Taking vans home

[maisymoo04]

We have a manager who uses a van (a hire van usually) to get to and from work each day and that's about a 36 mile round trip each time. he never fills in the log book and he is the fleet manager, so there's no record of what he's doing. The fact that we have one vehicle doing 5 times more mileage and obviously using more fuel than any other vehicle is never picked up.

Even people that do a daily HCT delivery get back to the office and take a van home, or wait for one to come back and then go home.

Mezza please pm the managers name and am blow the w@@@ up

[brasseye]

We have a manager who uses a van (a hire van usually) to get to and from work each day and that's about a 36 mile round trip each time. he never fills in the log book and he is the fleet manager, so there's no record of what he's doing. The fact that we have one vehicle doing 5 times more mileage and obviously using more fuel than any other vehicle is never picked up.

Even people that do a daily HCT delivery get back to the office and take a van home, or wait for one to come back and then go home.

I think I know who this is of whom you speak.....

[dave72]

I've started taking mine home, saved me £20 a week in fuel for my car and I don't have a drive or any off road parking available for the van

On my day off I stick my push bike (cycle to work scheme) in the back the night before and then come home on that

[arnold cheshire]

I've started taking mine home, saved me £20 a week in fuel for my car and I don't have a drive or any off road parking available for the van

On my day off I stick my push bike (cycle to work scheme) in the back the night before and then come home on that

i can see our union blocking taking them home because thats the kind of thing they do

[daveyeff]

How does it work when people have a rest day and they usually take the van home? I ask as this has been muted at our SPDO, 2 vans for 4 people. None of us live in the village where we work. I can't see any other way than collecting daily the vans from the main DO. The SPDO does not have adequate parking to accomodate any vehicles. Bit of a poser for the powers that be......

you dont take the van home when you are off the next day.

[Lounge Lizard]

I've started taking mine home, saved me £20 a week in fuel for my car and I don't have a drive or any off road parking available for the van

On my day off I stick my push bike (cycle to work scheme) in the back the night before and then come home on that

i can see our union blocking taking them home because thats the kind of thing they do

I can't see our union blocking anything, or doing anything that Royal Mail hasn't suggested.

[Lounge Lizard]

How does it work when people have a rest day and they usually take the van home? I ask as this has been muted at our SPDO, 2 vans for 4 people. None of us live in the village where we work. I can't see any other way than collecting daily the vans from the main DO. The SPDO does not have adequate parking to accomodate any vehicles. Bit of a poser for the powers that be......

You make other arrangements immediately before and immediately after the rest day, but Royal Mail still provides your transport and pays for the diesel five days out of six.
That none of you live in the village where you work is of no consequence. I live some distance away and drive the van home and back in.
Most SPDOs don't have adequate on site parking but most are in villages where there's space enough on the nearby road or lane and the risk of theft or vandalism is negligible.
But if collecting the vans daily from the main DO would work best for you then have a go at that.
The option of taking vans home is about the only improvement in the job over recent years and I don't understand the objections.

[krussel]

Saving £20 a week on fuel.

Ok I get that. Now this is just prob me ok. The last thing I want to see when I finish work for the day is a bloody RM van stuck outside my house, let alone on my drive. Its a reminder of work within my own time and something of which i am responsible for.

Personally I would pay the £20 and leave all trace of RM at the gate when I go home.

However this is just me.

[sequinn]

If you use a Royal Mail van to travel to and from work and park it on your premises/public street, are you covered by their insurance?

[arnold cheshire]

If you use a Royal Mail van to travel to and from work and park it on your premises/public street, are you covered by their insurance?

you shouldnt be driving it once your home

[sequinn]

I didn't say I would be driving it out of work hours.

[arnold cheshire]

I didn't say I would be driving it out of work hours.

this has been going on for 4 years and you are lucky saving petrol diesel and nobody knows how sad

[TrueBlueTerrier]

If you use a Royal Mail van to travel to and from work and park it on your premises/public street, are you covered by their insurance?

Yes as long as the procedures and agreements are complied with, and of course the nature of the claim is reasonable.

[boristhespider82]

don't get used to it guys. world class mail stops the vans going home.


that's ours stopped after 2 years

[dave72]

don't get used to it guys. world class mail stops the vans going home.


that's ours stopped after 2 years

Really?

The reason I take mine home is because there is simply nowhere to park it at our sub-office. Where will I leave it