Tacho laws & rest periods.

kevin0410

WasntMe wrote: »

Oh & as for pull my card - aren't you not supposed to pull your card when it's recording a break?

No. Why would you pull your card when the break needs to be recorded on it?

Are you saying that you pull your card whenever you take a break? Is so hope VOSA don't catch up with you!

Paradigm

WasntMe wrote: »

Was the transport manager correct (saying to write on the rear of the tacho)

Yes he was. Something along the lines of "break taken from x oclock to y oclock. Vehicle moved by (name) at z oclock" is good enough.

If you want more, ask the transport manager to give you a letter on company paper stating the facts.

WasntMe_2

kevin0410 wrote: »

No. Why would you pull your card when the break needs to be recorded on it?

Are you saying that you pull your card whenever you take a break? Is so hope VOSA don't catch up with you!

I'm guessing you haven't read a few posts back??

I was responding to this:

skivenov wrote: »

Pull your card out, and tell him to move it on his?

kevin0410

WasntMe wrote: »

I'm guessing you haven't read a few posts back??

I was responding to this:

Sorry, my bad. I misread the 'aren't you not supposed to pull your card' bit.

you can pull your card while recording break but you will need to add the remainder of the break in a manual entry the next time the card is inserted.

forgotmyname

I dont need a DCPC to renew my licence though do it.

Currently not driving HGV's. I was told i can renew it and drive for personal use. But cannot work until one is completed.

Right or wrong?

gilbert_and_sullivan

forgotmyname wrote: »

I dont need a DCPC to renew my licence though do it.

Currently not driving HGV's. I was told i can renew it and drive for personal use. But cannot work until one is completed.

Right or wrong?

Yes quite right, you can renew, but this question might be better posted on somewhere like Trucknet where one of the resident driving instructors will know whats likely to change or the requirement for regular driving, if any.

From that forum i'm a member of there i read there is a new hurdle being added by the usual driving agencies (probably insurance driven) where they want you to have been a regular driver within the last 2 years.

Yes we know that agencies are generally parasites, but for many and unless you have contacts, full time jobs are extremely thin on the ground, so if you needed to drive again for work that could be a stumbling block and you couldn't anyway after Sept 2014 unless you've completed DCPC.

There's many who think this implementation date will get postponed, there are many older drivers who are not going to bother with it anyway, to them this is the final straw and they are hanging up their driving gloves...or so they say, the realities of a minimum wage job on a factory gate might prove to be not as attractive as imagined.

Blowed if i know which way it will go, one thing i'm certain of is that those in charge won't allow there to be another shortage of drivers, and any shortage leading to better T's and C's for drivers will see an increasing number of foreign drivers and even more foreign lorries on our roads...cabotage restrictions are soon to end if they haven't already just to fan the flames.

Sorry i've waffled on too much over this, but as usual those in charge have made yet another pigs breakfast of the requirements, effectively chucking lots of experienced babies out with the bathwater, no change there then.

forgotmyname

Shortage of jobs.. I would have thought nah, I was told always plenty of jobs for drivers.

But i went down to my old firm a little while back, 27 drivers has now dwindled down to 3.
Firm got bought out twice. The longer distance routes were handed out to other depots, Until they now only do less than 50 miles from the depot.

3 drivers left.. When i joined them i was told as long as i wanted the job it was a job for life.

How things change eh.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Sounds like you've been out of it for a while, you might not like what you find if you went back on it, especially if you had to deliver to supermarket RDC's who treat visiting drivers like cattle but with less facilities, hand your lorry keys in and then herded into a filthy waiting room with a few scattered chairs, (not allowed to go to your own lorry) a semi functioning tea machine that spews out filth you could add to the sump of the lorry and sit there for anything up to 4 hours before they grunt at you that you are free to go and hand your paperwork and keys back with barely an acknowledgement, ignorance on an industral scale at some.

Luckily i have a very good job, tankers now, and hope and pray it sees me out, i could not do the above which is the daily grind for far too many drivers now.

forgotmyname

We used to deliver to local B&Q's, Usually in a 7.5ton lorry.

Because it was a local run and loaded at night there was no way of knowing what time you would get there. Many times i got there they said are you booked in. I said no, They said you have to book in, The day before.

I said how can i book in before you ordered it? Many times i just took them back. Then they scream for the stuff because they promised a customer it would be there tomorrow.
Started calling them and sneaking in through the front door.

I bet they soon stopped that though. H&S issues.

It was usually small items, Door handles, Roll of kitchen laminate etc.

Its been a while now yep. 6 years.. Doesnt time fly.

I dont even have a digital tacho card.