Van checks

[POSTMAN]

Of course you've time for van checks (a legal requirement btw),just like prepping D2D's,and IPS,and prepping the mail,and prepping someone else's mail,and meal breaks,and travelling time,and waiting 30mins for the driver to drop you out,and waiting 30 mins for a bag drop,and waiting for your partner on P&L for 10 mins or so to finish his/her loop.
Now delivering all of the stuff,that's a different matter.

[drb]

All vehicle checks have a sub header in the RCS. In the duty modelling tool and IWT these are built into the duty. It basically fills your duty time. If individuals are not doing this to "make time"...well there you are!

[Lounge Lizard]

Fuel-Under a 1/4 of a tank?
Report offender to manager.

"• Fuel level (ensure sufficient for duty)" is the requirement, and many duties take less than a quarter tank.
To save filling up more often than necessary I wait until the red fuel light comes on - that's unless the next day is my day off.

[singingpostman]

Guess at the end of the day, it's a case of what type of person you are, personally I would never leave my van with less than quarter of a tank of fuel, the same with my own car, others would much rather let someone else do it, (the nectar points add up over the year as well) , and yes when others have my van its not always left as clean as I'd like it, so I spend 5 mins cleaning out the sweet wrappers etc, otherwise it makes me as bad as them for not keeping it clean.

[justdeno]

I once was a day off cover, and one bloke never left me any fuel, so one day I put in as little amount of fuel( about £3.00) of my money, it was worth it! He never left the van empty again and never said anything to me

[2pac]

so you put £3 of your own money into a van, thats showing him lol. weve got a diesel pump in our yard its handy as, for geting into a van with fuel in red just splash n dash, just enough to do me and FUEL IN RED written n log book faults

[Blue29]

The time built in to make checks makes sense to me, I just don't see how any improvements can be made when issues are found.

It's not at all unusual for the daily check to reveal suspect tyre pressure, light not working, disgustingly dirty cab and extremely dirty windows. Is the procedure to rectify this included in duty time? Any van at our place would need issues addressed if anyone of us correctly did the checks. There is simply no time given to be able to get the van to standard. Cutting off/OT would be required to fit any trip to the service centre.

[fishtank]

Cutting off/OT would be required to fit any trip to the service centre.

So be it.
I've refused to drive countless vans due to defects like dodgy tyres,brake lights,indicators and even if the van is a tip.
I won't drive an unroadworthy van and i won't sit in a pig sty all day either.
Management's problem.

[Blue29]

The van I will be in on monday will fail several checks. If i refuse to drive it there is no alternative transport. No spare vans. Cannot use boxes which is a long story. The pressure to go out in a substandard van is great. I'd expect to be pulled in for refusal to deliver.

Obviously, I'm in favour of covering myself by doing the checks. In our office, like many besides I'm sure, it is just too much of a risk to refuse. Whether that gets into the realm of bullying I don't know. I have refused four vans the same day once. It was not a pleasant experience to say the least and left me with a reputation.

[combo_king]

if you dont think the van is up to standards knock it back, its your license taht gets the points n u who pays the fine, the idiots n mine will drive anything not me, 1 guy was driving his van with no tax for neerly 3 weeks, idiots the lot of them, managers r getting pretty bad with vans saw them trying to bully a young lad into taking a van with no wing mirror out, he stood his ground, we have on site mechanics for the vans biggest bunch of cowboys out there

[maisymoo04]

I don,t take my own car out without doing basic checks, so why, when you are about to go out on a 5hr plus rural would you not do the basic checks to ensure a safe and comfortable journey ? how long does it to take 5 mins ?, rather do that than spend 3 hours waiting for a recovery truck to turn up. Sorry if this comes across as a "goody goddy " post, but the van is my working area for most of my day, so I like it to be clean the same as I would if it was an office area.

Used to keep the inside nice and clean.........got fed up with the collections taking it and filling it with rubbish.....I mean, who the f*** leaves an apple core sitting in the middle of the van and I mean that, they never fill in the log book

My van is legal and that's all that matters to me.

could be like my transit full ov maccy bags and chippy paper mmmm but there mine

[tragictramp]

started my own new duty today, and was given the van allocated to it, it is a total disgrace, dirt,dust and litter everywhere and to top it off lashings of mould over the centre console where the drinks holder/handbrake area are. Then to top it off on my way out on delivery the tracking it totally shagged, pulls harshly left so that its quite difficult to take a right. When i returned from delivery i complained to the managers who said it wasn't worth complaining about, I insisted that its unsafe to drive with the tracking as it is, and that i should in no way be expected to drive in a van with mould everywhere. After fannying about they let me fill in some form for the van to go into the workshop, but said i am responsible for cleaning the van, i said they will have to give me at least 30 mins to do this within work time as its in such a state, he mumbled a bit, so lets wait and see.
I only became a driver last week to enable me to get my own round and their already trying to break their own rules they told me to follow.

[POSTMAN]

Blimey that is bad!

[Stormproof]

Thought I'd post this one again, I dread to think what some of these peoples houses are like!

[maisymoo04]

cud be worse mine went in for a service and guess what was there(word of no lie) a y reg sherpa with a slidin door still runnin with jelly suspension.haha no thanks my word was no power steerin i remember drivin one when i started and tell you what ye arms were fooked after u finished so heavy