I’m off next week but another driver where I park is having my lorry for a day while his is repaired. I shall leave my maps,blank tachos etc etc in the cab as I trust said driver but normally I remove everything and box it and leave in Dads’ cab as I don’t trust at least one driver at head office. Do you leave your gear behind or remove it?
All I used to leave was curtains take my seat covers mats etc out or secure them in the lockers. Some people just dont respect someone elses’ kit
My gear goes with me wherever I go, no way I leave it behind, what if you go to work, and your truck with your gear is on a night out or not there,you never know what could happen, up to you, ok is heavy to carry all the time, but at least is always with you.
wegi:
My gear goes with me wherever I go, no way I leave it behind, what if you go to work, and your truck with your gear is on a night out or not there,you never know what could happen, up to you, ok is heavy to carry all the time, but at least is always with you.
If mine’s not parked where I’ve left it it’ll be at head office so I just get a lift out with a driver who’s passing that way. On tippers we don’t carry valuable stuff in cab most is provided by company like PPE so not bothered if that goes walkies. My tachos I’m taking home. I do like to leave a note, normally in overhead compartment with “You’re a nosy c!!!” …guarantee someone will find it.
Muckaway:
wegi:
My gear goes with me wherever I go, no way I leave it behind, what if you go to work, and your truck with your gear is on a night out or not there,you never know what could happen, up to you, ok is heavy to carry all the time, but at least is always with you.If mine’s not parked where I’ve left it it’ll be at head office so I just get a lift out with a driver who’s passing that way. On tippers we don’t carry valuable stuff in cab most is provided by company like PPE so not bothered if that goes walkies. My tachos I’m taking home. I do like to leave a note, normally in overhead compartment with “You’re a nosy c!!!” …guarantee someone will find it.
Always left a note saying this is my home for a month or so at a time so treat with repsect please. It norm did the trick, however did come back after a week off to find someone had pinched my coffee and sugar from the drawer even had the balls to leave a used filter in the machine.
I have always been fortunate to have my own lorry and no one else drove it, apart from a week at Demeulemeester when it came back like it had lost a demolition derby. At DHL we could normally leave wash & sleeping gear in the lorry because the same two drivers shared it.
Just stowed all my gear away in the lockers, can’t be bothered to remove it all as it would fill my car boot. Have cleaned the cab and left a note explaining the PTO and odd bits with a note to leave as found.
They are proposing to send a machine op out with the bloke driving next week so hopefully they’ll prevent anything going missing (unless they nick it)
Muckaway:
I’m off next week but another driver where I park is having my lorry for a day while his is repaired. I shall leave my maps,blank tachos etc etc in the cab as I trust said driver but normally I remove everything and box it and leave in Dads’ cab as I don’t trust at least one driver at head office. Do you leave your gear behind or remove it?
I would love to know who it is 
pm me.
I keep all my gear portable so I can get it all out of the truck in about five minutes if necessary.
If you leave it in there, someone will always go rummaging through it, and generally treating your stuff with no respect. There are comrades in this job when it comes to ‘gear’. If something is portable enough or not likely to be noticed, somebody will always try and pinch it.
Even little things like using your maps and not putting them back, folding pages over, leaving them open so they get splayed open, or screwing up the spiral binding. Okay, it’s just a map, but the paper ones still cost ten quid a pop.
Most annoying thing? Grease prints on your books/magazines. So they come out now as well.
I’m a little OCD with cleanliness, but it seems most truck drivers aren’t that bothered about keeping their hands clean throughout the day. So greasy black paw prints everywhere… including on anything you leave in there.
WildGoose:
I keep all my gear portable so I can get it all out of the truck in about five minutes if necessary.If you leave it in there, someone will always go rummaging through it, and generally treating your stuff with no respect. There are comrades in this job when it comes to ‘gear’. If something is portable enough or not likely to be noticed, somebody will always try and pinch it.
Even little things like using your maps and not putting them back, folding pages over, leaving them open so they get splayed open, or screwing up the spiral binding. Okay, it’s just a map, but the paper ones still cost ten quid a pop.
Most annoying thing? Grease prints on your books/magazines. So they come out now as well.
I’m a little OCD with cleanliness, but it seems most truck drivers aren’t that bothered about keeping their hands clean throughout the day. So greasy black paw prints everywhere… including on anything you leave in there.
Yea but that also depends how long you are away for at a time. One job i was in I coudl be away for upto 8 weeks at a time so you need the ‘creature comforts’ like dvds cd’s etc where as my last one i was only away mon - fri so didnt need to take much. Think it comes down to the job
I leave duvet, pillow, maps, basic tools, cooking stuff and wash kit. Anything of value else such as satnav, lappy etc I wouldn’t leave in overnight anyway. The only low cost item I take home every night is ratchet straps. Generally accepted at my place that finders keepers for straps.
Take everything with me, can’t trust anyone to leave my stuff in cab. Sad to say but thats the way it is now 
Why not look at it the other way?
Someone else is going to use your wagon while you’re not there so why the hell not have the decency to take your stuff out to give them room for theirs? I’m friggin sure I wouldn’t want to be opening up a cubbyhole to find a place for my stuff and come across someones gay ■■■■ or dirty keks.
i never leave my lorry in gear when im off 
schrodingers cat:
Why not look at it the other way?Someone else is going to use your wagon while you’re not there so why the hell not have the decency to take your stuff out to give them room for theirs? I’m friggin sure I wouldn’t want to be opening up a cubbyhole to find a place for my stuff and come across someones gay ■■■■ or dirty keks.
The driver who’s got mine doesn’t know it yet as he was off today and he left his lorry at yard for service, they found something wrong so he’s got mine. So he’ll need my tachos, timesheets, maps etc.
Why not look at it the other way?
Someone else is going to use your wagon while you’re not there so why the hell not have the decency to take your stuff out to give them room for theirs? I’m friggin sure I wouldn’t want to be opening up a cubbyhole to find a place for my stuff and come across someones gay ■■■■ or dirty keks.
Thats a very good point, and I agree completely.
I did a lot of motor hopping when I started, and sometimes away all week in another drivers cab, stuffed to the gills with his crap. So you are forced into living out of bags and containers in the passenger footwell.
schrodingers cat:
Why not look at it the other way?Someone else is going to use your wagon while you’re not there so why the hell not have the decency to take your stuff out to give them room for theirs? I’m friggin sure I wouldn’t want to be opening up a cubbyhole to find a place for my stuff and come across someones gay ■■■■ or dirty keks.
wow a driver that talks sense! 
too many bindippers at our place ( scousers ) you take everything out up here pal!
Make sure you remove any body parts of prostitutes you have murdered recently but other than that leave it in there.
■■■■ mags were always found in our spare motors…
Yeah that’s good when you try and guess what driver bought readers wives over 50s only lol.