Hi guys and gals, I currently work full time in the police however would love to do a bit of driving on my days off to gain some experience as I’m thinking of driving long term.
I currently hold a class 2 license with CPC and tachograph however have no previous experience.
Does anybody else do something similar to what I’m looking for. I’m thinking that agency work would be my best bet.
Anyone know any driving agencies around the West/South Wales area.
It’s certainly possible but you have to bear in mind that your time spent pigging will be relevant when considering your obligations towards drivers’ hours rules, i.e. you couldn’t spend six days a week in your regular job and drive a truck on your day off as you wouldn’t then have had a compulsory weekly rest period.
How would you lot like it if we did a bit of policing in our down time? There are lots of police who do this , on one of my DCPC modules the presenter told us about his relative who did a few shifts during his consecutive days off. I told him that he was a thieving barsteward stealing our work but that is just my opinion.
alamcculloch:
How would you lot like it if we did a bit of policing in our down time? There are lots of police who do this , on one of my DCPC modules the presenter told us about his relative who did a few shifts during his consecutive days off. I told him that he was a thieving barsteward stealing our work but that is just my opinion.
…Crack on OP if the hours are legal. I do casual Agency work at the weekends sometimes too.
jaustin123:
Hi guys and gals, I currently work full time in the police however would love to do a bit of driving on my days off to gain some experience as I’m thinking of driving long term.
I currently hold a class 2 license with CPC and tachograph however have no previous experience.
Does anybody else do something similar to what I’m looking for. I’m thinking that agency work would be my best bet.Anyone know any driving agencies around the West/South Wales area.
Yep I do this. I work 4 on 4 off in a factory and on my days off I do the odd bit of driving. I tend to do one day driving during my 4 off, sometimes two.
I started off with agencies but for the past 7-8 years I’ve been employed directly with a couple of companies as a casual employee. For the last two years I’ve been with Langdons on the fridges. I tell them my availability for a month and then if they’ve got any work for me they give me a shout. If I change my mind I’ll just ring in a few days before and tell them I don’t feel like it. Works really well for me. Most of the time I want to work, they have something for me. However, there are occasions when I go a few weeks without - like after Christmas when it’s quiet.
Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
Its certainly possible but you do need to be careful of hours as noted - usually works out as 1 day every 2 weekends assuming you have a std 5 day shift. Got to have 24 hours off, then a 45 hour the next weekend.
As for agencies, easiest way to find tjem is go ln Indeed.com and look for hgv class 2 jobs in x town. The ones advertised will be fake mostly but it’ll give you some names. Live too far away to know any personally.
As mentioned, Jan to March can be quiet anyway but they might find somethjng, likely very short notice 4am on a Saturday morning when client panicing as driver not tirned in. Do be very careful in that case to make sure you’ve had your 9 hours off from day job.
Oh and if you a police officer, I wouldn’t tell other drivers what you do but prob applies on many cases.
alamcculloch:
How would you lot like it if we did a bit of policing in our down time? There are lots of police who do this , on one of my DCPC modules the presenter told us about his relative who did a few shifts during his consecutive days off. I told him that he was a thieving barsteward stealing our work but that is just my opinion.
There are around ten thousand special constables in the UK who not only do regular police work in their free time, but also do it for no pay…
Sent from my CLT-L09 using Tapatalk
I know about the “hobby Bobbies”, There was a t.v. series about it many years ago. They always work with a real policeperson and don’t drive the vehicles or do important stuff. When I first had my class 2 I went around a few yards asking for work. I was laughed at because most driving work was being done by firemen or the constabulary. Now those people have a very good salary and pension etc. I asked my DCPC man what happens if a police person injures himself whilst engaged in driving work. Will he be looking to us to provide his sick pay as it comes from the public ■■■■■. Will they be paying income tax or will it be another wee fiddle.
alamcculloch:
I know about the “hobby Bobbies”, There was a t.v. series about it many years ago. They always work with a real policeperson and don’t drive the vehicles or do important stuff. When I first had my class 2 I went around a few yards asking for work. I was laughed at because most driving work was being done by firemen or the constabulary. Now those people have a very good salary and pension etc. I asked my DCPC man what happens if a police person injures himself whilst engaged in driving work. Will he be looking to us to provide his sick pay as it comes from the public ■■■■■. Will they be paying income tax or will it be another wee fiddle.
So what about all the people who have full time jobs but are also retained fire fighters (who get paid quite nicely), or all those that do a bit of dj’ing in their spare time, or those that do a bit of gardening for people, or those that work full time but play the stock market or have a second property as a second form of income, or those that work during the day and then go and do a few shifts behind a bar in a pub? The list is endless.
No one is stopping you from going and getting a second form of income, or is it just the fact that you don’t like a copper doing it?
Or alternatively are you on a wind up?
Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
See if you can’t get a job driving a plain white tractor unit while a co worker sits by your side with a video camera
Yes, you can do this, for me it’s every second weekend, as I have Monday - Friday job, but I don’t get shifts regularly, just from time to time.
Sent from my HUAWEI LYO-L01 using Tapatalk
I’m a part-time(ish) driver. I say part time ish as I’ve taken a break from being a student to save up for a long tip away, so I am driving pretty much full time for a supermarket via agency for a supermarket for the next two weeks. But normally it’s just a way for me to get some pocket money.
Ignore those who think you need to be either 100% driver or not at all. There will be agencies who will offer you work - driver hire are good for this.
It’s perfectly doable. And it’s no threat to full time drivers… You will be covering holes when the full timers are off work.
As others have said I’d not mention you are a police officer. It could leave you in a dodgy position anyway… I don’t do anything illegal (apart from the odd bit of drivers hours bending) - but you are presented with various levels of criminality at certain firms.
alamcculloch:
I know about the “hobby Bobbies”, There was a t.v. series about it many years ago. They always work with a real policeperson and don’t drive the vehicles or do important stuff. When I first had my class 2 I went around a few yards asking for work. I was laughed at because most driving work was being done by firemen or the constabulary. Now those people have a very good salary and pension etc. I asked my DCPC man what happens if a police person injures himself whilst engaged in driving work. Will he be looking to us to provide his sick pay as it comes from the public ■■■■■. Will they be paying income tax or will it be another wee fiddle.
It’s quite clear that you don’t “know about” what they do. Not really surprising if you gleaned your current knowledge from a TV programme many years ago. Hereabouts they normally work alone, drive police vehicles and do all the “important stuff” just the same as a regular copper. It’s really only the specialist stuff they don’t do - e.g. CID, Traffic, Dogs etc. The only real difference is that the don’t get paid.
Why wouldn’t a copper (or fireman etc) be paying income tax on his part-time job?