Robertthegreat:
It’s generally big fat over weight drivers who start moaning about it.
Sooooooooooo true
Im quite happy to get in the back and unload, gets you some excerise
Robertthegreat:
It’s generally big fat over weight drivers who start moaning about it.
Agreed.
Chill deliveries at Morrison Wakefield… they tip the load, if you go inside and help to split it down, you might be there an hour with 26 mixed pallets.
If you don’t, you are condemned to sit and listen for at least two hours to the BFOW drivers’ tales of how they never do any manual work.
Not a hard choice…
Regards,
Nick.
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Robertthegreat:
It’s generally big fat over weight drivers who start moaning about it.Sooooooooooo true
Im quite happy to get in the back and unload, gets you some excerise
My thoughts exactly, I always feel energised after I’ve tipped a trailer myself, it’s exercise but it’s not exactly hard work. I quite often have to load the trailer myself in mainland Europe, don’t mind that either.
I think it is the only time drivers help each other these days, and probably the only time they talk to each other, mind you they are probably moaning about the unfairness of it all.
“I am a lorry driver, if I wanted to work in a warehouse I would have applied for a job here”
It isn’t my job, Chauffeur must rest ■■■■■■■■ 
Used to deliver to Netto at South Emsall quite alot. Same there. Once you backed onto a bay you then had to go in search of an electric pallet truck and tip yourself. Line up the pallets on the dock then wait for someone to come and check it.
It is just another money saving excercise, so they can get away with having as few staff as possible.
Malc44:
Once you backed onto a bay you then had to go in search of an electric pallet truck and tip yourself…
Are you trained to use one of those? - I ask as I’ve seen some pretty horrific incidents where untrained personnel have used them !!
ThrustMaster:
I’d love to go to a self-tip RDC and would take great delight in telling to eff off.
A fall from a trailer a few years ago left me with a knackered leg and I use a walking stick and have a disabled blue-badge, which I’d wave in front of their face, whilst hobbling about with my walking stick.I’m a driver not a manual labourer.
I agree 100%…“driver” NOT warehouse person !!!
My biggest gripe about self tip etc, is not having to do it so much as the hypocracy that goes with it. In Tesco, asda etc, I am not even trusted to sit in my cab, for “health & safety” reasons, I can not go into the warehouse to help un load, in some I can’t even be trusted to sit in the staff canteen. If I did, i would need a 2 day induction on H&S, followed by training in Manual Handling, and use of the MHE. Most have large signs telling me that I can not use the MHE unless i have been trained by them.
But in aldi, lidl etc, I HAVE to go into the warehouse that I have no idea about the fire evacuation procedures, first aid,etc, they don’t have a clue, nor do they care whether I can use the MHE provided, nor do most check whether i am wearing safety boots etc.
so which is right? This is where the bullshot of H&S laws come unstuck!
Malc44:
It is just another money saving excercise, so they can get away with having as few staff as possible.
Of course it is, that is how they can offer the prices they do.
“You will have to sheet that load of kiln dried timber drive.” “No sorry, its not my job. I am a driver, not a bloody labourer”
ThrustMaster:
I’d love to go to a self-tip RDC and would take great delight in telling to eff off.
A fall from a trailer a few years ago left me with a knackered leg and I use a walking stick and have a disabled blue-badge, which I’d wave in front of their face, whilst hobbling about with my walking stick.I’m a driver not a manual labourer.
Driving is manual labour! Some driving jobs involve more than others.
I dont think lidls/aldi staff woud be impressed by your walking stick or blue badge. You woud be sent away and your boss might lose a contract.
jimmyinrugby1971:
Please don’t shout at me,but why o why do we drivers stand for this?..On a visit to Alidi in Middleton today I was told I had to tip myself then put the pallets in the bays according to the item grading…THEN he wanted me to strip on the plastic banding !!>…F off springs to mind !!
Don’t you think if we all stuck together these asses would tip the truck for us as it should be?..Can you really see it in Europe?..NO WAY !!!
talk about lift one finger to do some work and then moan about it
I don’t mind tipping a load myself, if a company has a self-tip policy and I’m given any necessary equipment to do the job then I’m fine with it.
Was never trained to use the electric pallet trucks. It was a few years ago mind. With all the health and safety these days I bet they won’t allow you to use one without the correct experience/training now.
Lidl’s train you now,but you have to be trained at every single depot of theirs,i dont mind doing it,gets me out of the cab.
Much prefer Aldis to lidls though,lidls are too fussy!
tipped in Aldi Atherstone once a week regularly for the last 12 months…
some times they would take the odd pallet off for you and also any one noticed the only people wearing hi-vis are the drivers tipping?? (apart from moi!)
And as said before not hard work or rocket science to operate pallet truck and free exercises.
Talking bout exercise try Bhs store deliveries in the summer!!!
ROG:
Malc44:
Once you backed onto a bay you then had to go in search of an electric pallet truck and tip yourself…Are you trained to use one of those? - I ask as I’ve seen some pretty horrific incidents where untrained personnel have used them !!
Natural selection, they aren’t exactly rocket science 
You’d have to be some kind of muppet to have a pretty horrific accident with one
jimmyinrugby1971:
Please don’t shout at me,but why o why do we drivers stand for this?..On a visit to Alidi in Middleton today I was told I had to tip myself then put the pallets in the bays according to the item grading…THEN he wanted me to strip on the plastic banding !!>…F off springs to mind !!
Don’t you think if we all stuck together these asses would tip the truck for us as it should be?..Can you really see it in Europe?..NO WAY !!!
Well,that is very Easy with Aldi.
Aldi gives the Oportunity to bring a Load,on Pallets,not higher then 1.20 Meter to there Distributons Centre.
Some Forwarder takes it all and Transport Company also gets better paid if you load as much as possible,why Shoes from Italy loaded loos and Driver has to put it on Pallets.
Its also agreed by Forwarder who takes the Lot and contracts Trucking Companies that the Load gets put behind the First Lockable Door.Thats the Shutter on the Bay.
Now you have two posibilities.
1.) You don’t take the Load
or
2.) You do as the Forwarder orders,or he doesn’t pay your Company
but its not Aldi and not Lidl or whoever
On the other Hand i did Aldi for over 10 Year and got not a single Job canceled,i can’t say from Tsco or Asda
psv8:
been self tip for as long as i can remember .can be a long wait if you cant understand the language clearly from them first time you go its a long wait till someone finaly tells you
after that pull it out they give you electric pallet trucks so not as if busting your balls dragging it off
Normaly you go in Office,give him Paper,he checkes with Computer,gives you a Bay Number and Key for E-Pallet Truck.When you finish you give Key back,someone checkes Load and you go.
But,when Pallet is over theres estimated and given Size you get some Pallets (empty),to sort that out. 
Kann be hard and swetty
Wheel Nut:
I tipped and loaded many Aldi and Lidl stores in Germany, France Belgium and the UK. I have never been tipped by anyone, they give you a bay, they lend you a pallet truck and they ask you to keep it between the lines.Even loading tinned food from Daucy or Pedigree we had to load ourselves and it was a big job for my company.
It isnt hard work and is easier than opening both curtains
Thats right,i had to do exactly the same in the late 90s+place all plts with bar codes facing same way for ease of checking.This was at aldi darlington.
regards dave.
ROG:
Malc44:
Once you backed onto a bay you then had to go in search of an electric pallet truck and tip yourself…Are you trained to use one of those? - I ask as I’ve seen some pretty horrific incidents where untrained personnel have used them !!
if your not trained, dont sign the sheet to say you are,easy as that