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The hours you listed still worry me. I've done my share of shift working, long drives etc. I know I wouldn't be safe doing those hours in a car.
The Nuclear industry have *heavy* regulation. It makes it expensive to run. It still functions because market (and political) conditions are such that it is still compebreastive.
driving test and brakes 551Conor The thinking distance in the Highway Code is based on a 660mS reaction time - a pretty poor performance level that...
If the haulage industry needs drivers to push at the limits of safetyto get the job done then the industry needs tighter regulations. If that changes the market, then so be it. It would have to adjust.
And yet still they run off the road in the middle of the night *on their own*.
They've done it again 550So.... And? ROFL... Please tell me where all these magical extra drivers will come from? Sure ain't Poland as...
Seems to me the TC is a regulatory body, The HGV test is a qualification. Apprenticeships are a dying art (I did one, I know) and many other 'professions' don't have aprenticeships, just University courses.
I'm with you on this one. Full time truckies are professionals. It's just that *some* of them don't act like it.
ISTR the 'not a professional' thread went something very similar to the 'not a European' thread, for much the same reasons...
Stopping if you're too tired to do it safely would be pretty high on my list. Even if that did mean the delivery had to wait.
If you can't do that because it would risk your job, then it's not a professional *business*. It's a sweatshop.
