Which do u prefer to drive…High rider or Low rider…tractor unit
The low rider ones like the DAF CF or Volvo’s are great cos u can see what’s going on right in front of u…
The high up wagon…u feel like your the MAN…especially when everyone in thier little Noddy has to really look UP to view u…but in tricky situations u can’t see nowt…and if u’re lady that’s super respect…(and nobody can tell me otherwise…been out with load of drivers mates…whom always speak…myself also…with great praises…when they see a lady driver)
there are more arguements for either…but i have to shot out for while…so i’ll leave it there and see what u say and can add
and if u’re lady that’s super respect…(and nobody can tell me otherwise…been out with load of drivers mates…whom always speak…myself also…with great praises…when they see a lady driver)
Good grief. A driver’s a driver, full stop. There are good ones and bad ones. What’s between their legs is irrelevant. When people give me praise because I’m female and driving I find it patronising in the extreme. You wouldn’t say it to a bloke, so don’t say it to a woman. You don’t use your ■■■■■■■■ to drive the truck, neither do we.
Sorry. Pet hate.
Low cab trucks have a smaller blindspot plus you can quite often see what’s down your nearside by the reflection on the windscreen.
High cabs give you a far better view of the road ahead and a better perspective on the size of the vehicle when judging to manoeuvre.
On balance it’s 50/50. I’d pick low cab on day work (as you should know the size of the vehicle anyway, and lack of blindspot outweighs extended forward vision) but high cab on tramping (better living space for us self-caterers).
another benefit of the lower cabs on days is you dont have so far to keep climbing up and down when on multidrop. It feels like a long way when you do it a dozen or more times a day.
I disagree with u Lucy…same with the building trade and other professions…(how often do u get a female plumber come around the house or an electrician to do a repair or otherwise)…Lorry driving is a white male dominated profession…undeniable fact…go and sit in a MSA and have a good look…
Look at it from another way…how often do u see members of the ethnic minority out in the countryside…not that often…oh yes it does happen…but not that often…and this is a well recorded fact…and in some areas when it does happen…people are impressed in a nice way…come to that matter, you don’t often see them driving class1 or 2 vehicles…hence when u do it’s unusual…so u note it with plesant surprise. Should u stop and meet them face to face…u just treat and talk to them as if they were anyone else.
Driving ability is not in question…it’s just nice to see…someone breaking the mould
SuperSmiley:
I disagree with u Lucy…same with the building trade and other professions…(how often do u get a female plumber come around the house or an electrician to do a repair or otherwise)…Lorry driving is a white male dominated profession…undeniable fact…go and sit in a MSA and have a good look…
Look at it from another way…how often do u see members of the ethnic minority out in the countryside…not that often…oh yes it does happen…but not that often…and this is a well recorded fact…and in some areas when it does happen…people are impressed in a nice way…come to that matter, you don’t often see them driving class1 or 2 vehicles…hence when u do it’s unusual…so u note it with plesant surprise. Should u stop and meet them face to face…u just treat and talk to them as if they were anyone else.
Driving ability is not in question…it’s just nice to see…someone breaking the mould
I would no more dream of praising a black man in a truck for being a black man in a truck than I would praise a male nurse for being a male nurse.
It’s a perpetuation of all the things that make society unequal in terms of gender and skin colour.
A job is a job. You do it well or you don’t. To suggest that someone is worthy of respect purely because of their gender is every bit as sexist as saying they shouldn’t for it for the same reason.
I don’t need to take up your condescending suggestion to go and look around MSAs thanks supersmiley. I have had plenty of years in which to do that. So women are in the minority…AND■■?
Sure, if you see a woman do a difficult manouever successfully then praise her. But praise her because she’s a driver, not because she has a ■■■■■■. Make sure you give equal respect to the person after her who does a good job with his ■■■■■ resting on the seat too. It’s isn’t extra-super-speshully bwave for us girlies to get in the cab. It’s merely a path some of us choose, just like you men…usually for the same reasons.
I frankly don’t care whether you agree with this way of looking at things or not. I still find your original statement that “if u’re lady that’s super respect” patronising and offensive. As will many other COMPETANT AND PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS, I’m sure.
Lucy:
You don’t use your ■■■■■■■■ to drive the truck, neither do we.
I always thought the ■■■■■ was the main muscle used for NOT stopping at roundabouts which most women seem to do EVERY time they go near a roundabout, present company excluded .
We don’t need to go to an msa to see the state of play, we drive trucks for a living, we are the ones that witness it day to day. I have told my other half (who is a class 1 driver too and my business partner) how impressed he should be that his missus drives a big rig but he seems more interested in what I have done with the clean laundry! But there you go we lady drivers have to put up with the well balanced modern attitudes as well as people like yourself…
A driver’s a driver, full stop. There are good ones and bad ones. What’s between their legs is irrelevant. When people give me praise because I’m female and driving I find it patronising in the extreme. You wouldn’t say it to a bloke, so don’t say it to a woman. You don’t use your ■■■■■■■■ to drive the truck, neither do we.
But there you go we lady drivers have to put up with the well balanced modern attitudes as well as people like yourself… 
Good luck if you do…