Do you think that if you have your C+E licence instead of just C licence, that you would be more likely to :- Start your shift, take that one whole load somewhere, drop the whole load and then return to your depot near the end of your shift and then head home than you would if you just had your category C licence ?
Its just that’s the kind of work that would appeal to me more, 99% driving, doing multi drop where you have to do more than 5 or so drops isn’t high on my list.
Its just that C+E look perfectly at home on the motorway and dual carriageways but I honestly don’t know how they are driven through busy city centres with tight junctions and narrow 3 lane roundabouts and such like.
Good question. Typically an artic will spend the majority of it’s time on motorways and A roads. Having said that, it then has to find it’s way to the collection/delivery point and that’s where life starts getting a bit more interesting. (For me, this was the bit I enjoyed - but each to their own).
It’s perfectly possible to pilot a full size artic through busy city centres and to negotiate multilane roundabouts. But, like everything else, this is considerably easier once you’ve been taught how to do it.
And this will come in due course.
So the lesson for today is: one step at a time and don’t worry about the rest!!!
Pete 
This is pretty vague really. It depends on who you work for, the type of work, etc. Most of my artic driving is either motorway or into the middle of a town centre in a stgo cat 2 beast just due to nature of where the drop off point is.
Of course you are more likely to get straight trunking work with c and e but nothing is guarented
Peter Smythe:
Good question. Typically an artic will spend the majority of it’s time on motorways and A roads. Having said that, it then has to find it’s way to the collection/delivery point and that’s where life starts getting a bit more interesting. (For me, this was the bit I enjoyed - but each to their own).
It’s perfectly possible to pilot a full size artic through busy city centres and to negotiate multilane roundabouts. But, like everything else, this is considerably easier once you’ve been taught how to do it.
And this will come in due course.
So the lesson for today is: one step at a time and don’t worry about the rest!!!
Pete
Agreed. Once youve passed your test youll be happy doing trunk work. Give it a few years, and a few miles, and with more experience and higher confidence levels, thatll be a bit boring. So, as Pete says youll find town work, and country lane work more involving. One step at a time.
narrow 3 lane roundabouts
Sounds like 2 for me and 1 for everybody else! The truck will not get smaller just because the lanes are narrow/tight. If in doubt, the white paint gets it!!
Just to add that, IMO, driving artic is much more satisfying than driving a rigid. But it’s important to be comfortable in whatever it is you’re doing. And the chances of getting 5+ drops is greatly reduced - though never eliminated.
There are folks who are really happy with multidrop on a rigid (my brother in law is one though he’s had CE for 20+ years). And that just shows you cant generalise.
Pete
I’m on artics doing general, so get about an even mix between motorway/a road driving and urban driving. Due to nature of the job I also do a fair few building sites. Oh, and London.
I actually prefer the urban/site driving as after the first couple of hours the motorways get boring.
But as said above each to their own.
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Am I more likely to get fat sitting on my arse in Class 1, than 2? 
Yes!
As for driving them around towns and tight area’s, you gain confidence and knowledge through experience.
No one is born as gods gift…
You’re thinking is the same as mine when I first started. Having done multidrop van work there was no way I was interested in doing it in a wagon. Was very fortunate to have only had to do one shift before I got my start on artics.
I now drop and swap bulkers all week and very rarely do I go anywhere near a town/city center because nobody builds an abattoir there .
Would seem that trunking work is exactly what you’re looking for.
Im on rigids at moment doing pallet work, had a drop last week at a solar panel farm right up on top of mountain middle of nowhere knocking my mirrors in along the lanes. I got up there and there was actually a class 1 up there delivering I was gobsmacked how the hell he made it through some of the bends! 
He said the challenge would be getting back out. I was well impressed!
Trunking gets boring, fast. Our regular is take a trailer up to Sunderland, strip it then tip it. Rebuild the trailer, take it around the corner and load empties. Close up then drive back. Sure it nets you the overtime but it gets tedious if you’re doing it week in, week out. I miss the days of multi-drop. You were always doing something different even if you were doing regular drops.
Evil8Beezle:
No one is born as gods gift…
I think a bloke at my place would disagree with you, he’s only been doing C+E a matter of months & the way he talks to others he thinks he is gods gift
TheNewBoy:
Evil8Beezle:
No one is born as gods gift…
I think a bloke at my place would disagree with you, he’s only been doing C+E a matter of months & the way he talks to others he thinks he is gods gift
He can’t be. Because I am 
As for CE vs C, Monsieur Smythe is correct, artic’s are nicer/easier to drive. Rigid’s steer like oil tankers and most motorist’s just see you as a bigger 7.5t and will fight you for lane changes.
The indicator on a class 1 though is like a ■■■■ in a pub. Everyone scatters
Not necessarily, I’m on supermarket work , I do mixture of roses urban, a roads, b roads and motorway. I do more distance stuff with one run and 2 shops on board, but occasionally have had up-to 7 shops in board. Other guys in the company will do 4 shops, locally, they go out with 2 shops come back and go out and do 2 more in a 10 hour shift.
These are all nice handy roads for class 1. Stick your motorway work up your chufter.
El Deano:
I’m on artics doing general, so get about an even mix between motorway/a road driving and urban driving. Due to nature of the job I also do a fair few building sites. Oh, and London.
I actually prefer the urban/site driving as after the first couple of hours the motorways get boring.
But as said above each to their own.
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El Deano, I will remember these words the next time you have to deliver to the site at Kings Bromley - you know which one I mean - ha ha!!! Went the other day and their own 7.5 tonner had sunk to approx 33% up the wheels from just being parked overnight when we had the heavy rainfall!
