At 16 I started as an apprentise hgv fitter,At 23 I was tempted to do the middle east for two years(dont belive the ■■■■■■■■ )no big ■■■■■ deal.back on the spanners for another five years.Then three years driving for Wincanton(another waste of ■■■■■ time)Then US army in Germany for a few years ( braindead morons),Then a do at “main agents” in London,Oxford ,Leeds. etc etc etc(all robbing shysters) then another load of bollox working for “family companies” the biggest bunch of thieves of them all.
Transport has been my life.I repair buses at the moment no big deal.
My son drives a bloody digger( I paid for his licence) He is earning 18 quid an hour.
For all the ■■■■ I have gone through,the VOSA crap,the CPC,the digi card,the medical crap,why the ■■■■ do I bother?
Should have just learned to drive some piece of crap digger and done 8 hours a day then go home.
Why do we do this?
60 years old now and Im only just seeing the light.
What a ■■■■■ idiot I am.
21 yr old engineer with a passion for motorsport , the team needed a class 1 driver and because I’d always been interested in trucks I was volunteered for the test , passed , and handed the keys to an F12 Globetrotter mit race transporter . Did some trolley dolly agency work elsewhere for a while to gain experience then off to the races we went , all over Europe . Many years later(in a different career altogether) one night chatting to a mate in Ottawa he mentioned that Canada was crying out for truckers and nurses(wife) , long story short within 18 months the deed was done , and all of a sudden here we are eleven years later still driving a bloody truck for a living 
Seriously though it is a different world out here, for the better, despite all the sob stories you may hear .
My dad - how I hate that man now! (But not really).
Sent from the ether.
Bking:
At 16 I started as an apprentise hgv fitter,At 23 I was tempted to do the middle east for two years(dont belive the [zb] )no big (zb) deal.back on the spanners for another five years.Then three years driving for Wincanton(another waste of (zb) time)Then US army in Germany for a few years ( braindead morons),Then a do at “main agents” in London,Oxford ,Leeds. etc etc etc(all robbing shysters) then another load of bollox working for “family companies” the biggest bunch of thieves of them all.
Transport has been my life.I repair buses at the moment no big deal.
My son drives a bloody digger( I paid for his licence) He is earning 18 quid an hour.
For all the [zb] I have gone through,the VOSA crap,the CPC,the digi card,the medical crap,why the [zb] do I bother?
Should have just learned to drive some piece of crap digger and done 8 hours a day then go home.
Why do we do this?
60 years old now and Im only just seeing the light.
What a (zb) idiot I am.
Right bundle of laughs you must be …
At just turned 19 years, I working as a labourer at this firm, the boss say’s to me one day can you drive that lorry (an old O type petrol engine Bedford) no say’s I, you will by the time you get where your going say’s the boss, off you go… never looked back, happy days.
Ossie
after school went to be a steeplejack that didnt workout on the dole for two years ( it was good back then ) did a couple of yts ( useless )
went to work in local factory did 8 years with no real direction pretty misrable stuff i finally decided to do somthing about it and got my class 1 first job living and working in france for 10 weeks delivering tents and equipment all over europe ( pre sat nav pre open borders )
came back worked for a load of companies for 15 years then got fed up of being lied to and decived contiually so went fulltime agency
while the hours dont get any shorter the paid by the hour compensates also ive learnt the value of the word NO
Followed dad around for 30 years school holidays weekends etc… always wanted to do it for as long as i can remember!!
Starting in November full time and giving up the dullness of the office! 
Conor:
Left the army , had a HGV license so did it as a temporary stop gap job that was supposed to last 6 months. Almost quarter of a century later I’m still doing it.
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so many instant ban quotes to this running through my mind,and almost having to restrain my naughty fingers by putting them into gloves…its a gift…but I daren’t…sometimes if its too easy its not so much fun… 
however for me,i just couldn’t get enough driving after passing my driving test,just a classic boy racer mad for tar,and the bigger the better as soon as I was 21…did a year in the uk…then 4 trips to Saudi then the rest mostly Europe as well as the uk…the 1st trip I ran with a dude who had previousy came back,my entire memories of that trip were the back of his tilt as that’s all I saw from 6 feet behind him for a month…kakking my pants constantly…next trip I got sent myself as I was meant to know where I was going. 
I’d always dream’t of being viewed with suspicion and contempt by the general public and I quite like ■■■■■■■ on wheels.