These might help on your first day

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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Here’s some links that may help you out on your first day. Most are in the FAQ forum, some are not. Hopefully they’ll make your first day a bit easier :wink:. Here they are in no particular order.

  • What are splitters and range changers? Look here
  • Why you couple up the way you’ve been taught explained here
  • Hight conversion chart (mind that bridge) here
  • The Drivers Hours Law from the horses mouth (VOSA). It also shows you how to fill a tacho out, I warn you now it’s 36 pages long when you print it, not a easy read, but well worth digesting. Find it Here
  • What’s the Rozza’s views on Mobiles when driving here

That’s all I can come up with for now, if you’ve got any more, then feel free to suggest them (in a post or by PM and I’ll add them to the list (eventually) :unamused::wink:.

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What you’ll need on your first day in the workplace - this is the bear minumum required for a day run ie when your not sleeping in the cab overnight (on a night out):

  1. Steel Toecapped Boots
  2. Hi Viz Vest
  3. A pen (believe me, this is important - you need one to fill your tacho out with it :laughing:).
  4. Wallet (including cash/cards) obvious I know, but it’s suprising how easy it is to forget.
  5. Mobile 'phone with hands free kit.
  6. Truckers A - Z with bridge hights included.
  7. A copy of the drivers hours law and an understanding :open_mouth: of it :laughing:.

You can add things like lunch and flask if you like - tachos you can nick off your employer. Thanks to Convoy for suggesting the original thread :wink:.