Met a TNT Driver with a 7.5 Tone Truck today at the services on M5. He was complaining to me that all his continuous driving time was taken up by deliveries. He’d spent 3 periods of 10 Minuets each, and 4 periods of 5 minutes each, loading and unloading parcels, and he said it had all counted towards his 4 ½ Driving.He even had a 13 reg lorry with the latest generation of Digital Tacho I got him to do a Print Out and tried explaining to him that his Deliveries counted as Other Work and did not count towards his 4 ½ Hours Driving. He just couldn’t seem to’ grasp this ’ Just makes me wonder how many other Drivers are out there who believe this
This seems to be a fairly common misconception amongst people who are training to become lorry drivers, but by the time someone has got a job driving he/she should know better really.
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This seems to be a fairly common misconception amongst people who are training to become lorry drivers, but by the time someone has got a job driving he/she should know better really.
Cant believe that a big company like TNT didn’t make him aware of this, especially as his job involves multi drops, some of which may take a few seconds OK this is Driving, however where a drop may take 5 to 10 minutes, he really should understand this, as it can make a big difference
He’s really making it hard for himself by the sound of it. He’s got the new generation tacho so is probably not doing nowhere near as much driving as he thinks.
Im not that surprised, ex neighbour worked for them on a 7.5 tonne analogue and he had no idea about drivers regs. He didn’t hand ANY charts in for the 4 months he was there until he asked me about some dos and donts.
Not once in all that time did Tnt ever ask for the missing charts, he handed in the ones i told him to and they just shrugged.
There should be an ‘accumulated driving time’ section on the print out (circle with dot IIRR).
The tacho (depending on which one is fitted) should display accumulated driving time on the screen. (Siemens ones do).
Sometimes though, people just wont listen.