Honked:
So what you’re saying is that I should carry an overnight bag and a sleeping bag, put it in the different truck I get allocated everyday, just in case ■■
How the hell do you fit all that in a Lidl bag for life?
Here are two events that happened to me…
Boss rang me after analysing old tacho charts moaning that I did 11 hours driving. I told him he gave me 11 hours work and I’m conscientious.
Next time it happened I pulled the card, he obviously didn’t like the first way [emoji38]
No one died.
I aint saying that you should do anything mate tbh, as I don’t really care.
I also (like yourself) don’t get too stressed about tachos, but I do try and run legal whenever possible.
However, you say ‘‘no one died’’.
Ok fair enough, but for a couple of seconds, just think if sod’s law prevailed, and someone actually did, after they pulled out in front of you while you were on 10 + 50mins or whatever, …or worse with card actually out.
Regular porridge breakfasts for a couple of years I reckon, so a night in a cab instead seems a better proposition as an alternative does it not.
simcor:
We have put drivers up in a cheap hotel with food for unplanned nights out. But yet our company is one of the worst logistics business going according to most on here.
Who’s that then?
A yellow company that is often the first to get slated on here. Namely DHL.
Maybe at your depot, but the depot I worked at, that never happened.
Yeah I know what you’re saying is right, but it boils my pee when the “safety of the rules” end when your time is up.
After a 15 hour day and a 10 hour driving shift, you are not allowed to drive a truck, but it’s ok to get in your car drive an hour back home, load up your camping gear, drive 3 hours to chill out and rest.
I know it’s extreme, but why not treat tired driving like booze driving, driving tired is the same danger no matter what vehicle it is.
Honked:
Yeah I know what you’re saying is right, but it boils my pee when the “safety of the rules” end when your time is up.
After a 15 hour day and a 10 hour driving shift, you are not allowed to drive a truck, but it’s ok to get in your car drive an hour back home, load up your camping gear, drive 3 hours to chill out and rest.
I know it’s extreme, but why not treat tired driving like booze driving, driving tired is the same danger no matter what vehicle it is.
Ok but where does it stop exactly, how far do you go with that opinion?
You can not rely on many drivers to be sensible, responsible and safe, what you can rely on these guys to be is thick as pig ■■■■…
Some would drive 24 hours if they were allowed to, so you have to save these ■■■■ whits from themselves and from killing somebody, the only way to do this is to set rules and parameters. , which they have done.
Whatever that limit is, you will always get someone wanting to do a minute/hour or half a bloody day over it .
As for going over a 10 drive (a concession for the 9 limit as a get out of jail free card’', despite some looking at it as a twice weekly target ) they take a very dim view.
Driving without card, worse.
Having an accident driving without card,… book chucked at you, and rightly so imo.
That was my point.
andy288*:
I’m a day man and yesterday, after many years of stubbornly avoiding, finally ended up doing my first ever night out - all a bit unplanned!
Phoned the company and explained the situation (I’m just agency at the moment) and they promised to call me back - I must admit at this point I feared the worst! I could probably make it to Corley services and wait to be picked up by another driver I sort of imagined if push came to shove. Within five minutes they surprisingly did call back and I was rather taken aback by the answer they gave! Instructed to get to the hotel on the said services as they had booked me in overnight. Pretty decent of them I thought so packed up my stuff, trotted over to the reception to find it all done and dusted, room key waiting. Just to top it off, they has also left two £10 meal vouchers for evening meal and breakfast.
Think I could get used to this night out lark - ha ha!
I have no problem doing nights out, but then I know that’s part of the job I do, but if you’re doing day work runs then you should expect the planning to mean they’ll get you back in your hours, but maximum credit due to the company you’re working for though for making the situation right when the planning went wrong, be good if this attitude to drivers could be spread through the industry.
As for this idea that staying in hotels would be the answer, as somebody who has stayed in many hotels when on the road over the years, I’ve found trying to get a decent nights sleep on a different bed in a different room every night difficult and often found I’ve slept better in the truck I’m used to being in.
Fair play to the company you’re working for Andy288, they stepped up to they’re duty of care to you.
To the wider question of whether day driver’s should take night out kit, even if swapping trucks each day, if the truck has a bed why wouldn’t you.
I have a 25 ltr rucksack that my daughter used to do the D of E last year, you should have seen what she crammed into it.
That rucksack ain’t exactly big, I now use it as my go to the shower bag, you can easily fit a hiking type sleeping bag (they roll down to nothing) change of clothes and a wash bag and towel, for an emergency night out in a clean sleeper cabbed truck, what else do you need to carry.
I just don’t understand the mentality that leads a driver to not be prepared. If you drive a truck with a sleeper cab there should never be an unplanned night out, it’s either unexpected or emergency.
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