Importance and how to take proper care of HGV drivers

Posted by Rezaul karim on February 8th, 2020

We all the people are liable to our business. Transport is a huge part of the business where HGV drivers are the main part. So this is important to take proper care of those people who are liable to your business to operate the car and HGV. But most people of us are not conscious of those things. They don’t know why this is important. Even they don’t have an idea about how to take care of their drivers. There is no chance to deny that taking care of those people is damn important. In this article here I am going to explain to you all the things about what is important and how to take care of the driver of HGV.

Importance to take care of HGV driver

Generally, people never have a chance to drive HGV if they don’t have the skill to drive it. People have an accident. There are a lot of reason but if you look deep you will find they are suffering from lack of care. What you can expect from a driver who is mentally or physically disturbed. Or a sleepy driver who is dozy, he can make any of accident any time. And then the result of the accident cannot be good all the time. Even a few times your productivity will decrease just because you don’t have a good relation or you did not take proper care of them. So avoid all the things you need to take proper care of your HGV or any driver.

How to take care of the HGV driver?

Food is the most important thing. We should ensure the proper level of nutrition for those people. After over a year we can ask them to have full body checkup. Then again we can treat and encourage regular exercise. Tea habit is important. To keep them delighted we can ensure the proper supply for them.

Remember there more than 22% of the driver who drives HGV are facing mental problems after 4 years of their life. This thing we should handle when they have. You can give them a break for recreation. Or they can have their time with their family. Often we can give them mental counselling. If we ask them what is happening in their life right now, and try to give them the problem guideline, just this little initiative will make them happy in a few time.

How often they should rest and take checkup

There are international rules that are an HGV driver cannot driving more than 8 hours a day for average. So the thing you should keep in mind that your driver does not exceed the limit. Moreover, a regular checkup is important. It will make sure that he will fall into an emergency medical problem during driving or not. Remember one thing Driver mental health checkup is most important.

Most of the time people treat their drivers are as an employee. But we need to remember that they are people too. Moreover, they are to use just because of their driving skills. So we need to pay respect to them. There is no chance to deny them from society. We need to become more cordial. And of course, we should remember when they will good, then they will able to keep our business good.