Just seen this on line. Might be worth a shot
.Don’t think it will work but you never know.
I’ve…
Signed it.
I’ve not been to a Tesco RDC for a while but the last time I did they insisted you waited in the cab because of the pretend Covid ■■■■■■■■. Has it changed now?
I may be wrong but I believe external drivers aren’t prohibited from going to the canteen and can get the same access to subsidised vending machines, hot food (if open), free tea and coffee etc. No need to necessarily stay in the waiting room.
With the size of some of these places actually staying in the building saves sometimes walking the length of several football fields only twice instead of 4 times.
What did you expect, even when given the choice to stay in the cab at Livingston, you still got the clowns stood in the waiting room eyes glued to the screen in case they wasted 5 mins of your stress laden day, instead of taking the opportunity to chill out in the cab for an hour 
No doubt this has been noticed when they made their decision.
What is the reason they give that you can’t stay in the cab? Is it drive off risk? (Can you uncouple?) Is it communication with the driver?
stu675:
What is the reason they give that you can’t stay in the cab? Is it drive off risk? (Can you uncouple?) Is it communication with the driver?
You put your keys in a locker and this signals to the warehouse staff that they can open the bay door, which puts it on a red light. You can’t get keys until the warehouse staff have closed the bay door and signalled that they are finished.
In principle the driver being in the cab without keys shouldn’t pose any risk, but I guess they could say that the handbrake could still be let off.
One other supermarket I can think of want you to take the emergency air line off, but let you stay in the cab. A flaw in this procedure is that they are just trusting that the driver has actually done it. Another couple of supermarkets were just asking for keys last year and Lidl and Aldi you go in and unload yourself anyway, so you hang your keys up near the door if I remember correctly.
When you arrive at Tesco I think there is an option on the automated entry panel to say you are dropping the trailer. This would generally mean that you are leaving the premises after dropping I think.
i have been tipped at 2 tesco sites in the last couple of weeks. one said i could either wait there or go to the canteen or sit in the cab and let me use thier smoking area etc the other insisted i waited in the waiting area as i was theonly one there and they would tip me straight away so i would only be there 20 mins.
Yes back in the room at Dav Frozen. If its any consolation us Tesco drivers are also asking what the point is but all we get in return is blank looks and vague mentions of fire and ammonia alarms*. One driver even got pilloried by a desk jockey last week for daring to mention it to some supplier drivers
I sort of get that because I was round the back last week and I onky noticed there was a fire evacuation drill because I saw some people walking towards the gate - no audible alarm - so I went outside with everyone else so that nobody could carry out any form of check to see if anyone was missing before we all got went back in
Amazing how all these drivers are tired & need to rest in there cabs , yet when the opportunity to have a long weekends rest when there’s a b/h there at work , + never tired when there’s o/t on offer ,
Mind they’d rather stay in there cab on a fri night than go home with there family with the joke reason there’s less traffic on a sat morning so why am I suorised they want to be in there cab
Why can’t these drivers just be honest , instead of coming up with aload of crap there tired & need rest , just walk up the yard at Tesco livingstone , there all glued to there phones not asleep . And if the jobs that tiring find a job that’s not , don’t blame Tesco for your poor descisions jobs wise
No doubt we will have the same drivers next week bellyaching about Tesco singing the praises of Lidl/ Aldi as it’s apparently a quick tip , let’s just ignore the fact you’re working in a warehouse that sitting on you ■■■ in a waiting room
As for robs normal dig at me / those who on the rare occasion goes into Tesco , sits in a waiting room & watches the screen as I want to go home ASAP & is apparently some stressed out tear ■■■ ,
Mon-wed , 3 days , no o/t , no b/h , no weekend work & in all the years I’ve drove I’ve never been the last driver out there on a sat night !!
toonsy:
Yes back in the room at Dav Frozen. If its any consolation us Tesco drivers are also asking what the point is but all we get in return is blank looks and vague mentions of fire and ammonia alarms*. One driver even got pilloried by a desk jockey last week for daring to mention it to some supplier driversI sort of get that because I was round the back last week and I onky noticed there was a fire evacuation drill because I saw some people walking towards the gate - no audible alarm - so I went outside with everyone else so that nobody could carry out any form of check to see if anyone was missing before we all got went back in
am i right in thinking you deliver for tesco to tesco rdc’s?? Do you have to stamp the paperwork yourself??
I once delivered to some rdc. God knows who it was. Was given a buzzer pad thing.
Told sit in cab when it flashes and buzzes means paperwork is ready.
Which i thought was a good idea.
As the odd time done RDCs been sat there struggling to stay awake looking for a green light.
With this thing could fall asleep and it would wake you up
My old RDC used these trailer hooks operated from the warehouse by their staff.
cooper1203:
toonsy:
Yes back in the room at Dav Frozen. If its any consolation us Tesco drivers are also asking what the point is but all we get in return is blank looks and vague mentions of fire and ammonia alarms*. One driver even got pilloried by a desk jockey last week for daring to mention it to some supplier driversI sort of get that because I was round the back last week and I onky noticed there was a fire evacuation drill because I saw some people walking towards the gate - no audible alarm - so I went outside with everyone else so that nobody could carry out any form of check to see if anyone was missing before we all got went back in
am i right in thinking you deliver for tesco to tesco rdc’s?? Do you have to stamp the paperwork yourself??
No someone just waves a pen vaguely at it and squiggles something somewhere but nowhere near the “signature” box. Remember I do Tesco trunks of fully picked orders for onward delivery to different RDCs. As its all internal nobody really seems to give much of a toss about paperwork.
When I was on supply side taking supplier goods into RDC I found it varied from site to site. Middlesbrough used to stamp yourself, Thurrock did nothing - it was all email apparently, Reading used to give you a printed receipt of goods received etc etc
Forgotten where it was I went a couple of years ago as it was doing a backload but basically if it was going on a bay drop trailer, shunter puts it on and off the bay and driver is free to go do what they want so if they want to bob off down the road for a Greggs or Maccy Ds they’re free to, trailer will be sat in one of the trailer parks when they get back if its been tipped/loaded before you get back.
Another big reason why I went back on the tanks.
I knew that as the Covid rules were relaxing, RDCs and other ■■■■■ holes would start their little “try and make the drivers life miserable” routine again, and quite frankly, I have changed over the last two years. My threshold for taking Bellshill has gone through the floor, and I was (Well, wont) not going to put up with it again.
On the tanks, no such thing as “wait in the ■■■■ waiting cell”, always sit in your cab. Heck, I rarely even touch the pipework, most dairies do that for you.
There’s currently 15 drivers crammed into the holding cell at Tesco Dav frozen which is bizarre as there are only eleven bays! In the meantime I’ve opted to sit outside and have asked her to ring me when I’m empty.
the maoster:
There’s currently 15 drivers crammed into the holding cell at Tesco Dav frozen which is bizarre as there are only eleven bays! In the meantime I’ve opted to sit outside and have asked her to ring me when I’m empty.
There might be some parked in the holding bays (on the right through the gate) who choose to sit up there too?
Even though its my workplace I still think it’s daft on the grounds we have castell locks on every bay
Yeah ^^^ the “punishment “ bays are full too 
Edit to add; it’s bloody carnage in there, after four hours I’ve taken my keys and paperwork back and pulled out untipped.
Even if that petition gets to the first stage of discussion, the guy in charge who makes all the decisions will only listen to advice given by his health and safety advising nutters who will give him an array of scenarios that will never happen in the real world.
So there are two hopes of them continuing to let us stay in the cab (despite being no problems afaik during all the Covid ■■■■■■■■) those being…No and Bob.