I have one of those mundane night trunk jobs…bit quieter this time of year so no waiting for the load… Card in, bit of admin, check all is good, 1hr 40 drive, up to a whole hour on the bay, 1hr 40 back…10 mins of admin, go home. Some nights I can string it out for nearly 5hrs if I want, 6 if I really wanna take the ■■■■! Plenty of spare time during the day too…the DCPC trainer wouldn’t believe that all 3 of us on nights get between 16-18hrs daily rest every day and about 65 off every weekend 
This fella Steve Palmer seems to have a cushy job delivering exotic cars around Europe in a 15ton M.A.N…youtube.com/channel/UCsvgW2 … Ctg/videos
Pre limiter night trunking DAF 2800 Feltham Bristol Feltham job and finish.Start 8 pm finished around 3 am.With the swings of the mostly single runs more than making up for the few double runs. 
My easiest driving job was moving dog food from the production line to holding warehouses in a 30 mile radius on Hydraroll trailers, open the doors back on press a button and you were loaded and repeat to tip easy, if the factory broke down we could go days without moving.
BradCarTransporter:
tommymanc:
dieseldog999:
F-reds:
id have thought having a mundane night trunk would be as close to having no life as anyone could handle…fair play to the dude for 73 hours at £15 per hour,make it while you can.40 or 50 years doing that,then mabey,ust mabey,he could afford to jack it all in,sign up as a limper,get a zero hour contract and live the good life…That’s only 764quid a week bro, that seems alot of work for more then doing pretty much nothing with airfreight
Granted it’s a long old week but being that I’m the sole bread winner in the house, I’ve got 2 kids under 2 and a mortgage to pay I’m happy. Each to their own I suppose.
No thats fair mate, you’re doing it for all the right reasons, respect.
Just that 70 odd hour weeks were the norm in lots of transport when i was your age (well paid short hour jobs were even more dead mens shoes then IMHO), and i tend (wrongly) to assume those days are over, and to be fair you are raking in some decent money for it.
Get that mortgage paid off as soon as you can is my tip for the day…
Oh and yes i’m bloody glad to be off the cars too, trouble is you never know what life may bring so you can never say never again… 
F-reds:
Conor:
BradCarTransporter:
Last week I clocked 73 hours.What is it like not having a life? Even doing the industry average 55hr week leaves you with no life compared to the rest of society. When you get a regular 40hr a week job you realise just how much you’ve missed out on. Nothing big or clever about doing loads of hours, sadly too many don’t seem to see that.
If that is his choice, thats entirely up to him! Change the record, you’ll be telling us how you could earn 43k full time at howdens next
Nah, I agree with Conor, 70+ hours working in any haulage job can never be described as cushy.
If drivers got their brains into gear and asked themselves why they are just EXPECTED to work nearly twice the hours than most other industries (and not necessarilly for twice the money either 
) the job would be much better.
There is a lot more to life than spending three quarters of it in a ■■■■ truck ! unfortunately many are either too thick, too brainwashed or both to work that one out.
Ive enjoyed many different positions in my time each one matched my requirements at that point in my life.
Not always cushy numbers but the job is what you make it and helped a lot by the lads you work with. Theres always a few roboconnors about whos quality of life is dependent on making others miserable. No fun at parties, last to be picked for the netball team etc we all know the type.
Anyway most of the 90’s and early naughties you would find me working in the construction game, a mix of hiab work and semi low loader shenanigans from scaffolding, plant, portacabins to general stuff. If the job was dodgy or slightly illegal the words ‘send dipper’ would be heard eminating from me old gaffers office, a proper gaffer salt o the earth bloke who would bollock you and have a laugh with you in equal measure, a gaffer you could trust.
From that there was a brief stint on curtainsiders but didnt get on with the gaffer at all and after a quick inflagrante moment with his wife at a works do I deceided to leave, in hindsight this could have been a very cushy number, his wife certainly was.
Anway then there was a stint at Hayes on the night trunk, same route everynight, job was a doddle but boring as ■■■■. So onto agency work for a bit, usual story enjoyed the flexibility, couldnt get a proper job, gammy leg, etc.
Then 10 years off, cant discuss due to signing of official secrets act.
Leading to my current gig as a tramping box jockey, a good laugh at times, more hours than I can eat and a lifestyle that has not only put the spark back into my marriage but has made me appreciate my loved ones more. Oh and I haven’t tugged this much since I first found out me little chap wasnt just for ■■■■■■■ with.
