Rjan:
switchlogic:
Christ some of you lads get stressed way too easily, no wonder you find what should be a stress free job stressful. Its just a bloody message giving you fair warning of an upcoming issue, what’s the harm in that? I’d rather that than be told last minute.
Reading between the lines, I suspect he was probably more outraged at the content of the message, leaving him steaming on his day off about having a confrontation the next day.
Finish work Friday, DCPC Sunday, and looking at work Monday, to be told your truck with all your gear in, isnt going to be there but youre going away anyway, is bad enough. To be trying to enjoy your abbreviated weekend when you get that news is the cap on it. It`s bad news, compounded by the timing.
Wouldn’t it be reasonable across rest days to either
(1) Get texts only with any “instructions for next week”, especially the start time for the first shift of the coming week…
and
(2) Get a call on one’s landline, rather than the mobile - if an actual conversation is required.
I personally find it intensely irritating to get the phone go with “information only” - something that could have been sent by text, and get a text that requires a bloody immediate response, when I’m not likely to stop, pick up the phone, and read it for some time after it got sent. 
Start you break again from the time they text you, tell them the interrupted your weekly break
Personally never had a problem with being contacted by work during my time off, as long as they don’t make a habit of it. Sometimes the information given would annoy me, other times it didn’t, but that’s life’s ups and downs. However Being told I haven’t got my normal truck or my kit would have annoyed me, as would having to do a DCPC course on a Sunday.
That’s another thing that ■■■■■■ me off.
How can ‘‘they’’ just move the goalposts so that you can not only do all that CPC crap during your weekly rest, but not have to put it down to ‘‘Other work’’. 
Fair enough if you work for a good reputable firm (I don’t) it is done in their works time.
It really goes against the grain big style having to do it in my own time and pay for the privelige.
Cpc is classed as other work. If it breaks up your weekly rest then you should not be on that course
Dave000:
Cpc is classed as other work. If it breaks up your weekly rest then you should not be on that course
I would normally tend to agree with you mate, but somebody who knows more about all this regulation crap than me will either verify or refute, that there is some clause (something to do with paying for it yourself maybe?? 
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that enables you to do it legally.
(Unless our lot are conning us of course. 
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Dave000:
Cpc is classed as other work. If it breaks up your weekly rest then you should not be on that course
As far as I understand and as Rob has already said, the DVSA said if you pay for the DCPC then its considered that you’re doing it voluntarily in your free time, (even though have to do it) but if your company pay then its other work.
BLOCK the NUMBER.
Simple and case closed. My boss can`t contact me at weekends or any other time BECAUSE there number is in my BLOCKED list.
Very simple to do. 
If its a work phone switch it OFF !!! when not at work.
truckerjimbo:
If its a work phone switch it OFF !!! when not at work.
That’s what I do when I park up, if they ring my private phone I ignore it, …and do not re.act to any txts sent.
Ok…I know I’m coming across as an arrogant arse here.
I can be a right awkward ■■■■■ when I want to be…on the other hand I can be the model employee, helpful and going that extra mile as a team player.
I have been BOTH of these, depending on how the firm I am working for at the time look upon their drivers, ie. ‘‘You reap what you sow’’ 
So there’s the clue for my attitude on this thread and some others…just to clear that up.
robroy:
Dave000:
Cpc is classed as other work. If it breaks up your weekly rest then you should not be on that course
I would normally tend to agree with you mate, but somebody who knows more about all this regulation crap than me will either verify or refute, that there is some clause (something to do with paying for it yourself maybe?? )
that enables you to do it legally.
(Unless our lot are conning us of course. )
If you’re voluntarily attending then you can do it in a rest period.
If you’re being instructed to attend, then it’s other work, so can’t be done in a rest period and needs recording.
I think it has to be like that, as otherwise you couldn’t attend any work based training on your time off, you work for a firm that doesn’t do anything with ADR, there’s a firm gonna take you on on mega money once you’ve got you’re ADR, people would ■■■■■ they couldn’t do it on their rest period, so legally would need to use Holiday. Can’t win!
And getting a text about work wouldn’t even register on my ■■■■■■ off scale! Don’t see why it would with anyone, but we’re all different!
Yeah it’s not ideal not having your own wagon, but it’s no one’s fault, one of those things. If they don’t let you know straight away, then there’s s good chance it’ll get forgotten about
But I’m pretty chilled, takes more than ■■■■ like that to wind me up!
I’m going to sue Arnold Schwarzenegger as I got a text about PPI from the short arsed kraut at 11am on Sunday.
Why couldn’t they wait until Monday
Get a burner phone, give them that number.
I have a simple solution to this - after once getting called at 3am because they couldn’t find the keys I now no longer give them my telephone number.
I have a giffgaff sim - which has £10 credit. That lasts for 6 months. I give them this number and stick it in an old iphone. And the phone is only turned on when I am being paid (if I remember).
As a matter of principle I won’t call the office etc - as I am not using my £10 credit. In an emergency my agency do have my real number - however they are under strict instructions not to give it out. If a company did get my real number and called me I’d abuse them unless the world was about to end.
Maybe just me,see the irony,contacted by work,21:30,by txt,comes on mumtrucksnet,complaining 22:58,get txts,msgs from work all hours,7 days week,read when received or later,usually just slopey shouldered box tickers passing the buck but doesn’t bother me one bit,old enough to remember work before mobiles,internet or even fax lol,times change
switchlogic:
Christ some of you lads get stressed way too easily, no wonder you find what should be a stress free job stressful. Its just a bloody message giving you fair warning of an upcoming issue, what’s the harm in that? I’d rather that than be told last minute.
The stress-free part of the job - is driving the truck.
The stress-filled part - is interacting with others, especially other drivers. 
indeed:
Get a burner phone, give them that number.
Already done that, but now they won’t call me on my landline when it’s urgent, and won’t text the burner - unless a reply is required, which costs me 18p per text or 60p per check of the bloody voice mail I’d rather not use. 