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tiptoptaff
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Trainee - we keep our own logbooks
tiptoptaff
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Cheers!
We're quite luckythat all our paper stuff, like route maps, manuals, rule books etc are all electronic on our tablets. A lot less to carry. Although I keep all of my rules and traction notes in my bag just in case, and I can read a section a day over my PNB. The last thing to be fully hard copy is our logbook. Which happens to be the heaviest of the lot!
axlecounter
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Since nobody mentioned spare rolls, I assume in the UK there aren’t tachos recording on paper rolls anymore?
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Lunch and coffee supplies most importantly.
Torch, company mobile and tablet (access to wons/pons, rule book, maps and traction manuals etc), hi vis, Id and keys, driving licence, various forms inc non multi’s, tempel stick, sunglasses.
Torch, company mobile and tablet (access to wons/pons, rule book, maps and traction manuals etc), hi vis, Id and keys, driving licence, various forms inc non multi’s, tempel stick, sunglasses.
You planning on declaring yourself a failure for 15-hours?
tiptoptaff
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Need that OT money!!!You planning on declaring yourself a failure for 15-hours?
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Current trainee driver but former guard. Couple of things in my bag I've not seen mentioned yet - roster (for the inevitable moment on your PNB when a colleague asks for a swap 3 months from now and you need to know what you're agreeing to!) and also safety goggles - there is one maintenance depot on our patch where it's obligatory to wear them at all times. I won't be signing it (it's top link only at my depot) but as all the DIs are in the top link I may well have to go in there during my handling hours.
Our lot is the other way around. We're due to be getting tablets in a few months time but for now we have to carry everything on paper, but we don't have a paper logbook; we update our progress online instead. That said, we have to mark off in so much detail what we've done (like count every single red signal we stop at) that I carry a small notepad that I can quickly note things down on during the day, and then transcribe it all on to the website at the end of the week.
Our lot is the other way around. We're due to be getting tablets in a few months time but for now we have to carry everything on paper, but we don't have a paper logbook; we update our progress online instead. That said, we have to mark off in so much detail what we've done (like count every single red signal we stop at) that I carry a small notepad that I can quickly note things down on during the day, and then transcribe it all on to the website at the end of the week.
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Sunglasses,
Spare keys,
Couple of spare pens,
Paracetamol/ibuprofen,
Paperwork:
WONS,
route maps (admittedly not all routes but just some key/ complex areas),
RT3185,RT3177, ESW tickets
Company report forms
Then theres the usual dinner and hot drink flask..
Then I always carry my personal tablet and headphones and a phone charger and this time of year I always have my hat and gloves in there as well just in case...
Amazing what you can fit in there when you work it out properly
Hi viz
Sunglasses,
Spare keys,
Couple of spare pens,
Paracetamol/ibuprofen,
Paperwork:
WONS,
route maps (admittedly not all routes but just some key/ complex areas),
RT3185,RT3177, ESW tickets
Company report forms
Then theres the usual dinner and hot drink flask..
Then I always carry my personal tablet and headphones and a phone charger and this time of year I always have my hat and gloves in there as well just in case...
Amazing what you can fit in there when you work it out properly
Of course, key question for all is do you have the latest one? (Should be NR 3190, not 'RT')
I’m not sure it’s ever been known as an RT3190; it was NR3190 from the start.
iphone76
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At some time in the next 1 to 5 years I'll also need a CR3190 form. (Or perhaps an EL3190 if it gets renamed too).
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It was before it came into the Rule Book for everybody in December 2018.
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Dare I ask what CR and EL stand for?
You planning on declaring yourself a failure for 15-hours?
If he's a freight driver he's probably thinking about the amount of time he'll be spending in loops and sidings watching other trains go past!
Surprised no-one so far (especially freight drivers) has mentioned an empty pop bottle in case you get caught short.
The world is my toilet!
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Oasis bottle actually
I honestly couldn't list the whole of what's in my bag. More than 90% of drivers at my depot for sure. Added to the above I've also got a first aid kit and a multi tool which has had a surprising amount of use. There's probably food in there somewhere that's over a year old. Waterproof overtrousers, that squeeze bottle squash stuff even though I still always just habitually make coffee. Battery power pack for recharging devices without mains power. Cold weather gear, hat gloves etc. I must weigh it all really.
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