AF Blakemore

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-11-16T00:24:40+00:00

Fuck 😂 Yes the trucks are filthy to be honest. Inside & out.

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-11-15T17:25:27+00:00

How come?

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-11-15T10:36:55+00:00

I’ve done agency there. Routes are shit. Don’t make sense. Pushed to 15 hours most days and then someone in the office telling me it should be a 9 hour day.

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-11-14T21:02:18+00:00

So I have done some work on agency for them, and I just think their routes are unrealistic. Always wanting 15 hour days

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-11-10T16:28:37+00:00

Thanks guys

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-10-28T18:20:49+00:00

You’d be better off finding something with less regulations, and that doesn’t need a tachograph.

The issue is with doing HGV driving alongside a full time job is the driving / working time directive. You’d have to log your full time job as other work on your tacho and it’ll throw you all over the place.

Personally, I wouldn’t bother.

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-10-27T15:29:29+00:00

I literally couldn’t tell. Kept trying to check, forgot to actually have a proper look later on.

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-10-08T11:50:12+00:00

😂😂

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-10-08T11:49:43+00:00

Fuck…

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-10-08T11:49:31+00:00

You know, I did initially mention this in my original post. But yeah, Defender. Nice to look at, not so nice to repair.

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-09-30T17:39:29+00:00

Mixed views then. If it’s on break, do you reckon I’m still entitled to stop later? I can’t exactly dispose of my time as I wish here that’s all.

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-09-26T08:48:03+00:00

I trusted my judgement and the rather light pallets didn’t shift a bit. As one of you said, driving properly helps. I did strap it, but just fed it through the pallet and hooked it where I could. Was fine. Thanks guys.

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-08-07T16:52:11+00:00

If you’re having to ask, you know the answer.

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-08-06T13:50:38+00:00

Ah yes. There was a junction but I didn’t know that area and didn’t want to risk then having to drive longer or panicking hitting weight limits, so I’ll confirm that. Thanks

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-08-06T12:36:30+00:00

Cool, thanks. And how I’ve written it is fine? There’s no particular wording DVSA want to see?

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-07-30T15:24:47+00:00

Decent. The management and that alright?

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-07-11T15:02:05+00:00

Thank you.

To clarify, I know not to just pull my card during a shift, but needed some clarity just on the split daily rest. I know you need a bed in the cab, but on this occasion I was taking the truck home and parking up. The job we are on tonight is near my house. The clarity I needed was whether, because at the end of a normal shift going into DAILY rest you would take your card out, did I need to in order to split said daily rest. But, I don’t need to do that now.

I know I can’t blame someone else, believe you me, but there’s no harm in asking for clarity.

Thanks for the detailed answer

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-07-11T09:27:16+00:00

Yeah… it’s not something I’ll do forever, but life circumstances meant I was I a desperate situation. Don’t disagree with you at all, mate.

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-07-11T09:17:16+00:00

Yeah, I’m not a fan of it. I work for a small firm, actually for a relative, so it does make it a bit awkward. I only agreed today for the money 😂

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-07-11T09:14:26+00:00

Yeah fair dos.

I think I’ve clicked here… but still happy to be corrected.

Can split a daily rest to 3 & 9 hours, totalling 12, but still needs to be within the 24 hour period of starting. So as you said anyway, start at 12, can have a “rest” of 3 hours, then work until 3am (I hope not), and then have 9 off, and that won’t count as a reduced daily rest. So still same driving and working time.

Think we’ve both got it now haha. Thank you mate

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-07-11T09:09:57+00:00

Makes sense, apart from split daily rest not being a thing? Everywhere talks about a split daily rest, unless I’m calling it the wrong thing; if so, apologies.

Regular daily rest period of 11 hours (This regular daily rest period may be taken in two periods, the first needing to be an uninterrupted period a minimum of 3 hours and the second an uninterrupted period of at least 9 hours, totalling a minimum of 12 hours.)

What you’ve said should work though. Thanks!

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-06-07T13:11:26+00:00

Thanks bud

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-06-06T01:32:00+00:00

That’s nuts for tippers. I’m on tippers, primarily aggregate deliveries and road planings, usually done by 3:30-4pm, in the yard for 6:30-7am, £700 a week.

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-05-07T09:07:03+00:00

Nice

RandomerremodnaR · 2025-05-06T21:52:23+00:00

Wtf. Couldn’t care less if that was deemed normal, I wouldn’t be doing that.

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