Lorrys are parking right outside my front window

Kilty_2

Rossy. wrote: »

Also have you ever watched Kilty trying to reverse park his Laguna? (forward back, left hand down, forward again, right hand down, crunch 1st looking for reverse, back again, forwards, all the way back out again etc etc) - Absolutley hilarious

:D

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

he 9/10 times goes in first time

Can't argue with that though :rotfl:

Rossy.

Kilty wrote: »

:D

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:



Can't argue with that though :rotfl:

LOL!!

I'm not even going to look too far into that comment

Flyboy152

Hammyman wrote: »

However many lorry drivers take their break whilst getting loaded or unloaded.

And I bet you don't spend up to 5 nights a week away from home living in a 8x6 box with little access to washing, toilets and hot food.

LOL, I lived like that for over three years when I was a student.

Flyboy152

Rossy. wrote: »

How many HGV drivers crash compared to car drivers?

There is a good reason for that, but i'm sure anyone with a brain could work it out

That picture was to represent what happenes when a lorry driver operates his unit whilst tired. Not to demonstrate what most lorry drivers do.

I don't suppose you have the data available do you, to compare the amount of lorry collisions per driver and that of cars per driver? Nonetheless, I am pretty sure most lorry drivers are of the responsible type and don't drive whilst tired, by exceeding their working time regulations.

optimus_primera

If its anything my current job, Tool/plant hire,nationwide company,so not a haulage company doing trunking routes etc, (not for much longer, redundancy for me) then i doubt you could get the same answer about driving regs ... everyone seems to have different answers ...... mostly management who change thier answers to suit .......


Before christmas all the upper management had a meeting/training session with a Vosa rep explaining what you could and could not ask your drivers to do ........ on the way home a Director got a call about a delivery someone had not processed on time. .... basically he ended telling the relevant depot just get it done or else,other persons in the car he was in reminded him about what the Vosa chappie said, his answer was ... 'not my problem,it aint my licence,don't care' ..........

So a driver worked over his hours to do it.

I don't have any sympathy for the driver, he should have told em to ram it.
I hear this day in, day out, where i work, but i tell, its your own fault, you are well within your rights to tell em to stick it ..... but they never do.

Flyboy152

optimus_primera wrote: »

If its anything my current job, Tool/plant hire,nationwide company,so not a haulage company doing trunking routes etc, (not for much longer, redundancy for me) then i doubt you could get the same answer about driving regs ... everyone seems to have different answers ...... mostly management who change thier answers to suit .......


Before christmas all the upper management had a meeting/training session with a Vosa rep explaining what you could and could not ask your drivers to do ........ on the way home a Director got a call about a delivery someone had not processed on time. .... basically he ended telling the relevant depot just get it done or else,other persons in the car he was in reminded him about what the Vosa chappie said, his answer was ... 'not my problem,it aint my licence,don't care' ..........

So a driver worked over his hours to do it.

I don't have any sympathy for the driver, he should have told em to ram it.
I hear this day in, day out, where i work, but i tell, its your own fault, you are well within your rights to tell em to stick it ..... but they never do.

Unfortunately, the directors also have the power to tell the driver to stick it as well.

Gandalfthesecond

Rossy. wrote: »

Also have you ever watched a car driver trying to reverse park a caravan or trailer? (forward back, left hand down, forward again, right hand down, crunch 1st looking for reverse, back again, forwards, all the way back out again etc etc) - Absolutley hilarious

Some spod with a caravan isn't your average car driver.

Hammyman

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Unfortunately, the directors also have the power to tell the driver to stick it as well.

Actually they don't if they give the driver the boot for not doing something illegal. A HGV driver is actually supposed to report employers for requesting they do something illegal. A traffic commissioner can order a hearing where the company bosses would have to explain themselves and it can result in a reduction in the number of vehicles they can run or revocation of their operating licence - either of which will cost the company bucketloads.

Hammyman

Gandalfthesecond wrote: »

86 hour week and all of it spent sat on their arris, what an easy life.

Somehow I doubt you'd find humping 100 cwt sheets up 14ft and sheeting down on a windy quayside in pouring rain an easy life nor pulling 2 tonne pallets out of the back of a lorry with a manual pallet truck.

Hammyman

mikey72 wrote: »

Probably you did, it explains a lot.
Most others slept in their cabs though.

Do you think European cabs are like the ones in American trucks? If so, you need to get your eyes tested.