Company I.D also need expiration date

Just to say - because you've mentioned this before - you don't need a big desktop printer to have a printer in the truck, you could just get an A4 thermal printer that will connect to the phone and it's like the heads of a fax machine and is basically 8cm x 24cm wide and will print your paperwork with no ink

Thanks for clearing that up for us all on to the next head scratcher

Excellent bit of info to have out there even if i say so myself . When i was bidding on bonded items out of B/Ham airport ( its cargo so next to the Holiday inn of the A45 if anyone needs to collect ) i was clueless and throwing it out as 50 quid be done in half an hour ! . The 5th hour and after 10+ phone calls and popping in the test the patience of the office guys every 20 minutes you get the hint its a job plus waiting so needs to be booked as such .

Looking at these comments has Answered my question about joining CX, i can get a van no problem but only if it's worth it, looking at these comments, it isn't

some swift nests in that wharehoue.....Bonded wharehouse=PITA....either price accordingly or avoid

Hi Pete me again the fuel alternatives back in about 2010 I worked at a auto workshop a few of use clubed together and bought a chip oil convertering kit from ebay for £150 it consisted of 1 x50 gal oil drum 5 x25 lt buckets a heater elliment like what you have in a hot water tank several filters to strane the chip oil and Methanol to add to the mix when straned chip oil is warmed up we worked out it was costing 28p per Lt which was great as i had just bought a fiat stilo 1.9 td for £100 that had broken down outside the workshop which is another storey I took the car from london to Glasgow and back at 55 to 65 mph overnight averaging 70mpg most of the journey i think for about £40 in fuel the only thing was a slight smell of chips cooking when using this chip oil they do recommend changing fuel filters more oftern but i did not and would somtimes just put in the odd £15 of deasil fuel

Jet Fuel and Rocket Fuel is more expensive just not taxed We have an Iveco that runs on CNG. I not used it myself yet. It does run on diesel too

Well, well, well. There I was, last night sitting down with a beer and started to watch Motorway, Hell on The Highway. Imagine my surprise when you suddenly appeared on my TV. I excitedly said to my wife "I KNOW THAT CHAP" whilst choking on my Budweiser. I now expect you will leave your KZfaq behind and take up the offers from Hollywood for voice over work and the appearance on Strictly Come Dancing, Masterchef and Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. The wife still has no idea who you are.

Hi Pete, Do you film on the sameday as the other experts and are they a good laugh?

If you had a sleeper cab for instance, would some companies ask you to sleep the night on the road?

They cannot read or write never mind pay insurance

Bud. You have public liability the wrong way round. It covers you should you cause damage/injury to others not yourself. And it’s worth every penny as can be very costly if you don’t have and are found to have caused the incident.

Public liability covers you dropping something on someone else’s foot, not yours!

There is companies like zeygo that offer insurance that cover you for delivery work and sd&p they also offer top up as long as you’re usual insurance will allow it, which a lot won’t allow it

Good news Pete you can used it in diesel engines but not in petrol it has a lot of additives in it and it's very corrosive

Jet A-1 is the fuel thats used in the UK . Theres other forms of the same stuff ( jet A jet B ) but its all the same just with a different freezing point . It can be used in diesel cars ( as far as im aware from speaking to others , never tried it myself ) without any loss of power or even noticing the difference . It also comes in between 50 ppl to around a quid a litre depending on where you are in the world and under what contract . Oh and if someone did use it they are legal to do so but would have to let the tax man know and cough up for tax . If someone was intending to `maximise profits` they can also use household heating oil .... now ive used that . Burnt through 600 litres of it when the nut jobs were making getting fuel difficult a few years ago . With the correct container and joining a fuel club it saves around 50 ppl compared to diesel . During covid it was down to less than 20ppl to buy ! .

Hello 😊

Afternoon Pete 😂

That mirror camera device is called an "interrortron" normally used for interviews (or interrogations) :P

Nice to see a sneak peek into the life of Pete outside the lorry

Star of the road ....star of the TV....😂

Car crash TV bloody hell that screen tiny you know what there going to do on the last episode they will play one of your accidents and see what you say about that

I can see this been the start of your tv career Pete you've got the personality for it congratulations

Would you ever run your own again

I had an awful experience once I was looking for an address which was basically what I can only describe as a bungalow ranch house stile in the middle of a field the north side of the M25 you could not see the ranch for the hedge's and a tiny gate I was going around in circles for an hour or so I finally found it I got the box out jumped the gate got half way across the field when a lovely Doberman pinza comes from one side of the ranch and a rather large German shepherd from the other side which I did not see at first wile I was dealing with Fritz the Doberman by giving him the box as a bargaining tool to get me out of the there Herman the German shepherd decided it was his chance to have a bite of my left bum cheek thank god the ranch owner heard me screem and came to my rescue but my bum hurt for days

