jessicas dad:
I agree with, bring out a blanket ban on all roads midnight sat to midnight Sunday and all bank holidays as well. I think it’s awful either way some drivers are forced to work weekends and some are just money grabbers.We have to stop this 24/7/365 culture that’s growing.
That isn’t the issue tho.
This idea is to free up roads NOT leisure time rights for commercial drivers.
Yes but look at the other benefits though, it make sense I think.
Would perishable goods be exempt, as in France? If so, has anyone noticed the number of lorries carrying perishables on the road on Sundays? A ban won’t make any noticeable difference.
Besides, T*sco won’t let it happen.
‘t*sco’ are arse holes, no wonder they’re losing money, surely this ban wouldn’t exempt such scum if it were implemented…!?
I work Sunday-Thursday nights (9pm-5ish) and fully agree with the Sunday ban…why should i have my weekend ruined by having to go to work to earn the money that my wifes lifestyle requires 
…providing they ban all cars from the m/way through the rest of the week & Jonny Non-English who normally end up killing some poor old man/woman (M40sb last Friday am) causing us big nasty lorries to divert through the ‘quaint little villages’ on the A roads. Oh, and between the hours of 10pm-4am, we should be allowed to (legally) disable our limiters, so we can get these BNL’s off the roads a bit quicker!! For those that don’t think there are as many lorries around at night (especially artics)…get out a bit more!! My guess is there are as many, if not more. I doubt very much that a customer who wants a delivery at 6am, has the 26 pallets delivered from a premises next door…well, not all of 'em anyway!! Most of the lads on here probably start at stupid o’clock Sundays to hit the delivery doors for 5am onwards…after a 4hr drive. Yeah i know…that was total rubbish!
Pimpdaddy:
Yes but look at the other benefits though, it make sense I think.
Can appreciate truck drivers being in favor of a day of rest but this isn’t about drivers rights. Its about trucks being a public enemy 
@Ajt-you sound a bit like management I.e not bothered about drivers & their welfare, am I close?lol
Will NEVER happen,our place has all our deliveries on Sunday (40 artic loads approx)to be delivered monday…short dated chilled foodstuffs.
If a Sunday ban was bought in we would have nothing to deliver Monday…Im sure this would apply to all supermarket supply chains delivering short dated foods.
Its great to think that the general public, still to this day, must have no idea where everything in the shops come from there socks to there Jeans to there food to there TV’s to there cars to there fuel etc etc etc… Maybe they should trial a ban and then when theres a shortage of FRESH food on shelves, a shortage of FUEL at stations etc etc they will come crawling back and demand 24/7 multimodal action… The GENERAL PUBLIC are thick ■■■■■■
Trukkertone:
Once upon a time in a far distant land people did all the shopping they needed from monday to saturday dinnertime. then the shops were shut until monday morning , and people had something called leisure time for one and a half days. they could go out to places with their children and really enjoy themselves without worrying about big smelly juggernauts spoiling it all.and everyone was happy, THEN, some greedy people saw the chance to make loads of money by making she shops open and people go to work every day, and the world was never the same again…
Here here!
No movements,let’s say 22:00 sat until 04:00 monday unless running home or perishable etc. Have run sunday to friday since 1980 and I’ve had a gutfull… I await a negative response…
Oh, and supermarkets should be closed from 22:00 sat until 10:00 monday too. No one would starve if they planned ahead as our continental cousins do!
Pimpdaddy:
@Ajt-you sound a bit like management I.e not bothered about drivers & their welfare, am I close?lol
But its not about welfare thats my point lol - If the chap in the link was thinking about truckers it wouldn’t be so bad.
Worth some thought but it will never happen, the economy has developed over the last 25-30 years to run for 7 days a week, people like to have the choice to go and buy food a T.V a sofa or whatever whenever they like.
A Sunday ban would cause chaos in the supply chain for both suppliers and customers and probably lead to increased cost which would be passed on to the consumer, and besides the majority of vehicles operating on a Sunday are supermarket deliveries which tend to use only major routes anyway.
I would love to work Monday to Friday but those days are long gone, the world has moved on and so have I.
mike68:
Worth some thought but it will never happen, the economy has developed over the last 25-30 years to run for 7 days a week, people like to have the choice to go and buy food a T.V a sofa or whatever whenever they like.A Sunday ban would cause chaos in the supply chain for both suppliers and customers and probably lead to increased cost which would be passed on to the consumer, and besides the majority of vehicles operating on a Sunday are supermarket deliveries which tend to use only major routes anyway.
I would love to work Monday to Friday but those days are long gone, the world has moved on and so have I.
Forget 25 -30 years, ask Denis Smith, Harry and even Chris Webb, Sundays were double bubble and everyone wanted to be on the doorstep on Monday.
Wouldn’t dropping trailers on the loading dock on Saturday then pick up on Monday work for some retailers? Toys-r-us, gist/m&s, carpet right etc currently do it…!?
I’m mostly against it. While it may suit day workers and UK only drivers, I dont like the idea of longer distance international journeys forced to come to an abrupt stop in some crappy British lay-by or industrial area for no real reason. Also it would eradicate 4 on 4 off working patterns which suit many people so well.
I think this would be yet another restriction on the industry just for the sake of being seen to do something. Its not necesary, we dont have traffic grid lock on a sunday, and when we do its got nothing to do with the lower amounts of trucks using the roads on that day any way. Another nail in the coffin for the UK transport industry in the persuit of emulating Germany in all their rules, restrictions and BS. First it was this whole load securement palaver, now potentially this and the next thing will be over-taking bans for trucks on hundreds of miles of motorways and dual-carriage ways and lines of several dozens of trucks trundling behind a Tesco or Maritime truck while lane two and even lane three are empty. The slippery slope is getting steeper all the time.
can see all trailers with a very small fridge on the back just so a perishable food stuff can fit in to get around the ban when i say small fridge i mean big enough for a grape to fit in
To those dead-against sunday working…
What kind of contracts are you guys on that you signed up presumably with “no sunday working” and now by the chest-beating going on, you’ve now apparently GOT to do sundays? Eh?
Is this ineffective unions again, or that old chesnut the “fear factor”…
Boss: “If you don’t sign this new contract with sundays on it, I’ll have to let you go!”
Driver: “Sure thing boss. Gotta pen?”
(a week later)
Driver holding the mike in an RDC… “freaking fiddly ffffttt 'kin shafted me with sunday working!” 
I think those who are for Sunday working are mostly in it for the money, so if you got Sunday rate working any other day of the week would it make you happy?
Maybe they are suggesting it for car drivers to have the motorways to themselves for a bit of fun, just like we do on nights when they’re asleep…
I’ve done both UK and Euro work and can see no problem with a ban at all. Do it the same as in europe gotta be a fridge trl and yes i mean a proper one with it running and fresh goods on or if running for the boat down the M2 same as the corridor from Belguim if transport companies work it right then it can work no probs. As for the supermarkets they can close for one day give EVERYONE a day off. With online shopoing etc there is no need for the shops to open 24/7 how the hell did we manage years ago with shops closed sundays and half day wednesday. Wake up its not needed.
Yep! I’m for it.
As a few have said…give everyone their lives back with Sundays a no-working day and **** the supermarkets who took Sundays away in the first place.