I get pulled for not having one on when I’m in the cab I generally reply with “Because I’m wearing my Hi-Viz Lorry”. Rarely works, but gives everyone a smile.
My last truck was an extremely bright yellow which was hit on the side-skirts no less than 5 times by forklift drivers whose employers insisted on me wearing a hi-vis vest. None of the companies were able to realise the irony of the situations but they all got the bills for the damage to my truck.
■■ If you cant be seen without a Hi-Vis how come they always see you when you forget to put one on. 
mark h:
mike i know exactly wa u mean at the place u have posted above as u know it used to b our job off acl, and we got told to take them at all times then the firm put signs outside their gates stating that hi-viz vests needed to b worn no idea y as we wud either b in our cabs or in the back of the box with the pump truck !
Mind you they could always come outside and unload them if we can’t go in. Not sure if members of the public are instructed to wear hi viz’s while they’re whizzing around the road in the fork trucks 
at least they is using a decent truck and a nice bright colour. (thats the trucks i deliver )
How about people that wear camouflage jackets, with a hi viz over the top of them? WTF 
We deliver to a holding compound for a building site, because it is part of the building site they make us wear hard hats to drop a trailer in the open with nothing around you actually above head height for a good 100yrds in every direction !!! now whats that about !!! and have you ever trried to undo a dog clip on the fith wheel while keeping a hard hat on your head and see what you are doing.
H&S gone mad !!!
And the forklift in that picture does not look like is Taxed and Tested for road use.
H&B gone mad ?
Certainly.
I see Mike’s pic is taken during the day, but . . . . . … . .
I had a couple of “victories” over the past winter. During the hours of darkness (defined as - If I’ve got lights turned on . . . . ) I’ve refused a couple of times to wear Hiviz in the cab while driving . . . . . The windscreen becomes a mirror and the Hiviz stripes/bands cause a blindspot about the size of a person, thereby making them, and other obstacles, invisible.
I really am becoming more and more cantakerous with every passing year I think I’m turning into my dad
Last week I half-challenged the (IMO) rediculous rule of having to turn on your hazard lights when in the yard . . . . . .
Shunter H&B Dude “Why have you not got yoyr 4ways on ?” 
Me “Cos I’ve not broken down” 
I say half-challenged because he then walked off in a huff, sulking. I wanted to get into it but I always prefer them to bring it to me.
dambuster:
Last week I half-challenged the (IMO) rediculous rule of having to turn on your hazard lights when in the yard . . . . . .
Only a matter of time before a guy with a red flag will have to walk ahead of the truck (in full H&S garb, of course, - hard hat, goggles, hi-viz, safety boots).
Bloody country’s gone mad.
I’m just glad I’m well out of it, but I do feel sorry for you guys having to put up with this crap on a daily basis.
Over here, with the exception of a couple of multinationals with a Brit influence, there is none of this H&S nonsense and, hey, guess what?, we tend to survive day by day using common sense without the need to be nannied by a load of stupid rules dreamt up by an office full of dead wood pen pushers.
Rant over