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I used to deliver bread by the trailer-load to Morrisons where they would back you onto a bay, then you had to hang your keys up in the warehouse and sit back in the cab - you couldn't even use the toilet. Hanging up your keys meant you didn't even have the radio in the cab - they caught me on that once and next time I hung my car keys on the hook . . . I was there 5 hours one day waiting to get my paperwork back. No wonder there's an apparent shortage of drivers - I'm just glad I'm retired.
How come they don't let you use the toilet when you're doing nothing but waiting??
I used to do the same drop of bread to Morrison's of bread to Wakefield from Newport south wales
Get a suzi lock and give them that key, alot of these place are satisfied with that then you can keep your keys.
No wonder goods are expensive in the shops !! As the industry is incompetent and hasn't actually caught up with modern technology relying on jobs worth individuals and antiquated systems . This results in wasted time hanging about , missed delivery slots and has a knock on domino effect , making other deliveries late as well
The answer is streamlining and automating the system.
As far as paperwork is concerned this should be digitalised and linked to sophisticated dedicated scanners, auto email, photo iD driver/lorry to prove delivery, then onto next delivery . It is not impossible and with GPS etc lorries can be tracked easily.
A similar system the AA employs on their tracking app could be easily modified
The drivers base automatically alerted by email etc, then linked to accounts.
The delivery drop timed and the GPS position of the lorry to be more efficiently managed .
The driver
If they're that bothered about making sure everything is present and correct, maybe they should tip the wagons themselves, then they'd be able to check each pallet as it comes off the trailer.....
That's why they are so flippin' cheap 😠
Thats the reason drivers unload because it saves them a fortune paying their own unloaders. I tipped in many lidl.s rdc,s but never had a big time delay.I found runcorn + belvedere were ok mostly.worse drop i ever had was in willenhall had sausages in boxes and they counted every single sausage ha ha.happy days get out of it all when cpc came out.
Took a load of cheese to a Sainsburys RDC. About 300 different types of cheese. Loady said if you help us count and check every pallet you will be away in about 3 hours, if you dont it will be 6 hours. RDC's I've s*@t em.
tipping is a very quick process esp. with a FLT or faster PPT, whereas checking can take minutes per pallet, normally not the same person to tip as to check, checking requures more care & is higher responsibility. Checking errors can cost thousand but tipping errors not so much
I used to have to deliver to these dumps.One day while tipping the lad on the next bay was tipping lemonade and the pallets were shrink wrapped and the pallets would stick together like shit to a blanket, any way one of these pallets were proving hard to get off and the shrink wrap gave up the ghost and the contents went everywhere .They made the driver restock the pallet with no help from their staff, i felt sorry for the lad and gave him a hand to restock the pallet and shrink wrap together.He then proceeded to place the pallet in the required lane in the warehouse and then what he did next was priceless .He walked round the back of the pallet and cut the shrink wrap with a stanly knife, so when the guy came over on the fork lift he went to lift the pallet and it promptly fell all over the floor.
I have also seen it when they made a container driver get on the back and pump the pallets of wine to the back, all he did was let one pallet go off the back and smash all over the floor. They soon asked him to get down and sit back in his cab. HAPPY DAYS !!!
I love petty revenge like this, fair play to the lad.
My record at Lidl so far is 4h30m to tip 25 tonnes of firewood. The pallets were rammed in the back of a container and could only be pulled out one by as the cling wrap was sticking to the neighbouring pallet. Then one of the pallets fell over. Drivers are expected to restack. No help offered. Hate delivering to Lidl RDCs.
Hi Raymond,I agree lidl and aldi are the only ones to DEMAND drivers to tip themselves,im lucky my agency knows not to ask me to go to firm knowing there is a tip there,a friend was told by asda Grangemouth sit there and they will get to him,after 8hrs .50mins he shut curtain and then was told that he was next,can you see what asda,morrisons,coop etc would say if you asked for there flt keys !!!!!! DRIVERS DELIEVER ONLY,what next expecting us to put items onto the racks or even to load there own motors,I know its extreme but I'm only pointing out what they might want next,new blood won't do it,make my blood boil to think other driver tip themselves.
