Advice needed asap

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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The op had 3 hrs to move the truck and to take it that distance to a service area is gross misconducted is anyone’s book i think it’ll be a case right come back to reload and when he gets back it’ll be sorry your sacked. Newbie or not

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But the threat may not have come until 3 hours after he parked up.

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So you are woken in the night by an axe wielding homicidal maniac…braying on the window.

Do you
A move
B recite the drivers hours regs

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commonrail2:
But the threat may not have come until 3 hours after he parked up.

But he hasn’t said there was a threat just that “there is a lot of people around”, which unless they’re drunks or dope-heads probably means it’s pretty safe.

I wish the OP luck, but I can’t see his TM giving him a pat on the back for it :frowning:

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commonrail2:
So you are woken in the night by an axe wielding homicidal maniac…braying on the window.

Do you
A move
B recite the drivers hours regs

:smiley: :smiley:

Now come on mate, he said he was worried about the “safety of my lorry and contents(panels)”, he never said anything about an axe wielding homicidal maniac :smiley: :wink:

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Lol no
But you’re assuming there was no real threat…when actually there could have been.
In which case,it’s totally acceptable to deviate from drivers hours regs.

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commonrail2:
So you are woken in the night by an axe wielding homicidal maniac…braying on the window.

Do you
A move
B recite the drivers hours regs

+1
just say the diddycoy diesel fairys were hovering and you moved for your own safety as you felt threatened…write it up and forget about it.isolated incident…vosa may moan a tad but thatl be all.i do it now and again tiping off the card in certain places.so long as its only now and again,then no more to be said .write the story,and happy days.

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For lots of people around, would not justify moving the lorry after the duty time was over, if the OP thought the area looked a bit dodgy when parking there, why stop there and move on to another place when there was driving and working time left ?
With half term on , and there are more kids out later at night, as no school the next day, parents let them stay out later to meet friends and hang out by your lorry .
Scary stuff that .
Another option was to sleep with the cab curtains open, the cab light on all night, and sleep on the top bunk to get a good view on the sides of the lorry with the side mirrors tweaked in to position .
Or put a big jacket in the seat, stuff pillows inside, put a coat arm at the bottom of the window, so it makes out somebody is sat there, works a treat to keep the scary people away .
Brislington is safe for lgv parking, locals are used to them there .
The OP was minutes away from Longwell Green, Gordano was taking the mickey, I would sack the OP for that, new or not ,diesel costs .

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newontheroadC:
Evening all.

I’m currently parked up in Brislington and parked up for the night. I’m worried about the safety of my lorry and contents(panels) as there is a lot of people around. I have done 12 hours today but the 15 is now up even though I had 2 hours driving time left. What is the law in this situation please anyone? I.e. Can I move without doing a driving offence…

You should chill out mate, look on the positive side if there are a ‘lot of people around’ there is less chance of being turned over than if you were parked in some ■■■■ lay by in the middle of nowhere, where there was ‘nobody around’ :bulb:
It’s Brislington ffs not The Bronx., I would even say you would have more chance of being turned over on a MSA, the security in those ■■■■ holes is a joke.
Be more selective where you park and a bit earlier next time,
Also ask yourself what the outcome would be if you had an accident during your +15 day, more of a ■■■■ storm than getting your curtains slashed I would reckon.

Toby mate is that what you do when you park up, build yourself an efigy for your passenger seat ? :open_mouth: , people will say who’s that GUY.sat with Toby. :laughing:

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toby1234abc:
Or put a big jacket in the seat, stuff pillows inside, put a coat arm at the bottom of the window, so it makes out somebody is sat there, works a treat to keep the scary people away . .

As its you Mr paranoid I know you’re not joking. I bet when you’re parked up you have a few of these fake decoy men dotted about. A pillow man positioned on the cat walk pretending to connect the suzies, or one near the rear tyres taking a wazz? Maybe one leaning up against the trailer smoking a pretend ■■■ wearing an old Bluetooth.

