If a driver runs out of duty time and the load is needed, what happens to the driver? A mate ran out of time recently and the company came out to bring the truck in but left him at the side of the road. I cant see how that is legal and i personally would not have handed the keys over without knowing how THEY were getting me back to my car
That’s a new low in transport 
But yeah, no lift, no load. Goodbye 
Total ■■■■ take.
name and shame the shower of [zb]
I find that hard to believe. I don’t think that even the lowest of the low transport companies would stoop so low and leave a driver at the side of the road. There must be more to this story.
scanny77:
If a driver runs out of duty time and the load is needed, what happens to the driver? A mate ran out of time recently and the company came out to bring the truck in but left him at the side of the road. I cant see how that is legal and i personally would not have handed the keys over without knowing how THEY were getting me back to my car
Sorry but i dont believe they just left him at the side of the road , 
He was told to get a taxi. It wasn’t far from base and most of the staff would have rescued him but every company has the odd ■■■■■■■■ who waves the rule book around when it suits them. This is the story to my knowledge anyway and the guy is a good lad. Another driver did confirm it
It’s a bit strange this one, I’m willing to stand corrected but if he was out of duty time then I believe that it would have been illegal to return the driver to base in the truck, or a car driven by a company employee, but legal if he made the exact same journey in a taxi.
scanny77:
He was told to get a taxi. It wasn’t far from base and most of the staff would have rescued him but every company has the odd [zb] who waves the rule book around when it suits them. This is the story to my knowledge anyway and the guy is a good lad. Another driver did confirm it
They are sort of correct, if he’s out of duty time, he shouldn’t travel in a company vehicle. But how that’s different from a taxi I’ve no idea
The company has broken the duty of care law
I find it hard to believe it happened … but you never know …
ROG:
The company has broken the duty of care lawI find it hard to believe it happened … but you never know …
+1
I was just going to say the same.
sorry, but, i would not have let the truck go
if the planners can’t do the job properly, it is not the drivers fault (providing that the driver informed the planners that he would not make it back to the yard)
shuttlespanker:
sorry, but, i would not have let the truck go! if the planners can’t do the job properly, it is not the drivers fault (providing that the driver informed the planners that he would not make it back to the yard)
happens at stobrats everyday!
Harry Monk:
It’s a bit strange this one, I’m willing to stand corrected but if he was out of duty time then I believe that it would have been illegal to return the driver to base in the truck, or a car driven by a company employee, but legal if he made the exact same journey in a taxi.
Used to have a job involving driving day-cabbed rigids where we sometimes ran of time near to base, as the runs were all somewhat optimistic. Shunter always used to come out to us in the Sprinter van - he took the wagon and the we took the Sprinter. Granted, they were a bit of a cowboy outfit but I never had a massive problem with this arrangement. I got home with no infringement to my name & nobody needed to know the details.
waynedl:
scanny77:
He was told to get a taxi. It wasn’t far from base and most of the staff would have rescued him but every company has the odd [zb] who waves the rule book around when it suits them. This is the story to my knowledge anyway and the guy is a good lad. Another driver did confirm itThey are sort of correct, if he’s out of duty time, he shouldn’t travel in a company vehicle. But how that’s different from a taxi I’ve no idea
And that just goes to show what a complete load of bull the laws are, it`s ok to leave some poor bugger by the road to hitch back but illegal to give him a lift back in a company van, or the passenger seat of the truck. Would anybody actually care or get done for it,doubt it.
I don’t believe this story … How did the relief driver get there in the first place ? Did he walk there or miraculously just beam himself there ?
It stands to reason that either the driver who is out of time would either ride back in whatever vehicle the replacement driver arrived in or ride back as a passenger in the lorry. If he did neither then he is an idiot and deserved to be left at the curbside 
Did the company send a taxi for him?
And did they pay for it?
If he was left to his own devices to get back to base that’s out if order BUT if the sent taxi for him that’s acceptable, although standing about in cold to it comes isn’t !
Just drop the trailer and pull the curtains.
Harry Monk:
It’s a bit strange this one, I’m willing to stand corrected but if he was out of duty time then I believe that it would have been illegal to return the driver to base in the truck, or a car driven by a company employee, but legal if he made the exact same journey in a taxi.
Its not illegal to be given a lift back to base in a truck or even for a car to be brought out to you with the other driver, its only illegal if your instructed to take the lift or told to drive the car .
Pat Hasler:
I don’t believe this story … How did the relief driver get there in the first place ? Did he walk there or miraculously just beam himself there ?
It stands to reason that either the driver who is out of time would either ride back in whatever vehicle the replacement driver arrived in or ride back as a passenger in the lorry. If he did neither then he is an idiot and deserved to be left at the curbside
My thoughts exactly. I’ve had it happen when I worked for dhl at Prudhoe. Got as far as Washington & ran out of time, I’d already phoned to let the office know where I could get to, the tm came out in his car with a replacement & took me back to the yard.