Robin Moor

The safety critical responsibilities in this job are:

- Ensuring vehicle walk around safety checks are completed and that they are to DVSA standard every time.

- Making sure tachographs are correctly used and that drivers hours, working times and rest periods are fully adhered to.

- Making sure caged loads are properly and sufficiently secured and restrained ready for transit.

- Ensuring load plans are followed and that the vehicle isn't allowed to be overloaded or exceed maximum masses per axel.

Day to business duties whilst a professional driver include:

- Making sure bulk mail cages are collect and unload at the correct building areas and in the yard ready for effect processing and sorting.

- Accurately recording deliveries/collections using a hand held computer/terminal.

- Ensuring that when delivering to vacant Royal Mail premises, all security procedures are followed and that the unlock/lock up processes are followed correctly.

- When forwarding bulk mail to delivery offices, accurate information recoding the amount and types of mail are declared and signed off using the waybill processes.

Duties and responsibilities Include:

- Making sure vehicle walk around checks are performed and logging a vehicle off with a defect form should it be found to be unfit for service.

- Logging all collected mail using a handheld terminal/computer at the site of collection be it a business, post office or a streetside post box.

- On return to the Mail Centre, unloading the vehicle of collected mail into the relevant mail cages and sorting areas ready to be processed and/or sorted accordingly.

- Ensuring the vehicle is refuelled at the end of the duty/shift.

- Liaising with collections offices staff should the be an issue or query that requires them to be consulted.