kscoombs:
but what about the rest of the time. What do they expect me to live on? Crap reheated, extortionately priced food from services?
The night out money you’re paid to cover the cost of buying meals when you’re away from home? It isn’t like you’re having to pay for that extortionate food out of your own pocket, you’re given night out money to pay for it.
3 wheeler:
Write to the boss and tell him that you quit SIMPLES.
It’s a basic need end of.
Write and tell him you’re going to quit because you’re not going to spend the twenty odd quid a day he gives you for night out money on food as its supposed to be?
Don’t forget HMRC want to see receipts now for money spent so no receipts, no night out money.
My employers are the same as yours regarding no
inverters, cookers etc.
I just prep a load of salad and cooked chicken, steak etc on sunday to last for the week not a problem and once a week I’ll eat in the pub when out for a pint. Steak nights at Spoons on a tuesday is a favourite.
Yet another example of a few mouth breathers [zb]ing it up for the rest no doubt, I’m glad we’re a trade of consummate professionals, just think how [zb]ed we’d be if we weren’t!
Don’t forget HMRC want to see receipts now for money spent so no receipts, no night out money.
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Now being retired for a few years this is only what I read, but if you have a tracker fitted to prove location you do not need the receipts. And I bet if the OP went ten or twenty miles out of his way twice a day to find food / parking the planners would want to sack him !
Ye gods it bad enough not having washing and toilet facilities on board , taking away any means to actually eat some hot food would finish it for me…plenty of work about with better conditions.
24 volt microwave (as somebody else suggested)
Ask them to either buy one for you, (depending on how good or bad they are) or get them to purchase one from their suppliers, knock the VAT off, and pay them back a tenner a week.
I don’t think it will go down very well but you could forego the night out payment, only stop at MSAs with motel accommodation and just submit the receipts for those legitimately acquired expenses. You would of course not be able to start in the mornings until after breakfast.
I’ve been gas cooking for years with a flat type stove. Unless you’re completely useless I can’t see there being an issue…just don’t do what I heard one chap did and started spraying polish around the cab whilst cooking and burnt the cab out. Just hide the stove at weekends. Also, they are the best and quickest way of making a brew.
Luckily I work for a decent firm and they’ve spec’d my new truck with a built in microwave so if you want to get extreme dump your firm and find a decent one
When the weathers good I’ve more than once when I’m parked in a nice quiet spot fired up one of those disposable BBQ’s and thrown a steak on it. Very tasty [emoji39]
nomiS36:
When the weathers good I’ve more than once when I’m parked in a nice quiet spot fired up one of those disposable BBQ’s and thrown a steak on it. Very tasty [emoji39]
Why not do a “Dixon” and stick it on the fuel tank while you cook
nomiS36:
When the weathers good I’ve more than once when I’m parked in a nice quiet spot fired up one of those disposable BBQ’s and thrown a steak on it. Very tasty [emoji39]
Why not do a “Dixon” and stick it on the fuel tank while you cook
Thanks equally for all the tips and quips and of course the gits, who just can’t help but flame others posts.
I’ll get a better look at the situation with the unit on mob day and talk to a few people and see what I can get sorted out. Plenty of possibilities to run with for now. Thanks.
Once again this raises the question of what the nightout allowance is for is it (a) to pay for showers (b)upkeep of your bedding etc (c)pay for meals),or (d) subsidies your wages.
The last time I looked HMRC tax free allowance was £26.20 per night with random checks made to ensure it was being used for the purpose.Five nights out makes that £131.00 pretty sure I could manage to survive on that without the need for incab cooking facilities.
Ask the other drivers how they get around the issue.
I’ve tramped for nigh on 30 years and have never cooked in my cab. Tbf that’s more to do with me being bone idle rather than opposed to it. I much prefer to pay someone else to do the cooking and I reason that’s exactly what my expenses are for.
the maoster:
I’ve tramped for nigh on 30 years and have never cooked in my cab. Tbf that’s more to do with me being bone idle rather than opposed to it. I much prefer to pay someone else to do the cooking and I reason that’s exactly what my expenses are for.
Never ?,
Jesus we cooked 90% of meals , often from fresh with a gas cooker , but double manning meant me or the ex missus cooked on the move , with just the vent open above. Being OD’s meant we wrote the rules about what was allowed and expenses in the 80’s and 90’s were “flexible”.
I was the same as you Maost, up until about 98ish I never cooked in cab, but the odd times when I was stuck somewhere dead, on the odd night, …I got sick of the ‘‘Corn Flakes and can of John Smiths suppers’’
So I got a little gas stove, and then progressed a year later to a 24v microwave.
Out of my 4 or so nights out a week I’ll cook
(cooking might be stretching it a bit, I mean warm up ) ready made meals expertly cooked by my Mrs. …I’m like you, the wife knows her place.
The other 1 or 2 nights a decent pub meal and a pint.
…I’m like you, the wife knows her place.