When the snow comes, I’ll gladly sit at home if that’s what people want. I can think of better things to do with my time than getting stuck down crappy back roads and freezing my ■■■■■■■ off while trying to dig myself out
muckles:
Sound sensible to me to, many other industries would have stopped working because it was to dangerous, So why are truck driver expected to keep moving. But then of course if the weather was bad for more that 48hrs they’d be complaints of shortages in shop, petrol stations running out of fuel. But then that would be our fault for not driving because it’s a bit windy.
To be fair, the TM at one of our customers ordered his whole fleet to park up ASAP until further instruction.
Unfortunately, one driver decided to press on, and in a million to one odds, his demount box blew off the chassis!
Suspect it wasn’t locked in right, if at all. We lifted it back on and sent him into the services to park up.
C-Kay:
I can think of better things to do with my time than getting stuck down crappy back roads and freezing my ■■■■■■■ off while trying to dig myself out
I can’t. When you waggonists get stuck, it’s me in the wrecker getting paid to do exactly this !
dazaster:
Muckaway:
You cant take anything Mr Whine says seriously; After all, look at the crap regular guests he gives most of the discussion slot to; Katie Hopkins (mouthy pompous Apprentice loser), that Welsh ■■■■■■ with the allotment, Barbara Want followed by that Christina bint who goes on about her dead husband regardless of its relevance, and Dr Sarah “Love the sound of my own voice” Jarvis and many other oxygen thieves.that bea cambell woman does my head in… the way she talks, going on about something, then seems to pause a second or 2 to finish what shes saying off
as for our trucking friend “guy” he loves to raise his voice on the radio, and always always ends up saying “we dont get enough praise blah blah blah”
I think his words were along the lines of ‘when things go wrong, we get slagged off, but the rest of the time, we don’t get any praise, we don’t get anything’
I remember thinking, I’m sure we get wages, the same as the rest of the workforce in the world who also don’t get praise for doing the job they’re employed to do.
Some right moaning ■■■■■ around. If I felt my safety was in danger, I’d probably consider pulling over in a more covered area, but so far I’ve found the driving to be ok, even when I was on 16’3 fridges, 14’6 - 16’ curtain siders, and now on containers, in all conditions, snow, gales, ice, rain, hail, blah blah… Ok a gust could blow me over, but so far, I’ve yet to experience that or enough to make me think it was close and I’ll pull over.
I thought the media focus on individual drivers was a bit harsh. Most drivers are employees and have to answer to managers. Some of our drivers were told yesterday that they’d be disciplined if they didn’t go out. When I got back to the depot in the evening, i found out that they’d sent the office staff due to the dangerous weather. Where’s the logic? I didn’t find driving in the wind to be much of a problem yesterday. The unloading was much more of a hazard, with the poor quality door retainers fitted to our vehicles.
PS - I despise that poisonous witch, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown who regularly speaks on his show.
like i said before
no police stopped me to say it was too dangerous to drive, so until they did i cracked on with it that was the simple answer to vines question could have had that decussion done and dusted with the volvo numpty in all of 10 seconds.
volvo driver “i think all drivers should be graded blah blah blah blah”.
me, “are you highways agency or police sir?..no well its only them that tell me to stop” simple
instead vine puts on muppet motor mouth who thinks country should be on its knees in praise because he got his lard arse out of bed this morning, guess what they wont because they dont like you…get over it 
Truckulent:
Good idea to ban all trucks all the time really. Then all the Radio 2 ‘luvvies’ will be up in arms and phoning up asking why AsdaToscoSainsMorris’s are full of nothing…Best start around Xmas for the most effective results.
Maybe they will then realise that the stuff in the supermarket doesn’t arrive by flying reindeer and sleigh…
Christmas is cancelled
Muckaway:
You cant take anything Mr Whine says seriously; After all, look at the crap regular guests he gives most of the discussion slot to; Katie Hopkins (mouthy pompous Apprentice loser), that Welsh ■■■■■■ with the allotment, Barbara Want followed by that Christina bint who goes on about her dead husband regardless of its relevance, and Dr Sarah “Love the sound of my own voice” Jarvis and many other oxygen thieves.
yeah those are the bits i like 
i liked the bit where the Studio Guest tried arguing with the Truck Driver Caller
SG; i know what it’s like, i drive a Volvo…
TDC; oh yeah pal , what sort of Volvo ?
SG: a high sided one
probably a 340 saloon with a roof rack
10-08:
There is always an opinionated woman who’s wrong.
Yep, she lives in my house
the bus driver was an intresting one, if the geezer was driving a double decker, then he might win, but if its a single decker hes ■■■■■, but then the bus company cant just cancel services willy nilly, how do they tell customers? etc but i cant see why they cant have single deckers on hand to swap for double deckers… but then how often does high wonds happen? it wouldnt be cost effective, and as a ex bus driver i can tell you they dont have many spares sitting about doing nothing.
kevin0410:
i’m suprised nobody has mentioned the person who send a message saying lgv drivers are the most selfish people on the road. Why must they overtake each other at 1mph speed difference, etcwhat a prize ■■■■
I enjoyed the comments from the woman who phoned in saying that she apparantly wouldn’t be bothered if deliveries weren’t made to the supermarkets. She could ‘make do’ without things for a few days.
