Cab Hopping

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harrawaffa:
And before anyone starts with the snowflake patter, how many times have you climbed in a bulker full of dead cattle this week?

■■■■ that, how do you eat after that, i.d be wrenching for a week

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robroy:

Winseer:
I get offered a pick of cabs each day to drive, and any one does me. .

Cab hopping as a day man is a whole different ball game to cab hopping as a tramper though, aint it.

Completely. If it’s day work I don’t really care as long as it’s legal I’ll drive it. Even if that means wearing gloves and a boiler suit while doing so :laughing: .
Where I am at the minute there’s a driver who suffers with Psoriasis and I’ve seen inside his cab. He’s a lovely guy and obviously he can’t help it but I wouldn’t kip in there for an extra £100 a night never mind a week. The chance of going into a cab after someone like that is the reason I wont even consider cab hopping. I doubt I’d be employed for long if I started knocking units back on Monday mornings due to the cleanliness levels anyway.

chaversdad:

harrawaffa:
And before anyone starts with the snowflake patter, how many times have you climbed in a bulker full of dead cattle this week?

[zb] that, how do you eat after that, i.d be wrenching for a week

You get used to it / numb to it to be fair same with the smells. Although I can’t be around pepperoni pizza the smell reminds me of work :laughing:. The first few months of the job is very eye opening if you don’t come from an agri background but the shock factor subsides.

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Who in their right mind would want to sleep in a wagon anyway? The company owner must be laughing their heads off paying £25 to sleep in the tin can and guard the cargo all night. Unbelievable :smiley:

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Mickey mouse:
Who in their right mind would want to sleep in a wagon anyway? The company owner must be laughing their heads off paying £25 to sleep in the tin can and guard the cargo all night. Unbelievable :smiley:

Have you done it ?

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Mickey mouse:
Who in their right mind would want to sleep in a wagon anyway? The company owner must be laughing their heads off paying £25 to sleep in the tin can and guard the cargo all night. Unbelievable :smiley:

It’s not to guard the cargo, as quite often I’ll be empty, or the trailer will be dropped in a customers premises. This may come as a shock, but not all drivers do regional work within a stones throw of the yard. Most of the time we’re out because we don’t have the hours to get back

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Mickey mouse:
Who in their right mind would want to sleep in a wagon anyway? The company owner must be laughing their heads off paying £25 to sleep in the tin can and guard the cargo all night. Unbelievable :smiley:

No one is guarding cargo, that’s not why people night out, obviously

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Guarding the cargo :laughing: :laughing: oh how we laughed.

Glider engines don’t need guarding :wink:

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Cab hopping night trunker here. On several occasions I’ve text the gaffer telling him I’ll be late out because I’m cleaning the cab. Whilst I’m not out all week in it, I’ll be in it for 12 hours, eating my dinner and resting in it. It’s not too much to ask for basic levels of cleanliness.

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Grumpy Dad:

Mickey mouse:
Who in their right mind would want to sleep in a wagon anyway? The company owner must be laughing their heads off paying £25 to sleep in the tin can and guard the cargo all night. Unbelievable :smiley:

Have you done it ?

I reckon he’s one of these unwashed day workers who look dirtier than a tramper who’s been out all week
Or he does food deliveries for Brakes or Bid foods
Not real world trucking

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I’m on night trunks and get a different motor most shifts,it bugs the eyeballs out of me having to clean the unit out every night before I go anywhere as I can’t sit in someone else’s mess,I’d tramp if required to,I’ve no problems with it but the motor would have to be mine,the OCD in me wanting it clean inside(not bothered outside,or what truck it was) would outweigh the £100…

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Rowley010:
£100 pw? £400 per month. I’d cab hop for that mid week or not and when they offered me my own I’d say no thanks let someone else have it and I’ll stay getting the extra £400 per month. Minus 4 weeks holiday and that’s an extra £4800 per year for moving your bags from one unit to another and maybe have to give it a quick wipe around and sweep out.

This really only works if your own standards are consistent with the minimum standards that your employer enforces.

