Hi all
I’m starting 07:00 in the morning but with the winds and weather forecast just wondering would it be a reasonable request towards my office planners to ask to swap my job if i would say it’s risky ? Riskier than normal
We have high sided double deckers plus operating around dartford …
I am not looking for trouble you know
That’s all
Thanks
Swap? So you might be concerned but someone else can do it. Spoken like a transport office worker.
Mrginge - that’s why I put if I think the job is risky . We are all different some might be happy to take it …. To be honest office should have duty of care and not give dangerous jobs in dangerous weather anyway ….
Take the job given and pull over if/when your ar5e starts twitching like a rabbit’s nose… there’s no medals for heroes, but swapping for someone else to cop it isn’t really cricket either.
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Sorry might be a misunderstanding here …. Swapping means to something else not with someone else … we have about 160 jobs per day … they can scramble it as they want …. Just give a another one to who isn’t confident enough in the high wind and not looking for trouble … and give out the other jobs at the end of the day ■■? When the winds died down … or just maybe I’m thinking again …
If they have other trailers then sure you can ask
They might even close the bridge to high sided vehicles
OR just roll with it 
If the OP is operating out of Dartford and the job entails crossing the Thames then likely his problems will be getting home again, not the first part of the outbound journey.
If it’s a red warning don’t go anywhere further than your bed 
mmeessii:
Sorry might be a misunderstanding here …. Swapping means to something else not with someone else … we have about 160 jobs per day … they can scramble it as they want …. Just give a another one to who isn’t confident enough in the high wind and not looking for trouble … and give out the other jobs at the end of the day ■■? When the winds died down … or just maybe I’m thinking again …
If you swap to do something else then the work you should have been doing will still need to be covered by someone else.
The weather does present some risks, but there is plenty you can do to reduce these risks, like driving slower in exposed areas or only opening curtains as much as needed and clipping the rest back.
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Rember ages ago we used have a regular run collect diner time Manchester deliver next day to building site in Aberdeen.
I got said job on the day the beast from east was about.
I mentioned it to work it fell on deaf ears.
So headed off got nearer Glasgow m80/m73 was under snow I struggled off parked up overnight on some side road outside Halfords .
woke up to snow up wheel arches. Blokes from Halfords helped dig me.out I got to Aberdeen late afternoon next day building site was shut thed all be told have Friday off due to the storm so headed back.
What should been 2 days .
Turned into 3 and had bring stuff back as well.
But office said to go so I did.
I can still remember setting out from Feltham after my break at 1 am with a box trailer loaded with empty cages at the start of the great 1987 storm the one which the Met office had said wasn’t happening.
Even if they had I wouldn’t have given it a second thought.
Even after the wind obviously lifted one side of the drive axle off the road resulting in the revs going into the red.Just thought blimey that was unusual wind must be getting up a bit.The run back from Northhampton was interesting had to drop a gear or two on the flat and even to pull downhill with a Scania 112 just because of the headwind.
Then found Dad looking at the wrecked chimney of the house when I got home after dodging all the fallen trees blocking the roads on the commute home.
If you consider it unsafe then don’t go out. I received a call around 5pm to let me know that I have the day off tomorrow as work thinks it is not worth the risk sending us out. All drivers are staying home for the day, no exceptions.
I can remember when I was working for a supermarket store delivery company. I had a drop in Kent just off the A2. It was blizzard-like conditions and I was struggling on the A2. When I got to the turn off, I looked down the road and decided it was a ‘no go’. I phoned transport and told them I wasn’t making the delivery. They huffed and puffed then told me to bring it back. As soon as i got to the transport office, they grabbed my keys and gave it to an agency driver, who ran with it. He got stuck for 5 hours until a local farmer dragged him out as even the wreckers refused to drive down the turn off.
The morale, know your limitations and stick with them!
Fair play to our bosses told us to come to work in the morning as we will then make decision on the weather in real time rather than listening to all the media frenzy that the world is gonna end tomorrow.
Reasonable.
Look after numero uno, nobody else in this job gives a ■■■■ about you, that is what it has come to over the years, if your firm thought anything of you knowing it was potentially dangerous, they wouldn’t let you go out.
If you ain’t confident going out in a high wind tell them you want a different run…and when some illustrious hero volunteers to do it, (there will be one trust me 
) let him crack on, and don’t give him a second thought.
You’re welcome.
mmeessii:
Sorry might be a misunderstanding here …. Swapping means to something else not with someone else … we have about 160 jobs per day … they can scramble it as they want …. Just give a another one to who isn’t confident enough in the high wind and not looking for trouble … and give out the other jobs at the end of the day ■■? When the winds died down … or just maybe I’m thinking again …
Swap is swap no matter which you look at it, T.O will only give it to somebody else to cover as most in the office are only interested in getting the job done regardless of conditions. IF you are unionised it might be worth having a word in your stewards ear hole about the weather conditions and your concerns about safety.
We have idiots at our place…
In Manchester we do a lot work from Barnsley.
Yet your get some drivers see signs woodhead closed snow high winds etc.
Yet they still decided to head that way and get stuck .
Same as someone ages ago was bad accident well signposted on every radio station on m60/m62. Closed He decided to head on onto the huge traffic jam sat. There for 4 hours.
He could.of used m60 anticlockwise gone that way past Stockport and missed the closure but no.
You just can’t help or tell some.people.
I think personally they relay on there sat Nov. Google maps etc. Probably don’t even carry a roadmap to to look up a different route
drover:
If it’s a red warning don’t go anywhere further than your bed
What’s wrong with a flat bed trailer?
stu675:
drover:
If it’s a red warning don’t go anywhere further than your bedWhat’s wrong with a flat bed trailer?
Well i guess you could sleep on the flat bed
edd1974:
We have idiots at our place…
This industry is awash with them mate.