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Anything work related is classed as other work.

Apart from voluntarily attending DCPC during your Rest Period.

where I work it's classed as other work even if it's day off.

What your company chooses to do, is up to them. That is not the law though.

Any industry you work in has some form of CPD or work based training, CPC is just that for us. It’s only 7 hours a year, if you work 50 hours a week it’s less than 0.004% of your working year. Just need to find yourself a trainer that rings brews and biscuits. If you take one thing away from a course that keeps you safer or keeps money in your pocket rather than that of the police or DVSA it’s worth it in my opinion. The driving schools are busy, but you can’t pay for experience. I’m not on mega money as a tramper but it pays far more than many other roles in the sector. It puts food on the table and gives me and my Mrs a decent home etc. That’s why I do it, plus I enjoy it.

For the ones that say you need 30min, you only need 15 after 6hrs. It's a 6-9hr working period. 30min after a 15 break clears driving and working. No point clearing driving time off you've only driven say 2hrs, so you take a 15 run another 3hrs (up to you're 9th hour) then take a 30 to clear it all. 9 times out of ten your 4.5 driving comes before your 9hr period. Once cleared you can only work 15hrs in a day. If you've cleared your driving and working at 9hrs, you can run the rest of the day without a break. 9 - 15hrs is 6.

You've just committed a driving infringement ... 2 + 3 = 5 hrs driving with only 15mins break. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Stop giving advice fella.

Never lost a job, and that what you have explained is why this industry is in the state it is, take a good long look at yourself not me, I bet you've tipped whilst having the tacho on break as do many others. The only winner is your boss and who you deliver too. Get on with it, I'm retired now, so don't give a toss, your welcome to it, work yer 60 odd hours, stacking the shelves in Aldi or Lidl pays more for less hours, and they go home after 8 hours, you don't.

Totally agree with you on that. I'm retired and only live on my state pension, but, short of starving nothing would persuade me to shop in those stores on principle, besides, overall they aren't that much cheaper than Tesco or Morrisons.

I think there are quite a few of us with the same stance King, and tbh, I myself don't think there is that much of a saving. I also have a preference to eat what I was brought up on, where taste beats cheaper alternatives, and my pension covers that. Its standing for my principles here,...

I failed even before go on road but apart from that I would of passed got to close to the wall leaving the yard you gotta be in a rush to get on the road from the yard because it’s a 40mph road and you don’t have much time to mess about with.

Just bullsh**! Keep at it. You will get it, the test is useless, don't let it get to you. Book another and get back on that horse.

Gonna book test in next week or so seen as I've just had 10 months away from it and one full day lesson don’t think I've done that bad seen as my nerves was all over place ill get it sooner or later.

Pulling out of Bassetts does look a nightmare but as someone else said maybe try a different instructor, I passed at SID’s which is about 4 miles away from Bassetts.

It's all about practice and experience the more work you do the more experience you gain. People can tell you till they are blue in the face, doesn't mean it's gonna sink in but do it yourself and learn from it every day is a school day on the roads keep at it and I'm sure other drivers will give you help and advice along the way.

All exhausts exit away from the kerb depending on which country the truck is sold in. RHD exits to the right, LHD exits to the left. So this post is an extremely large fail.

If you mean for the car. Maybe possible. But if the truck, whatever RHD LHD, all use the same exhaust designer.

Yes except that they don’t. The tailpipe of the exhaust points to the middle of the road in the market they’re sold in. I’ve driven both LHD and RHD and that’s how they all were.

I drove humanitarian aid convoys for 4 years in Bosnia during the war. It’s not the easiest work to get into, in the UK the main route is with the DFID and they used to use an agency called Crown Agents. You can register with the UN on their website, you can also search for NGO jobs and register with those NGO’s for current and upcoming vacancies. The salary ranges from being provided with food & accommodation plus a per diem to cover incidental costs to a fully salaried package.

My company have told me there is nothing wrong with this truck but the wheel is about to fall off because it’s missing wheel nuts.
I refused to drive it so they sent me home unpaid 🤬 what should I do on Monday if it still has a loose wheel ??