And although moving bags and cleaning units does not take an exceptional amount of time, it does take an appreciable amount of effort on top of the job itself, and encountering filth unexpectedly can cause a disproportionate amount of irritation (particularly for those who manage cleanliness primarily as a mental activity by avoiding spreading dirt, as opposed to those who manage cleanliness primarily as a physical activity by regularly cleaning up dirt they have spread around).

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Yorkielad:
I’m on night trunks and get a different motor most shifts,it bugs the eyeballs out of me having to clean the unit out every night before I go anywhere as I can’t sit in someone else’s mess,I’d tramp if required to,I’ve no problems with it but the motor would have to be mine,the OCD in me wanting it clean inside(not bothered outside,or what truck it was) would outweigh the £100…

You sound like the sort of driver who has the decency and good manners to keep an already clean and tidy motor that a tramper looks after in the state that you found it.
Some day/night/agency men are just pig ■■■■ ignorant, with a ‘‘couldn’t give a ■■■■’’ attitude,.and it bugs the hell out of those who keep their motors to a reasonable to spotless state, simply because they have to actually live in them.
Look at some of the usual comments on here of ‘‘It aint YOUR motor, it belongs to the firm’’ , which is true yeh, but they think that gives them licence to use it in their natural anti social way, leaving evidence of all their disgusting personal habits (some worse than others :open_mouth: ) for you to clean up…complete arse holes of the highest degree.

On the other hand some trampers live like pigs, so let them share those motors, so they can blisfully sit among each other’s crap together. :bulb:
I was in our yard the other morning, I watched a lad who cab hops get into a motor, and get right out again shouting at the top of his voice… ‘‘Aye, and ■■■■ that’’ :laughing: .
He told me to get in, but not to sit on the seat.
The lovely aroma of a ■■■■, sh, and sweat combo hit you like a brick wall. :unamused: :smiley:

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Mickey mouse:
Who in their right mind would want to sleep in a wagon anyway? The company owner must be laughing their heads off paying £25 to sleep in the tin can and guard the cargo all night. Unbelievable :smiley:

Hmmmmmm ok, I’d say Could do better, but average effort. :bulb:

Anyway…
You got the ‘‘Sleeping in a tin box’’ bit (although you said tin ‘‘can’’ but we’ll.allow you that one) so full marks for that.

You mentioned ‘‘guard the cargo’’ but you would have scored more points if you had used the ‘‘Unpaid Security Guard’’ description…only allow you half the points.

Got the 25 quid amount about right, …(and extra points for actually ridiculing that amount)
But then you excelled by your insult to the entire ‘tramping community’ by your ‘right minds’ reference :sunglasses:
I like it…you recouped some lost points for that one, well done. :sunglasses: )

Extra points for the put down of ‘‘Unbelievable’’ also.

However, …
We’re used to better insult details and displays of ignorance on here. :unamused:

You completely missed vital daymen cliches, of …

Baby wipes.
Not washing or showering.
The diet of pies, mars bars, cans of Coke .
Living in lay bys.
:unamused: :unamused:

But most of all, and I’m very surprised (and actually dissapointed with you on this if I’m honest :unamused: )
You forgot the basic, and classic sterotypical absolute gem…how could you btw :open_mouth:
Wait for it.

The obvious one…
■■■■■■■■ IN an ASDA bag and that would have scored you the highest points available.
(Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons same amount of points btw Aldi and Lidl are lower scoring)

So on the whole not very impressive…
What sort of dayman are you ffs, were used to much better attempted abuse on this forum…tut tut :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

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robroy:

Mickey mouse:
Who in their right mind would want to sleep in a wagon anyway? The company owner must be laughing their heads off paying £25 to sleep in the tin can and guard the cargo all night. Unbelievable :smiley:

Hmmmmmm ok, I’d say Could do better, but average effort. :bulb:

Anyway…
You got the ‘‘Sleeping in a tin box’’ bit (although you said tin ‘‘can’’ but we’ll.allow you that one) so full marks for that.

You mentioned ‘‘guard the cargo’’ but you would have scored more points if you had used the ‘‘Unpaid Security Guard’’ description…only allow you half the points.

Got the 25 quid amount about right, …(and extra points for actually ridiculing that amount)
But then you excelled by your insult to the entire ‘tramping community’ by your ‘right minds’ reference :sunglasses:
I like it…you recouped some lost points for that one, well done. :sunglasses: )

Extra points for the put down of ‘‘Unbelievable’’ also.

