People, what would you/have you done if you are taken unwell during the night tramping hundreds of miles from base & out of hours to drive anywhere ■■
Im not sure but In Car Entertainment would be the least of my problems.
TheNewBoy:
People, what would you/have you done if you are taken unwell during the night tramping hundreds of miles from base & out of hours to drive anywhere ■■
Lay down on the bunk or if it’s serious try and call an ambulance or get someone to do it for me.
yep…dial 111 or 999…your life is more important than any truck or company…unless you had man flu…now thats serious. 
mrginge:
Im not sure but In Car Entertainment would be the least of my problems.
In Case (of) Emergency
Most phones have this feature that allows someone (police/ambulance people ect)to look up your emergency contacts on your phone even if it’s locked and they don’t know the pin,it’s a good feature that is not used by too many people.
xichrisxi:
mrginge:
Im not sure but In Car Entertainment would be the least of my problems.In Case (of) Emergency
Most phones have this feature that allows someone (police/ambulance people ect)to look up your emergency contacts on your phone even if it’s locked and they don’t know the pin,it’s a good feature that is not used by too many people.
Ah, see as im a youth that mucks about with cars a lot I thought the thread was going to be about fitting new speakers and headunits 
Oh well TheNewBoy will just think im inconsiderate now ha.
mrginge:
xichrisxi:
mrginge:
Im not sure but In Car Entertainment would be the least of my problems.In Case (of) Emergency
Most phones have this feature that allows someone (police/ambulance people ect)to look up your emergency contacts on your phone even if it’s locked and they don’t know the pin,it’s a good feature that is not used by too many people.
Ah, see as im a youth that mucks about with cars a lot I thought the thread was going to be about fitting new speakers and headunits
Oh well TheNewBoy will just think im inconsiderate now ha.
No problem fella,have a read here…
geekmummy.com/2015/07/how-to … hone-ios8/
It’s something all mobile workers should have set up really you never know when it will be needed.
truckyboy:
yep…dial 111 or 999…your life is more important than any truck or company…unless you had man flu…now thats serious.
111 only puts you to a healthcare call centre , if your that bad it’s a 999 or 112 .
999 is the best option as it goes to an operator that then puts you in touch with the emergency service that’s in at least your county .
As for I C E the give away to contact a next of kin / loved one is normally …
Mum and dad
Or Home
My ICE is the traffic office. I’d hate to think that me passing away during the night would leave Tesco/Asda/Farmfoods out of stock of frozen tat. At least the planners could get a (warm) body to take over my vital role.
We have a red panic button fitted in cab, I’d push that and from what I’m told ( never pushed it myself ), it alerts company that the driver has problems , someone will explain it better , think they contact you or ring coppers etc , near Iso track box on dash
TheNewBoy:
People, what would you/have you done if you are taken unwell during the night tramping hundreds of miles from base & out of hours to drive anywhere ■■
Not out of hours but having found myself in this kind of postion one morning at 5am I phoned the office. I told them I could not carry on, I needed picking up(should have been an ambulance really). They were huffing and puffing just a little.
So reluctantly they sent someone down from central Scotland too Johnstone bridge services to collect me and take me home.
Admitted too hospital from home and slipped into a diabetic Coma on arrival in hospital later that day.
How I made it from Liverpool docks too Johnstone bridge I’ll never know.
I kept stopping at services on the way up the M6, high blood sugars making me thursty more and more so the more I drank getting worse with each gulp. Totally no comprehension of what was going on.
So it really it depends how bad you are when you say unwell. In hindsight I should have called an ambulance, so I.C.E each case on its own merit so too speak. Ask your Company if they have a procedure for a driver who they cannot contact as they do have a responsibility. I know our vehicles have telematics etc.
nick2008:
truckyboy:
yep…dial 111 or 999…your life is more important than any truck or company…unless you had man flu…now thats serious.111 only puts you to a healthcare call centre , if your that bad it’s a 999 or 112 .
999 is the best option as it goes to an operator that then puts you in touch with the emergency service that’s in at least your county .As for I C E the give away to contact a next of kin / loved one is normally …
Mum and dad
Or Home
112 is even better 
pinpoints your location to the fleas left ■■■■■■, so if you’re having a stroke/ difficulty speaking no problem! 999s a pita
Fatboy slimslow:
112 is even better
112 is the same as 999 in the UK, there isn’t any difference to the way the calls are handled or the data that is sent to the emergency services
Fatboy slimslow:
nick2008:
truckyboy:
yep…dial 111 or 999…your life is more important than any truck or company…unless you had man flu…now thats serious.111 only puts you to a healthcare call centre , if your that bad it’s a 999 or 112 .
999 is the best option as it goes to an operator that then puts you in touch with the emergency service that’s in at least your county .As for I C E the give away to contact a next of kin / loved one is normally …
Mum and dad
Or Home112 is even better
Since 2014, smartphones will detect that an emergency call is being placed, and use any available location services (WiFi or GPS based location) to send an emergency SMS which also contains an identifier for the call. This is intended to be received by the mobile operator whilst the call is in progress.
Reading more on this apparently it makes no difference if it’s 999 or 112 they both use smart phone inbuilt gizmos
nick2008:
Since 2014, smartphones will detect that an emergency call is being placed, and use any available location services (WiFi or GPS based location) to send an emergency SMS which also contains an identifier for the call. This is intended to be received by the mobile operator whilst the call is in progress.
Reading more on this apparently it makes no difference if it’s 999 or 112 they both use smart phone inbuilt gizmos
And you don’t need to have network coverage from your own network either. As long as the phone can pick up any service from any network a 999 call will go through. Same if you’ve not even got a SIM in your phone.
mrginge:
xichrisxi:
mrginge:
Im not sure but In Car Entertainment would be the least of my problems.In Case (of) Emergency
Most phones have this feature that allows someone (police/ambulance people ect)to look up your emergency contacts on your phone even if it’s locked and they don’t know the pin,it’s a good feature that is not used by too many people.
Ah, see as im a youth that mucks about with cars a lot I thought the thread was going to be about fitting new speakers and headunits
Oh well TheNewBoy will just think im inconsiderate now ha.
I expected the same haha
Night Tramping cant be that many hundred Miles,i think
I was parked up one night and felt unwell not bad enough for the doctor but to bad to start work in the morning so stayed in bed, stayed there all day and nobody from the company noticed that I had never moved.
Showed how busy I was and that was with a tracker fitted.
nick2008:
truckyboy:
yep…dial 111 or 999…your life is more important than any truck or company…unless you had man flu…now thats serious.111 only puts you to a healthcare call centre , if your that bad it’s a 999 or 112 .
999 is the best option as it goes to an operator that then puts you in touch with the emergency service that’s in at least your county .As for I C E the give away to contact a next of kin / loved one is normally …
Mum and dad
Or Home
Actually 112 is the better option as it pulls your location from the phones gps 999 doesn’t do this
Yes, I run long distances cross country and whenever I’ve spoken to Search and Rescue or St Johns at events they’ve always said to use 112 froma mobile, it triangulates your position in a way that 999 can’t.