Saaamon:
It seems like it is what i thought it would be like then.
So say you have a night out then the next morning you find you have a headlight or brake light bulb out, what do you do, change it yourself and get going or wait for the fitter?
Depends on the driver and your depot. Some sites don’t let drivers change bulbs. We do at the minute but are looking at restricting it to shunters only. If someone has a bulb out on the road it’s usually a call out because they don’t carry spares and you need tools to change most of the major bulbs in our trucks. Myself I have the tools and bulbs to do the job myself. Some of our drivers need their hand holding to get in the truck in the morning, never mind expecting them to manage to put a bulb in the right way round FFS. And for the people who think its daft to ban drivers from changing bulbs, our headlight bulbs only fit in one way around. I have found many lorries defected for headlight alignment where the bulb has been rammed in the wrong way up.
GasGas:
That’s right DAFAid or whoever on a call out at emergency rate to change light bulbs…how the dealers must have loved him. You could lend someone like that free trucks for a year and still make a profit!
Thats ■■■■■■■ well funny, actually made me laugh. I dont see what the problem is with the fitters showing drivers how to do something if they ask.
starfighter:
I work for DHL and we are awash with sign offs don’t do this, don’t do that etc etc. But every time we get a sign off telling you not to do something that’s common sense it is because some idiot somewhere has done it and come a cropper. I can’t speak for other depots but at ours they only want you to do the job the way you were trained. No making do. If a vehicle is defective it doesn’t go out, if something breaks on route a fitter comes out, no limping back to the depot. They never pressure you to do anything dodgy to get the job done, some people do cut corners and sooner or later something goes wrong and they find themselves in a DP. Plus points are as much uniform or PPE as you can throw a stick at and all our DCPC is arranged and paid for by the company and done in company time. They just tell us when and where and all we have to do is turn up, when digi cards first came in they paid for everyone’s cards, new TM so they won’t pay for renewals though, and all your medicals are paid for. Good pension scheme, they put in 2x what we put in. On balance the good outweighs the bad, but our depot is only a smaller one 80 odd trucks servicing one customer.
Yeah I work for DHL and your forever signing off communication sheets or whatever threw called basically saying you’ve been told not to do this , now sign it and say that you’ve been told not to do it, so that if you do do it, your ■■■■■■
I took a month of and spent an hour signing those bloody things when I came back. If the driver trainer ever ■■■■■■ me off I am going to ask for copies of every sign off I ever signed for my records.