has anyone in the forum has driven for an environmental company before, how is it like to work and drive for them,I have an assesment next week I don’t really like the idea of driven a class 2 dust cart,but I’m unemployed and I have been looking for a job for sometime and if this is the only think I could do to get miles I’ll probably have to do it, are they exempt from WTD and Tachographs?
Rosbergg:
has anyone in the forum has driven for an environmental company before, how is it like to work and drive for them,I have an assesment next week I don’t really like the idea of driven a class 2 dust cart,but I’m unemployed and I have been looking for a job for some time and if this is the only think I could do to get miles I’ll probably have to do it, are they exempt from WTD and Tachographs?
keep an eye on the in-house engineers ramping up the ram pressure 
Rosbergg:
…are they exempt from WTD and Tachographs?
Depends on the type of refuse collection. If it’s the household door to door type then you will be exempt from the tacho rules and therefore the WTD for mobile workers.
Yes , keep an eye out for usefull recycling objects , they go in the side trays for the car boot later 
Cruise Control:
keep an eye on the in-house engineers ramping up the ram pressure
All helps when the op` wants to " double-pack " it better 
Just duck when a hose bursts or … there`s a tin of house paint gone inside 
Go out and find a bin wagon and follow it - that’s the best way to find out what will be expected of you. If it’s bagged expect some hard graft - cat litter is bloody heavy.
Like coffee said, if it’s household waste you’re on domestic regs and logbooks - you write your breaks in the book nudge nudge say no more
Be aware we’re now coming into warmer weather - go and open up a bin bag and stick your head in it for an idea of what you’ll be smelling (and smelling of) all day. Think about the thickness of the cheap bin bags - you’ll be shovelling lots of [zb]. When people pick up after their dog it has to go somewhere
Take a copy of the highway code and lob it out of the window - if you don’t bully your way around people WILL treat you like what you’ve got in the back and you won’t get anywhere.
On the plus side it is a bloody good craic, I’ve never laughed so much at work as I did on that job.
arronls:
Take a copy of the highway code and lob it in to the blue recycling bin - if you don’t bully your way around people WILL treat you like what you’ve got in the back and you won’t get anywhere.
Fixed for yer mate. . Well if he’s gonna be a bin man gotta do things right!.
TerryDactyl.:
arronls:
Take a copy of the highway code and lob it in to the blue recycling bin - if you don’t bully your way around people WILL treat you like what you’ve got in the back and you won’t get anywhere.Fixed for yer mate.
trux:
Yes , keep an eye out for usefull recycling objects , they go in the side trays for the car boot later
We did a few charity shops on the sly, taking the stuff they couldn’t get in the shop - I made a fortune on ebay. We had quite a few backhanders from pubs as well, it bumps the wages up quite nicely
ive heard the job is rubbish 
Cruise Control:
ive heard the job is rubbish
I think you are talking GARBAGE
ROG:
Cruise Control:
ive heard the job is rubbishI think you are talking GARBAGE
I REFUSE to stoop to that level, WASTE of a good thread
TerryDactyl.:
arronls:
Take a copy of the highway code and lob it in to the green recycling bag - if you don’t bully your way around people WILL treat you like what you’ve got in the back and you won’t get anywhere.Fixed for yer mate.
fixed it again, if he is driving rubbish around our area he’ll be driving for a hell of long time looking for the blue bins
What is a recycling bin■■?
We have one wheelie bin and everything goes into it but we have a secrect weapon…
… the BIFFA Ball Mill wich sorts out everything
No going to the tip for our Rubbish collectors - all is tipped onto a nice flat piece of tarmac and then a dozer pushes it onto a belt as wide as a SC road which then takes it all into the ball mill.
I drive a household RCV we use log books and are allowed to work 11 hours a day but drive for 10 of them commercial RCVs run to normal regulations depending where it is drivers stay in the cab or if its like my area we are out helping the loaders all the time Its definately not for every one although it does use alot of your driving skills and improves them!!!. you have to be able to handle abuse as in some places you have to block roads for a few minutes and people look down there noses at you. hours are normally good some places unlike our depot are actually job and finish and ive been to other depots where the first trucks are back at 10.30 in some cases !!!
Up our way it’s blue for paper, green for household and brown for garden waste. One gets emptied once a week, another is once a fortnight and the other is once a fortnight in summer, once a month in winter. 
. Once they start doing bins for plastic or tin cans my drive on google earth will look like a snooker table!. I suppose the a colour blindness test is paramount for refuse drivers.
It is funny tho, watching the curtains twitch down the street when you hear a wheelie bin being moved, everyone checking out what colour it is. Always spot the dunderhead in the morning with the wrong bin out. . *
- yup. Done it meself.
I started on refuse on Monday, VOSA have told my boss that if it is recycling then tachos are needed, if it is end waste (which with us it is) then no tachos are required. He also has a restricted o licence as when the waste is loaded on the vehicle it is then his property and he has to pay to dispose of it.
skids:
VOSA have told my boss that if it is recycling then tachos are needed, if it is end waste (which with us it is) then no tachos are required.
I would check that out yourself as that do not seem right - if both are household door to door (or near enough) then to me both would be on domestic regs
Maybe our resident VOSA EXPERT geebee45 can give some pointers 
I’ve never driven one for a living but I had to move one once when I did a delivery to a Council depot and the cab absolutely stunk of sour, stale garbage.I was only in it for two minutes but the smell was in my clothes, my hair and then in my own cab for the rest of the week.
Ive done the bin rounds only 5 years ago, I had to it was all the agency were offering me until I proved I was reliable, then I started getting work in blue chip company’s, It wasnt to bad, start at 6am finish for 2pm, good crack with the rest of the gang. with the wheeli bins they was no point me getting out to help, apart from if you reverse into a cul-de-sac and they are about 30 bins in all directions. I was never in the same gang on the same round but flitted between all the teams when regular drivers were off. the lads know the round and will always put you right, half the time your just following them anyway.
I’m doing trade waste emptying the big bins from shops, pubs, factories etc. Start 3am but finished by 12
Sounds like a rubbish job !