I managed to get in straight away and unload....couldn't believe they told me i had to unload myself
It’s amazing the inefficiency of these warehouses is staggering
Have you ever worked in a warehouse at Christmas?
@@almostanengineer I agree.. i have and its a nightmare
It’s very efficient for them. They’re not paying for an person to tip it
Your absolutely right Luke, sitting around waiting for little or no reason was the reason I left my old job.
I was once waiting for 6 hours to be loaded, and once I was finally ready to go, ended up maxing out my hours to make the delivery.
Like you said, they’ll accept the delivery regardless of it being complete, they not going to tell you to reload it and take it away again.
So many hours of us drivers lives wasted waiting for someone else to do their job…… 🤷🏼♂️
Hi carly boy rebel,if you take self tip because drivers r waiting so to save time we unload our selfies,what if you were in a supermarket waiting in a queue for a checkout would u want to scanner ur goods and then put money in the till and then walk out-would you think a supermarket would let you do that(I'm not talking about auto scanners)we r doing people out of jobs so therefore this govt is not getting ni etc from wages and not reducing the dole queues.THE GERMANS WANT SOMETHING FOR NOTHING
I’m sure if it was an owner driver they would charge extra on a job for the needless waiting time. So the same should apply here they should have to pay the company delivering extra because now other jobs are being rescheduled/missed/potentially cancelled due to the faffing about at the RDC
understand perfectly what you saying, but the rdc company would just change the delivery company!
They ordered the stuff they can unload it, Until driver's start growing some and refusing to work as unpaid warehouse men this crap will continue, Absolute madness to put up with it.
To be honest I quite enjoy it. Get me out of the truck and walking around which can only be good for my health. The real issue is the time it takes to get your paperwork for me.
You are getting paid. And paid much more than a warehouse guy.
@@lukecinahgv Luke I know you enjoy the exercise and all that, and good on you for wanting to lose a few kilos, but it is the principle of the thing, your time is just as important to you, as the next bloke. If you are stuck in a waiting game, then your boss doesn't make as much money nor can you, by accepting the next job. I'm not sure if you have a union, and being Britain you should have, but here in Australia most truck drivers are (Both owner operated and salaried) and their union frowns heavily on such practices. You gotta talk to your union about this to get this lazy practice stopped.
Good vlog Luke. This is totally what's wrong in the industry and as you rightly say there is no need for it in this technological age. Unfortunately things haven't really improved since the 80's & 90"s when I was delivering to RDC's. Keep up the good work. I do enjoy your vlogs & thanks for taking the time to put them out👍🏼👍🏼 oh, and do have a Merry Christmas 🌲☃️
Another cracking video Luke, so wrong having to wait hours for checks, especially as you self unload! Should be charged waiting time, then they would get their houses in order! Any way keep up the good work, keep safe and have a tremendous Christmas! 😀
The supermarkets have all the power
Hi Luke I enjoyed your video as usual I was an have driver for approx 22 years and only finished through I’ll health you do remind me of myself , I was a tad worried about your concern over waiting times at LIDL ,it’s just that when you worry it means stress and that’s the drivers worst enemy , you’ll have to take a more laid back approach and adopt the whatever will be will be approach as you said you’ve done your best the rest is out of your control . Take care buddy keep the shiny side up
We try our best when loading grain lorries on the farm, rarely we don't fill up within 5 minutes of the lorry arriving. Drivers time is way to valuable to be wasting it. Maybe the supermarkets need to be compensating haulage companies for the delays caused, might make them think twice.
Your rant is perfectly understandable. I've often thought if I did your job I'd just get a decent gaming laptop and (assuming paid by the hour) then I wouldn't care about waiting around hours. Rather than get frustrated at the inefficiencies turn it to my advantage. Bit of gaming to break up the day and make a nice break to the driving.
I recognised all the Northfleet roads, i used to live less than half a mile from there, but moved away 16 years ago, so all the LIDL depot and around it was the former site of Northfleet power station. Fred Dibnah demolished the chimneys there. A really interesting video showing what you guys have to put up with on top of a very stressful drive.
