As above. At the moment I work for a very famous company (for all the wrong reasons).
I have noticed that most of my colleagues are extending their hours by just being lazy/ not doing anything or just spending their time in lay-bys instead of doing some work [emoji23]. So I asked them about it and their answer was that you need to push in the hours otherwise you don’t make enough money, so they try to waste as much time as possible to have max hours every week to get the £££. They do a 9-10 hour job in 15 [emoji849][emoji2357]
I tried once to waste time but it’s just not for me, I’m trying to get the job jobbed and then go home [emoji16]
Obviously sometimes I do long hours as well, but I’m not aiming for 70-80 hrs each week, because I’d also like to be home.
Did you guys meet any people like them or do you prefer to get done quick or pump the hours in?
DSMRookie:
As above. At the moment I work for a very famous company (for all the wrong reasons).
I have noticed that most of my colleagues are extending their hours by just being lazy/ not doing anything or just spending their time in lay-bys instead of doing some work [emoji23]. So I asked them about it and their answer was that you need to push in the hours otherwise you don’t make enough money, so they try to waste as much time as possible to have max hours every week to get the £££. They do a 9-10 hour job in 15 [emoji849][emoji2357]
I tried once to waste time but it’s just not for me, I’m trying to get the job jobbed and then go home [emoji16]
Obviously sometimes I do long hours as well, but I’m not aiming for 70-80 hrs each week, because I’d also like to be home.
Did you guys meet any people like them or do you prefer to get done quick or pump the hours in?
Just because someone does a job efficiently and quickly doesn’t mean they drive like an ■■■■■■■■.
I myself don’t want to spend more than a reasonable amount of hours at work.
I do 10 hours a night usually 5 nights a week. If I get back early I go home early and get paid for 10 hours.
Drivers are their own worst enemies.
Stretching the job out to work max hours means companies expect everyone else to be prepared to work the same hours.
Not to mention stretching the job out wasting time can affect the next driver when the load is late back to be sorted by warehouse etc for the next driver to take it out.
It’s in the DNA of some drivers,
Where I work, we have a tax-free bonus of 23 Euros if you finish after 2 am
Drivers will drag it out just to get it.
example : instead of finishing at 00h30 at the depot , after dieseling up, wash etc.
they will park it up at a service area for a coffee and drag it out, even though they could be
back at the yard at 01.00
me , get back and get home, job done
DSMRookie:
As above. At the moment I work for a very famous company (for all the wrong reasons).
I have noticed that most of my colleagues are extending their hours by just being lazy/ not doing anything or just spending their time in lay-bys instead of doing some work [emoji23]. So I asked them about it and their answer was that you need to push in the hours otherwise you don’t make enough money, so they try to waste as much time as possible to have max hours every week to get the £££. They do a 9-10 hour job in 15 [emoji849][emoji2357]
I tried once to waste time but it’s just not for me, I’m trying to get the job jobbed and then go home [emoji16]
Obviously sometimes I do long hours as well, but I’m not aiming for 70-80 hrs each week, because I’d also like to be home.
Did you guys meet any people like them or do you prefer to get done quick or pump the hours in?
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An other way to look at it, get back too soon, you may be given another load and looking at a late finish/night out
Tesco is pretty bad for this especially those on the old contracts.
Personally I cant spend two-four hours just sat in the lorry with my thumb up my ■■■ scrolling through nonsense on my phone.
But to each their own.
Personally I enjoy jobs that I have to be involved when it comes to unloading as well. Which is why I hate RDC work. I don’t enjoy just driving from one place to the other I like to get a bit of exercise as well.
You get drivers like this everywhere you go. Plenty of drivers at my place will drag the job out so they can get back to the yard 5 minutes before their finish time, even though they will never get asked to do extra work as the vehicles are needed by drivers starting the next shifts. We’re even paid a guaranteed minimum number of hours, so it’s not like getting back later gets them any extra money!
It did bite one of the drivers on the ■■■ the other day though. He decided to sit off for a bit before making his way back, then got a puncture when he set off. They didn’t get a tyre fitter out to him for a good few hours, trying to teach him a lesson
Everyone should have at least 72 hours continuous rest a week, but if you want to ■■■■ about and waste your employer’s money in between, that’s your prerogative. Just remember that many other drivers are working hard and doing things as efficiently as possible, and some of them are under pressure to do that, so don’t obstruct them.
simcor:
Just because someone does a job efficiently and quickly doesn’t mean they drive like an [zb].
I myself don’t want to spend more than a reasonable amount of hours at work.
I do 10 hours a night usually 5 nights a week. If I get back early I go home early and get paid for 10 hours.
Drivers are their own worst enemies.
Stretching the job out to work max hours means companies expect everyone else to be prepared to work the same hours.
Not to mention stretching the job out wasting time can affect the next driver when the load is late back to be sorted by warehouse etc for the next driver to take it out.
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You can only drive for 9-10 hours.How do they supposedly ‘stretch’ a shift out to way beyond that time without exceeding the driving time.
Unless they park up to do it which would obviously show on the tacho.
The departure point knows when the load is ready to go and when the truck left.
The load gets in late and questions get asked.
How would that then translate as the firm then wants everyone to get back as late when you’ve already said it wrecks the operation.
Where I worked it would have been a service failure which means that the whole truck load would have been done for nothing because the customers had a guarantee of next day/AM delivery or their money back and C and D drivers needed to be out of the yard by 8 am at the latest to get all their drops done when I’d started at 8 pm.
So around 12 hours at the longest for the job to get done including the time needed for the warehouse staff to sort and tranship the artic load I’d brought in onto the different 7.5 tonners.
So I needed to be back in the yard by 11 hours at most.Usually job and finish it was closer to 9 than 11 hours.
