Worked fo a yeer in service station,then did 20yrs approx as milkman. moved up to telford and started doing parcels around mid wales they put me through for class 1. then did general haulage now delievering yogs
north surrey haulage:
Dapper Scavenger:
:shock:Well, I must admit to thinking that i might do better if i wore a skirt suite
Are you big enough to be wearing the cover off a setee then?
pouts I have a new keyboard.
In my short and very boring life I have been the following…
Left school and bacame a office junior at ERF!! in Trafford park left there and did the same job for a valeting firm.
Had a stint doing the fast food thing at KFC (yes I do know the secret!!) and how to make the gravy!!
Then went to work for the Royal bank of Sockland and left there after 2 years after becoming chief cashier!
Then joined the Ambulance service as a 999 call taker progressed to ambulance dispatcher and now traning to be a paramedic!!
My driving career started at Asda in the early days of home shopping I got pulled off the checkouts (doing part time whilst at the bank) to man a van and I never loked back! Got to 21 and paid for my own class two and have been doing alsorts since then!!
All that in 6 years since leaving school!!! 
left school then served time as a welder making articulated dump trucks. caterpillar took us over and it went downhill from there. got the chance of redundo after 18 & a 1/2 years and took the class 2 then class1 tests. used to buy the trucking mags and always fancied it but never had the bottle to jack the welding game in and go for it. never looked back, only been driving for a living for 3 years now, got a job with the co-op which was great but now on the tankers so i can have weekends off. in my short time driving i have come across some of the most helpful and friendly people and love the cameraderie. 
Left school at 15 & didnt bother ever returning to sit my GCSE’s, went to Equine college & got a handful of horse type qualifications including an HND, but then couldnt get a decent job. Had a few years as a manager in a stud yard & working in various low paid stables.
Got fed up with it & ended up going on a production line in a factory, which I stuck for just 3 days (omg…stuck with a load of bitchy females all day…AAAAGGGGHHH!!!) But by this point I realised that the boys on the FLT 's were much nicer & a lot less scarey to talk to than the evil bitchy women, & I asked if I could be a FLT driver too, so I did that for 3 years instead & was a lot happier, but still bored out of my skull.
It was only a natural progression after that to driving really, I’d see the lorries pulling into the yard & thought “That looks like fun, think I’ll do that next!”.
I harassed one of the companies we delt with until they gave me a start on the 7.5 tonner, which I did for 3 years, left there, got a start with Norbert Dentressangle, who put me through my ADR & class 2, then I went on to pay for my class 1 myself, so all in all, have been driving for almost 13 years.
I cant see me doing anything elce really, I just like being on my own & not having to deal with other people.Ideally though, Id like to be an astronaut or a deep sea diver, but I dont think theres much call for them round here! 
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You can tell I didnt go to school much…just edited this due to my shocking spelling mistakes!
slowboy:
Worked fo a yeer in service station,then did 20yrs approx as milkman. moved up to telford and started doing parcels around mid wales they put me through for class 1. then did general haulage now delievering yogs
Are you delivering yoghourt or did you mean logs? 
I always wanted to be a driver since I was at school, but ket coming up against the 25yr problem. Had a few scraps of van and 7.5ton work but not much more.
In between the scraps, I did office work (including a stint for the inland revenue), shop work, factory work, sales work and yes I have even been known to work at a certain fast food company. (BKnathan also works for them)
Every time I did something different, I always drifted back to driving, before getting ■■■■■■ off with the agency, and trying something else.
In 1998, I got my break, a local firm was going to employ me and put me through my test…yahaay. Shame it was PCV, got to deal with people, oh my god
The plan was to do that for a couple of years and then use the money I saved to get my LGV licences.
6 years later, I finally get round to doing them, and hopefully I will be driving artics in the very near future.
I can’t see me doing anything else in the future, cos i’ve already got the bug from the scraps of artic work I have done.
Stuart
I started working part time on a farm at 12. They let me start driving the tractors when I was 13. After mastering reversing one trailer they then hooked up another one, so I had to master (ish) reversing two trailers together.
Left school at 17 having gained several SCE “O” levels and failed Highers.
Went to college to get farm management qualifications, failed.
Got sick of the dole after 6 months, so joined the army as a Combat Driver with the Royal Corps of Signals at 20. Served for 12 years, saw a lot of the world and did a lot of interesting stuff.
Left the army and couldn’t get a decent job as a driver, the old Catch 22, no experience so no job, so no experience (I’d only been driving trucks all over Europe for 12 years )
Took a year out of driving to learn how to weld. Got coded to ASME IX 6G on stick plus the BSI for gas cutting n welding, MIG n TIG Welding too. Got all that just in time for the rig yards in Fife to start paying off their welders as their construction contracts came to an end. Managed to get a job in a factory, as a MIG welder, knocking up structural steel. Got laid off from that after 6 weeks (the construction industry was in the doldrums at this time too). I had never been so glad to get laid off in my life.
Then I started signing up with driving agencies, playing then off against each other and weeding out the dross. I ended up working on a full time contract with BRS Taskforce (BRS/Exels agency division). Stayed with them doing all sorts of stuff, all over the UK, for 4 and a half years. Then got offered a full time job with Exel on the BSD contract out of Bellshill. Stayed there for two n a half years then got redundancy.
