Well I take offence as I’m fully employed but I walk with a limp, mainly due to the fact that I usually need to deposit some golden juice when I stop, as after 10 years I’ve yet to manage the art of producing bottled tizer whilst on the move. My Hi Vis makes me feel important so I always wear it, after all we all know that ‘important’ people wear these, and my blue tooth is worn to signify that I do have the latest iphone, and it is ■■■■ well nearly costing my wages to fund it…
CraigM:
No I’m not jumping on any bandwagons. Had been reading some of the comments about agency recently then this prime specimen appeared on the same site as me. As I said, thought this was a myth until yesterday.
So am I agency? Ex agency or what then. Let me know! Or is it your deluded reading of these posts or vast driving experience that gives you that gem of information?
dri-diddly-iver:
CraigM:
No I’m not jumping on any bandwagons. Had been reading some of the comments about agency recently then this prime specimen appeared on the same site as me. As I said, thought this was a myth until yesterday.So am I agency? Ex agency or what then. Let me know! Or is it your deluded reading of these posts or vast driving experience that gives you that gem of information?
■■? Surely you know what you are■■? I can’t help you with that one fella.
As for my vast driving experience. Only had HGV since June but certainly not my only professional driving experience.
dri-diddly-iver:
It was just the blatant dig at agency drivers and (my opinion) trying to get on a bandwagon that niggled me in the first placeIt’s ■■■■ up Friday and I’m having a quiet couple-ish
It’s a pity you can’t handle your drink and feel the need to come on here half-cut and try to create an argument on a light hearted thread.
ORC:
Is there some sort of mechanical hands-free implant newly employed drivers get that makes the agency bluetooth earpiece obsolete?.
What they get is called ignorance, it kicks in naturally when they sign an employment contract. The usual signs of this happening is when they walk in a room & have an air of superiority about them, and start looking down their noses at agency drivers, or look at others like they’re trodden in something.
Rentadent:
It’s a pity you can’t handle your drink and feel the need to come on here half-cut and try to create an argument on a light hearted thread.
I can handle drink perfectly well, I’ve had a lot of practice 
I still feel the same now 100% sober. Agency, Stobart, tipper drivers 
Always the same tripe
“. Agency, Stobart, tipper drivers Always the same tripe ”
this
personally I will not do agency work but have worked with quite a few agency guys and majority have been good lads, some idiots too but thats the same for full time guys… some good, some idiots…
dri-diddly-iver:
Rentadent:
It’s a pity you can’t handle your drink and feel the need to come on here half-cut and try to create an argument on a light hearted thread.I can handle drink perfectly well, I’ve had a lot of practice
ill drink to that dri keep up the good work mate 
I intend to, may even have a swift one later
I am agency I got a limp, not got bluetooth but am going to buy one. I anyone wants to have laugh at a fella with a limp, PM me, I will tell you where I am working. I will even drive with my hi vis on if you want.
Must admit I didn’t believe the stereotype until I was double manning a run this week 
Forgot to say Craig, you don’t get max points as he didn’t have all his worldly possessions in a co-op carrier bag
tommie1shunt:
I am agency I got a limp, not got bluetooth but am going to buy one. I anyone wants to have laugh at a fella with a limp, PM me, I will tell you where I am working. I will even drive with my hi vis on if you want.
I smell a lie here. How can you have the username 1 shunt and be agency? (Unless that one shunt is into the nearest building/trailer/dot com van etc)
ORC:
I’m intrigued as to why the bluetooth earpiece is the preserve of agency drivers alone. Do company drivers not need them?
The company drivers have worked out how to use the cab phone to call or be called by their missus.
Plus, they don’t need to be constantly contactable by their employer to know if they have any work for the following day.
We had a van driver in our place last week. Them ones who sleep in the roof of their Luton van.
Had shorts, t-shirt and flip flops on. I asked if he was going to the beach but don’t think he understood 
we had one a couple of weeks ago who was supposed to to 2 trunks to the pallet force hub at burton.
brought the first one back,then fell asleep in the yard for 5 hours.tm woke him about 6…ripped his time sheet up and told him to ■■■■ off
Had a great agency mate when on the flour. He had a limp, lived with his elderly parents, uncle and a spinster sister, typical carrot crunching family.
Anyway what was funny looking back (but agonising at the time) was his ability to take any subject and turn it around to a conversation about his brothers’ bouncy castle hire business.
If you passed a castle, that got a bouncy castle tale. If you passed a nice pub, you got a bouncy castle tale. If you mentioned a wedding reception you attended, he’ll tell you they do bouncy castles for wedding receptions. We passed a steam railway and I was told they had an inflatable bouncy castle train. 
For variety he’d also complain he couldn’t lose weight, as he munched through three chocolate bars washed down with a litre of Coca Cola.
Terry T:
We had a van driver in our place last week. Them ones who sleep in the roof of their Luton van.Had shorts, t-shirt and flip flops on. I asked if he was going to the beach but don’t think he understood
It’s called ‘Trucker chic’ that’s what I wear every summer 
not as much as when I came off Euro work though.
I used to go into Scunthorpe mill like that just to watch that total knob h&s guy have a virtual stroke, especially when I pretended to be foreign (which I could carry off driving a LHD. )
What do you wear Terry? bib & brace overalls pit boots and cloth cap?
I’ve never seen an agency driver limp, but I did see one with a Bluetooth in each lug
Trousers n t-shirt. By order of D’Management
The foreigners are forever being told off for coming into our place in beach wear. It’s got to the point where people seem to be past caring though as they never listen.
m1cks:
tommie1shunt:
I am agency I got a limp, not got bluetooth but am going to buy one. I anyone wants to have laugh at a fella with a limp, PM me, I will tell you where I am working. I will even drive with my hi vis on if you want.I smell a lie here. How can you have the username 1 shunt and be agency? (Unless that one shunt is into the nearest building/trailer/dot com van etc)
I live up to my name 30 ft trailer single axle rear steer with the steer unlocked, reverse into a warehouse in one shunt, no one has done it before me and probably never will. Even impressed the warehouse boys