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ptarmigan

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Customer vacated a workshop unit and whilst making good found one of the fuse holders on the incoming was broken exposed enough to touch(the fuses, meter, isolator are in a lockable cupboard) saw the boss and she contacts SSE the supplier who send a guy who cannot fix it as it cannot be isolated without turning the block off so next day 2 guys come down from Leeds to replace the fuse holders whilst live which they did.
Now the thing is the site is in Essex and two guys do a return journey from leeds, which is just under 300 miles return, why can't the dno's have a reciprocal agreement to repair each others eqpt surely it cannot be hard in this day and age or are the goverment involved.
 
doesn't make sense. The DNO for Essex is UK Power Networks which I think does not have a presence in Leeds, but has many depots in East Anglia and Essex. Rainham used to be one but I am not in the industry any more.

SSE is not a Leeds company either, nor Essex except as a non-incumbent supplier.

I will guess there is a contract with a specialist company who perhaps have a limited number of people trained on live working.
 
John, It seems it may have been SSE Enterprise who have a Leeds office but also have some a lot closer, will ask tommorow.
 
Maybe they are an internal building supply operator and that equipment is not owned by the dno. The dno would just get involved at the whole building supply level, which was presumably the bit that could be isolated.
I'm not sure the dno would want to enter into agreements to maintain effectively private equipment.
Does seem crazy but that's what open competition does, it's all reduced to what it says on the contract and service level agreements
 
I went from Rochdale to Hatfield last week to dig a hole in a footpath o_O
 
Greta wouldn't actually care.
She is a manipulated child puppet.
 
ptarmigan said:
Customer vacated a workshop unit and whilst making good found one of the fuse holders on the incoming was broken exposed enough to touch(the fuses, meter, isolator are in a lockable cupboard) saw the boss and she contacts SSE the supplier who send a guy who cannot fix it as it cannot be isolated without turning the block off so next day 2 guys come down from Leeds to replace the fuse holders whilst live which they did.
Now the thing is the site is in Essex and two guys do a return journey from leeds, which is just under 300 miles return, why can't the dno's have a reciprocal agreement to repair each others eqpt surely it cannot be hard in this day and age or are the goverment involved.
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I think I can better that.......

Bit of background first though.
One of my colleagues did a (local for him; Stoke) job a short while back.
The keyholder had an accent that my colleague recognised, so asked where he was from.
"Glasgow".
"No; where are you from originally?"
Transpired that they both hailed from a small town in Derbyshire.


Turned out that the keyholder had, all in the same day:

- driven from Glasgow, past one of his company's offices in Stafford (from which, no-one could be bothered to brave the harsh outdoors),
- driven onto Stab City to collect the keys,
- driven back to Stoke, to open the property up,
- (once the job had finished), driven back to Stab City, to drop the keys back, before
- driving back home to Glasgow.

Tremendouso_O
 
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