Last week i was having my time off in sunny fleetwood.
However, After 7.5 hours i woke up and felt like my guts were going to erupt.
The company that bought us out wants us to run legal,
So heres what i did.
I filled out a card and put it in with the words. “personal use needed a dump” written on the back.
I drove to a cafe down the road, Had a most excellent dump, Then had a full english.
After that my 9 hours were up so i filled out a card for the day and did a full shift.
If that is legal, Do you think i could do it every day?
I would say no because I assume the vehicle is over 7.5 tonnes and the tacho must show a 9 hour min break but I’ve been wrong lots of times
I think it might be possible with a vehicle under 7.5 as they can be exempt tacho reg for personal use but this is a minefield for me - best wait for tachograph, coffeeholic or geebee45
it used to be the case that drivers could do this but was done away with quite a few years ago im afraid at the time it was revoked i was working at a removal company and the drivers used to do this on regular basis to get to the local chippy. and then return and parkup.
i think it was 98 when it this loophole was removed
where ever you park up it should have a toilet
facilities, if you how ever have tp park up in a
area where none are available, and have need
of a toilet due to natures needs such as Diarrhoea
then you need todo as you posted write why you
interuppted your restbreak, at this point a 11hour
break would look better as well, on the disk and not a nine,
Over here in europe 98% of rest areas have such facilities
it is yet again the incompentence of the UK goverment in
not provieding the correct facilities,for the transport drivers
limeyphil:
If that is legal, Do you think i could do it every day?
That all depends on you eating habits,diet etc and whether you are “regular”. best ask a doctors advise but if you want a major “dump” everday try laxatives etc
Strictly speaking the movement in the truck was illegal , the one at the cafe was probably even more illegal, unless you had full ADR kit and a Waste Carrier Licence
In all seriousness, you did the right thing by recording the journey and the reason on a chart. I (personally) think that as a ‘one off’ this would probably come under the heading of discretion - don’t expect to ‘get away’ with it very often.
you should be able to do it every day realy because you go every day and your right to a no2 in a toilet designed for the porpose over your drive time or not
fuse:
you should be able to do it every day realy because you go every day and your right to a no2 in a toilet designed for the porpose over your drive time or not
limeyphil:
Last week i was having my time off in sunny fleetwood.
However, After 7.5 hours i woke up and felt like my guts were going to erupt.
The company that bought us out wants us to run legal,
So heres what i did.
I filled out a card and put it in with the words. “personal use needed a dump” written on the back.
I drove to a cafe down the road, Had a most excellent dump, Then had a full english.
After that my 9 hours were up so i filled out a card for the day and did a full shift.
If that is legal, Do you think i could do it every day?
Phil, you are going from strength to strength. You’re soon going to have a cult following, truckstop news star letter and now this? You should of sent this in to T and D, its not fair just to give us lads on the Internet a laugh, they all need to know !!
I regularly find myself in a similar predicament. I’ve usually had my 9 hours off though and I’m real choosy about where I do and do not do poos.
I will take a dump in the “executive toilet” at our yard (but only if I run into the yard very early in the morning, so the bosses don’t know a mucky wagon driver has been up to a bit of extra curricular “unloading”).
Running back into the yard from another drunken night out in The Stockyard the other morning, I was suddenly taken by what I have affectionately come to call “the movement”. Bubbling, suspicious ■■■■■, and general all round discomfort meant only one thing…the executive bog was in for another early morning treat…Shrek style! ■■■■ that sodding speed limiter! I was an ogre on a mission…I really couldn’t get back fast enough and by the time I’d got back into the yard and got into the office, I was almost touching cloth. Running whilst tightly clenching ones ■■■■ cheeks together takes quite a bit of practice, but I made it just in time.
The ■■■ itself was so big that Leeds City Council recognise it and have given it it’s own postcode. So, for those of you with satnav it’s LS9…
I’m having my stiches removed next week, so should be back on the road soon (with a big soft cuhsion).
, the one at the cafe was probably even more illegal, unless you had full ADR kit and a Waste Carrier Licence 
■■■■ that sodding speed limiter! I was an ogre on a mission…I really couldn’t get back fast enough and by the time I’d got back into the yard and got into the office, I was almost touching cloth. Running whilst tightly clenching ones ■■■■ cheeks together takes quite a bit of practice, but I made it just in time.