art84:
Yes!!! I love driving and I’m truckmaniac:)
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10 years ago in my ‘cabhappy’ days I loved it, the night outs gave me a bit of piece and quiet from the missus which I think she enjoyed more than me 
Theres also a great feeling of acclomplishment when driving along and making a cup of tea one handed on the gas stove without taking your eyes off the road. This was changed to an electric kettle after a slight puckering up moment when the stove fell over.
This acclomplishment was only matched by doing a smooth downshift in an old fully loaded ERF and not being greated with the usual box full of neutrals.
I’m on the same line as Luke hate driving a car love driving a lorry sadly almost any lorry I’m a long term agency driver (16 years on the agency) and it dosn’t matter whether its a 44t artic on trunking or a rigid on convenience store deliveries in the city and west end of London I still enjoy it sadly I can’t be bothered to spend my money on the driver CPC so I’m calling it a day next september I’ll miss it tho’
robroy:
Used to love it when I first started, it was a different job completely, a totally different vibe where drivers generally respected each other, plenty of parking places, no cab phones, no trackers, “ring me in a couple of days when you’re empty”
As for today, too much unnecessary regulation, too many knobs on road in cars AND trucksas well as in office, so much so that it’s got to the stage where the job bears no resemblance to when I started, but it’s ok some days, especially on2/3 day multi drop jobs (left alone) but I’m mostly on autopilot these days.
Agree with alot off what you said,
I’ll add for myself, Little extra’s like cash from empty pallets, and other little freebies that used drop in your pocket.
Still love driving and really enjoy working for the crew I’m with now, they got a very possitive attitude, work you hard but once they realise that you dont need nurse maiding they give you work and leave you alone.
Unlike the I firm I left last year, absolutly and totaly useless, and that made the job so hard, and I didnt like sitting about not working and not earning, more concerned with beurocracy than profit from my veiw point, and then there’s the VOSA and their seemingly blind adherence to their own power, and lack off common sence. I was seriously wondering about getting out the this life, I didnt like how this job seemed to have been going, the VOSA are as bad, but at least my Employer is decent.
Slackbladder:
Yes, as long as I stay on nights. I love just tooling along with little to no traffic, getting in the scratcher when most are getting up. Downside is the roadworks that pop up, I just look upon the diversions as a challenge.
Yep. Nights is where it’s at. The best time for me is about three in the morning when there’s no one about. The worst time is when you’re held up somewhere and you find yourself running home in the beginnings of the morning rush hour. 
You might want to read the rest of the posts on this thread
Anyway I did give it up as I wouldnt pay for the dcpc ( I’m what’s known on this forum as a limper with a plastic bag) but then after 3 months ( i also had bad withdrawal symptons) the agency that i have worked for for 12 years had a change of heart and paid for my dcpc classes ( didnt pay for my time tho ) so I’m back doing what I enjoy .
robroy:
Used to love it when I first started, it was a different job completely, a totally different vibe where drivers generally respected each other, plenty of parking places, no cab phones, no trackers
As for today, too much unnecessary regulation, too many knobs on road in cars AND trucks
+1
3 wheeler:
robroy:
Used to love it when I first started, it was a different job completely, a totally different vibe where drivers generally respected each other, plenty of parking places, no cab phones, no trackers
As for today, too much unnecessary regulation, too many knobs on road in cars AND trucks+1
Ok, it was posted by me 2 and a half yrs ago , but still think the same way I suppose.
Basically yes i do enjoy my job, i like going to work, doing my best, being well paid for it, then going home after me shift, that’s me current situation and with any luck at all this job will see me out.
I too dislike driving when not at work, but then there’s so much of the modern world i dislike now, luckily so does my lovely wifey, so we’re becoming increasingly reclusive and it suits as both…Gawd nose where we’ll end up when i finally retire (well assuming we don’t get carted off to the nuthouse) somewhere as far from the madding crowd as we can find i suspect, that’s assuming there’s anywhere left in the country that isn’t standing room only by then
I have always enjoyed driving from the first time I rode a motorbike at 14 years old. Bikes have always been my favourite as they seem to take more skill than anything with more than two wheels and they have always given me the most pleasure.
You can ride a bike all day long and it never complains unlike some women!
Trucks are probably second on my list as again they take a certain amount of skill to drive.(or they used to)
Having driven almost every type of UK truck and every combination I feel satisfied with what I have accomplished over the years and the bonus being I have also managed to make a decent living at it and more or less retire with no worries.
Cars I can take them or leave them. Have driven 911’s, Ferrari’s etc which I quite enjoyed but nothing can match the power of some of my bikes and any of these cars will never give the same exhilaration as a bike.
