It’s certainly easier to clean, the more you polish it.
kitbuilder123:
Just don’t wash or polish them then.
It’s not really a problem either way.
I like the look of a clean truck. The shiney bits are supplied so I keep them shiney. I sometimes do it even on my 45. ( I know, shock horror)
But don’t pity me or feel sorry for me. I get paid by the hour with time and a half after 39 and double bubble after 5 hours on a Saturday.
It’s a good job with good kit and I intend on holding on to it.
And the fact that I polish the lorry outside once a month or so means I can wash it in 5 minutes flat for the rest of the month.If you don’t want a clean truck, I don’t see the problem but what I will say is it’s much easier to keep it clean than to get it clean. It’s only hard work once.
WE DO wash and polish as we keep telling you. The shock horror bit is telling us you do not take proper breaks, not so much shock horror more a combination of illegallity and stupidity eh? Nobody pity’s or feels sorry for you, deride maybe.
As for boasting about your pay rate, a lot of us are on similar, but what the hell has it to do with polishing a truck? or are you say the only way to keep your job is to try and impress your boss by a bit of ott valeting.
And now you have gone from polishing the outside at ‘every opportunity’ to once a month.
Yeh, OK I’m in an argumentative mood 
The-Snowman:
taffytrucker:
Contraflow:
JIMBO47:
65hrs driving a week
What’s wrong with that?? Well within the hours of service of no more then 70 hrs work over 7 days
Your only allowed to do 56 hrs driving a week maximum. I think you meant 65 hours combined driving AND work
I think he’s on a different continent… 
robroy:
kitbuilder123:
Just don’t wash or polish them then.
It’s not really a problem either way.
I like the look of a clean truck. The shiney bits are supplied so I keep them shiney. I sometimes do it even on my 45. ( I know, shock horror)
But don’t pity me or feel sorry for me. I get paid by the hour with time and a half after 39 and double bubble after 5 hours on a Saturday.
It’s a good job with good kit and I intend on holding on to it.
And the fact that I polish the lorry outside once a month or so means I can wash it in 5 minutes flat for the rest of the month.If you don’t want a clean truck, I don’t see the problem but what I will say is it’s much easier to keep it clean than to get it clean. It’s only hard work once.
WE DO wash and polish as we keep telling you. The shock horror bit is telling us you do not take proper breaks, not so much shock horror more a combination of illegallity and stupidity eh? Nobody pity’s or feels sorry for you, deride maybe.
As for boasting about your pay rate, a lot of us are on similar, but what the hell has it to do with polishing a truck? or are you say the only way to keep your job is to try and impress your boss by a bit of ott valeting.
And now you have gone from polishing the outside at ‘every opportunity’ to once a month.
Yeh, OK I’m in an argumentative mood
If your up for a barny robroy get on the ■■■■■■■■ thread on the old timers ,their allways up for it 
robroy:
kitbuilder123:
Just don’t wash or polish them then.
It’s not really a problem either way.
I like the look of a clean truck. The shiney bits are supplied so I keep them shiney. I sometimes do it even on my 45. ( I know, shock horror)
But don’t pity me or feel sorry for me. I get paid by the hour with time and a half after 39 and double bubble after 5 hours on a Saturday.
It’s a good job with good kit and I intend on holding on to it.
And the fact that I polish the lorry outside once a month or so means I can wash it in 5 minutes flat for the rest of the month.If you don’t want a clean truck, I don’t see the problem but what I will say is it’s much easier to keep it clean than to get it clean. It’s only hard work once.
WE DO wash and polish as we keep telling you. The shock horror bit is telling us you do not take proper breaks, not so much shock horror more a combination of illegallity and stupidity eh? Nobody pity’s or feels sorry for you, deride maybe.
As for boasting about your pay rate, a lot of us are on similar, but what the hell has it to do with polishing a truck? or are you say the only way to keep your job is to try and impress your boss by a bit of ott valeting.
And now you have gone from polishing the outside at ‘every opportunity’ to once a month.
Yeh, OK I’m in an argumentative mood
I wasn’t boasting about pay, did I give you a rate? I was pointing out that what I have is still pretty rare in the haulage game. So if it takes a little extra minding of the job, I’m gonna mind it.
Also, I get docked a lunch hour. So I don’t get paid for a 15 minute break in the morning, or for 1 45 minute break. As I am on my break, and free to dispose of my time as I see fit, and not getting paid for it, it’s not illegal to polish the truck.
Some might argue I’m an idiot for doing it unpaid, that’s ok by me. I don’t mind what strangers think of me. It works for me.
kitbuilder123:
robroy:
kitbuilder123:
Just don’t wash or polish them then.
