First time seeing your video impressed with the map of your journey, Refusing a drop needs to be stopped ,some won't accept a single Pallet af 4pm which could be taken off in minutes and are open for another hour, They should be charged which is another 120 miles round trip ,😢 we never do this even if we are late leaving as a Driver if i have just returned i will jump on the Forklift and help 😊 So that the Driver can go , And is complete waste of time and Expensive Fuel 😢 But Stupid people cannot see it in management, Well Done everyone ✌️

A few weeks ago I was talking to a potato farmer down in somerset who told me that he supplies potatoes to a well know supermarket beginning with "T". He delivered an artic load of potatoes to their depot about 200 miles away for it to be refused (because they had received their quota for the day). The driver was then made to drive through a sprinkler system which sprayed the potatoes with purple dye. Supposedly making them on usable to any other re seller. He got back to his depot took the worst out for animal feed and got his workers to wash those not too stained. " days later same potatoes delivered to supermarket . " trip 800 mile ...... great clubcard saving there. These British supermarkets are a cartel controlling prices and availability. Screwing the customers and even more the suppliers.

Just retired, forced, After 50 years as a HGV driver, refused to work 15 hour Days, So worked out of a Job, To be honest I have had it with HGV driving, Treat like dog by people you keep in a Job, Nobody stood on their doorsteps clapping HGV drivers for working through every pandemic since 1947, HGV drivers enabled Doctors Nurses to get to work, Putting food in shops and petrol in Garages, I delivered to Aldi Bolton, Finished and went shopping had to que to let So called front line workers go in the shop first, As a HGV driver I was not classed as a frontline worker. People do not realize that this country would stop in less than 24 hours if HGV drivers stopped work.

And there we have it. I did 43 years in haulage driving every category of truck up to 44 ton artic. More times than i can remember i had loads delayed for no apparent reason, told to go away & come back in hours time (even for a single parcel), and refused outright. The fact that i might have several other calls to make or booked times to make made no difference to person accepting delivery. If a whole load refused then it usually resulted in an easy day, which i didn't mind as long as id not been kept ages waiting. Several London loads (from Nottingham) were taken back, as Daz says - 3 times the cost incurred. Im retired from it now, came to renewing licence, driver cpc, medical (all at my expense), i couldn't face it over the age of 60. Ignorant inexperienced transport planners didn't help either. I could go on.... !

30 years on the backdoor and I have only ever refused one load. It was a frozen delivery where the temperature was set at 20°C instead of -20°C. Management wanted me to accept it but since they were unwilling to give me the order to accept in writing, it got sent away.

Complaints about a shortage of drivers - yet you're refused tipping (often probably due to traffic hold-ups, which you can't control, or yard managers with a control complex), made to wait (because the forklift driver simply can't shift his lunch break 15 mins), sent the wrong way due to rubbish signage etc etc. You've every right to be frustrated

It proves the point that driving hgv's in England isn't worth a toss anymore. Thank fuck im not doing that nasty job at the moment & don't know if I want to again.

I feel your frustration about rejected loads. I once delivered a load to a well known supermarket chain warehouse here in Australia, sat there for 3 hours & had it refused. The product was correct & the count was correct but 1 digit in the barcode did not match their computer so they rejected the load. I took it back to our yard & it sat in our warehouse for 3 days at $1.50 per pallet per day, truck holds 44 pallets double stacked, then took it back to the same supermarket chain & it was accepted because someone changed the barcode number in the computer.

Also in the USA the Lumpur fees for unloading are paid by the driver on the company credit card when authorized. I have known drivers who put the receipt on the seat or dashboard,opened the window and it flew out no receipt then the fee is taken out of your pay. Minimum $750. They are so strict now you have to put truck # trailer #load# in gas pumps before you fill up your fuel tanks. The cost of tolls on the highways is now so high they route you through small towns and back roads for hours on your gps,it flashes red if you do not get off the highway if you ignore its taken out of your pay. The cost of stop starting at all the lights probably costs more on fuel than the tolls, but they watch every dime when the truck is running. Plus the destruction of the back roads noise pollution and slower traffic is the side effect. Worse though you get paid by the mile over here and it's hard to get the long miles in on back roads and stopping and starting going through the small towns. It's a shit show now.

When i was driving hgvs i hated the fact that a lot of places wouldn't tip you if you were 10 mins late ut would still make no effort to tip you if you arrived early.