I was asked if I wanted to do the turkey drops for delivering to Tesco's RDC's. Previous experience told me no! Don't do it!
Those big companies work in mysterious ways :P
I used to work for Heuveltrans in The Netherlands and we deliverd fruits and vegetables to a big supermarket in The NL One day one of their RDC's came up with the idea to have our drivers report to the counter were all slow moving goods drivers had to report too already. This caused to have all our loads to get delayed and it messed up their planning. I think it took a week or two and we could run straight to "our" doors again to just walk inside and ask the guys there where they want the stuff.
Or that time I HAD to wait for 2 pallets of cheese to come in before I could leave for my last delivery on saturday afternoon to a different supermarkets RDC. The pallets came in an hour and a half late. I let the supermarkets dispatchers know I was leaving, they even called me back to say i had the wrong papers with me, changed them. Around 4pm I got to the RDC where they told me I was late and I couldnt deliver.. Called their dispatch again.. waited for an hour and was told to take the whole load back with me.. because they insisted i waited for the 2 pallets in the first place..
As said.. mysterious ways.. :P
The Government needs to step in and say to the company's if you hold a driver for more then lets say 2 hours then the haulage company can charge you £1000 plus lose of earnings. Not only will that sort out the loading and unloading problems but probably the driver shortage problem. I dreed to think how many hours a day are lost with drivers sitting on bays waiting. im currently just a 7.5tonne driver and i have the same problem...... Love the videos mate. Merry Xmas..... Start a partition and send it to the government think it can be done online now. you never know you got a good platform to start it from....
I believe some companies already charge a waiting fee after a certain period of time it depends on contracts agreed though
The government?🤣🤣🤣🤣
Will never happen, this has been an issue since mid 80s that I know of. Back then I have waited all day to tip, For anyone that remembers... Bejam Stratford lol. and Tesco's next door, wow, my company used to deliver there, could be 3/4/5 trucks a day, my transport mgr would just pull his hair out, pre mobile phone too lol. And GPS, ohhh not fun back then.
Welcome back Luck
Hi Scott
I don't know what would annoy me more:
a) having to wait about for someone else, or;
b) being told to come back at X time, and then having to wait about to be (un)loaded, etc.
c) being told to drive to somewhere else to do a "safety induction" before they will (un)load.
Currently a three-way tie 😶
Use to deliver milk to lidl northfleet. 109 trolleys. Each type had to be put in a line.6 pint whole semi 4 pint same and it goes on. I would bang it out. What amazed me was you tip then go to collect the empties. These were in an area of returns. The amount of waste was unbelievable. Everything you can imagine rows and rows of waste. From electrical just everything you buy. It is all binned. I asked a bloke what happens to this stuff. The electrical has the cord cut and skipped same as the rest just binned. I was gobsmacked at the waste. The paperwork yes you sit and wait bloody joke. This world needs to change.
Good video. Your last delivery in the video to LIDL. Thats what always drove me nuts about driving trucks.
Even if you're paid by the hour it's a waste of time, but I was also paid a weight bonus on-top of hourly... Crazy
If counting the load is an issues they just need to have one of their people people unload the truck and count it as it's being unloaded "like everywhere else".
Mate what you said makes so much sense. If there is a box missing .what can you do nothing .and then people say where are the lorry drivers .Wow😠
Hi Luke. Some really new buildings in that Canary Wharf drop with a lot of international banks. Absolutely brilliant when you get to these companies when they are running so late. If there was a penalty charge for delay I bet you would not have to wait so long. Pathetic mess around in those warehouses. They should be checking load off as it comes out of the truck. They should be fined definitely for any delay. A nice 2.5 hour fine would work. No wonder people dont want to deliver to RDC,s. Stay safe and take care and hope you have a better next few days after that RDC debacle.
You’re quite right about needless delays at RDCs completely messing up the day’s plan. You know from your tipper days that they often charge waiting time after just 15 minutes, something similar should apply for general haulage, say after the first hour of waiting, haulage companies should charge for waiting time, it’s the only way things will ever change. Additionally, some hauliers need to be more realistic in their planning, you only have to watch a few you tubers to see why.
