Question for moffet/kooi drivers

dri-diddly-iver · 27 November 2015 20:40

Been thinking about this for a while and decided I have to ask.

When unloading/loading is it other work or is it part of drive time? Silly/strange question but I am just curious. There used to be out of scope/off road driving or similar but I believe that isn’t allowed now so I just wondered what the legality of using a moffett/kooi

harry_monk · 27 November 2015 20:43

Other work.

syramax · 27 November 2015 20:56

I left it on other work , because it is

f-reds · 27 November 2015 21:38

Other work.

joey_r · 27 November 2015 21:56

Yep other work bud, i have the misfortune of working for Wincanski on bricks.

robroy · 27 November 2015 22:26

Other work (or break if I had a ferry to catch )
Hope the famous tachograph fanatics on here don’t hold it against me it was only a couple of times …honest guv )

joey_r · 27 November 2015 22:37

robroy:
Other work (or break if I had a ferry to catch )
Hope the famous tachograph fanatics on here don’t hold it against me it was only a couple of times …honest guv )

And i always thought you was a honest Trucker Robroy.

evil8beezle · 27 November 2015 22:57

Joey R:

robroy:
Other work (or break if I had a ferry to catch )
Hope the famous tachograph fanatics on here don’t hold it against me it was only a couple of times …honest guv )

And i always thought you was a honest Trucker Robroy.

He pays his bills in £7 notes!

robroy · 28 November 2015 12:37

Joey R:

robroy:
Other work (or break if I had a ferry to catch )
Hope the famous tachograph fanatics on here don’t hold it against me it was only a couple of times …honest guv )

And i always thought you was a honest Trucker Robroy.

Yeh I normally am mate, (most of the time) but it was a question of priorities.

I had a series of choices.

If I booked other work… it meant stoping in a poxy industrial zone, and/or go through Calais next morning to get home North.

Or.

Put it on break, catch the Zeeby to Hull night ferry, shower, restaurant, hit the bar… among the hen parties home for Sat dinner. job sorted.

Tacho regs came a very poor second, not a thought of a manual entry.

dri-diddly-iver · 29 November 2015 01:45

syramax:
I left it on other work , because it is

Not sure why the negative smiley there ■■? It was a serious question! it is still driving and I was curious!

Thanks for replies

robroy · 29 November 2015 08:24

dri-diddly-iver:

syramax:
I left it on other work , because it is

Not sure why the negative smiley there ■■? It was a serious question! it is still driving and I was curious!

Thanks for replies

I aint no tacho rule specialst mate, but I would say this.
It’s ‘driving’ yeh, but it’s a bit like pulling in the yard and jumping in the firms Astra van to go and pick up a part…other work.

The 15 min drive in the van does not count towards your 9 hr driving allowance, same as the kooiap/moffit.

Pretty sure anyway … unless the Tacho nazis shoot me down, and come on quoting …Rule 567b paragraph 7 subsection 21 as I am sure they will given half the chance.

dearboy · 29 November 2015 08:43

It’s other work, unless you’d rather spend more time at home, in which case it could classify as break (where break = working and no one can prove a ■■■■ thing).

the_nodding_donkey · 29 November 2015 08:47

Following on on this, do you need a licence/forklift certificate to use one? And can you use them on the road? (To unload, not to nip to the shop )

f-reds · 29 November 2015 09:01

the nodding donkey:
Following on on this, do you need a licence/forklift certificate to use one? And can you use them on the road? (To unload, not to nip to the shop )

License? No. Competently trained, yes. What’s only way you can prove that? Take a course. Yay! Or boo, depending on your views on being bored in a classroom.

This can be in house training, doesn’t need to be a ALLMI or RTIIB or anything.

I use mine on the road, be pretty bloody useless if you couldn’t. Same as any plant machinery really. Mine is taxed and has a different number plate to the truck displayed on the front, just to cover any bases. Had traffic plod wait for 30 seconds while I pulled a pallet of last week, the two of them just nodded and threw a wave after I had got the goods on the drive and I had waved them through.