It's enough to drive you mad: plumbers count the cost of being stuck in traffic
Posted: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
On this week's show, Andy Cam and Todd Glister talk about driving to and fro and the love-hate relationship tradespeople have with driving. They are joined by Pointy Plumber (aka Robert Clarke) and Zach Ouazene. Birmingham-based Pointy claims that traffic in the UK's second biggest city has gotten ten times worse in the last five years. "The average drive time between a job, even if it's quite local, will be a minimum of 20-30 minutes. "I sit tens of hours a week behind the wheel of the van, trying to navigate the local area, getting around road closures, it's a lot." Pointy saves time on the road by planning jobs in the same area . "Routing is massively important nowadays, especially with fuel use as well." London-based Zach Ouazene is "sick and tired" of driving for work in the capital city. "It's a constant battle." He makes a shocking revelation, “I’m out for work 12-hours a day of which eight hours are just spent on the road, while four on doing the actual job.” Driving around low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) frustrates him the most. Zach can't figure out how LTNs are "supposed to be saving the planet" when driving around them is emitting more emissions. Listen to the podcast here.
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