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OK to say you could park here park there ,if you don’t know the area little bit harder. I make mental notes on my way to places not hard really .if you move be it on your head

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My biggest worry is that the new generation of truckers will be eating salads and drinking prosecco!!

This will harm our long fought for reputation of being the hard men of the highways. Once this gets out, every driver will be at risk even from the women of the night! Who are we going to kill then??
Bloomin pokeman that’s who!!

If I heard any noise near my cab on nights out, I used a wet wipe round the under carriage in case I got lucky.

Kids of today - pah!

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Stunned by some of the replies to this.
Droids are alive and well driving lorries already :open_mouth:

Personally, I do what I want to in any given situation, I am a human being with emotions and expectations, those who wave the rule book can go and do one…This not a macho posture thing, more of a common sense thing.

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Downside of working for a blue-chip,i’m afraid.
Labotomised at induction…then reprogrammed with corporate b/s

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att:
Stunned by some of the replies to this.
Droids are alive and well driving lorries already :open_mouth:

Personally, I do what I want to in any given situation, I am a human being with emotions and expectations, those who wave the rule book can go and do one…This not a macho posture thing, more of a common sense thing.

If the op did feel in danger, he could have moved a few minutes down the road, as pointed out previous. Keynsham, Longwell Green, Warmley are several minutes away and safe. Instead the op decided to make a journey which would have taken him past those aces, and took the best part of 40 minutes.
Maybe nights out on I dust rial estates are not for him. I hope his boss pays for the parking.

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shep532:
The driver was concerned for his and his vehicles safety and so moved location - where’s the problem?

Make sure a print out is made and FULL details written on the back including the fact you were concerned for YOUR safety.

If I was your employer I’d be pleased you had thought about my wagon and load. I would still produce an infringement report and have you sign it along with comments of what happened then file it away with a copy of the printout as well.

Make sure you take the full amount of rest not including the bit where you first stopped.

In a roadside check they cannot fine you unless they catch you on THAT day. They need either four £100/£200 previous offences or one £300 offence to consider prosecuting you. So if you normally don’t have any infringements that makes this an isolated offence and not a problem.

Of course DVSA cannot check whether you were scared/frightened/worried and will accept what you wrote. They may ‘moan’ at you but so what.

Spot on. The paranoia on here about the dvsa is laughable. Providing you don’t constantly and deliberately fiddle your hours, but instead have rare and genuine infringements you’re not going to be hung, drawn and quartered. Do a printout, write on the back what happened, sign and date and put it in your diary.

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commonrail2:
So you are woken in the night by an axe wielding homicidal maniac…braying on the window.

Do you
A move
B recite the drivers hours regs

:laughing:

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A couple of times during my life in the UK I ran out of time in worrying places, I carried on to safe places and made a note in the tacho records. Twice I actually got police to sign my chart and send me to a safer place. One very rare occasion, I believe it was Blackburn, I had a load of very valuable electrical equipment and no secure parking, I was allowed to park in the police compound for the night and taken to the police social club for a few beers :laughing:

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James the cat:

toby1234abc:
Or put a big jacket in the seat, stuff pillows inside, put a coat arm at the bottom of the window, so it makes out somebody is sat there, works a treat to keep the scary people away . .

As its you Mr paranoid I know you’re not joking. I bet when you’re parked up you have a few of these fake decoy men dotted about. A pillow man positioned on the cat walk pretending to connect the suzies, or one near the rear tyres taking a wazz? Maybe one leaning up against the trailer smoking a pretend ■■■ wearing an old Bluetooth.

Stop… my sides are hurting.

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Pat Hasler:
A couple of times during my life in the UK I ran out of time in worrying places, I carried on to safe places and made a note in the tacho records. Twice I actually got police to sign my chart and send me to a safer place. One very rare occasion, I believe it was Blackburn, I had a load of very valuable electrical equipment and no secure parking, I was allowed to park in the police compound for the night and taken to the police social club for a few beers :laughing:

You’ve spend too long in the RDC drivers restroom…