ROG:
What was started as a sensible logical safety thread has obviously deteriorated into something else - shame because I know of quite a few drivers who are affected by this issue
Fireworks aren’t even as popular as they used to be, most of what we’ve heard appeared to come from organised displays.
ROG:
What was started as a sensible logical safety thread has obviously deteriorated into something else - shame because I know of quite a few drivers who are affected by this issue
not really rog it’s just one off your pointless threads again. how about a thread " how long stationary at red light before you apply your handbrake. "
jessicas dad:
not really rog it’s just one off your pointless threads again.
Safety = pointless !!■■
My missus would not leave me alone on Saturday night, I was that bloody tired I went to the pub on Sunday to escape her clutches.
I doubt the boss would appreciate that as an excuse either, he hasn’t really got over her leaving him 
Wheel Nut:
My missus would not leave me alone on Saturday night, I was that bloody tired I went to the pub on Sunday to escape her clutches.I doubt the boss would appreciate that as an excuse either, he hasn’t really got over her leaving him
Lol 
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ROG:
jessicas dad:
not really rog it’s just one off your pointless threads again.Safety = pointless !!■■
Up next; Is BBC Oxford so boring that you will nod off whole driving?
I told you Rog…the attitude your question has awoken is because they peeps have taken it at face value, rather than as a serious comment about disturbed sleep and the effect on drivers…and partly because half the peeps are as thick as ■■■■…
Come on fellas, Rog may have put it a little naively but, surely at some point you realise driving tired is a bad idea. Maybe not after a night of fireworks. But do it regularly and you get accidents.
I wonder if the drivers killed on the A9 recently had the same attitude you dozy lot have over tiredness and driving? If so, I bet their families are glad there sons/husbands/boyfriends were real men and didn’t worry about sleep… 
If any one of men was stupid enough to ring in with this excuse I would explode with a rage he would not know what hit him , he would expect a bloody warning 
, what a feeeeeeble excuse for getting to ■■■■■■■■ up .
you would expect a bollocking ! woudnt you ■■?
To be serious, the blokes who cannot stay awake long enough to do a shift are in the wrong job. We have had to sleep in a ships cabin with 3 other blokes ■■■■■■■ & snoring, on a train with it stopping and starting every 10 minutes, in a hospital bed with a nurse waking me up every 2 hours with a thermometer, the lights are on all night and the room is too hot, try sleeping with a mosquito in the cab for a disturbed sleep 
Missing a couple of hours sleep in a night doesn’t affect me. I can still do my job, if someone asks me where I am, I will tell them I am just having / had an hour on the bunk.
Once a driver is out of the yard, he is his own boss. I know what I have to do in a day and I will fit my sleep around it. It is still my decision whether I split my driving into 3 hour chunks or whether I do the whole 4.5. I do the same thing planning my breaks and rest, if it suits me to take a break on a bay, I will, if it suits me to get to Routier X that evening, then I will do that, sometimes I will just park up outside the customer knowing I will get 14 hours in bed if I want
ROG:
Moose:
i dont think rog has ever done enough work to be tired in the first placebetween 80 and 100 hours a week, for most weeks in a year not enough ?
that was probably 10/15 years ago rog.
JAKEY:
If any one of men was stupid enough to ring in with this excuse I would explode with a rage he would not know what hit him , he would expect a bloody warningyou would expect a bollocking ! woudnt you ■■?
They could sleep in a clients’ bed couldn’t they Steve?
If i called my boss, to say i was to tired, i wouldnt have a job.
is this a windup?
surely the bloody fireworks will only be going off for a couple of hours at most ffs?
andrew.s:
is this a windup?
surely the bloody fireworks will only be going off for a couple of hours at most ffs?
And it’s not even as if ROG does a job in which his slight tiredness because of fireworks going off until 10 p.m. when he has to start work at 9 a.m. would cause any danger to anyone.
I suppose that anyone who gets full sick pay will try to kick the arse out of it.
Harry Monk:
andrew.s:
I suppose that anyone who gets full sick pay will try to kick the arse out of it.
^^^^^^this^^^^^^
Unfortunately true (most don’t to be fair, i don’t), when you pay people not to work the slow witted amongst them take advantage, forgetting that in due course, when they’ve taken the ■■■■ enough and sick pay is taken away, and a downturn or takeover or other changes occur that last in first out no longer applies and they might suddenly find themselves unwanted and clearing their motors out.
Its something close to my heart, very few jobs now that have good terms and conditions incl full sick pay, you’d think people would have the bloody sense to make sure they do their best to make the job profitable and smooth running so the company thrives and the good times stay, sod me no, thick as two planks twerps can’t take the ■■■■ quickly enough.
ROG:
jessicas dad:
not really rog it’s just one off your pointless threads again.Safety = pointless !!■■
Don’t do many 15 hour days in your 80-100 hour week then?
ROG:
Moose:
i dont think rog has ever done enough work to be tired in the first placebetween 80 and 100 hours a week, for most weeks in a year not enough ?
really ■■?.. if i was you i would be checking if my pants was on fire 
now then i am currently sat in goole with a factory behind me a large dc in front of me and just sat quite happily watching a fireworks display from the comfort of my cab so if i have this right i should phone my boss and tell him i wnt be loading first thing because i am a bit tired ■■?
it would be an interesting way to get my p45 man up glassback theres a good chap
Yes, I think most of us in our cabs tonight are seeing some fireworks. Certainly it seems that they have them in Exeter. I have to be in Uxbridge at 8 o’ clock in the morning and I don’t imagine my plans will be thwarted too much by a few rockets.
Lol you couldnt make this ■■■■ up!
ROG:
Has anyone on here had to cancel work the next day due to fireworks causing them to have too little sleep making them unsafe to drive ?I know I have a few times over the past 25 years
The attitude that put the Great in Britain?