Any one on here into this type of part time work.
I used to do both wholetime and retained, I don’t think you’ll find a brigade that will take you as a retained ff whilst driving under tacho regs, due to the possibility of compromising rest periods.
thanks for that, one of the skip loader drivers was asking as the local brigade were looking for retained men and his is an 8 to 5 job, no overtime and only one sat morning a fortnight,
I used to be a retained member in Essex. They were pretty desperate in my area, and I live 2 streets away from the station. As cracker bar said, they don’t like to touch you, but they told me they’d take me on if I was only covering nights I wasn’t working the following day. I was doing weekends, but that’s when everyone is available, so I got dropped when I couldn’t provide weekday/night cover
I read something quite recently that says you can’t due to you possibility working in rest periods. That’s the official line but some counties may stretch the rule a LITTLE bit if they are desperate and still put you on call when it wouldn’t be in a rest period…if that’s doable? Guess if your flexible on agency or part time then you could juggle the 2?