Delivered there plenty of times and always keep you waiting for your paperwork Mind you nowhere near as bad as ocado in Erith. If you ever get that one, be prepared for major grief. Keep up the great videos.
With the HGV driver shortage hauliers should be in a position to pick and choose customers - not the other way around. The first haulier to start charging a waiting fee, say after 1 hour, will lose some business short term but gain in the long term. Customers may not be happy but once the realise said haulier has spare haulage capacity they will come around very quickly.
Problem with that is that companies would demand the same in return. I doubt either are willing to take those chances
Haulage companies tried that in mid 80s, I suspect Lidl and the rest just laughed at that. Bejam used to be terrible, at Stratford London depot, could wait all day to be unloaded, and Tesco, that were next door.
And more importantly: It would mean transport companies get taken seriously instead of getting treated like 'oh it's those dumb guys who move stuff from point A to point B, pay them no attention'.
There is no driver shortage that’s media bullshit wake the fuck up people any shortage in supply is strictly political and forces prices up for their political donors
@@davidholgate5472 bet you have not been jabbed and don’t wear a mask?
It really isn't just the HGV industry that has those issues, though they may be more obvious there. In my line of work, if I get a delivery, I am supposed to check everything before signing for it. Apparently, the reason is that if I sign to say a delivery is made, I am signing to say it is all there, which makes it harder to argue later that it isn't (regardless of whose fault it is). The problem I get is that no-one tells me what is being delivered, so I really can't check it.
The reason they do this is because they know they can get away with it. Demurrage should be paid after 75 minutes of arriving on site. I deliver to Aldi doing chilled, and we work on drop and drive rules. I just put the stuff in the line, collect any paperwork from previous deliveries and go. Been doing it like that for years.
Morrisons at northwich is the worst distribution centre I have been to, followed closely by sainsburys at Stoke on trent. Aldi at Neston on the Wirral is a dream, quick in and out job
In the current climate mate you're a totall hero! You make it look too easy, driving through all that sphagetti in London. Totally great viewing!!
hang a number of scanners in the storage station, the driver scans every barcode of every pallet he/she delivers, this goes straight to the main office.
Next to the loading dock inside there is a printer, which immediately prints out what you have delivered (this is for the driver) and he can leave immediately.
And if something is wrong, or something is missing, they just contact the place where the goods come from, and possibly the company that delivered it, whereby the driver can demonstrate what has been delivered with the printout.
Or they have to tip everything themselves, problem solved.
RDCS using your wagon as a temporary store room, especially this time of year.
The amount of time they save by getting drivers to do the leg work, is in no way reflected in their efficiency 🤣
I went to a Lidl in Avonmouth, took an hour to get my paperwork even after it was ‘checked’
Classic German efficiency again!
If indeed there is a genuine driver shortage, it’s not half as bad as it’s purported to be - it’s massively exacerbated by badly run RDCs
well done luke
Driver shortage is mostly bs, Iceland boss moaned he needed 100 HGV drivers yet Iceland had no HGV job adverts on their own website for the entire GB. Lucky if you see a few thousand nationwide at any given time, all that they need is cheaper EU labour and less moaning about working conditions
LIDL! Welcome to my world! lol tipping is the easy bit! Waiting for paperwork is the bloody issue! Tesco!!!!! Avonmouth I’ve waited almost 4 hours for 12 pallets to be tipped and checked!
Definitely need a go pro head mount or chest mount Luke! Great videos as always!
Great job pal, enjoy watching you living the dream. More strapping loading tips for us newbies 👍👍👍
Just found this channel… loving the blogs, I’ve got a lot to watch to catch up! Great blog channel….
You actually came down near my neck of the woods. The bit on the A406 where you come down to the A13 I have to drive quite often in the Bus. The flyover just before Canary Wharf is Canning Town and we have to pick up from the Station there for one of our Amazon routes.
They would soon speed up on the deliveries if they started to get demurrage charges.
Lidl could just sign your paperwork as unchecked. And send you on your way. They can then check it at their leisure within 3 days. No need to keep you hanging around.
Yea exactly mate.
