alder:
I know of 3 firms that apply simple tests to avoid employing them. For instance one asks them to demonstrate their sheeting technique. I have not met a woman yet who can throw a taup over a load.
And how many men would also pass that test, or does the company reserve it just for women?
Unless they’re a company that does roping and sheeting then I reckon they’re missing out on some dam good drivers by simply taring all women with the same brush.
It was a woman driver, and not a bad looking one at that, that showed me how to fold back a spud bulker sheet properly, pre-easy sheets, when I was a green a grass driver and turned up at some place with a loaded bulker and not a clue as what to do next.
And I’ve met a few others over the years that were good professional trucks drivers and more than capable of doing the job they were doing, including lifting stuff, and I’ve met plenty of male truck drivers I wouldn’t trust with a wheelbarrow let alone a truck and some of that didn’t have the strength to do the jobs they were doing, like the one that could hardly lift the posts for logging trailers.
So, the overweight, balding, not showered or shaved for the last three days, probably didn’t even brush his teeth this morning, goes up to attractive and shapely female driver, see’s the combined mixed look of dread, distaste and disgust on said females face (especially if upwind of him) and offers to “wind her legs up” and “couple up” and check the overall inflation of her “airbags” and show her how expertly he can pull his “red collar” back.
You can just see her swooning and dropping her Levi’s simultaneously can’t you
Reef:
So, the overweight, balding, not showered or shaved for the last three days, probably didn’t even brush his teeth this morning, goes up to attractive and shapely female driver, see’s the combined mixed look of dread, distaste and disgust on said females face (especially if upwind of him) and offers to “wind her legs up” and “couple up” and check the overall inflation of her “airbags” and show her how expertly he can pull his “red collar” back.
You can just see her swooning and dropping her Levi’s simultaneously can’t you
mwahahahaha
reef this made me laugh
I needed that as I am in my ‘serious’ job today and now I shall go back from my mid morning break to work laughing my way up and down the corridor thinking of this post
I have also seen a few women truckers who exceed in their job. There was a clever one who happen to be very attractive and getting a lot of attention from the over 50’s balding, overweight but nice lorry drivers whose reply when they offered her help was “No I can manage fine honey but do you want some help as I notice you struggle a bit now?” She also told the planning office to give her some of the hard pickups and drops and wanted to be treated as an equal. I had a lot of respect for her but never engaged in conversation with her as I was scared it would be taken the wrong way.
eagerbeaver:
Your on the right lines there Trog. A lot of blokes cant wait to ’ impress ’ women.
They seem to think they are on a Lynx advert or something.
Some of the lads at our place act like they have never seen a woman before,to the point its being a propper perv and embarrasing to be watch,chuff knows what the woman think
alder:
Sarah if your query is genuine then my advice is forget it. Driving a truck is not glamorous and it is one of the lowest jobs there is. I have had a career in IT for 20 years and left that todo other things but end up truck driving to see me out. It is not a career but a dead end job that pays peanuts. People talk to you like you are something they scraped off their shoe. There are some women driving trucks yes but god knows why. You can forget relationships as they wont last and definately forget about starting a family. Why don’t you consider being a bus driver? Better still go and get a real job, this game is for mugs if you are young. Most of us are late 50’s kids gone, mortgage paid and just want to work at our pace for a few quid. Lots of army, police and firemen doing this as an easy job to supplement their wages/pension. That never used to happen much as the job was hard, roping and sheeting, hard to drive trucks, no sat nav, no niceties. It was a real game then but now a child could drive these and worse foreingers who walk in and dont even speak English. Then you have agencies and middlemen taking the pee. Forget it Sarah, go get a real career yby doing the work now at uni and you can have a decent salary, a family, good work hours and decent benefits. You could always do your test anyway and do a couple og weeke ds for poundworld et al. That will soon make you realise how silly you have been. Anyway good luck
alder:
I have also seen a few women truckers who exceed in their job. There was a clever one who happen to be very attractive and getting a lot of attention from the over 50’s balding, overweight but nice lorry drivers whose reply when they offered her help was “No I can manage fine honey but do you want some help as I notice you struggle a bit now?” She also told the planning office to give her some of the hard pickups and drops and wanted to be treated as an equal. I had a lot of respect for her but never engaged in conversation with her as I was scared it would be taken the wrong way.
where you scared it would have been taken the wrong way by her or ‘the other drivers’?
you see, I am often that woman who likes to get on with it, learn the job and have no favouritism as much as possible, if I can’t do the job then I should not be there that’s how I think of it…
I have a happy ‘can do’ attitude and like to get on with those around me, so ‘if’ I was that woman I would have loved for you to approach me to engage in a normal day to day conversation, as it goes I love men’s company, I always have, I find most of the times their company far more interesting than that of women (if they are the stereotypical women that is), as I do not like to talk about the mundane things that a lot of women talk about (as in shopping/make up/kids/fiancee/wedding etc), I love trucks, motorbikes and having a laugh, I have always been the one to stand at the bar with the lads when I used to go down the pub, drinking my pints rather than at the table with the girls having a glass of white… (it’s been 20 years since I’ve been in a pub )
it’s a difficult place sometimes for people like me as either men are scared to talk to women like me or they think I am gay which I am not (and by now at age 45 I should know what I am hopefully).
so if this woman at work was any similar to me she would have probably enjoyed talking to you and she would have not taken it the ‘wrong’ way
I think next time give it a go you may find the conversation pleasing/interesting/a change/a nice way to spend 5 minutes at work
nobodysdriving:
I have always been the one to stand at the bar with the lads when I used to go down the pub, drinking my pints rather than at the table with the girls having a glass of white…
Do you mind if I go and sit with the girls, have a glass of chardonnay and talk about Michael Buble?
nobodysdriving:
I have always been the one to stand at the bar with the lads when I used to go down the pub, drinking my pints rather than at the table with the girls having a glass of white…
Do you mind if I go and sit with the girls, have a glass of chardonnay and talk about Michael Buble?
go ahead help yourself (who is Buble■■? am off to ‘google him’ now as I haven’t a clue!)
nobodysdriving:
I have always been the one to stand at the bar with the lads when I used to go down the pub, drinking my pints rather than at the table with the girls having a glass of white…
Do you mind if I go and sit with the girls, have a glass of chardonnay and talk about Michael Buble?
nobodysdriving:
I have always been the one to stand at the bar with the lads when I used to go down the pub, drinking my pints rather than at the table with the girls having a glass of white…
Do you mind if I go and sit with the girls, have a glass of chardonnay and talk about Michael Buble?
And the saucer of milk for table 5
LOL - What ya saying!
The truth is I treat everyone the same, you want to read some of the stuff I’ve posted to blokes on here!
ash 001:
excuse me how can you not know who bubble is?!
oh god I am so happy I’ve been unaware of his existence to be honest, I think next time I will not google, to not know is so much better (ignorance is bliss as they say)
that showed me how to fold back a spud bulker sheet properly, pre-easy sheets, when I was a green a grass driver and turned up at some place with a loaded bulker and not a clue as what to do next. 
