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What's everyone say about this? Considering you're doing hazard chemicals such as caustic, connecting the pipes in the plants etc..

Morning all, What's average earnings these days in the trucking game and how many hours to get there?

They gave me a unit with driver facing camera. Which I refused to drive. They argue that's it's legal to have driver facing camera. Wth? What do you think?

Hi, Anyone had any experience with DX? I passed my class 1, 11th May an agency got me work with DX. The van was loaded. They gave me the keys and paper work. They expected me to deliver 19 pallets and I'm a new driver. Didn't have any training what so ever. Didn't show me delivery's in order. My 1st drop was 1 hour away and my second drop was 1 hour away from the first. I tried to find the shortest distance from drops but it tuck time. When I got back to yard I was 15 mins from my drive time.

After some job hunting it seems like nobody will put you in a class 1 until you’ve been driving class 2. I’ve gone straight to C + E and haven’t driven a rigid before. How hard is it to drive a rigid after only having driven artic in training?
Seems crazy to me. We won’t put you in what you’ve trained on but you can drive a class 2 that you have no experience in. Then when you’ve forgotten how to drive class one we will let you drive class 1 because you’ve got used to class 2.
Somebody make it make sense please.

Hello, 18 and passed my HGV 2 driving for a well known logistics company loving the job, plenty of training from company, and obviously you have to be competent to pass your HGV test. According to car insurance, I’m still just as high risk as any other 18 year old lad without a HGV license..... Can someone please shed some light on how insurance companies think this way, I don’t believe for a second a normal boy racer thinks and drives anywhere near the same way I think and drive. Nearly £1800 to insure my 1.5 Nissan Juke 😂 taking the piss now insurance are.

Hi, Anyone know where I stand with this?
I am parked literally outside my drop as I just missed them before they closed last night woke upto this?
Not on yellow lines, paid this morning and still not been removed (all automated)
Cheers

This training school take 4-5k and then no guarantee you pass practical test, a lot of money specially no passing granted each time you fail practical have to pay more 474£ per test extra top up, one of my Friend paid to school 5k he was passed on first attempt on theory, hazard and cpc same day because computer decide on your knowledge and reversing passed same on first attempt but practical test failed 6 times on Atherton test Center. He is Good hgv driver but test centre won’t pass him. Now he quit hgv license and paying back this 5k to bank every month so think before you spend money where is no guarantee you get but school makes money that’s guarantee. School name is The ABC TEAM NW LTD.

Hi, Anyone wanting to keep an accurate log of their hours, break, poa etc. without needing to constantly get the pen and paper out, I've just bought one of these from Amazon £22 for the reader and then £4 a month subscription for the app after a 30 day free trial.
May seem un-needed but it takes the hassle out of keeping track if your employer doesn't have tachomaster worker or something similar.
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Hgv medical question time! My medical is approaching next year. No all I do is go on to Google and search 'hgv medical' followed by where I live and it comes up with all these private ones for like £60.
I go along, sit in front of some doctor that I've never met in my life before whilst they go through a box ticking exercise to decide of if I can drive for a profession. They don't have any of my medical history in front of them and nor do they know it.
So my question is, when are the DVLA/DFT going to cotton on to this and make drivers see their GP?

Hi all, I’m in the process of learning to drive class 1 coming from just a car licence. I’ve done 2 days so far out of 10 (test on the 10th day) at first I was looking forward to it and expected the training would be great. However I’m finding my instructor is constantly shouting at me and the other girl who is learning with me. I know the instructor knows best, but first day I’m out on the road never haven driven anything this size before and he is shout shout shouting at me whilst I’m massively trying to concentrate on the road and what’s around me. Do you people think this is normal and the correct way to teach someone? He’s really putting me under serious pressure and it’s completely put me off doing it, to the point I’m thinking about not going back.
Personally I think when on the road I’m actually going an alright job given I’ve only been doing it 2 days. Definitely have a lot of practising with the reversing but I’m sure that will come (maybe with a different instructor)
Any...

I’m struggling with reversing onto bays at night, when looking in the mirrors everything is just a glare.
What’s everyone’s advise for getting onto bays, usually between other trailers?
I’m real green and having had a few days with another driver beside me whilst I do it, I’m out on my own Monday.