You cannot be serious, this is a windup, surely?

Try get in my place 45 hour contract class 2 pays 18.27 ph on afternoons you don't work more than 9 hours a day you can if you want but they don't force you.

Where is that Challyso I’m interested?

I at Biffa mate if you can handle pulling bins mate no help you on your own only local too I speak my manager for you based off Birmingham new Rd by Coseley.

Biffa pay £15.12 on days, not enough in my opinion especially in Bristol where living cost is fairly high, can get £12-£13 working in a bookmakers up north with a lower cost of living, similar in a supermarket Aldi, Lidl etc. easier to have an accident in a class 2 due to tight delivery/collection areas and poor turning circle on wagons etc. min wage has really caught up on truck driving last couple years.

Been on class one myself for about 6 weeks and a few weeks on/off with a buddy learning job etc, best things I can say are hand on bottom of wheel and push it towards the mirror/side you want the trailer to go, use as much space as you can going forward to set yourself up, remember you need to let the trailer move before taking off the steering, do it to quick pretty much just wag the cab about and trailer doesn't do much. I now feel reasonable confident I know what I need todo and I can do it, and can usually get the trailer into roughly what I'm aiming at, not at any great speed but it works out fine mostly, sometimes a small shunt sometimes pull right back out and go again. Nobody that isn't a waste of oxygen is going to be a d*** if you take longer, get out to look, take a shunt, ask for somebody to help give you a guide, working with guys that have been at it decades down to only a year etc and they all say they same thing, take your time, you will get it, tell anybody that...

Seeing as the Retirement Age is now 68 and rapidly heading for 70 ie Governments consider everyone to be fully fit for work up to 68 it doesn't make sense to pitch it as low as 60. I would say that most people who are 60, not only originally passed a Driving Test but also, drive regularly so will be able drivers. 80 is the new 60 so perhaps that is when re-tests would be appropriate. In fact you have to have your GP certify your physical capability if you wish to retain rights to drive 7.5 tonne + anyway. Many of the older drivers we worry about on the roads we're never properly taught to drive or passed a test. I am 68 and my husband is 70. We both drive long distances for work daily and recently went for sight tests. Both have been told we have the very beginnings of cataracts but it will take 10 years for them to develop, longer if we wear sunglasses often. People are ageing slower.

I’ve always found the policy of yes sir, no sir when dealing with dvsa or the Police and being absolutely honest I could/should have been done a couple of times but only ever been given stern advice 😂

Totally agree, I have been let away with plenty of minor offences in my young days just by smiling and treating them as fellow human beings and having a bit of banter with them. A lot of them get so much shit off the public, making their life more difficult that they empathise with you and are more inclined to give you a break (i.e use their power of discretion), not always but enough times to make it worthwhile. Be shitty with them and even if they weren't going to ticket you, you can talk yourself, remain silent, etc into a penalty.

What ever answer you give them, make sure it something that doesn't incriminate you, just talk to them nicely, it goes a long way in my experience.

Sounds old fashioned but at one time we (Hgv drivers) were known as knights of the road but totally agree with the lack of courtesy from a lot of drivers, there's 3 companies in particular where the drivers (admittedly not all of them) don't flash you in or acknowledge you and as it's been said will keep the foot hard down when you've allowed them to join from a slip road and leave you out in the middle lane and as for the muppets on tiktok who sit there filming and laughing at a (possibly new) driver struggling instead of getting out the cab and walking over and asking if they need a hand or guidance, anyway that's my rant over, now for some food, safe trucking folks.

Why do they need 2023 details

they need to see 180 days in the last 2 year

Is that 180 days their company policy. If not, where do you get the idea it’s a legal requirement - curious?

That's the problem though, I wonder how much room they have to fiddle with the route. Chances are you probably gonna hit a good few of them at the worst time!

Very true. I used to do night deliveries to stores around the north west. Different company and honestly was so much easier! Would just let myself in out the stock in lock up and done.

Would that be Aldi or Lidl? Heads one of them does it that way. Sounds like a pretty good job, and the right way to do it.