First week in December I had a load of beer rejected at Asda Lutterworth because it only had ten months shelf life. My last drop one day, Booker Norwich wouldn't accept 28 cases, (two layers on pallet) at 15;40, had to stay overnight, in the morning it took 30 seconds to tip.

my heart gose out to you guys and gals. so much red tape and times to keep too, and driveing a monster like that can not be easy. i have respect when i see you lot

in this day and age I've never understood why the trailer legs have never been made mechanical or electrically operated with a back up manual system incase of failure, great video daz

I remember years ago I had to go to this huge supermarket warehouse belonging to W, owned by a large department store, at that time everything had to be on chep pallets if they found either a pallet or damage of the goods on any pallet , the whole 24 pallet load was put back on and sent back, ridiculous, I wonder if that still occurs with them.

intersting to see you assist the new pass driver , testimony the dcpc falls short of its intention, i come from an age where we roped and sheeted , manual trucks, tilts etc . yet i still have to sit tjis wretched schemes/stealth tax

People talk about the shortage of truck drivers, but there is as bad a shortage of workers in warehouses and a shortage of warehouses. This all adds up. Then add in the extra paperwork and lack of drivers from the continent who used to deliver when they arrived here and pick up as they left....and you have nothing but cost and headache.

Hi Dazz how are you doing Pal ? I hope you’re son tells you he loves you ? Strange question I do apologise as I lost my dad a week ago from vascular dementia. I sure wish I told him I loved him. He was 88 so a good age Dazz. Next Sunday will no be easy being Father’s Day as it was the Monday he past on & me mum & family cremate him next week at Kirkcaldy then it’ll be straight back to Covenanter Hotel in Falkland where sanies & sausage rolls & where bits of Outlander was filmed years ago. But this past week has really taught me one thing & that’s never take life for granted as you never know what’s around the corner. I pretty much guess you don’t take life for granted so apologies if it sounded like I was giving you a lecture as it wasn’t meant so I apologise Buddy.

Ive so much respect for hgv drivers, was a mechanic on them late 70s till 1990,.winters were a bitch,especially breakdowns on the highway ,Scotland, now in sunnier climate no regrets.

What a good insight into your job. I just 'accidentally' came across your video and I found it entertaining from start to finish.

A few months ago, when we had "shortages" the food (tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce etc) was fresh when you got it, although the price had risen. Now we are back to the state where food is rotting as soon as you get it home. I suspect a lot of this is because loads have been refused and sat in a warehouse for a couple of extra days. Oh, and of course, the price hasn't come down.

Hi. When you next visit your Nunn Road depot, say hello to Rob in the warehouse for me please. Pete from B.I.D. We used to store goods at that yard, before they moved to East Mids Airport.

Excellent video Daz, thanks for that, keep up the good work and keep safe!😀🚛

What have we learnt from watching this? Firstly, that there are a***y types in lorry yards everywhere who are happy to subvert any attempt at efficiency, busy ruining it for everyone else. Then we see a new lorry driver who has gone through goodness knows what hoops to be taught and to pay large amounts of money to pass tests, and more tests, but who at the end of it remains unable to load a lorry. (So much for driver-training).

the prices for basics is eye watering and simply unsustainable

Happened to me all the time. Boots Nottingham was famous for it.

I used to run cargo ships. There is a system in shipping called demurrage which is system of payments that are made by the loading or unloading port if they don't load or unload the ship in a specified amount of time. That delay costs money and it is agreed in the shipping contract. That said, ships have to arrive in a specified time window and if they fail to arrive on time they can be rejected although typically not. They usually signal their arrival in the proximity of the port or the 'on the roads' as its known well before arrival. It seems to me a system like that might work in the truck industry. Frankly, my brother in law is a truck driver and the stuff he tells me about the appalling way that retailers behave towards truck drivers and the poor management inside logistics operations of very big companies its a wonder anything works at all.

So glad I've left general behind. Now work on same run every night so less traffic and finish about 11am. Couldn't go back to days and going South. I live in Cumbria.

