geoskinn700:
i’d like to take mine out with me but insureance says no!!!
bet thats more like company policy…
I used to go out with my dad as well…loved it.my son goes out with me when I my wife wants to do housework…(I must ad he is only 17months old so sits and watches every move but he only goes with me when I am doing fleet work as to dangerouse on the roadside)
not that I am doing the work round felixstowe way after end of this week…
i don’t give a [zb] what the boss says about insurance, it’s got a passenger seat, and it gets used, sometimes i take the missus, sometimes i take my sons. the job gets done, and i’m never late. that’s what’s important.
they have all driven the truck, my 11 year old is prety competent on an excavator, and it’s free labour.
I used to go out with my old man, Thames Traders and old Dodge’s (christ, they were damned loud) and everything in between. Then when it was my turn, dad had taken early pension and came with me for a few years. I did everything I could to get him to get his passport so he could come with me when in Euro, but couldn’t make him do it. He always said, “Yes, I must send the paperwork off”, but never actually did it, maybe he was scared of the ferry or something, too late to ask now 
It got that I missed him in Europe, whether driving, racing or working for a race team.
Even now, I have a tear in my eye as I enter scotland as he would never, ever miss the chance of a trip up there.
My daughter came with me many times, a lot of them as full family outings as I used to do a lot of long loads at weekends and the three of us would be off somewhere. We spent a lot of weekends in stirling shunting our load and the pre-delivered long loads round to the thistle centre on the sundays they shut the road to erect them. However, she seems to have lost her love for the open road, not too unhappy about that though, it would have been a tad annoying to spend all that money for her Uni for her to end up driving…
How many on here would actually recommend driving as a vocation to their kids?
geoskinn700:
i’d like to take mine out with me but insurance says no!!!
Now I was led to believe that if a vehicle is fitted with 2 seats it was insured for 2 people, if it had 5 seats it was insured for 5 people and so on, I think a lot of companies now use it as an excuse, I may be wrong though 
They dont want the possible whiplash claims,I think that it would be good to have someone that you trust watching you back into tight corners.
Harry Monk:
My boy took this snap of me getting nicked in Italy a few years ago, when he was aged 9.
what was that for?
jayeastanglia:
geoskinn700:
i’d like to take mine out with me but insureance says no!!!bet thats more like company policy…
Exactly, any person has to be covered by liability insurance when in company vehicles and company property. Whether the company wants them there or not is another matter
My dad wasn’t a driver, nor were any of the family so I used to go out for days or several days with family friends and customers from my dads pub, somehow I cant imagine that happening these days 
i was out with my dad yesterday and im out with him on thursday and friday, only one place ive not been allowed in to and it took them 3 years to decide they wouldnt let me in! As long as i wear me hi-viz in certain places everyones fine with me being around with me dad
I used to rev the nuts out of the lorry to make it tip faster while my dad got out to undo the tailboard while fly tipping early in the morning.
My son is with me this week for the half term hols…he is 13yrs old…the company i work for are brilliant about it…he gets on really well with the bosses etc…he even has his own company logo’d polo shirts for when he is away with me…and when i started there,they gave him a signed copy of there book about how the company was started etc…brilliant firm and even better bosses…if we dont encourage them(kids),how are we going to find the next generation of drivers…this is what i used to do when i was a young lad…never did me any harm.
Me and my brother have been everywhere with our dad in the cabs of Foden’s and ERF’s when we were kids. Sleeping across the seats/dash on an S83 Foden at the Bedale Hunt pub on the A1 southbound after loading paper at Blyth. Unfortunately, the Bedale is now gone, now under the new section of the road and the shower which was through gate at the back of the pub.Dad had to ask “Is me lad ok to sit inth bar? Landlord, (think he was an ex lorry driver because of the of the photos of a blue ERF with a new fangled tautliner trailer) behind the bar said " Aye as long as 'e stays away fromt bar lad an ate’s all is tea.” This was August 1983! It still makes me smile when I’m passing even though its buried under concrete and the trees still there overlooking the “beer garden” Happy days!
I feel it is very important for kids to be allowed to go out with their parents and explore the workplace environment at a young age, when i started contracting you would see kids in the tractors with their fathers and loving every minute, it would be even better for you guys in nice spacious lorrys and regular stops to keep them happy. The further we can move young society away from feeling their future job needs to involve sitting in front of a computer for 8 hrs a day the better chance our country has.