No was only pound bakery but decent company to work for. The only job where I was treated with respect and I have done a lot of retail before driving went through some rough areas too like town centers on Friday and Saturday nights. Oldham Bradford and Erdington were the only ones I really had to watch my back on but was lucky to never have a single problem. Got more money working 4 nights than 5 days on tippers! Nights just didn't work with young kiddies my youngest is 3 at the end of the month so no sleep during...

Both correct. When you see a Scania V8 on the motorway with all the Kelsa bars and Chrome, it's 20/1 odds on that the driver is being paid peanuts.
He might stab the same per week, or maybe even more in some cases, but that's because he's maxing his hours and getting paid £20a night to sleep in a metal box (that's a VERY cheap security guard, eh?) We get around £35k for a 36:15 week, no nights out. Plenty of overtime available if you want it. Many drivers at my depot do more like £45 to £50k by doing an extra shift. I do my 36:15 over a three day spread, so I could potentially do another two days a week overtime, which would have me at £50k per year, but I prefer the 4 day weekend, to be honest. But that's the great thing about driving HGVs, isn't it? There's a job out there to suit everyone: some people love being on the road all week in a nice unit, and I can respect that - they are the ones doing it 'for the lifestyle'. Me, I've been there and done that. Now I like driving a shit...

Yep, always ease up a bit, once they’ve started the overtake, especially if there’s a queue of traffic behind them. Once they are a safe distance past me flashe them in and up my speed again. For the amount of time it costs it keeps everything moving.

Absolutely the correct answer!

I’ve only had my class 1 for 18 months, and as a car driver used to get pissed off at the overtaking truck, when actually its the one being overtaken, I should've got annoyed with. Hence my answer, no one likes being stuck behind 2 wagons doing 53, it can cause long queues not only that, id much rather not have another truck alongside me for any length of time. Let 'em get on with it and get past.

It's a box you take somewhere. You might get home the same night, or maybe not, sh*t work. Plenty of nice daytime work about if you ask me.

Sorry Bennetter, but a lot of container transport companies route drivers on home county work which gets them home every night. By the sound of it container work isn’t your cup of tea but it suits lots of people because it’s easy work not physically demanding in any way, over the years I’ve done my share of roping and sheeting, humping groupage and pallets on and off the back of motors, punching back and forward to Spain every week, working a lot loader using chains and toggles, the Essenes of lorry driving is to make life easier for yourself and not harder yes with container work you get a lot of hanging about when loading and unloading, but if your getting paid by the hour what the hardship of watching Tv in the cab or having a Kip or would you sooner be chasing up the motorway. It’s a case of horses for courses but not every one wants to...

It’s not the bridge and sign you are approaching, it’s the abutting bridge that is lower. There is a bridge exactly like this in West Hendon. The amount of Lorrie’s make it under the approaching bridge, it’s the lower bridge they hit. Approaching from the opposite direction the bridge sign for the height clearance is lower. Crazy.

Gave 2 knocks and nothing response, transport manager doing a wellbeing check. Sorry if this gets you in sh*t drive just know my intentions were good. 🙏🏼🤷🏼‍♂️ A colleague of drive has had confirmation that they’re all good! 💪🏼 Cheers for the reassurance though folks. Just wanted to make sure my head/heart was in the right place with knocking on etc!

50k/year tramping? That's not really good to be honest.

What do you get for doing it? Want to post a picture of your payslip?

I don't have to prove anything to anyone, but anyone who is/has chased the dollar knows this ain't much. It's ok, but nothing to brag about. Try 60k/year max 60hours per week and home every day. And there are people here (Peterborough) who are making even more. If tramping I would want at least 6k-8k more.

Probably because they've seen the videos of people having the front of the wagons taken off by people pulling out of bays, or they want to minimize having to hear somebody else's phone call as they're a retard and insist on using the Bluetooth whilst parked.

I have had dealings with acas for the same thing with my past job breaching the contract fighting stuff that is pointless because your contract gets amended before it’s sent off to them

Contracts can’t be just amended without notice.

they can’t but who’s to say they haven’t without you knowing your just a puppet to these rich people

Because you should have your own signed copy or a photocopy of said contract.