What is the attraction of a paper map vs a Sat nav. I bought a truckers Atlas a year ago and have not used it once. How are you meant to find a specific address, other than having an A to Z of every town in the country...which would be expensive, heavy and impractical, also you would need to keep purchasing new ones to stay updated. I do multidrop at the moment and it takes a minute to put a postcode in my truck sat nav, and the specific business address in Google maps. Doing this with an Atlas and an A to Z would take an age, plus I'd need to keep referring to it if the directions weren't straightforward.
Example Hillridge Road, Wigan WN5 0LS... got there no problem with a Sat Nav, this is what the Atlas has to offer...

What are your thoughts on this.
We as lorry driver's so called professional driver's have issues with car/van driver's not knowing how to join a motorway properly at proper speeds. So, earlier I was driving on the M6, a lorry was on the adjoining lane so I moved over to the second lane on cruise at 55mph, assuming that he/she would allow me to move back over and then if he/she wanted to overtake they can at their leisure. However, he/she was sat there half way down my trailer so I wondered how long this will go on 🤔 it went on for 18 miles until 4 lanes turned into 3. Even though he/she indicated to turn right I refused to move meaning they had to slow down and move in behind me. The rest is history. My point is we're quick to blame car/van drivers making our jobs hard, yet we (truckers) are our own worst enemy.

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A mate of mine lives in Northern Ireland and was recently offered a job doing UK work. The firm wanted him to ship out of Belfast early Sunday morning as a foot passenger. Collect the truck from Birkenhead docks where it’s to be parked each week. Run out Sunday afternoon/evening, tramp all week then return to Birkenhead docks Friday afternoon. They then wanted him to park up the unit, ship back to Belfast as a foot passenger and start the whole process again on the Sunday. By the time he’d shipped in and out he’d be lucky to have 24 hours at home each week. He didn’t take the job and I don’t blame him but I was wondering if it’s even legal?

So i work for a company, I'm on their books, I'm zero hour contract, I work average three days most weeks, I can say no, but also so can they. The regular drivers are now getting a big payrise. They had an email informing them of said payrise. We on the other hand did not get the email and it seems, aren't getting the payrise. It seems being permanent staff is totally different to being part time. I've told them if they think I'm working for 10 quid an hour when most of the others are getting 14 they are off their rocker. Thoughts?
It seems now that they have added a clause, 14.50 paid only on the days you actually work, holidays paid at old rate of 10.72?

Hi everyone, I had a full tank a diesel stolen last night whilst parked on the A14 near Huntingdon. Does anyone here know if the dash on a 21 DAF xf has any settings that shows the exact amount of fuel left in the tank? Shell garage is 5 miles away but I'm not happy to risk it running dry on the way. Tia

Going to London tomorrow in my Rigid 18t 33ft and tbh I’m not Looking forward to it. Got a delivery near Canary Wharf and from what I’ve seen it’s not great inside London never mind for someone not long passed. Also it will be my first night out in the Truck and I’m wondering if anyone has suggestions on where to stop the night that’s safe as possible please? Also what’s the best sort of time to go looking for a truck stop for the night.
Tia

Good morning everyone, I passed my class 1 last week, yippee and today I was out and about in one with someone experienced with me. All good driving but the problems occurred when reversing between trailers, onto a loading bay and into yards, really struggled and to be honest felt embarrassed and disappointed, is there any tips or advice out there or is just a case of practice and more practice.

Defected this tyre but tyre fitter passed it as legal, it’s on front driver side of tractor unit.
So it’s completely bald apart from 3 grooves recut into it.
Is it legal?? Obv being over 1mm groove depth but no actual tread. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Serious question time, if a truck hits a bridge would it be reasonable to expect the insurance company to foot the bill?
I’m thinking not as it’s totally avoidable.
Anyone unfortunate enough to have had this experience.
Thanks all

Anybody run with these regularly, one of our drivers got pulled with just internals on apparently and was told have to be ratchet straps, made him do them on the road!! They are a complete pain but not so bad if you can be on the back while loading.
Anyway this place today, not allowed out the cab driver while loading, health and safety!!
How am I to strap these then Mr forkie??
Oh all the other drivers just use internals.
Over an hour to get them straps on!
Anybody been stopped with them and what did the gentlemen say??
Just wondering if I am being fed rubbish as I see all the others going in to the place we tip with just internals.