So yes I still enjoy driving but what I do not enjoy is the appalling standards of some other drivers.It just gets worse year after year.
It really pees me of incase you did not know. 
albion1971:
I have always enjoyed driving from the first time I rode a motorbike at 14 years old. Bikes have always been my favourite as they seem to take more skill than anything with more than two wheels and they have always given me the most pleasure.
You can ride a bike all day long and it never complains unlike some women!Trucks are probably second on my list as again they take a certain amount of skill to drive.(or they used to)
Having driven almost every type of UK truck and every combination I feel satisfied with what I have accomplished over the years and the bonus being I have also managed to make a decent living at it and more or less retire with no worries.Cars I can take them or leave them. Have driven 911’s, Ferrari’s etc which I quite enjoyed but nothing can match the power of some of my bikes and any of these cars will never give the same exhilaration as a bike.
So yes I still enjoy driving but what I do not enjoy is the appalling standards of some other drivers.It just gets worse year after year.
It really pees me of incase you did not know.
Really? You’ve never mentioned it before. 
Rode bikes when younger, my mate’s bikes at home various sizes and power, and hire bikes abroad on holiday.
Remember me and the Mrs hiring a Kawasaki 500 in Crete in the 80s, riding with just t. shirts and shorts 
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Does not appeal to me now, must be an age thing, last bike I rode was early 90s, …oh! and I never had a bike licence either .
Always had an ambition to own a 911, don’t think I’ll ever realise it, and would love to have a go in a a Ferrari, not here though but on an Autobhan.
Really? You’ve never mentioned it before.
Rode bikes when younger, my mate’s bikes at home various sizes and power, and hire bikes abroad on holiday.
Remember me and the Mrs hiring a Kawasaki 500 in Crete in the 80s, riding with just t. shirts and shorts .
Does not appeal to me now, must be an age thing, last bike I rode was early 90s, …oh! and I never had a bike licence either .
Always had an ambition to own a 911, don’t think I’ll ever realise it, and would love to have a go in a a Ferrari, not here though but on an Autobhan.
Yeah great times on bikes over the years. We did the same in Corfu in the 80’s. T shirts and shorts…could have been so painful but did not care in these days.
Sold my last bike 3 years ago and I miss it like mad but having ridden all my life and still in one piece I think I will quit while I am ahead.
By the way I did not own the supercars but got to give them stick on a track. The Ferrari engine sound was wonderful.
Been on the autobahn on bikes plenty. Seen well in excess of 130mph but give me a twisty road anytime.Much more fun.
albion1971:
Really? You’ve never mentioned it before.
Rode bikes when younger, my mate’s bikes at home various sizes and power, and hire bikes abroad on holiday.
Remember me and the Mrs hiring a Kawasaki 500 in Crete in the 80s, riding with just t. shirts and shorts
Does not appeal to me now, must be an age thing, last bike I rode was early 90s, …oh! and I never had a bike licence either
Always had an ambition to own a 911, don’t think I’ll ever realise it, and would love to have a go in a a Ferrari, not here though but on an Autobhan.Yeah great times on bikes over the years. We did the same in Corfu in the 80’s. T shirts and shorts…could have been so painful but did not care in these days.
Sold my last bike 3 years ago and I miss it like mad but having ridden all my life and still in one piece I think I will quit while I am ahead.
By the way I did not own the supercars but got to give them stick on a track. The Ferrari engine sound was wonderful.
Been on the autobahn on bikes plenty. Seen well in excess of 130mph but give me a twisty road anytime.Much more fun.
I enjoyed driving trucks as much as cars with the win win that the money earn’t driving the former paid for the latter.Unfortunately the best days of both are probably now over through over regulation more than anything else.Tachos were bad enough but speed limiters just added to that.While now things like auto boxes and all the other techno bs would probably reduce the pleasure of driving a truck to the point where I’d probably now prefer driving the car anyway.
While the enjoyment of driving a quick car,such as following the GT race season to European venues like Monza and especially the run down to Enna for example,which is no longer on the calendar unfortunately,has now been tempered by an ever increasing draconian speed regime not just here,but now on the previously almost anything goes one of the Continental motorway system in France and even Italy.With Germany now being the last place left in that regard at least at the right time of day ( night ).
On that note I always found the continental motorway routes,especially Italy,more fun from a sustained outright speed point of view.In which case maybe you weren’t riding a quick enough bike.
While you know you like driving when you prefer to finish a week of night trunking and then drive to wherever around the Mediterranean for the holiday or trip.Than to fly and hire something there. .
On that note I always found the continental motorway routes,especially Italy,more fun from a sustained outright speed point of view.In which case maybe you weren’t riding a quick enough bike.
