delboytwo:
axletramp:
They can stick it up their arse for me - I’m not affected for the foreseeable.
Still on wax discs!just don’t let it get broke or you get a nice new digital one
I beg to differ here!
I did break it, too much mileage!? 
And had a brand new analogue tacho fitted last week! 
It wouldn’t bother me, I max my hours anyway because I’m a proper driver. 
FarnboroughBoy11:
It wouldn’t bother me, I max my hours anyway because I’m a proper driver.
+1
Often sit there looking at my hours in the vain hope ive got another reduced or 10 left.
the maoster:
Dafman:
And then when the planner tells driver A to crack on I hope driver A says NO I am tired and have done enoughThat’s twice he’s refused that job!
Who let that echo in here.
If you want to stop work after 8 hours then you can. That’s a days work. Nobody can force you to do 15 hours. Like I’ve said. I’ve been in the same place for nigh on 4 months now through the agency. It’s not the best but money is great due to the hours. All vehicles are tracked and have road hawk cameras but if I want a cup of tea, I have a cup of tea. Job gets done correctly, if they don’t like it then tough.
Dafman:
And then when the planner tells driver A to crack on I hope driver A says NO I am tired and have done enough
… which will result in Manager C giving Driver A his P45 as he’s not up to the job.
Paul
i thought that 9 hours driving a day was a maximum not a target? if thats not the case there are no limits on how many hours you can work in an office so why do they start at 8 and finish at 6?
In 1948 George Orwell wrote a book called 1984 - here are a couple of extracts from the first chapter:
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. ~one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.
Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away ~The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
Conor:
One of the places I did a lot of work at for agency was the same - download your card every shift.
very common practice these days but not while you are still in the truck.
just one point, assuming the remote download is for a night out, how can they take their tacho out? it shouldnt be removed when nighting out 
scanny77:
Conor:
One of the places I did a lot of work at for agency was the same - download your card every shift.very common practice these days but not while you are still in the truck.
just one point, assuming the remote download is for a night out, how can they take their tacho out? it shouldnt be removed when nighting out
And you Scanny have just won the big, fat cigar for asking the right question. 
As I told my mate, if you’re downloading your card you are in fact doing other work, this could always be entered the next day when you insert your card (dunno what happens if you park up bang on 15 though) but if you do this then the data you downloaded the previous night will be incorrect as it won’t have shown the other work.
A conundrum to be sorted by the men with large foreheads methinks (not Ant McPartlin either)
the maoster:
scanny77:
Conor:
One of the places I did a lot of work at for agency was the same - download your card every shift.very common practice these days but not while you are still in the truck.
just one point, assuming the remote download is for a night out, how can they take their tacho out? it shouldnt be removed when nighting out
And you Scanny have just won the big, fat cigar for asking the right question.
As I told my mate, if you’re downloading your card you are in fact doing other work, this could always be entered the next day when you insert your card (dunno what happens if you park up bang on 15 though) but if you do this then the data you downloaded the previous night will be incorrect as it won’t have shown the other work.
A conundrum to be sorted by the men with large foreheads methinks (not Ant McPartlin either)
There’s nothing to stop you taking the card out when on a night out, and the download would be no diferent to when companies download at the end of every shift, as many companies do.
A quick manual entry at the start of the next shift puts everything right.
Conor:
One of the places I did a lot of work at for agency was the same - download your card every shift.
Ours have been known to download at the start and end of shift. The result of an agency lad trying to pull a fast one with daily rest.
