If I need to stop, I’ll stop. It’s not up for discussion.
DrivingMissDaisy:
If I need to stop, I’ll stop. It’s not up for discussion.
This^^
What if the next run was pushing 4.5 hours and two hours in you need a number 2? I assume all you forelock tuggers would ■■■■ yourselves for the good of companies like this would you?
These companies have no right to stop you visiting the toilet or stopping for a rest if you require it.
Personally, if I needed to stop I would. I would just ring them to say why and where. If that is a problem then tough ■■■■ matey.
Maybe Interlink Idiot needed a 10-100 when he went round that island the wrong way, they’re not allowed to stop en route either 
tachograph:
happysack:
Do any of you moaners ever drive 4 1/2 hours without a stop?Yes I’ve done it loads of times but not because I’ve been told to by a company that treats drivers like gutter trash.
I’ve only been to Amazon Swansea so I don’t know what the other depots are like, and to be fair I haven’t been there for over a year, but unless things have changed, collecting loaded trailers from Amazon Swansea you’re expected to wait in a cold draughty room with not so much as a coffee machine, why the [zb] should anyone care about companies that treat you like they do
They haven’t. I was in there last week. Took me 4 hours to get there cos the A449 was closed and the queue was miles up the M50. Managed it fine without a stop although I did take a leek in those trees down Amazon Ffordd. We have to have our break before we go in as they don’t like you stopping with the load and there’s bugger all facilities for drivers in there.
my company once asked me to sign a letter to confirm that I would not stop on route between depot and hub and vice versa for a ciggy or toilet break… The run was 4.25 hours each way , right on the legal limit.I told them that before I would sign it could they point out two things to me
1 ) Who in the offices was not allowed to use the toilet for a period of more than 4 hours
2 ) Where in my cab has they fitted the en suite toilet ?
Needless to say no letter was signed and the request was withdrawn. 
thinking about it…maybe this is the cause of so much bad driving knowdays.i.e most of the lunatic drivers you see out there are driving around with turtles head.
next you`ll be telling me that Iceland can demand a breath/urine sample from any driver visiting one of their sites
Hi.
All this is to do with the fact if you stop for no GOOD !! reason,their insurance will be null and void.
At most haulage yards now there are big signs saying roughly.
It is the drivers responsability to check oil/water/wheel nuts etc. … WELL IT IS. But it clears their liability,if something goes wrong down the line. I think that this is a case of using YOUR grey matter ?
Sheerness ! Loaded and tipped there many a time,canteen?you got your dinner through a hole in the wall,and STOOD eating it off a ledge on the wall,was it the end of the world?,no,just another experience,shrug it off. But that was in the days when lorry cabs were wood,and the drivers…STEEL !
happysack:
switchlogic:
If you can’t go from Rugely to Hemel without needing the loo or to stop maybe it’s the wrong job for you. They’re hardly asking you to drive halfway round the world non stop are they…In the region of a hundred miles? Blimey. Luke I salute you if you can do that in a single hit. You obviously are a far greater trucking legend than some on here!
Seriously boys and girls, switch is right. I can tell my daughter to goto the loo before a journey and she can last out a few hours. My dogs can, and I can’t even explain to them we are going in the car.
Do any of you moaners ever drive 4 1/2 hours without a stop?
+1
My view is that I am PAID to be a servant to the company putting the money in my piggy bank. For that money they can treat me wonderfully and pamper to my ‘boo hoo’ needs if they wish, otherwise they can simply treat me like they should, as a driver, who is paid to drive. If they try treating me like ■■■■, however, then I’ll tell them where to shove it.
To be honest, if I were asked to sign a letter to the effect of ‘I will NOT stop for the loo/cigarette’ etc, I would happily sign but with the understanding that there are (admittedly rare) circumstances that I may NEED to stop, and I would point out that the run may be close to my hours limit if required. But so long as the drive is uneventful and run of the mill, I have absolutely no problem driving 4 hrs 29 mins straight.
If you go to the loo immediately beforehand and drink enough during the drive to remain hydrated, you have a medical issue if you cannot make it 4.5 hours as far as I’m concerned! And if you need nicotine, buy a proper e-cigarette, I find them just as good, if not better than tobacco cigarettes. And to tell the truth, when I used to drive the van, I’d have real trouble driving long periods without feeling tired when I smoked tobacco. Since going ‘digital’, my energy levels have improved 100%. Bit off topic, but I wish other people would give it a go, I think people are just scared they won’t get the ‘hit’ they need, when in reality, these things are more satisfying than the real thing 
Javiatrix:
I really don’t see the problem either, it’s what, 2 hours/2.5 hours?So if you’ve been told you mustn’t stop (unless it’s an emergency), you make sure you go to the loo before you leave.
