Coffeeholic:
glenman:
am i the only one who gets bored on the likes of containers because of all the sitting about ? just how lazy can people be ?I can be so lazy that I make a Sloth look hyperactive.
I can be so lazy sometime the mrs has to check me for a pulse to make sure i aint died 
If the boss doesn’t complain, you aint lazy!
Coffeeholic:
Steve-o:
Just today I done a 6 1/2 hour shift and slept an hour of that awayI had as nearly as much break during my shift today as you did shift!
13 hour shift with a continuous period of just over 6 hours break. Spent part of it in the canteen having breakfast, about 2.5 hours asleep as I only had 2 hours kip last night, part of it messing about on the laptop and part of it chatting to one of our other drivers and also to a fellow Trucknetter who I met for the first time today. It would have been more break but I spent about 30 minutes washing the unit, well I felt guilty about getting all that double time pay for doing nothing.
Then as an added bonus I didn’t have enough time to make it to the train and I just came home instead so a bonus night at home. Oh yeah, tomorrows booking in Hamburg, it aint gonna happen.
Hi coffeeholic, nice to meet you today, sorry i interupted your truck washing trying to get the ad-blue pump working. At least you got half your unit washed
I do mulitidrop on an artic only localish work,if i can i will try and get some shut eye on my 1 hour break a day or if i’m lucky when tipping, but that’s not very often as i’m not aloud to sit any longer than 30 mins at any delivery point waiting to get tipped…as i only get 1 hour break in the day i have to use this time for a kip,so i usually eat when in between drops
scania sam:
Coffeeholic:
Steve-o:
Just today I done a 6 1/2 hour shift and slept an hour of that awayI had as nearly as much break during my shift today as you did shift!
13 hour shift with a continuous period of just over 6 hours break. Spent part of it in the canteen having breakfast, about 2.5 hours asleep as I only had 2 hours kip last night, part of it messing about on the laptop and part of it chatting to one of our other drivers and also to a fellow Trucknetter who I met for the first time today. It would have been more break but I spent about 30 minutes washing the unit, well I felt guilty about getting all that double time pay for doing nothing.
Then as an added bonus I didn’t have enough time to make it to the train and I just came home instead so a bonus night at home. Oh yeah, tomorrows booking in Hamburg, it aint gonna happen.
Hi coffeeholic, nice to meet you today, sorry i interupted your truck washing trying to get the ad-blue pump working. At least you got half your unit washed
Nice to meet you too. I did get all the unit washed but you sadly remained Ad Blueless. 
I’m an expert at sleeping since the Navy days. I do enjoy reading and watching films, but given the right air temperature and opportunity I could sleep for the olympic sleeping team.
Could never understand those who just lie on the bunk. My opinion has always been; if you’ve got time to get on it (the bunk) you’ve got time to get in it (strip off + sleeping bag).
Work see fit to deduct an hour of pay every day for a break, whether you take one or not, so it pretty much becomes my ultimate goal every day to spend at least an hour asleep. I will often start a bit earlier to get a kip in early in the day, as the pressure tends to mount in the afternoon.
This is where RDC’s that insist you wait in the waiting room on plastic school chairs for hours on end really annoy me, as I lose valuable sleeping time. It just adds to the general fatigue and winds every up the wrong way. Drivers would look forward to Tesco/Morrisons if they knew it was a guaranteed hour or two on the bunk.
When you are quite expected to only get 9 hours rest between shifts, 3 nights of the week. Then sleeping during work should not be considered a bonus. By the time you get to thursday/friday it’s ■■■■ near essential.
Unfortunately, too many places have a system where you have to have 1 eye on the bay light, or waiting for the forklift to stop rocking the truck, so you never really fully let yourself go to sleep. It would be nice if we could just all admit that lorry drivers like to sleep when their time is being wasted, so you get someone to give your cab door a proper knock when you are done, rather than leaving all the responsibility up to you.
“Any news on Bay 12?”
“You were finished hours ago, drive”.
“Oh, cheers.”
glenman:
am i the only one who gets bored on the likes of containers because of all the sitting about ? just how lazy can people be ?
I do boxes from Felixstowe, on Nights. Most of the time I’m in and out, but you can easily take a 2 hour nap if needed/wanted.
Don’t stand up if you can sit down, Don’t sit down if you can lie down. Why then after you carefully select a nice quiet spot you respectfully switch of your engine/fridge. Some selfish dope draws his curtains and sits there with his engine idling smoking and picking his nose.
When you eventually realize that you can’t find the horn button with the big toe on your left foot, you get up lean on the horn and the banjo player in question looks your way with the usual slack jawed expression “who me” * youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8
You don’t have to fall asleep for it be a benefit, lying on the bunk and shutting your eyes for 20 minutes helps with tiredness levels. I do like reading the paper or a book if i’m hanging around though, I usually get enough sleep at night so don’t need to kip in the day. I couldn’t do a job where you have to sit in the drivers waiting room for hours on end not knowing when you will be assigned a run though.
WildGoose:
Unfortunately, too many places have a system where you have to have 1 eye on the bay light, or waiting for the forklift to stop rocking the truck
Well too bad for them. If I’m tipping in a place where I expect it to take an hour plus, and I’m tired, I simply go to kip on the bunk. They’ll wake you up when they need the bay And if they’re really desperate to get you going, they might even bring your paper work out to you as well 
Cargo-girl:
WildGoose:
Unfortunately, too many places have a system where you have to have 1 eye on the bay light, or waiting for the forklift to stop rocking the truckWell too bad for them. If I’m tipping in a place where I expect it to take an hour plus, and I’m tired, I simply go to kip on the bunk. They’ll wake you up when they need the bay
Or they ring the boss and make a complaint
Whoooo…I’m scared now