Gritter driver shortage?

I’m retired so not really interested in doing full time work now… However …

A few hours driving a gritter for a bit extra spending money might be interesting so I had a chat with my local gritter manager…

Quiet shocked that I can drive a gritter and don’t need a driver card! (I don’t have one as they came in after I retired so I would be
using the good old fashioned tacho)

But then he tells me that I don’t even need to put a disc in the tacho and the gritters don’t have them anyway!

The mind boggles that rules for drivers can be ignored so easily…

Tomorrow I am driving an electric powered thingy that clears leaves, for that I am getting paid more than I ever had for
driving an arctic with a max weight trailer behind it…