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No Reversing!!!!
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iamnotadoormat
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No Reversing!!!!
i heard a rumour that management safety committees are looking into ways where we can drive around our duties with little or no reversing. Apparntly this is the highest cause of accidents!! 
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DGP1
- Posts: 15551
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Re: No Reversing!!!!
I certainly hope they put in drive through parking spaces everywhere (including the DOs).
I'm preparing myself for the zombie invasion, rule number 1 - Cardio
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ziko
- Posts: 225
- Joined: 01 Dec 2009, 20:26
- Gender: Male
Re: No Reversing!!!!
Yeah, management are looking into giving you bicycles ........ 
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CharlesSpooner
- Posts: 383
- Joined: 20 Jul 2011, 15:22
- Gender: Male
Re: No Reversing!!!!
Reversing doesn't cause accidents - lack of observation will though regardless of what direction the vans going.
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gerardy
- Posts: 315
- Joined: 21 Feb 2009, 12:14
- Gender: Male
Re: No Reversing!!!!
It's all to do with no back windows and bigger blind spots
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DGP1
- Posts: 15551
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Re: No Reversing!!!!
They'll have to take off those reversing sensors

I'm preparing myself for the zombie invasion, rule number 1 - Cardio
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oypostie
- Posts: 914
- Joined: 25 Dec 2007, 13:39
Re: No Reversing!!!!
Well that's all the cul-de-sacs buggered then !!!i heard a rumour that management safety committees are looking into ways where we can drive around our duties with little or no reversing.
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CharlesSpooner
- Posts: 383
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Re: No Reversing!!!!
Is there a reason (apart from cost) that there couldn't be windows in the rear of the vans with a roller shutter just inside the back doors behind the windows. That way the shutter could be rolled up when driving for a rear view and pulled back down after grabbing the parcel/pouches etc out when leaving the van to go and deliver.gerardy wrote:It's all to do with no back windows and bigger blind spots
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wayoutman
- Posts: 238
- Joined: 02 Jun 2011, 16:44
- Gender: Male
Re: No Reversing!!!!
turning right was also deemed quite hazardous, geo route has been reprogammed to do left turns only 
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Stormproof
- Posts: 6116
- Joined: 07 Jul 2007, 21:03
- Gender: Female
Re: No Reversing!!!!
If people can't reverse a van without having an accident they should'nt be on the road 
So keep on moving, moving, moving your feet
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
Illegitimi non carborundum
Keep on shuf-shuf-shuffling to this ghost dance beat
Just keep on walking down never ending streets
Illegitimi non carborundum
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clashcityrocker
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- Location: strummerville
Re: No Reversing!!!!
Makes sense to me.iamnotadoormat wrote:i heard a rumour that management safety committees are looking into ways where we can drive around our duties with little or no reversing. Apparntly this is the highest cause of accidents!!
Just imagine how many accidents there would be if people started walking backwards on their duty.
It would be madness and carnage.
The societies of consumption and squandering of material resources are incompatible with the idea of economic growth and a clean planet.
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DGP1
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Re: No Reversing!!!!
I thought that was what bumpers where forStormproof wrote:If people can't reverse a van without having an accident they should'nt be on the road
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TrueBlueTerrier
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bag69
- Posts: 297
- Joined: 18 Mar 2010, 19:52
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Re: No Reversing!!!!
Just wait until winter. All these p&l drivers who have little or no experience of driving on snow or ice being forced to do so. Cant wait to see the accident bill !!! Never mind it saving money somewhere. Or so they keep telling us.