| keep on trucking 07:05 - Sep 24 with 2590 views | Swanboyo |
bring in the army |  | | |  |
| keep on trucking on 14:45 - Sep 26 with 767 views | controversial_jack |
| keep on trucking on 11:19 - Sep 26 by felixstowe_jack |
Hardly strange no doubt he gets a full police pension and a decent wage from Iceland. |
The police get a good pension , and i believe they can retire very early. Sounds like a good number to me. | | | |
| keep on trucking on 14:51 - Sep 26 with 759 views | CountyJim |
| keep on trucking on 11:19 - Sep 26 by felixstowe_jack |
Hardly strange no doubt he gets a full police pension and a decent wage from Iceland. |
Most supermarket HGV driver's earn more than branch managers |  | | |
| keep on trucking on 14:56 - Sep 26 with 755 views | CountyJim |
Perhaps Richy or other copper's on here will put me straight is it true that the police have some officers trained in driving HGV just in case they have to say take a hgv off the motorway etc and some training in dangerous goods because I had my dangerous goods | | | |
| keep on trucking on 22:28 - Sep 26 with 691 views | majorraglan |
According to a recent article on BBC website, a spokesman for the Petrol Retailers Association is claiming as many as 2/3rds of its membership have run out of fuel with the “rest partly dry and running out soon.”
Ministers are said to be considering deploying the army, instead of considering why not just get on with it, resupply the garages ASAP which will see things return to normal when people getting petrol isn’t an issue and things will return to normal. Hopefully the price will drop again coz it’s spiked over the last few days.
Tanker Drivers are on big money and recruiting them shouldn’t be an issue. A mate of mine drivers one and he’s on north of £40k down here plus OT. If he picks up a short notice shift it can be triple time. There’s an advert for one in Hemel Hempstead and the hourly rate is £28.50 which equates to £55k pa - can’t see there being a shortage of applicants!
If people use common sense this can be sorted quickly, people can help themselves by working from home, cut out non essential journeys, walk or cycle. | | | |
| keep on trucking on 22:52 - Sep 26 with 686 views | controversial_jack |
| keep on trucking on 22:28 - Sep 26 by majorraglan |
According to a recent article on BBC website, a spokesman for the Petrol Retailers Association is claiming as many as 2/3rds of its membership have run out of fuel with the “rest partly dry and running out soon.”
Ministers are said to be considering deploying the army, instead of considering why not just get on with it, resupply the garages ASAP which will see things return to normal when people getting petrol isn’t an issue and things will return to normal. Hopefully the price will drop again coz it’s spiked over the last few days.
Tanker Drivers are on big money and recruiting them shouldn’t be an issue. A mate of mine drivers one and he’s on north of £40k down here plus OT. If he picks up a short notice shift it can be triple time. There’s an advert for one in Hemel Hempstead and the hourly rate is £28.50 which equates to £55k pa - can’t see there being a shortage of applicants!
If people use common sense this can be sorted quickly, people can help themselves by working from home, cut out non essential journeys, walk or cycle. |
You have to work long unsociable hours to get the top money.It's a tough lifestyle with deadlines to meet. | | | |
| keep on trucking on 23:02 - Sep 26 with 680 views | majorraglan |
| keep on trucking on 22:52 - Sep 26 by controversial_jack |
You have to work long unsociable hours to get the top money.It's a tough lifestyle with deadlines to meet. |
I am not saying it isn’t unsociable, but fuel tanker driver hours are heavily regulated and enforced via tachograph examinations etc. Most fuel tanker driver start and finish their shifts at a depot, there are very few if any overnight if stops at the roadside etc as it’s just too dangerous. | | | |
| keep on trucking on 11:16 - Sep 27 with 649 views | controversial_jack |
| keep on trucking on 23:02 - Sep 26 by majorraglan |
I am not saying it isn’t unsociable, but fuel tanker driver hours are heavily regulated and enforced via tachograph examinations etc. Most fuel tanker driver start and finish their shifts at a depot, there are very few if any overnight if stops at the roadside etc as it’s just too dangerous. |
That's not the case. I worked in the oil and chemical industry and drivers rarely stopped at their depots. They would be out for days without returning. They would stop where they could, law and safety permitting. They would go without showers, piss in bottles and sleep in their cabs.A horrible lifestyle | | | |
| keep on trucking on 14:41 - Sep 27 with 618 views | Kilkennyjack |
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| keep on trucking on 16:45 - Sep 27 with 589 views | felixstowe_jack |
Why would they when the EU has a huge shortage of HGV drivers particularly in Germany, France, Spain and Poland. Now an estimated shortage of 400,000.
It this because of Brexit or the pandemic?
HGV drivers will go where the pay is best. | |
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| keep on trucking on 17:29 - Sep 27 with 585 views | Kilkennyjack |
| keep on trucking on 16:45 - Sep 27 by felixstowe_jack |
Why would they when the EU has a huge shortage of HGV drivers particularly in Germany, France, Spain and Poland. Now an estimated shortage of 400,000.
