I’ve always done long distance apart from a few months here and there on day work and a couple of years in the office, I started in 1986 and with the big miles I’ve done in Canada over the last 12years I reckon I’m over 3million and possibly close to 4million miles, unless I drop dead or win the lottery, I’m looking at doing at least another 15yrs, so another 2million miles to go and I hope to do them all in my current truck.
If I manage 6million miles I will, at an average of 6mpg, have consumed 1million gallons of diesel, the tree huggers will be very disappointed in me.
I’ve often wondered but it would take me far too long, if I even could to work it out as I’ve had so many jobs and done so much radically different work I’ve never had an average year, well except for the 8 years at Virginia
switchlogic:
I’ve often wondered but it would take me far too long, if I even could to work it out as I’ve had so many jobs and done so much radically different work I’ve never had an average year, well except for the 8 years at Virginia
If certainty is difficult to work out, an accurate figure even more so. Mainly because of the factors you’ve mentioned.
Since you clicked on and presumably read through the thread and decided to comment on it I bet that, despite your reluctance to contribute, you still sat there and worked it out. Come on share with us. We’re dying to know.
Since you clicked on and presumably read through the thread and decided to comment on it I bet that, despite your reluctance to contribute, you still sat there and worked it out. Come on share with us. We’re dying to know.
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Hmmm…, you’ve just lost your bet then mate…on my kid’s lives I did not.
It’s one of those things I don’t need to know, nor interested enough to work out, it would just be another reminder of how much of my life I have wasted.
So you’ll just have to carry on dying.
Oh ■■■■…I’ve contributed again.
Since you clicked on and presumably read through the thread and decided to comment on it I bet that, despite your reluctance to contribute, you still sat there and worked it out. Come on share with us. We’re dying to know.
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Hmmm…, you’ve just lost your bet then mate…on my kid’s lives I did not.
It’s one of those things I don’t need to know, nor interested enough to work out, it would just be another reminder of how much of my life I have wasted.
So you’ll just have to carry on dying.
Oh [zb]…I’ve contributed again. [emoji38]
Haha fair enough then mate.
Your comment that it would be a reminder of how much life you’ve wasted resonates with me. I think about that quite a lot.
Since you clicked on and presumably read through the thread and decided to comment on it I bet that, despite your reluctance to contribute, you still sat there and worked it out. Come on share with us. We’re dying to know.
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Hmmm…, you’ve just lost your bet then mate…on my kid’s lives I did not.
It’s one of those things I don’t need to know, nor interested enough to work out, it would just be another reminder of how much of my life I have wasted.
So you’ll just have to carry on dying.
Oh [zb]…I’ve contributed again. [emoji38]
Haha fair enough then mate.
Your comment that it would be a reminder of how much life you’ve wasted resonates with me. I think about that quite a lot.
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Yep, the regrets I’ve had, of not punching the same card, in the same clock, in the same factory…
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This job ain’t perfect, but it beats lots of others.
switchlogic:
I do feel desperately sad for people who think they’ve wasted their life. I can’t imagine how much that would play on your mind in later years
^^^ that, so many times. As a youngster I was part of Emperor Thatcher 's private army and saw so much suffering and anguish that I decided that firstly stress would not be the death of me, and secondly I’ve devoted my life to the pursuit of pleasure, laughter, ■■■■ taking and surrounding myself with like minded individuals. Regrets? Nothing significant.
switchlogic:
I do feel desperately sad for people who think they’ve wasted their life. I can’t imagine how much that would play on your mind in later years
I didn’t say I’d wasted my life, but I have spent quite a bit of it away from my family, missing a lot of the growing up of my kids…that is my biggest regret in this job, but I suppose it goes with the territory.
I’ve had it chucked in my face from my eldest daughter during rows that I was never there when she needed me…that one hurt, and I always remember my youngest little girl once asking me if I could get a job like her friend’s Daddys, as they were always at home, unlike her Daddy.
Just pleased my wife made a bloody good job of bringing them up properly.
switchlogic:
I do feel desperately sad for people who think they’ve wasted their life. I can’t imagine how much that would play on your mind in later years
Perhaps you have missed your vocation in life
Have you ever thought about being a social worker ?
switchlogic:
I do feel desperately sad for people who think they’ve wasted their life. I can’t imagine how much that would play on your mind in later years
It must be unbearable. I’ve met many intelligent drivers with adequate aptitude to apply themselves with lots of other things over the years, yet still have nothing but regret for having stuck with this job for so long.
