I start for a well known blue chip company on Monday I have a Donkey jacket and some turned down wellies. My jacket does have vynil shoulder protection. Will this be ok,or will I need goggles, hard hat, gloves and a silly bright green vest thing.
440Mopar:
I start for a well known blue chip company on Monday I have a Donkey jacket and some turned down wellies. My jacket does have vynil shoulder protection. Will this be ok,or will I need goggles, hard hat, gloves and a silly bright green vest thing.
All PPE for the job you do should be provided by said company, especially if it is big company. I used to work for a tight arse and I was lucky to get a pair of ■■■■■■ gardeners gloves that I would put a hole in after about a days use. Now I work for a proper company that supplied everything I needed without hesitation. Have you not had an induction where all this would have been explained? Last thing they will want is you looking like a ■■■■■.
Thanks for the reply. I had an old style quick chat. The man didn’t say anything about gardening gloves. Are these the best to get for lorry driving, or will my mothers homemade woollen ones be ok. I want to make a good, professional first impression on Monday.
440Mopar:
Thanks for the reply. I had an old style quick chat. The man didn’t say anything about gardening gloves. Are these the best to get for lorry driving, or will my mothers homemade woollen ones be ok. I want to make a good, professional first impression on Monday.
Woolen ones will suffice, aslong as they come with hi viz strips 
440Mopar:
Thanks for the reply. I had an old style quick chat. The man didn’t say anything about gardening gloves. Are these the best to get for lorry driving, or will my mothers homemade woollen ones be ok. I want to make a good, professional first impression on Monday.
Yep I agree the woollen ones will be fine, I trust your Mum has made you a pair with a piece of string that joins them together, like this:
Get those mittens, I use them daily & they are the dogs dangly bits. Also don’t forget to turn up with your name on a piece of card, hung around your neck with string works best. It lets everyone know who you are. A post it note will suffice if no string.
Also ask your gaffer to provide a truck with windscreen wipers fitted on the inside as well, works wonders after an uncontrollable lick.
Donkey jacket? ain’t seen one of those for years
Turn up Monday wearing a full Scuba divers kit with air tanks.
On a serious note, you will need a hard hat ,goggles ,gloves and a do not knock me down hiviz vest/jacket.
Yeah, those are like mine, good idea about the card with my name on.My mam is making me a nice balaclava to match my gloves. Really looking forward to Monday, I have been practising going around corners on a road I drew in the back yard, using my Corgi Ferry masters Scammell.
Are condoms classed as PPE?
Condom?
Forget the balaclava,you need a wooly hat,one with a bobble on mind
and a string vest 
Benny from Crossroads wore a bobble hat.Wear that Monday.
440Mopar:
I have a Donkey jacket and some turned down wellies.
How’s life in the Blockheads without Ian Drury?
Chemicals? you need rubber gloves, not woolly
Dipper_Dave:
440Mopar:
Thanks for the reply. I had an old style quick chat. The man didn’t say anything about gardening gloves. Are these the best to get for lorry driving, or will my mothers homemade woollen ones be ok. I want to make a good, professional first impression on Monday.Yep I agree the woollen ones will be fine, I trust your Mum has made you a pair with a piece of string that joins them together, like this:
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Seriously now - check that the string is long enough to permit you to do the hand signals !!
No need for rubber gloves, im roping and sheeting, The lorry im driving is an Atkinson Borderer with a flat trailer on. The boss says I will need a door to sleep on!!!. eh.
Any new driver looking at this thinking it’s a joke, it’s not most of us work like this.
Make you own way and how you do it I don’t care.