It this because of Brexit or the pandemic?
HGV drivers will go where the pay is best. |
All these people must be wrong then ….. ?
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| keep on trucking on 17:31 - Sep 27 with 581 views | Boundy |
I suspect they maybe slightly miffed now that we're not now propping up they economies | |
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| keep on trucking on 17:41 - Sep 27 with 576 views | felixstowe_jack |
| keep on trucking on 17:29 - Sep 27 by Kilkennyjack |
All these people must be wrong then ….. ?
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All foriegn newspapers who support the undemocratic EU. | |
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| keep on trucking on 18:55 - Sep 27 with 555 views | majorraglan |
| keep on trucking on 11:16 - Sep 27 by controversial_jack |
That's not the case. I worked in the oil and chemical industry and drivers rarely stopped at their depots. They would be out for days without returning. They would stop where they could, law and safety permitting. They would go without showers, piss in bottles and sleep in their cabs.A horrible lifestyle |
Not disagreeing with you, HGV drivers do get treated terribly, but I was specifically referring to a fuel tanker drivers. | | | |
| keep on trucking on 19:15 - Sep 27 with 545 views | Boundy |
| keep on trucking on 18:55 - Sep 27 by majorraglan |
Not disagreeing with you, HGV drivers do get treated terribly, but I was specifically referring to a fuel tanker drivers. |
Back in the day I know that tanker drivers were treated a step above the norm , and it was job difficult to get into , certainly if you worked out of Pembroke. | |
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| keep on trucking on 20:26 - Sep 27 with 515 views | majorraglan |
| keep on trucking on 16:45 - Sep 27 by felixstowe_jack |
Why would they when the EU has a huge shortage of HGV drivers particularly in Germany, France, Spain and Poland. Now an estimated shortage of 400,000.
It this because of Brexit or the pandemic?
HGV drivers will go where the pay is best. |
The 400,000 figure is not an EU figure, it’s a European figure and includes countries outside the EU including Belarus and the Ukraine? The Industry guess is that the shortfall in the Ukraine is between 12,000 and 120,000 so there’s a far margin of error. Poland has the largest shortfall followed by ourselves.
Totally agreed with you that drives will chase the money, if truth be told I’d have thought it unlikely drivers will give up jobs to come here for 2 to 3 months assuming the visa process can be resolved relatively quickly. [Post edited 27 Sep 2021 20:30]
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| keep on trucking on 21:28 - Sep 27 with 501 views | Kilkennyjack |
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| keep on trucking on 21:41 - Sep 27 with 499 views | Catullus |
| keep on trucking on 11:16 - Sep 27 by controversial_jack |
That's not the case. I worked in the oil and chemical industry and drivers rarely stopped at their depots. They would be out for days without returning. They would stop where they could, law and safety permitting. They would go without showers, piss in bottles and sleep in their cabs.A horrible lifestyle |
How long ago was that? Aren't you retired now? It may well be that the H&S laws and regulations are much tighter than when you refer too.
I think it also depends on your employer and your lorry. I'm led to believe that the newest lorries are really pretty good, relatively speaking. I've not been in one so can't say. | |
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| keep on trucking on 21:46 - Sep 27 with 496 views | max936 |
| keep on trucking on 22:52 - Sep 26 by controversial_jack |
You have to work long unsociable hours to get the top money.It's a tough lifestyle with deadlines to meet. |
They can't meet these deadlines if there's traffic issues or the time on their taco's run out and neither can they drive for long hours they're governed by their taco's again and moreso when they're driving Fuel Tankers. |  |
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| keep on trucking on 21:48 - Sep 27 with 493 views | max936 |
| keep on trucking on 23:02 - Sep 26 by majorraglan |
I am not saying it isn’t unsociable, but fuel tanker driver hours are heavily regulated and enforced via tachograph examinations etc. Most fuel tanker driver start and finish their shifts at a depot, there are very few if any overnight if stops at the roadside etc as it’s just too dangerous. |
Exactly.
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| keep on trucking on 23:59 - Sep 27 with 464 views | controversial_jack |
| keep on trucking on 21:41 - Sep 27 by Catullus |
How long ago was that? Aren't you retired now? It may well be that the H&S laws and regulations are much tighter than when you refer too.
I think it also depends on your employer and your lorry. I'm led to believe that the newest lorries are really pretty good, relatively speaking. I've not been in one so can't say. |
I've been retired for 4 years. As I said, i worked in the oil and chemical industry and dealt directly with oil, and chemical delivery drivers.
They don't get treated very well at all. The new cabs are indeed very nice, but it's still a cab, with no toilet or washing facilities. They have a fridge, micro, tvs and night heaters etc If i remember correctly, but it's not something I would like to do. | | | |
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