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Saw this dude,not Thorby,on my round delivering a parcel,when he finished he got into a police car,as i passed i heard one cop pointing to his car tell him and that he wasn't insured for it.
Thought nothing of it till i went back there a couple of hrs later,had a misssort,conscientious postie you see,and there was the same dude standing by the side of the road next to about 30 parcels,i had the cheek to have a word with him (for RMC of course)and apparently he works for DHL and his insurance had run out and the old bill had towed his car away.

Taking the piss i got my phone out to take a pic of the parcels but the old bill were still there and politely asked me to move on. :d'oh!

Another one from an email i've just received....

:funneh Seems a traffic audit was done in a south london office and it turns out about 4 drivers were immediately taken off driving (causing mayhem in the office)as they had not done their change over,one did not even have an english licence,licence checks have not gone on for about 5 years,oh and the best bit,one manager is not allowed to drive a RM van as he has not had a change over either. :crazy:

Forgot to mention why there was an audit,seems one of the drivers had been driving while banned for drink driving for 6 months and had got found out!
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Kin ell - that serious POSTMAN, sounds like some management may be moving to RMs equivalent of Ice-cream salesman at the North pole soon.
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POSTMAN wrote:one manager is not allowed to drive a RM van as he has not had a change over either. :crazy:
Whats ' a change over' ?

To drive a RM van I believe you have to do a test. Is this new PC based test I've heard of instead of the old test (when you go out on the roads with someone) or is it as well as?
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NewPostieUK wrote:
POSTMAN wrote:one manager is not allowed to drive a RM van as he has not had a change over either. :crazy:
Whats ' a change over' ?

To drive a RM van I believe you have to do a test. Is this new PC based test I've heard of instead of the old test (when you go out on the roads with someone) or is it as well as?
Never had the PC thing,changeover is when you go out in a van for a drive.
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POSTMAN wrote:
NewPostieUK wrote:
POSTMAN wrote:one manager is not allowed to drive a RM van as he has not had a change over either. :crazy:
Whats ' a change over' ?

To drive a RM van I believe you have to do a test. Is this new PC based test I've heard of instead of the old test (when you go out on the roads with someone) or is it as well as?
Never had the PC thing,changeover is when you go out in a van for a drive.
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I saw a Casual with a HCT wandering along Merton Road in South Wimbledon at a snails pace. He was heading in the direction of The Broadway.

This was Wednesday at around 3.30pm
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Big Daz wrote:I saw a Casual with a HCT wandering along Merton Road in South Wimbledon at a snails pace. He was heading in the direction of The Broadway.

This was Wednesday at around 3.30pm
Are you sure it wasn't a) A manager or b) someone just stealing the HCT that hadn't been locked up properly :nervous
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Youngish chap in jeans and trainers and high vis, saw him earlier as well about 1.30pm in the same area, on my way to the polka theatre with my daughter.