Has anyone done Siniat at Portbury? 
Wasn’t Quinn glass (Encirc) was it Rob? Had this crap there myself.
And Coca Cola Wakefield with their knobhead forkies full of attitude.
Ineos salt are another ’ get off your trailer ’ bunch. Done the chin strap ■■■■■■■■ at a Keedwells brick turdhole at Goole too.
Bloody glad I don’t do that ■■■■■■■■ anymore…
In fact, I will never do any of that ever again. Got a good number with my current employer, and if it goes wrong I will simply hang the keys up and do something else.
We don’t have too long on this planet, and there is no way I am going to put up with being treated like a child by knobheads for the next 25 years.
Get a backbone people and stop rolling over.
eagerbeaver:
brick turdhole at Goole .
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maybe its just me but love the descriptions of some of these places… 
The power goes to their heads, especially when they’re raised above normal flt driver to flt supervisor or such like. I had it last week when I needed the lights fixing on the trailer and drove through the loading area to get a better angle to reverse it into the workshop. Over he comes, asks me where I’m going, and then says you’re not supposed to drive through here. Just told him I am driving through and carried on. Knobheads.
Tris:
Has anyone done Siniat at Portbury?
Yes. With the little trolley that you push to the back of the trailer with flashing beacon on a high pole. That one?
Was always hot as ■■■■ in there 24/7 as well…
Londontrucker123:
Tris:
Has anyone done Siniat at Portbury?Yes. With the little trolley that you push to the back of the trailer with flashing beacon on a high pole. That one?
Was always hot as [zb] in there 24/7 as well…
Yeah that’s the one.
Londontrucker123:
Tris:
Has anyone done Siniat at Portbury?Yes. With the little trolley that you push to the back of the trailer with flashing beacon on a high pole. That one?
…
I was there a few years ago.
I remember thinking at the time that the knob who thought that one up must have got the idea when visiting his old Nan at the weekend, and saw her wheeling her zimmer about and thought to himself
‘‘Wow, I’ve just had a brilliant idea’’ 
…and I’ll put a flashing light on it.
Probably took it off her, took it home, and tied a torch to it as a prototype.
robroy:
Londontrucker123:
Tris:
Has anyone done Siniat at Portbury?Yes. With the little trolley that you push to the back of the trailer with flashing beacon on a high pole. That one?
…
I remember thinking at the time that the knob who thought that one up must have got the idea when visiting his old Nan at the weekend, and saw her wheeling her zimmer about and thought to himself
‘‘Wow, I’ve just had a brilliant idea’’
Probably took it off her, took it home, and tied a torch to it as a prototype.
Tell you what tho, they’ve got a couple of young fit EE birds driving on Class 1 on days. What happened that I noticed that I’m really not sure. Hmm…
Don’t blame the companies enforcing these rules, blame the lawyers and all the chancers using them to cash in on accidental injury.
Having risk assessments and all that jazz isn’t enough to protect companies from claims, they have to demonstrate that they nip in the bud any potentially unsafe activity on their site. If (in the very unlikely event) somebody fell off a trailer whilst adjusting straps & it was found to be common practise to allow drivers to ‘work at height’ without dressing up like a clown & safety harnesses etc. a personal injury lawyer could have a field day. Yes, it’s total ■■■■■■■■ but thats the world we live in.
A company we service won’t allow any access to trailer beds on site despite loads needing strapping criss/cross with the internals. The straps have to be adjusted lengthwise and put to the back doors before you enter the site, then you throw them over the load accordingly after loading. Many drivers get caught out and are told to ■■■■ off and strap up on the road outside because they won’t let them up the steps to lengthen the straps. Barmy. Funnily enough though, no requirement to wear hard hats so it’ll be interesting to see the outcome if somebody takes an air-born strap to the head.
Can’t be long until they want us clipping onto a safety harness for entering & leaving the cab/catwalk.
Blimey, you get some bloke trying to show a bit of care for you Robroy, and you go off on one… 
eagerbeaver:
Wasn’t Quinn glass (Encirc) was it Rob? Had this crap there myself.
Is that the place in Chester? What a rigmarole if that’s the one.
Bloke loading me said a fair few of the security guys were ex-coppers / coppers working part-time IIRC.
eagerbeaver mentioned Coca Cola Wakefield.Oh dear.Where do I start with that place.Their beautiful people talking to all drivers as if to a turd.It must be the comprehensive staff training.I told my boss not to ask me to go there so that I wouldn’t be arrested for gbh.
Gidders:
eagerbeaver mentioned Coca Cola Wakefield.Oh dear.Where do I start with that place.Their beautiful people talking to all drivers as if to a turd.It must be the comprehensive staff training.I told my boss not to ask me to go there so that I wouldn’t be arrested for gbh.
Can’t argue with the back door loading bays though.
Allowed to stay in your cab with your keys. Wheel locking system & a big stop sign plonked in front of your cab. An actually sensible (if still OTT) system. If everywhere was like that i’d be happy.
Yep, Encirc is just next to Chester services (which I highly recommend for a coffee break or 5 ).
Place is riddled with heroes…and as for Coca Cola Wakefield Gidders, it is indeed a place which tests one’s resolve.
eagerbeaver:
Wasn’t Quinn glass (Encirc) was it Rob? Had this crap there myself.
No bud it was a Smurfitt Kappa depot.
daf3300:
hello Roy we go to places that we have to wear a hard hat with a chin strap when we go on the back of trailer , of course when falling we must go head first
Hi Paul mate.
.Yeh things are a bit different since the Belgium rules on H&S and general stuff eh?
My moffitt/kooi course at Zeebrugge was all of 5 mins, consisted of …''That lever is up, that one is down, forward and backward, now you ship out to Hull with 20 drops on ‘’
It would be a 5day course with a test in the UK.
rob22888:
Allowed to stay in your cab with your keys. Wheel locking system & a big stop sign plonked in front of your cab. An actually sensible (if still OTT) system. If everywhere was like that i’d be happy.
Wtf is that all about?? Why would you need a locking wheel system and a big stop sign plonked in front of you for?? They could get to ■■■■ anyone clamping crap to my shiny Alcoas… 
AndrewG:
rob22888:
Allowed to stay in your cab with your keys. Wheel locking system & a big stop sign plonked in front of your cab. An actually sensible (if still OTT) system. If everywhere was like that i’d be happy.Wtf is that all about?? Why would you need a locking wheel system and a big stop sign plonked in front of you for?? They could get to [zb] anyone clamping crap to my shiny Alcoas…
I delivered to Mars at Kings Lynn, they had a wheel system which consisted of a bar that went in front of front trailer axle. They then took your keys off you and you weren’t allowed in the cab whilst you were tipped.
XPO site in trafford park, ask you to apply traitor brake, take keys then but this stupid ducking think in front of the wagon that says don’t drive off.
Oh they also won’t let you drive onto site without wearing a hi vis,
Anybody done The Range at Andover, they have to share the loading yard with Wickes who own the yard.
Wickes had a hs review not long ago and now you can’t put two vehicles in the yard despite the ample space. So now we have to park up on the access road they all share with KFC.
They’ve made the yard safe by making everyone outside the gate unsafe. I keep expecting some poor kiddy to get run over by somebody plowing down the outside of the truck.
Got to the point where I phone them to come get it and pallet the thing off myself and dump it outside the gate rather than wait for them.