I am a class 1 Driver and have been for 14 years. I live on a nice 45 home Estate, in a quiet village. The lady who lives behind me does home delivery parcels. For 6 mornings a week Mon-Sat she has a delivery, a 7 1/2 tonner delivers her daily parcels. The lorry starts to reverse at the front of my house,down the side and across the rear, with beepers on, for a whole, max, 30 yards, this is a cul-de-sac. I finish work and get to bed approx 3/4 am, I am woken up for 6 mornings a week. Today I asked the driver if he would be good enough to turn the reversing beepers off, I was greeted with “health and safety” and “it’s after 7 am”. I’m afraid I lost it a little, so I asked where his boss lived and I would put my fridge trailer on -22 and sit outside his house and disturb his sleep, about 2 am for about a year would do, of course I would be on a “legal break”!!! I do not begrudge the lady her job at all, but I do want a good nights kip. I was told always use beepers at RDC’s, industrial estates etc. but I know nothing about private housing estates, where do I stand on a legal issue, I don’t want to “go in with guns blazing” without the correct information!! Anyone help■■?
Never mind the “legal” situation. Find out the name of the MD CEO whatever of the company and write to him/her.
Your letter should make NO threats of any kind but be a reasoned complaint about the disturbance. If you can get any of your neighbours to write as well, or add their names, addresses and signatures to yours, that will be a great help. You could also try involving your local councillor.
NB Write by snail mail - phone calls or e mails are easier to ignore.
When I did Supermarket deliveries there were several that we had to turn off bleepers and/or fridges off for because the neighbours complained.
I live in a quiet close in a small estate in a village. For the last few (weeks?) a lady who lives at (address) has been working for you delivering parcels, and on six mornings a week, a lorry makes a delivery to her home. This lorry starts to reverse at the front of my house; down the side and across the rear, with beepers on, for the whole, distance.
I am a HGV Driver and work a late shift which means that I don’t get to bed until about 3am and this disturbance means that I am unable to get a proper rest. I asked the driver if he would be good enough to turn the reversing beepers off but he said that due to “health and safety” he was obliged to use them.
I do understand that safety is important, but it is also important that I get a good night’s sleep. Under the circumstances I would be most grateful if you could instruct your drivers, that whenever they deliver to this address, they should be as quiet as possible and not to use their reversing beepers.
Ask him (the driver) to bring a copy of the regulation that says he has to use his bleeper after 7 am and tell him you will park your car every morning in an awkward position until he brings it.
Is there a phone number on the side of the truck?
Sounds like parcelnet, you can turn off the reversing bleeper but there is bleep alarm on the backdoor that you cant switch off. It bleeps every few minutes or so.
I used to work for parcelnet had a lot of complaints almost like the identical situation you refer to so i just got the run changed round so i done that drop on the way back to the depot.
Trouble is when i worked at parcelnet they didnt give a hee-how about the neighbours of these people you deliver the parcels to, as long as it was after 7am they where in the clear.
You just get a bunch of keys to garages , out bulidings etc and drop the parcels off without seeing anyone half the time. It twas a weird job.
fifimim:
I am a class 1 Driver and have been for 14 years. I live on a nice 45 home Estate, in a quiet village. The lady who lives behind me does home delivery parcels. For 6 mornings a week Mon-Sat she has a delivery, a 7 1/2 tonner delivers her daily parcels. The lorry starts to reverse at the front of my house,down the side and across the rear, with beepers on, for a whole, max, 30 yards, this is a cul-de-sac. I finish work and get to bed approx 3/4 am, I am woken up for 6 mornings a week. Today I asked the driver if he would be good enough to turn the reversing beepers off, I was greeted with “health and safety” and “it’s after 7 am”. I’m afraid I lost it a little, so I asked where his boss lived and I would put my fridge trailer on -22 and sit outside his house and disturb his sleep, about 2 am for about a year would do, of course I would be on a “legal break”!!! I do not begrudge the lady her job at all, but I do want a good nights kip. I was told always use beepers at RDC’s, industrial estates etc. but I know nothing about private housing estates, where do I stand on a legal issue, I don’t want to “go in with guns blazing” without the correct information!! Anyone help■■?
tired and grumpy Fi
if you pull a reefer how can you complain about people disturbing your sleep, I get people threatening to end my life daily its part of the job
also if you pull a reefer how the hell can a reversing bleeper disturb your sleep, a jumbo jet could come down on my house & I wouldnt hear a bleeding thing, how I miss that throbbing on my odd days off, cant bleeding sleep without it
o.k so its not law to have to use them after 7 but could only think it would go against you if you had an accident and youd turn it off. Ours turn on when lights are off but most times revrrsing bleepers attract people towards your truck!