What do you expect? Labour making all these promises and giving 14% pay rises to public sector workers, increasing payouts etc etc etc. The money has to come from somewhere so stealth taxes will be introduced. You don't see politicians taking a paycut or reducing their expenses. The government who is meant to be working for the people are only interested in lining their own pockets. Oliver Cromwell would be turning in his grave. We need a civil revolution.

All these people saying become a plumber or other tradesman... is laughable !
I want out of the trade.... I've been a fully qualified carpenter/builder for 28 years and honestly I'm bolloxed.
My body is crippled.... the stress of working for the public is like nothing else, sleepless nights, pressure and worry You rarely get a thanks, getting paid is painful. I've thousands and thousands of pounds spent on tools and vehicles.
You need to be on the ball 24/7 whether that's finding work, working out prices or even just turning up and being able to perfom and problem solve and be creative 100% of the time!
I tell you now a trade in construction is not all that !

As others have said, it's mainly the drivers who get them like it, I drive for Daventry Frozen, and clear away coffee cups and empty food packets daily, also wipe down the tables and work surfaces. The drinks are free, so are the bins!! Plenty blue roll to use if you spill your drink etc.

I agree. You just wonder what their cab and look like. I keep everything clean. The Tesco's RDC in Reading is just as bad. There last week drinks are not free card payments only.

We have free tea and coffee for all drivers, and still it gets abused.

Some companies set to 50, some at 52 (was 52.8 in my old truck, which is 85kmph) it's a pain in the arse on motorways but we all get there in the end. Just penny pinching companies trying to save a miniscule amount of diesel.

£20 a week per lorry over a fleet of ie 1000, what’s that saving annually, maybe your pay rise ?

So how come running at 60 mph is 1 mpg better than running at 56 mph FACT I pay the bills ffs , running at 52 mph is BOLLOX all that does is cause Accidents Maritime only employ Steering Wheel Attendents , Not real Drivers.

Yup, because a person is smart, yet people are dumb. It's easier to rake in the extra tax generated by forcing hauliers to buy the latest wagons with all the bells and whistles. Then hammer them with fines for things outside their control, also at the same time having to pay charges so that the toffs in London can pretend they're breathing clean air, and can drive the 1/2 a mile to pick their bairns up in the Chelsea tractor or some 6 gallon the mile classic. Whereas the revenue generated would pretty much evaporate if pedestrians and cyclists had to be accountable for their own stupidity. You can imagine the council meeting: Well, Tarquin, we have this year's safety budget of a few hundred million... Do we a) introduce a campaign to raise awareness of dangers to non drivers and cyclists, and funnel the rest into inner city reforms cracking down on knife crime and gang culture; or b) do we introduce area specific bylaws forcing the very industry that keeps our stores stocked to pay...

I know it's domestic rules not EU but we had a bus driver that would work 13 days straight, finish on an early, start the next on a late giving him 24 hours rest then go again. Didn't have a day off apart from 4 weeks holiday a year.

I used to do the same so my 13th day was the Saturday before my rota’d Sunday. Know the rules, use them to your advantage. 👍🏻

I’ve yet to see a pro6250 actually die, most faults with these stem from power socket on cradle, failed cable (too much flexing) or knackered battery.
Try connecting power cable direct to rear of satnav and/or removing internal battery and try a different cable and cig plug.

Depends what you think is early normally I get back between 7 - 8pm a few times it's been as late as 10pm earliest I've finished is 4pm but it then takes up to an hour before I head home as the truck has to be fueled up and washed and if I have cars on they have to be unloaded then sort time sheets out etc. then I have roughly a drive home that takes between 45 minutes to an hour. But that is on a Wednesday and my week starts on a Monday. 🤣

Drivers must always wear the necessary personal visual aids prescribed for them to drive a vehicle. Drivers with presbyopia (age - related long - sighted ‐ ness) should, if necessary, wear visual aids with multifocal lenses to be sufficiently able to see traffic including via the displays. So sounds like your boss needs to buy you some new glasses!

