How is class 2 Tipper work?

Carryfast:

switchlogic:
So you got your test paid for and a job straight after while I had to pay for my own, training plus 3 tests, C & C+E x2 and took nearly four years of trying before I got my first job and you like to make out I’m the one that had it easy? Ok then

My works driving job came at the cost of almost 3 years of the crushing depression ( for a driver ) every day of working in the factory.
From then I put in a more than fair start at the expected induction to the industry of van and 7.5 tonner work.
I didn’t get the job ‘straight after’ I was ‘already’ doing the job at that point my career was taking a fair progression van - 7.5 tonner to trucks albeit specialist types not commercial by the nature of the job.
The enforced retrograde step to the council did at least put me back to a fair level for my age of class 2 general/plant/tipper/bulker haulage work and some specialist types.
No reason after a couple of years of doing that why I should have been denied a move up to 8 wheeler bulkers and then International drawbar work by the age of 24.
I paid for my own class 1 and it was only luck by cold phone call and a no bs recruitment attitude that put me behind the wheel of an artic on trunking after an interview which went along the lines can you do the job I said yes that was it.Start Monday night.
I was obviously good enough for them to call me back as promised, after a temporary lay off to save a senior driver’s job from a different depot closure.
That’s where I really learned about the level of zb work dumped on exploited drivers by agencies.
Rubbish which no class 1 driver having already put in their time at the bottom levels of the industry should have to be lumbered with.

We ended up as great mates when I was called back unfortunately he never made his retirement heart problems got him.

Why did you need 2 class 1 tests.Mine took me 1 week of upgrade training.
As I said there was no reason whatsoever why any of the numerous International firms that I’d also cold called repeatedly during that period during my mid 20’s wouldn’t/couldn’t have given me the same chance.
It can’t be right that younger drivers, entering the industry considerably later were given that chance ahead of me.
It was the bs ‘experience’ word which I found hindering me at every turn whether making the move from the council to 8 wheelers or from that to International work.
It’s just stupid and nothing changes.
Tipper/bulker experience/artic experience/International experience every type of bleedin experience required for every seperate type of sector and type imaginable.
But conveniently no ‘experience’ needed for local scaffolding/building/retail multi drop deliveries or working as a council driver driving anything and everything from a flat loaded with plant, to a bulker, to a 24 tonner Gritter in one day.
Or for that matter year after year of solid night shifts on uk trunking followed by being used as a warehouse labourer.Who would have thought it.

Blah blah blah blah. You’re just trying too talk your way out of the fact you had it easy and I didn’t after seemingly hanging your whole personality on being kept down by the man… You had it easy, I didn’t.