scanny77:
nick2008:
chicane:
Drivers not being allowed to change light bulbs, they’d rather pay you so sit for hours waiting for a fitter, have the hassle of playing catch up with the delayed freight and pay the fitter an extortionate call out rate for a 2 minute job. FFS its not rocket science 
If you’ve finished your run(s) washed the motor, cleaned the cab, topped the fuel/ad-blue/screen wash and there’s [zb] else to do, you still have to hang around to complete the 8hrs 
You’d be surprised on how many different bulbs there are and the fitting is not always straight forward. 
Fair point but IF you are competent enough to look at the blown bulb and compare it to a new bulb, what is the problem? I know some front lights are a pain or require tools but most tail lights on units and trailers are easy. I carry a multi headed screwdriver thing so crosspoint or torx screws are no problem. I also carry a selection of single contact bulbs plus a load of fuses. Red fuse out = red fuse in. It then then blows again, call in the sparky but it can just be a blown fuse or bulb. It does happen 
European Driver carry Spare Bulbs and Tools and change it
The-Snowman:
2 - hard hat to be worn in some docks. Because that’ll protect you from 30 tonnes of solid steel container
They are not expected to protect you from a falling container - the idea is to provide protection against odd bits of debris (e.g. pebbles, bolts, bits of wood etc) that might fall from same while it’s overhead.
Roymondo:
The-Snowman:
2 - hard hat to be worn in some docks. Because that’ll protect you from 30 tonnes of solid steel container
They are not expected to protect you from a falling container - the idea is to provide protection against odd bits of debris (e.g. pebbles, bolts, bits of wood etc) that might fall from same while it’s overhead.
There always has to be one doesnt there
Pirate:
Wearing a hi viz vest is not enough at an rdc in Eirith. Now it MUST also be fastened correctly at the front.
Asda ■■? same at Grangemouth
As I’m on Axors almost all the time I carry a selection of the appropriate bulbs/fuses, have a multi-bit screwdriver thingy so jobs a doddle, as Scanny77 says just remove the blown bulb/fuse and replace with the same, doesn’t take a friggin Einstein.
switchlogic:
The one that shouted me the most is driving round yards with hazards on. Such a stupid rule. Oh and I went past a garden centre the other day where the car park speed limit was 9 and three quarter mph.
I questioned that once, it’s like 9mph on the roadworks.
It’s because it “Makes You Think”
Thanks Nanny State, I really needed to think about a 10 mph speed limit. Lol.
Why do drivers in the uk put up with these rules, there made up by people who know nothing about the job, if some drivers would grow a set instead of putting up with these stupid rules then things wouldn’t be a bad. I was told a few months ago to put boots on by a h n s manager as I was wearing trainers, I refused and pointed out that he himself who makes these rules for the site was wearing a pair of shoes.
I had the same issue before over the colour of my high vis. Was wearing my company supplied orange one and one customer always bitched at me as they wanted green ones. He asked why I couldn’t get a green one from work every time I was there due to memory loss I can only assume.
The company I worked for colour’s was orange so i kept reminding him they won’t change the colour of our work clothes just for him.
And the reason for this was he reckoned he could not see me on the cctv, so more worried about me stealing then anything else it seems.
If, as you claim, you cannot see me - How did you know that my hi-vis was the wrong colour?
Exactly and I bet he would have been fine with me if I was a pretty girl in a pink high vis.
Trukkertone:
Pirate:
Wearing a hi viz vest is not enough at an rdc in Eirith. Now it MUST also be fastened correctly at the front.
Asda ■■? same at Grangemouth
Apart from the pedestrian gate to the building where non drivers cross our path . No hi viz at all, traffic lights which i have never seen used blinding you in the dark and no lighting at the crossing itself. Pure genius!