You literally have to jump through hoops to become a train driver, let me explain.
You apply for the job of a trainee train driver, if you get selected, then you go for a psychometric test, followed by an interview with a psychologist. IF you pass that, you then go on a rules and regs course. Six weeks in the classroom learning all about the rule book, which is about four inches thick. Then you have a two day grilling exam with a driver manager on the rules and regs. Fail this bit, and back into the classroom you go for a second time. Fail it that time round, it's adios! IF you pass your rules exam, congratulations! You can now put your very first signature to the legal document to say that you are fully competent and proficient in the underpinning knowledge of rules and regulations. It's this document that gets produced at any subsequent enquiry if you ever screw up.
You're then passed onto a driver instructor to learn the type of train that you will be driving, that will be a...

If I were you I'd look at the companies local to you and maybe pop along and see them, have a chat with them about what exactly you are thinking and discuss opportunities they may have now which could then build your experience. Maybe step back and be an escort driver foe a period, look at the options of spending free time with them just to build knowledge and show willing. I imagine like most things if your hearts in it then you'll succeed and they will see you are worth taking a punt on. Good luck whatever route you decide but most importantly follow your dreams and don't give up.

I teach cpc and tell the guys it's advisable to remove it at the end of a shift for a few reasons. Main one being - if I decide to touch the keys for whatever reason before my times up it switches the tacho to other work in some vehicles and you might not even know. If you know your vehicle and know it won't change on you then it makes no odds. Saves you doing any manual entries as the tacho knows what day it is. Different if your running with paper tacho as that's a 24clock and you can't overlap. I used to leave my card in when I took the keys home with me. Soon as I started put on other work then start my checks. Do what works for you.

On Friday, I failed my class 1 test. I was absolutely gutted because my training had gone so well. I've shaken it off and going to re take my test. The most frustrating thing was, I got 1 minor aside from the 1 serious fault. I failed because I went through traffic lights as they changing from green to amber. The examiner said because I was travelling slow, I had time to stop. I didn't argue with it because there's no point. Next time, I'll be more cautious at the lights. Has anyone else failed their first test on class 1? Feel like I'm going to be more nervous on the next one now because of what happened, especially approaching lights. Any tips or advice for me? Thanks.

Failed my track vehicle test (only fail I've had) 1st time out. Did an hours drive, almost flawlessly and got back to the depot. Examiner told me it was an excellent drive but I'd failed leaving the depot as my tracks had cut the lines on the junction as I turned right to exit onto the main road to start the...

Not worth the hassle. You get unwanted attention and you start screwing yourself over by playing with busses and cars and the clowns that overtake you 13 times on over run. Easier to sit there at 56 and get there when you get there. I doubt the speed is making your wallet and fatter.

Yes you can. I did a cpc last week and we covered this. I’ve done it myself when it’s suited me, like one Christmas Eve when I got shafted with a Scotland run. Trailer’s there mate, but you need to stick it on the bay and get a few more York’s on. Had a 15 on the bay (only done 3 minutes driving) up to Scotland, half hour on bay whilst they tipped me which only took a few minutes, then a 4 hour drive back. Perfectly legal.

So the basics are, look in the index for the nearest village, next to the name there will be a set of numbers, firstly there'll be the page number, then a 4 figure grid reference. Locate the page, the first 2 numbers will give you an edge of a box from left to right, the second 2 will give you an edge of a box from bottom to top. Where the lines intercept will give an area of say 10 square miles, in that box will be the village/place you are looking for. Then it's a case of calling the customer or asking locals. But you can't beat Google maps/street view for lane ends and tracks.

Company I'm due to start with stated this when I asked about how they manage Development issues for new passes. Stated that for a while they will deduct £200 for any collisions to cover excess IF it were to occur as well as some hours with their trainer. It seemed reasonable to me. After some time if it's a repeat issue then it goes into disciplinary actions. Considering most agencies or big companies would drop you in a heartbeat. This seemed reasonable to me and encouragement to be careful and stay on the ball. To clarify, I pay nothing unless a collision occurs 35k night trunking RDCs new pass under 25.

