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[paullgv1]

All your answers have made myself and others have a proper giggle, now I know what kind of people frequent such a forum as this. Too retarded for my fancy, I guess there are no good forums for lorry drivers that have respect for themselves

[merc0447]

‘‘excuse me drive you appear to be on fire, do you mind awfully if i put it out’’

[mickyblue]

No don’t put the fire out merc, it will only cause more damage

[juddian]

PaulLGV1:
All your answers have made myself and others have a proper giggle, now I know what kind of people frequent such a forum as this. Too retarded for my fancy, I guess there are no good forums for lorry drivers that have respect for themselves

You have to be a lorry driver to understand in the first place.

[merc0447]

PaulLGV1:
All your answers have made myself and others have a proper giggle, now I know what kind of people frequent such a forum as this. Too retarded for my fancy, I guess there are no good forums for lorry drivers that have respect for themselves

Pot,kettle,black? Take of your tinted spectacles and read your opening post it is bordering on ridiculous. This forum is full of great advice and opinions, but you need to realise you might not like some of those opinions. But since we are all retarded dont let the door hit you on that way out

mickyblue:
No don’t put the fire out merc, it will only cause more damage

Ok i’ll let you all burn mwahahahahahaha

[shropsbri]

PaulLGV1:
All your answers have made myself and others have a proper giggle, now I know what kind of people frequent such a forum as this. Too retarded for my fancy, I guess there are no good forums for lorry drivers that have respect for themselves

Jeez fella,too retarded for your fancy
Guess it’s back to the animal lovers site for you then eh.

[diesel_dan]

newmercman:

Saaamon:
Brakes do get hot if you drive like a [zb].

Yeah they do, hot enough to catch fire, a failed wheel bearing can also cause a wheel fire

BUT, lorry drivers do not call tractor units a cab

hi,
tractor units were called prime movers when i started driving,

[happydaze]

newmercman:

PaulLGV1:
Hi all,

Im new here having just joined so hi to all.

Anyway, I have a gripe with my employer. Im an artic driver for a company that has a few depots. Im a tramper and the other day I arrived at the companies main depot having been on duty for around 14 hrs and 10 mins or so. I was away from home so will be on a night out. As I pulled up at the yards gate I had to stop and I then noticed that my units front n/s brake was on fire. The numpty of a yard marshall got the security guard to run over with a powder extinguisher to put out the fire, without my consent.

Ok to the point, my bosses insisted that my cab be taken from me to be sent for repairs overnight so then it would be fixed for me in the morning. They gave me a rigid to sleep in. After the fire to the time I dropped my trailer and got parked up in my cab then pulled my card I was pretty much on 15 hours on duty time. I had to wait another 45 mins or so after I pulled my card before they got a rigid to me.

At first I refused to accept sleeping in someone elses cab and that the repairs should be done in the morning as I had just done a 15 hour shift. Who is in the right about this?

One more question I have, if on a Friday my company cant guarentee that I will be home on the Friday evening and will have to work Saturday to get home, am I well within my rights to refuse to do the job that will put me out of hours so I would be unable to reach home on the Friday?

Thanks for any advice you may give me, Paul.

Calling BS on this…Only people who do not drive lorries call a tractor unit a cab, another dreamer

+1 I think he’s a journalist or a mentalist, anything-ist but not a lorryist.

Who calls themselves LGV anything?

EDIT: Actually, I think he’s a security guard with no life.

[saratoga]

OK, so why did the driver, the OP say that after his 15h he had to leave the card in for 45m. Surely 15h is the outside marker for hours and the card should have been pulled.

As for having to move lorries for the night just be thankful you could. There was another thread on here a while back where the driver was moaning as he was requested to sleep in a side room of the warehouse and NOT a truck!!!

Hopefully your rigid could have been in the corner of the yard and away from the night noise of shunting so you could get some sleep, but at least you’ve got a job and the truck didn’t catch fire, because believe me, that really would have shafted your job.

For the comment of ‘managing the fire’ yeah right, you just wanna see it burn so you can get a brand new scania right

[shuttlespanker]

Saratoga:
OK, so why did the driver, the OP say that after his 15h he had to leave the card in for 45m. Surely 15h is the outside marker for hours and the card should have been pulled.

As for having to move lorries for the night just be thankful you could. There was another thread on here a while back where the driver was moaning as he was requested to sleep in a side room of the warehouse and NOT a truck!!!

Hopefully your rigid could have been in the corner of the yard and away from the night noise of shunting so you could get some sleep, but at least you’ve got a job and the truck didn’t catch fire, because believe me, that really would have shafted your job.

For the comment of ‘managing the fire’ yeah right, you just wanna see it burn so you can get a brand new scania right

FFS, here we go again

i’m staying out of this one, i got threatened with pre-mod last time

[taffytrucker]

ady1:

PaulLGV1:
Hi all,

Im new here having just joined so hi to all.

Anyway, I have a gripe with my employer. Im an artic driver for a company that has a few depots. Im a tramper and the other day I arrived at the companies main depot having been on duty for around 14 hrs and 10 mins or so. I was away from home so will be on a night out. As I pulled up at the yards gate I had to stop and I then noticed that my units front n/s brake was on fire. The numpty of a yard marshall got the security guard to run over with a powder extinguisher to put out the fire, without my consent.

Ok to the point, my bosses insisted that my cab be taken from me to be sent for repairs overnight so then it would be fixed for me in the morning. They gave me a rigid to sleep in. After the fire to the time I dropped my trailer and got parked up in my cab then pulled my card I was pretty much on 15 hours on duty time. I had to wait another 45 mins or so after I pulled my card before they got a rigid to me.