I've had lots of loads refused. Artic load of frozen food to a supermarket in Brecon. I absolutely was not going home loaded. Pulled all 18 cages out and left them on the pavement out the front. Faked a signature and headed home. Another was a supermarket in Bath. It was a regular drop. Backed onto the bay, rang the bell. Waited 90 mins ringing the bell every 10 to 15 minutes until I was told they weren’t accepting the JIT order they'd made that morning. OK, fine. Not a problem. Took my pen knife and cut a splinter off a pallet and jammed it in the bell push button and waited. Angry voices shouted for me to stop ringing the bell. Ah - sorry mate it seems to be stuck. They took the load but were not happy. Next was a construction site in Bedford. Another regular drop for Marley concrete blocks. Pulled up as usual at the porta-cabin, went in as normal and was told they were refusing as they hadn’t ordered it. I phoned Marley. They said it was part of 32 loads of blocks and I was load 17. I went back to the porta-cabin and told them. Nope - not taking it. Fine. Another call to Marley this time to head office, and they told me I wouldn’t be paid if the blocks weren’t delivered. What to do??? I know... I reversed back and then drove forward as close to the porta-cabin as possible turning left just as I stopped before backing right hand down to put the trailer an inch from the door. Lots of shouting from inside as I wound the legs down. I waved goodbye as I pulled the pin trapping them in the cabin as the door opened outwards. I went for my break and returned to find the trailer had been unloaded. I hooked up and drove off. Don’t mess with a Cat 3 driver. Moving heavies makes us a bit crazy, but it gets the job done.

Nice one Daz hope you founding days bit better least you home each evening thats priceless 👍👍

Daz it boils my pish that these very same coys are so 2 faced about enviroment on their glossy website. Luke C, partner in arms was refused a load. HGV industry seem so wasteful on labour, waiting hrs to load etc. I wish I were a truckie, the amount of books read & knitting done waiting!

Happened to me last week ..boots nottingham ..wrong code on pallets ...after 3 hours ....taken back to london....

Great video Daz. Keep up the good work mate 👍

After 40 years I'm glad I'm out of it now.

The reasons for price rises are never what they tell you

Some load’s definitely should be refused, my son works for Morrisons, there’s a few issues with his loads, firstly he gets pallets of frozen mixed with other unfrozen goods, secondly they get late delivery times which means, he has hardly any time to work the load before the store opens in the morning, thirdly often the pallets are over on their side in the back of the waggon, goods dispersed all over the floor, meaning this all has to be cleared up before they can unload, they get no help from delivery drivers, who are foreign and claim they don’t understand English. All these problems can be resolved by the depot concerned, but the Store Manager will not allow any of his staff to contact the depot to resolve the issues, ridiculous situation and the wagons concerned should be always be refused until they get their act together!!

Great video Daz jobs hard enough with out being mest about if they had to pay for turning loads way they might think about it like you if you had wait for hour or so you be a bit fed up with it but you get your load i no bin there done it keep up the good work 👍

Good to see you mucker, I was shunter at great bear blenhiem👍

well I loaded 250 tons of grain for castelford and got half way to goole in 3 hours by river

13:52 What bloody waste, a 4 legger flatbed 10 tonner could have hauled that

Man ,that's some SHIT to put up with, the very same in ,Ireland good luck too you ,drive safe.

It’s always 3 hours isn’t it 😂 don’t get how it takes so long, I’ve tipped myself in Aldi, Lidl and it takes 25/30 mins, so frustrating waiting sometimes.

Seems R D Cs are still a piss take. Three hours😳 to load you. The load is on the other side on a truck thats also been sat there three hours waiting to unload. They run out of room in the place and use you as a temporary storage area. The place my dad worked at back in the day pulled out of eny job where an R D C was involved. 3/4/5 hours waiting to tip wasn't on the odd occasion but every time.

poor poor daz in a merc , keep the vids coming daz will watch yours till the the cows come home m8,, keep safe

You sometimes wonder if the customers really needed the delivery or were just to la, y to tip you.

Unfortunately if you turn up early a bay won’t be available as another truck will be on it. Also the putaway drivers won’t have a goods in lane cleared for your load yet. If you arrive late then someone’s else’s load would have filled your slot and once again there will be no bay available and no goods in lane. 🤷‍♂️

Point taken about adding extra cost to the delivery but you've got your maths a bit wrong. Because the delivery cost has tripled from say £1000 to £3000 that doesn't necessarily mean the cost of the end product has tripled in price. The extra £2000 for the delivery is divided by the amount of items on board. Say you had 2000 items on board then the extra cost of delivery would add £1 per item.

Most certainly nothing to do with Brexit,

SatNav in Poland would make your hair curl. You can go from Autostrada, to slip, leading through a nothing village, onto an unmade road, with a brand new large roundabout they have yet to still connect, and back onto the same Autostrada.👍

If you were all to go on strike people might realise how important road freight is... that lorry isn't just there to block your passage on the A7. In fact if you all just took the week of it would be economic and sociatal collapse. Whearas train Drivers going on strike is merely an inconvenience. But train Drivers make twice the wage of truck Drivers.

