Plambert:
Wouldn’t worry about getting away from the truck for extended breaks, no one worries about that in the real world.
That’s just what I was thinking mate, but evidently …some do 
JS8576:
Just curious as to whether you can take tramping to the next level by effectively living out of truck? Obviously if it is your own truck then i’m sure there would be no problem but if working for an employer is it a realistic option?My situation is renting a flat (social housing) have no realistic prospects of buying a house probably even a struggle to rent a house/bungalow privately.
What the hell? What kind of wages are you working for when you’re out all week and struggle to rent somewhere?
I’d look for another job.
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What the hell? What kind of wages are you working for when you’re out all week and struggle to rent somewhere?
I’d look for another job.
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+1
Sorta related:
I was once speaking to a Black driver. He was telling me his boss kept complaining because he hadn’t had a holiday in 3 years, and lives in the cab. Even has the yard listed as his address.
He said to me ‘I told the boss, look. I like to live in the cab. I park up wherever I end up, then get back on the road after my rest. I see the country through my windscreen, (holds out his arms) and it’s not as if I need a ■■■■■■■ suntan’, so I don’t need tot take holidays.’
When I was on recovery a year or so ago, I took a tractor unit and pilot from Hereford to lowestoft. All he had was a PO box for his mail. He’d been living in the truck for eighteen months and it suited him just fine.
What I will say though, is that he was completely stark raving bonkers. He had major paranoia / conspiracy issues. I was glad when he fell asleep and stopped telling me how WW2 had a predetermined ending.
I couldn’t tell if he had been a fruitloop before he decided to live in the office or whether his foil hat wearing theories were brought on by it.
Back in the 80’s/90’s their was plenty of drivers tramping around Europe who gave up their home and chose to live in their trucks to save money etc.
I had a friend who did it for 10years and loved every minute of it, when he had a long weekend off either in the uk or Europe then he would stay in a hotel just for a change .
If I had no ties I’d certainly consider it as an OD in one of the big yank rigs but no fricking way in the tin boxes we have over here.
shep532:
Don’t forget you can’t take a regular weekly rest in the cab
Since when was it being enforced in the uk?
Conor:
JS8576:
Just curious as to whether you can take tramping to the next level by effectively living out of truck? Obviously if it is your own truck then i’m sure there would be no problem but if working for an employer is it a realistic option?My situation is renting a flat (social housing) have no realistic prospects of buying a house probably even a struggle to rent a house/bungalow privately.
What the hell? What kind of wages are you working for when you’re out all week and struggle to rent somewhere?
I’d look for another job.
Conor who tf are you to make presumptious comments about a complete stranger and his financial situation.
He may be on better wages than you and me, …but is he divorced paying x no of pounds per wk to maintain x no. of kids.
He may be an undischarged bankrupt struggling to pay his ex creditors on a payment plan.
He may be in massive debt to pay back what him and his ex Mrs accrued and he is left with it.
He may owe the modern day equivalent to the Krays an ever increasing high interest loan…who knows?
Do you think living in a unit would be his first choice in life, if he had other options, the guy appears to be desperate ffs.and obviously (to most of us) has some financial issues
Just stick to giving your condescending and patronising advice as usual, to other drivers on here,…something that you are good at.
I’m speaking from experience of being on my arse, and up that famous creek in the past, granted not in the same way as the o/p but similar, and in that situation the kind of casual flippant comment you made does not help mate, to say the least.
In the past i have thought about living in the cab, Because of the dead money in rent , when you aren’t hardly at home to enjoy it, It a expensive way of storing your gear, rent & council tax ect, like most ever being able to afford to buy a house, due to the over inflated property value thank’s to the tory milk snatcher is never going to happen,
Ive known people to live out of those van conversions, if you can get one for cheap you could sleep in the yard in that. Would be slightly bigger than a cab.
Call me sad if you like, but if I was young free and single, all three of which I am not now , and I had a top range motor high cab, everything possible, like full kitchen pack etc ( do they still call it full kitchen pack or did that die in the 80s, and I’m showing my age) along with all the kit I have now… tv, dvd etc,… sorted…mobile bachelor pad 
(do they still call them bach…or am I…Oh it doesn’t matter forget it) 
A full spec XF or a FH has more room inside compared to some flats in London!
Juddian:
I know some of the agency lads who work away from home live out of camper type vans, might that be an option.
Yeah I do too, even when working for big logistics companies, they park in the car park, or truck parking space depending on the set up. Most off these concerns have showers you can use, cook in the camper van or drive out to chippy or whatever then return to depot ready for next days work 
eddie snax:
Juddian:
I know some of the agency lads who work away from home live out of camper type vans, might that be an option.Yeah I do too, even when working for big logistics companies, they park in the car park, or truck parking space depending on the set up. Most off these concerns have showers you can use, cook in the camper van or drive out to chippy or whatever then return to depot ready for next days work
If I was doing that on agency, working away from home and living in a caravan or camper, I think I would be looking into agency tramping instead, at least then I would be maximising earnings by getting paid night out money .
