Sorry that's not right our boss says if your trained you can change the wheel anywhere ??barncopxx wrote:Even a trained person is only authorised to change wheels when the van is in the Royal Mail yard - you are NOT authorised to change them when out on the round at any time - RAC only. The yard will have already been risk assessed so that when you change a wheel it can only be done in a specific space. If you really think that risking your job, family income and everything else that goes with losing your job is worth it for the sake of saving a bit of time on a one off basis then you are absolutely daft. Even if you DO change a wheel in the yard you must take the van to the workshop within 60 miles or one week to have the nuts torqued - only then is the H&S procedure fully complied with. They are their vans, and they say what happens to them, nout we can do about that!
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In a Perfect Royal Mail World......The RAC would turn up promptly to change your Tyre and wave you on your way.... It doesn't work like that. You inevitably get stranded in the Arse end of nowhere for hours at a time. 
When you;ve filled out your Vehicle Defect form your van would be whisked away and dealt with smartly...... It doesn't so you end up driving around with slow punctures and cable ties holding things together!
What Suits decide should, and shouldn't. be done (while sat around a table making Powerpoint Presentations) doesn't transfer to the real world. It's us the Front Line Troops that have to MAKE this job work....One way or another!
When you;ve filled out your Vehicle Defect form your van would be whisked away and dealt with smartly...... It doesn't so you end up driving around with slow punctures and cable ties holding things together!
What Suits decide should, and shouldn't. be done (while sat around a table making Powerpoint Presentations) doesn't transfer to the real world. It's us the Front Line Troops that have to MAKE this job work....One way or another!
Like all Wage Slaves, he had two crosses to bear: The people he worked for and the people he worked with! (Stephen Vizinczey.)
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We had some presentation at WTL at some point last year about changing tyres. According to our dom, if we signed this sheet that he was passing around, then we'd be qualified and thus allowed to change tyres if we needed to. So apparently I'm allowed to change the tyres. Probably worth noting that I wasn't even van assessed at the time he asked me to sign the sheet!
In my time at RM I don't think anyone in my office has actually had a puncture while on delivery. But we do have an on site garage in the yard so I suppose any slow punctures or unfit tyres get dealt with quickly
In my time at RM I don't think anyone in my office has actually had a puncture while on delivery. But we do have an on site garage in the yard so I suppose any slow punctures or unfit tyres get dealt with quickly