what with all the hard men u hear about in this game its a wonder u dont come across the odd truckstop brawl or rdc punch up,but i`ve never seen nothing.has anyone else seen or been involved in anything.surely the continental drivers have seen a bit of action.
commonrail:
what with all the hard men u hear about in this game its a wonder u dont come across the odd truckstop brawl or rdc punch up,but i`ve never seen nothing.has anyone else seen or been involved in anything.surely the continental drivers have seen a bit of action.
most of the tales of hard men are pure bull !!!
Many years ago I saw drivers from a Dumfries based company fighting amongst them selves on the Felixstowe to Zeebrugge ferry.
One weekend, also years ago, I saw drivers from three different removal firms, one who don’t Choose Vauxhalls, one who are not Blacks and one from the Oxford area with beige vehicles, having a punch up in Asten Truckstop in Holland.
Also witnessed one of the guys I used to work with and an Irish driver rolling around on the ground by the diesel pumps in the BP at Macon.
On each occasion I believe strong drink may have been taken prior to it all kicking off. 
Three incidents in well over 20 years so it’s mostly just -
Back in the 1980s there were Routiers in France that British drivers were banned from because they were so prone to kick off when they were on the pop when weekended.
yes,seen a loader flattened[he had a really bad attitude],gave it the big one too one of our drivers and got flattened.
one of my mates had a falling out with car driver at ratcliffe on trent, car driver got battered,mate arrested and done for it.
one of ours got arrested for again frightening car driver[espcially his mrs] to death, trying to get into locked car to get at car driver, mrs rang coppers as she was terrified of him getting into car, again arrested, but got off with it when it went to court. 
the lad who battered the car driver at radcliffe on trent is zb hard as nails,other two not so much hard as nutcases, didnt take much to set them off.
the boss was also a local hard case[big rough family],done time for g.b.h ,think thats the only reason they got jopbs there,all part of the local mafia
i think i was the only normal driver[person there] there 
ive never physically assaulted anyone because of my job but had a few scraps whilst working away usually over some ■■■■ having a few pints and thinking he is rocky, as most problems can be sorted out with comman sense, most of our trouble was always down south because of my scouse accent that was usually enough for some wopper to start a fight. 
What with air everything, auto boxes, not getting onto trailers and no hand-balling ever, it’s a wonder some of us can lift our arms let alone take a swing at anyone.
two and a half hours and not a mention of the Littleport Loonies
The Dumfries drivers mentioned earlier had a few too many, once too often. I saw one banging his head on the kerb to prove how hard he was, this was at the cafe bar at NSF Europoort
The only fights ive ever heard of have been at my own company well to be precise our north east depot. A fight happened in the staff carpark both drivers sacked. And a fight happened at the Christmas night out both drivers sacked.
Cannae take the geordies anywhere! 
merc0447:
The only fights ive ever heard of have been at my own company well to be precise our north east depot. A fight happened in the staff carpark both drivers sacked. And a fight happened at the Christmas night out both drivers sacked.Cannae take the geordies anywhere!
so thats why my ex boss never paid for xmas does probably have no drivers left on the next start of duty
there again it was j bulmer didnt have any spare cash 
In my recent experience, truck drivers are ■■■■■■■, they can`t co-ordinate themselves, let alone engage in combat with others
I give up on them, they are full of bull bigtime, so much so, that it is embarrassing to be a driver to be honest 
I am glad I am out of it now…But I have driving in my blood, so will have to get on with ignoring the [zb] s once again sometime soon…
I’m soft as ■■■■■ but I have had a few drivers work for me who were either hard as nails or with a dark side and it never ceased to amaze me that blokes who were on the Mary Poppins side would try & wind these drivers up or try and give them agro thinking the uniform would protect them.
I made it clear to these guys that if they kicked off or attacked someone they would be sacked so I think that kept them in check but it still makes me chuckle how some jumped up idiots would mouth off to an ex cage fighter and someone who has been prosecuted for GBH.
