On cold mornings I stick kettle on while I do all my extensive vehicle checks [WINKING FACE]. This morning, disaster, it is an ex kettle. It has ceased to boil. It is dead, no more. Should I have locked up cab and gone home. Decided to carry on .
If I get stopped will Vosa ■■■■ me if they find it defunct in the cab
I’d be calling the breakdown/recovery agent as the truck will not be going anywhere with a non boiling kettle.
Fill in a defect form and do a printout in case you get a tug from VOSA 
in fact do 2 printouts to be on the safe side
VOR it & ask the workshop for a new one.
Essential Kit !
That’s such sad news - sorry to hear about your ‘Polly’ 
You should probably take a week off to recover, and go for a compensation claim.
Better still, get one of them no win no fee lawyers to take it to court as it’s breaching your Human Rights to have a cuppa when needed.
When My Coffee Maker packed up I defected it, but It is part off the vehicle equipment, Scania kitchen pack. When I put the truck in for a service and was asked for any defects, I said yes coffee maker stopped working, once they’d stopped laughing they wrote it on the work sheet and it was duly repaired 
When I first became a TM, I got radios fitted to all the trucks. At the same time, I added a note to the drivers contract that a faulty radio was NOT a reason to VOR a truck.
Course it counts as a defect!
How the hell are you supposed to start your days work without a brew■■?
I’d cover it up if I were you. VOSA will jump all over you for that one.
I think you need a few weeks off pal. Your kettle dying needs a phone call to the Samaritans and a good weeks worth of mourning.
Kettle not working / run out of gas / no water in kettle / tea-bag’s burst etc etc are ALL serious, notifiable defects.
What are you going to do if you encounter a serious hazard such as the trailer brakes locking on in the middle of a Madrid intersection? The boss will ring and say, ‘What have you done about it?’ Your first answer will not be: ‘I’ve put out warning triangles for the daft Spaniards to run over’ / ‘I’ve wound the trailer-brakes off and crept to a safe kerb’ / ‘I’ve alerted the police’ / ‘I’ve put the hazards on, donned my hi-viz and am directing the traffic’ - it will be, ‘Well, I’ve put the kettle on!’. Proper driver! Robert 
Whatever you do, don’t get all steamed up about it. 
robert1952:
Kettle not working / run out of gas / no water in kettle / tea-bag’s burst etc etc are ALL serious, notifiable defects.
You sound like precious youtu.be/pScfIV3RyKs
Beware of Satan 
speedyguy:
robert1952:
Kettle not working / run out of gas / no water in kettle / tea-bag’s burst etc etc are ALL serious, notifiable defects.You sound like precious
Very good! Robert
robert1952:
Kettle not working / run out of gas / no water in kettle / tea-bag’s burst etc etc are ALL serious, notifiable defects.What are you going to do if you encounter a serious hazard such as the trailer brakes locking on in the middle of a Madrid intersection? The boss will ring and say, ‘What have you done about it?’ Your first answer will not be: ‘I’ve put out warning triangles for the daft Spaniards to run over’ / ‘I’ve wound the trailer-brakes off and crept to a safe kerb’ / ‘I’ve alerted the police’ / ‘I’ve put the hazards on, donned my hi-viz and am directing the traffic’ - it will be, ‘Well, I’ve put the kettle on!’. Proper driver! Robert
That’s what you do in Madrid, in Greenford (west London) if you snap the red air line at 3pm, and are fitting a new one at double quick speed, in the middle off a 4 way set off traffic lights, traffic chaos all around. What happens is the helpful boys in blue turn up and say “you cant stop here” I’m not often speechless 
eddie snax:
robert1952:
Kettle not working / run out of gas / no water in kettle / tea-bag’s burst etc etc are ALL serious, notifiable defects.What are you going to do if you encounter a serious hazard such as the trailer brakes locking on in the middle of a Madrid intersection? The boss will ring and say, ‘What have you done about it?’ Your first answer will not be: ‘I’ve put out warning triangles for the daft Spaniards to run over’ / ‘I’ve wound the trailer-brakes off and crept to a safe kerb’ / ‘I’ve alerted the police’ / ‘I’ve put the hazards on, donned my hi-viz and am directing the traffic’ - it will be, ‘Well, I’ve put the kettle on!’. Proper driver! Robert
That’s what you do in Madrid, in Greenford (west London) if you snap the red air line at 3pm, and are fitting a new one at double quick speed, in the middle off a 4 way set off traffic lights, traffic chaos all around. What happens is the helpful boys in blue turn up and say “you cant stop here” I’m not often speechless
Beggar’s belief doesn’t it! Conversely, when a mate of mine did the same in Casablanca, and I jumped on the catwalk with one of those little push-fit valves I always used to carry in my pocket, to get him going, the laid-back Moroccans simply squeezed and oozed by us or waited patiently in the shadows (with their hands disinterestedly on their hooters). Robert
Actrosman:
Man up bud, you’re sounding like one of our ex drivers!!!
Agree with what the driver wrote, no point reporting defects if no one takes any notice!
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Actrosman:
Man up bud, you’re sounding like one of our ex drivers!!!
That looks like a bidvest defect sheet!!
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