Taking a Trimble van home

Post by **2214MN** » 26 Aug 2020, 14:51

Hi guys,

I live over 10 miles from the office, it’s a rural location the part of the country I’m in. They’ve allowed me to take a van home before just said make sure it’s not a Trimble van.

Took a van home today with the ok of the manager, only realised once I’d got home it has a trimble in it. Trimble was loose and face down.

Is this likely to be an issue? Who actually checks the Trimble data, is it our office managers or higher up?

Thanks

2yearpostie · Post by **2yearpostie** » 26 Aug 2020, 15:40

Area manager, but all vans should have trimble by the end of the month. Just make sure its off the road (driveway) and its not even unlocked unless your going to the office. DONOT move it on a Sunday for fecks sake.

yellowbelly · Post by **yellowbelly** » 26 Aug 2020, 15:53

2214MN wrote:Hi guys,

I live over 10 miles from the office, it’s a rural location the part of the country I’m in. They’ve allowed me to take a van home before just said make sure it’s not a Trimble van.

Took a van home today with the ok of the manager, only realised once I’d got home it has a trimble in it. Trimble was loose and face down.

Is this likely to be an issue? Who actually checks the Trimble data, is it our office managers or higher up?

Thanks

The very fact that they've said don't take a trimble van home says this is not an approved van retention - the majority of which I thought
were stopped a few years ago. Is there any paperwork backing up this van retention? If not I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole no matter
how much fuel I was saving. As soon as there's a drama you'll get chucked under the bus.

Route1 · Post by **Route1** » 26 Aug 2020, 18:40

Trimble vans have been taken home in our DO for years

postslippete · Post by **postslippete** » 26 Aug 2020, 18:47

Wouldn't worry about it

Due to the prolonged period of covid19 anything goes at the moment. There are posties still sat at home twiddling their thumbs waiting for the mail to arrive in the morning, there are loops and packets of mail left in frames from the day before. Our senior union rep said a while back it was OK to take PDAs and slip left packets home.

wallan · Post by **wallan** » 26 Aug 2020, 19:00

postslippete wrote:Wouldn't worry about it

Due to the prolonged period of covid19 anything goes at the moment. There are posties still sat at home twiddling their thumbs waiting for the mail to arrive in the morning, there are loops and packets of mail left in frames from the day before. Our senior union rep said a while back it was OK to take PDAs and slip left packets home.

I would , if its Not an Official Retention then i doubt they are Insured to use the Vehicle between Home & Work , lets hope they don,t find out the hard way

mags999 · Post by **mags999** » 26 Aug 2020, 19:15

what the hells a trimble van am i on a different planet

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 26 Aug 2020, 19:38

I thought that RM did away with all van retentions a few years ago

Bahia Feliz · Post by **Bahia Feliz** » 26 Aug 2020, 19:41

SpacePhoenix wrote:I thought that RM did away with all van retentions a few years ago

We take the vans home still

Bahia Feliz · Post by **Bahia Feliz** » 26 Aug 2020, 19:42

mags999 wrote:what the hells a trimble van am i on a different planet

Have you got a traffic light type device on your dashboard above the steering wheel? That's a trimble!

Post by **2214MN** » 26 Aug 2020, 20:42

Cheers for the replies. Will just have to wait and see if it gets flagged up.

I guess taking a van home isn’t usually an issue but when it’s over 10 miles away it might draw a bit more attention.

iHateD2Ds · Post by **iHateD2Ds** » 26 Aug 2020, 21:41

2214MN wrote:Cheers for the replies. Will just have to wait and see if it gets flagged up.

I guess taking a van home isn’t usually an issue but when it’s over 10 miles away it might draw a bit more attention.

it’s Royal Mail policy to fill in the van retentions paperwork to take home.The Managers know this and a trimbled van may be tracked at your home leaving Managers exposed for not doing their paperwork job.

I wouldn’t worry about it.

olilew · Post by **olilew** » 26 Aug 2020, 21:52

I've been taking my van home for years. It had Trimble fitted yesterday. Nobody has said anything to me about taking it home now, nothing's changed.

k979aaa · Post by **k979aaa** » 29 Aug 2020, 04:57

Ye in gods we fear for here is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Trimble" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; at it's most indigent kind as for the van take main fuse out!