i never doughted it for a minute …in a scotish accent
Simon 71
Very true. Not all companies are struggling. My lot are opening a new depot in Feb 2009 for instance
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Purple trailers■■?
del949:
Simon 71Very true. Not all companies are struggling. My lot are opening a new depot in Feb 2009 for instance
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Purple trailers■■?
Nope. All will be revealed when we need to recruit 
Too Fat To Fly:
With respect Del, you probably don’t have young children now seeing as you have been driving for years, but tell the man who has a mortgage and young family not to worryI can see what your saying in fairness, it won’t change anything worrying about it, but its hard not to
Erm I have a new mortgage and about to start a family and im not worrying
Of course there’s a future!
I’m especially looking forward to in a few years time when the CPC kicks in and all the cynical beggars retire because “I don’t need no piece of paper to tell me how to drive”
be LOADS of jobs then 
WELL THERES ALLWAYS CANADA OR NEW ZEALAND SO THE ADVERTS SAY. Size of the rigs out there Mr Vain wouldnt do any work to busy polishing. Just think three weeks away from the wife!!!
If you’re not fussy about what you do or what you drive, you’ll find work. I’ve even done waste food skips in the past. Turned out to be a cracking job once you got used to the smell.
Of course there’s a future!
I’m especially looking forward to in a few years time when the CPC kicks in and all the cynical beggars retire because “I don’t need no piece of paper to tell me how to drive”
be LOADS of jobs then
Identical to what was said back in '71 (or whichever year it was HGV licences came out)
Just a thought, is the CPC for drivers Europe wide or just UK?
Is there a future in road haulage ?
Yes!
But!
Many contributors to these forums, have been around for long
enough to see both the good and bad times. As long as people in
this country, want to have a basic lifestyle, you’re going to need some
sort of truck to get it to 'em.
The job is continually changing. One major drawback for both trucks
and trains, is the demise of the old traditional heavy industries,which
made work for thousands. Most of that is dead, although I see a partial
revival for coal. I think that this work is now more likely to be put on trains.
A big problem is our lack of engineering for exports. We are increasing
our imports, whith British hauliers getting a smaller slice of the action.
Unfortunately our communist friends in Westminster, aren’t lorry friendly.
Bad News! They like to pocket the taxes that trucks raise, they like the convenience they bring, to keep the public happy. But thy don’t want the
physical problems that trucks cause. They would be quite happy to import all our road haulage, beacuase it would be convenient for them!
This doesn’t bode well for the future. Because it prevents long-term planning
I’ve been around this job for long enough to see, that when change happens,
something gets lost in the process. Change is usually for the worse not better!
From my own perspective, we don’t seem to have fully recovered from the recession we had in the early nineties. Something was lost then, not to be returned.
The Government haven’t realised we need domestic industry. They have until
now, thought that we could simply import everything. They haven’t looked after
the interests of their own people. Gordon Brown was brashley stating only a few months ago. ’ We can import this, we can import that’ I bet he thinks differently now.
My interpretation is that our road haulage indusry works in spite of government, not beacause of government. It works because of the inginuity of peple, to adapt and make things work. It seems to me that the intervention of politics into this industry, stands in the way of common sense!
As far as his government and previous governments are concerned.Our farmers have been neglected,our industry sold abroad, industrial land
being developed for housing that no-one can afford. It’s going to need a quick change of tactics, to even start to turn the situation around.
Probably if there is going to be a long term future. The roads and the railways
are going to have to work together, instead of in competition with each other.
This idea won’t be determined by politicians, it will be bought about by financial necessity.
As long as people want to eat, there will always be that work available, but if the nation gets poorer, all the work associated with people’s disposable income is bound to suffer.
It will be interesting to look back at these times, in another 15 years.
marbletrucker:
WELL THERES ALLWAYS CANADA OR NEW ZEALAND SO THE ADVERTS SAY. Size of the rigs out there Mr Vain wouldnt do any work to busy polishing. Just think three weeks away from the wife!!!
GOOD NEWS! We’ve had a whip round! ONE ticket ONE way!
We’ll take care of her indoors, we need our school teachers.
Yes there is a future However it maybe different to what we have now. The industry has been changing for sometime now. The big companies and the major suppliers will survive as they have a monoply. From what i can see container work will be one of the biggest to change anybody who’s been involved with it should have noticed that the downturn in work is not just due to the reccession but has been getting steadly worse over the past 4/5 years.