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Posted By Jack James
Culture change is always the challenge. Scenario - your company have staff that regularly drive on long journeys in the UK every day and/or drive to Europe and spend a 'really' long time on the road so that they can get back for some good old 'home cooking'.
We all know that things can go wrong on a bad day, so has anyone found a good way of delivering a sensible message and/or risk assessments / learning experiences / websites etc. that will help to deliver a message without damaging egos and undermining those who have plenty of horsepower?
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Posted By J Knight
I too would like to know any answers to this one. Still wrestling with MORR stuff; even though we've had three near fatalities since last summer (see my post earlier today) we still get huge resistance to asking people to change their driving habits & schedules,
John
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Posted By Peter MacDonald
Providing a decent budget for an overnight stay including food and drink is good. Most people in our organisation now have favourite hotels and eating places as the budget allows a comfortable bed, good meal and a couple of beers.
I personally like tues/Weds when the Champions league is on. Good meal - quick call to wife and kids - beer(s) - full nights kip - cooked breakfast. Beats heading up the M74 at 10pm getting done by speed cameras.
Peter
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Posted By Ron Impey
Hi Jack,
I'll e-mail you the relevant video clips from my collection.
Ron
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Posted By Merv Newman
Try to set limits on overall length of the working day, including driving hours. We set it 10 hours (with some flexibility) and 400 miles per day (again, with some flexibility)Say I lived in watford and just at my time/distance limit I got to junction 8 (the buncefield one) then I wouldn't be obliged to find a hotel in Hemel Hempstead (impossible anyway) I'd carry on home.
But if I'd only got as far as Luton ? Packing a small tent is advisable.
And no way would I ask anyone to get up at 5 am to be sure of getting to a 9am meeting (doesn't matter if the meeting only lasts one or two hours) 200 miles away (4hrs) then drive back. Too much can go wrong not least of which is being late for the meeting because of early morning traffic. And yawning/falling asleep during meeting (has happened to one rep I knew). And killing yourself and/or others on the way home.
Company policy is get there the night before, book in to a two-star and have a good night's sleep. If you do a full working day, then take a second hotel night.
And the occasional informal review of compliance with company driving policy (did you get home in time to see the match ? (sneaky eh ?) is recommended.
Merv
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Posted By rjhills
You could aways use Easijet!!
Think of the surprise when instead of Munich you arrived at (say) Mannstein US airforce base.
Getting out of there would make a car journey pale into insignificance!!
All I could think of for a Friday!!
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Posted By Jack James
I would like to thanks everybody that has taken the time to reply, in particular Ron for the offer of video clips.
regards Jack
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Posted By Ron Impey
The following site has a useful video on drowsy driving.
http://www.wtsc.wa.gov/videos.html
For anyone involved in promoting the use of booster seats, the 'Riding At Risk' video is good, but needs to be edited because of the ages quoted for children who need to be boosted (should be up to age 11 and not 8). I did this by inserting a JPEG into the video using PowerPoint and Microsoft Movie Maker. There's also a bad mistake showing children getting into a car on the road side instead of from the pavement.
Interesting warning in the latter about the use of seatbelt adjusters.
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