This is unbelievable! A lorry driver confesses on radio 4 that he spends 9 hours as a night cleaner before doing a full day shift driving long distance as a lorry driver! Check out the audio recording below!
youtu.be/3TVAGYOqc_I
Claims he’s been doing it for ages, hate to say it but I think it’ll catch up with him one day…[emoji15]
I would not like to meet him on the road.3 hours sleep then a full cleaning shift then drive all day.Would not like to even think about the ■■■■■ that happens in the event of an accident .
Pimpdaddy:
Claims he’s been doing it for ages, hate to say it but I think it’ll catch up with him one day…[emoji15]
Hopefully his driving job boss will have heard that interview and send him on his merry way. I thought a second job had to be reported to your TM and the hours recorded as part of the WTD.
Depends on your contract but mine states simply that you can not drive for anyone else and any other work needs to be authorised by the TM. I would imagine most have similar.
At another driving job we would spend about 6 months a year on 3 days a week so we could then work for others if signed off by the TM.
Legally the cleaning job must be officially recorded as other work for the EU regs
On a purely safety issue I am very concerned about such a person doing this sort of thing
ROG:
Legally the cleaning job must be officially recorded as other work for the EU regs, On a purely safety issue I am very concerned about such a person doing this sort of thing
in the real world ROG, 
people are driven by greed but if HAULIERS paid more than the £600 norm, the plebs wouldn’t have to resort to having two jobs to earn said pennies! The money has stayed more or less the same since 1989 and if these bosses think they’re doing us a favour by paying a pittance ROLL ON THE SHORTAGE
WHICH IS LESS THAN TEN YEARS AWAY 
the average age of a cough cough professional dcpc trained sheep is 55 years old 
come on, altogether NOW 
yellowbellies don’t stick together. 
Easy to sit in judgement on someone, but am sure this driver must have reasons for needing to work both jobs.
I’ve had employers in the past that didn’t like me running my internet ventures, even though that was done completely outside of works time and was not in competition with their business in any way. 
I personally wouldn’t tell a TM anything, as what I do (or not) outside of works time is completely my own business. I know lots of drivers that do other work to make ends meet. As far as I’m concerned the WTD just reduces people’s earning potential.
Don’t a lot of firemen work two jobs still?
Hopefully he falls asleep at his mop and not at the wheel.[emoji15]
Should get a job driving a road sweeper, 2 birds with one stone & all that ! Lol.
Reminds me of a mate of mine did 80 hours the other week tramping got back Saturday afteernoon then does mobile discos all weekend and runs round after his fat lazy wife.
Never gets anymore than 4-5 HR sleep and says its “normal” in this day of age,
Me personally I think he is crazy
LIBERTY_GUY:
Easy to sit in judgement on someone, but am sure this driver must have reasons for needing to work both jobs.I’ve had employers in the past that didn’t like me running my internet ventures, even though that was done completely outside of works time and was not in competition with their business in any way.
I personally wouldn’t tell a TM anything, as what I do (or not) outside of works time is completely my own business. I know lots of drivers that do other work to make ends meet. As far as I’m concerned the WTD just reduces people’s earning potential.
He probably does have reasons for doing two jobs but if he wipes out a family during the day does that make it ok.
Certainly not fit to drive after working at night.
Bach home:
Don’t a lot of firemen work two jobs still?
Yes some do but they do not drive a truck all day. A lot of the time firemen get to sleep on night shift if there are no jobs.
During my transition from factory worker to lorry driver,i did both.
Factory all week,then driving at the weekend.
Years ago it was fairly common to have two jobs, truck driving by day and taxiing, wrestling, D.J ing etc at night. I worked with a HGV fitter who, after working in the garage all day, drove a TK Bedford from the Reading area to Stockport and back three nights a week and he always looked knackered! All pre tacho of course.
Pete.
albion1971:
LIBERTY_GUY:
Easy to sit in judgement on someone, but am sure this driver must have reasons for needing to work both jobs.I’ve had employers in the past that didn’t like me running my internet ventures, even though that was done completely outside of works time and was not in competition with their business in any way.
I personally wouldn’t tell a TM anything, as what I do (or not) outside of works time is completely my own business. I know lots of drivers that do other work to make ends meet. As far as I’m concerned the WTD just reduces people’s earning potential.
He probably does have reasons for doing two jobs but if he wipes out a family during the day does that make it ok.
Certainly not fit to drive after working at night.
Most HGV involved accidents that cause serious injury to other road users, are where the driver is texting or chatting on their phones, or driving at excessive speed to brown nose with people in their traffic office.
How many of us go into work when riddled with cold and flu and perhaps not fit to drive either? We all still do it though. I have driven tacho exempt HGV’s where 15/16 hour days are the norm. We have to appreciate some folks have to do the longer hours and just watch what everyone around us on the roads is up to. That includes the drinkers, the drug induced and the generally inept.
windrush:
Years ago it was fairly common to have two jobs, truck driving by day and taxiing, wrestling, D.J ing etc at night. I worked with a HGV fitter who, after working in the garage all day, drove a TK Bedford from the Reading area to Stockport and back three nights a week and he always looked knackered! All pre tacho of course.Pete.
It was the norm for me and many of my friends, a doubler in the steelworks (16hrs) the 2 loads of scrap to the Abbey and 2 loads of coal back finishing 24 hrs after you started, coils up to Shotton after a shift, or a cheeky Ebbw Vale before 6-2.
I had the key to the yard I would call the TM he would tell me what was on and off I went, I had a young family a mortgage and needed the money, energy drinks weren’t around then you grabbed the odd nap opened the window cranked up the stereo and cracked on, proper graft for proper money most of it cash, I didn’t have a credit card until I was 30 everything paid for up front, there was a degree of flexibility with the people I worked for and no questions were asked.
Sometimes I was totally knackered but I was in my twenties a good nights kip sorted me out ready to go again, the hours were crazy and the money was vey good.
We all know which job paid better.
LIBERTY_GUY:
albion1971:
LIBERTY_GUY:
Easy to sit in judgement on someone, but am sure this driver must have reasons for needing to work both jobs.I’ve had employers in the past that didn’t like me running my internet ventures, even though that was done completely outside of works time and was not in competition with their business in any way.
I personally wouldn’t tell a TM anything, as what I do (or not) outside of works time is completely my own business. I know lots of drivers that do other work to make ends meet. As far as I’m concerned the WTD just reduces people’s earning potential.
He probably does have reasons for doing two jobs but if he wipes out a family during the day does that make it ok.
Certainly not fit to drive after working at night.Most HGV involved accidents that cause serious injury to other road users, are where the driver is texting or chatting on their phones, or driving at excessive speed to brown nose with people in their traffic office.
How many of us go into work when riddled with cold and flu and perhaps not fit to drive either? We all still do it though. I have driven tacho exempt HGV’s where 15/16 hour days are the norm. We have to appreciate some folks have to do the longer hours and just watch what everyone around us on the roads is up to. That includes the drinkers, the drug induced and the generally inept.
Oh texting and chatting is top of the list now. I thought falling asleep at the wheel was one of the highest along with traveling too close.