eire23
Well-Known Member
Attitudes like this are the reason for such strict rules in the first place. That said, The fact livestock drivers and milk lorry drivers are exempt from such regulations is a total joke.
@Joseph 88 isn't looking at it from a drivers perspective but can see where he's coming from.I can understand where @ponderosa is coming from, if a driver is so close to his base/home an extra 30 mins isn't going to make a hell of a difference but on the other side of the coin if there was leeway given it would be abused.
Once upon a time I used do an odd week of get up on a Tuesday morning around 5am and the only bed I got between that and Thursday night was a few hours kip on the boat to Fishguard then onwards to Italy with 8 or 10 drops of the finest Irish beef out of Rathdowney. Sleep in the lory Thursday night, finish doing the drops, do a few collections and point her for Mont Blanc Friday night and no stopping until gone through Dover Saturday night, back to Carlow Sud Sunday night. I only done it an odd time but there were lads at it week in week out.
It was f'ing lunacy but c'est la vie.
It was lunacy but it was the done thing. Manys the day/night going down the road seeing things in front of you from the lack of sleep, remember once slowing to to a near halt for a corner that wasn't there at all... Was on a pure straight road😅 Budapest in hungry was the furthest I went with fek all sleep, twas wild work.
My last job i finished up I used to leave sligo at 2 in the morning, and wouldn't be home till 6 or 7 in the evening 5 days a week. Pay was good but twas a long day, was a decent fella to work for so that helped as well.