However, …
We’re used to better insult details and displays of ignorance on here. :unamused:

You completely missed vital daymen cliches, of …

Baby wipes.
Not washing or showering.
The diet of pies, mars bars, cans of Coke .
Living in lay bys.
:unamused: :unamused:

But most of all, and I’m very surprised (and actually dissapointed with you on this if I’m honest :unamused: )
You forgot the basic, and classic sterotypical absolute gem…how could you btw :open_mouth:
Wait for it.

The obvious one…
■■■■■■■■ IN an ASDA bag and that would have scored you the highest points available.
(Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons same amount of points btw Aldi and Lidl are lower scoring)

So on the whole not very impressive…
What sort of dayman are you ffs, were used to much better attempted abuse on this forum…tut tut :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

Mate we all have to start at the bottom, and for a low entry slating of the side of haulage the puddle jumper pilot is obviously afraid to take on, I don’t think it was a bad effort.
But perhaps instead of slating us he should step back a little and look at the goods he delivers, how the ■■■■ did they get to his company, Santa isn’t real and neither is the mythical technology he uses to deliver around the world in a matter of minutes, they aren’t delivered by a chain of trailer swapping shunters either, and probably have covered a greater distance to arrive at his depot than he covers in his week.
Maybe he should pull on his big boy pants and give it a go.

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Grumpy Dad:

robroy:

Mickey mouse:
Who in their right mind would want to sleep in a wagon anyway? The company owner must be laughing their heads off paying £25 to sleep in the tin can and guard the cargo all night. Unbelievable :smiley:

Hmmmmmm ok, I’d say Could do better, but average effort. :bulb:

Anyway…
You got the ‘‘Sleeping in a tin box’’ bit (although you said tin ‘‘can’’ but we’ll.allow you that one) so full marks for that.

You mentioned ‘‘guard the cargo’’ but you would have scored more points if you had used the ‘‘Unpaid Security Guard’’ description…only allow you half the points.

Got the 25 quid amount about right, …(and extra points for actually ridiculing that amount)
But then you excelled by your insult to the entire ‘tramping community’ by your ‘right minds’ reference :sunglasses:
I like it…you recouped some lost points for that one, well done. :sunglasses: )

Extra points for the put down of ‘‘Unbelievable’’ also.

However, …
We’re used to better insult details and displays of ignorance on here. :unamused:

You completely missed vital daymen cliches, of …

Baby wipes.
Not washing or showering.
The diet of pies, mars bars, cans of Coke .
Living in lay bys.
:unamused: :unamused:

But most of all, and I’m very surprised (and actually dissapointed with you on this if I’m honest :unamused: )
You forgot the basic, and classic sterotypical absolute gem…how could you btw :open_mouth:
Wait for it.

The obvious one…
■■■■■■■■ IN an ASDA bag and that would have scored you the highest points available.
(Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons same amount of points btw Aldi and Lidl are lower scoring)

So on the whole not very impressive…
What sort of dayman are you ffs, were used to much better attempted abuse on this forum…tut tut :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

Mate we all have to start at the bottom, and for a low entry slating of the side of haulage the puddle jumper pilot is obviously afraid to take on, I don’t think it was a bad effort.
But perhaps instead of slating us he should step back a little and look at the goods he delivers, how the [zb] did they get to his company, Santa isn’t real and neither is the mythical technology he uses to deliver around the world in a matter of minutes, they aren’t delivered by a chain of trailer swapping shunters either, and probably have covered a greater distance to arrive at his depot than he covers in his week.
Maybe he should pull on his big boy pants and give it a go.

Yeh but if he wants to join us ‘‘Real Truckers’’ :laughing:
He’ll need to ditch the hi viz whilst driving, get the earpiece surgically removed, sit back and relax in the seat without having his beak touching the windscreen and his hands welded in the 10 to 2 position,…and ffs not forget his sat nav ! (That’s an absolute must for these guys :bulb: ) and PLEAssssse try and stop wittering and bleating on about the classic… ‘‘Liking me own bed’’ :laughing: :laughing:

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I’ve had the same motor every day for the last 6 years, when he talked about a new one, I told the boss he’d have to pry my keys from my cold, dead, fingers.

