Highways Agency now highways england

[duck tippin]

550Anniv said:

Hi and thanks for your posts.
Is there a web site for applications for on road recruitment? I am in Worcester, so do you know if it's for the Worcester / West Midlands area or Nationwide??
Thanks, Rob

Changes all the time, control room in Bristol nearest you at moment, quinton would be nearer you I think


https://recruitment.highways.gov.uk/templates/high...

[Elroy Blue]

duck tippin said:

not true about single crewing and cutting back, we are recruiting on and off road if you are interested, and out place not been refurbed since 2004

On the contrary. Night crews scaled back and now single crewed. My local RCC has had a very expensive facelift. I can't apply as I'm a bit busy doing my own work and a bit of the HA's that they can't get to anymore.
I will state that many of the HA frontline staff are frustrated at some of the rules placed on them, which restricts their ability to help us. It's an incredibly risk averse organisation.

[550Anniv]

duck tippin said:

Changes all the time, control room in Bristol nearest you at moment, quinton would be nearer you I think


https://recruitment.highways.gov.uk/templates/high...

Hi Duck Tippin, Thanks for the link. I would be interested in finding out about what is involved
in the role of Traffic Officer, so as there appears no vacancies listed for that role, i have registed
my interest.
Dont mind hours/Shifts, but needs to be Worcester/West Midlands area.
Regards
Rob.

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550Anniv said:

Hi Duck Tippin, Thanks for the link. I would be interested in finding out about what is involved
in the role of Traffic Officer, so as there appears no vacancies listed for that role, i have registed
my interest.
Dont mind hours/Shifts, but needs to be Worcester/West Midlands area.
Regards
Rob.

The off road officers are " regional control centre operators" which is what I do, they seem to take turns at recruiting and will do onroaders next, depends what which you want to do. There are a few videos on YouTube or recently bbc did 4 part series about us called life in the fast lane

[Blanchimont]

duck tippin said:

no idea! first find out who owns it? and target your complaint, what road is it? I will see if its ours on local council

Edited by duck tippin on Saturday 5th September 04:37

Bristol; Crowley way, and roundabout joining to Maclaren Road, King Road Avenue and St Andrews Road.

[ukaskew]

I'm interested in matrix update times, particularly for road closures. It feels more common (particularly early mornings after a night closure) but often the matrix sign is still telling you to get off the road long after it has re-opened. My favourite example was the A27 on the way to the Goodwood FoS earlier this year, if I remember correctly it was scheduled to re-open at 6am, but at 7am and gone there were constant warnings to leave the road, but people seemed to be carrying on regardless, so I did too and it was completely clear, no teams appeared to be on-site etc.

Locally (Wiltshire) we don't tend to have matrix signs so we have a significant issue with 'real' signs during road closures. I appreciate the signs will always need to go out a little while before the road closes and take a little while to remove, but my favourite recent example on a major trunk road was the signs going out early Saturday morning...I knew locally from the press that the road wasn't actually closing until Sunday, so again I ignored the signs.

I often see people moaning about drivers ignoring road closure signs and seeing them having to turn around etc, but I don't blame them, it feels like more often than not the signage is incorrect or in place at the wrong time.

[duck tippin]

Blanchimont said:

Bristol; Crowley way, and roundabout joining to Maclaren Road, King Road Avenue and St Andrews Road.

will check when next inbut m off for next ten days , mapping system should tell me, or ring 0300 123 5000 and ask them, sounds like it will be local council

[duck tippin]

ukaskew said:

I'm interested in matrix update times, particularly for road closures. It feels more common (particularly early mornings after a night closure) but often the matrix sign is still telling you to get off the road long after it has re-opened. My favourite example was the A27 on the way to the Goodwood FoS earlier this year, if I remember correctly it was scheduled to re-open at 6am, but at 7am and gone there were constant warnings to leave the road, but people seemed to be carrying on regardless, so I did too and it was completely clear, no teams appeared to be on-site etc.

Locally (Wiltshire) we don't tend to have matrix signs so we have a significant issue with 'real' signs during road closures. I appreciate the signs will always need to go out a little while before the road closes and take a little while to remove, but my favourite recent example on a major trunk road was the signs going out early Saturday morning...I knew locally from the press that the road wasn't actually closing until Sunday, so again I ignored the signs.

I often see people moaning about drivers ignoring road closure signs and seeing them having to turn around etc, but I don't blame them, it feels like more often than not the signage is incorrect or in place at the wrong time.

this was probably because the contractor was taking in all the parts of his closure and didn't call the control room to say road was open until he had finished completely, he should have told us road was open and for us to change signs to say so but leave speeds on so he can clear his stuff.
if you ring 0300 123 5000 and report it we will ring contractor straight away and chase him up, sounds like he should have been chased up anyway as he had over run

[duck tippin]

duck tippin said:

"the most common accident on a motorway is a foreign lorry changing lanes and hitting a small car" nearly always the truck is LHD and moving to the right, sometimes it the truckers fault sometimes the drivers, normally minor injury but i have had to deal with 1 fatal one. the most of these type I have had is 8 in one shift across my area. these cause a huge amount of congestion.

how many of you have seen a crumpled car on the hard shoulder sometimes facing the wrong way with a truck further along?

get a dashcam

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-34288831
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