Had a difficult one about a month ago. Was delivering mountain bike to a residential address in Copthorne. A forget the number now. But number I needed I couldn't find. The numbers stopped at saying 61 but I needed 65. I drove up & down this road for about 1/2 hour stopping local people on the street & knocking on doors. I phoned shipper up just to make sure the number was correct. I eventually found it. Right next to 61 and what looked like a driveway was in fact lane that went around the back of the house. The owner then said he right it on the notes but it wasn't passed on to my shipper. I thought I was going mad.

Hardest address to find in the black cab world: BRIXTON VILLAGE OR HACKNEY VILLAGE. Wtf. They exist only in the heads of estate agents. Be lucky

Love it when the address your given doesn’t exist, like the other week when I went to pick something up from 71 can’t remember the road, there’s no 71, about 30 minutes of back and forth and it turns out it was 72 they’d mistyped it over and over

As for recovery All drivers now can't go outside certain radius of base as if do go into tachograph territory Back in the day I knew a driver that had transit recovery truck and light car one way and motorcycle return He did 35 hours straight driving with few breaks for nap But he didn't have owners with him

Longest I have driven in one go is 15 hours John o groats to lands end in a car I was taxi driver at time

Amazon requires you to have insurance for business, they offer this via the app. Ps you missed my question on last Sundays q@a 😢

Bonded is to do with VAT that's all. So goods could be held in this country and not subject to vat.

I think the bonded means it's in some kind of no man's land or limbo before customs not sure or is it bound not to leave the warehouse in that country unless taxes are payed longest drive London to Pisa Italy 21 hours carrying building props joking aside it was knackering but really nice drive I really like driving so no destination to far

Appreciate your comment but a brand new Merc shouldn't need a new seal in the fuel tank lock.

Sunderland to Plymouth and back in a car which is legal. In a van it is illegal. Even though there is no tachograph on a van. you still come under domestic driving rules if you drive more than 4 hours in a day which you are limited to 10 hours in a 24 hour period if driving for work purposes. if in a hire van and not work purposes. Then its legal

Insurance ... Ok the big argument ...... the postal service can and will use their own cars to get to an area and then start delivering without a business policy . It is argued they are using the car to `get` to work but not `for` work on the grounds doesnt everyone use a car to get to work ? .... and isnt the work to WALK around delivering ? .... shady gray areas So some will insure properly , others do not , others get covered by the company they work for on the company policy ..... its yodel or hermies/evri ( i forget which ) who do this .

In regards of the insurance as I have done it myself on behalf of Deliveroo, Hermies and Amazon flex. Goods in Transit insurance not required on food items. You need a top up insurance to cover business use on your vehicle which you can have it as a full time add on or as I prefer, a pay as you go add on which costs in my case £1.20 per hour while logged into the app. The big firms cover the public liability while on duty for that particular firm. They also have insurance in place for you as the driver if you hurt yourself such as slipping on ice while walking to deliver and item to a customer and breaking a leg. They will pay you sick pay and some compensation. However, I not hurt myself in that way so never tried it. Also, in the case of parcels. The goods in transit insurace is covered by the firm you are driving on behalf of at the time when you are logged into their app. Hence you have to give all your car details over to the big firms before they allow you to work. All the driver is responsible for is their standard insurance which is a legal requirement at all times and the business cover add. Every other insurance is supplied by the company while logged into their app