Each to their own, hourses for courses but id say my present job is by far the cushiest.
Apart from sleeping across that bloody plank with the candle
I had a job for about a year (when normal job went quiet)
Down to Immingham or Hull ferry, change trailers, home to Carlisle after a 10 hour shift.
Next day.
Tip and reload Scotch, or tip Scotch re load Carlisle, (again around 10 hours) and home.
The sequence worked out to the point where I timed it to where I was home every night…own bed, home cooking, see wife and kids regular.
The best thing about it was that my firm in Colchester paid me full week’s nights out for it when home every night, and a bit extra on top …
.Oh to be able to go back to the days when I worked for a good firm who valued their drivers.
peterm:
Juddian:
The older gen who said it was easier are talking out their collective arse, 21 ton handball bags on and off, rope and sheet every load, no power steering/clutch constant mesh gearboxes, no aircon no electric windows or mirrors, course no speed limiters either, unless you were unfortunate enough to have a Gardner under the bonnet that couldn’t reach present limiter speeds without a long downhill run.More enjoyable? without question it was, so long as you didn’t mind a bit of graft.
Cushiest job is the present tanker job, short hours and go home every afternoon, hardest work i do is connect a couple of pipes or nip up onto the gantry to load, there is no work involved in sitting behind the wheel of a modern lorry that near enough drives itsen.
Most of us were fit as butchers dogs in those days and most of us had no need to rush around. Less traffic on the roads, not so many twonks. No belting about with a Gardner under the lid, although I did enjoy a Leyland etc when I could zip along at 70 plus until it saw a hill. I was a lot happier then than I would be now, even with all the mod cons. The last artic job I had was over here with an old '83 Merc pulling a curtain sider, no rushing, home every night and no stress. About the only difference from years ago was not being able to show off me roping and sheeting skills. Oh, and it wasn’t handball.
You didn’t see so many fat drivers in the old days, that’s a fact! My job is the cushiest, retired.
Bernard
BradCarTransporter:
For me it’s the job I’ve been doing since September which is tanker work (bulk flour)Literally connect 2 hoses and press a button to lift tank is as bad as it gets. Hardly ever have to que to tip, most customers are around 4 hours away, so after driving there and back it’s normally reload for morning, park up and go home. Specialist work so £15ph on the agency.
Last week I clocked 73 hours.
Just a shame the mill is shutting down the end of next month.
The job description and the hours don’t seem to add up!
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Munchkin:
BradCarTransporter:
For me it’s the job I’ve been doing since September which is tanker work (bulk flour)Literally connect 2 hoses and press a button to lift tank is as bad as it gets. Hardly ever have to que to tip, most customers are around 4 hours away, so after driving there and back it’s normally reload for morning, park up and go home. Specialist work so £15ph on the agency.
Last week I clocked 73 hours.
The job description and the hours don’t seem to add up!
If he’d said the ‘customers’ are within 4 hour radius from base and it’s just 1 full load single delivery to each ‘customer’ per day then it ‘would’ have been a ‘cushy’ job. 
Cushiest shift I ever had was during the time of the Hale Bopp Comet passing us by from late 1996 to the autumn of 1997.
Covering someone else’s job who’d been withdrawn - I got a job-n-knock 8 hour shift 18:30-02:30 to do a three-dropper around Kings Cross, St Pancras (next door!) and Euston stations in a rigid.
We were given 50 minutes to do each drop, and 2.5 hours each way for the journey through evening traffic in London from Gillingham Business park.
The vehicle was sometimes fully laden (midweek) and sometimes only had a half a dozen items for each station. I was in and out of a drop in under five minutes at least once per week during the summer covering…
I didn’t need 2.5 hours to get there through London traffic either, as I knew london well at the time, and this was before that crappy FLTS thingy where you can’t go down perfectly good streets (like shooter’s hill road) at night, like is in force now. I would typically take about 90 minutes getting in, and 70 minutes getting back.
So… Some nights I’m starting 18:30 and I’m hanging up my keys on return at around 23:00! Monday-friday over the course of weeks at a time…
How ironic is it that my fav job of all time was effectively a multi-drop in a rigid in London eh? 
Evil8Beezle:
Get ready for Robroy telling us how he slept on a plank full of nails in the arctic winter of 1894, with only a candle to keep him warm!
And no matches… 