I drive an actros with mirror cameras. Yesterday one camera stopped working so I could not see down my nearside. Is there a camera which I could put outside to connect to my smartphone to keep me mobile. Thanks

Can anyone help please I had a start driving for tarmac yesterday. And a company that contracts to them told them not to take me on as I worked for them. Apparently they dint like their old drivers going to work for tarmac. Bit of a jealousy thing going on. Could I take this further as they have really stopped me from working. So now no job no money

I have had a form come down from work that needs to be signed regarding recording of drivers hours. However I’m pretty sure it’s incorrect. It states that changes in legislation now state that all activity needs to be recorded outside of normal working hours, I.e. breaks other work etc. I know this part is correct but it states that this must be recorded on the reverse of a tacho roll.
“A driver finishes on Friday and returns to work on Monday, he or she will need to make a record of Saturday - rest day and also Sunday - rest day, on two separate pieces of printout rolls”
As far as I’m aware, recording this on the card is more than adequate. I believe some tacho machines default to “?” When inserting the card, and just hitting “ok” is no longer acceptable as a manual entry has to be done to record all activity. My transport manager is stating that recording on a card isn’t acceptable and printouts must be done for all rest days and holidays.

Forgetting the higher rates offered by agencies what’s the average hourly rate for class 1 and class 2 full time permanent jobs please?
I’m talking normal home every night (days evenings) not tramping
E.g. Delivery driver for a supermarket. Something like that
I’m asking as all the jobs I ever see advertised are agency rates.

Just a tacho question?
The scenario is -
Work starts at 6:30 I arrive at 6:20 and discuss run with manager before putting tacho card in at 6:30.
Finish the day at 16:00 and take card out. Discuss the day with management and leave at 16:15.
Is it a LEGAL requirement to do a manual entry the next day to cover the 15 minutes at the end of the day and the 10 minutes at the start of the day??
Or is it just ‘good practice’ to do the manual entry?
Never drive more than 4.5 hours and working day is 9hours.
I will wait for the p**s take answers.
All these hours for £40 a week!!

Hi lads/ladies my first time out in an artic tomorrow night haven't driven or been near one since I passed in December slightly nervous but just gotta get on with it I guess any tips for a newbe much appreciated although I have 8 years experience on class 2

Hello, Is it a infringement if you put it on break bang on 4.30 of driving hours? Cheers

Hi, is there anyway we can all just park our trucks up on Monday and refuse to move until the government abolishes CPC? Got a 7 hour day today looking at a screen and I can’t bloody stand it.

Good morning everyone!
My planer today forced me to drive a unit that had door lock issues. More precisely, I couldn't look it. I refused, but they want to investigate me now. Was I right to refuse to take that unit out? Thank you for any advice

Afternoon, well seems near enough impossible get a job on half decent money starting to wish I’d not bothered.

Hello, I'm looking to find somewhere that would fund training and test near Birmingham if anyone can recommend a company I'd be grateful.

I read yesterday that to speed the issue with hgv drivers up you can now go from a car to a hgv mmm? now they have said to speed things up even faster they are taking away the reversing manoeuvre, Watch out if your parked on a bay or in a truck stop, your in bed and BANG oh sorry drive only passed my test 1 week ago DANGEROUS

So one of my managers pulls me in today.
Here sign this ...
I takes a look.
(Written warning) cos over the past 6 months I've left the yard too early by minutes.
Each time...
Can an employer go back over months and years and find company issues like this.
Then add them all together and give you a written warning.
Any ideas.
New one on me.
??

So if i put my card in at 6am and have a 15 minute break at 10am how long does this extend my working time for? leaving driving time out of the question.

Hi all. Hope you can help. I have a job interview and driving assessment on Monday. My concern is my current company download our Tacho at the end of each shift and I don't want them to know that I had an assessment with another company. I know there is no way around this but if I don't get the job and my current company says something about me driving another vehicle I assume there is nothing wrong with me doing a driving assessment with a different company.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi guys and girls.. looking for a bit of advice If I can, I've very recently passed my class 1, funded by a company and job at the end of it.. the issue is, when I spoke to them. Told them I had kids etc. and can't work weekends, so they said I can do Monday to Friday day shift.. brilliant.. although now they've put me on Monday to Friday 3pm starts. Which means I won't be getting home till around 6am at the earliest, the following morning, therefore not being able to see My kids, and not being able to pick my daughter up on a Friday either.. which they knew of, I've not signed a contract or anything along them lines which I also find a tad strange, so what are my options? Am I likely to walk away without owing them anything or can I make them change my shifts in line with what they offered me?
Any help would be fantastic

Random question.
If your contract states you are guaranteed 48 hours a week, working 5 out of 7 days, can the company force you to do your 48 hours over 4 out of 7 days?
Just to clarify. My contract states 5 out of 7 days. Can they force me to do 4 out of 7 without consultation? I don't mind the hours and normally do a good bit of overtime. Just wondering cause they did it to me a few weeks back.