You have to give a company a reasonable amount of time to respond to any request you make so you could put in a formal grievance to the company about the matter first before going to Acas to give them a chance to resolve the issue. Also it's one of the questions ACAS will ask you if you put a formal grievance in against the company when seeking support. If you don't have 2 years service my advice would be to request the companies own policies and procedures and see if there is anything you could use against them to get it to a tribunal there are occasions where you don't need 2 years service DM me if you would like to discuss this matter further.

Mate, they don’t pay terrible everywhere, it seems to be contract dependent around Avonmouth. They have some that are far too much work for the money and others that are easier cleaner work for more money, example would be Costa coffee pays around £45k for a 48hour week whilst akzo Nobel was only offering around £35k last time I saw it advertised. Admittedly they’ve splintered into XPO and GXO now but even so on the right contract money is good.

It’s hard to find an exemption from some form of annual test regardless of what they’re called
Private boxes are not subject to O licence and not subject to the PMI schedules.
Business use boxes are subject to O licence encephalitis and would require PMI schedule.
Simples

Do you have a tachograph master app.
Google maps.
Check number plate for vehicle you were driving that day. Check the history on Google maps if you have it turned on it records wether your on the app or not where you go see if you were on that road. No tachograph app do a print out for that date. Check if you were actually driving at the time of the offence. Normal procedure os. They 28 or 31 days to issue the fine to the registered keeper. This being the company most probably, they have 28 days to reply as to who was the driver in which they the people fining you have another 28 days to issue the driver with the fine. Which will either be addressed to you or addressed to the company with your name on it.

Put card in, manual entry- no. Do a printout and write on back a description of your out of scope work. Keep for 28 days. Away you go out on the open road and all the joy it brings 🚚

Tacho card in 6.50.
Break at 12.35 for 40 minutes. Then drove back to the depot which is a ten minute drive and had 20 minutes (there was no phone signal where I parked) at 14.35 my tacho and dash bored lightning up like Christmas saying I need 15 more minutes. Yes I split my break but had an hour in total. Should of lasted me until I finish as I'm multi drop and only need 45 minutes per day.

Makes zero sense. Unless your tacho is programmed to warn for company policy (is that possible?) as opposed to regs?

If you were in danger of exceeding 4 1/2 hrs driving you'd need a 30 min break.
You're covered adequately for WTD as 40mins and 20 mins cover you.

Assume the Op actually pleaded guilty by post s and paid the fine to the form they received. Appeal would be to the crown court AFAIR, what would you appeal against that you weren’t aware of at the time you pleaded guilty?

It's because especially in roadworks you have cars sat in middle lane for 45mph in a 50 and wonder why your flashing them. You can't undertake because there's a flow of traffic already doing so gets to the point you think f**k this and use lane 3/4. Some not all car drivers just drive around like nobody else is on the road forgetting what an accelerator pedal is for.

I’m saying is we work 60 hrs let’s say £15 ph we pay more tax than joe bloggs in Tesco at £12 per hour so it averages out better working in a store

there’s a misconception that people who earn over 50k pay 40% tax on everything , this is not correct . By you thinking someone on 12 quid an hour doing 45 hours a week is better of then someone on 15 doing 60 hours a week , I’m guessing your one of those people who think that.

not sure maths is his forte 😳

Velcro straps on all his footwear...

Very few flash you in or say thank you if you flash them in nowadays. Some flash for a millisecond & must think you’re permanently looking in the mirror as you pass them. I normally hold the beam on for a few seconds & if the truck passing me doesn’t pull in I flash them again. Not many ease off to let you past anymore & quite a few try to take your front end off before they’ve passed you. Problem with the world nowadays few have respect or manners & not many care.

I SERIOUSLY believe I have one of the best trucking jobs in the UK. Great pay. Flexible. Great bosses. Suits me so well. Don't wanna hear the whinging. It is what it is.

So you have ya new shiny class 1! Pull in to a DC, only 1 bay for you between 2 owner drivers? Good luck. But very brave with ya thumb lmao. 😀😀😀

Say clear of big companies and solid sided work. And RDC so boring. Down with the agricultural haulage low loader mainly rural farms, family run business.