Thanks for another great video. Merry Christmas and Happy new year to you and your family (that includes the extended one on here) :-)
They wouldn't just send an email saying "something missing" they will just refuse the load altogether if it ain't correct.
I used to work on Upper Bank Street, brings back a few memories !
Truck would look really smart with a lightbar/ beacons on. Great vlog thanks :)
I’ve delivered to the same Lidl and it’s always a ball ache. I smashed loads of pallets with those electric trolleys as well lol.
I agree there is no need to wait..what are you going to do if it is short? They give you the tools to unload it, why not give you a scanner to check it🤗
Hi Paul,I was offloading boxes of trainers from a well known retailer,pallets wrapped in black plastic,on the warehouse they stripped the plastic off and counted the boxes then accused ME off stealing because of a shortage although the pallet couldn't b interfered with so even if the driver scans they still want to check.BTW I was accused for six months until it was just dropped with no answers to me.
youngsters r not going to put up with that along with the other chap hgv drivers have to put up with.
Question is if you injure yourself by doing the tipping job yourself when you are a driver not a wharehouseman , then what about loss of work time on sick ? Who pays ? Also it was admitted that this takes longer so ultimatelty your company is paying for extra nights out , also tme is money and its the customer who ultimately pays for a service which is not provided !!
Being a former union shop steward what is your drivers union having to say about all this ???
I note there are trucks which carry their own forklifts so these go equipt, but in your case you are operating their equipment i suppose you are liable for the care of this too.
I would be interested in some answers please and comments from drivers .
I’ve driven an 18 tonne around Canary Wharf, it was interesting to say the least.
What’s a 18 tonne?
Hi Luke, I think RDC's should be charged a fined when they make drivers wait too long, payable to the transport company. Some give a time frame of 15 mins before and 15 mins after delivery, or you can be turned away. I've been behind a 10 truck wait. This isn't helping the shortage of deliveries. They are just too powerful. They just like a constant stream of trucks, so they earn maximum profit!
That's exactly the problem right there. People make and accept bad contracts and then pass the problems down to drivers. If I look at my own experience, we charge € 150 per hour every hour, which is a lot.
Had it happen somebody no-showed due to carelessness. The client raised all kinds of hell about it and the mayor himself apologised and ensured (with said careless civil servant in the CC) that this would never happen again. Even working with large bureaucratic companies we immediatly get fast-tracked with direct phone numbers etc because they're aware that it's expensive to have our calls passed around 4 times while you wait half an hour.
Giant letting corporation and you're calling as a tenant? Hope you've got 20 minutes to spare. Same corporate bureaucracy but we call when they hire us, typically no more than 30 seconds to get through.
Court session delays too. Clients typically get very antsy and hassle the bailiffs when court sessions are delayed and they have both us and a lawyer waiting around in a corridor thinking 'drinking coffee at 100+ per hour, sign me up'
If we worked to one price for the whole service no doubt there'd be a lot who would've made us wait to no end.
People think with their wallets. If it doesn't cost to make truckers wait, they will have a lot of people who feel important enough to make them wait.
Fiddes Payne?
Edit - Yep... Thought so.
The grey building opposite you is where Mercedes Benz F1 keep their lorries and trailers. I worked for DB Foods for a while on their night trunk to Plymouth
It's unclear for me where this self tip culture for lorries in UK came from. In USA or pretty much in any european country drivers are not allowed to touch the load. Someone has to put an end to this abuse
Hi toureg94 I've been saying the same since I was forced to tip myself 3 yrs ago,trust the Germans to get something for nothing and BTW I refuse to shop in there stores knowing slave labour is alive and well.i sent emails to retail association and the rha asking about the insurance etc and was told it's up to the firms however they want to run there business.
know wounder the food it dirt cheap as the adverts say
DISGUSTED.
Sainsbury's Buntinford in mid 80s was very bad, drivers had to unload in begged for spot, not even in line with dock door, hand jack load off, then wait for checker to have time to check. Many guys there would just sit an drink coffee, laughing at us drivers. AGHHH
@@tonyfurneaux3399 I used to go to sainsburys at Stoke on trent. It was an absolute joke of a place. 3 hours to get just one pallet off. Morrisons at Northwich is even worse. Aldi I find the best.