It’s not really a problem either way.
I like the look of a clean truck. The shiney bits are supplied so I keep them shiney. I sometimes do it even on my 45. ( I know, shock horror)
But don’t pity me or feel sorry for me. I get paid by the hour with time and a half after 39 and double bubble after 5 hours on a Saturday.
It’s a good job with good kit and I intend on holding on to it.
And the fact that I polish the lorry outside once a month or so means I can wash it in 5 minutes flat for the rest of the month.If you don’t want a clean truck, I don’t see the problem but what I will say is it’s much easier to keep it clean than to get it clean. It’s only hard work once.
WE DO wash and polish as we keep telling you. The shock horror bit is telling us you do not take proper breaks, not so much shock horror more a combination of illegallity and stupidity eh? Nobody pity’s or feels sorry for you, deride maybe.
As for boasting about your pay rate, a lot of us are on similar, but what the hell has it to do with polishing a truck? or are you say the only way to keep your job is to try and impress your boss by a bit of ott valeting.
And now you have gone from polishing the outside at ‘every opportunity’ to once a month.
Yeh, OK I’m in an argumentative moodI wasn’t boasting about pay, did I give you a rate? I was pointing out that what I have is still pretty rare in the haulage game. So if it takes a little extra minding of the job, I’m gonna mind it.
Also, I get docked a lunch hour. So I don’t get paid for a 15 minute break in the morning, or for 1 45 minute break. As I am on my break, and free to dispose of my time as I see fit, and not getting paid for it, it’s not illegal to polish the truck.
Some might argue I’m an idiot for doing it unpaid, that’s ok by me. I don’t mind what strangers think of me. It works for me.
A break is a break, polishing your truck is other work, it doesn’t matter that you are not being paid through your break. If your boss said ‘‘drive for 45 mins on your break, it’s OK, it don’t count, as I won’t pay you for it’’ would you reckon that is also OK?
Maybe some of the tacho Nazis on here will say I am wrong, if so I will hold my hands up.
seth 70:
robroy:
Yeh, OK I’m in an argumentative moodIf your up for a barny robroy get on the ■■■■■■■■ thread on the old timers ,their allways up for it
Aye I know Seth, I just like baiting and winding up these tank polisher types 
I’m just a mischevious grumpy old ■■■■■■■
robroy:
kitbuilder123:
robroy:
kitbuilder123:
A break is a break, polishing your truck is other work, it doesn’t matter that you are not being paid through your break. If your boss said ‘‘drive for 45 mins on your break, it’s OK, it don’t count, as I won’t pay you for it’’ would you reckon that is also OK?
Maybe some of the tacho Nazis on here will say I am wrong, if so I will hold my hands up.
puddled! 
a break is YOUR BREAK! 
not to polish your truck do you polish your truck, after your thirteen/ fifteen is up? 
your free time on a Saturday? Do you polish it then? 
fair play to you, I believe A lot of drivers and on here too are SCARED FOR THEIR JOBS! I bet you buy your own pink, tango and white diamond too and don’t invoice your BOSS for it! 
does one have any hobbies/ life outside of your 71/ 84 hours ? A job for the boys■■? nothing wrong with pride but your gaffer will be wetting his pants, paying you a pittance!
My boss couldn’t tell me to do anything for my 45 because it’s my break and I’m free to dispose of the time as I wish, not as I’m told.
I’ll admit it’s probably a grey area in the tacho law, but nothing says you have to sit watching the clock count down.
My whole point, though probably not best explained is this,
I don’t get why people worry so much what other people are doing.
If a man wants to polish, then polish
If he wants to leave it dirty, that’s fine too,
If he buys stuff for the truck, which I don’t incidentally, so be it. Change of job, then put it all on eBay.
If your happy with a job that is get in and go, stop and go home and the truck is just a tool, I’m ok with that.
If you want to spend £100 a month of your own cash on someone else’s truck, that doesn’t bother me either.
Some of you think it makes him a ■■■.
I think a dirty lorry screams lazy driver.
Some people get very uptight about it though and I don’t get it?
robroy:
kitbuilder123:
I polish mine, inside and out, every chance I get. Yes it’s not mine but I am the only driver so I look after it. Polishing the outside every so often makes it easier to wash.
The only excuse for a dirty lorry is laziness.For those saying it’s not there truck, why should I bla bla, would you apply the same to a home you were renting? It’s not mine I’m not cleaning it?
I spend a lot of time in the lorry, I’m the only one who drives it,I like cleanliness, therefore, I clean the lorry.
