Question for the plobber type comany snowflakes

heres the coronavirus question for today as my mate asked me for advice and im wondering what the reality of the proper multinatiaoal type tosco/stobrat steering wheel attendant type occupations would do in reality.
this would also apply to a dedicated truck double shifted but not double manned.

on the basis that from what you read in here then 8 or 9 hours is a mega shift,and assuming your unit is double/treble shifted,what do you do when you go to the truck as your shift starts.
do you insist that its deep cleaned as no matter whether the previous driver is a mankbag or not,then he might be a virused up disease riddled carrier for the last couple of weeks,and had just sat in your confined workspace for the last 8 hours.
or
do you ask for some trigger bottles of anti bacterial stuff and skoosh it all over the place wiping where it hits.
or
do you insist on a full hazchem isolation suit and drive about like a cyborg all during your shift
or
do you just not give a ■■■■■■■■ and crack on as normal.■■?
bearing in mind that lots of companies over here in ireland north and south will never supply any ppe kit/gloves/hardhat/goggles/steelies in the first place though some supply a uniform,other than that,your on your own,so asking for anti bacteria cleaning stuff would be similar to asking if you could only do a 12 hour shift instead of a normal one…

Seems Jack Richards have the answer…

ABAD2DDB-31B4-4D67-8CE5-10F79F05F3CE.jpeg757×1600 127 KB

All ours…

Are being cleaned by a third party specialist firm.

If it doesn’t have a clean bill of health, it doesn’t go out.

is that at the start of every drivers shift■■?
my question wasnt taking the ■■■■,just a genuine query as his company isnt a 2 bit operation but theres not the same panic over here to a certain degree driving wise.
plenty of factories closing plus the knock on effect of suppliers closing,but theres plenty that want to workk,just keeping going.

I would just put a “Living The Dream” sticker in the window and crack on

The coronavirus wont defeat my dream catcher. It just sort if swirls about between the feathers

Our place don’t give a ■■■■. Never the same unit two days running, have to use our own methods. I put on disposable gloves as soon as I enter the site, collect paperwork/keys then use own antibacterial wipes to clean every surface I can in the unit, dispose of wipes and gloves, then crack on…

Ditto
We are providing with black nitrile gloves and alcohol cleaning wipes.
Personally I think most don’t use them but I do, but I also have some wet wipes that I’ve added a splash or two of neat flash apc, and 100% isopropyl alcohol (which I have for car cleaning) to the packet. All the contact surfaces I touch during the day (handles, steering wheel, switches etc) are wiped down the moment I step in the cab, this is repeated several times a day inc when I stop for a break, the liquid from the wipes is allowed to dry naturally. I wear nitrile gloves from the moment I step out the car in a morning until I leave site. I wipe down the gloves before I remove them to eat etc, a fresh pair is used after I’ve finished eating. If I use my phone it’s most likely that I will still be wearing my gloves, so at the end of my shift to prevent anything from transferring to my home I wipe down my phone, work bag, and snap box. If the clerks download my digi card at the end of the shift I wipe that down at the same time as my workbag. Then I walk out the door and dump the gloves in the bin as I walk across to carpark.
I’ve also started wearing a 3M dust mask with a motorcycle snood over it when I get to delivery points, this probably won’t do anything but it scares the hell out of people, who then give me a very wide berth (social distancing psychology).

I’m seeing more and more drivers on the road who are wearing nitrile gloves while driving

just to be clear.
im not being disrespectful to the drivers of these type of company,im merely meaning that if these up their own jacksie with h&s when it suits them comanies as so by the letter of the rulebook,then i would imagine the drivers in said companies would be right in there ott looking for 100% sterile conditions at least in the cab.

This cleaning and wearing gloves has cut down on my grazing food while driving

I’m wasting away I tell ya …

When this all kicked off we were given a packet of our own brand anti bac wipes so by using these I’ve obliterated the germs left by afternoon drivers and agency alike.
I feel more unsafe at work with a cage of bog roll on my tail lift now then I did last year when lads were getting done over by axe wielding maniacs for tobacco.

dieseldog999:
just to be clear.
im not being disrespectful to the drivers of these type of company,im merely meaning that if these up their own jacksie with h&s when it suits them comanies as so by the letter of the rulebook,then i would imagine the drivers in said companies would be right in there ott looking for 100% sterile conditions at least in the cab.