It came from Germany via Lidl/Aldi.
@@stum8374
So how do you explain this being illegal in Germany, but exist in the UK?
I absolutely HATED delivering anything to Lidl especially the RDC in Southampton! I wasn't paid enough to deal with them on a regular basis!
I dealt with them almost daily back before I started driving tankers. The thing that set me over the edge was they actually complain at you if its not in the lines properly. Unload it yourself then!
@@TwistedHorizonI20 Yes Calum!!! 🤣 It was either that or crying if the pallet was broken! I had it a few times where the pallet I had loaded was already broken by those loading the trailer and then as I'd unload it and they would try and blame me for breaking it, then expecting me to cross deck the bloody stuff from one pallet to another, that sent me over the edge a few times 🤣 And yes I understand the pallet needs to be in good condition so they can be stacked safely on the shelves before the Lidl mafia jump in on this comment 😉 I left the Southampton RDC without any of my paperwork once because they just had me waiting for ages! I ain't got the patience for places like that
Totally agree, No need for drivers to be held up. Also the load and tip, waiting around for forkies to finish their morn tea, is utter BS
not all Forkies !! I unload a lorry asap, like everyone that drives I appreciate you have other drops etc and I aim to unload you in as short as possible time. normally once site manager knows you are here he rings Me and I come as fast as I can
Makes sense…….
Waggon drivers in short supply so have them pushing pallets trucks round and box counting.
And you are waiting about for 3 hours and they a driver shortage Is it any wonder Lovely video
quality vid lol you was 2 mins from my house in northfleet, yet another great vid luke, nice one 👍
They would soon get their finger out if the haulage companies were able to charge waiting time on top of the delivery charges!
They should, they do in the dedicated courier industry. You don't see us boys waiting about for long ;)
40 years ago i was doing fert deliveries with a flat bed trailer.
You had to unload yourself, it was all tailboard delivery.
I canot believe in this day and age it is effectively the same.
And they wonder people are leaving the i industry
Fascinating Luke ! Best wishes.
I love these videos, so chill. Never stop uploading I beg 🤣 have a good Christmas!
Thanks! You too!
Hi Luke, about your rant at the end. I absolutely agree like what would they do to the driver if a pallet was missing? Like you didn't load it it's not your fault. The driver literally can't do anything so there's no point in him hanging around. You don't manage other people's jobs to see if there's any damage e.t.c. I am thinking of joining the industry when I'm old enough to drive. I would get annoyed if I was stuck somewhere for 3 hours and they Don't apologise, come out to you and tell you what your wait is or just so un organised they lost the paperwork and don't want to tell you. I agree with your rant fully.
Nice to see some of the fleet I work for at 40 mins in (Turners distribution). I agree with what you say about the waits at RDCs, sometimes it's mind numbing.
one of the places i used to work BSC over ten years ago as the wagons were getting unloaded it passed a bar code reader and was counted and sorted to go where it was supposed to go or rejected as a wrong box/pallet automaticaly dont know why they cant do the same in the lidle place
Cracking vlog Luke when you said Lidl at Northfleet my heart sank thought that’s screwed your day that place is a waste of space Merry Christmas mate take care
We go from st Hellenes (Warrington) to Aldi in isle of sheppey for 5am 😉 usually with full load. Cobhan on m25 or toddington on m6. This is early start and shocking drop 😉
great video, i hated doing lidl and aldi self tips with a passion,had a few arguments at there rdc's glad i don't have to do it anymore
Glad you enjoyed it
luke i have to agree with u we are on the road get tings from a to b and most of are time is setting about wait for people to sign ur doc or to count so see if there anything missing y can they not put it on a scanner what when u pick it up u scan the bar code then when u drop it off they take the information off ur scanner if it wrong they can send a email to the company u pick it up from back in the day when a hgv drive drop off the offices staff sign it off even with u take it off the truck but now we are setting around for 2 the 6 hours waiting on sumone sign ur docs off
well like to see keeping country going very underestimated job. did all that now because of the dreaded c word left country now live in thailand enjoying life travelling tasting the superb food and scenery
The place you where at in the start of video, was the place you got a flat tyre a while back.
