Anyone else get the e-mail for subscriprion to T&D magazine?
Offering a free sticker citing the above ‘catchphrase’ The biggest problem we face with others is the perception of image. From elephant racing, the lower speed limits we’re required to adhere to, tailgating and of course when theres a serious or fatal accident the delays to everyones schedule because clearing up the mess our accidents make is a little more complex than sticking a car on the back of a flatbed with a Hi-ab.
Do the people at T&D who came up with this campaign sticker really think this is going to really help get the public on our side? This just seems like a really arrogant ill thought idea.
m1cks:
Anyone else get the e-mail for subscriprion to T&D magazine?
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no there on my BLOCK list 
The ONLY trucks I don’t like - have TESCO written on them… 
At least the drivers don’t work in McDonalds, or your fries would be cold before they got them to the counter… 
I don’t think it’s to get the public on our side but to put it in perspective for the general public.
m1cks:
Anyone else get the e-mail for subscriprion to T&D magazine?
Offering a free sticker citing the above ‘catchphrase’ The biggest problem we face with others is the perception of image. From elephant racing, the lower speed limits we’re required to adhere to, tailgating and of course when theres a serious or fatal accident the delays to everyones schedule because clearing up the mess our accidents make is a little more complex than sticking a car on the back of a flatbed with a Hi-ab.
Do the people at T&D who came up with this campaign sticker really think this is going to really help get the public on our side? This just seems like a really arrogant ill thought idea.
If you,ve got it a truck brought it,allways a winner
I’ve seen one on a US truck that read. “Don’t like trucks? Stop buying zb!”
I’m surprised by this sticker campaign. I mentioned doing something similar at one of the monthly what shall we put in next month’s magazine meetings when I was at TRUCK mag. The boss there who is now the boss of all of the Empire that includes this website said that the public hates us, they will always hate us, they can’t do without, so tough. Or words to that effect.
Maybe he’s mellowed with age, or maybe it’s a tactic to boost magazine sales, but it does make sense anyway as it won’t hurt to remind Joe Public of the essential role that lorries play in their lives.
I just hope drivers that put the sticker on their lorries remember that and behave accordingly, if the sticker is seen on a lorry behaving badly it will miss the point it’s trying to make.
But then you lot on here are all angels anyway, so the T&D boys have nothing to fear [emoji38]
Little Englanders have issues with lorries with their lorry watch schemes, standing a day wearing a hiviz “look at me, I am a pretend police officer.”
Old folks with clipboards that grass you up to Trading Standards.
In Europe, you are respected, most villages and towns have ring roads and bypasses
For trucks to transit on, free parking and drivers eat adults food, not kiddies food of chips, beans,bangers or fish fingers that you
Feed a five year old with, not a working man who has done a 15 hour shift.
Moto and Roadchef that is you.
Council members are all clueless about road haulage, they think an artic is a Transit towing a trailer and thundering juggernauts mount pavements mowing down pensioners walking Charlie the Poodle.
I wear mine with pride!!
That’s not going to help improve the publics view of trucks.
They’d have been better off going down the road of pay truck drivers decent wages you get what you pay for.
We need trucks, we don’t need them to be driven by idiots.
It’s the industry’s desperate need to cut cost, which is driven by the big supermarkets and haulage companies seeing drivers wages as an easy target that is causing a drop in driving standards and therefore the public view that truck drivers are no longer professionals.
We can’t live without the NHS
We can’t live without the Water Authority’s
We can’t live without the folk operating power stations
We can’t live without Farmers
Do you all see what Iam getting at here?
Although it’s just the road haulage industry. Who think they were here to save the world!
Get over yourselves 
Mankind survived many years, maybe thousands of years depend on your beliefs without trucks.
Of course modern life depends heavily on trucks, we could. If we had to live without them.
Chester i agree with what you said 100%.some people on here think the country would grind to a halt without them.the ones who really bug me are the ones who say driving a truck is a trade
I ■■■■ a lot of drivers off in some Facebook groups when I point out that we’re just doing a job.
All that we spend days/weeks away from our families to make sure the shelves are full blah blah blah.
It’s not like we’re held at gunpoint in the cab is it? We choose to be lorry drivers.
However it can’t hurt to remind people that we’re not out on the roads just so we can hold them up as they got to their jobs to make the stuff we carry or buy the stuff we take to the shops.
chester:
We can’t live without the NHS
We can’t live without the Water Authority’s
We can’t live without the folk operating power stations
We can’t live without FarmersDo you all see what Iam getting at here?
Although it’s just the road haulage industry. Who think they were here to save the world!
Get over yourselvesMankind survived many years, maybe thousands of years depend on your beliefs without trucks.
Of course modern life depends heavily on trucks, we could. If we had to live without them.
100% agree with you Chester. Which is odd.
The image of truck drivers to the public needs to improve I agree with that.
But all this we are the ones that keep the country going and should be on 5k a week stuff gets on my ■■■■.
Yes we are needed,yes we are slightly underpaid but we chose to do this job and we don’t stand together for better conditions.
seth 70:
m1cks:
Anyone else get the e-mail for subscriprion to T&D magazine?
Offering a free sticker citing the above ‘catchphrase’ The biggest problem we face with others is the perception of image. From elephant racing, the lower speed limits we’re required to adhere to, tailgating and of course when theres a serious or fatal accident the delays to everyones schedule because clearing up the mess our accidents make is a little more complex than sticking a car on the back of a flatbed with a Hi-ab.
Do the people at T&D who came up with this campaign sticker really think this is going to really help get the public on our side? This just seems like a really arrogant ill thought idea.If you,ve got it a truck brought it,allways a winner
Remember this one Seth by commercial motor 'Trucks keep Britain Rolling '.
The Europeans, especially the Germans do their bit to make people realise how important road transport is.
I caught this Austrian truck on the M40, with a plain message, the truck is your friend and it brings your daily needs!
Who remembers the sticker that was on most German trucks some years ago, the one of Brummie the friendly truck.
Don’t know how much it helps but we have nothing to lose.
bestbooties:
The Europeans, especially the Germans do their bit to make people realise how important road transport is.
I caught this Austrian truck on the M40, with a plain message, the truck is your friend and it brings your daily needs!
Who remembers the sticker that was on most German trucks some years ago, the one of Brummie the friendly truck.
Don’t know how much it helps but we have nothing to lose.
Thats a much more positive way of dealing with the subject instead of the negative tone of the sticker the thread is about.
chester:
Mankind survived many years, maybe thousands of years depend on your beliefs without trucks.
Of course modern life depends heavily on trucks, we could. If we had to live without them.
While I do see what you mean and agree to a certain extent,Id hate to see the state of the country after 2 days if trucks were banned from the roads. How would anything get anywhere? Almost everything available in shops is delivered there by a truck. Supermarkets would be stripped bare for a start. The major ones get 2-3 artic deliveries a day. No way is a fleet of transits going to sustain that.
People need to realise that whether they like us or not,they need us.
As for not saying its a trade,anyone can stick a sign on the side of a transit saying “builder” or “electrician” and start doing this whether they have a clue what they are doing or not and be classed as tradesmen doing a trade. But you cant get into a lorry without fist paying thousands of pounds in training and then sitting a test to prove you are capable. And you need seperate qualifications to haul specific things such as gases,livestock,oversized loads etc.
yorkshire terrier:
The image of truck drivers to the public needs to improve I agree with that.
But all this we are the ones that keep the country going and should be on 5k a week stuff gets on my ■■■■.
Yes we are needed,yes we are slightly underpaid but we chose to do this job and we don’t stand together for better conditions.
Spot on