Hutpik, im not disagreeing with you. If a driver is employed by “Hurry-Up and Wait International Haulage” and holds a specific licence entitling them to drive a variety of vehicles, IE UK class 1, then said driver (employed as a Class 1 driver) should get paid the same rate for driving any of the companies vehicles, whether that be a class 3 rigid, a Ford Transit puddle jumper, an 18mt “A” frame or an 6 axle, 44T artic.
The difference would be maybe that if a bigger, larger, longer, heavier, whatever, vehicle came on scene and you needed a different licence category to drive that specific vehicle, like the one posted, then maybe that would attract a different payment. Personally, I wouldn’t really care about more for this vehicle or less for that one. where I worked in the 80`s, the agreement was already in place. Only 2 or 3 of us would take out a drawbar anyway so the others never moaned about the extra payment in case the dangler was foisted upon them!
City cat,if you’re on CAO then its irrelevant how long you '‘pratt’ about as it’s hourly so how you fill the hours makes no difference.Maybe he does less rushing about because of the ‘‘big truck’’.
Bullitt,i see where you’re coming from.I Think that in the future it will become either optional or the norm to take a test in a 25mtr rig.Here you do a rigid first then directly a 25 mtr then you’ve got everything.As somone said earlier that with a '‘long’'outfit you are Worth more and the boss makes more,i don’t Think so.If he has the ''long rigs then its because the customer says so and maybe he gets 10-20 percent more.But it’s really to keep the price competitive or risk loosing the work and as we all know,doing what the client dictates.
Looks like it would steer similar to the a-frame drags at tuffnells and ups. I have yet to drive one of the long ones but surely the longer the better the smaller trailers move loads with tiny movements of the steering wheel.