Add to that wearing a bump cap in a warehouse with nothing above head height except the ceiling (Falkirk)
I wear trainers a lot at work. I have absolutley no problem with donning my safety boots if I have to interact with the load or even enter the warehouse but it’s beyond me why I have to put them on to either sit on a bay or cross the yard to sit in the “hospitality suite” especially when the office bods walk around me wearing soft shoes!
tango boy:
Cemex Rugby!!! Say no more
+1
First time I went there I was told to take my glasses off so I could wear the safety specs. I told them that I can see bugger all without my specs but was told that I have to.
2 minutes later, I walked back into the office and asked for the accident book as I had just tripped up over a cracked paving stone that I couldn’t see because I didn’t have my glasses on! 
Our shop In Wythenshawe is fun to get to now, the service yard used to be left at the cop shop then second right.
In thier wisdom they have built a tram line and station between the road and the service yard with no barriers or lights or nowt, security bod in the yard said trams have priority so no need for barriers.
Thanks for that its a tight service road and playing chicken with a tram isnt fun when its only a small yard anyway.
Bacon Sandwich:
+1
First time I went there I was told to take my glasses off so I could wear the safety specs. I told them that I can see bugger all without my specs but was told that I have to.
2 minutes later, I walked back into the office and asked for the accident book as I had just tripped up over a cracked paving stone that I couldn’t see because I didn’t have my glasses on!
Pray tell, what was their response?!
I also wear glasses and as such have often refused to wear goggles on the grounds that they steam up my glasses lenses, rendering me more or less blind. You apply common sense, but when you’re told to gear goggles for no good reason other than to cover their arses just in case a totally unrealistic scenario dreamed up in an office might take place then you have to say no, because surely having essentially no vision due to condensation in the goggles, or not wearing your specs and thus rendering yourself short sighted is the actual and immediate hazard and one they’re creating and putting you in.
I did some work on a beavertail once, picking up a couple of 45’ cherry pickers. I think they were on a Robertsons site.
While I was on the back getting the chains ready I had an argument with a guy who told me to put my harness on. Went something along the lines of “where do I attach it to” “no where” “then whats the point? its a fall arrest harness, if I dont attach to anything it aint gonna stop me falling!”
Ended up him going and getting some kind of supervisor, by the time he got there I was finished of the back and was loading the 45’s on, obviously with my harness on.
Was a total joke.
Used to think the hard hat rule was a bit silly until one day tightening a ratchet over a load and the strap came unhooked and with the tension the hook came over and smacked off the front of my hard hat leaving a big crack in it . If I hadn’t been wearing the hard hat would of been a nasty head or face injury .
robinhood_1984:
Pray tell, what was their response?!
Well if I remember rightly, it started out being my fault as I should have looked where I was going. I did point out that I was only following the site rules and removed my glasses as instructed.
As an “accident” had occurred, a manager was called and the brain donor behind the desk had to explain to him what and how it happened. The hardest thing I have done in my life was trying to keep a straight face as the whole sorry saga was relayed.
I went to Cemex 3 more times and I would always ask if the site rules had been changed for spectacle wearers. “No, you have to remove them and wear these useless “safety” glasses instead.” So I tripped up a further 3 times. I mean, what are the odds of that happening?? 
Bacon Sandwich:
robinhood_1984:
Pray tell, what was their response?!
Well if I remember rightly, it started out being my fault as I should have looked where I was going. I did point out that I was only following the site rules and removed my glasses as instructed.
As an “accident” had occurred, a manager was called and the brain donor behind the desk had to explain to him what and how it happened. The hardest thing I have done in my life was trying to keep a straight face as the whole sorry saga was relayed.
I went to Cemex 3 more times and I would always ask if the site rules had been changed for spectacle wearers. “No, you have to remove them and wear these useless “safety” glasses instead.” So I tripped up a further 3 times. I mean, what are the odds of that happening??
Pulled on the weighbridge one day and he made me re tighten my lace up boots in front of him before he would weigh me in because they didn’t look tight enough for him lol
Another time he wouldn’t weigh me in until i had put my long sleeve hi viz on
