STAVRO:
mamil:
Going through my class 2 training at the mo and reading posts on here makes me wonder if i have ballsed up.Yes, you have. You are throwing money down the gutter. You’ll never get it back. Lorry driving is virtually a minimum wage job and you get treated like [zb].
You’d earn more being a cabby.
Valid point I would say most cabbies earn in excess of £400 a week after outlays
Yes
Lorry driving is for old scruff’s that can’t get a proper job.
Don’t feed the troll
mamil:
Going through my class 2 training at the mo and reading posts on here makes me wonder if i have ballsed up. Anybody with anything good to say about the industry wether it be firms/agencies, wages or just that they love it would be appreciated
It’s great when you find the right job that suits you, it’s a totally stress free lifestyle with a good sum of money in your bank every week to boot. Some people fall into good jobs, others journey a long road of frustration trying to dodge the 15 hour days, horrendous start times, shifts, crappy multidrop and low pay.
Generally though, if you have something about you & your proactive the right jobs come about. The industry is full of moaners & whiners who don’t know how cushy the job actually is. It’s truck driver logic to think that everybody else in society earning good sums of money is just doing 9-5 and home, switched off, eating tea in front of Eggheads everynight.
I do get sick of it sometimes, but i don’t think thats unusual for any working person.
It isn’t so much a case of what is good about the job.It’s more one of having the type of mindset which will make other types of job seem like doing twice as many hours.
A liking for driving and going to different places is usually a part of that which usually makes longer distance work the best of the driving jobs.With the downside that going further can mean less home life.Although looking back I found even local tipper/flat type work more acceptable than it seemed at the time.
The money issue is often less of a priority in that regard than finding the right type of driving job or at least something reasonable on the basis if you don’t mind going to work every day then it’s easy money.On that note you’ll need to upgrade the licence to C+E ASAP to provide the best choice of jobs.
Presently sitting in a pub, drinking a nice pint of ale. Spend the day sitting on my arse, driving, or occasionally pulling back the curtains on the trailer. Single drop means just one occasion of pulling curtains. Multi drop means multi occasions to get the kettle on…
I love my job. But I know how to work it.
If you’d asked me that within the first year of me passing, I’d have said yes, you’re wasting your money. After twelve months of hard graft and non whinging I landed myself a cushy jumber, earning 35k+ for 50 hour weeks and I love my job.
Crack on drive.
I like what I do. It’s because it’s what I do. Mainly just me on my own and some scenery and a motor, and yes, I do like lorries but I’m not fussed on what one it is or how fancy it is. I just enjoy playing with them and driving about in the things looking at the scenery. The encounters with clownery and cabbagery are generally short lived and easily distanced. I’m in my own world with the world rolling by. It’s a world I choose with an atmosphere I choose, with radio 4, some podcasts or some music I like with an unusual roadside stop I’ve looked up thrown in. No one else’s.
I find enjoyment in the job that others perhaps don’t and I don’t pay attention to anyone that says I should or shouldn’t. I come on here because I like the crack and like the posters. If I stopped enjoying the job I would go, quietly disappear. But that’s me I’m like that. It works and it suits. No bugger else enters my world and no one moves my opinion of what I should value or enjoy.
I managed to read Bill Brysons new book,all 389 pages, over 5 days sue to the amount of time spent on Loading bays.
If you are a young man …
Ask at your local college about trade courses before you give yr money to a fat arse lgv instructor…
My local is doing plumbers (1st year of 2) for £1500 part time for example
Truck driving has had the tyres shot out by Europe and is never likely to recover
Will be a long time til they invent a robot thst can go round peoples houses and fix a tap leak too
Time for a reality check no I don’t drive a hgv everyday,
but I started driving steel deliveries in the 1979
and some of the drivers I met taught me route planning and sheeting and loading skills that serve me well everyday ,yes drivers get less respect today even in my little car transporter I can tell a pro straight away looking at the truck. As a dvsa guy said to me recently guys who walk round and clean there lights check there curtain tension have less faults when stopped and they will be older and calmer
enjoy your training learn everyday on the job and respect the company your working for and good luck in your career
roughyed:
I managed to read Bill Brysons new book,all 389 pages, over 5 days sue to the amount of time spent on Loading bays.
Cheers. Idea for a thread. Hopefully useful. Probably degenerate into an argument about pay, china what’s the point bla bla. Standard!
STAVRO:
mamil:
Going through my class 2 training at the mo and reading posts on here makes me wonder if i have ballsed up.Yes, you have. You are throwing money down the gutter. You’ll never get it back. Lorry driving is virtually a minimum wage job and you get treated like [zb].
You’d earn more being a cabby.
+1, you’ll be regarded as a nuisance by everyone you come across from other road users, customers, colleagues & even your own employer[emoji15]
Juddian:
Don’t feed the troll
Why, he/she is just being honest…!
Pimpdaddy:
STAVRO:
mamil:
Going through my class 2 training at the mo and reading posts on here makes me wonder if i have ballsed up.Yes, you have. You are throwing money down the gutter. You’ll never get it back. Lorry driving is virtually a minimum wage job and you get treated like [zb].
You’d earn more being a cabby.
+1, you’ll be regarded as a nuisance by everyone you come across from other road users, customers, colleagues & even your own employer[emoji15]
Juddian:
Don’t feed the trollWhy, he/she is just being honest…!
Odd you always jump to the tune of the latest online username from this individual. Naive or incredibly suspicious. Take your pick, as the Irishman did.
James the cat:
Odd you always jump to the tune of the latest online username from this individual. Naive or incredibly suspicious. Take your pick, as the Irishman did.
I like paddies, they make me chuckle…[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
Pimpdaddy:
James the cat:
Odd you always jump to the tune of the latest online username from this individual. Naive or incredibly suspicious. Take your pick, as the Irishman did.I like paddies, they make me chuckle…[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
If you ignored the reference to Irishman what would your response be to the rest of my challenge?
I quite like my job now. I get a decent wage for a decent employer but hasn’t always been the case. I like to think I’ve worked my way up. Having said that I average about 55 hours a week (zero nights out) which in my book is a lot.
Tonight I have been watching Building cars live and I don’t think I could work in a factory fitting a foo foo valve every 60 seconds.
James the cat:
If you ignored the reference to Irishman what would your response be to the rest of my challenge?
I don’t really have a response, sounds more like a statement than a challenge to me!?
Pimpdaddy:
James the cat:
If you ignored the reference to Irishman what would your response be to the rest of my challenge?I don’t really have a response, sounds more like a statement than a challenge to me!?
After 2 posts you aren’t bothered by what I said?