Bond ? Theres airside and landside . Airside is the part you get to at an airport where you have gone through the metal detector AFTER passport control . Its the secure part that means you have been checked and can approach an aircraft . Landside is everywhere else in the country . Some items sent into the country are bonded . This means the container they are in is classed as airside and they are secured via metal tags or security stickers . You see them on the back of trucks and vans , the goods inside are considered airside while the seal is in place meaning an item can be carried from one area to the other without the hassle of lots of paperwork , going through customs once more and running everything through an xray , taking samples , paying tax and whatnot . Be warned carrying bonded items means you may not be able to stop at all , you have to travel an approved route only which is monitored via gps , you have to call in , lots of lovely paperwork before being given the work and no end of hassle both ends . Ireland has the open border sooooo that created a need for this system . A bonded container from NI can be driven into England without the need to trouble customs as its been checked prior and is bonded . Emails with the numbers have been sent prior , its moments to check everything is in order at the border . Bond also works another way . There are warehouses around that are bonded . Here we have a few . When inside the warehouse you are landside . It requires nothing more than the company ID to be in the building . However the bays open out to airside without customs , security or any barrier whatsoever . The step down to airside is only 18 inch and you are simply on the apron 30 foot away from planes . This is monitored like you wouldnt believe . 30 seconds from a toe touching tarmac a couple of very unfriendly cops show up , you just made their day as they get to wave a gun around and cuff you up . Once a year some daft sod falls off the end of the bay , looks a little puzzled for a minute then 10 cars all blue lit show up , face down and bracelets , never to be seen again . As a courier you can have items released from bond for you to collect . You show up with ID and the appropriate paperwork and after an hour will be given the items . Paperwork is beyond important . It shows tax has been paid and the items are legal . If anyone gets a bonded collection expect to be messed around for around 2 hours . If the warehouse is airside its 5 years checkable work and home history weeks prior to getting a visitors pass . 2 proofs of id and endless hassle getting in and when you do its then under convoy with you tailing security who wont leave you alone even for a moment .... lots of sit in the truck until called joy . 3 parter to read this lot out 🙂

With some accounts, such as Monzo. If you pay at pump it only takes what you put in. The ring fence the £100 maximum or if you dont have £100 in the account, then it takes what you have in that account only, then if you dont put in the whole amount that you have in that account, you get the remainder back usually within 10 minutes. Failing that, if you dont have £100 in the bank or you do and only want to put £30 in the tank cos you need that other £70 straight away for something else immediately. Dont use the pay at the pump. Use the cash machine and pay with cash

Having 3 or4 fuel cards is counter intuitive, the time you spend watching prices, waiting for the new price to come in vs the fraction on a pence saving. Not to mention the time you spend on it. I have x2 cards 1 x keyfuels and 1 x uk fuels

Amazon flex and other car based delivery services require you to have good in transit insurance and the reputable companies will require proof of insurance before allowing you to work

At the airport they helped themselves to some jet fuel .... They pulled up onto the perimeter road and run a hose to the fuel farm which must have been around 200+ foot long ! . Hole in the fence and bye bye im not sure how many hundred litres . Now this is patrolled by ops , security and armed cops ...... even a couple of vans who come past every 10 minutes to fine those daft enough to stop in the middle of nowhere to drop people off , endless amounts of cameras and of course the public is coming and going . It just goes to show its a losing fight against them .

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I like to fill my tank when it gets to half empty, Just because I've been caught out with pumps not having fuel and nearly empty,

Question for you Pete, get your tea ready, it's a long one! I've completed a job for a large Shipper and whilst I was on site tipping had to wait 2 hours, my terms and conditions on the HX Exchange are 1 hour free and £0 p/h thereafter, pretty standard and more than reasonable I think. after an hour of waiting I contacted the shipper and explained that they were on lunchand and that no one had made themselves available to tip me and I was likely going to be there for a while longer and therefore there would be waiting time, the shipper said "Ok, let me see what I can do" and off they went, presumably to phone the customer, another 30 passes and no one arrived, then a forky turns up and 30 mins late I'm tipped, paperwork signed, HX exchange updated and off I leave, I invoice an extra £30 for the additional 1 hour. Now the Shipper is refusing to pay the additional £30 stating that there terms of me accepting there booking??!! is that they don't pay anything for the first 2 hours on Collection or Delivery, this effectively is giving them 4 hours per jobs free of charge, so, my question, who's terms and conditions apply, mine or theirs? My feeling is its mine, they booked me to undertake the work and therefore accepted my terms, your thought's????

Depends what you are doing and where. Remember it only weighs the full amount when you fill it. When I was running a 3.5 tonner on field service work in Scotland and N. England I would often use a tank full in a day, who wants to fill up more often than you have to? The extra break time thing doesn't work either, most of the time is taken getting to and from the station, getting in and out, queueing on the forecourt and in the shop, not actually filling up so if you have to do it twice instead of once you are losing way more time than you gain by short filling.

van in for a major service, given a loaner. Had a job booked in so filled the tank just enough to cover the journey. Job gets cancelled at collection. Darwin award goes to.........

CX pushing Smartpay. has anyone a readers digest explination of its pros/cons and can it be ignored. I notice a few shippers are now smartpay approved. hopefully its not another fly in getting paid requirement ointment.

To me you start the day and fill it . Simply put i dont need the hassle and stress of worrying about when to get fuel . Also leaves a tank empty over night for when the thieves come out to play . Diesel weighs in at around 20% less than a kilo . 100L comes in at just over 80 kilos .