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Rumple said:
I came off the road this year and took a job with DHL, until then I pretty much always 'run bent', there are plenty of firms that do it, friends of mine still do.
In what way? Genuinely curious as we simply don't get the chance now even if you wanted to.Some may still sneak in a dollop of POA now and then I guess, but it's rare as everything is on a tracker system and our cards and tachographs are checked weekly on site.Weight and hours, years ago speed limiters but that gets harder as the trucks get newer, for instance on my last job just pulling a fuse would disable the limiter, when the truck had a facelift that fuse knocked out the engine management [ Daf XF ] I would not cooperate with adding things to trucks, I.E switches for putting tachos to sleep and disabling speed limiters.
I have mostly driven for small independent hauliers, they would not force you to run bent but some would give you a financial reward, or look after you better, or give you a better unit [ plenty of drivers that sad ].
When speeding a strict 60 mph limit is stuck to, the units tend to attract attention and drink diesel much more than that, certain Swedish dealerships near me would ' up your limiter' for a small fee, another scam was to have the limiter set with knackered tyres, replacing them with new tyres would give a 2-4 mph difference, the benefits of upping your trucks speed are obvious.
Time, winding on you card was the most used, a haulier I worked for knew I had to be home Saturday morning to have my kids, he would every Friday for the three years I worked for him, overload me with work, I had to be home so after using Fridays card wind the tacho on 9 hours and insert next one, I do not have to explain the difficulties involved if you had an accident, things to avoid doing, going through tolls, getting GATSOed and refuelling, all will have an incriminating papertrail, I would be paid the Saturday rate for how many hours were on the bent card.
Putting a dodgy Tacho in with someone else's name on it was another scam.
Travelling overweight was something id frequently do on my last job, this would typically be caused by pressure of work by the boss.
These scams for me were done in older trucks, time stood still for a lot of small hauliers when digi cards came out, I have no idea how to fiddle them, most of my bent running would be for personnel reasons, to get ahead of myself so I wouldn't be stuck out Friday nights, or have a late Friday night.
Starting at DHL was without doubt the biggest culture shock of my life, I simply couldn't understand why they got so wound up over [ in my view] simple things, im not proud of the things ive done, they have been as a result of working in a backward area [workwise] and a case of most local hauliers are the same, I agree that these things are being slowly stamped out, it does seem though as fast as something is cut out, the dodgy basterds find another way around it.
This is a small insight into why I couldn't really give a toss about the disappearing British haulage industry, in 21 years of holding a class one the majority of them in my view are thieves, villains and manipulators.
All of this is of course Alleged crap posted by me, you may interpret as you wish.
I have mostly driven for small independent hauliers, they would not force you to run bent but some would give you a financial reward, or look after you better, or give you a better unit [ plenty of drivers that sad ].
When speeding a strict 60 mph limit is stuck to, the units tend to attract attention and drink diesel much more than that, certain Swedish dealerships near me would ' up your limiter' for a small fee, another scam was to have the limiter set with knackered tyres, replacing them with new tyres would give a 2-4 mph difference, the benefits of upping your trucks speed are obvious.
Time, winding on you card was the most used, a haulier I worked for knew I had to be home Saturday morning to have my kids, he would every Friday for the three years I worked for him, overload me with work, I had to be home so after using Fridays card wind the tacho on 9 hours and insert next one, I do not have to explain the difficulties involved if you had an accident, things to avoid doing, going through tolls, getting GATSOed and refuelling, all will have an incriminating papertrail, I would be paid the Saturday rate for how many hours were on the bent card.
Putting a dodgy Tacho in with someone else's name on it was another scam.
Travelling overweight was something id frequently do on my last job, this would typically be caused by pressure of work by the boss.
These scams for me were done in older trucks, time stood still for a lot of small hauliers when digi cards came out, I have no idea how to fiddle them, most of my bent running would be for personnel reasons, to get ahead of myself so I wouldn't be stuck out Friday nights, or have a late Friday night.
Starting at DHL was without doubt the biggest culture shock of my life, I simply couldn't understand why they got so wound up over [ in my view] simple things, im not proud of the things ive done, they have been as a result of working in a backward area [workwise] and a case of most local hauliers are the same, I agree that these things are being slowly stamped out, it does seem though as fast as something is cut out, the dodgy basterds find another way around it.
