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lestination and special collecon and delivery instructions. he staff make a point of btaining the name of the Jerson operating the vehicle.
These details are, later, .ansferred to a job book proper rom which the accounts epartment will Invoice the ustomer. The duplicated heets in this book also record le rate quoted extended to the stimate amount which the ustomer is to pay and — if the )13 has been subcontracted — le subcontractor's rate and mount. There is also space to acord the receipt of the deliery note for proof of delivery • urposes.
lob number
Each entry is progessively umberecl and this becomes the ib number.
From the "rough" job book, traffic book is compiled. The affic is allocated a trailer umber and, as the tractive nits become available, a trac)r number together with the river's name. Spaces are rovided for the driver's bookig-on time, his departure time, le time of his arrival and nloading and where he nishes his duty. Details of nits not in traffic are added to resent a complete day's fleet peration.
As the staff become aware of 'ads available from other oints in the UK, the blank !ft-hand side of the book is sed to keep a record of these nd symbols placed against drivers scheduled to finish in that area so that they can be allocated a return load where convenient or be instructed to return to the depot.
Drivers are instructed to phone in to keep the traffic office staff aware of their wereabouts, the progress of the delivery and their availability. They must also inform the office of delays, • breakdowns and so on.
Each clerk knows the drivers and tractive units available to him from a programme compiled each Friday for the next week. The drivers' and tractive units' list shows which vehicles are in service or out of traffic and those which are to be used for shunting purposes. It also shows the drivers available, those on holidays and sick, arid those • allocated to shunting duties.
Coloured ink
Each activity is identified by a .different coloured ink and, in the interests of fairness and driver's satisfaction, every effort is made to see that every member of the driving staff has a reasonable turn on reefers and flats.
However, the arrangement is flexible in that a driver scheduled for, say, hauling aluminium will be switched to reefer work as the occasion demands.
Trailers on the depot are listed each day according to whether they are loaded or continued overleaf