I take it that was aimed at me. If you call a bike limited to 186mph and able to do 0-100 in less than 6 secs then no it was not fast enough.
Been down the Italian motorways in a car ( 3 litre Alpha ) funnily enough to Monza and found it quite boring even although higher speeds were no real problem and the police left you alone as long as you were not being silly.
What was far more fun was riding down through Germany (Black Forest) and Switzerland (countless passes) to the Dolomites area in Italy and generally staying off motorways.
I am afraid there are very few normal cars that can touch a bike especially in acceleration. I certainly have never come across one on the roads.
Saying that one time we had just passed into the Czech border on a motorway. It was early in the morning and the road was very quiet.
There were 4 of us sitting in the inside lane sitting at about the ton when all of a sudden this kit car thing which can only be described as a big go kart came past us in the outside lane. His speed was not much more than ours but after he passed us he moved back to the inside lane. Well it was like watching a formula one car with speed he swapped lanes.Lightning quick and very impressive.
Anyway my mate in front gave me the signal and we set off after him. Evertime we got close he just accelerated away.
He was just playing with us. Unfortunately the bike I was riding at the time only had a top speed of 150mph so that was the end of that.
Yes i do
albion1971:
On that note I always found the continental motorway routes,especially Italy,more fun from a sustained outright speed point of view.In which case maybe you weren’t riding a quick enough bike.I take it that was aimed at me. If you call a bike limited to 186mph and able to do 0-100 in less than 6 secs then no it was not fast enough.
Been down the Italian motorways in a car ( 3 litre Alpha ) funnily enough to Monza and found it quite boring even although higher speeds were no real problem and the police left you alone as long as you were not being silly.
What was far more fun was riding down through Germany (Black Forest) and Switzerland (countless passes) to the Dolomites area in Italy and generally staying off motorways.
I am afraid there are very few normal cars that can touch a bike especially in acceleration. I certainly have never come across one on the roads.
Saying that one time we had just passed into the Czech border on a motorway. It was early in the morning and the road was very quiet.
There were 4 of us sitting in the inside lane sitting at about the ton when all of a sudden this kit car thing which can only be described as a big go kart came past us in the outside lane. His speed was not much more than ours but after he passed us he moved back to the inside lane. Well it was like watching a formula one car with speed he swapped lanes.Lightning quick and very impressive.
Anyway my mate in front gave me the signal and we set off after him. Evertime we got close he just accelerated away.
He was just playing with us. Unfortunately the bike I was riding at the time only had a top speed of 150mph so that was the end of that.
Realistically as in the case of cars if it’s about speed then the hazards and visibilty issues and tight bends of the lesser roads are a liability compared to a good clear motorway blast and the larger upgraded passes with some of their more open bends and road widths.Like comparing the Simplon with St Bernard for example.Let alone the big fuss made about running up roads like the Stelvio which to me is just like a longer higher version of Box Hill. IE ok for cyclists but no place for anything quick.
As for bikes as you’ve said there the levels of performance are more variable between the sub 150 mph performance of some v the 180 mph + of the bigger faster ones.While agreed the power to weight ratios of bikes,especially the super bikes,are more or less invincible v a quick car but the advantages of 4 wheels v 2 regarding stopping power and stability through fast open bends, shouldn’t be under estimated.
youtube.com/watch?v=ecGlkhi6OYk
As for Italian motorways the 3 litre Alpha obviously didn’t meet the criterea of nothing less than 8 cylinders or preferably 12.
Holy thread resurrection Batman
Generally,
Tractors pay some of the bills
JCBs for variety
Bikes WOOHOO!!!
Cars can be fun
Trucks pay some of the bills
Any ■■■ can go balls out in a straight line it’s the backroads that sort the men from the boys, motorways are boring as hell
Agree with Albion and others the number of incompetent morons on the road is frustrating/irritating/depressing. That they’re allowed to breed/breath let alone let loose in charge of anything other than licking the windows is damning indictment on society .
My two night trunks a week are a paying hobby for my retirement, besides, much as I’d like to, I couldn’t manage ■■■ seven nights a week these days!
Driving trucks, if I could afford it I could quite happily walk away and never drive one again. But i do enjoy the fact I don’t have to sit in an office all day and get paid to listen to the radio. Do love driving the car though, used to drive down to the Spanish boarder for our summer holidays and it was the best part of the holiday for me!
Like driving. Just not too much of it. If my journeys are too much over 100 mile I get a bit bored. Fortunately I’m in a job where this is a rarity.
Average fortnightly drive is around 40-45 hours.
Rather long drives than working in a factory though