Ask a Highways England Traffic Officer anything

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Spoken like a fellow womble! Are you?

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Register1 said:

I agree all the above.

The HE guys need a proper 4x4, like what they have now, they also had Land Cruisers in the past,

And Nissan Pathfinders!

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Leaving himself open to allegations of sexual harassment in the process!

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We do carry passengers, there's been many an occasion, where we have taken mother and children to the services to wait in the warm and dry for recovery, while leaving dad to wait with the car. Our procedures dictate that we go no faster than 20 mph on the hard shoulder.

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We run the hard shoulder all time, as what appears to be "normal" congestion could be the result of an RTC. So we'll get to the head off the congestion to see what's causing it. If we know why there's congestion, we'll set signals and sit on the nearest observation platform to monitor it.

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No problems mucker happy to help, now you'll see what we have to put up with at first hand.

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Phone our customer contact centre on 0300 123 5000.

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It overheated!

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pavarotti1980 said:

Novel ways of snow clearing by the HA.

A large cake donation by the driver required. Maybe he should have got stuck on the A1 yesterday instead and his cakes would have been donated by the Greggs delivery driver https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-ne...

That car was a pup when we had it, I never thought I would say it, but I was glad when we exchanged it for a new Shogun!

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Could be dyslexic!

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The RCC operators are on the same shift pattern as the on road staff, I can't foresee any problems, we're in the process of getting ready for the contract being renewed, even if (in the extreme circumstances) HE lose the contract, we would be TUPEd to the new company. Everything is secure as far as we are aware.

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Shift pattern is 3 early, 3 late, 3 rest, 3 variable (early, late or night) 3 night, 3 rest and repeat. We get 222 hours leave (30 days) annual leave and 10 days privilege leave.

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speedyguy said:

How many people do you think were 'helped' to leave by the imposition of the 'variable/cover' shift ? In the old days before variables you could pretty much guarantee when you were working and plan your life/child care, holidays etc way ahead, much more difficult now. Are they sticking to 28 days notice or whatever the end result was.

Not many left my county, however, we now have a lot of people on flexible working arrangements to make their shift pattern unchanged. They are sticking to the 28 days notice period.

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Fingers crossed you'll be joining our ranks soon enough.

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Thanks for your kind words.

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ScotHill said:

Not sure if this has been linked on this thread but it seems an appropriate place for it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sxXHgDwGlYc#t=1m29s

Would be funny if we were highways maintenance, but we're not.

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Well done.

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It's not an on road traffic officer position he's applied for, it's a control room operator. He will be trained to the same standard as emergency service operators as it's a stressful environment at times.

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speedyguy said:

The Mad Monk said:

BossHogg said:

It's not an on road traffic officer position he's applied for, it's a control room operator. He will be trained to the same standard as emergency service operators as it's a stressful environment at times.

O.K. My mistake.
However, why does the interview and selection process have to be so drawn out, even allowing for the fact that it's a stressful environment?

Welcome to the "civil service" where common sense and quick decisions are frowned upon and positively discouraged

It takes time, as they "try" to get the right person for the job, it's no good spending all that time and effort recruiting and training someone to find they can't hack it in a live environment.

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New company same management.