I wouldn't put down rejected loads being behind the cost of living problem, as it's be been happening for years. I've worked in gatehouses for a number of years, the current one, for coming upto 10 years. So I have seen my fair share of rejected loads for countless reasons. Drivers being idiots in the yard, an order that's be canceled but got sent away, turning up over 6 hours late (not because of the driver), turning up 2 days early, the load is at the wrong temp, the load has shifted, and many more. Yes it does not help with the cost of living, but it's not a new problem. Then you have, what I think is silly. Sending 3 HGV's with 1 or 2 pallets, because the warehouses they come from are about 10 miles apart from each other. Why not send 1 HGV from 1 warehouse to the other 2 to collect the other pallets, then deliver them? I have known 9 pots of yogurt be delivered from a warehouse, who's gate in about 200 yards from the gate I work at. They could have put the delivery in an icebox and walked it over, but no!! It got delivered in a refrigerated trailer hauled by a HGV, it took longer for the HGV to drive to our yard, than it took them to drive between the warehouses.

Been waiting ages for a vid!😁

These cretins didn't make Westminster inflate the currency by 45%, but I get your point.

good morning Louis...

Loads have been refused since year dot I don't think that can be blamed on the cost of living

all this and the price of fuel this is why Britain is going to the dogs

Great to see another vlog from you Daz, good man for spending more time with the family because nothing is as important. Cost of living is falsely inflated by our duplicitous government just like many of the governments of recent decades. Gas and electric prices stupidly inflated compared to many other countries, fuel costs crazily high, council taxes up, utility prices are astronomical etc etc however, it benefits the government because they have family or friends who own companies selling us staple items and price rises mean more taxes collected. Oh, and don't get me started on the falsehood of man-made climate change, we'll be here for years and I'll probably get censored. Chin up pal and stay well 👌🏻

2:43 Thats my hometown not many people even where it is

Sounds a stressful job, glad I didn't train. I would spit the dummy with all the rules.

What was the reason that they refused the load?, do they have to give a reason?, does the HGV company punnish the driver when that happens?, I passed my HGV Class 1 test in January and have been trying since then to get a job as a driver, but currently have zero experience, and everyone is asking for 6 month minimum experience, the ones that say "new passers welcome" never even interview me after application/submitting a CV, and I am sure it is for 1 of 3 reasons, (in the military, which to most employers is a big no-no, I'm a male and White), in this diversity driven culture. Just wondering what you have to do or can do when that happens, as I am sure if I ever get to be a driver, which I hope to be, I will face this same situation one day. Thanks Neil

Hi daz its important that you spend time on your son as he will benefit from your experience knowledge and love. Yes these refused loads are getting ridiculous daz . I have had 4 loads refused in the last 5 days plenty room to off load and plenty warehouseman these cost all mount up for end user its poor management just lazy . Tip my hat to you daz for helping the new driver just passed his class 1 again lazy management not showing him the right way to doing things

Hi Daz, not sure of your handle or what channel your on but im "Swanny" and youll find us on #23 Welcome when im in work. Im off for a short while (hopefully, dvla allowing after a heart attack) look forward to catching up some day.

Was the load refused due to missing a time slot? I know that some of the supermarkets have strict timeslots for lorries. We sometimes see them parked up in laybys on the local duel carriageway waiting for their time slot

Too many backdoor Joe's who will give drivers hassle, you are booked in for say 10 am you arrive 9:50 ready, and Joe says join the queue driver behind those other 6 artics

Daz well ldone showing the new guy

all inflation stems from net zero

It don’t help Alan Taylor paying peanuts 🥜

Interesting. How does one pass a lorry test without knowing how to load? Is it not part of the test? Surely it is an integral part of driving a lorry?

Drop the trailer in the entrance and leave it , they will do something with it if they want to go home .

First time viewer here, regarding the GPS, I was wondering, do you use a regular car based GPS or a truck specific one where it's designed to avoid unsuitable roads for HGV' (you enter details like your vehicle length, height, width and weight, load type)?

Don’t want it .... don’t order it !

