Thanks Beaver !
Nice one on the new job front too - Hope it works out! 
eagerbeaver:
Lol. Yeah back on general haulage mate. Curtainsiders are the way forward.
Don’t you like being a trolley monkey!
But getting experience in all sorts of fields/varieties is good, and experience has taught me in my field to get assigned a good trailer with smooth curtains, or make them smooth! 
" Word up Noobs ". (I believe this means " Hello aspiring LGV drivers ").
" Big up to the L plate massive ". ( It would seem that this is similar to the above, but I am told this reaches out more to the younger drivers).
After clearing the next part with Mrs B, I consulted our 10 year old on how to translate my attempts at motivating new drivers, into a more modern take.
" Yo beatches. Sort yer swedes out n keep it real. Laters “. I am assured that this means " Hey you lot, keep trying and don’t give up. Goodbye”.
I would be very grateful if anyone on here could verify this statement, as a 48 hour internet ban and a clip round the ear is riding on it.
The problem you face using that dialect, EB, is that a slammed Vauxhall Corsa with blue LED washer nozzles and the remains of the last dustbin the “driver” ran into jammed under the back bumper can’t pull the skin off of a rice pudding, let alone a semi-trailer, and you can’t really do handbrake turns in an artic without “meeting a policeman.” In this age of SAFED and ecomentalism, you would be better off appealing to the bright young things in their 500s and UP!s whose idea of a good conversation is comparing fuel economy figures and insurance premiums, which means using Estuary English and money as a lure.
Sadly, that’s a waste of time as they all have degrees in newt husbandry, festival management and protest planning by dint of the fact that the only funding available these days is for useless bilge such as this rather than life skills. And the money’s pants, of course. There are no lorry drivers in the Chipping Norton set.
Excellent advice from the Beaver, however it should be ignored for another 5 years please till i’m out of the game in which case you can have a free for all. 
One word of warning from someone in one of the following types of job, if there’s a golden job in your chosen area, the sort than never advertise and the (sensible) driver’s guard knowledge of to keep the baying horde at bay…i humbly suggest not to go bashing in there straight away as a newby, cos being a newby you’ll make some ■■■■ ups, some silly most avoidable and the odd one mega expensive, the more specialised the job (often meaning better pay) the more chance for those ■■■■ ups.
So for what its worth don’t go hammering on the door of golden goose job till you’ve skilled yourselves up enough to get and then keep the job, you’ll know when the time is right, if you managed to get one of these jobs (they do exist but never ever advertised and never named on these pages) before you are ready and make a serious balls up of it, you will be sacked and you will have burnt a golden bridge and these jobs are rare as hens teeth.
Well said!
Whether it was just in my area, but I found it very easy to find a job as a Class 1 new-passer. I applied left, right and centre, some getting-back to me straight away, some taking a while, and some just never replying.
For my first job I got a bit of a tatty 61-plate Merc, but the manager said if I looked-after it, I would get a brand-new Scania in the summer, so good trucks as a new-starter are out there if you drop-on!
The jobs are definitely out there, you just have to find them, and get them. Yes, it can be frustrating to pay £3,000 for your licence, amidst of a supposed “driver shortage”, and struggle to find a job, but you just have to crack-on. You just need to catch the right person, at the right time, and the more you try, the higher chance there is of you landing your first job!
Juddian:
Excellent advice from the Beaver, however it should be ignored for another 5 years please till i’m out of the game in which case you can have a free for all.One word of warning from someone in one of the following types of job, if there’s a golden job in your chosen area, the sort than never advertise and the (sensible) driver’s guard knowledge of to keep the baying horde at bay…i humbly suggest not to go bashing in there straight away as a newby, cos being a newby you’ll make some ■■■■ ups, some silly most avoidable and the odd one mega expensive, the more specialised the job (often meaning better pay) the more chance for those ■■■■ ups.
So for what its worth don’t go hammering on the door of golden goose job till you’ve skilled yourselves up enough to get and then keep the job, you’ll know when the time is right, if you managed to get one of these jobs (they do exist but never ever advertised and never named on these pages) before you are ready and make a serious balls up of it, you will be sacked and you will have burnt a golden bridge and these jobs are rare as hens teeth.
For a moth ridden old ■■■■ soon to become a carbon based fertiliser, you do speak some sense and something I agree with 100%!!! 
I’ve a few gigs near me that would be considered “premium”, but I’ve so far stayed away from them as I see that you only get one shot to make your mark with them, and I wouldn’t want to prematurely ■■■■■■■■■■ 
I’m still not a good class 1 driver after 6 months Artic experience, but I’m a lot better than when I started…