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Lorrys are parking right outside my front window
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Why don't you leave a polite note for the driver and see if you can speak to him? you never know you might be able to sort this out amongst yourselves. I know I would be alot more amicable to someone who came to speak to me as appose to someone who reported me.
Just a thought0 -
Why don't you leave a polite note for the driver and see if you can speak to him? you never know you might be able to sort this out amongst yourselves. I know I would be alot more amicable to someone who came to speak to me as appose to someone who reported me.
Just a thought
That might work, but only if the driver is a good deal less agressive/defensive than the drivers who post on here.0 -
mrbadexample wrote: »Article 6, EC regulation 561/2006:
1. The daily driving time shall not exceed nine hours.
However, the daily driving time may be extended to at most
10 hours not more than twice during the week.
Glad you agree at last, I said that back in post #129
Maybe you'll leave it now?Nothing?
No link to the maximum driving day of 9 hours, raised to 10 hours maximum twice a week only? Or no more than 90 hours in a fortnight?0 -
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He's talking out of his backside and grasping at straws. He's probably referring to the lorry bans there are in many mainland EU countries on a weekend. However the muppet forgets that most businesses in the UK close on a weekend so there'd be nobody to unload them and the EU drivers have to have the same weekly rest periods as British ones.
So I'm talking out of my backside yet you agree there are bans in EU countries? Am I the only person ever to see a foreign lorry on our roads at the weekend or does that make me a muppet too? I think you have spent too much time in your own or paid for company whilst on the road, the was no need for you to be so rude.0 -
I'll still wait for his link to anything that states you can work for 15 hours a day.
They must have been working 18 hours a day in post #125
http://www.roadtransport.com/RoadLegal/11936/eu-drivers-hours-law-explained.html
"A driver must take 11 hours' daily rest in 24 hours which can be reduced to nine hours three times a week. Again the week commences at 00:00 Monday."
Guess what 24 - 9 is?0 -
Must be a good job, a driver who doesn't drive for 1/3 rd of his working day. Even MP's work more than that.
But I give up.
So no rest breaks, no lunch, you just keep going for 15 hours non-stop then.
Or do all truck drivers get all paid breaks, unlike the rest of the working world, that maybe get an hour unpaid for lunch?
It's a good life if you do.
(still only 9 hours driving by the way not 10)
The load doesn't magic itself on to the wagon. The load doesn't magically secure itself - it could easily take 2hrs to load 10 packs of timber onto a flatbed trailer, strap it down and put the sheets on. Just sheeting it down could take a hour if it was windy. The load doesn't magically unload itself either - at one Tesco RDC, it took so long to unload a wagon that we nicknamed the place the Bermuda Triangle and 4hrs to get unloaded was commonplace. One load I used to do, 20 tonnes of condensed skimmed milk to Cadburys at Keynsham, took 2hrs to unload. The fuel doesn't magic itself into the truck - it can take 15 minutes just to fuel up a truck - a typical fill up being around 350-400 litres but I've driven wagons with 2x400 litre tanks. It takes 15 minutes at the beginning of the day just to do walk round checks. Including getting the paperwork for the load, doing the start of shift paperwork, there can easily be a minimum of 30 minutes before you've even started the engine. You can be stood at a goods in window to hand in your paperwork for 15 minutes being ignored by !!!!!! like you.0 -
Glad you agree at last, I said that back in post #129
Maybe you'll leave it now?
No because you're still wrong because you think driving hours = maximum working hours. I'd explain the full regs to you but I think your brain would explode.
Read this if you're capable of understanding it and working out the hours...
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/drs/drivingforwork/drivershoursandtachographrules/drivershourtachographrules.pdf0 -
Gandalfthesecond wrote: »So I'm talking out of my backside yet you agree there are bans in EU countries? Am I the only person ever to see a foreign lorry on our roads at the weekend or does that make me a muppet too? I think you have spent too much time in your own or paid for company whilst on the road, the was no need for you to be so rude.
Gee, I wonder how they could have ended up in this country on a weekend.....
Try this for a scenario: Driver from EU delivers in the north on Friday, drives down on Saturday or Sunday to the ferry and parks up until they can get on a ferry/Eurotunnel back at a time the weekend ban is lifted, thus giving them a full 9 or 10hr day driving once the wheels hit France.0 -
Glad you agree at last, I said that back in post #129
Maybe you'll leave it now?
Well, I'm glad that you finally agree with me.
You've failed to read my posts properly. They are all accurate. Yours, on the other hand, have been both confusing and contradictory:A driver may reduce his daily rest period to no less than 9 continuous hours, but this can be done no more than three times between any two weekly rest periods, otherwise it's an 11 hour break.Or the other one that states you must take 11 hours rest, not 9 as you state?No link to the maximum driving day of 9 hours, raised to 10 hours maximum twice a week only?(still only 9 hours driving by the way not 10)
So, in short, a driver can drive for 10 hours, be at work for 15 hours, and take 9 hours daily rest. Just not every day.
:whistle:If you lend someone a tenner and never see them again, it was probably worth it.0
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