Any new passes managed to get a 'decent' full time permanent HGV job in 2023 yet?
I passed in November and by end of Jan I stopped applying for jobs as I got bored of applying and hearing nothing or being told I need 1 and 2 years experience, so just went back to doing my old job.
I did a bit of work with agency but it was sporadic and they only gave me the shift day before
I'm going to leave it for 6 to 12 months and just do the odd agency shift to gain some experience
People pre warned me it was pap before I took my test but I didn't think it was going to be this pap 😂
What I learnt from this debacle is that agencies are lying cut throat c#nt5
Take the p155 all you want 😂😛

Hi Folks
Quick question, I have an IN10 ( driving without insurance ) And in September I have my practical class 1 lessons, will this IN10 cause me problems in obtaining a job? Cheers

If one of you turned up at your delivery address, bang on time, and they told you to park on double yellow lines on the road outside, walk to the Gatehouse to book in, then wait to be called in, would you?
Even if there's room to pull into the gateway off the road next to the Gatehouse while you book in..

Afternoon all, What are all the LTD drivers charging a day? Tia.

If I start work at 6 am. Max out my 10 driving hours and go on rest at 7pm. Reduce rest to 9 hours. Can I drive again before 6.am or does it reset as soon as my rest finishes. I'm wondering because id have driven more than 10 hours in 24 hours. Sorry if silly question I've just started nights out.

Some advice please. I've been working at my current place since February and recently they've taken a new job on. Basically all I do now is drive back an forth between 2 places, 16 miles down an A road. I do that 4 times a night. Now it's a piece of cake but it's so mind numbingly boring and I only actually drive for about 3 hours in an 11 hour shift. I'm not getting any other work since this new job started and it looks like it's going to stay that way for quite some time. I get payed OK but I'm seriously tempted to go back to my previous employer (slightly less money) just so I can actually start driving properly again. Now am I just being a flannels and should I just get on with my job? Would you be happy doing this sort of work? Any advice is welcome and I'm a big boy so I can take criticism.

Hello everyone, my question is on Working Time Directive. And to get to the point how much of a break do you need if your working 8 hrs. Without off course hitting the 4.5 hrs off driving time.
As I do multi drop on 7,5.
0-6 =15 mins break
6-9= 15 mins break
Do need to take that other 15 mins break if all you done was 8 wtd or can you park the wagon and go home after haven taken only 15 mins break in 8 hrs

Ok highly professional well educated lorry truck bus van stuff driver operators I have a question for you all. Does any of drivers out there record any of there journeys on a go pro or dash cam to look back on of the footage at some point. I want to record the dartfort experience and some other areas but don’t know what equipment to buy

Is it normal for your tachograph to flash overspeed at any speed above 56mph? I can sit at 57-60mph (downhill) for around 20 seconds but any longer and I get an overspeed warning. Anyone know if it’s a calibration issue or is this normal behavior? I don’t worry if I’m not doing over 60mph but I’m not sure if I should. Everyone else seems to hold 60mph downhill.

The mind boggles? some drivers sound as though they enjoy working & driving for 15 hours per day. Having no family life or even life in general. Tired all weekend from hours worked during the week. A normal job is 8 hours per day. Driving hgv vehicles is dangerous and should be made to be done so in a safe manner. How many drivers have been behind a hgv driving and you just know the driver in front is falling asleep behind the wheel. Simply because he is all over the road as he is being made to work extremely long hours. How is it even possible you are legally allowed to drive 9 hours but you can legally work and drive 15 hours in total. I reckon there is some loophole somewhere being totally exploited from companies and transport management jockeys. That don't have a clue about driving, the law simply should be work and drive 8 hours per day then we will see the hourly rate go up as companies won't be able to get away with paying low rates. To force drivers to do overtime yes I said...

Got talking to a fellow driver the other day he said he was LTD and he told me how much he earns, much more than me. I didn’t get the chance to find out any more details so was wondering if any of you guys could tell me the pros and cons and maybe a good accountant I could use or if there are any FB groups for this (I couldn’t find any tho) TIA
(Just a LTD driver not an owner driver would work for agencies)

I’m pretty clued up on tacho rules but keep hearing various opinions on reduced weekly rest. My opinion is a reduced weekly rest must be followed by a 45 and the the owed hours paid back by end of 3rd week. Today I was told. No. You can do 2 reduced weekend rests back to back and pay it all back on 3rd week rest, Am I wrong???

