In times gone by many people were attracted to HGV driving because of the idea of freedom away from the type of monitoring and structured day they’d get in a factory, they also had the opportunity to travel far away locations, Middle East, North Africa, Russia or just the Rest of Europe, there were also the chances to earn a decent wage, for these reasons it attracted an independent sort of person and to avoid the mundane option of other jobs they’d put up with long hours and days, weeks, even months away.
Things have changed, but the haulage industry hasn’t, it expects to monitor drivers more closely than most factory workers, but not give them the same terms and conditions as a factory worker, it hasn’t reduced the hours and raised the pay to match other jobs where you’d get home every night and get a living wage.
However there are still jobs out there that are a cut above, where you will get treated with respect, but you have to get out and find them and when you get them don’t mess them up.