Average age of drivers and years on the job?

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Obviously I’m a bit bored. But wondered what the average age of drivers is on here, how long you’ve been at it and any other random facts?

Me,

49 (next month). C+E for nearly 19 years. I have a had a break from driving a couple of times to do stuff abroad.

Twist!

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  1. Been driving full time 15 years in April, and showing no signs of stopping yet!
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54 and 28 years on the road.

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36 this year been behide the wheel since 18, love the job hate the ■■■■■■■■ that goes on!

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See here for time with licence/ years in job.

and here for age.

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Oh dear, sorry. At least I combined the two?

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Jwalker78:
hate the ■■■■■■■■ that goes on!

Yes cos that doesn’t happen anywhere else,right? :slight_smile:

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Ya know, if nobody ever posted any threads / questions that had ever been posted before… I think this would be a very, very quiet forum…

:unamused:

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42 years old, on artics since 21 and 7.5t before that

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52 this year been at it sine 21 so 30 years

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50 and have been driving them since I passed the test at 17. So too long really. Or long enough to know better maybe?

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  1. Been driving for 18 years.
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Chris1207:
Ya know, if nobody ever posted any threads / questions that had ever been posted before… I think this would be a very, very quiet forum…

:unamused:

Did I put any of these :exclamation: or even these :unamused: ? No, I did not. I merely pointed out a couple of exisiting threads that would go some way to answering the question the OP asked. I would like to think I was being helpful, not sarcastic.

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42 at end of week been in thos game 10 yrs , still love it better than being stuck in a factory 10 hrs a day

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70 been driving 50 years,and the motors still running!! :grimacing:

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57 - did apprenticeship in a garage then tyre fitting till I was 22, o/d ever since … I’m knackered man!

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55, (35 in my head :smiley: ) Class1 in 1979 aged 21.

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27 years old, almost 10 years in transport and warehousing, 18 months driving hgv’s

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I`M 68 in March, and still working, and doing international work… I started in transport when i was 17 on a van delivering cars engine bits, then a bit bigger, and onto 3.5 T in 1963, and progressed to artics a year later when i was 18, so almost 50 years.

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36, passed class 1 in 1997, part time from 1998 to 2002 and full time since 2002 (left the army)