Needlessly hanging a job out to 13-15 hours sounds unbelievable unless they want to get sacked.
DSMRookie:
As above. At the moment I work for a very famous company (for all the wrong reasons).
I have noticed that most of my colleagues are extending their hours by just being lazy/ not doing anything or just spending their time in lay-bys instead of doing some work [emoji23]. So I asked them about it and their answer was that you need to push in the hours otherwise you don’t make enough money, so they try to waste as much time as possible to have max hours every week to get the £££. They do a 9-10 hour job in 15 [emoji849][emoji2357]
I tried once to waste time but it’s just not for me, I’m trying to get the job jobbed and then go home [emoji16]
Obviously sometimes I do long hours as well, but I’m not aiming for 70-80 hrs each week, because I’d also like to be home.
Did you guys meet any people like them or do you prefer to get done quick or pump the hours in?
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2 ways of looking at it I’m assuming by your name you are fairly new to the job, but the last 10 or more years the job for some has become a flat out rat race, due to a combo of management planning to the last minus 1 second, and guys like yourself not only trying to meet their mad ■■■ schedules, but also teararsing about like theres no tomorrow, and those are the reason the job is now crap to what it once was. .
Also many firms have screwed down the hours in order to pay the minimum to their drivers,.so in some cases the broader picture is…it’s fighting fire with fire.
I aint talking about or justifying tossing it off in a lay by for hours, I’m talking about doing the job at a steady and SAFER pace, as well as for the good of your health, then somebody rocks up, trying to make a name for themselves (usually beginning with the letter ‘C’) and to keep in with the boss … and totally ■■■■ s up the job for everyone else.
When one gets older one will find that a smart a… in the office will see a stand out driver doing a job quicker and so the time to do it will be cut …hence some people do not get time for a pi…
Maybe im lucky and sensible with my money.
I just want do job as quick and safe as pobbile get home or parked.up.for the night. As soon as possible.
Few where I work openly admit they take there time and.arnt happy unless there hitting 60 hours a week .
Then again doesn’t.help when one of them has an Audi A4.car on lease at 400 a month.
Pointless when it’s usually parked up all week. While he nights out
.to get the hours in to pay for it
fuse:
When one gets older one will find that a smart a… in the office will see a stand out driver doing a job quicker and so the time to do it will be cut …hence some people do not get time for a pi…
Exactly this, then usually when said driver makes a name for himself, he leaves to go and ■■■■ up the next job,.and then leaves the rest of us with the agg that he has caused.
In the past I’ve had it said to me…‘‘Well ■■■■ manages to do it ok in x no of hours’’
I reply, …‘‘Well you know what to do then…, send ■■■■ with it’’.
(I’m neither ■■■■ by name, OR nature when it comes to this job.)
The only time I ever tear arse about is when it’s for MY benefit.
I was left today with a bad Saturday job, load Swindon, tip Rugby and Bkackburn then home.
,.I m at Rugby now when usually by now I’m a couple of hours from home…so it’s back to Owner Driver stylee of working…I’ve got football to watch ffs.
I’m only doing a ful max week as I was asked (nicely) because they were busy, but I’m off next week, so not too bad.
I’m remembering now why I cut back on my days and hours,…ie.I’ve grown out of all this crap.
When I got a new job, which there were several, I would ask the other drivers what the score was then work accordingly. The saying ‘don’t upset the apple cart’ is appropriate in my case.
A bloke at our place does a 9-9.5 hour run in 14.5 hours. On his off days he checks how long it took the replacement driver (it could be anyone) to do his run and if its under 12 hours he goes to confront him. He told me he takes two breaks of 2.5-3 hours. Driving total is between 8 and 9 hours. Of course the TM told him he can’t do that but he threatened to report the company to the DVLA for forcing drivers to work when tired…
I do try to stretch my hours a little, maybe 15-30mins per shift so it’s not too obvious or greedy. Also set my CC to 52-53mph with the hope of saving diesel for company and getting a few mins extra pay for myself, a win-win I have to point out our hourly rate is pretty decent though. If it was a p-ss rate I’d be taking the p-ss. A man gotta make a living Then again I wouldn’t be taking a job in the first place if the rate was bad
Lots of people do it at our place but then you have the other side to balance it out - the rush-rush work through the breaks/ignore 40/50mph limits to get home 1 hr earler (and get 1hr less pay as breaks are unpaid) so it’s all good
ETS:
A bloke at our place does a 9-9.5 hour run in 14.5 hours. On his off days he checks how long it took the replacement driver (it could be anyone) to do his run and if its under 12 hours he goes to confront him. He told me he takes two breaks of 2.5-3 hours. Driving total is between 8 and 9 hours. Of course the TM told him he can’t do that but he threatened to report the company to the DVLA for forcing drivers to work when tired…
I do try to stretch my hours a little, maybe 15-30mins per shift so it’s not too obvious or greedy. Also set my CC to 52-53mph with the hope of saving diesel for company and getting a few mins extra pay for myself, a win-win I have to point out our hourly rate is pretty decent though. If it was a p-ss rate I’d be taking the p-ss. A man gotta make a living Then again I wouldn’t be taking a job in the first place if the rate was bad
Lots of people do it at our place but then you have the other side to balance it out - the rush-rush work through the breaks/ignore 40/50mph limits to get home 1 hr earler (and get 1hr less pay as breaks are unpaid) so it’s all good
See, my problem is that I can’t drive at 50, I tried but it doesn’t work for me. I’m not rushing, but I don’t really drag it out. Yes I do at the end to have that extra minutes to cover for the break [emoji16]
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I have to point out our hourly rate is pretty decent though. If it was a p-ss rate I’d be taking the p-ss. A man gotta make a living 
Then again I wouldn’t be taking a job in the first place if the rate was bad