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UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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msgyorkie:

robroy:

blue estate:

msgyorkie:
We have drivers that cannot change a trailer bulb and demand a fitter. Funnily enough they are the ones that will not budge untill dead on 15mins has passed on tacho. One even had a night out 5 mins from the yard as he ran out of time! :unamused:

I would crack on print out go home :wink:

Mixed feelings on that one mate.
I realise stopping 5 mins short is a bit stupid in real terms and all the rest of it, but THEY make the rules not us! :bulb:

Fri night, wanting to get home?
I reckon I’d wangle it. :blush:

Through the week?
Hmmmm…if I get back to yard and it’s a bit too late to get home I don’t get paid a night out, so I’d make sure I was more than 5 mins away, to justify parking up.

The guy who parked up should have done similar, but to ridicule him?
Not unless his spreadover was up, as opposed to only his driving time, in which case he could have been picked up, or walked to the yard ffs. :smiley:

Another aspect to it…Highly unlikely I know, but anything could happen in those 5 mins running in, from getting silent checked (do they actually still do that btw? :neutral_face: ) to a similar scenario to the one beside Heathrow the other night. :bulb:

If you wrote on your printout ‘‘Only 5 mins from depot so carried on’’… not a REAL or valid excuse I’d reckon, so DVSA would not wear it, (Unless of course he had been held up in an RTA, and/or carrying a valuable load that needs secure parking or something similar)
Would your firm and their compliance types back you?..
I doubt it, and definitely NOT in my own case. :unamused:

So I reckon he done the right thing, but could maybe have handled it a bit better.

Know what you mean mate but im talking 3 miles from the yard!
We work for a firm that looks after us so in return I have the view of not taking the ■■■■ and to go the extra mile when needed.

Yep, I’ve worked for at least 2 firms like that, and I know exactly what you mean.
Thing is though you tend to (or at least I do) think a lot different when you work for firms who look upon their drivers as a necessary evil, and treat them that way…but said type firms fail to see it. :unamused:

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Know what you mean mate but im talking 3 miles from the yard!
We work for a firm that looks after us so in return I have the view of not taking the ■■■■ and to go the extra mile when needed.
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if he was working for a company that treats the drivers with the usual indifference or general contempt then he is just sticking to the rules and sticking it back into them.
in reality then he is obviously taking the ■■■■.
some companies like tesco want you to make sure you take breaks at the store so you always have ample time to run in without having to stop again.
in your mans case,with tesco policies being totally ludicrous in the real world,then your man would have been praised for complying to the letter of the law.
thats where people like the tart with the full ppe and clipboard should be working and kept away fro the rest of us.

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dieseldog999:
some companies like tesco want you to make sure you take breaks at the store so you always have ample time to run in without having to stop again.
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In other words they are ■■■■ hot on the compliance ■■■■■■■■, but on paper only not in reality.
It’s ok to bend the rules when it suits THEM. :unamused:
Breaks are designed for a driver’s welfare, to take when the driver chooses, and not as a facility to achieve an otherwise impossible schedule.
When I first started with my lot, I used to get the ‘‘Tip here, load there, and take your 9 off tonight’’
Like ■■■■ I will, the standard rest is 11, I choose when I take 9 off, but of course others bent over and complied, and at the same time continued to take all the b/s dished out in other aspects. :unamused: