threewheelsonmywagon:
The boss of the firm laughed when he looked into my tool lockers and said: “but you’re just a lorry driver!” I said:" no, I’m an engineer, I just drive a lorry!"
Are you being paid the rate of an engineer?
I’m not anti-drivers getting stuck in with maintenance work if they know their stuff, I admire it in many ways, but the lousy rates of pay & poor treatment many drivers are inflicted to these days means that going above & beyond the call of duty is simply not appealing. I really don’t think drivers can be blamed for not being interested.
If your working for a firm where you feel your input in genuinely valued and your paid well for your troubles, then fair enough. If your being laughed at for getting your tools out, not being properly thanked and being paid <£10ph at the same time then it’s time to question what your doing.
threewheelsonmywagon:
A toolbox with everything in it that I might need to get me, or others, out of the [zb], (usually others ),a selection of nuts, bolts, washers, cable ties, etc, claw hammer and box of nails.
Oil-can for lubing ratchets, grease gun and spare cartridges for greasing the crane and the front kingpins, blowtorch for sealing damaged straps, cordless drill/driver and selection of drill bits.
Electrical and crimping pliers and crimp-on fittings, spare cable, full set of bulbs and spares, custom-made universal bracket and work lamp, 10lb sledge hammer, large and small crowbars, boiler suit, plenty of rags, and a pot of swarfega.
Over the top?? Not in my book. Got the cordless drill out last week to fasten my marker boards onto a wide load. The boss of the firm laughed when he looked into my tool lockers and said: “but you’re just a lorry driver!” I said:" no, I’m an engineer, I just drive a lorry!"
Given a choice between “old school, fix it if you can”, and " not my lorry mate, just the driver, don’t give a …", it’s old school all the way for me.
I carry pretty much the same, but then it is my own truck.
threewheelsonmywagon:
The boss of the firm laughed when he looked into my tool lockers and said: “but you’re just a lorry driver!” I said:" no, I’m an engineer, I just drive a lorry!"
Are you being paid the rate of an engineer?
I’m not anti-drivers getting stuck in with maintenance work if they know their stuff, I admire it in many ways, but the lousy rates of pay & poor treatment many drivers are inflicted to these days means that going above & beyond the call of duty is simply not appealing. I really don’t think drivers can be blamed for not being interested.
If your working for a firm where you feel your input in genuinely valued and your paid well for your troubles, then fair enough. If your being laughed at for getting your tools out, not being properly thanked and being paid <£10ph at the same time then it’s time to question what your doing.
It was the boss where I was loading who laughed at me, not my boss.
As much as I enjoy this job, and on the whole it’s probably the best job I’ve ever had, If I could find an engineering job that pays this well, I’d take it.
I’m paid well and treated the same.
If others are happy to play the “I’m just a driver” card, that’s up to them. My ethos towards any job won’t let me do it. I do some things simply because if I do it, it will be done how I want it, not how someone else thinks it should be done.
I’m quite sure anything I do “above and beyond…” Is fully appreciated. And even if I thought it wasn’t, I’d probably still do it.
As I said before, I don’t consider myself to be a lorry driver, I drive a lorry.
Each to their own, different strokes, so on and so on.
bat
■■■■ bottle with holes in to throw at the road ragers
hammer
shovel
duct tape
plastic sheets
carrier bags (not ones with holes they the ■■■■ leaks out)
alchol wipes for removing dna fingerprins etc etc
Plugster:
bat
■■■■ bottle with holes in to throw at the road ragers
hammer
shovel
duct tape
plastic sheets
carrier bags (not ones with holes they the ■■■■ leaks out)
alchol wipes for removing dna fingerprins etc etc
You’re in the wrong thread. There is a separate thread about picking up hitchhikers…
When i was doing bus work in London and was back driving
The bus had broken down blocking a road
The fitter called up to ask what is up with it
I was his boss when I was in engineering lol
I said I don’t know I am just a driver now
They wanted me to undo the battery and out it back in
I said no it’s got a big notice on it drivers do not touch danger of death lol
So they had to send out a fitter to fix it
I got suspended on full pay
When I had to see manager I said I am a driver who was a engineer
So you have to look at me as a driver
I was still getting paid as engineering staff mind you but they wanted me as a driver
Talking of torches, got myself a new’un y’day from Costco…one of those super duper led thingymebob types…only 12 quid, aluminium case (so it’s got a bit of meaning to it for tapping some crafty buggar on the turnip from cutting ya curtain or helping theirselves to your diesel!!) zoomable beam by way of the sliding head (wide to pencil) strobe/s.o.s mode and 3 brightness levels. Also comes supplied with the 3 ‘D’ batteries…bargain. And by ■■■■ is it bright! Easily lights up our yard from end to end, about 100yards.
),a selection of nuts, bolts, washers, cable ties, etc, claw hammer and box of nails.
