I have no issue with either rob, but they take a dim view on us parking in laybys & ind estates. Not sure they are paranoid as it is their policy. Works for me as I am happy enough to go along with it. They aren’t a bad firm to work for, £25 p/n + parking paid. Not the best rates but not the worst by a long shot either. Average 4 nights out £680 + allowance so for what we do it is good enough. We only pick up loaded and drop empty trailers from depots and ports really.
chrismollard:
reading a lot of posts on here over the last week it sounds like every trucker hates their job (nearly every) so is it just general moaning that all us men do, or is it really that bad??
Just as the news is 90% war, famine, austerity, paedophillia and terrorism and car forums are mainly concerned with reliability issues, so a trucker’s forum is liable to focus on the negative.
i love my job (I’m about 2 weeks into a perm contract, after 3 months at the same place on agency) but I don’t feel compelled to come on here and regularly talk about it, no doubt if I was doing 15 hour shifts while being spied on in the cab and constantly hassled on the phone for just over minimum wage I would be posting alot more regularly 
my brother left the industry about ten years ago after an emotional crisis and on a whim he took up as a window cleaner on ladders to keep sane. After about 5 years of struggle with getting it going hes been loving it since and im thinking of joining him, but out on my own maybe mad idea ?! hes home by 4 every day and no weekends
Maybe go down the tower crane route, if you have a head for heights that is. Driving a mugs game these days, to many rules and regulations and the blame lays with the driver 90% of the time. I’m a driver myself, but it’s in the blood so to speak. The good days in this game are gone