can my boss plan me for 15 hour spread when he wants to ■■?
wrcmark:
can my boss plan me for 15 hour spread when he wants to ■■?
yes.
firstly welcome to trucknet wrcmark
simple answer is yes,if its legal for you to work it so he can plan it 
yes, unless you have some clause in your contract re overtime etc that would give you an “out”.
But it’s very doubtful that you will have.
Depends on your terms and conditions, it wouldn’t happen where i work, that’s not saying a planned 12 hour day couldn’t end up at 15 hours, problems crop up.
Do you have a union rep to ask.
If you feel that you would prefer a max 13hr day for genuine reasons of say driver fatigue, I would imagine he would not insist on it, if he does and you feel strongly against it get him to put it in writing, or txt you, I doubt if he will still insist on these terms for obvious reasons.
robroy:
If you feel that you would prefer a max 13hr day for genuine reasons of say driver fatigue, I would imagine he would not insist on it, if he does and you feel strongly against it get him to put it in writing, or txt you, I doubt if he will still insist on these terms for obvious reasons.
i would like to try that too often, you might find yourself looking for a new job 
wrcmark:
can my boss plan me for 15 hour spread when he wants to ■■?
In a word: Yes.
This has been done many times before on here and what it boils down to is that if it’s legal, your boss can plan it for you. Your only “get out” is that if for some reason you feel you would not have adequate rest and therefore road safety would be compromised, however if you did this very often I would think you would find yourself being shown the door.
Paul
wrcmark:
can my boss plan me for 15 hour spread when he wants to ■■?
is there some problem with you working a 15 hour day?
or was your question just out of curiosity?
limeyphil:
wrcmark:
can my boss plan me for 15 hour spread when he wants to ■■?is there some problem with you working a 15 hour day?
or was your question just out of curiosity?
Happydaze:
limeyphil:
wrcmark:
can my boss plan me for 15 hour spread when he wants to ■■?is there some problem with you working a 15 hour day?
or was your question just out of curiosity?
as it happens. now i know it’s unusual. but it was a serious question.
not a problem if your geared up for a night out
but i think its sheer stupidity planning such a long day
Our contract doesnt exactly state a 15 hr day, but it does state working as and when required, so the simple answer is YES, providing everything is in place.
They can however only allow that 3 times a week, and many times come unstuck when told you have to finish at a certain time, cos as we know, planners are thick.
wildfire:
robroy:
If you feel that you would prefer a max 13hr day for genuine reasons of say driver fatigue, I would imagine he would not insist on it, if he does and you feel strongly against it get him to put it in writing, or txt you, I doubt if he will still insist on these terms for obvious reasons.i would like to try that too often, you might find yourself looking for a new job
It wasn’t in the context of trying it too often though was it 
, I quite clearly stated that if it was for a GENUINE REASON of driver fatigue, if I had said “try this quite often” then you would have made a fair point.
Also depends if you are paid salary or by the hour as you can not be forced to do overtime.
Again i wouldn’t recomend trying to pull it to often one of my old jobs it was regular to be on your 3rd 15 hr day of the week on wednesday
as you can not be forced to do overtime
as has been said many, many times…it depends on your contract.
Most contracts will have a clause along the lines of
“overtime will need to be worked to fulfill operational/business/customer requiremnets”
taffytrucker:
Also depends if you are paid salary or by the hour as you can not be forced to do overtime.
Again i wouldn’t recomend trying to pull it to often one of my old jobs it was regular to be on your 3rd 15 hr day of the week on wednesday
Which makes a mockery of progress when 30 years ago we were limited to a 12.5 hour working day.
When you stand back and look its ridiculous that 15 hour days should be considered as normal.
I consider it a perk of my job that I get 15hr shifts in every week.
i find it a pain sometimes that we are only allowed to work 15 hours a day.
it would be much easier to work longer days, and have more time off instead.
and before you get excited, wouldn’t a maximum working week be better?
maximum 70 hours duty per 7 days, this could include breaks, and other work.
you could earn a weeks wage in 4 days.
The reason many truck drivers are still on poor money is that too many still live in 1963, where working blokes needed to put in 70 hour weeks to earn a normal liveable wage without handouts, whilst this scandalous self abuse goes on we’ll forever have people doing 70 hour weeks for an unimpressive wage.
The WTD averages us out at 48hr average working week, we should all be working towards salaried jobs that average out at that figure at the very highest, its not a target its a limit.
Whilst people still think in 70 hour weeks, fiddling POA to attain the heady heights of a mediocre wage and still including their subsistence allowance in their nett pay we’ll never make any progress.
Get yourselves sorted lads, down the 70 hour week route lies complete debilitating exhaustion, divorce loneliness and an early grave.
I used to have to do hours like that to provide, we all did, its not till you get off that treadmill and learn to live again that you realise just what those hours do to you, if i was still doing it i’d probably be pushing up daisies or in a home for the bewildered by know.
We are not part of the machine.