I suppose it depends on the class 1 God themselves really Tommy.
If you passed class 2, worked your nuts off for a food service provider (like I did), and put extended 18 tonners in places they really shouldn’t, then you have already worn the class ■■■ t-shirt and moved on.
Also when you dare to venture into MSA’s and have the temerity to park your crappy little van in a CE legend’s space, you deserve the roaring laughter and looks of sympathy from the artic Master’s towering over your inferior day cab.
Good job I didn’t say rigid drivers haven’t got the bottle for class 1… [/quote]
Ahhhhh but in reality ( all joking aside ) have class 1 drivers got the bottle for driving a rigid??
Certainly sounds not! Class 1 must be a right cushy number then. Defo going for mine, fancy getting paid for doing virtually nothing
I’d challenge some (not all) artic drivers to a day driving my bar steward thing.
6x4 double drive with no tag and a smack through gear box about as slick and easy as a Guy Big J coupled with a clutch pedal weight like a fordson major!
Its a fricken pig to drive.
Several people have asked me how I live with it 5 days a week after having a go!!
I’ve always secretly fancied driving buses on European tours, but I’ve been on artics that bloody long, I reckon I would make a complete arse of driving anything rigid bigger than a car.
I tried to move a four wheeler out of the way, and reverse it in a yard one day, …I was like a bloody amateur.
Good job I didn’t say rigid drivers haven’t got the bottle for class 1… [/quote]
Ahhhhh but in reality ( all joking aside ) have class 1 drivers got the bottle for driving a rigid??
Certainly sounds not! Class 1 must be a right cushy number then. Defo going for mine, fancy getting paid for doing virtually nothing
I’d challenge some (not all) artic drivers to a day driving my bar steward thing.
6x4 double drive with no tag and a smack through gear box about as slick and easy as a Guy Big J coupled with a clutch pedal weight like a fordson major!
Its a fricken pig to drive.
Several people have asked me how I live with it 5 days a week after having a go!!
Good job I didn’t say rigid drivers haven’t got the bottle for class 1… [/quote]
Ahhhhh but in reality ( all joking aside ) have class 1 drivers got the bottle for driving a rigid??
Certainly sounds not! Class 1 must be a right cushy number then. Defo going for mine, fancy getting paid for doing virtually nothing
I’d challenge some (not all) artic drivers to a day driving my bar steward thing.
6x4 double drive with no tag and a smack through gear box about as slick and easy as a Guy Big J coupled with a clutch pedal weight like a fordson major!
Its a fricken pig to drive.
Several people have asked me how I live with it 5 days a week after having a go!!
Sounds like fun to be honest.
It was once, but now it does my bloody head in. I get home some days and feel like ive gone ten rounds with Tyson Fury, it’ll also shake your fillings loose!
I had a 07 plate CF for a couple of weeks once, was like a limo compared with my Axor. Due to go this year thank Christ.
Punchy Dan:
I very often drive a 6 wheeler with a triaxle drag a good bit longer than Mr big iam artic man ,my usual saying is I normally drive the pick up which is true
When them 6 axle drawbars break down I have to hook an 8 wheeler on the front end & drive the whole lot, grossing 72 ton & ending up about 105 feet long but I aint afraid to admit I’m still a wheelbarrow driver most of the time, as for drivers steering the wrong way when reversing come on, get a grip, it aint difficult to turn the wheel the same way you want the lorry to go.
