NO DRIVING LICENCE

[Poshpost]

What happens post revision, during the signing process, when all the HCT duties in an delivery office have been snapped up, can someone who does not have a driving licence sign for a shared van duty? If they can do they have to wait until a shared van duty already has a driver on board before they sign for a duty? In other words does senority trump skills i.e the ability to drive a vehicle.

[fishtank]

The following principles should be applied to your re-pick:

1. Staff will need to be trained on the equipment they will be using
2. Duties should be divided between driving and non-driving duties
3. People covered by DDA need to be offered suitable duties as a priority in the process re-pick
4. Driving duties will be restricted to existing and volunteer new drivers and non-driving duties will be restricted to non-drivers
5. A driver is needed for every shared van pair. Only one non-driver can pick into a shared van duty pair
6. Shared van partners without driving licences should be restricted to 50% or less of the total number of shared van partners. The exact ratio will be determined by you, but the balance you must strike is between creating a duty set:
a. With enough options to match your peoples’ skills
b. With enough flexibility to give you adequate cover in cases of people failure and unplanned absence
In the example duty detail display this is - 13 Shared vans, 6 non drivers (App 2)
7. The non-driving duties can be allocated to any of the shared vans, up to the agreed ratio
8. The cover and the leave reserve duties for the shared vans must be drivers to ensure that the van can be taken out each day

Clearly, the number of UK licence holders may restrict the number of vans you can operate in the delivery office. To enhance your resourcing flexibility, ensuring new recruits hold driving licences will be of help.

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[north london driver]

I'm still holding out hope that they get so desperate for drivers they offer to put non license holders through their lessons and test. Even if they paid half of the costs that would be awesome.

Can't see it though.

dont even think about driving for royal mail stick to your walks, most drivers want to come off

driving duties. roll on the resigns .

parcels,packets,registereds,recorded items,tracked,red registereds(9.00am),timed deliverys,

firms,bag drops,walking splits,absorbtion,missort run,+ sitting in traffic and having arguments with

everyone who cuts you up,then find out they cant speak english after you have slagged them off for 5 mins.

o well back to work tomorrow great in it.