So you was in Charles well’s brewery in Bedford

had a idiot say im late and they do timed deliverys he gave me a talking to and how to book in etc,i just rung my boss he said we dont do timed,so tell him to f££k off and not order from us again,they got the message has we just turn up now and get unloaded asap

Cost of inflation is down to government overspending nothing else

Top driving sir take good care

Just like my useless sat nav stopping way before the Destination 😢

Why was the load refused? I'm not familiar with trucking or the ins and outs of it all. Reading the comments, I can see there are soooooo many reasons and some seem arbitrarily made up on the spot (stupidly so like being 10 minutes late).

Yuk! Another driver's filthy spunk-mop. Hankies should only ever be in pockets. I never go anywhere without three or four, but wouldn't dare leave one out for someone else to see. Nasty.

Daz. was that charley wells bedford? @4 mins 40??

Wow, 2 to 3 hrs. With a curtain trailer, 20 mins,easy.

Yeh same BS here in Aus 🇦🇺

Why do people go go supermarkets? Support you local grocer, butcher and candlestick maker.

10:58 that’s typical Taylor’s standards of training

That's KZfaq for yer.

Good for global warming..... So glad I gave up hgv driving

Nice one Daz

So why was the load refused??

If I was the Boss, I would be refusing to pay you, if the load is rejected! Maybe if everyone was to do that, the country would be in a much better condition.

Why was the load refused?

so it looks like its quicker by barge hull to leeds by barge is 10 hours for a 1000 ton delivered

New Training advert came on 23 year old goon saying he is rich is it a scam?

No hi viz no steel to caps HGV loads get refused!

3:29 why was it refused?

I am in hospital today

13:08 if you know you know 😂

the one and only one reason why things are so expensive is because of the British, thats it 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Cost of living is high for a multitude of reasons including those stated here. In general: 1. UK erected trade barriers between itself and its largest trading partner the EU, via brexit. 2. 13 years of conservatives who enacted austerity throughout, crippling core service budgets at a time when they are most needed and stagnating welfare payment rises to below inflation apart from pensions, hammering millions as in work poverty has skyrocketed over the last 20 years. 3. Mass privatisations over 40 years of right wing (tory) and centre right (nulabour/libdem) governments that have resulted in all of the key things needed for life being in the hands of private capitalists who are incentivised by capitalism itself to increase profits year on year in order to increase dividend payments to the handfuls of major investors who own our water, rail, mail, energy. 4. 50% of UK food consumed here has to be imported as we are not allowed to generate the foods needed for our population by any other means beyond capitalism which means most of our farms were bought out by larger corporations over the decades resulted in many of those corporations pissing off abroad and importing the goods produced from places with cheaper labour and energy/materials costs. 5. Due to the failures of capitalism over 40 years, the bottom half of UK income earners are in real terms earning the same or less than their counterparts earned 40 years ago once you account for inflation over that term, yet are having to pay 2023 costs of living which due to mass privatisation of everything, rose above inflation every year over the same term. 6. Due to the failures of capitalism, millennials are the first generation since our records began to have been rendered poorer than their parents despite working longer hours than their parents did and having more people in work per household than in their parents day. 7. And so long as a centrist or right wing government is only ever elected to power in the UK, US, or many other western nations, then nothing, absolutely NOTHING, will ever change for the betterment of the majority workforce, with such permanence that cannot be undone come the next recession or Tory administration. So now if you have reached this point dear reader, I ask you, who did you vote for in the UK in 2017 and 2019, because frankly, love him or not, if your vote wasn't for Corbyn on those two occasions then you voted to continue all of the above and then some. There was a clear choice at the last two elections, you could have voted for more of the same via Tories, out of fear and spite, or you could have voted for the chance of better for the majority workforce, out of hope. My conscience is clear, my hands free of blood and death. How about yours? p.s. Nothing will ever change in the UK now, for the rest of anyone's lives born presently at the very least, because with the defeat of the only viable alternative to present itself for 40 years the Labour party has returned to a centre right party marking an end to the very brief window of opposition to all of the above. And neither you nor I nor our kids, will ever be allowed to see such again in our lifetimes. Decline and misery. That is our only future now, no matter who the fuck you elect.

So if a load is refused your saying that the tax payer foots the bill when really the place where the load is going to should foot the bill not people like us

Daz the problem is sometimes companies send stock to warehouses supermarkets Ect when it is not ordered and not needed trying to get rid of it out of there factories warehouses Ect and force it on the retailers hoping they will take it in and then the goods in people supermarkets Ect are seen as the bad guys for refusing it

Fifth wheel’. Find a driving job where you will be appreciated!