Yeh I dunno why it still all paper work everything else is online and like you said if theirs a box missing their not gonna do anything anyway
Wishing you a merry Christmas love the videos all the best for the new year looking forward to next year’s video 👍
Quite agree with you Luke, things do need to change with regards to needless waiting. Once we kick out the control system that
is being exposed now ( I hope you can see that ) then we will see very many beneficial changes for mankind. The world is
changing for the better, watch the Fall of the Cabal!. Love to you and all of your family
Exactly think the same most companies operate with a pallet numbers with a barcode. You should be able to scan barcode like Tesco/ Amazon shopping and it prints off a report for receiving company what’s missing/ received and emails to delivery company and supplier automatically.
Your right they shouldn't have you unloading and then they hit the pallets with a bar code reader. Easy!
Luke, as a hgv1 driver Iwas NEVER allowed to unload myself.
Very good video. Very informative and so helpful to get this perspective especially to a dude like me who's seriously looking at getting into this industry. Thanks man.
that's my old drive into head office M11/A406/13 into Westferry on Canary Wharf. Not been down since covid & we're in Canada Square now. The one with the pyramid. 27th floor, that's about halfway up..
Great video luke I am not a hgv driver but I agree with you making you wait for 3 hours was stupid I reckon they should check the stock not you keep the videos coming great work unloading all that stock well done
It's been same since mid 80s, another reason I moved to Canada in 2006, but often same over here, just no respect for drivers, I have waited all day for 2 pallets of strawberries, mind you, the sun was nice in California. Then drive back to mid Canada about 3.5 days, through the snow and ice, very varied. It is nice to be alone for 3 plus day's, so in that way better than UK.
I got out of driving class 1 in the 90s, it was just as bad then, found i could make more money literally doing any other type of work, have never looked back. The only down size was i spent 9 years in the forces getting all my licences and never used any of them. A waste of time that was.
In Banbury you are beside Prodrive. Remember the Subaru Impreza P1. Mercedes F1 just up the road at brackley.
3 hours is not bad Luke, I am from the USA and drove and 18 wheeler back in the mid 80's to mid 90's,I was at an Albertson's grocery ware house and it took them 14 hours to unload me.
14 hours? That's crazy! Oh my lord that's slow going lol
Omg 14 hours, was they taking it off one item at a time..😂😂
Another great video Luke. Happy relaxing Christmas and a hope you have a great New Year. 🎅🏻👍
back in the day some truckers that were kept waiting for hours used to drive through the security barrier
a way round the waiting at rdcs is for insurance companies to provide an insurance for trucking companies that guarantees the load so all trailers are drop and swap only with maximum time at rdc of 30 mins etc
Thank you.
It’s always very busy at Thorpe way. Got a a good cafe there.
Im a hgv driver and i really dont care how long a delivery takes
I get paid by the hr so the longer it takes the more i makes 👍💰
Yes that’s alright when your paid by the hour mate 🤙🏻
@@lukecinahgv i take it your on day rate or salary😂
@@along4990 £150 a day. £176 if I do a night out
@@lukecinahgv Nice one Luke, safe driving and keep them wheels turning 👍
Drivers should not be dealing with paperwork. This is inefficient and costly for the industry. Pallets should have electronic tags attached and the tags linked to an inventory of the items on the pallet. When a pallet enters or leaves a warehouse the tag should be automatically scanned by the warehouse stock control system (not by people) to track and account for stock in transit and stock delivered. There needs to be national or global standards to automate a solution for carriers to link into. Whilst the pallets are automatically tracked, driver should still be able to download an app to there phone or tablet to view their load if they need tool. If there are companies out there that is interested in a solution then get in touch.
Great video👍
6.49 you could of popped in at my house to have a cuppa ! :D
The building next to the HSBC one at around 13.54 (the one he mentions should have a tower on top) is used as TOURCHWOOD in Dr Who battle of Canary Warf
Have my class 2 training and test in February! Pretty nervous but hopefully see you on the road luke
Good luck!!
