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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 3:46 am 
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I do that Skull :shock:

Keys out every time, the E7s are bad for locking you out :lol: Driver error of course but anytime you leave your cab you should take the keys with you, it's not just a good habit but a professional habit.
The driver should have taken the keys and locked the doors, can't help thinking what would have happened if one of the children had got out of the vehicle, a bit like the guy just buried today who got killed leaving a PH on the M8!!!

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 4:20 am 
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Private Reggie wrote:
I do that Skull :shock:

Keys out every time, the E7s are bad for locking you out :lol: Driver error of course but anytime you leave your cab you should take the keys with you, it's not just a good habit but a professional habit.
The driver should have taken the keys and locked the doors, can't help thinking what would have happened if one of the children had got out of the vehicle, a bit like the guy just buried today who got killed leaving a PH on the M8!!!


Only you Dougie, could confuse a ruck in the back of a taxi and a guy fleeing the scene, to someone stopping at a red light, getting out of his taxi to exchange a few words with the driver of the vehicle behind. #-o #-o #-o

Oh and if anyone is wondering, why the fu*k I am up at this time of the night/morning, I have chronic neck pain and it is doing my fu*king head in. :cry:

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:37 am 
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My "kids" are all excluded from other schools, if i left them and the keys in the car theyd be gone like Lewis Hamilton....13 years old and they all drive

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 9:41 am 
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Heres a funny one, give me your thoughts...


A van driver delivering a van full of expensive wood sheets (veneers or somesuch) leaves his keys in the van, goes into pay for fuel, the van vanishes, this is in Cardiff


The insurers refuse to pay for the van or the product onboard

2 weeks later the boss is in Cardiff, turns his truck round and sees up a side street his van ITS A MIRACLE!

undamaged, load gone, and still with half a tank of fuel

all a bit suss id say

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 10:07 am 
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The Driver and the Environment
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You MUST NOT leave a parked vehicle unattended with the engine running or leave a vehicle engine running unnecessarily while that vehicle is stationary on a public road. Generally, if the vehicle is stationary and is likely to remain so for more than a couple of minutes, you should apply the parking brake and switch off the engine to reduce emissions and noise pollution. However it is permissible to leave the engine running if the vehicle is stationary in traffic or for diagnosing faults.
Law CUR regs 98 & 107

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:14 am 
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Forget what the law says for a minute,because the vast majority of us break it everyday whilst driving.I leave my taxi running every day whilst working.Fecked if im freezing my nuts of whils sat on rank.I leave the keys in it whilst out of it aswell.Maybe im on rank and want to go to toilet/bookies/shop if i leave keys in someone will pull my taxi up if rank moves.This thread is a classic mountain out of a molehill.


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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 1:11 pm 
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blackpool wrote:
Forget what the law says for a minute,because the vast majority of us break it everyday whilst driving.I leave my taxi running every day whilst working.Fecked if im freezing my nuts of whils sat on rank.I leave the keys in it whilst out of it aswell.Maybe im on rank and want to go to toilet/bookies/shop if i leave keys in someone will pull my taxi up if rank moves.This thread is a classic mountain out of a molehill.


your ok though pool, whose gonna nick your motor?....

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 21, 2014 6:15 pm 
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roythebus wrote:
It is an offence to leave a vehicle unattended with the engine running.


"Quitting" is the offence. And that is what he did!

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 5:08 pm 
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trotskys twin wrote:
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As it happens, both drivers were driving for me. The driver who left his vehicle was suspended this morning pending further inquiries. however he has since tendered his resignation.


If i were him i'd be looking at your company's TRAINING Documents regarding him being fully trained BY THE COMPANY in all aspects of being in charge of the vehicle, if there was a another member of staff on board the vehicle supervising the children YOU might have a problem, that said he should know better #-o

Maybe a final written warning valid for 12 months might be more appropriate :?: :?:


This about sums it up to me :D plus the other issues Gramps had the ump about needed to be dealt with when they occured dodgy ground for sure ....mind doubt the geezers represented so its a walkover for gramps :D

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