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robroy:

Mickey mouse:
Who in their right mind would want to sleep in a wagon anyway? The company owner must be laughing their heads off paying £25 to sleep in the tin can and guard the cargo all night. Unbelievable :smiley:

Hmmmmmm ok, I’d say Could do better, but average effort. :bulb:

Anyway…
You got the ‘‘Sleeping in a tin box’’ bit (although you said tin ‘‘can’’ but we’ll.allow you that one) so full marks for that.

You mentioned ‘‘guard the cargo’’ but you would have scored more points if you had used the ‘‘Unpaid Security Guard’’ description…only allow you half the points.

Got the 25 quid amount about right, …(and extra points for actually ridiculing that amount)
But then you excelled by your insult to the entire ‘tramping community’ by your ‘right minds’ reference :sunglasses:
I like it…you recouped some lost points for that one, well done. :sunglasses: )

Extra points for the put down of ‘‘Unbelievable’’ also.

However, …
We’re used to better insult details and displays of ignorance on here. :unamused:

You completely missed vital daymen cliches, of …

Baby wipes.
Not washing or showering.
The diet of pies, mars bars, cans of Coke .
Living in lay bys.
:unamused: :unamused:

But most of all, and I’m very surprised (and actually dissapointed with you on this if I’m honest :unamused: )
You forgot the basic, and classic sterotypical absolute gem…how could you btw :open_mouth:
Wait for it.

The obvious one…
■■■■■■■■ IN an ASDA bag and that would have scored you the highest points available.
(Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons same amount of points btw Aldi and Lidl are lower scoring)

So on the whole not very impressive…
What sort of dayman are you ffs, were used to much better attempted abuse on this forum…tut tut :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

Couldn’t agree more mate.

A top drawer day man (like me) would also ridicule your Sports Direct gear and the fact that many different men frequent your house while you are away polishing your tank… :grimacing:

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the maoster:

Grumpy Dad:
New Thread for day man cab hopping please :laughing:

No need. Their opinions and the opinions of rigid drivers are not really important :grimacing: :grimacing:

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eagerbeaver:

robroy:

Mickey mouse:
Who in their right mind would want to sleep in a wagon anyway? The company owner must be laughing their heads off paying £25 to sleep in the tin can and guard the cargo all night. Unbelievable :smiley:

Hmmmmmm ok, I’d say Could do better, but average effort. :bulb:

Anyway…
You got the ‘‘Sleeping in a tin box’’ bit (although you said tin ‘‘can’’ but we’ll.allow you that one) so full marks for that.

You mentioned ‘‘guard the cargo’’ but you would have scored more points if you had used the ‘‘Unpaid Security Guard’’ description…only allow you half the points.

Got the 25 quid amount about right, …(and extra points for actually ridiculing that amount)
But then you excelled by your insult to the entire ‘tramping community’ by your ‘right minds’ reference :sunglasses:
I like it…you recouped some lost points for that one, well done. :sunglasses: )

Extra points for the put down of ‘‘Unbelievable’’ also.

However, …
We’re used to better insult details and displays of ignorance on here. :unamused:

You completely missed vital daymen cliches, of …

Baby wipes.
Not washing or showering.
The diet of pies, mars bars, cans of Coke .
Living in lay bys.
:unamused: :unamused:

But most of all, and I’m very surprised (and actually dissapointed with you on this if I’m honest :unamused: )
You forgot the basic, and classic sterotypical absolute gem…how could you btw :open_mouth:
Wait for it.

The obvious one…
■■■■■■■■ IN an ASDA bag and that would have scored you the highest points available.
(Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons same amount of points btw Aldi and Lidl are lower scoring)

So on the whole not very impressive…
What sort of dayman are you ffs, were used to much better attempted abuse on this forum…tut tut :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

Couldn’t agree more mate.

A top drawer day man (like me) would also ridicule your Sports Direct gear and the fact that many different men frequent your house while you are away polishing your tank… :grimacing:

I knew YOU would bite :sunglasses: …(even though you told me off for the same thing on Friday. :laughing: :laughing:)