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Drivers get a chilly reception
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• Drivers delivering chilled goods to Safeway's regional distribution centre at Bellshill. Glasgow, have complained they are being refused unloading slats until they agree to break up consignments of palletised goods.
One haulier reports that drivers are being forced to go into the chilled warehouses to unpack goods or are being told they won't be allowed to deliver. They claim they are even being asked to sign forms that would exonerate the super
market in the event of an accident.
An operator. who doesn't wish to be named, says one of its drivers was kept waiting several hours until he reluctantly agreed to break up the load.
"He tells me they asked to him to sign a disclaimer, which on my advice he refused. He then had to spend the next three hours in a freezing warehouse splitting up food stuffs into their different flavours. Truck driving is a hard enough job without this," he says. "To cap it all he tripped over while in the warehouse and has been off wo for two weeks as a result."
A spokesman for Christian Salves which operates the 8ellshill site f Safeway said it would be inappropriate comment. However. a Safeway spoke woman says: 'Drivers working for outsh contractors who have to go into co stores are asked to read and sign a doci ment showing that they have read ar understand the Health & Safety rules there is no 'disclaimer'."