SamThomas

Braced ply will always be a better material. All woodworking tools need to be sharp. If you have to use chipboard then, if possible (as already been suggested) try & do all the cutting first. Then seal it - both sides & edges. It does not really matter what with as long as it seals - old gloss paint/varnish, Unibond as long as it seals. Celotex (a trade name) is becoming popular - very light & easy to shape (if you use it & remove the foil make sure that you remove it from both sides or the board will tend to "curl".

Not too sure where it is (do we actually know wher any database is ?) but DVSA certainly have access so they can double check you data. Anyway, does it really matter if they do or not ?

Nope PAYE records only show who is/was working, not what they were/are doing. Anyway, many HGV drivers were working under limited companies until IR35 put a stop to that (also many EU drivers went home when IR35 kicked in - nothing to do with Brexit).

Yes, it would seem like incompetence is often rewarded by promotion. Said person should have been reduced to walking the beat,.

I'm not condoning the HGV driver but what many people do not understand is that most light vehicle speedometers tend to over read so you were probably doing 45/46 mph. HGV speedometers (excepting a minirity of dodgy firms who have sets of "calibration" wheels/tyres & those from certain EU countries which I won't name in case the snowflakes get upset) are calibrated which is why people get upset when they are doing an indicated 50 mph and get overtaken by an HGV doing an actual 50 mph.

Oh yes they do - via Tachograph Downloads they know who has been driving what & on what days. Quich search on the database to highlight HGV drivers that have not been active recently & an automated mailshot.

A lot of home truths there.

Talking of which - I wish this thread was split into construction & politics/finance. I'm interested in the technical/contructive side but have no wish to trawl through loads of guff about finance/politics/MP's/NIMBY's.

Lets have some figures to back that up then please. A single manned HGV can pay something like £200/day in fuel duty/VAT or £1,000/week to HMG - if HMG choose not to spend it on road maintenece then that is not the fault of the logistics industry. Modern HGV's are far more "road friendly" these days with air suspension. If the authorities do not maintain the roads properly then continued use by all vehicles will make their condition deteriorate. So many people voicing opinions about an industry they know nothing about. As I've said many times, if you are anti-HGV then stop buying stuff.

More than made up by the amount paid to HMG through road tax & fuel duty. Would you prefer to have lighter trucks but more, many more of them ? & please don't bang the "put freight back on the railways" drum because it will never happen for mixed loads/destinations, maybe for bulk but without the investment & will to pay for it - not in our lifetime. There would be some chance if we were not in a "must have it tomorrow" society so remeber that when you order from River.

Part of my "routine" when delivering to filling stations requires me to go into the secure "staff" side of the paydesk. All of the filling stations that I deliver to have ANPR as part of their CCTV system. This is linked to a national database that records "drive aways". Yes, it's still manual, but the pump is not activated until the clerk checks the screen). Some of these filling stations are relatively small with 6 or so pumps, so the bigger (& fuel company owned) ones could very well have more advanced technology. I really don't know what security arrangements are in place at unattended pumps/stations apart from the card companies security algorithms.

Relativly easy to "black" a vehicle by way of finding a fault with it on the daily walkround (admittedly not quite so easy on a well maintained fleet).

Why, why, why did you post that ! Now, I have to find a copy to watch................

A point worth some thought. During one of the Firefighters strikes senior officers removed (without warning to prevent sabbotage) appliances that were "on the run" for private companies to use. IIRC these appliances were subsequentyly blacked.

My idea was a simple way of cutting the queues down - most people do not need to fill empty tanks on a daily basis unless they are on a long journey & then there is also the possibility of working round that. Unfortunatly, if people continue with their current behavior we may end up with big brother. BTW, I thought jobsworth's used tablets thesedays.

The logistics company I work for specialise in supplying "corner shop/filling station" retailers. For some time they have not allowed their retailers to stockpile supplies - they have restricted supplies using historic data. If they allowed retailers that have the space &/or funds to stockpile that would create shortages for the other customers, create "false" shortages &, well you know the rest. No doubt someone will phoo, phoo this because of Aunties travel requirements.

People will always come up with "resaons &/or examples" (usually personal) why anything will not work. If supply chain issues continue we may not have any choice.

Most of the "up to date" filling stations need the pump to be activated after the staff check the ANPR, so there is still a little manual input. I expect that there will be a certain element that will think it does not apply to them, but it would certainly help to quell the queues, at least to come extent.

If he is a plant operator he is not very good at bean counting - he would be running his plant on red diesel, not white & his jerry cans would not be that prestine. Stand by for the great jerry can shortage.

It could work quite easily - on all but the most basic filling stations pumps have to be authorised by reference to ANPR - a simple software update is all that would be required.

Yes they were - I seem to remember that you had to go to the post office with a current tax disc to get your book.

Easy way to halve the queues - vehicles with even numbers on their index plates fill up on even numbered dates - odd numbers, odd dates. IIRC the French did something like that a few decades ago. Anyone here (old enough to) remember the oil crisis in (I think the early 70's) when they actually issued fuel ration books ?

Your comment regarding "thundering".

Sorry Jason I disagree. The people I know who are/have been working at home have reported higher productivity (backed up by data from their line managers). No time wasted at the coffe machine/photocopier & people not so tired because of commuting. Line managers can monitor their staff remotely.

There have certainly been delays in fuel deliveries but if "A" runs out of fuel due to late delivery then "B" will still have fuel. It all goes to show how little contingency ther is in the logistics industry.