Did UK general haulage for a year, then applied to Murfitts for European work. Turned up for the interview driving a Scanny 143 500 Hi-Line with 25 tonne of sawn timber stacked 15 foot high on the trailer .
Stayed with Murfitts till the end, doing Europe. Had a week off after being made redundant., and started with a more local Euro Haulier. Jacked that cowboy in after 6 months, had two other jobs in very quick succession then got a start with A. Wisharts (it had only taken 12 years, they were one of the first I applied to after leaving the army), my local International Haulier. 2 years of mixed Euro and UK work later, and I was made redundant again.
I had another week off, then started with my present company. Mainly doing Germany with the odd trip to Swiss thrown in occasionally.
I think I got the diesel into my veins on the farm. Despite doing many other things, I always came back to driving. I reckon I’m in this game to the end of my natural. Mind you, you never know whats round the corner .
meant yoghurts for muller ,but to lazy to write that
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was orginally a coal miner untill the cow thatcher and her nazis cohorts destroyed the coalfields(god what a party,when she dies).
did it the traditional way, drivers mate {second man} on the long , wide stuff, past my test at twenty one and never done anything else but drive an artic , {37 now} 
started on my own 4 yrs ago
Left school dec 81 done YTS ( 6mths) as a butcher,left that and straight into another YTS with Motherwell district council as a warehouse man.Got a full time job with a steel firm ( making cooling modules for Ravensgraig steelwork’s ) Left that done 12 years in the force’s got my class1 & 2 out of them.I left in 94 and took a 6mth contract with motherwell district council in their civil ammenity yard,when that finished i got a full time job making part’s for JCB and i hate being stuck indoors and went down to the local agency ( HMS) and now i’v been with present job 8 year’s and enjoying it so far.
Dapper Scavenger:
north surrey haulage:
Dapper Scavenger:
:shock:Well, I must admit to thinking that i might do better if i wore a skirt suite
Are you big enough to be wearing the cover off a setee then?
pouts I have a new keyboard.
Why didn’t you buy a Qwerty one then? 
Left school at 18 and went to work as a trainee man from the Pru. Then I got transferred to the Household Insurance dept for a year then left and joined the Coop as a computer operator. After 5 years I moved off shift into programming then 3 years later we got closed down - move to Manchester or take redundancy…
Almost joined GEC as a programmer but then joined a small local company where I remained until we got bought out by a PLC. Redundancy followed 3 years later. Joined another local firm for a year until we lost a lot of work and I got made redundant (getting boring this redundancy lark!)
Whilst looking for other work in the computer industry I signed up with some local agencies where I did 7.5 ton and van work until I got long term agency work with my current employer then taken on permanently. Still enjoying the job so no real desire to move up a class, and definitely no wish to go back to the computers!
Calv
white van man
7.5 tonne nutter
slightly more sensible class 2 driver
totally nasty miserable taxi driver
professional class 1 driver
chrislee:
got a job with the co-op which was great but now on the tankers so i can have weekends off. in my short time driving i have come across some of the most helpful and friendly people and love the cameraderie.
Is there something you should be telling us?
I have done tankers for over 20 years and the tanks are always full during the week
I started off in the RN at sixteen then they disabled me out after 8 years. Did two years in vans & 7.5 ton plus taxi’s, chauffeuring and a little bit of wharehouse work. Then took my class 1 and although I moan and ■■■■■ about the job I honestly can’t see myself doing anything else.
I come back to driving tomorrow after a 10 year absence. Dad was a driver all his llife (have RoSPA medals) so I rode shotgun from 4 years old, drove his atric in the docks at 14 (shhhhh) hooking up trailers. Drove vans from 17 to 21 when I started HGV work, did this 'till I was 45 and got disillusioned as so many companies ran bent (and i lost hearing in one ear due to working with flu and night heater packed up). So at 45 I retrained with computers, did OU and Microsoft MCSE, too old for employment so started on my own, limited company for a while, then got screwed by the banks and IR, wife got ill. So for the last year been looking for something legal and half decent pay at least. Couldnt believe pay and some of the driving still dodgy. But finally got a job with what was probably the best company I ever worked for, 19 years ago now, and start tomorrow. I am soooo glad to be back.
Phil
Went straight from school to university, did student thing for a while, then ran a festival (badly) for a couple of years. Bit of a crisis, became a self-employed courier, after which ran a parcel depot for another couple of years. Short interlude in France (unhappy love affair), followed by a stint on the South Coast delivering telephone bits for Siemens. Then drama school and a few years (to date) being an intermittently successful actor. Have had a ■■■■ couple of years with that, and wanted to do something which I enjoyed while not doing the other. Also got married and now have little boy to support. Had been driving on and off for agencies (7.5 tonners & vans) & decided one day that I wanted to drive proper trucks, so I’ve taken and passed my C & C+E in the last three months.
Who knows what happens next…
like most I was to young to drive trucks when I left school, but got my licence when I was 17 (1977) in the Army and have been driving ever since, sometimes I want out of it all, but can’t for the life of me think what I would want to do day in day out for the rest of my life so will carry on driving for now