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Why do all Highways Agency employees work themselves up into a ridiculous lather whenever someone calls them HA or Highways Agency instead of Highways England? It's the same s
t with a different label so why do you feel the need to hack out a reply to every single post where someone's called them Highways Agency telling them that it no longer exists and it's now Highways England? It's not just on this site either, I've seen HA employees doing the same on other forums as well. I do not understand why you waste so much energy on this when it's clear who people are referring to.
t with a different label so why do you feel the need to hack out a reply to every single post where someone's called them Highways Agency telling them that it no longer exists and it's now Highways England? It's not just on this site either, I've seen HA employees doing the same on other forums as well. I do not understand why you waste so much energy on this when it's clear who people are referring to.Several years ago I applied for this job, but didn't pass the aptitude or screener questions (online I think it was). They were questions that posed situations like "coming across the scene of an accident, what would you do?" then gave you a few choices to choose from. It seemed that each question had one choice of something along the lines of "Report back to your line manager" and a few others of sensible (and not so sensible) things to do in the situation.
I suspect that to pass each of these questions you needed to select the "Report back to your line manager" option rather than the action-orientated ones. Do you know if this is the case?
I recall one of the questions was about what to do at the scene of an accident if I were the first there. Along with the "report to manager" option there were others such as checking for hazards, checking for casualties etc, and being freshly out of the military at the time I selected the options that I knew I was capable of given previous training, but I suspect that HE didn't want free-thinking people who would dive in and help the situation, and given your comment about not being able to help a woman change a wheel, I guess they just want people to stand around reporting things to the police / ambulance etc!
I suspect that to pass each of these questions you needed to select the "Report back to your line manager" option rather than the action-orientated ones. Do you know if this is the case?
I recall one of the questions was about what to do at the scene of an accident if I were the first there. Along with the "report to manager" option there were others such as checking for hazards, checking for casualties etc, and being freshly out of the military at the time I selected the options that I knew I was capable of given previous training, but I suspect that HE didn't want free-thinking people who would dive in and help the situation, and given your comment about not being able to help a woman change a wheel, I guess they just want people to stand around reporting things to the police / ambulance etc!
SCEtoAUX said:
What!!!!? You can't help a young lass with three kids change a tyre in the pissing rain on the hard shoulder in rush hour? That's ridiculous.
I may have been in a similar situation in absolutely atrocious weather conditions with a young lass with only 2 kids both in prams, there was a disciplinary involved after a passing recovery agent reported it. So why bother ?
Reminds me of a trainer down south assisting a motorist with a flat tyre with no recovery (so minimum £150).
The wheelbrace got bent in the process, the letter went to the police, then the HA then the 'training' company who paid the £5 to shut the complainant up.
Now have another think about your question.
There is little sense shown sometimes due to liability issues and people looking for promotion watching on cctv.
Fortunately Hogg is lucky to have electricity in his patch never mind anything else
speedyguy said:
I may have been in a similar situation in absolutely atrocious weather conditions with a young lass with only 2 kids both in prams, there was a disciplinary involved after a passing recovery agent reported it.
So why bother ?
Reminds me of a trainer down south assisting a motorist with a flat tyre with no recovery (so minimum £150).
The wheelbrace got bent in the process, the letter went to the police, then the HA then the 'training' company who paid the £5 to shut the complainant up.
Now have another think about your question.
There is little sense shown sometimes due to liability issues and people looking for promotion watching on cctv.
Fortunately Hogg is lucky to have electricity in his patch never mind anything else
Well it be on to this.So why bother ?
Reminds me of a trainer down south assisting a motorist with a flat tyre with no recovery (so minimum £150).
The wheelbrace got bent in the process, the letter went to the police, then the HA then the 'training' company who paid the £5 to shut the complainant up.
Now have another think about your question.
There is little sense shown sometimes due to liability issues and people looking for promotion watching on cctv.
Fortunately Hogg is lucky to have electricity in his patch never mind anything else
john2443 said:
Do you have any exemptions to traffic laws? The only think I can think that I've ever seen is using the hard shoulder to get to an incident, but do you get any others?
Actually, are you officially allowed to use the HS, or just do it because it;s the more sensible thing to do?
We can legally use the hard shoulder to access incidents, we can reverse on the hard shoulder, we can enter the hatched areas between slip roads and main carriageway, we can use the emergency turn round points ( the little roads you sometimes see between split carriageways.Actually, are you officially allowed to use the HS, or just do it because it;s the more sensible thing to do?
We have exemptions to use flashing alternating headlights and flashing rear reds (only the police and ourselves are legally allowed these although plenty of others have them) We can pass under red X's on closed lanes.
SCEtoAUX said:
What!!!!? You can't help a young lass with three kids change a tyre in the pissing rain on the hard shoulder in rush hour? That's ridiculous.
I know, colleagues have received words of advice from management for doing it. I have helped to the point of doing it myself, but always making it look like the motorist has done it themselves.Do you remember the head honcho being ‘moved on’ because he kept being caught kerb crawling?
Do you remember the temporary chef in Leeds who didn’t come in one Monday because he’d been arrested for killing and eating bits of his victim?
And do you remember the results of the trial in the West Midlands on the viability of the HATO function that, by the time the political-will factors had been applied the actual 13% increase in congestion during the trial had magically become a 13% decrease in congestion?
Do you remember the temporary chef in Leeds who didn’t come in one Monday because he’d been arrested for killing and eating bits of his victim?
And do you remember the results of the trial in the West Midlands on the viability of the HATO function that, by the time the political-will factors had been applied the actual 13% increase in congestion during the trial had magically become a 13% decrease in congestion?
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