Saaamon:
We’re all in the same boat regardless of what we do or drive. I’d say rigid drivers have got it pretty rough though, much more work expected to be done in a day and much tighter places to have to get into compared to an artic.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing today. I’ve done very little on 17/18 tonners and I’m glad of it. 95% are poverty-spec narrow-cabbed low-powered horrible things. Clumsy things with nothing easy about them and zero prestige.
That said, I saw 44 AXE today and that (albeit heavier) looks nice. I flashed the guy in the hope that some of the polish would reflect onto my motor… Didn’t work 
i did a run to thetford in a bread van the other day.i could have swore people were pointing and laughing as i barrelled down the a14 
Happydaze:
Carryfast:
kr79:
If that’s your idea of stress you haven’t lived.
Low loader moves in central London in and out of places designed for a horse and cart 8 wheel roll on off and trailers. Taking artics off road in some tricky situations.
Regular job I’m doing at the moment in a tipper involves reversing between two buildings with both mirrors pulled in.
I might not have done the miles and seen the places others have but every day is a challenge and it makes the job interesting and gives you a sense of achievement.
A week of night trunking and I’d be ready to drive in to a motorway bridge
I didn’t actually find the job stressful at all.It was you who was making all the fuss about jobs that would make anyone cry.As I’ve said I wasn’t always on night trunking though and did enough jobs into central London with an artic delivering building materials to know that long distance night trunking wasn’t an ‘easier’ job at all,especially after the introduction of speed limiters,but it was a ‘better’ option depending on wether someone prefers sitting in constant traffic jams in a concrete jungle environment and spending loads of time doing multiple deliveries and collections compared to driving long distance on a clear motorway,through the countryside,on a mid summer June late evening and early morning.
But if only there had been a lot more drivers who preferred London work to anything else because they wanted the ‘challenge’.
Are you from New Addington?
Thats a random question ■■
gogzy:
no thats stobart drivers…none of them will flash me in ever just because im faster than them lol.
honestly couldnt give a rats ■■■ what people think of me or what i drive, i get mocked for working for royal mail…yes mock me but im getting £16 an hour during the week as a basic rate, i get home every night and i dont do more than 10 hours a day so what if i dont drive a big shiney truck with all the toys
No point flashing royal mail wallopers in…they’ve usually cut in and scrapped a layer of flies off my windscreen. obviously as they can judge the length of their wagon so well, they are at the top of the tree.
the reason royal mail drivers have such a bad reputation is they use lots of agency drivers to cover busy periods, not knocking agency drivers but lots of newly qualified drivers have to use agency to gain experience, we all started somewhere.and royal mail use agencies
Well if you haven’t lost a mirror from a royal mail then your day is coming! I lost one at a roundabout at kirkcaldy 2 years ago followed him to the little satellite depot in the town to get his details and i saved a mirror by mounting the kerb on the roundabout at dundee at the morrsions towards aberdeen. Yes 2 artics into that tiny roundabout is a good idea mr royal mail
I wouldnt ■■■■ on a royal mail driver if he was on fire no offence gogzy but im a bitter ■■■■■■■
merc0447:
Well if you haven’t lost a mirror from a royal mail then your day is coming! I lost one at a roundabout at kirkcaldy 2 years ago followed him to the little satellite depot in the town to get his details and i saved a mirror by mounting the kerb on the roundabout at dundee at the morrsions towards aberdeen. Yes 2 artics into that tiny roundabout is a good idea mr royal mail
I wouldnt ■■■■ on a royal mail driver if he was on fire no offence gogzy but im a bitter [zb]
I’d rather work for royal mail than the sh*tty outfit you work for…! 
offtherails:
Happydaze:
Carryfast:
kr79:
If that’s your idea of stress you haven’t lived.
Low loader moves in central London in and out of places designed for a horse and cart 8 wheel roll on off and trailers. Taking artics off road in some tricky situations.
Regular job I’m doing at the moment in a tipper involves reversing between two buildings with both mirrors pulled in.
I might not have done the miles and seen the places others have but every day is a challenge and it makes the job interesting and gives you a sense of achievement.
A week of night trunking and I’d be ready to drive in to a motorway bridge
I didn’t actually find the job stressful at all.It was you who was making all the fuss about jobs that would make anyone cry.As I’ve said I wasn’t always on night trunking though and did enough jobs into central London with an artic delivering building materials to know that long distance night trunking wasn’t an ‘easier’ job at all,especially after the introduction of speed limiters,but it was a ‘better’ option depending on wether someone prefers sitting in constant traffic jams in a concrete jungle environment and spending loads of time doing multiple deliveries and collections compared to driving long distance on a clear motorway,through the countryside,on a mid summer June late evening and early morning.
But if only there had been a lot more drivers who preferred London work to anything else because they wanted the ‘challenge’.
Are you from New Addington?
Thats a random question ■■
If you’d been there you’d know that there’s nothing random about that question
Saaamon:
We’re all in the same boat regardless of what we do or drive. I’d say rigid drivers have got it pretty rough though, much more work expected to be done in a day and much tighter places to have to get into compared to an artic.
I don’t know: I rolled into head office earlier to get a new sheet fitted. (Stupid rules at Raf Brize meant I had to sheet big lumps of concrete when it was peeing down, hence torn sheet) when Dad was washing down his artic for service; Asked me to turn it around as he had dirty overalls on, and I struggled to reverse it…I only have a class C so perhaps I shouldn’tve done it. 
Happydaze:
offtherails:
Happydaze:
Carryfast:
kr79:
If that’s your idea of stress you haven’t lived.
Low loader moves in central London in and out of places designed for a horse and cart 8 wheel roll on off and trailers. Taking artics off road in some tricky situations.
Regular job I’m doing at the moment in a tipper involves reversing between two buildings with both mirrors pulled in.
I might not have done the miles and seen the places others have but every day is a challenge and it makes the job interesting and gives you a sense of achievement.
A week of night trunking and I’d be ready to drive in to a motorway bridge
I didn’t actually find the job stressful at all.It was you who was making all the fuss about jobs that would make anyone cry.As I’ve said I wasn’t always on night trunking though and did enough jobs into central London with an artic delivering building materials to know that long distance night trunking wasn’t an ‘easier’ job at all,especially after the introduction of speed limiters,but it was a ‘better’ option depending on wether someone prefers sitting in constant traffic jams in a concrete jungle environment and spending loads of time doing multiple deliveries and collections compared to driving long distance on a clear motorway,through the countryside,on a mid summer June late evening and early morning.
But if only there had been a lot more drivers who preferred London work to anything else because they wanted the ‘challenge’.
Are you from New Addington?
Thats a random question ■■
If you’d been there you’d know that there’s nothing random about that question
Oh I have been there. I spent the first 18 years of my life growing up there until I managed to escape in 1988
