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Rhythm Thief:
“Defecate”. No need to thank me. 
Let’s start our profession learning basic bodily functions before we start picking people up on spelling eh!!!
Grammar nazis never bear well on forums!! Just a note!
Lorry drivers need to be able to use a toilet first, before we move onto spelling!
As I’ve always said, 99% of people are decent, 1% aren’t. You take enough people and you’re going to see quite a few of that 1%.
Now, when I was on busses, you dealt with a lot of people, which meant you dealt with a lot of 1%ers.
Now, there’s an awful lot of truck drivers out there, meaning there’s a lot of 1%ers. Can’t tar us all with the same brush.
Personally, I use a toilet, and this is part of the reason I refuse to be told I have to night out in layby’s or industrial estates. Sure, sometimes things go wrong and that’s where I’ll be, but I won’t plan to be there, because I’d like use of a shower and toilet.
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Truckbling:
How do we truck drivers get paid what we’re worth?
Well that’s an easy one. Stop working for what they tell you you are worth. If you were running a business and there were plenty of drivers around and you knew that the majority of them would pay you just to be driving your topliners then what would you be offering your drivers? EXACTLY!. your boss is not a charity case and the lower the amount he can pay you and your fellow cab happy pillocks the more profit he makes. He will gladly allow you all to decorate you trucks in the gayest fashion going because it pleases you all and makes you all feel important in your blinged up lorries.
There really is no reason on this planet for drivers to be working for rates lower than £10 per hour on days with overtime at £15 per hour after 8 hours. The reason you lot are earning less than that is because you turn up every day and accept those very rates. You make all the excuses in the world as to why you are working for that rate such as, its all there is at the moment and “I’d rather be earning this than on the dole”. Well don’t you think your boss knows this and reads forums like this?
Sorry guys but you have nobody to blame but yourselves. Your obsession with having a CB and calling yourselves Rubber Johnny and driving a peterbuilt are the very reasons you will always be paid buttons. Get over the gloss, get over the chrome, get over the tiebacks and pelmet, get over the rigger boots, get over the baseball cap and get over calling yourself “trucker” dave or Baz the 18 wheeler driver and you might just start to wake up and smell the coffee.
There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for you to be earning less than £1000 per week, the only thing stopping you all is your education and brain and general acceptance of anything the gaffer tells you to be correct. I have been driving class one for 20 years now and my earnings this year will be very close to 50k and I sleep in my own bed everyday. I don’t carry a tin of Mr Sheen with me and I never sleep in the [zb] holes you call home all week so somebody is doing something wrong somewhere and it obviously isn’t me.
Think about it!
£50k !? 
Prove it, Noddy!
Truckbling doesn’t need to prove it! It’s up to you to prove you can do it too. If you dont know how to earn good money within the industry read and re-read his post until it sinks in.