Commuting time vs duty time

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chester:

scanny77:
there are clearly ethical and moral arguements regarding safety

Seems to me they are no ethical or moral standards in this game. I blame the old boys in the good old days who actually brag and gloat on this forum how they ran bent, slept on planks across the seats. How they did everything to gain maximum hours for quite simply GREED. It seems a culture was born in the good old days on seeing how far a driver/mug was prepared to go to get that extra mile. Most industries moved on with the times,unfortunately trucking will always be way behind what is morally acceptable to normal working folks.

The reason we slept on planks across the seats (actually the planks went from window ledge to window ledge in tow parts meeting in the middle on the bonnet) was because unless you were early enough to know where you were going to stop and could find a bloody phone that worked then it happened increasingly often that the digs were already full, God knows have many times i’ve traipsed round bloody town case in hand trying to find a bed.

What would you have done then seeing as you have all the answers? couldn’t wave a magic wand and hey presto a sleeper section cooker power steering and air con suddenly popped up.

We were lorry drivers not bloody reps we hadn’t got the money for hotels.

What we yearned for to a man was to get out of the bloody tin or fibre glass can as soon as possible, not live in the thing like some modern hermit 24/7 like the new breed.

Many of us me included ran straight, no two log book tricks, about the only thing we did really wrong was to use Irish overdrive to get some speed up down the hills, running at 48mph max it took a long time to get anywhere.

Incidentally we had a 12.5 hour spreadover then too, non of this 15 hour bollox that seems increasingly normal now.

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I complain if my commute is more than 30mins! But living in Leeds… there must be someone local who needs a driver.

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a former tenant of mine told me you could only commute 30 mins to Stobarts

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andy12:
I smell a large helping of bull shine :wink:

+1

A Peterborough to Livingston commute? Pull the other one. This is either bull[zb] or the bloke is a [zb]ing ■■■■■■.

Things aren’t that bad in Peterborough are they?

TruckNet’s resident halfwit Mickyblue is from down that way isn’t he? Even he seems to have regular work that doesn’t involve a 340 mile each way commute.

I smell a large helping of ■■■■■■■■.

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I’ve travelled from Tyneside to London on a weekly or fortnightly basis, staying in digs,for the last 8 years. I’ve been told I’m mad but my accountant disagrees.
Turned over £73k last year but I still get bored driving trucks.

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hitch:
a former tenant of mine told me you could only commute 30 mins to Stobarts

Well, they’d better pick me up in a chopper out of Southend/Standstead then. As the crow flies, they are quite close to me, but driving there isn’t gonna happen in 30 minutes even if you are Lewis Hamilton!

My main reasons for not having ever worked at Stobarts is “too far for too little”. Perhaps it’s possible to get around that with an agency contract with expenses and a tip-top hourly rate, etc. but that day is yet to come. Meanwhile, I’m kept busy at other places, so I don’t mind really. :sunglasses: