Will this ever happen in the UK, it works very well in Europe, i could still do my deliveries and collections and be back on the ferry heading home before the bans started ?
In Europe vital supplies are allowed to travel on a weekend, such as livestock, milk, concert equipment, frozen and food transport, you can apply for an exemption permit for other types of goods .
Large cites have time restrictions on week days and weekends , ADR at a weekend is an earlier finish than general haulage .
The trick was to find a decent place if you were stuck on a weekend ban, then it was time for sight seeing or a few miles on the push bike, when it was time to drive again Sunday night or Monday morning, drivers were refreshed and ready for a full week .
Some bans could be four days from Thursday night to Tuesday morning .
Find a beach or if in the winter, pack the skis .
toby1234abc:
Will this ever happen in the UK, it works very well in Europe, i could still do my deliveries and collections and be back on the ferry heading home before the bans started ?
In Europe vital supplies are allowed to travel on a weekend, such as livestock, milk, concert equipment, frozen and food transport, you can apply for an exemption permit for other types of goods .
Large cites have time restrictions on week days and weekends , ADR at a weekend is an earlier finish than general haulage .
The trick was to find a decent place if you were stuck on a weekend ban, then it was time for sight seeing or a few miles on the push bike, when it was time to drive again Sunday night or Monday morning, drivers were refreshed and ready for a full week .
Some bans could be four days from Thursday night to Tuesday morning .
Find a beach or if in the winter, pack the skis .
No thanks! Weekends are often the nicest time to be on the roads; no rush hour, no school run, much less traffic on the motorways and A-roads. And you get paid more. One thing I’d be happy not to bring over from Europe – the Church/union busybody alliance, telling us when we can and can’t work or shop.
Shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. I can only work weekends now (apart from summer holidays) and I very much doubt I can convince my lecturers to give up their weekends because you want to go sightseeing.
I load most weeks in France, come back via Esbjerg on the weds sailing. If I can’t get that, the Thursday sailing is an option, but not guaranteed to be on, so we run into the weekends, or weekend going out to France to load first thing Monday.
I’d certainly want an exemption for anyone running in off a ferry.
I have two jobs, and weekends are for trucking. I don’t want anyone telling me I’m not allowed to work. I’m an adult, and I’d like to figure it out for myself if that’s okay with the busybodies.
toby1234abc:
Will this ever happen in the UK, it works very well in Europe, i could still do my deliveries and collections and be back on the ferry heading home before the bans started ?
In Europe vital supplies are allowed to travel on a weekend, such as livestock, milk, concert equipment, frozen and food transport, you can apply for an exemption permit for other types of goods .
Large cites have time restrictions on week days and weekends , ADR at a weekend is an earlier finish than general haulage .
The trick was to find a decent place if you were stuck on a weekend ban, then it was time for sight seeing or a few miles on the push bike, when it was time to drive again Sunday night or Monday morning, drivers were refreshed and ready for a full week .
Some bans could be four days from Thursday night to Tuesday morning .
Find a beach or if in the winter, pack the skis .
Im most country all supermarket closed Sunday.If make LGV ban in Uk that what will sold supermarket Sunday???Most Tesco supermarket don t have big storage room.
I usually agree with happysack but to say (zb) that to a weekend lorry ban■■?
ORC, weekends are for trucking■■?
Indigojo, No thanks! Weekends are often the nicest times to be on the roads■■?
Adonis, massive pain in the hole!
Are you lads for real? You don’t lorries running at weekends? This is why the our industry is (zbd) due the drivers WANTING to work weekends. Is it any wonder why young lads and lasses not wanting to be drivers. Youngsters don’t want to be messing about on some dirty industrial estate at ten o’clock on a Saturday night when their mates are living it up in some nightclub! I certainly didn’t when I was 20 year old!
The reason society demands (Adonis) 24/7 is due to drivers saying yeah I’ll work Saturday night for £1. It started with drivers wanting £100 a day for it. Another driver says he’ll do it for half the price and so it goes on! And this is why your average shop worker is in pittance an hour and there is not a prime time rate.
Society doesn’t care about the you working on a Sunday to replenish the Trafford Centre with Big Mac burgers and you not taking your kids to McDonald’s on a Sunday afternoon. Viscious circle? Tough!
I was in London for a weekend a few years back. Covent Garden and a Tesco lorry delivering to a store at 8 on a Saturday night. Mrs B says Aw look at that lorry driver! Yeah look at that lorry driver, I replied, working at this time of night in central London, dealing with the public walking about round the tail lift, not even on overtime rate, at this time of night.
Mrs B did say that in her job as a Career’s Adviser, she never gets an 18 year old wanting to be lorry driver. I wonder why when there are numerous Numpties who to WANT to work weekends at no extra rate.
We as nation wanted to BE EUROPEAN in 1973/4 and what did the rest of Europe do? Stay as they were. Herman in Hamburg does not work weekends or 4 on 4 off. Weekend are for family! So when Brexit happens, will there be a return to time and half for Saturday and double time for Sunday? Anyone■■?
