Complete beginner - pros and cons of driving, educate me

Beetlejuice:

ROG:

Beetlejuice:
For the first year you will feel completely deflated .Why?Well you read that the UK has a driver shortage? ,And here you are.It is not true about a shortage of drivers .it is hogwash,Good companies are the rarety believe me …You will pass the tests then face many many rejections .No two years blah blah .no experience blah blah .I’m sure it is all designed to get you down and belittle you into the minimum wages joke that is Trucking.
Good luck pal ,You will need rhinos skin aswell :laughing:

That is not the experience for all especially for those that are more pro-active in finding work such as going to companies early in the morning and giving CVs by hand to the TMs along with work gear in the boot of the car just in case they say we need you now !

Sorry but this is 2017 ,Do you mean more proactice in taking minimum wages ? And that is my experience having had a lot of jobs in my first twelve months .And I am 150% pro active pal.Haulage is a minefield full of tossers

24 year old, couple of months on agency, came to us doing a mix of Euro and UK, tops 40k. Home every night some weeks, away other weeks. Double manned and not for hours, usually 1- 2 drops a week on Euro, 1-2,a day on UK. Worst of it is sometimes we make him drive a van. :open_mouth:

He’s smart, polite, hard working, good attitude, no wonder he walked into a job that suits him.