Simple??
Presuming he was able to “use” the toilet at Amazon-fair enough…and it’s only 2.5 hour run…fair enough. Maybe we could all walk it in younger days, but as some people well know, as you get older then the toilet breaks become more regular. So maybe not as clear-cut as doing it in one hit.
I agree…it’s the principal of being told ‘You must not stop en route’ that doesn’t sit well. If you’ve gotta go…you’ve gotta go. End of story, surely■■?
I can’t see the problem it’s a not if they are saying you have to drive from Penzance to Aberdeen without stopping.
If you had an accident or got stopped by vosa you have to stop. If you get caught short stop and take a ■■■■■ and if they querie it say you was stopped by the old bill or whatever. This time of year a load from there could I imagine be pretty valuable and atractive to thieves so it’s a sitting duck if it’s parked in some services while you are eating what pases off as food at service stations so it’s minimising a risk.
Don’t know if its transport in general or on here but everyone seems to want to find a problem before they start.
ok fair enough.
if you`ve just clocked on at amazon then away you go.
on the other hand,i used to work for a firm on general haulage,and a regular job was to carry electrical appliances from didcot to Doncaster.
the usual crack was to arrive in the evening(after a days work)then drop the trailer inside for loading overnight…whilst kipping in the cab,outside the gate.next morning,you pick up the trailor,and set off.
one of the first times I ever went there I was informed by some chancer,that “they” preferred it,if you didn’t stop en route.
you could use their"facilities" for a wash and teeth cleaned,but 2 hours after waking up i need feeding,and then probably a tom ■■■.
there are still some haulage firms out there that don`t expect their drivers to take all this ■■■■ you know 
FarnboroughBoy11:
You’re driving the truck, you do what you want when you want.
Maybe if it is your truck…, not when you are given one.
They pay me to drive, they pay you to work a computer. You work the computer, Ill do the driving!
Seriously, I have had instruction not to stop en-route, but if it is more than a two hour run Ill tell them that if I need to stop ill stop. Usually I dont but you never know what will happen. I had one day that I got serious cramps in my leg after an hour or so. I had to stop, they bitched but I told them what I typed above. I’m the one on the ground, I’m the one that knows the situation, I’m the one that will end up in hospital if it all goes wrong. Ill make the call.
I do my best to accommodate your wishes but when all is said and done, the personal injury claim I could put in after an accident because they told me to do something or else will cost a hell of a lot more than a nicked load or even a nicked truck.
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switchlogic:
If you can’t go from Rugely to Hemel without needing the loo or to stop maybe it’s the wrong job for you. They’re hardly asking you to drive halfway round the world non stop are they…
Exactly, hardly too demanding! Why must folk question other peoples requests?
eurogrant:
Exactly, hardly too demanding! Why must folk question other peoples requests?
because I dont think they are reasonable..now if you dont like the way I work…say so,and I`ll ■■■■ off
Drift:
switchlogic:
Try working in a call centre, where you have set times for toilets and any outside that you have to clock out and in so they can deduct your pay. In fact in lots of jobs you’d be expected to work without going for a pee every hour. A couple of hours isn’t hard.Mountains out of molehills.
I’m setting up the TNUK MooM Committee. ‘You want me to do what boss? Pick up a loaded trailer and deliver it? No way, human rights wont allow it’
I have worked in a couple of call centres, no such thing happens, not where I worked anyway
Oh right, there was a investigative style TV programme a couple of years ago into call centre practices and it was in the news quite a bit at the time. How badly they were treating people in this regard
commonrail:
eurogrant:
Exactly, hardly too demanding! Why must folk question other peoples requests?because I don
t think they are reasonable..now if you dont like the way I work…say so,and I`ll [zb] off
Driving for a couple of hours without stopping is unreasonable? Most people probably wouldn’t stop anyway but drivers being drivers once asked not too they see a chance to kick up a stink. And then wonder why we great treated like crap everywhere we go…
I took a couple of rubbish office jobs on agency after I was made redundant a couple of years ago (I couldn’t just sit around the house), the employers where great and bent over backwards to help, the agency on the other hand
Wish I could time my wee wee’s, 90% of the time I reckon I would be fine, its the sneaky 10% that would get me wet pants 