The places that make me laugh are the ones where you put a salvo lock lock on and hand your keys in and yet they still won’t let you sit in the cab ffs why you can’t move .
The-Snowman:
Last Thursday I arrived at asda grangemouth at 1420.
Ten to [zb] 9 I got out of there.I had 12 pallets
How does so much unproductive time possibly pay your company? Better off without that quality of work surely.
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I do a delivery…
To a warehouse with a lounge that drivers can access. It has comfy sofas, tables and chairs as well as a really good canteen that serves up excellent food. You can pay with a contactless card and the wi-fi is free.
It can be done but, the attitude of the larger supermarkets and internet traders needs to change before we can expect decent treatment from them.
Similar to Twoninety88’s post, I’d love to boycott these dumps that treat us like cattle but, my hands are tied. I have ten years left, I just want a quiet life which I have now with the job I do. My fighting days are over.
The reason for handing keys over is because somewhere, one day, some twonk will have driven off the bay with the red light still on! Personally I don`t care how long I am sat at an rdc, as long as I have enough time to get back home, paid by the hour so it makes no difference to me. Not that I do them very often anyway.
The sad truth is that the reason drivers have to put up with a lot of this crap is that a significant minority of drivers are quite frankly idiots who shouldn’t be trusted with a train set never mind a lorry!
It’s my turn to be yard shunter next week and I absolutely guarantee that between one and ten times an outside driver will hand me a set of keys that are quite obviously from a different marque than the vehicle he is driving. Personally I don’t care about that as I’m not paid to be the yard policeman, but it’s only a matter of time before it all goes Pete Tong and drivers are no longer allowed to stay in their cabs.
Last time I shunted a driver made an obvious effort and leant down from his Actros and handed me his Mercedes car keys (10 out 10 for effort though). When I came back from lunch he’d taken the Salvo lock off and left it on the floor and left the yard, still with “his keys” in my tug. Hope he didn’t need them as I dropped them in the bin.
the maoster:
The sad truth is that the reason drivers have to put up with a lot of this crap is that a significant minority of drivers are quite frankly idiots who shouldn’t be trusted with a train set never mind a lorry!It’s my turn to be yard shunter next week and I absolutely guarantee that between one and ten times an outside driver will hand me a set of keys that are quite obviously from a different marque than the vehicle he is driving. Personally I don’t care about that as I’m not paid to be the yard policeman, but it’s only a matter of time before it all goes Pete Tong and drivers are no longer allowed to stay in their cabs.
Last time I shunted a driver made an obvious effort and leant down from his Actros and handed me his Mercedes car keys (10 out 10 for effort though). When I came back from lunch he’d taken the Salvo lock off and left it on the floor and left the yard, still with “his keys” in my tug. Hope he didn’t need them as I dropped them in the bin.
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We use to have to sit in the tearooms, but cold store boys kept moaning about drivers asleep in “there seats”
Also 2-3 hours to load 26plts.
But paid by hour. Hay ho.