switchlogic:
Wowsers. Go you! You did a job ‘recently’ and you got ‘paid’ for it? I don’t think any of us can top that for an achievement. Bravo sir, bravo0
But obviously couldn’t possibly have happened like all the other jobs I’ve done previously according to the unemployable narrative.
There’s a government created problem in the automotive retail and service sector which is limiting the amount of car movement work.Combined with too many people who prefer to drive cars than trucks, nothing to do with my employability.
The maths say that Rob’s issue is because of too much POA or ‘other duties’ being imposed during a shift.Bearing in mind the 90 hours per fortnight driving time limit.
switchlogic:
So why did you give up truck driving?
You’d have to be blind or illiterate to not understand that I never ‘gave up’ truck driving.I was terminated from the job by my employer, under medical advice.
While 15 hour shifts obviously have nothing to do with driving time and everything to do with excessive hours made up of POA and/or ‘other duties’.
switchlogic:
How many times do people need to tell you that warehouse labouring is very rare? Why do you persist with this myth you’ve created? Esp after people corrected you.
I didn’t say the extra time was made up of warehouse work in every case.
Although bosses eventually replacing even POA with warehouse work is all too predictable and I obviously speak from experience.
So the fact it hasn’t become commonplace in the 20 years since it happened to you is your definition of predictable is it? Shouldn’t you be fettling your Allegro on a Sunday ?
Any boss worth their salt will ask the question is there any way that we can make use of the driver who we are paying to do nothing while sitting on POA.That’s ‘predictable’.
Bonus points if the driver’s labour cost can be offset by employing fewer warehouse/yard staff.
While Rob was moaning about 15 hour shifts and it’s obvious that can only result by adding 5 or 6 hours of break/POA/other duties/checks, to the 10 or 9 hour driving time limit respectively.
You can’t do that because of WTD regulations. If you’re doing 9hrs driving say every day of tour five day week, that’s already 45hrs of work, add on just one hour doing checks/fueling/securing load/admin which is on the extreme thin side of things then you’re already at 50hrs WTD without any time loading/unloading/faffing at a site etc.
This is fine for an odd week but consistently done you’d be way about the average 48hr working week.
Obviously I don’t expect this to register in any way but there you go.
Not to mention fact an enormous amount of POA isn’t spent as most drivers home depots. Does he imagine that companies pitch their drivers as warehouse staff to customers that keep them waiting?
Carryfast:
The irony.
I worked around 15 years for my previous employer but according to you I didn’t even get a start with them.
While you obviously can’t hack a proper driving job involving driving more than a few miles around the shops.
No, I would say the ironic thing is someone who hasn’t been able to get a truck driving job since the 90’s telling someone who has currently got one “they can’t hack a proper driving job”
switchlogic:
So why did you give up truck driving?
You’d have to be blind or illiterate to not understand that I never ‘gave up’ truck driving.I was terminated from the job by my employer, under medical advice.
While 15 hour shifts obviously have nothing to do with driving time and everything to do with excessive hours made up of POA and/or ‘other duties’.
So you lost a job and you simply, however much you protest, gave up? I do find your story a little sad if I’m honest. I find it really quite baffling how much authority you let a company have over your life. You let them ruin it by the looks of things.
switchlogic:
So why did you give up truck driving?
You’d have to be blind or illiterate to not understand that I never ‘gave up’ truck driving.I was terminated from the job by my employer, under medical advice.
While 15 hour shifts obviously have nothing to do with driving time and everything to do with excessive hours made up of POA and/or ‘other duties’.
So you lost a job and you simply, however much you protest, gave up? I do find your story a little sad if I’m honest. I find it really quite baffling how much authority you let a company have over your life. You let them ruin it by the looks of things.
Did that himself, but refuses to take responsibility.
He’s too lazy to fulfill all the roles of a truck driver and only wants to sit on his fat arse, pretending to be a “big rigger”.
Completely failing to comprehend economics 101, he thinks employers should provide him with the playground in which to act out his fantasies.