The other way to look at it is have an accident, get hurt where a seatbelt could have reduced it and see how any claim will plummet, even if it wasn’t your fault.
There’s no good reason not to wear one, or not to a sensible driver at any rate.

For me it feels like with all these new implementations the enjoyment is being stripped from the job. I now have microlise fitted and spend more time thinking about what I've got to do to keep my score at a level where they'll leave me alone. For example trying to locate the cruise button whilst exiting a roundabout and driving with my right thumb, rather than my feet, all so an algorithm says I'm competent. I personally feel having a in cab camera would have a similar effect, I'd have an underlying feeling of anxiety regarding how I'm being perceived etc. My cab at times acts as a space of solace, a place where I feel at home, comfortable and at ease. With the addition of a camera I don't think that would be the case. Fully aware others will have differing opinions and I understand the thought process of if you're not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to worry about but personally I wouldn't feel comfortable.

90% of them try to force you out, then shoot off once they get on the carriage way. Why not just speed up before you get there and slot in before you get there. There isn't always room to pull out.

Because they have no idea how to Merge, have not got the knowledge that the Traffic on that inside lane Has priority over Joining traffic.

It's no different behind most rigid curtain sides. I've done work for these pallets companies and nothing gets strapped, especially as you have different shapes and sizes of objects on the pallets it would be difficult to impossible to ratchet them all down. Drive a flatbed now, everything strapped properly, then a few more for good measure. Saw an artic load of bulk bags of aggregate delivering to builder's merchant the other day, not a strap in sight. CPC runs out in May. I'm out of it then.

some locals don't know the area 😂😂 many a time I ask someone if they're local and they say yes, do you know where so an so is? Mmmmm never heard of that is quite common!!!

may be but don't apply for a job if you can't carry it out. Simple really

my point exactly, drivers job to find his destination

Don't talk such utter shit. The haulage firm knows who the client is, the load to be picked etc and the client specifies where it is to go. You give those complete details to the driver. He's not a physic or in possession of crystal balls.

Yeah. Only last week, finished Saturday afternoon 24 off back up the road again. Kept having elongated breaks to compensate what I owed

You cannot repay it using numerous elongated breaks , my understanding is that it has to be taken/attached in one block so 9hrs or 11hrs daily rest + the total amount of hours you reduced your weekly by?

If you reduced your weekly by say 9hrs, you cannot add 3 hours onto 3 daily rest periods to repay 9hrs.
It has to be either an 18 hour daily rest or a 20 hour daily rest period.

I haven’t read every post on here admittedly, but I can’t see how this would work with petrol and diesel cars. We already pay duty on this.

As for electric cars, I’m not surprised about pay per mile. How else would the government re-coup all the lost fuel duty if everyone went electric?

They need to get some money back somehow.

Any height over 16’3 and the bridges aren’t marked hence your tomtom issue. As stated you’ll be very unlikely to find a decker over 16’3.

Warrens, Culina and Stobart new DD trailers are 16 4, if you run with your middle axle up on the new Scania’s they have then add another 1.5 inch on your trailer height.

I don’t doubt you. However I’m not talking about trailers, I’m referring to bridges.

That’s strange, your last sentence definitely mentions a decker. 🤷‍♂️

I had that problem. Some tachos are old, in order have fifteen minutes you have 16 or even 17 as otherwise doesn't register. I fell for that few times had break then twenty minutes after set off flash up need break couldn't understand why so did print out it said not had one. Although had forty five minutes it was actually forty four so had take break again, didn't really matter as took me into overtime so got paid for it 😊 so now I extend by couple minutes to be safe.

Just made redundant first time in 28 years I’ve not been able to walk straight into another job. Been a instructor last two years so wasn’t looking forward to going back on the road. Agency work seems to be night mare. With pay rates and this umbrella sh**! They tell you £17 ph but then you realize that inc hol pay! Not a good time to be a unemployed trucker.