Hi, Just a heads up, TomTom Go on Android has been reduced to £69.99 from £99.99 for a 1 year HGV subscription on Android, not sure if iOS is the same? Worth it for anybody who doesn't own a dedicated Sat Nav.
There is Road Lords for free but the routing is far better on TomTom imo.

Hi, Recently had Hgv medical but got revoked due to high blood pressure.
Letter from DVLA requests 3 separate blood pressure readings then they will review and decide if I get my heavy goods back. I'm on medication for it but will this go against me plus next birthday I'm 60.
Has anyone had a similar situation, did the licence get reinstated.
I've been driving over 35 years so a bit worried now.

Hi all. I’m having my first solo day on Monday after completing my training period. I’m confident in my driving but a little apprehensive about the last 5 minutes of each delivery. I’ll be delivering to RDCs so postcodes generally give you a rough location only. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks

Seeing posts about work drying up etc.. think this is just the start of it.
The guy who tips me at one of our cash n carries told me this morning that a few of the businesses they supply have gone bust already. Can’t afford the bills and their customers can’t afford to be eating/drinking out with the cost of living so they’ve got no money coming in anyway.
I wouldn’t be thinking about changing jobs just now and I’m certainly glad I’m not relying on an agency to get me work.

Question, If you drive for a company and they haven't insured the vehicle but you are unaware, if stopped will you get the standard 6 points or does the company?

Is there any chance of making videos or tutorial about basic hgv class 1 reversing by those who already have sort of a driving channel going on YouTube. There are plenty of videos on YouTube about reversing the exam reversing manouver as well as those where a driver is reversing on the loading bay. There is a video by a female driver called Haley about basic reversing for newbies. It is a very good instructional video and must be watched by newly qualified drivers.
When Haley made this video she had not been driving class 1 for long. However it is a brilliant effort in terms of explaining the reversing of class 1. The purpose of this post is to encourage others who could make the same sort of reversing videos for newly qualified drivers. Sadly I saw her video after failing the assessment lol.

Hi, have any of you done a Driving assessment with a company, passed my test time ago but this agency wants me to do a driving assessment with my local school, so do they treat it like a lesson or more of a mock test? bit of a waste of time and money in my opinion, but it is what it is

Only my second night out last night and I made a mistake with the tacho. I have a reasonably good amount of knowledge regarding the rules around driving and rest time etc.. However I never thought about making sure I get 9 hours off as it’s not something I generally need to worry about. This morning I put my card in with only 8 hours 54 minutes since I took it out. I realized before I started driving and did two printouts, explaining the mistake. There is well over 9 hours between when I finished driving last night, and with I started driving this morning, it’s the working time at the end of yesterday which is the problem. Obviously the tacho is going crazy today with going over 10 hours of driving and not having 9 hours off. Aside from the printouts, is there anything I need to do to cover myself? Silly mistake, lesson learned!

Day 2 of my Class 1 HGV training bootcamp today. Feeling deflated. I Originally was told test is Friday but trainer said no yours is Thursday!
I did 45 mins of road driving today (as I’m sharing with another chap) that wasn’t too bad but only got 4 attempts at reversing yesterday which as you can imagine didn’t go smoothly.
I’ve done coupling and uncoupling yesterday and today but I’m feeling well out of my depth and the pressure of the test already is playing on my mind.
I think 4/5 days for car to class 1 is a big ask. I’ve been driving for 20+ years and drive 3.5T vans (doesn’t help at all) some of the lads are already class 2 drivers and they are finding it hard but they seem to grasp it which makes sense.
Has anyone else done the bootcamp? Would be nice to hear your experiences.

Hello,
I've been a class 1 driver for a couple of months and like most new drivers have struggled to get to grips with reversing. I have definitely noticed improvement over the last couple of months but sometimes when reversing into a bay at a distribution centre I c**k it up from the start.
Do you have any tips please?
I was told to start steering away from bays when trailer is half way past my allocated bay. Does that sound right?

Question for those drivers who regularly travel up and down the A9 (Scotland)
Average speed cameras literally along the entire length of the A9 and signs saying 50mph trail period for Hgv's
So there's me with cruise control set at 50mph behaving myself and enjoying the scenery. Yet I'm being passed all day by fellow Hgv drivers, so is there some unspoken rule or a memo I've missed about the A9 🤔