I agree with most of the other comments, good on him for doing it.
To the OP though, have you flown a helicopter? It’s not like driving a truck, you can’t put it on cruise control and put the kettle on whilst eating your lunch, it takes a LOT of concentration and both hands and feet to keep the damned thing in the air, all it wants to do is crash.
As for the shovel driver chaversdad, again, it’s damned hard work, bouncing around, only normal breaks, back ache, head ache, drivers ■■■■■■■■, office ■■■■■■■■, nothing like being on the road.
well for me i like the young princes both harry and william, they do a lot of good rasiing millions of pounds to kids who are starving to death because of who they are, they really are like a breath of fresh air the royals have do badly needed, however i do hope as they get older they dont lose there interest in helping those far worse off than us lot ?
there is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes of course there born into privilege but at least they are forced to go out and live out in the 3rd world trying to help those starving out there, we should all get a ticket out to those places and live out there for a week, you would all be so dam grateful for just the water we have in this country, turn on a tap and its there.
so for now they get a thumbs up from me, i just hope they dont grow out of it and decide to play at being a toff
William just wants to play with the helicopter again. His brother is still messing around in the apaches and William is jealous that’s all. “Mines got a winch”, “Well mine had a cannon”
truckman020:
maybe the reporter at the mail should try driving hgvs for a week then say that if he/she reckons that’s long hours
I think it shows just out of touch haulage is with the rest of society. 36hrs over 5 days is a normal working week. That’s an average of 7hrs a day, not 11 as it is in our industry.
We’re supposed to work to live not live to work.
The 36 hours figure is no different to the 39 hours figure which we were pushing for in the factories the 1970’s.It wasn’t really ever about the actual time regime of start and finish times it was more about where overtime and overtime rates start kicking in rather than any big rise in hourly rates and more time off.Also bearing in mind that 8 hours working ‘inside’ actually feels like more than 12 working as a driver unless anyone is sufficiently de sensitised to the prison like regime of factory/office work.
On that note to meet your ( justified ) idea of a civilised modern industrial society it really would have taken/take something like a reduction in hours that allowed/s for less actual ‘days’ at work for the same amount of money.Rather than just a few hours ‘adjustment’ in the working week to create better opportunities for over time to compensate for the ever decreasing value of the money being paid in wages.
Which in the transport industry would obviously realistically translate as a 48 hour four day ‘working week’ and probably a 4 day 32 hour working week for those working ‘inside’.
truckman020:
maybe the reporter at the mail should try driving hgvs for a week then say that if he/she reckons that’s long hours
I think it shows just out of touch haulage is with the rest of society. 36hrs over 5 days is a normal working week. That’s an average of 7hrs a day, not 11 as it is in our industry.
We’re supposed to work to live not live to work.
Got to agree, my mate drives a shovel in the steelworks
Does 2 days followed by 2 nights then has 4 off, every 7 cycles he gets 18 days off, he takes home £550 every week, i.ve had my name down for a year, the fact i cant drive a shovel probably has something to do with that though
I looked into that and its around £1600 for training
waynedl:
I agree with most of the other comments, good on him for doing it.
To the OP though, have you flown a helicopter? It’s not like driving a truck, you can’t put it on cruise control and put the kettle on whilst eating your lunch, it takes a LOT of concentration and both hands and feet to keep the damned thing in the air, all it wants to do is crash.
As for the shovel driver chaversdad, again, it’s damned hard work, bouncing around, only normal breaks, back ache, head ache, drivers ■■■■■■■■, office ■■■■■■■■, nothing like being on the road.
been up in a helicopter at the war and peace show,not bad but was still bricking it as it was my first time in the air
alder:
William just wants to play with the helicopter again. His brother is still messing around in the apaches and William is jealous that’s all. “Mines got a winch”, “Well mine had a cannon”
mac12:
I’m sure if he wanted to do something for society there must be some voluntary work he could do instead of taking someone’s job
I thought a lot of these air ambulance services relied on donations to keep them running. If so then I’d say by giving his salary back is doing something for society.
Certainly the Derbyshire Air ambulance based at East Midlands Airport is funded solely by donations, it recieves no government or lottery help. The two pilots are not ‘air ambulance staff’ but work for a private company, they have to take turns to stay in the chopper for the full shift whereas the medical staff can do work elsewhere on the premises. Apparently the medics are on less money than when they work in hospitals etc, but it looks good on their c.v for later employment.
well that’s killed that then!