…running a big fleet of red trucks…yes, it’s the Royal Mail!
They have to be the biggest cowboy outfit in the UK…none of their motors seem to have functioning speed limiters, their drivers are incapable of the most basic aspects of driving I.e. the use of mirrors or indicators, in fact their drivers are the worst I see every day, from the little vans who are obviously driven by employees who have severely limited mobility judging by their need to park no more than 3ft from their delivery/collection regardless of how dangerous or inconvenient their vehicle is…right up to the Artic drivers who seem to think that an indicator is something to be used after they have pulled out in front of you not before…or believe that it is your responsibility to avoid the arse end of the trailer when they want to come back in instead of allowing a safe distance to develop before trying to scrape the bugs off your bumper with their rear under run bar!
followed one down hanger lane last week that didnt have any brake lights 
you should see the tesco trucks that run out of the RDC at Hinckley, they regular have no lights at all on the trailers 
shuttlespanker:
you should see the tesco trucks that run out of the RDC at Hinckley, they regular have no lights at all on the trailers
I would expect nothing less from dummy brummys 
Fair point, passed one on the A1 nth by catterick early doors tuesday morning not one single light down the o/side unit or trailer
Isn’t anyone going to blame it all on agency for not doing their walkaround checks? 
All of the above could be put down to “plugging one of the electric cables into that blank hole on the trailer”.
Lemme see… Indicators were used, but no one saw it at the back. Brake lights not working either, but actual back night lights on as normal.
There are 2 electric cables after all. Never assume that all trailers are the same configuration as to what each of the two cables lights up and doesn’t. 
Finally someone shares my view on rm drivers I am by no means perfect at all but I don’t come across a worse bunch off drivers then this lot not so much artic drivers but the way there 7.5 and van drivers fly around it’s unreal they don’t seem to realise people do drive behind them they must be paid by the load instead off the hour that’s the only explanation I can come up with.
FarnboroughBoy11:
shuttlespanker:
you should see the tesco trucks that run out of the RDC at Hinckley, they regular have no lights at all on the trailers
I would expect nothing less from dummy brummys
i have to take exception to that comment. they are not brummies
DonutUK:
.or believe that it is your responsibility to avoid the arse end of the trailer when they want to come back in instead of allowing a safe distance to develop before trying to scrape the bugs off your bumper with their rear under run bar!
Had a prick driving for Part Centre do this to me on the A34 yesterday. He tried to pull back in without checking his mirrors and very nearly took my cab out. Thank god for airhorns.
I know it’s been posted many times before, but this video clearly demonstrates the professionalism and consideration for other road users that most Royal Mail drivers possess…
What you must remember though is that Royal Mail drivers are on important royal business and can therefore do whatever the [zb] they want. 
FarnboroughBoy11:
shuttlespanker:
FarnboroughBoy11:
shuttlespanker:
you should see the tesco trucks that run out of the RDC at Hinckley, they regular have no lights at all on the trailers
I would expect nothing less from dummy brummys
go straight back to your yard, and give the boss the keys to your truck!!!
since when was Hinckley in Birmingham?
Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Brum… All yam yams 
Yam yams are from dudley and the black country. not Birmingham
There are only two electrical cables and they are not interchangeable, but it has been mentioned previously on this site about the standard of Royal Mail drivers.
Winseer, why do you assume Agency drivers for Royal Mail, it doesn’t matter who you work for, but some people on here assume all agency drivers are ■■■■, I am currently an agency driver, 1, because it suits my lifestyle and 2, because all the eastern european barstewards have undercut the rate for my job and all agencies are [zb] if anyone wants to give a highly experienced hgv driver a job, please mail me. ■■■■ it open a bottle of wine.
Sapper
The reason that you need the dots is because you were trying to use a banned word.
The rule is that you type it, then leave it to the auto censor. dd.
Tesco gets my vote, to55er5 the lot of them…
There’s no need to alter that word, because ■■■■■■ or tossers aren’t banned words.
The rule is that you just type what you want, then just leave it to the auto censor. dd.
sapper:
Winseer, why do you assume Agency drivers for Royal Mail, it doesn’t matter who you work for, but some people on here assume all agency drivers are [zb], I am currently an agency driver, 1, because it suits my lifestyle and 2, because all the eastern european barstewards have undercut the rate for my job and all agencies are c.u.n.t.s., if anyone wants to give a highly experienced hgv driver a job, please mail me. ■■■■ it open a bottle of wine.
Sapper
I used to be full time at Royal Mail for nearly 23 years, and now I’m just completing my first full tax year on agency, mostly NOT at Royal mail. I’ve only done around 6 odd RM shifts this entire past year, mostly due to the “can’t go back within 2 years” rule.
However, I did notice even back in my full time days that there were a lot of “one hit wonder” agency drivers not doing their walkaround checks when given a vehicle, which was often an already-hooked-up combination at the yard I worked at. I’ve lost count the number of times the wall got knocked down by someone reversing into it as well. There’s multiple brick colours in it now, it’s been rebuilt so many times!
A 40-something whippersnapper like me of course gets met with derision when I attempt to “stop” a newbie agency driver whom I think is about to do something wrong, such as plug the cable in the wrong socket, attempt split coupling, or drive out the gate with blown bulbs showing at night. The “one hit wonder” would retort something like “I’ve been doing this man and boy I’ll have you know” which apparently makes it OK for him to continue, and NOT ok for some “kid” like me to attempt to pull him up as it were…
No prizes as to why they are “one hit wonders” of course! 
The regular agency guys you couldn’t tell from the RM guys half the time, as the yellow bomber jackets some of them wear are sometimes quite similar.
Thus, I’ve seen it from both sides of the “wall” if you like.
Pimpdaddy:
Tesco gets my vote, to55er5 the lot of them…
I’ve been doing shifts at Snodland for over a year now, and I don’t think I’ve seen an actual Tesco driver as yet!
They all seem to be Wincanton or Agency, the agencies in turn being Mainstream and TRG.
Wheel Nut:
There are only two electrical cables and they are not interchangeable, but it has been mentioned previously on this site about the standard of Royal Mail drivers.
I refer to the hired trailers RM uses over Christmas. Some of them have the two sockets for the cables, and a third “dummy” hole that you can seemingly stick a cable into, but of course with no electrical contacts inside it, it seems “plugged in” to the unwary, but of course whatever cable is in that hole is NOT in the proper hole, and therefore won’t work it’s half of the electrics.
As for the two cables not being “interchangeable” - Have you seen the states of some knackered old trailers where the pins and contacts are so mangled already that plugging them in is like dangling a worm in a dustbin already? 
Winseer, why do you consider split coupling to be wrong? Is that from your point of view, or is it company policy to not allow it?
Not having a pop, but as a close coupled fridge pilot I’m simply curious.
