KTMrider:
albion:
KTMrider:
There’s definitely a common theme to a fair few of the opnions expressed in the main forum which boils down to “trucking was better in the 70s / 80s / 90s”That may well be true, however when you start looking for work you will find 80s style trucking is no longer available. .
Oi, here at Albion trucking we’ve barely crawled out of the 70s into the 80s
If it wasn’t for these new fangled digital tachograph things, you wouldn’t know
Maybe it is an age thing and you’ll don rose tinted glasses in a few decades, but I am pretty confident that pre mobile phones and tablets, drivers did talk to each other more and the volume of traffic makes the actual driving infinitely less pleasurable - everyone is more stressed. And there was more freedom and control when you weren’t tracked and monitored.
Here endeth the lesson!
Good post OP.
In simple terms I don’t compare modern trucking, to trucking in the past, because I wasn’t there. What I do compare it to is the modern workplace in general and I think it compares very favourably.
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I did say it beats being at a desk! Most of my lads wouldn’t do anything else and if it wasn’t for having dogs, I’d be happy driving again.