This is a small insight into why I couldn't really give a toss about the disappearing British haulage industry, in 21 years of holding a class one the majority of them in my view are thieves, villains and manipulators.
All of this is of course Alleged crap posted by me, you may interpret as you wish.
Rumple said:
Weight and hours, years ago speed limiters but that gets harder as the trucks get newer, for instance on my last job just pulling a fuse would disable the limiter, when the truck had a facelift that fuse knocked out the engine management [ Daf XF ] I would not cooperate with adding things to trucks, I.E switches for putting tachos to sleep and disabling speed limiters.
I have mostly driven for small independent hauliers, they would not force you to run bent but some would give you a financial reward, or look after you better, or give you a better unit [ plenty of drivers that sad ].
When speeding a strict 60 mph limit is stuck to, the units tend to attract attention and drink diesel much more than that, certain Swedish dealerships near me would ' up your limiter' for a small fee, another scam was to have the limiter set with knackered tyres, replacing them with new tyres would give a 2-4 mph difference, the benefits of upping your trucks speed are obvious.
Time, winding on you card was the most used, a haulier I worked for knew I had to be home Saturday morning to have my kids, he would every Friday for the three years I worked for him, overload me with work, I had to be home so after using Fridays card wind the tacho on 9 hours and insert next one, I do not have to explain the difficulties involved if you had an accident, things to avoid doing, going through tolls, getting GATSOed and refuelling, all will have an incriminating papertrail, I would be paid the Saturday rate for how many hours were on the bent card.
Putting a dodgy Tacho in with someone else's name on it was another scam.
Travelling overweight was something id frequently do on my last job, this would typically be caused by pressure of work by the boss.
These scams for me were done in older trucks, time stood still for a lot of small hauliers when digi cards came out, I have no idea how to fiddle them, most of my bent running would be for personnel reasons, to get ahead of myself so I wouldn't be stuck out Friday nights, or have a late Friday night.
Starting at DHL was without doubt the biggest culture shock of my life, I simply couldn't understand why they got so wound up over [ in my view] simple things, im not proud of the things ive done, they have been as a result of working in a backward area [workwise] and a case of most local hauliers are the same, I agree that these things are being slowly stamped out, it does seem though as fast as something is cut out, the dodgy basterds find another way around it.
This is a small insight into why I couldn't really give a toss about the disappearing British haulage industry, in 21 years of holding a class one the majority of them in my view are thieves, villains and manipulators.
All of this is of course Alleged crap posted by me, you may interpret as you wish.
You know whats easier?I have mostly driven for small independent hauliers, they would not force you to run bent but some would give you a financial reward, or look after you better, or give you a better unit [ plenty of drivers that sad ].
When speeding a strict 60 mph limit is stuck to, the units tend to attract attention and drink diesel much more than that, certain Swedish dealerships near me would ' up your limiter' for a small fee, another scam was to have the limiter set with knackered tyres, replacing them with new tyres would give a 2-4 mph difference, the benefits of upping your trucks speed are obvious.
Time, winding on you card was the most used, a haulier I worked for knew I had to be home Saturday morning to have my kids, he would every Friday for the three years I worked for him, overload me with work, I had to be home so after using Fridays card wind the tacho on 9 hours and insert next one, I do not have to explain the difficulties involved if you had an accident, things to avoid doing, going through tolls, getting GATSOed and refuelling, all will have an incriminating papertrail, I would be paid the Saturday rate for how many hours were on the bent card.
Putting a dodgy Tacho in with someone else's name on it was another scam.
Travelling overweight was something id frequently do on my last job, this would typically be caused by pressure of work by the boss.
These scams for me were done in older trucks, time stood still for a lot of small hauliers when digi cards came out, I have no idea how to fiddle them, most of my bent running would be for personnel reasons, to get ahead of myself so I wouldn't be stuck out Friday nights, or have a late Friday night.
Starting at DHL was without doubt the biggest culture shock of my life, I simply couldn't understand why they got so wound up over [ in my view] simple things, im not proud of the things ive done, they have been as a result of working in a backward area [workwise] and a case of most local hauliers are the same, I agree that these things are being slowly stamped out, it does seem though as fast as something is cut out, the dodgy basterds find another way around it.
This is a small insight into why I couldn't really give a toss about the disappearing British haulage industry, in 21 years of holding a class one the majority of them in my view are thieves, villains and manipulators.
All of this is of course Alleged crap posted by me, you may interpret as you wish.
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