If you want to be a trucker then tough luck this is what you have to do. You have to wait for as long as they want you to tough luck
Mate I'm getting paid to sit on my arse happy days
Haven't these blokes heard of Bar coding, all they have to do is scan the pallet/container and the bar scan comes up with the manifest of what is on that pallet/container, a computer reads out and your good to go, easy peasy. 5 minutes tops for a semi, and you're on your way. I feel for you.
BMW Cowley. 5 hours wait to tip a load that I had picked up as an emergency for them at 8am in Wednesbury, had a timed slot to deliver, it was some finished castings or other such that if they didn't get pronto, the production line would stop. Just sat there, with my transport manager going nuts at the customer and BMW. Only just made it back to the yard before my hours ran out. It is insane, yes. I left driving. Loved the job, put up with the stupid traffic delays, but the waiting around did my head in. Favourite customer to drop at? Haribo. Yummy.
Just been back to watch your first vlog 😜
Totally agree with your rant. It used to bug me too. But I'm now retired and it doesn't bug me anymore. Yee Ha.
I don't know why the pallets can't be read automatically with a bar code reader as you unload them and the paperwork printed off automatically at your bay.
im a trucker who likes to do my shift and get back home, fk sleeping in the truck, i dont want to be there in the day let alone night as well, after a good few years driving i worked out hard sided box trailers with roller shutter door at the back are the best companies to work for, no faffing about with the curtains or opening the doors, also parcel companies are best for me, you will never night out only in extreme circumstances and the collections are a nice variety of easy and tricky, no RDCs, i used to work DHL and we would go to sainsburys rdc at stoke, place was a joke, 1 pallet would take them 4 hours, 26 pallets would take them 4 hours, when you asked they said it be ready when its ready, i would speed around the yard doing 30mph just to get banned from the site, treat you like shit, for me parcel companies all want there stuff gone and and will load fast and efficiently, i worked at current place now for 4 years on the agency, right near my house, perfect job. where i live in warwickshire i can leave one job and get 20 more in an hour its that hot for work
As you were walking around a bit in Canary Wharf, I just saw a company I used to work for, although in Manchester. KPMG :) :)
Yeh KPMG have offices bloody everywhere.
@@matty6848 I even saw KPMG offices in LA when the chase was on in The Italian Job (No. 2) :) :)
I know what you mean Luke Re the waiting about, that was one of the reasons I got out of the job. As you say things need to change but this is England, stuck in the past.
Yeh that’s true. What did you do after you left the HGV industry ?
@@matty6848 I retired Matt, 7 years ago.38 years was enough for me. When I started I loved it and have had some good and rough times. Could get back in the saddle one more time, maybe one of those Artic expierience jobbies, no licence now though. Stay safe.
@@alanbartlett9523 Alan I don’t blame you mate. Yes the money is good if it’s only what we should of been earning all along. There are some crap things to the job, but I was a brick layer before and sitting in my nice warm cosy cab with my feet up drinking coffee when being unloaded, beats being stuck on building site up some scaffolding when it’s freezing outside. Plus trucks have really come on in comfort the last 10 years. Even my bed has a memory foam mattress which is great to snuggle up in, especially when it’s windy, howling outside pissing it down. Ha ha like a big kid I love listening to the rain hitting the cab. But I can see why you got out of it.
"Think this is Pizza's" I never knew curtain siders can have fridges on them. This new, or no? lol
they were not frozen the shops freeze them
Cold enough outside 😂
Wasn’t pizzas, looked like breadstick twirls… Italian so probably shown with pizzas as part of packaging pretty pictures.
Loaded and unloaded many a curtainsider that has fridges in them. Been around for years. And yes, I do know Lukes doesn't have one.
Northwards Ltd has a whole fleet of them for example.
There has always been temp control torque liners if there ordered from new with fridge unit
Were talking about a supermarket that has 10 checkout isles, 23 staff stocking shelves at any one time and two people on the tills while 50 customers are in the checkout queue 🙄 of course they don't have their priorities sorted when it comes to efficiency & time management. Lidl is the only supermarket where they'd rather stock produce then sell it.