Tesco Lorry Parking

In my newsletter this month I have asked for opinions about the changes implemented to reduce the nuisance of Tesco lorry parking.

Two things have been done to get the lorries off the main road and to get them to unload at less congested times of the day.

1. The parking bay in front of the shop has been designated an unloading bay from 7 am to 9 am and later on from 7pm to 9pm.
2. The loading doors at the front of the shop required planning permission and this was granted provided they were only used between 7 am and 9 am and later on between 7 pm and 9 pm.

I'm aware that on occasion the lorries to breach these rules. This is unavoidable and cannot be pursued in law.

What I m asking here is, please let me know if you think there has, or has not, been a general improvement since these regulations were implemented.

Hi,

It's rather difficult to deal with this comment on the messageboard. I'm happy to chat on the 'phone or in person to explain the immensely complex issues here. My 'phone number is 609858.

It would be useful if you looked through my newsletters over the past year or so in which I have been carefully laying out the problems and solutions, step by step.

Ferris

Dear Millie,

I'd be interested if you know of any alternative ideas that are feasible. I spent over a year researching possibilities with the County Council, the Police and Tesco themselves.

This was the only practical idea. There is no law to stop Tesco lorries blocking Headley Road or blocking people in their cars in the layby whilst in the course of making a delivery. We had some serious situations caused by crass parking by some Tesco drivers including blocking in a pregnant mother and another mum with a distressed toddler. Something had to be done.

Tesco refuse to reverse their longer lorries into the loading bay behind the store. There is some Health and Safety logic to their position, but my own background in retail logistics suggests to me that they were being unduly fussy, especially when the same lorries were regularly making equally difficult turns into the Waggoners Estate. I think they were being obdurate in this connection, but they were within their legal rights.

Aside from this possibility, the only way to get these trucks off the road was to designate an off peak loading bay. It has also had the effect of bringing most of their deliveries to an off peak hour of the day. Almost everyone I have spoken to believes there has been a huge improvement in the problem of obstruction since this bay was designated.

Given, they could have continued blocking the road and blocking in cars as they were, this seems to be an improvement to me. I fully accept it is not perfect, but a perfect solution simply does not exist.

If you know of one, tell me and I promise to follow it up.

Ferris

Message last edited by Ferris on Mar 22nd 2006 at 14:26.

Hi
Seems that Planning Permissions are being miss used.
Re the loading doors in the front of the shop.
I have been told that lorries are turning up later and later Past the 9am dead line for the use of the loading door.
Now i don't know if they are using the Loading Doors or the main front Door, I will have to get my informer to let me know when these lorries turn up late again. No need to hold your breath it will not be long :-)

On my way home from work at 5.30 this morning, I was travelling down the Headley Road from the A3 junction, it was pitch black, a little foggy/misty, what looms before me?....a tesco hgv delivery lorry parked in the Road (a few hundred yards from the junction), obviously waiting to do a delivery but parking in such a dangerous position is absolute madness.
I appreciate he was probably not allowed to turn up on site so early in the morning, but with no lights on, I didnt see him until the last minute (given the weather conditions) and had to brake harshly to avoid going up his backside!
Not amused.

Hi Bikes.
I could be wrong here so this is from the top of me head post.
Anything wrong then please be nice and correct for me.
Tesscos Came to town, a shiver ran down the road as the first lorries rolled on down the high street.
These were no ordinary lorries these were Tessco lorries, the biggest you can get anywhere lorries. And it came to pass that these beasts could not 'turn' into the track to get behind the store.
Tesscos said they would send smaller beasts but this never happened. So the big ones were left on the road and planning was sort to put the front-loading bay doors in. And then the lay-by was next to go.
Well as it transpires Tesscos knew that the lorries had to park out back and it was indeed written in the contract/deed/what ever, that the lorries would go around the back of the store to unload!!
Well all I can say is, that’s what happens when the Big uns move in to a village.

....Tesco do have those very handy self service tills though for when there is a big queue & a handy place for me to park my bike! Why is it I always seem to see the big Co-op lorries jamming up the village which seem just as bad.

I wish I could get over 2000 people (Tesco Lorry Parking) to read my threads about the live music I put on at the F & P!

Vic Cracknell

i've just come from Tesco, 12.18 on Tuesday. the whole village is at a stand still because a lorry is waiting to back into the parking bay outside the shop. He could have driven around the block to allow the car to come out of the bay and alleviate the traffic queues but instead just waited in the middle of the road for the other cars to edge around him. Perhaps the drivers could help with the overall problem with how they go about making their deliveries.

spot on

Today for example Crossways Road was blocked by a dustcart then a DHL Van was stuck where School Road meets Whitmore Vale Road. The problem is not limited to Tesco at all.