Ollie all the best with docs and D.v.l.a hope all goes well mate
Look on the bright side, alcohol use is linked to dementia, even moderate alcohol use raises your risk of the disease. So at least you’ll end up forgetting you got ■■■■■■■
Javiatrix:
Can you clarify something; are you drinking 10 pints on Friday AND 10 pints on Saturday, supplemented with circa 5 pints during the week?If so, you need to make some efforts towards cutting that down mate. Asides from verging on addiction territory, you’re body will be [zb] in a decade or two if you keep that up.
That’s from personal experience of a close relative.
Yes, but the point is that provided he isn’t driving while he is over the alcohol limit, then if he wants to drink on his days off and accepts the potential health risks that go with the territory then that is his business and shouldn’t be any concern of the Nanny State. As I said earlier, they don’t seem to have any problem with folk having to work 15 hour days and I’m sure that isn’t exactly beneficial to the health.
Harry Monk:
Yes, but the point is that provided he isn’t driving while he is over the alcohol limit, then if he wants to drink on his days off and accepts the potential health risks that go with the territory then that is his business and shouldn’t be any concern of the Nanny State.
Given what he said he was drinking on a weekend there is no possible way for him to be under the legal limit on a Monday morning.
And given some of the health risks from drinking like the OP does can result in a sudden without warning medical incident which can see you losing control of the vehicle then yes it should be of concern.
peirre:
Look on the bright side, alcohol use is linked to dementia, even moderate alcohol use raises your risk of the disease. So at least you’ll end up forgetting you got ■■■■■■■
I like that, but struggling to assess if that’s good or bad… 
Conor:
Harry Monk:
Yes, but the point is that provided he isn’t driving while he is over the alcohol limit, then if he wants to drink on his days off and accepts the potential health risks that go with the territory then that is his business and shouldn’t be any concern of the Nanny State.Given what he said he was drinking on a weekend there is no possible way for him to be under the legal limit on a Monday morning.
And given some of the health risks from drinking like the OP does can result in a sudden without warning medical incident which can see you losing control of the vehicle then yes it should be of concern.
I have read that a fit young male in good health and good liver and renal function should be able to metabolise 1 unit of alcohol per hour, so lets say 25 units on a Saturday night finishing at midnight. So if that is true then it is possible he could be OK to roll on a mon morning.
Yes I do agree that there are many other health risks associated with drinking and there possibly should be a concern, but if we go down that road how do we deal with obese drivers and drivers that smoke heavily, they too are also at risk of other health issues.
Evil8Beezle:
peirre:
Look on the bright side, alcohol use is linked to dementia, even moderate alcohol use raises your risk of the disease. So at least you’ll end up forgetting you got ■■■■■■■I like that, but struggling to assess if that’s good or bad…
It’s definitely bad, I’m currently off the road (by choice) to be the carer for a family member who had dementia. The more I get involved in it the more I learn there’s a connection between alcohol and dementia.
Bluey Circles:
I have read that a fit young male in good health and good liver and renal function should be able to metabolise 1 unit of alcohol per hour, so lets say 25 units on a Saturday night finishing at midnight. So if that is true then it is possible he could be OK to roll on a mon morning.
Additionally the alcohol would start metabolising from the point where he started drinking, not when he finished.
Haven’t made my way through all the posts regarding this but “putting away 50 units per week”■■? On regular lager this is 5 cans per night, 5 days a week!!!
I am 31 and there is no way that I could or would even want to put that much away!! I feel rough off 3 or 4 cans the odd night let alone 5 cans 5 days a week!!
You are a driver and while you may be “slightly immune” due to being used to it you are not only putting your body at risk of all sorts further down the line but IF you have that much during the week then you are putting yourself, your company and whey other user at risk of a serious injury or worse.
The days when drivers used to fill the truck stop, have a laugh and get rat arsed are well and truly over!!!
Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down …
I like a drink but drink a lot less now. No real reason for cutting down just lost in trestle in going out getting hammered regular.
If you need to go to doc go after you finish your last shift and hopefully liver will be in better shape.
Oddly enough a bloke I worked with went to doctor had scans etc and had scirosis of liver and doctor assumed he was an alcoholic. He barely drinks if he has 10 pints a year he is drinking a lot.
peirre:
Evil8Beezle:
peirre:
Look on the bright side, alcohol use is linked to dementia, even moderate alcohol use raises your risk of the disease. So at least you’ll end up forgetting you got ■■■■■■■I like that, but struggling to assess if that’s good or bad…
It’s definitely bad, I’m currently off the road (by choice) to be the carer for a family member who had dementia. The more I get involved in it the more I learn there’s a connection between alcohol and dementia.
Sad to hear that, and I can believe that, as my mother fitted the bill until the cancer reaper played its card, which maybe wasn’t a bad thing. You already know your chance to properly say goodbye, have already long gone.
I wish you the best in sadly everyone’s unintentional sufferance…
On another subject, how many greasy fried breakfasts do UK truck drivers consume a week? Alcohol is one thing damaging the liver but the heart and arteries are at the mercy of the all day heart attack breakfast…
Wait were only meant to drink on our days off?
Excuse me while I go laugh. Was talking to an old mate of my dad’s (we ran into him in a pub), he was saying his mate used to drive trucks, and he was annoyed that he couldn’t have a beer on a nice summer evening.
htmldude:
Wait were only meant to drink on our days off?Excuse me while I go laugh. Was talking to an old mate of my dad’s (we ran into him in a pub), he was saying his mate used to drive trucks, and he was annoyed that he couldn’t have a beer on a nice summer evening.
You can have a beer…
I just think you should be asking yourself questions when you are drinking more than 2 on a work night, and how often you are doing it?
Everything in moderation! 
Bluey Circles:
Conor:
Harry Monk:
Yes, but the point is that provided he isn’t driving while he is over the alcohol limit, then if he wants to drink on his days off and accepts the potential health risks that go with the territory then that is his business and shouldn’t be any concern of the Nanny State.Given what he said he was drinking on a weekend there is no possible way for him to be under the legal limit on a Monday morning.
And given some of the health risks from drinking like the OP does can result in a sudden without warning medical incident which can see you losing control of the vehicle then yes it should be of concern.
I have read that a fit young male in good health and good liver and renal function should be able to metabolise 1 unit of alcohol per hour, so lets say 25 units on a Saturday night finishing at midnight. So if that is true then it is possible he could be OK to roll on a mon morning.
Yes I do agree that there are many other health risks associated with drinking and there possibly should be a concern, but if we go down that road how do we deal with obese drivers and drivers that smoke heavily, they too are also at risk of other health issues.
Fair comment, but shouldn’t you have put COULD in capital letters and underlined it?
Steve
Evil8Beezle:
htmldude:
Wait were only meant to drink on our days off?Excuse me while I go laugh. Was talking to an old mate of my dad’s (we ran into him in a pub), he was saying his mate used to drive trucks, and he was annoyed that he couldn’t have a beer on a nice summer evening.
You can have a beer…
I just think you should be asking yourself questions when you are drinking more than 2 on a work night, and how often you are doing it?
Everything in moderation!
I barely drink anything nowadays. Before I got my first job (and my first car) I drank all the time morning noon and night. When I got my car I’d rather be out and about than drinking. Nowadays I’ll have a couple in the pub with the old man and maybe one or two if I meet people in the town, but other than that…
But I wouldn’t like being told I can’t.
I find it we have a much more uptight attitude to drink than the Spanish and Italians but they don’t seem to suffer from binge drinking like we do
Anyone noticed he hasn’t been back ? Must be down the pub.