I was once driving back from a job on a Sunday - unpaid. The guy in the front passenger seat was being paid ordinary time because he was a junior engineer. The other chap, fast asleep on the back seat, was being paid at double time because he was a technician.
I'm sure it all made sense to the accountants.
In article , H. Neary
Don't really want to piss you off Adam, but obligatory lights, tyres, oil, horn, water and washer fluid should be checked on a daily basis by the
*driver* whether on a weekly 'list' or not - as your firm and drivers will find out if the VOSA pulls the vehicles in for a roadside inspection, and if these are involved in a serious accident and VOSA gets involved, they go even deeper, and dig rather deeply into the history of the vehicles past safety inspections (should be done monthly) along with their service and maintenance records.So just out of curiosity, are the vehicles being checked daily by the driver, with the weekly 'list' simply being used as a part of a 'training plan' for the apprentices?
Now from the comments you make here about those apprentices, its surprising that the more hot-headed of them haven't decided to run a weekly 'hooter test' and 'modify' your nose with their fist - and I wonder how many of those comments of yours are actually factual!
Only one apprentice has ever hit me. I floored him and then I fired him. And he was that stupid he waited in the car park for a lift home. So at 4pm he had to make his own way back from Sheffield to Doncaster instead of doing it at 1pm.
I have my own van. I would not let those daft little bastards check it.
I check my tyres occasionally. I never check the oil (the van does that for me). I fill the washer bottle up weekly. I test the horn when a wanker gets in the way. I never check the water level. I test the rear lights by looking in my mirrors when reversing.
However this is my van with no other drivers.
When I did have a small radiator leak it was obvious that it had a leak as the temperature gauge showed the engine was warming up faster than normal (and that was with only a litre having gone).
I know my van and I watch for these things. I also do not kerb the van so I have no need to worry about the tracking. Generally I can guess by the mileage when the tyres wll need changing.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Oh I don't know. The BMW driver who tried to ram into my vehicle yesterday because he didn't know how to join a motorway, or use his mirrors or notice that I was being overtaken hence could not move into lane 2 deserved a slap. He didn't deserve a big slap until he overtook me then slowed down to make pointing at his eyes gestures. It wasn't me that needed specs it was the twerp trying to out-accelerate a vehicle that had already passed him before he pulled the fool trick of trying to accelerate up the inside of said vehicle.
Yes, there's a lot of this about. Usually BMW or often these days Audis. What is it with these tosspots?
In message , Tim Streater writes
I'm a Land Rover driver - I couldn't give a f****
In message , tony sayer writes
Usually the next brick wall/tree/hedge.
In message , Sam Plusnet writes
Do you work for "home.com" or are you using their domain without authority?
Before you make that sort of comparison, were all the other conditions of employment identical? My guess is not.
At the moment your communication is showing that you are too stupid to find a "delete" key on a keyboard. If we're talking about a contest to find who is from the shallow end of the gene pool then it is a fine matter of judgement between you and Wodney.
With all due respect, if you have nothing to contribute to the subject of the post, can you perhaps save a bit of bandwidth and find something else to do.
HN
Why should he? It's exactly what you're doing.
No I was expressing opinions on the topic when he barged in spouting some totally irrelavant drivel. I realise that on two [now three] occasions I have departed from the subject topic, but this has been merely to point out to the previous poster, and now yourself of course that what you are doing wastes bandwidth and contributes not one miniscule iota of information related to the inital topic.
Shouldn't you start another thread in a more approprate group?
HN
Sounds as though you have the whole potato on your shoulder, sonny Jim.
Why don't you try here - alt.talk.bollocks or demon.local T'would suit you a treat since wodney is the master of the subject. Alternatively, get yourselves a room and argue the toss in there. HTH.
Could I point out to you that I was discussing a topic directly related to the group when yourself and the other newsgroup expert butted in.
I have no "chip on my shoulder". I am just pointing out [helpfully I hope], that the pair of you are well off topic.
Now I haven't been insulting, used bad language or been critical of others personalities. I have just stated a couple of opinions on a subject in the hope of either seeing where my opinion maybe flawed, or maybe shedding light on what's right and wrong to the less mentally agile of the group.
It is a low trick to tackle a subject you do not agree with or understand with a load of garbage about bandwidth and usenet formalities.
If you really want to hit the gutter you may wish to run everything through a spellchecker.
BTW It's Sunny Jim. Not being critical you understand, but you seem a bit of a stickler!
HN
That does not mean they will learn from it:-)
Do you consider me as one of the less mentally agile?
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