Wish it was me not you
bestbooties:
Keep your licence handy!
they might even send you out on a run if they own a trcuk or 2
Lorn trakta:
Postby Smoggie89 » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:47 pmRespect to the people who are doing 15hour days and out all week to earn a decent wage just to keep the nation running whilst taking ■■■■■ from jumped up hitlers n alike !!
I think the more appropiate sentiment would be pity, rather than respect,you’d have to have very low aspirational targets to want to be those doing nights away, you have done tramping but I bet you failed to realise that being ‘celled up’ in something the size of an EU sleeper cab isn’t something that is experienced by convicted murderers, paedophiles, terrorists,etc, the civil rights groups would explode with rage if they were caged like hgv drivers.
Getting out of UK/EU transport is something you can easily do at 24 yrs and looking back at what you are leaving , in the cold light of day, you will probaly have only one regret, you didn’t do it earlier, it is insult laden and ignominous, the longer you stay the greater the danger of you becoming conditioned to the insulting pay and conditions, if you feel the want to drive again go to a ‘free world’ country, you’re young enough.
Awww someone get me a violin.
My pay is great and my conditions are excellent by the way. Your talking out your brown eye.
Quinny:
damoq:
Good luck and well done mate. I know the feeling. I’m on the lookout for something away from driving for a living too. It is a dead end job that just isn’t worth doing anymore. I love driving, but it’s just everything else that goes with it that’s spoils it for me now.And the mundane trip to Huddersfield every day…
Ken.
I wouldn’t mind a shot of doing the huddersfield trunk for poundies once in a while. It would be a nice change from doing pallet work. He has still got agency drivers doing the trunks and store deliveries.
Can’t think of anything more depressing than having to turn up to redcar steel works day in day out 
fair play you want to get out of driving but i wouldn’t of thought this was actually bettering yourself.
If the office is what you have got your heart set on go for it . Rather you than me driving is far from bottom rung of the ladder 
All the best Smoggie! Just don’t come back as a Driver trainer as most failed drivers seem to do! 
Lorn trakta:
Postby Smoggie89 » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:47 pmRespect to the people who are doing 15hour days and out all week to earn a decent wage just to keep the nation running whilst taking ■■■■■ from jumped up hitlers n alike !!
I think the more appropiate sentiment would be pity, rather than respect,you’d have to have very low aspirational targets to want to be those doing nights away, you have done tramping but I bet you failed to realise that being ‘celled up’ in something the size of an EU sleeper cab isn’t something that is experienced by convicted murderers, paedophiles, terrorists,etc, the civil rights groups would explode with rage if they were caged like hgv drivers.
Getting out of UK/EU transport is something you can easily do at 24 yrs and looking back at what you are leaving , in the cold light of day, you will probaly have only one regret, you didn’t do it earlier, it is insult laden and ignominous, the longer you stay the greater the danger of you becoming conditioned to the insulting pay and conditions, if you feel the want to drive again go to a ‘free world’ country, you’re young enough.
Actually, a standard prison cell is no more than 10x8 for 2 persons … unless a prisoner is lucky to say he is a high risk prisoner he might get his own cell … but 2 sharing a cell same toilet really is nto much bigger than a xl cab.
Oh I was not an ex prisoner btw!
I haven’t made this to offend anyone lol just my opinion , I knew what tramping entailed but as I am still only young and basically living to work due to the hours and nights etc its not for me, in my new job I will have more time to do things and still earn the same as I could tramping so all is good in my eyes, yeah no doubt it will get boring after a while but id rather suffer boredom for couple of hours a day than be out all week on my own.
Both my manager and another manager within the company I work for both started off as drivers. They then moved into the sales side, then became managers.
But most people don’t want to move up because there heart is in driving and only driving
Good luck with your new job though
I lasted a few years longer than you the first time around, then went and lived life brought up a family employed people and generally fulfilled my dreams,[ helicopters/ motorcycle racing being there when my kids and wife needed me and going to events important to my kids, they know who their father is rather than a lodger who gets in the way over a few days at the end of the week!!! Then my wife nearly dying and needing fulltime nursing and then my health started to deteriorate meant the business went pearshaped after twenty years and I came back to this, reasonable money but you need to have had a lobotomy to say its not a job for the dead from the neckup brigade. I only do it as I can make enough in four days and have three days at home but I am lucky having no mortgage and hope to escape soon. Good luck lad and you are probably why this industry will struggle to replace the ageing drivers in the coming years because who wants to invest the money to get a licence , to be trodden on at every turn with the "authorities constantly looking to hold your licence above your head like
a sword of damaclees its a mugs game
Lorn trakta:
Postby Smoggie89 » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:47 pmRespect to the people who are doing 15hour days and out all week to earn a decent wage just to keep the nation running whilst taking [zb] from jumped up hitlers n alike !!
