Tubbysboy:
Traffic Rat:
Couple of points
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Only the officers who dealt with the driver will know how many offences in 28 days this driver had.
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To get a £300 fine for a 4th reduction it would of had to of been less than 9 hours taken, so its not just a few minutes off an 11. (Its banded as less than 11, more than 10=£100, less than 10, more than 9 =£200, less than 9=£300). Some companies are known for excessive hours so a “friendly word” is pointless.
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Those extra 9 hours driving is the equivalent of an extra days work, run like that all year and that’s an extra 26 days work, while those who observe the rules are at home. How many loads has he taken off a UK haulier working like this??
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Yes I think the CPC in its current format is a joke.
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To the tower with him directly then
Obviously a lunatic burning up the motorways and autoroutes of Europe…
Or perhaps, just perhaps, a chap who has to move his arse a bit more rapid than usual before Christmas time in order to keep up with the current over demand for transport.
As now no big logistic companies or supermarkets or warehouses keep enough stock.
Clearly the drivers fault. Burn him on a stake fashioned out of a satsuma tree.
Or, another idea, let the chap and his company make a few quid while the goings good.
Or another idea that particular firm maybe have no regard for the rules, and habitually break the (admittedlly pedantic and overcooked) drivers hours rules every bloody day with their x no of trucks for their own ends. 
I couldn’t give a flying one btw about the old ‘‘British hauliers losing work’’ aspect chestnut, as I’m just a driver.
Also before anybody jumps in, by no means am I a ‘Mr Perfect never do wrong type’ , I’ve ran bent when it was commonplace, (thank Christ times have changed) and I’ve been pulled and sometimes been done for minor misdemeanours a few times later on.
I’m coming at it from a different angle
ie…I’m more concerned with the pushing and abuse of drivers to achieve near hand impossible schedules set.
Some of these EE guys actually surrender themselves to Vosa as they are being run ragged and paid peanuts.
So to some of you who dissaprove of all this, what do we do?
A drivers hours bending/breaking free for all?
Blind eyes turned by DVSA all the time?.
Yeh brilliant idea, let’s all…‘‘Keep it lit’’ eh? 
Maybe that phrase applies to the owner drivers which is fair play, and worse the terminally thick minority of Brit employed drivers, who think that 15 hours is not nearly enough, and who allow their firms to abuse them WILLINGLY 
, because they put up with one sided pay structures designed for just that, pushing, law breaking and abuse, but are a bit to dim to see that, so they happilly work away in ignorant bliss and stupidity.
For the rest of us these badly thought out cluster ■■■■ of drivers hours rules and regs are there on the whole to protect the driver…so to the hard of thinking out there, use them to your advantage!! and don’t criticise when drivers are being protected
Even if it is in many case…protecting from themselves.
No apologies to those I’ve offended on this, and if you are offended, tough ■■■■…open your ■■■■ eyes.
I do love a good KO Uncle Dave.
