Quote from: oldfashionedplayer on 03-05-24, 10:23AMif they get abuse take it further? - don't stand for the abuse regardless, All i know is ours for night tend to have figured out that if they set off after a certain time from the said depot, they can unload it and by the time they get back they don't have time to go do another trailer, whereas we get some at times that are like yeah i just wanna keep going and just deliver it 3 hours earlier, So I dunno how long you guys are generally on the road / in places for or whatever but ones that deliver to our store at night are typically at the depot most of their the shift anyhow so they may aswell just fit it with everything since they typically either aint in it or aint moving from it.The rules vary a bit between depots, but Tesco are clamping down on drivers wasting time to get out of second runs amongst other things. A big part of the problem is that drivers often don't know their start time until less than 24 hours before the start of shift and don't know what their planned shift length is until they start, so planning/having a life around work can be a nightmare. Some weeks a driver might end up with double runs every day clocking up 55-60 hours regardless of whether they want the overtime or not.
Quote from: oldfashionedplayer on 03-05-24, 09:18AMTrue... not the fault of the driver as such but are drivers not given like a list of checks to go through of "is everything safe" "do you know what your carrying" etc - incase they get pulled over?We know what we are pulling... food and general merchandise. Its the same way we are not liable for the load being insecure i.e. not strapped as Tesco seal the trailers and all we do is check the seal. Only if the seal number is wrong can we break it, check the UOD label matches the store we are going to, and then request transport to change it. Now before anyone says anything... Curtainsider you can tell if the load is not strapped correctly as the cages will always bulge through the curtain, but fridges and double deck box trailers, you have no mission of knowing. Majority of times we only know of the carnage unfolding in the trailer when we get to the store.
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