Sam Millar:
I feel for you, I really do.I refuse to pack up and accept that I won’t get a job until I’m 21 or 23, 25 etc. I know plenty of people my age, that are friends, and they’re out driving artics with full time jobs.
Thanks Sam, likewise. Hope it works out for you a bit sooner than that.
Chin up mate, we’ll get there.
Sam Millar:
I refuse to pack up and accept that I won’t get a job until I’m 21 or 23, 25 etc. I know plenty of people my age, that are friends, and they’re out driving artics with full time jobs.
I’m not saying you should pack up, just that you haven’t wasted your time and money getting the licence.
In my case, I passed my test in 1986, and have been driving trucks ever since, every type of truck you can think of, as far as Istanbul, Moscow, Helsinki, but I have been out of work for around 12 of the last 24 months. The fact is, things are tough out there. We are in a deep recession and trucks aren’t on the road in the same numbers as they were five or six years ago.
One bit of advice I will give you is this. After you have written out your CV, you might as well use it to wipe your bum crack and save the cost of postage.
The only way to get a job is to call round to haulage yards, meet the head honcho, leave your details and then rinse and repeat at the next haulage yard. They may not have work for you today, but who knows what might happen in a fortnight’s time when a driver phones in sick/ dies/ moves to Timbuktu etc? In any event, lots of these hauliers talk to each other and it’s very common for a haulier to ask a friend if he knows anyone looking for work. Just get yourself well-known on the local haulage scene.
You are 18 and you can’t find a job. I am 52 and I can find a job. I’ll swap any time. 
