Boo9729:
Why would you even post that on facebook for everyone to see !! Takes a real professional to do that, still it’ll be September soon and plenty of tools will be off the road
I fail to see why anyone would imagine that completing the DCPC will make everyone a better driver after September, with all the bluster and ignorance about course content and the idiotic things being taught on the DCPC I am really glad that I am retired and don’t have to do it!
Sadly the transport industry could be loosing a lot of very experienced drivers that have taken the option to retire or move on to better things after September, and I wish them luck. I would guess that the Downton driver has done the DCPC and will still be around after September.
Boo9729:
Why would you even post that on facebook for everyone to see !! Takes a real professional to do that, still it’ll be September soon and plenty of tools will be off the road
I fail to see why anyone would imagine that completing the DCPC will make everyone a better driver after September, with all the bluster and ignorance about course content and the idiotic things being taught on the DCPC I am really glad that I am retired and don’t have to do it!
Sadly the transport industry could be loosing a lot of very experienced drivers that have taken the option to retire or move on to better things after September, and I wish them luck. I would guess that the Downton driver has done the DCPC and will still be around after September.
I don’t imagine for 1 second the dcpc makes anyone a better driver. It will only succeed in some good drivers retiring and some total know it alls ‘been there done that’ brigade from leaving due to not doing it as it’s below them !!
Boo9729:
Why would you even post that on facebook for everyone to see !! Takes a real professional to do that, still it’ll be September soon and plenty of tools will be off the road
Why do you think that? The same tools will still be on the road but a lot of the good drivers that are at retirement age will be the ones off the road.
Agree some good drivers will no doubt hang up their keys & some tools will have to hand theirs in to. Still plenty of both camps on the road but I do find a lot of the ‘tools’ are closer to retirement as appose to the younger generation.
Just my opinion & observations before everyone starts getting themselves all excited.
Yeah should be interesting to see what happens in September, I’m just afraid that if their is a driver shortage then are company’s going to let any clown with a licence behind the wheel of a 44t lorry? And if so we will see driving standards get considerably worse.
tango boy:
Wonder if they are reels of paper in the back or palletised goods■■?
Who said anything about goods onboard, it could be a load of dead migrants in there, ya never know
look like the coke warehouse round the corner from wakefield factory and that looks like the driver in the last video i posted
Something like Plasterboard or Flatpack furniture laid on top of itself. It doesn’t get strapped, as the strain of the straps even with corners would damage the plasterboard. It doesn’t look like Reels…
Common sense would suggest that the driver, on not strapping it for any reason, would drive considerably more carefully knowing that he’s relying so heavily on his load bearing curtains.
The first pic is few years old I was there when driver pulled in, you would be surprised what distance he covered before pulling to yard. Second pic was recent apparently driver been ask to drop it and the legs was down.
Boo9729:
Why would you even post that on facebook for everyone to see !! Takes a real professional to do that, still it’ll be September soon and plenty of tools will be off the road
Why do you think that? The same tools will still be on the road but a lot of the good drivers that are at retirement age will be the ones off the road.
Agree some good drivers will no doubt hang up their keys & some tools will have to hand theirs in to. Still plenty of both camps on the road but I do find a lot of the ‘tools’ are closer to retirement as appose to the younger generation.
Just my opinion & observations before everyone starts getting themselves all excited.
Yeah should be interesting to see what happens in September, I’m just afraid that if their is a driver shortage then are company’s going to let any clown with a licence behind the wheel of a 44t lorry? And if so we will see driving standards get considerably worse.
I reckon once the shorter sighted operators realise that the supply of competent drivers has dried up, then the adverts for drivers ‘‘we will put you through the DCPC for free’’ will be appearing.
A few months of having more than the usual number of vehicles wrecked and rolled will wake the insurers up, then we’ll see some stuff hitting the fan.
Juddian:
I reckon once the shorter sighted operators realise that the supply of competent drivers has dried up, then the adverts for drivers ‘‘we will put you through the DCPC for free’’ will be appearing.
I agree, the DCPC currently costs around a third of what it cost me two years ago, so it’s not as though drivers are getting desperate to do it.
Harry Monk:
It’s not been the best of weeks for Downton’s.
what donkey puts the heaviest part of any load over the pin
In fairness I spoke to the driver and he did exactly what he was told to do so blame the office staff for this one.
If he’s just dropped that trailer (I would have thought he be objecting already if he’d just been asked by the office to hook up to it! ) then the weight on even the extra axled trailer would have thrown up alarm bells - IF it had been put across the scales first…
It’s a bit scary too, don’tyathink that a photo was taken before anyone considered that the arse end in the air like that is a SERIOUS hazard in the yard, and should have been cordoned off without delay…
"I reckon once the shorter sighted operators realise that the supply of competent drivers has dried up, then the adverts for drivers ‘‘we will put you through the DCPC for free’’ will be appearing. A few months of having more than the usual number of vehicles wrecked and rolled will wake the insurers up, then we’ll see some stuff hitting the fan."
I agree about the insurance angle. Them not having woken up yet is the main reason wages have stayed so low for so long.
As for “We’ll put you through DCPC for free” - well, there’s only 6 weeks left to get all this organised,the recruits interviewed, shortlisted, vetted, etc.
Downton don’t do well on our DCPC course it told us about Downton having an incident where truck crushed its own driver.
Maybe he should have attended the secure load DCPC course
Someone said posting such pics may get the driver into trouble, my opinion is he should be in trouble, do we really want muppets like that on the road ?
I occasionally drive an artic nowadays, though the other night I did, 330 kilometres on the clock when I got the keys, I’m not surprised people are having accidents with their loads these units fly, me personally 25 mph round islands, 40 in a 40 etc, I’m sure my mpg and truck maintenance is better because I drive as I do (Ill keep telling myself that)
As for DCPC I took some of mine before Christmas ADR £580 plus one at £85, now I’m doing my last module £25 argh!
I must say 2 things
I have had my licence near on 30 years though I have learnt something new on the courses
I am disgusted that a tutor (and the students allow it to go on) stand there and laugh about the rubbish content of their course and therefore do not teach very well, as we are paying for these courses we should have stood up and said we want value for money, so its not just someone elses fault the content is crap its ours as well.
I have been offered to do my next course either 2nd or 3rd week in September all 5 mods for £125
personally I will wait as I may have given up by 2019