Pwyll:
When I was on recovery a year or so ago, I took a tractor unit and pilot from Hereford to lowestoft. All he had was a PO box for his mail. He’d been living in the truck for eighteen months and it suited him just fine.What I will say though, is that he was completely stark raving bonkers. He had major paranoia / conspiracy issues. I was glad when he fell asleep and stopped telling me how WW2 had a predetermined ending.
G
I couldn’t tell if he had been a fruitloop before he decided to live in the office or whether his foil hat wearing theories were brought on by it.
Do say hello to Carryfast for me if you bump into him again mate!
robroy:
eddie snax:
Juddian:
I know some of the agency lads who work away from home live out of camper type vans, might that be an option.Yeah I do too, even when working for big logistics companies, they park in the car park, or truck parking space depending on the set up. Most off these concerns have showers you can use, cook in the camper van or drive out to chippy or whatever then return to depot ready for next days work
If I was doing that on agency, working away from home and living in a caravan or camper, I think I would be looking into agency tramping instead, at least then I would be maximising earnings by getting paid night out money .
I think the lads that do this tend to gravitate round the big RDC enclaves (or specialist such as transporters where they are increasingly paying big money again for experience) when they’re desperate for drivers and milk the big money while they can, can’t say i blame them either.
I think that most of us that spend a fair amount of time in the box on wheels, and away from our loved ones, its a relief to get home sometimes, or most times. Going back a few years there always used to be drivers living out of small campers parked in the yard, and it suited them,a work sweet work situation, nowdays the only ones doing that are the east europeans, but even they want to go home at the end of their stint. The problem with permanently living in the truck are the washing of clothes and bedding, there doesnt seem to be many launderettes around these days, so if you can sort that out, plus an address for post and licences etc, then good luck, for you can save a considerable sum and use those savings as a deposit on a flat or small house.
robroy:
eddie snax:
Juddian:
I know some of the agency lads who work away from home live out of camper type vans, might that be an option.Yeah I do too, even when working for big logistics companies, they park in the car park, or truck parking space depending on the set up. Most off these concerns have showers you can use, cook in the camper van or drive out to chippy or whatever then return to depot ready for next days work
If I was doing that on agency, working away from home and living in a caravan or camper, I think I would be looking into agency tramping instead, at least then I would be maximising earnings by getting paid night out money .
I would feel the same, but as Juddian posts, they are moving around the large logistic firms through agency, and working weekend and other unsocial shifts, to maximise the earnings. The work is often day/night shift patterns rather than tramping
I was chatting with a guy at our place doing agency cover a couple of years ago, He is a brit, but had been living in Spain for many years, working for Spanish outfits trucking back to the UK mainly. The recession kicked the arse out of the job, so he found it better to fly back to the UK do 3 weeks or so on RDC type agency work, then fly home to Spain for a week with the family before returning back for another stint on UK agency. Whatever pays the way really
robroy:
Conor:
JS8576:
Just curious as to whether you can take tramping to the next level by effectively living out of truck? Obviously if it is your own truck then i’m sure there would be no problem but if working for an employer is it a realistic option?My situation is renting a flat (social housing) have no realistic prospects of buying a house probably even a struggle to rent a house/bungalow privately.
What the hell? What kind of wages are you working for when you’re out all week and struggle to rent somewhere?
I’d look for another job.
Conor who tf are you to make presumptious comments about a complete stranger and his financial situation.
He may be on better wages than you and me, …but is he divorced paying x no of pounds per wk to maintain x no. of kids.
He may be an undischarged bankrupt struggling to pay his ex creditors on a payment plan.
He may be in massive debt to pay back what him and his ex Mrs accrued and he is left with it.
He may owe the modern day equivalent to the Krays an ever increasing high interest loan…who knows?Do you think living in a unit would be his first choice in life, if he had other options, the guy appears to be desperate ffs.and obviously (to most of us) has some financial issues
Just stick to giving your condescending and patronising advice as usual, to other drivers on here,…something that you are good at.
I’m speaking from experience of being on my arse, and up that famous creek in the past, granted not in the same way as the o/p but similar, and in that situation the kind of casual flippant comment you made does not help mate, to say the least.
The thing is with this forum is that it is full of bell ends who think they know everything and sneer at the working man. They come out with daily words of wisdom usually telling us mere drivers what we are doing wrong and how we could do better blah blah. Let’s look at Conor for example. He’s a big trucker you know. He can drive as far as Lockerbie and back from Howden in a shift. Wow. Just wow. Yes I have got a headache and am bloody tired.