To be honest it’s just not worth the aggro nowadays, it might feel good at the time putting someone in their place but is it really worth losing your job over or getting a criminal conviction, think before punch and occasionaly it may be! 
att:
In my recent experience, truck drivers are ■■■■■■■, they can`t co-ordinate themselves, let alone engage in combat with others
I give up on them, they are full of bull bigtime, so much so, that it is embarrassing to be a driver to be honest
I am glad I am out of it now…But I have driving in my blood, so will have to get on with ignoring the p r i c k s once again sometime soon…
Come here and say that!!! 
Remember hard guys…There is always a bigger fish!
quote… ‘two and a half hours and not a mention of the Littleport Loonies’
Was at that truckstop near Lake Como when four of five of US littleport loonies kicked off there, I was the fifth one and stood on the side only. What was the name of that place?
Talking of “hard”, I know a bloke who frightened a young highways surveyor when driving a mini digger; He called out to her “excuse me love, when I pull this lever, why won’t the bucket move?” Yes, he had his “lever” in his hand
Closest I got to a fight was a pushing and shoving match between me and a container driver at the dartford tolls, after he decided to pull into my lane just as I was passing him, luckily I was only going slow so managed to brake and swerve before he tore off the side of my cab.
We both got out and a short spat of argy bargy ensued, both sides exchanging threats and insults before we realised how stupid we were being, shook hands, got back in and carried on
att:
In my recent experience, truck drivers are ■■■■■■■, they can`t co-ordinate themselves, let alone engage in combat with others
I give up on them, they are full of bull bigtime, so much so, that it is embarrassing to be a driver to be honest
I am glad I am out of it now…But I have driving in my blood, so will have to get on with ignoring the p r i c k s once again sometime soon…
I wouldn’t say that.
Most drivers I have the misfortune of looking like I am listening to used to be in the SAS.
Ben9:
att:
In my recent experience, truck drivers are ■■■■■■■, they can`t co-ordinate themselves, let alone engage in combat with others
I give up on them, they are full of bull bigtime, so much so, that it is embarrassing to be a driver to be honest
I am glad I am out of it now…But I have driving in my blood, so will have to get on with ignoring the p r i c k s once again sometime soon…I wouldn’t say that.
Most drivers I have the misfortune of looking like I am listening to used to be in the SAS.
Never been involved in anything myself,but saw a good one some years ago on the Immingham-Rotterdam boat.
A Hargrave of Spalding driver had taken some bit of skirt with him and during the evening there was ten of us (only allowed 12 passengers) watching a video in the small lounge when she walks in and sits herself down between us.
The Hargrave driver,who was large to say the least,and who had been drinking like a fish after buying a couple of bottles from the duty free not long after we’d sailed,was standing at the door telling her to get back to the cabin.She just kept chatting to us and watching the video,and I knew she was winding him up and there was going to be trouble.
Mr Hargrave then starts accusing us of wanting to bed her,but nothing could have been further from the truth,she was bloody rank!
The Hargrave driver then comes in and tries to drag her out,kicking and screaming,at which point a dutch driver from De Rijke decides to step in and be a valiant hero,and then all hell lets loose.
The one armed bandit gets knocked over,glasses go flying and this Hargrave driver is like a man possessed,it takes six or seven of us to pin him down whilst another dutchman goes off to the bridge to inform the crew.
All the time this is going on the bit of skirt is standing at the door laughing,and the De Rijke driver is rubbing his forearm across the Hargrave driver’s nose declaring that he hates the English.
Well,I soon put him right on this and tell him the Hargrave driver is in fact Scottish,and that I am English.
He carries on and declares his hatred for the Scottish instead.Result.
Anyway,eventually several burly Swedish seamen drag the Hargrave bloke out and lock him in his cabin until morning.
On arrival at Rotterdam Waalhaven the police are waiting,and arrest him and take him away.
He was banned from travelling on any TorLine vessels again and,I heard he got the sack from Hargrave’s.
What an entertaining evening that was!