hutpik:
Hi all.Maybe it’s cause i’m old or because i don’t live in the UK,here we get all sorts of safety equipment.But can somebody please tell me what the hell are ‘‘rigger boots’’,pic would be nice.Thanks.Mike.
Ok thanks.The’re just boots 
Don’t see what the problem is,got to be better than shoes.Mike
mataos32:
most of the sites I deliver to specify boots with at least 5 lace holes.
I was half ok with the H&S shennaigans in this thread until I saw this, and now I really have lost the will to live. Are you serious? Do they count them?
Imagine the absurdity…
It’s 1957, you turn up to the new housing estate on the outskirts of Grimsby in your ERF KV. You’re wearing a flat-cap, dungarees, you’re smoking a half smoked roll up, and you’ve got an old pair of shoes which were once your Sunday best, but have since been deemed too old and worn to be privileged with such an honour. You jump out of your cab and begin unroping and peeling back your sheets. A ‘Blakey’ type comes running over. Now read on…
" ‘Ere, what you doin’ drive?"
" I’m just rolling back me sheets guv, an’ then I’m gonna handball these 10 000 bricks into your shed mate"
" Not so fast drive, let me count how many lace holes you’ve got on them there shoes… 1…2…3…4…, you’ve only got 4 lace holes. I’m afraid you’re gonna have to re-sheet and remove yourself from our site, mate"
" You can farck orf mate"
toby1234abc:
Talking of wearing a high viz, did you hear Radio 2 today and the young lady that has brain damage after being hit by a car while she was walking on the road with no pavement.
She was wearing a music system in her ears, the insurance will not pay out more as she was not wearing a hi-viz, it was mentioned nobody would wear a hi-viz to walk to the shops to get your paper, and if you got run over, the insurance will not pay.
what about the lorry driver killed in birmingham last week
crossing the road wearing his high vis
norfolk:
Move heavy plant for a living and have worn rigger boots for years. have been approached on more than one occasion about this ,when asked why they are not suitable the usual answer is that its because they dont give support to the ankles. my answer is that they are sold as safety boots and as such if they will give me their name and details i will pass it on to the makers as according to them they conform to all relevant regs. If this dosent throw them i then inform them that due to an accident i suffered many years ago im unable to wear conventional boots and what is their policy on disability ( i had the to es on my left foot severed and reattached , dosent give me any probs but it certainly stops them in their tracks!) and are they banning me from the site as a result, that usualy gets them. Failing that being an owner driver i tell them to contact the customer and inform them why their machine is not being moved, its funny how some of these jobsworth when having to justify their actions tend to shy away. On a related note one particular quarry i go to every time i went in the h&s bloke always gave me hassel until i found out one of his relatives ran a lowloader and as a result he liked to keep it in the family , i pointed out the error of his ways to the relevant people and i havent had a problem since. By the way there is a make of rigger boots called V12 which have reinforced ankles.
quality! 
When you say boots do you just mean riggers , I where dm dealer steel toes to drive in the winter and trainer steels in the summer with my shorts never had a driving issue …
I never did get the fascination with the riggers there big bulky and most I see wearing them drag there feet , they must be a pain to drive in …
SYE-1:
When you say boots do you just mean riggers , I where dm dealer steel toes to drive in the winter and trainer steels in the summer with my shorts never had a driving issue …I never did get the fascination with the riggers there big bulky and most I see wearing them drag there feet , they must be a pain to drive in …
As far as i can tell it is boots in general ,i did ask for specifics and was told "safety shoes or trainers while driving ".I have always wore boots when driving and working and as long as you get a pair that fit properly they are no more ■■■■■■■■■■ than a comfy pair of slippers
switchlogic:
Christ this stupid country is becoming a joke
Ask for a copy of the letter from the insurance company, Post it on here, Then we can contact them in our thousands. It will be like the Zulus at Rorke’s drift, But rather than using spears, We will use keyboards. 
switchlogic:
Christ this stupid country is becoming a joke
Sorry hate to be picky but could you clarify something for me…
“becoming?”
Shorts, now they definitly should be banned.
On sewage treatment works you’re only allowed ankle high, lace up boots. Think it’s so they can cut them off if you break your ankle. Definitely don’t turn up in flip flops 
And yet wellies are fine on a building site, or on a farm 
dieselnomad:
Shorts, now they definitly should be banned.
Especially with Quinny’s thigh boots as shown in the photo above.
I have heard that these rigger boots are banned due to chemicals going down them while you visit a factory,the same for a factory with furnaces where hot and burning stuff can go down inside the boot. 
dieselnomad:
Shorts, now they definitly should be banned.
nah. you can wear shorts on sites.
block factories are a different story though. no shorts, no t shirts. hivis trousers long sleeve hivis. turn up in a vest and they wont load you. hard hat, safety glasses though some places are flexible about those. and yes…the dreaded five hole boots
FarnboroughBoy11:
I drive in my socks.
My work boots stay on the step outside and my trainers that I slip on and slip off stay as you see them there.
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I used to leave my boots there too - Until twice I found them full of water and I drive the same type Scania as you!
I drive in a pair of slippers, I have some work boots on the step for merchants and non muddy building sites but I have a nice pair of riggers for muddy and wet sites… I can’t get Welles to fit as my calf muscles or too big… Lol
All my work is building sites or merchants but my footwell floor is like brand new… I hate dirty smelly cabs.
switchlogic:
I don’t wear boots at all in the cab but you’d be amazed how many companies take exception to this and insist I wear them driving while on site. It normally leads to a debate where I refuse and so far no one has stopped me going in yet
^this^
I used to wear trainers to drive, but had my safety boots in the side locker, along with my hi viz, when arriving at security I would put on my hi viz, book in and then get back in the cab and drive around to goods in/out, where I would put my safety boots on, unless I got the snotty ‘security’ guard who insisted I wear boots all the time I was on site, then my drive from the gatehouse to goods in/out would be interrupted by an argument with said ‘security’ guard
I have size 12 feet, so my boots are rather large and although I can drive in them, I don’t like too, but it’s not about that for me, it’s about some jumped up ■■■■■■ being a jumped up ■■■■■■, WTF does it matter what I wear inside my cab, as long as I’m wearing PPE when outside my cab, I’m not doing myself or anybody else any harm 
I had a situation like this at Bookers in Hatfield, the greasy unwashed ■■■■■■ at the gatehouse started going off at me because of my trainers, I didn’t react to his hollering and hooting, but calmly told him that I would wear my boots when out of the cab in the goods in area, but he wouldn’t let me through the gate until I put them on, I refused, then a manager got involved, then the Brigadier General of the security company turned up in his Bedford Rascal van After much discussion by them and a point blank refusal from me, I was allowed on site under the condition that I put my boots on when outside the cab 
When I left the site I removed both my trainers and my socks and walked into security barefoot with my jeans rolled up to the knees 
Well i asked about this again today and found out that it is a result of one of the drivers in a brand new sprinter (just collected) being rammed into the back of a taxi .His excuse was that his foot was stuck behind a pedal by the footwear he was wearing (work boots).It most definitely was NOT a result of taking photos of a brand new dash showing 42miles on the mileometer and posting on facebook next to the ones showing a brand new dash and speedometer with 90mph on the clock .
■■■■■■■ numpty 