trackers …brilliant arn’t they ? 1st question you get when the phone rings is where are you 
quality management 
or like in one case a drivers trailer managed to get back to the yard half hour before he did 
Breaking news…all male children born after 01012020 will be micro chipped before release from hospital.
I seem to recall from my school days someone called ‘Herrod’ or something? Anyway happy days! 
Harry Monk:
keebs26uk:
Agreed as long as we all do the deliveries given to us in a good time then what is the problemI was talking to a Stobart driver yesterday, he has been working for them for 22 years and he was recently on a disciplinary charge because he stopped, en route, at an MSA for seven minutes on a Saturday morning to use the toilet and fill his flask. He had to attend a disciplinary meeting, along with his union rep, where he was interrogated as to whether the primary cause of his seven minute stop was to use the toilet or fill his flask, and it was quite clear that Stobart wanted to sack him, to save paying him any type of redundancy money.
They knew this because of the tracker.
That is the problem.
Harsh that is even if he is a pain, if that guy had made all his deliveries in time and customers liked him etc then it seems abit strange that after 22 years. What happened to respect the old
keebs26uk:
They can be a pain but I guess there main purpose is incase the lorry gets nicked
NO! It’s to spy on you! 
simple as! This job was better when you had your ten pence pieces, for the phone box to get your next job! then they brought out mobile phones! 
We are in the process off fitting a camera(2 actually ) in my trailer , all the ridged’s have them fitted at the back door, to catch any thefts from our vechs !
There goes my white palet fiddle lol
Harry Monk:
keebs26uk:
Agreed as long as we all do the deliveries given to us in a good time then what is the problemI was talking to a Stobart driver yesterday, he has been working for them for 22 years and he was recently on a disciplinary charge because he stopped, en route, at an MSA for seven minutes on a Saturday morning to use the toilet and fill his flask. He had to attend a disciplinary meeting, along with his union rep, where he was interrogated as to whether the primary cause of his seven minute stop was to use the toilet or fill his flask, and it was quite clear that Stobart wanted to sack him, to save paying him any type of redundancy money.
They knew this because of the tracker.
That is the problem.
Too big, too quick ring any bells■■? WAYNE KERRS
Our tippers have these poxy things fitted. I have nothing to hide, but gets annoying when the second my tacho shows 46mins break my boss is on phone chasing me up.
It does have advantages granted, ie a customer calls in chasing a load, one click and he knows how far away we are and dosent have round bother us!!!
As foe speeding our system shows us speeding. Not that my boss gives a toss. In fact im a speed limit sort of bloke and have spent the last 3 weeks doing turn around day work. I did wonder what id done and over heard my boss bragging he’d “taught me a lesson for dragging my heels!!” Mmmm ok then.
I can’t believe some of the comments on this thread . Trackers … the worst thing to zb the job up for us in the last 20 years, and we get drivers on here justifying them, worse still praising them, and some actually believing the bullcrap put about by bosses, but worse still… some accepting that they are being scrutinised to the nearest minute and not seeing anything wrong or unreasonable about that , wtf have drivers (and this job) come to. or is it just me.
Fatboy slimslow:
keebs26uk:
They can be a pain but I guess there main purpose is incase the lorry gets nickedNO! It’s to spy on you!
Yes, it was better, I agree. When I started out, I would leave the yard in Kent and the next time I had any contact with anyone in the office would be to say I had arrived in Milan and was under clearance. The idea of stuffed shirts spying on drivers, phoning them to ask why they have stopped, or putting them on a disciplinary charge because they have stopped for seven minutes is repugnant.
You go into this job, or at least you used to, because you aren’t the type of person who wants to have to put his hand up and ask for permission to go to the toilet. This is one of the many reasons I run my own truck, and put up with the stress and uncertainty that goes with that, rather than donning the elf costume.
I was talking to a Stobart driver yesterday, he has been working for them for 22 years and he was recently on a disciplinary charge because he stopped, en route, at an MSA for seven minutes on a Saturday morning to use the toilet and fill his flask. He had to attend a disciplinary meeting, along with his union rep, where he was interrogated as to whether the primary cause of his seven minute stop was to use the toilet or fill his flask, and it was quite clear that Stobart wanted to sack him, to save paying him any type of redundancy money.
They knew this because of the tracker.
That is the problem.
That’s a sad story if true, but I would have been out the door the moment I recieved the disciplinary letter, life is too short to waste time working for a company like that. Including jumping through hoops, or attending disciplinary hearings. I hate all this HR stuff, if there is a problem, I want my boss to just come out with it, politely, to my face, and we can talk about it like a pair of adults and find a solution.
However, so often with these stories, and I hear a lot of them, i’m certain there is more going on than we are ever told. Yesterday, I was talking to a driver (clearly a very tedious bloke, anyway) who apparently got sacked from a firm he was working for after 4 months off work as a result of a broken ankle, that he broke at work. He was apparently sacked for excessive time off. Stories like this just don’t add up.
So far the ones crying loudest about trackers have been, in my experience (again), those who enjoy snoozing on company time.
I’d sooner be without them, but since i generally enjoy getting on with stuff and being busy, it’s never so far caused me a problem.
The firm i previously worked for had the Masternaut system fitted to our trucks,they had the system telling them how hard we had braked,how hard we were accellerating and also what fuel consumption we were doing. Our firm to all respects were pretty good to us and no-one got any disciplineries,but we have since been taken over and gone private,so now we have 360 degree cameras fitted to our vehicles and a TomTom system fitted which once again tells them everything.This crowd we work for now aren’t so understanding and are using this system to get some of us oldies out of the company,saving them paying our higher wages and paying our pensions. Trucking used to be so good but it’s now like we’re driving with tag locked to our ankles…bring back the old days.