stuwozere1:
I’ve been that broken down driver, but they asked a driver only 6hrs into shift to swap with me, just that; they asked. He was well within his right to say no chance but he bailed me out of a night out after I was already hitting 12h and 2.5h from base.Your boss should have been clear with you from the start and asked the question. It’s not your fault the driver was on o/t and running out of hours.
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Yeah i can understand that but 1. It was a van so no card and 2. he was on a local delivery with 2 pallets 20 miles from the yard and I was coming back from 2 drops and a collection 150 miles from the yard with 6+ driving hours on the tacho. I could’ve done the delivery which was 5 mins away from the spot where he broke down and went home no problem.
robroy:
Thought that was what agency was …hiring yourself out on an hourly rate.
It was an unforseen circumstance which often happens in transport.
If I was getting paid 12 hours for sitting on my arse for the same as 12 hours graft, it wouldn’t bother me tbh.
You hire yourself to do a job
It was a fairly predictable thing, I’ve seen them drive their vans into the red line from cold start, no pre-use checks etc.
Sitting on your ■■■ ok, what about standing out in the cold, backpack in hand on the roadside