At the end of the day the choice is with the individual, anyone who sticks with it despite not wanting to ultimately only has themselves to blame.
switchlogic:
I do feel desperately sad for people who think they’ve wasted their life. I can’t imagine how much that would play on your mind in later years
It must be unbearable. I’ve met many intelligent drivers with adequate aptitude to apply themselves with lots of other things over the years, yet still have nothing but regret for having stuck with this job for so long.
At the end of the day the choice is with the individual, anyone who sticks with it despite not wanting to ultimately only has themselves to blame.
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I’ve had such a different experience to so many. I’ve always thought how lucky I was that my dream was something easily attainable like being a truck driver. If I could go back to 18 and start again I wouldn’t change a thing, it’s been brilliant so far
switchlogic:
I do feel desperately sad for people who think they’ve wasted their life. I can’t imagine how much that would play on your mind in later years
It must be unbearable. I’ve met many intelligent drivers with adequate aptitude to apply themselves with lots of other things over the years, yet still have nothing but regret for having stuck with this job for so long.
At the end of the day the choice is with the individual, anyone who sticks with it despite not wanting to ultimately only has themselves to blame.
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Nobody twisted my arm, in fact I always wanted to be a trucker, I used to go out with my Dad as a kid,.and later on in my teens with older mates, in the days drivers used to all meet up at nights and socialise…used to love it in the early days.
Nowadays it’s a complete different ball game,.although personally I do not have it as bad as some of them,.and I still maintain a certain amount of social life in the job.
Just been in a pub in Devon, a regular stop, which is 350 mile from where I live, but on a first names basis with the landlord and few of the regulars, watching the football, and this is what I like about tramping…I could not live the life of a cab hermit at any price like many do.
robroy:
I don’t need to know, nor interested enough to work out, it would just be another reminder of how much of my life I have wasted.
You seem as if you are hanging on my every word lately Luke …should I be worried, offended or flattered ?.
Ok, yeh I do feel I have wasted a lot of my life in that respect for family related issues that I have already pointed out.
On the positive side, only some of it, but not all, and as I said a lot of it I have enjoyed, but I do realise ‘a cake and eat it’ situation is not possible in this job.
Hope that clarifies… until you pick me up on something next time.
switchlogic:
I do feel desperately sad for people who think they’ve wasted their life. I can’t imagine how much that would play on your mind in later years
It must be unbearable. I’ve met many intelligent drivers with adequate aptitude to apply themselves with lots of other things over the years, yet still have nothing but regret for having stuck with this job for so long.
At the end of the day the choice is with the individual, anyone who sticks with it despite not wanting to ultimately only has themselves to blame.
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I’ve had such a different experience to so many. I’ve always thought how lucky I was that my dream was something easily attainable like being a truck driver. If I could go back to 18 and start again I wouldn’t change a thing, it’s been brilliant so far
I completely agree with you. This is a job I’ve always wanted to do. I think that having a nomadic persuasion certainly helps. That’s maybe something that is lacking in many drivers who “fell” into it rather than wanting to do it.
On the coaches I did the length and breadth of Europe and the trucks have taken me to pretty much every corner of the UK. Something I’m very appreciative of. I’m on car transporters now and genuinely enjoy it.
I’m not sure anymore if I want to do it for the rest of my life. One thing for certain is that I don’t regret any of it.
switchlogic:
I do feel desperately sad for people who think they’ve wasted their life. I can’t imagine how much that would play on your mind in later years
It must be unbearable. I’ve met many intelligent drivers with adequate aptitude to apply themselves with lots of other things over the years, yet still have nothing but regret for having stuck with this job for so long.
At the end of the day the choice is with the individual, anyone who sticks with it despite not wanting to ultimately only has themselves to blame.
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Nobody twisted my arm, in fact I always wanted to be a trucker, I used to go out with my Dad as a kid,.and later on in my teens with older mates, in the days drivers used to all meet up at nights and socialise…used to love it in the early days.
Nowadays it’s a complete different ball game,.although personally I do not have it as bad as some of them,.and I still maintain a certain amount of social life in the job.
Just been in a pub in Devon, a regular stop, which is 350 mile from where I live, but on a first names basis with the landlord and few of the regulars, watching the football, and this is what I like about tramping…I could not live the life of a cab hermit at any price like many do.
Very good point. It doesn’t have to be the sad and lonely existence that some seem to make it out to be.
…should I be worried, offended or flattered ?.