Andrejs has the right answer! The supermarket in Spain, Carrefour if I am correct, is shut Sunday? The Spaniards (and ex pats) deal with it so why can’t we?
beanie:
I usually agree with happysack but to say (zb) that to a weekend lorry ban■■?
ORC, weekends are for trucking■■?
Indigojo, No thanks! Weekends are often the nicest times to be on the roads■■?
Adonis, massive pain in the hole!
Are you lads for real? You don’t lorries running at weekends? This is why the our industry is (zbd) due the drivers WANTING to work weekends. Is it any wonder why young lads and lasses not wanting to be drivers. Youngsters don’t want to be messing about on some dirty industrial estate at ten o’clock on a Saturday night when their mates are living it up in some nightclub! I certainly didn’t when I was 20 year old!
The reason society demands (Adonis) 24/7 is due to drivers saying yeah I’ll work Saturday night for £1. It started with drivers wanting £100 a day for it. Another driver says he’ll do it for half the price and so it goes on! And this is why your average shop worker is in pittance an hour and there is not a prime time rate.
Society doesn’t care about the you working on a Sunday to replenish the Trafford Centre with Big Mac burgers and you not taking your kids to McDonald’s on a Sunday afternoon. Viscious circle? Tough!
I was in London for a weekend a few years back. Covent Garden and a Tesco lorry delivering to a store at 8 on a Saturday night. Mrs B says Aw look at that lorry driver! Yeah look at that lorry driver, I replied, working at this time of night in central London, dealing with the public walking about round the tail lift, not even on overtime rate, at this time of night.
Mrs B did say that in her job as a Career’s Adviser, she never gets an 18 year old wanting to be lorry driver. I wonder why when there are numerous Numpties who to WANT to work weekends at no extra rate.
We as nation wanted to BE EUROPEAN in 1973/4 and what did the rest of Europe do? Stay as they were. Herman in Hamburg does not work weekends or 4 on 4 off. Weekend are for family! So when Brexit happens, will there be a return to time and half for Saturday and double time for Sunday? Anyone■■?
Andrejs has the right answer! The supermarket in Spain, Carrefour if I am correct, is shut Sunday? The Spaniards (and ex pats) deal with it so why can’t we?
So you don’t want weekend work? Good for you. Does that also apply to the pubs and clubs staff? Or perhaps the cinema or restaurants staff too? They’re all staffed by the kids who’d rather be in the club Friday night, but that’s closed too because nobody works weekends.
When Sunday trading was legalised in 1994 I had little doubt there would be a negative impact on the terms and conditions of many peoples’ jobs and so it has proved to be. O/T rates for weekend work have completely disappeared for many and dodgy ideas like 4 on 4 off mask the financial reward in many cases.
If trucks were banned on weekends, all the goods moved then would have to be moved either before or after said time: so those Monday morning queues would then be how long??
Maybe we could introduce the same rules as the Swiss use? No trucks at between 22hr/05hr00. Would mean no noisy trucks and fridges in residential areas at night. So more vehicles will be needed to move the goods, and with more trucks on the roads journeys will be longer, and a need for even more trucks as each vehicle does less!
More work for the UK truck manufacturers, (if there were any) more work for hauliers and drivers. Bring it on!
For what purpose? Because apparently roads are there for cars and cars only? Sod off. Most car journeys are unnecessary, and single occupancy vehicles are a massive waste of road space. Instead of placing restrictions on wagons, how about they place restrictions on cars?
TiredAndEmotional:
When Sunday trading was legalised in 1994 I had little doubt there would be a negative impact on the terms and conditions of many peoples’ jobs and so it has proved to be. O/T rates for weekend work have completely disappeared for many and dodgy ideas like 4 on 4 off mask the financial reward in many cases.
Dodgy ideas like 4 on-4 off?? Its the best thing since sliced bread. I will not go back to working mon-Fri if I can help it.
The Uk is always the last to introduce measures that are legal across europe ( incl the uk ) but chooses to ignore them. We had countries checking our fuel tanks for anything over 200ltrs…then fining us…France and germany were the two main culprits…the uk had the same perogative, but didnt bring it in…should have been reciprical !! Any way now we have france, belgium, ( possibly germany soon ) fining drivers for taking a 45 in their cabs, and this is law across europe…so hopefully thats one we dont enforce…its a disgrace to treat drivers in this way, regardless of where theyre from…another wonderful Eu law, is the wage structure for european journeys ( once again against the EE companies )…if they are out for more than 3 days, their wages go up to the wage of the destination…very good for their drivers ( if they get it ) and not just on paper…it will do nothing for the parking, as they will still park their trucks and use a hotel ( to be paid for by all bosses )…the wages side will put them on par with most western countries, and will solve nothing…except the cabotage rules, and theyre changing too very soon…so in a nutshell…this industry will be well and truly…buggered.