I think the more appropiate sentiment would be pity, rather than respect …
My thoughts exactly.
att:
Spent enough time in offices (My own and shared) to know that I dont do 'humans'....The politics, the banality of it all, the self importance of others etc. An office is a prison cell....Only you have to justify its occupancy, unlike prison…So in real terms, it is worse
Give me the road and a set of keys any day…Its about as much freedom as you will get in todays society and still get paid for it! Driving is not about getting to the top of the tree (I got to the top of the tree in a previous life, it aint all its cracked up to be)…It`s about freedom
Spot on, couldn’t agree more.
There were and are some cracking lorry driving jobs about, its just the case of finding them.
We’re not bottom rung couldn’t do anything except drive a truck no hopers, some of us enjoy being out and about seeing different things and enjoying the solitude and freedom combination, some of us actually still enjoy taking a pride in what we do.
I couldn’t do tramping, bored to tears, and the times i’ve spent in RDC waiting rooms have been soul destroying, but then i wouldn’t take a full time job that involves such work preferring to do something more interesting that involves a bit of nous, but we all had to start somewhere and you don’t get the best jobs till you’ve earned your spurs and the reputation/history that gets your foot in the right door.
I hope the office move is good for you, maybe if you come back to driving you’ll have a different outlook.
I’m not going into an office job , I’ll be driving a load shovel / dumpers on the steel plant . Everyone is different ill still have respect for drivers for all the ■■■■ they have to put up with whilst they are just doing a job to earn a living !
Smoggie89:
I’m not going into an office job ,Ah beg pardon, i assumed that a move from a dead end job driving lorries would be to something that had a career path of some sort.
I left driving a little over 4 years ago, thinking that I would get more job satisfaction doing something else…now I’m looking to get back behind the wheel!
There are few jobs that give you the freedom that comes with being a HGV driver, even with trackers and the like it’s way more freedom than you will get chained to a desk.
Office politics, yes men, having your individuality stamped out of you, I’ve had my fill of it all personally. And thinking about work on your days off, something I never did as a driver.
If there is something that you really want to do then go for it, and its wise to keep up to date with driving regs etc as you like many others may find yourself going back to driving one day.
What ever you choose to do I wish you the best of luck. I’ve been there myself and I learnt a lot over the last 4 years but keep your licence up to date and you will always have the option to return to the road should you ever need to.
All the best
I suspect there are some super-duper driving jobs out there. As Luke says, it can be brilliant, and its pleasing to see someone really enjoying the job as he does. That said, I too have asked myself where I am going to go from here. I have decent qualifications, certainly “higher” than a fair proportion of drivers. I tried my best to get my class 2 and passed it. I can’t afford to save up for class 1. I am also sick of being talked to like I am something on the bottom of someone shoe, being told I am “late”, that I am in someones way, shouted at etc etc. You need a thick skin yes, but sometimes it is just too much. Maybe when the rest of the world/country gets a bit of respect for drivers, we can show ourselves a bit more respect.
BanburyDan:
I have decent qualifications, certainly “higher” than a fair proportion of drivers.
BanburyDan:
Maybe when the rest of the world/country gets a bit of respect for drivers, we can show ourselves a bit more respect.
Well when we already have a clear disrespect from one of our own - there isn’t much hope for gaining it from the rest of society.
You’d be very surprised (obviously) by the level of education gained by a lot of drivers…
BanburyDan:
when the rest of the world/country gets a bit of respect for drivers, we can show ourselves a bit more respect.
don`t really care wether the rest of the world/country respect me or not.
grumpybum:
BanburyDan:
I have decent qualifications, certainly “higher” than a fair proportion of drivers.BanburyDan:
Maybe when the rest of the world/country gets a bit of respect for drivers, we can show ourselves a bit more respect.Well when we already have a clear disrespect from one of our own - there isn’t much hope for gaining it from the rest of society.
You’d be very surprised (obviously) by the level of education gained by a lot of drivers…
I originally wanted to be a politician,
Does that make me clever ? or just the potential to be a good liar 
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