Don’t see how it’s an issue really.Nobody, well not me anyway, is saying you should not wash your motor and keep it clean, but you say you polish it outside every chance you get
I said before I polish the inside, as I live in it, and wash the outside, but as for polishing the outside, I couldn’t be arsed, unless of course the boss asked me to and paid me for it, I just laugh at these stars parked up for the night with a tin of polish in one hand and a rag in the other
I never used to polish the motors I owned, so somebody else’s, has no chance. If you interpret that as me being lazy I couldn’t give a [zb].
As for your ridiculous rented home analogy, same thing,… clean and polish the inside, keep outside tidy leave the ott rest to the landlord.
Now then…I was told by a real driver,not one of the cab happy type that a driver never uses polish on the dash.And why is that you ask.If you make it shine it will reflect the sun into your eyes.Keep it clean but do not polish.He told me that some drivers have been seen polishing their mats,is that true,i think he is pulling my leg because even cab happy drivers would not be that sad.
Mine is certainly not matt, and it doesn’t shine in my eyes… I too, was told I would be blinded and cause no end of carnage on our fair roads. Turns out that was ■■■■■■■■ too.
Just spent 5 days as a passenger in a truck that had filthy dirty windows and mirrors. I couldn’t see ■■■■ all in the low winter sun. But it turns out the driver could see fine. Allegedly. We didn’t die so I guess he was right
Different strokes and all that.
kitbuilder123:
My boss couldn’t tell me to do anything for my 45 because it’s my break and I’m free to dispose of the time as I wish, not as I’m told.
I’ll admit it’s probably a grey area in the tacho law, but nothing says you have to sit watching the clock count down.My whole point, though probably not best explained is this,
I don’t get why people worry so much what other people are doing.
If a man wants to polish, then polish
If he wants to leave it dirty, that’s fine too,
If he buys stuff for the truck, which I don’t incidentally, so be it. Change of job, then put it all on eBay.
If your happy with a job that is get in and go, stop and go home and the truck is just a tool, I’m ok with that.
If you want to spend £100 a month of your own cash on someone else’s truck, that doesn’t bother me either.
Some of you think it makes him a ■■■.
I think a dirty lorry screams lazy driver.
Some people get very uptight about it though and I don’t get it?
You’re mixing up break and rest, A rest period is when a driver must be free to dispose of his time. A break is defined as a period in which the driver may not drive or do other work, and must be used solely for recuperation. The question is, would cleaning any part of the truck be recuperation?
You telling someone how to recuperate now? Go get a job in Brussels. It would suit. Having a tommy tank is hardly recuperation either, and yet that is how some drivers spend their break.
By the way I don’t polish anything on my break, my truck or my helmet. But I won’t try and tell someone else they are wrong for doing either
F-reds:
You telling someone how to recuperate now? Go get a job in Brussels. It would suit. Having a tommy tank is hardly recuperation either, and yet that is how some drivers spend their break.By the way I don’t polish anything on my break, my truck or my helmet. But I won’t try and tell someone else they are wrong for doing either
I didn’t tell anyone anything. I simply made an observation. I really couldn’t care less how he spends his time, just as I’m not remotely interested in your personal habits.
Contraflow:
I think he’s on a different continent…
Yep,just realised that. Oops 
The-Snowman:
Contraflow:
I think he’s on a different continent…Yep,just realised that. Oops
Lol works a bit different over here. Like in the states as long as you don’t go over 70hrs in 8 days then Crack on down the road
Polishing your lorry is not other work, unless it is in your contract.
All this nonsense about breaking the law by getting the rags out while taking a 45 is pathetic.
Are you really that scared of the authorities?
Any VOSA approaching me whilst I’m on a break would be told to come back after I’d finished and talk to me when I’m on duty, if he had a problem with me polishing my lorry he would be told to FRO.
Any driver putting up with stasi like treatment from VOSA should get themselves a box of these.
Washed frequently, as and when required. This is funded by DKV card all around Euroland. As for polishing, I sometimes find myself stationary for days at a time on pay so no problem for me… We are issued with enough polish, aluminium acid wash, cockpit spray, tyre wall black etc, to sink a ferry.
bazza123:
I see everyone here is saying “no I wouldn’t pay to wash my gaffers truck” but some pay gladly for bling on their bosses vehicle.What’s the difference■■?
BLING = SAD…
gripper1:
bazza123:
I see everyone here is saying “no I wouldn’t pay to wash my gaffers truck” but some pay gladly for bling on their bosses vehicle.What’s the difference■■?
BLING = SAD…
I agree pal…the roads would be alot better full of plain white units and trailers driven by brain dead drivers without one bit of pride in their job or appearance