Can anyone tell me why it is compulsory to use reversing bleepers in a motorway service area? Just as you doze off into that nice cosy state, along comes some idiot who reverses into the space next to you, warning device waking everyone for miles around.
Now I understand the need for these warning devices when you are in a busy street, or reversing into a supermarket loading bay, if you’re trying to reverse across the pavement in Oxford Street during the January sales, or in any other place where members of the public are likely to be in hordes, but a truck park in a motorway service area? We are all big boys and girls, if we are capable of driving 44tonnes of truck and load down Scunthorpe high street, then we should be able to work out in which direction a truck is moving for ourselves.
These warning devices come in several different guises, first there is the standard “beep beep”, boring, loud and very annoying, then you have the ERF type, which sound like the intro to an ABBA song, and then there is the talking type!
“Danger! This vehicle is reversing”
I’ve often wondered what it would be like if you could personalise these, similar to the way you can with sat-nav voices, for instance the robot from Lost in Space.
“Danger will Robinson, this Spacecraft is reversing!”
or maybe Michael Caine;
“This vehicle is reversing, not a lot of people know that!”
How about Sergeant Wilson from dad’s army;
“I say, would you mind awfully moving out of the way, this vehicle needs to go backwards, thanks awfully”
Tommy cooper “this vehicle is going backwards, just like that!”
I would like to record my own along these lines;
“Oi you! Yes you, with the bleach blonde hair and Croydon face lift, are you too stupid to see I’m coming back?” or;
“You! Yes you lard arse, with the pin striped suit, skinny latte, I phone and gold plated cuff links, you may be intelligent enough to lose the bank £3 billion pounds this year, but do you know how much damage would be none to this truck if I hit you? Sweet FA!”
By now of course, you’re wide awake with only 10 minutes of your break left, not much point in trying to sleep, so you sit, looking at the clock, picking your nose, until its time to move on.
Can anyone tell me why it is compulsory to use reversing bleepers in a motorway service area? Just as you doze off into that nice cosy state, along comes some idiot who reverses into the space next to you, warning device waking everyone for miles around.
Now I understand the need for these warning devices when you are in a busy street, or reversing into a supermarket loading bay, if you’re trying to reverse across the pavement in Oxford Street during the January sales, or in any other place where members of the public are likely to be in hordes, but a truck park in a motorway service area? We are all big boys and girls, if we are capable of driving 44tonnes of truck and load down Scunthorpe high street, then we should be able to work out in which direction a truck is moving for ourselves.
These warning devices come in several different guises, first there is the standard “beep beep”, boring, loud and very annoying, then you have the ERF type, which sound like the intro to an ABBA song, and then there is the talking type!
“Danger! This vehicle is reversing”
I’ve often wondered what it would be like if you could personalise these, similar to the way you can with sat-nav voices, for instance the robot from Lost in Space.
“Danger will Robinson, this Spacecraft is reversing!”
or maybe
Michael Caine;
“This vehicle is reversing, not a lot of people know that!”
How about Sergeant Wilson from dad’s army;
“I say, would you mind awfully moving out of the way, this vehicle needs to go backwards, thanks awfully”
Tommy cooper “this vehicle is going backwards, just like that!”
I would like to record my own along these lines;
“Oi you! Yes you, with the bleach blonde hair and Croydon face lift, are you too stupid to see I’m coming back?” or;
“You! Yes you lard arse, with the pin striped suit, skinny latte, I phone and gold plated cuff links, you may be intelligent enough to lose the bank £3 billion pounds this year, but do you know how much damage would be none to this truck if I hit you? Sweet FA!”
I was still smiling at the Michael Caine bit…when i read…
By now of course, you’re wide awake with only 10 minutes of your break left, not much point in trying to sleep, so you sit, looking at the clock,
Thank you all very much, I must admit that at some of your answers I did laugh, love the personalised reversing thing, could think of a few more, but, not for publishing!!!
The company is Parcelforce, and you are quite right, they don’t really want to know, “company policy!” I’m told. The lady he delivers too has also ask them to turn them off, but the regular driver no longer does the round, he was very considerate.
Thank you for the “letter” I will try it, but shall not hold my breath!!
All in all I just hope things improve, the Husbano comes home Friday night, after tramping all week, he likes a lay in on a Saturday morning, and has a short fuse when he is tired!!!
