Carryfast:
tmcassett:
I can’t actually help you with your desire to be a truck driver and head off round Europe. For clarity, I am a class 1 driver myself but have never done continental driving as I have only been in the industry for 11 years and quite frankly it has never been of interest to me.But a couple of bits of info for your benefit - Ignore any advice, opinion or stories from Carryfast, a man who was desperate to do the same as you but in the heyday or Euro driving of the 80’s & 90’s and yet failed miserably (Seemingly impossible in those days). As have been evident when he posts on here everytime the subject comes up, instead choosing to blame everything but his terrible attitude and even worse work ethic for why no employer would go near him and coming up with the laughable excuse that the entire HGV industry conspired against him and that his face didn’t fit.
^ The irony.
Carryfast the man who literally broke his back through being kicked in the teeth by the industry that he chose to make a career in from day 1.
Who said zb em if they won’t give him a truck to drive across Europe he’ll jump in his car for his holidays and drive that as far, or further in many cases than many supposed ‘international’ drivers, who often didn’t go much further than France and Benelux.
As opposed to a local shop delivery driver who has stated as having no interest in and probably wouldn’t know how to drive anything further than Dover without a sat nav.
Or for that matter dealing with all the different languages from Scandinavia to the Balkans.
No irony from me. Just letting the OP know to ignore anything you have to say on the subject because you have no experience or knowledge of Euro truck driving. We all know why you have no experience and your spectacular failing with this. But unlike you I admitted I can’t actually help him/her with actual real life examples or offer an opinion on it as I have never done it, nor as I say have any desire to do it.
But, and this is a big but, I know of local companies to me in the East Midlands who do go into Europe and if I was interested in landing a job doing that I know exactly what I would be doing to ensure I maximised my chances of doing so - which I pointed out to the OP in my post on the previous page. Switchlogic makes a very good point above this post, you may start with a company who does Euro work and get sent off abroad from day 1, but you may also have to prove yourself as a good employee in the UK first and then you will earn the chance. Clearly you never grasped this concept of how employment sometimes works, hence why no-one would even employ you on UK work this century.
As for my job, I’m perfectly happy plodding about on day work in minimum spec trucks doing supermarket/retailer type stuff (as I have done for the majority of the 11 years I’ve had my Class 1 licence), largely because trucks are of zero interest to me, and quite frankly I find distance work of any sort mind numbingly tedious.