Yes, the company I work for is one of the ‘up their own jacksie H&S’ ones - they have tried but what management remain are so out of touch that everything is being done after the event…

I never drink lager so the corona bit doesn’t apply and I keep my mobile phone on me at all times cos it’s got a good anti virus installed

Given anti bacs and hand gel.
8-11 hour shifts have turned into 12-15 hour shifts with the odd night out.
So nobody else has used the lorry I’ve been driving this week.
Probably be a different lorry,next week.

Long termers have their own trucks

Personally as someone who walks the next too godliness line, and who’s been involved with the best of noxiousness that man kind expels, at the worst levels, I find it deplorable that firms are only now thinking about hygiene(till the curve flattens… [emoji38]).

We live a transient life, all walks an sorts about yet what’s the first thing sliced off any company’s budget, HYGIENE/CLEANING.

Doesn’t help the world’s total lack of respect towards the folk that do these jobs either, the crap pay, and lack of respect towards their efforts or said peoples own lack of ability to just be decent clean folk, service station bogs anyone?

One thing covid has done is show how serious hygiene should be taken…won’t last though, can you imagine if the big boys had to pay for each cab to be cleaned twice a week?

Let me tell you this…
The police pay £35!! to have a car ‘WIPED’ over inside, no matter how bad the content its £35 an that’s it, and trust me they will fight to not have it done too.

Funny there’s no que for the job.

Now imagine £70-100 per interior cab for a PROPER BIO HAZARD DEEP clean x 1000 vehicles = no wheels turning.
It’s never gonna happen.
Jack Richards will just hire some poor soul for a few weeks for £10ph who’s probably never used a hoover in their life, hand em a bucket an cloth an tell em 60 vehicles to be done in 8hrs, then lunch em with the 2yr rule once its all blown over.

It won’t end well, it’ll just end.

It’s One of the biggest reasons I want so badly to find a place where I could have my own unit, I’d rather take a bit less dosh an have a bling motor to myself, with a boss who values his gear being respected than be on more pay cab hopping between mobile ■■■■ bio hazards day in day out.

Have some pride in yourselves, work, company, and above all firms should ALLOW for the drivers to have the time to clean up too, most won’t though so the cycle continues.

Call me a snowflake, I call it being one above the blue bottles.

Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk

A lot of the trucks in our yard are complete sh.pits,.I’ve refused to drive them in normal times if ‘my’ motor has been off the road, so there is no way in hell I’d even get in the cab of some of them, let alone drive them, under the present circumstances.

Another lad drives ‘my’ motor (inverted commas to prevent the day men jumping down my neck…co.motor etc ) on a Mon and Tues when I’m off, and he’s spot on, we both clean the motor up for each other at end of shift pattern,.and we have a spray bottle of alcohol sanitizer we both use until all this crap is over…so no probs so far from my pov.on that score.

Good on Jack Richard’s btw, good to see a trucking firm who has respect for their drivers…
(Oooh I wish…nuff said )

dieseldog999:
is that at the start of every drivers shift■■?
my question wasnt taking the ■■■■

Yup…

Every shift. Just finishing tonight and they were two of them hovering around until I got out and went to my car. Soon as I’d shut the door they both descended and starting cleaning the whole cab. I think the fleets cleaner now than when we got them all last year. I also think they’ll be kept on after this all ends to do a weekly cab clean.

I’ve never known you take the ■■■■ dd mate.

I’m lucky, in that I work for a company that still is in essence a family run business (I’m left alone to get the job done), but big enough, to weather the ■■■■ that is coming our way at the moment.

My oppo cleans the truck when he finishes, as do I. If this shift is my time to die, so be it.

Some of us live life as it is. Here today, gone tomorrow.

We had a driver on anual leave other week

He came back .when I saw him on 1st day back in yard. I said theve had am agency lad on for a few days on your truck.
And he didn’t seem.bothered just got in like normal

I have a bottle of spray bleach and cleaning cloths, wipes and hand sanitizer in my bag. We are given 45 mins anyway to get sorted (checks, trailer hook up etc) so more than enough time to give all the surfaces a wipe down with bleach spray. All of our lot are very good at cab cleaning anyway and before this even started we had cleaning buckets full of wipes, glass cleaner etc.