At first I refused to accept sleeping in someone elses cab and that the repairs should be done in the morning as I had just done a 15 hour shift. Who is in the right about this?

One more question I have, if on a Friday my company cant guarentee that I will be home on the Friday evening and will have to work Saturday to get home, am I well within my rights to refuse to do the job that will put me out of hours so I would be unable to reach home on the Friday?

Thanks for any advice you may give me, Paul.

one of our trampers recently came off a job as he was getting one shower a week ,the subject was broached about me doing it for x amount of night per week,NO chance,i was always a yes sir/no sir type,but you just get advantage taken of you,if you want to be back on a friday,tell them,they can then stick someone on the job whos happy enough rolling back in the yard on a saturday,or in my case stick some smelly zb on the job who doesnt like using soap/t.paste

Thats just bad driver admin there no excuse for not grabbing a shower while on a break in services or when park up at night

[campbell]

I think he’s real, just the new breed. Back in the day my old man youst to work up to his hours then pull his card and reload, usually steel, then chain it for the next morning all off clock. Then he’d then sleep at the depot in a D-series day cab with the gear stick twisted round with no night heater. Think he got an extra few quid for his efforts, a bunk would have been a godsend, even someone elses.

[tootman318]

Come on boys the OP is a wind up, real ■■■■■■ Stop replying to the prick

[baby_seal]

Big Joe:

newmercman:

Saaamon:
Brakes do get hot if you drive like a [zb].

Yeah they do, hot enough to catch fire, a failed wheel bearing can also cause a wheel fire

A seized caliper that’s not releasing fully can do as well, although you might not feel it binding on the disc it can generate enough heat in the hub to boil the grease and then melt the hub seal, hot liquid grease then leaks onto red hot disc, whoosh bye bye truck

As for running in Saturday morning, its what I’d prefer to do rather than the frustrating stop start my way home on a Friday afternoon. I’d be parked by 4.30 pm most Friday afternoons, good snooze for an hour or two, something to eat then telly or tinternet till bedtime, then a blissfully quiet run home on a Saturday morning

I used to do this all the time, nice early finish in a quiet truckstop/MSA, nice early start and dead quiet run back Saturday morning.

Paul a bit of free and friendly advice, this job isn’t rocket science and in the ‘current economic climate’ you’d be wise to make yourself as useful as possible. When you do want a Friday finish/short notice day off or whatever you may find the boss a little more willing.

And there’s no need for the ■■■■■■ stuff, it’s a little unpleasant. If you ask for people’s opinion don’t have a go at them for giving it.

[cav551]

Disregarding the wheel on fire issue, I certainly would not be driving into one of the company’s remote- from- base- depots at 14 hours 10 minutes duty time. As sure as night follows day you are going to be messed about, probably end up actually over 15 hrs, but having to book off at 15 and end up continually disturbed all night long in what is probably a busy depot, with shunters on the go all the time.

Ring in before, tell them you can’t make it and park up somewhere sensible with facilities at say 14hrs 15 mins and be “off the clock” in 15 minutes. Tell them if what’s on the trailer is urgent then you will drop it, they can come and get it and you will run into the depot for your load in 9 or 11 hrs time.

Last bit goes to pot a bit if you’ve got a wagon and drag.

[happydaze]

There’s an awful lot of messing about these days. Wasn’t it better for all concerned when you could put her to sleep, get tipped and park around the corner with no worries about the load. Customer has his load, boss is happy, driver is happy as he can now get as much sleep as he wants. Job done.

[newmercman]

cav551:
Disregarding the wheel on fire issue, I certainly would not be driving into one of the company’s remote- from- base- depots at 14 hours 10 minutes duty time. As sure as night follows day you are going to be messed about, probably end up actually over 15 hrs, but having to book off at 15 and end up continually disturbed all night long in what is probably a busy depot, with shunters on the go all the time.

Ring in before, tell them you can’t make it and park up somewhere sensible with facilities at say 14hrs 15 mins and be “off the clock” in 15 minutes. Tell them if what’s on the trailer is urgent then you will drop it, they can come and get it and you will run into the depot for your load in 9 or 11 hrs time.

Last bit goes to pot a bit if you’ve got a wagon and drag.

or if you’re on fire

[wheel_nut]

newmercman:

cav551:
Disregarding the wheel on fire issue, I certainly would not be driving into one of the company’s remote- from- base- depots at 14 hours 10 minutes duty time. As sure as night follows day you are going to be messed about, probably end up actually over 15 hrs, but having to book off at 15 and end up continually disturbed all night long in what is probably a busy depot, with shunters on the go all the time.

Ring in before, tell them you can’t make it and park up somewhere sensible with facilities at say 14hrs 15 mins and be “off the clock” in 15 minutes. Tell them if what’s on the trailer is urgent then you will drop it, they can come and get it and you will run into the depot for your load in 9 or 11 hrs time.

Last bit goes to pot a bit if you’ve got a wagon and drag.

or if you’re on fire

Don’t worry, they got him a new lorry.

[waddy640]

diesel dan:

newmercman:

Saaamon:
Brakes do get hot if you drive like a [zb].

Yeah they do, hot enough to catch fire, a failed wheel bearing can also cause a wheel fire

BUT, lorry drivers do not call tractor units a cab

hi,
tractor units were called prime movers when i started driving,

I think they were horses when I started.

[waddy640]

Obviously the OP has no sense of smell, there is a very distinct aroma to burning brakes. It normally wafts some time before they spontaneously ignite themselves.

Why whinge about a bit of excitement at the of another boring day, no gratitude some people.