Anyone work for TNT or fedex?

DickyNick:

mugsy:

adam277:

Tipperdipper1:

Basket case:
As far as I am aware TNT line haul drivers are paid by the hour.they are under pressure to get from the hubs back to the depots on time so that the drivers on the delivery rounds can get out on time, to get the pre 9/10 and 12’s done on time.if you are late on one of these your despatcher reacts as if the world is going to end! It’s all about targets and league tables.

Bloody mental…

Well maybe somebody “official e.g. DVSA etc” should look in how they operate and cut corners.
But that probably won’t help because there is always somebody else/another parcel who takes that job.

Even if something happens they will blame the driver for speeding, cuttimg legal corners etc. because he should have known better. I don’t think accident investigators look in “planning/run sheets etc…”
Their fingers are probably tied to tell a company how it should operate in a safer manner when it comes to rushing drivers.

Just my opinion and it’s sad that road safety in compromised by these outfits.

But well also there’s drivers in every company, which rush for no reason.

When u say rush u mean 56 mph per hour give or take 2 mph if so that’s hardly dangerous.
If u don’t like it stick to 50mph and u won’t get many issues.
As for the m6 roadworks plenty of space for truck overtaking mate it just looks a little tighter then it is.

You sound like the type of guy that wears a crash helmet when in a car along with a high vis.

H and s is great but 9/10 it’s not practical and it only ever implemented when it suits the big wigs.
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Health and Safety is there to protect you. If you choose to ignore it to get the job done quicker what do you gain, you might get finished a bit earlier but if your hourly paid you then earn less, the bosses like that more profit for them, but what happens if you or somebody else gets hurt because of your corner cutting itcwill be you for the high jump because the bosses will say we trained him to do it properly and he didn’t follow the correct procedure.

When I say rush I mean leaving it to the last possible moment to slam brakes on for lights and roundabouts. I mean accelerate like your getting away from police from roundabouts at junctions, and I mean overtaking on a single carriageway into oncoming traffic. I’d call that dangerous.

Through the roadworks it’s just courteous when lane 3 is clear to shift over a little bit more so both trucks have more space. Oh and by rush I mean doing more than the speed limit through the road works as well.

I take it you are or have been a parcel company driver by the sounds of your attempted justification for it all.

They certainly don’t bully me into leaving it later to brake for junctions and roundabouts anyway by being 2inches from my back. If they go into the back of me it won’t be me at fault.

I think your being a bit extreme they ain’t that bad [emoji23][emoji23]