Thing is, having worked in supermarkets myself in the past I know that had the chilled wagon full of perishable fruit and veg turned up a day late because it wasn’t allowed out on the road, they would all be whinging that everything on the shelves is too close to the sell by date / not fresh enough. Also the shops would end up with 2 days worth of deliveries in one day = loads of waste, and then guess what - everyone would be phoning into Jeremy Vine bleating that the supermarkets waste too much.
Everyone wants the shelves in shops fully stocked 24/7 for their convenience but aren’t prepared to sit behind an overtaking lorry for 10 seconds or deal with the fact there will inevitably be the odd accident involving large vehicles. At the end of the day, lorries don’t actually stop anybody getting to where they want to be so whats the problem? 
Guest “I drive a Volvo and thats easy to buff in, And other cars wont”
Trucker " He’s just mentioned there he drives a Volvo, What type of Volvo is it?"
Guest " Its a big high sided one which does get pushed in the breeze a fair bit but even then its nothing like the pressures of a panel van or something like a transit or one of the other sorts."
is it just me or is the fella a class one pleb? whats he on about?
I get wound up when people say “ah drive you’ll be ok, just pull your VAN round the back”
THATS A VAN ---->
THIS ISNT ----> 
C10HOO:
I get wound up when people say “ah drive you’ll be ok, just pull your VAN round the back”THATS A VAN ---->
THIS ISNT ---->
Yeah it is.
Definiton of a van: A covered boxlike motor vehicle, typically having a rear door and sliding doors on the side panels, used for transporting goods or people.
It’s covered, box like, has rear doors and sliding bits in the side. It’s a van. 
lee mc67:
I fully agree with grading drivers to experience too.1 years experience, allowed in daylight summertime only restricted to 30 mph with a 2nd man with more than 3 years experience.
2 years experience, allowed out up to 00.00 on own within 100 km of base.
3 years experience, allowed to work full night shift with supervision for 3 months.
4 years experience, allowed out day, night and in the rain. No need for a 2nd man.
5 years experience, Only allowed out in windy conditions after 1 month training with another driver with at least 3 years windy driving experience.
Year 6, can now train someone in year 1.
Worst. Idea. Ever.
Things aren’t bad enough for drivers as it is, you thing some jumped up rules like this would be a help?
C10HOO:
I get wound up when people say “ah drive you’ll be ok, just pull your VAN round the back”
I remember going somewhere once many years ago, couldn’t see a goods in so went in and asked. I was told by the bloke there to drive round the back. I looked at the tiny track that went down the side of the building thinking it’s a bit tight 
So after much manourvering, I finally got my truck round the back only for the the bloke to say if “I knew you had a truck I would have unloaded it on the road.”
Coffeeholic:
C10HOO:
I get wound up when people say “ah drive you’ll be ok, just pull your VAN round the back”THATS A VAN ---->
THIS ISNT ---->
Yeah it is.
Definiton of a van: A covered boxlike motor vehicle, typically having a rear door and sliding doors on the side panels, used for transporting goods or people.
It’s covered, box like, has rear doors and sliding bits in the side. It’s a van.
I don’t believe that Scania has sliding bits in its side and it is not a van anyway. However that above definition should not be the definition of van. It should be based on MGW, i.e. a larger vehicle, above 3.5t is a lorry, due to the different regs. e.g. Sprinters, which can be bigger than some HGVs even, are vans.
Ah, just looked at the Iveco website and the Daily is termed a van, even though it goes from 3.5 to 7t. The latter is quite a different vehicle even if it still looks like a van. We have one and it is very handy but have to stop myself calling it a van cos it isn’t.
All a bit pointless really, until, as described, someone means van when they say lorry.
When we pulled trailers out of Crane Fruehauf, we were often sent in for a Van, but what they refered to as a Van was a 45ft boxvan trailer. 
Snudger:
I don’t believe that Scania has sliding bits in its side…
Those curtains slide, and they are on the side. Face it, if you are driving one of those you’re a van driver. 
If it makes it easier for you to accept we could go with so-called van driver.
Coffeeholic:
Snudger:
I don’t believe that Scania has sliding bits in its side…Those curtains slide, and they are on the side.
If it makes it easier for you to accept we could go with so-called proffeshional van driver.
FTFY 
The Sarge:
Coffeeholic:
Snudger:
I don’t believe that Scania has sliding bits in its side…Those curtains slide, and they are on the side.
If it makes it easier for you to accept we could go with so-called proffeshional van driver.
FTFY
I assumed the driver would be getting paid so the professional bit goes without saying.
I have never been one to not say something that some would says goes without saying.
Beer o’clock methinks…