Yes it’s bad there. I go to drops near centre but just to the west. Cars and vans abandoned all over the place. People just nipping to shops on double yellows etc. Saw a whole fleet of recovery trucks seizing cars with police in attendance on Wed. One guy jumped in one and tried to drive off. I think the Highway Code isn’t really a thing to learn in Birmingham.

No chance, that corner piece would have 100% broke off to cause damage that, anyways, if the boot was dented, why isn't the cars rear bumper and lower end of the truck damaged?

Bumper is damaged, lower end of truck is marked. The boot/back end is a crumple zone, you could bend that boot, easily with a kick. Its all designed to crumple, that's why the real damage, if any will be under the bumper.

No, until the by-laws are changed those temporary signs are basically a warning to protect the worker's. The original speed limit on the motorway is the only one you can be done for. The rule still stay the same. Trucks are no allowed in the right hand lane unless the other lane's are official blocked. Those temporary reduced speed limits are just a warning basically that there is work been carried out.

If you take home around £600 a week, then that would be alright, that's what I take home 4 on 4 off night shifts trunking, I know trappers that bring home close to £1000 a week, but that's using every hour their legally allowed to.

I’m taking home £800-1100 per week night trunking but I am pushing up to 60hr a week to get that. Our trunkers get more than the trampers as we can push the overtime.

I do about 8 hours a day but sometimes gets to 11 or 1w hours, mines salaried so I try to be as quick as I can, just depends on the RDC.

Well having read half these comments, things don’t change, half of them you can’t read the post correctly for a reply. Has for H&S, that’s a progressive introduction of rules aimed at keeping the worker alive, especially the “I’ve been doing this 30 yrs“. Working at a well known Bakery in Bolton, they have a sloped part on the yard where units and trailers are parked up. 2 older seasoned drivers, Dick and Dom, from another depot to collect a unit we’d borrowed from their depot. Parked on a slope, 15-20 degrees incline. Simple operation to uncouple trailer and drive off, yes? No, not with Laurel and Hardy. I don’t think they ever explained it truthfully but what happened could have killed or wheel chaired one of them. One of them pulled the pin whilst legs up, then shot under the trailer whilst it’s coming off the 5th wheel onto the rails then onto its knees as he wanted to stop it with the trailer brake. 🤷‍♂️ Compliance manager was 150 yds away. Last pace of work, uneven floor,...

Best to work around family life than family life around work. I’d suggest another class 2 job for now but with an hourly rate. I done my class 1 last year as I was on the tippers on salary of £2100 pcm and I can kinda choose my hours here but I get £15.50 basic plus £1.75 an hour holiday pay and I average around £850 a week take home pay with no nights out. I do work nights but I’ve got two children under 5 so I get to spend most their free time with them still.

Nobody knows your level of understanding distances. Nobody wants the agro of sounding their horn for that driver to shout back at them. Maybe in future you should speak to the driver and ask when you get to about two foot of their vehicle give them a quick beep. That driver then knows the score. Don't get me wrong, there's loads of people who would rather watch it all go wrong, but there's many more who would be willing to help. Remember, Nobody knows how good you are and expect you know what your doing. If there Nobody around... G.O.A.L

Relax, steady, don't rush and treat it as a general drive. Mirrors, mirrors and more mirrors. Don't be scared to explain your thought process also. Don't rush the pulling in a safe place, i.e. don't bang it in bus stops or on white lines. I did not pull into a safe place when first requested. Solid white lines and then an approaching junction with traffic lights. But I talked him through it and explained that I felt stopping near the lights wasn't safe and would obstruct other road users. He disagreed but I politely explained I was the one driving and that was my perception. Seemed to accept this and made me stop elsewhere. Thought I would have probs failed due to this. But thankfully he didn't hold it against me. Anyways sorry for the essay and good luck.

3 reduced daily rests in a 2 week period? Seriously? You're clearly an attention seeker with nothing better to do with your day!

I'm assuming he's misunderstanding the bit that says between 2 weekly rests. 😆

Be very careful because even with a 9 hour rest period you can only work 15 hours in a 24 hrs period. So you are very close to the limits.

The 9 hr rest resets the 24 hr period. The only thing that would restrict him is the night working limit if his company does not have an opt-out agreement in place.