You reversed what is a very simple reverse of which you had many attempts at…go out and try a tight blindside with things more valuable than cones to negotiate then come back and tell us all how qualified you are to put yourself above shunting,maybe you’ll realise they were doing you a favour asking you to go shunting.
Glory Boy:
This is not a wind up but you sound like you got a good job and boss. To be clear this is shunting trailers in a yard not eben on the road!!! I have class C and cladss C+E so I am qualified to shunt class 2 to RDC and I would do this if it meant I was getting a new artic but I would settle for like a 63 or something the new ones should go to older drivers or it would be an insult to there service. I don’t think I would forget the trailor number plate my trainer went through the whole list of picking up and dropping trailors because you have to do them on your test sometimes.
If this isn’t a wind up(and I’m sure it is), then you need a reality check. You start at the bottom, and earn respect, that licence proves you learned what was required to prove that you could competently drive an artic for 90 mins or so. Your instructor has given you the ground work basics on how to use the truck in the real world, it doesn’t make you a lorry driver, that comes from experience. To phone in sick because you believe you are to good to shunt, well that kinda says you got a lot to learn 
Glory Boy:
Stanny_1985:
Got to be a wind up! I only passed my class 2 on the 30th June and class 1 on the 1st August i spent a month shunting rigids between 2 RDCs although it was boring as hell it was very very useful i got to understand how rdc’s operate the big do’s and don’ts and spent all night watching artics backing on bays i ve since landed myself a really good number with a cracking company driving a brand new arctic every night shunting. Now although that first month was boring and irritating i do feel i ve learnt so much from it i dont make myself look stupid and the biggest mistake i continuously make is forgetting to take my number plate off the bloody trailerI don’t think I would forget the trailor number plate my trainer went through the whole list of picking up and dropping trailors because you have to do them on your test sometimes.
If i can give you one bit of advice from newbie too newbie (if you are as you say you are) change your attitude and quick as a new lorry driver only recently passed you need to be a YES man it properly tough to get a drive as a new driver so take what your given a week in the yard followed by a week with another driver is not all bad and i can guarantee you that week spent with the driver will be the most valuable week of your driving career.
bald bloke:
Do you possess a tin hat ?
I’m gonna up the requirement to a nuclear bunker.
OP, stop trying to wind me up, I’m not clockwork. Allegedly.
You’re persistent, I’ll give you that.
Glory Boy:
Its not just shunting in the yard I think that if I prove I can reverse why waste me in the yard when there are loads to be delivered??
Because the boss thinks youre not as good as you seem to think you are would be my guess
Glory Boy:
I would be fine shunting for a while to show I know how to reverse
Yet an hour ago you posted about phoning in sick because it was an insult to be told how to reverse a lorry by someone with the same license as you.
And the holes in the story/trolling attempt begin to show already
Glory Boy:
a whole day messing around then sending two drivers on one lorry for a week or more doesn’t make sense to me.
Doesnt need to make sense to you. The guy who pays the wages says he wants it to happen. Thats all you need to know really
Glory Boy:
I don’t know everything
Says the man who joined here purely to moan about his new boss wanting him to go with an experienced driver to teach him the ropes
Glory Boy:
there are things to learn but mostly about how customers sites work where to book in and stuff surely not basic driving things
If you think you’re one weeks training and one hour test is the same as what its like when out on your own then you are in for a VERY rude awakening
Glory Boy:
and I did actually take my test on a rainy day and did my reverse perfect.
Ah well there you go then. A nice big open test area with markers on the trailer and trip round a cone with nothing else close by is proof enough that you are indeed an expert reverser. Im sure that your drizzly test reverse will feel exactly the same as in a tight yard with a wagon each side of the bay you need to blind side into in and a brick wall 2 ft off your front bumper, threatening to rip the bumper off the bosses £60,000 lorry. With an audience of warehouse staff staring at you. Yep, the test situation is exaclty like real life eh!
I think Juddian was being generous in hos marking for troll attempts. Im giving you a minus 1/10. You got less than zero for not at least being honest and trying to fool us with an “at first glance” genuine post
Bluey Circles:
Dozy’s twin bother
Never thought of that you could be right
Thank you to the people being helpfull some of you are complete mugs though I didn’t say half the things you said I did. I meant I would be happy to shunt trailors for a RESONABLE TIME like two hours or even a morning to prove I know what I am doing. I don’t know what blindside means but that doesn’t mean I cant reverse because I can I proved it to the government and don’t really care what you think you know. So much for drivers sticking together some of you are in the real world and some of you think you are gods gift. I didn’t mean anything by it is lorry driving not rocket science I could have said plumming or something it just means once you have trained in something you know what you are doing and correct me if I am wrong but I AM TRAINED! The lorry I trained in actually said it on the front and then I took a test so don’t make it look like I am having a go at lorry driving or putting it down that’s not what I meant.
Yeah i was being generous, a decent troll effort would have been slightly believable, as Snowman, into minus figures.
The switched on lads here might be able to work out who it is by the speeling errors…such errors or poor grammar don’t bother me in the least by the way, we are lorry drivers in the main here not English teachers, but they are sometimes unique as is how people phrase a sentence.
If this happens to be real, God forbid, it bode’s well for the majority of lorry drivers who knew they had to learn to walk before they could run, and we’ve all had to do that, and grabbed every bit of advise help and tips we could with grateful hands along the way, i hope lots more coming through share Glory Boy’s attitude, serious lorry driver shortage coming so those that ‘‘can do’’ should have good times to look forward to.
How to win friends and influence people ■■■■■■ idiot !!
edit … something he wrote on another post, says it all really… ‘saw your thread after I made one up’ 
Unfortunately it would seem that all the schools aren’t back yet, too much time on their hands and an internet connection unmonitored by Mum and Dad (assuming the latter is even known) what could possibly go wrong.
I am going to work tommorrow so I will come back here and eat humble pie to all of the haters if I mess up the reverse I don’t think I will be because I know I can do it. There is no need to post any more unless it is supporting because I don’t think I have ever seen so many negative posts anywhere before. Some ofou could do with a lesson in how to support a fellow driver and newbie rather than tareing people down all the while.
Glory Boy:
Thank you to the people being helpfull some of you are complete mugs though I didn’t say half the things you said I did. I meant I would be happy to shunt trailors for a RESONABLE TIME like two hours or even a morning to prove I know what I am doing. I don’t know what blindside means but that doesn’t mean I cant reverse because I can I proved it to the government and don’t really care what you think you know. So much for drivers sticking together some of you are in the real world and some of you think you are gods gift. I didn’t mean anything by it is lorry driving not rocket science I could have said plumming or something it just means once you have trained in something you know what you are doing and correct me if I am wrong but I AM TRAINED! The lorry I trained in actually said it on the front and then I took a test so don’t make it look like I am having a go at lorry driving or putting it down that’s not what I meant.
Jesus. Im actually starting to think you’re being serious! 
Your biggest problem is your attitude. You think you’ve sat a test for an hour and you’re good to go. I have news for you. Your weeks training and 60 minute test mean you are qualified to drive 44 tonnes. It DOES NOT mean you are automatically competant. Theres a world of difference between passing a test and being out on your own. The fact you cant see it speaks volumes and I think your boss is spot on not letting you loose right off the bat. He’s probably sensed your “im better than this” attitude yesterday and wants to check you out a bit more. Your comment of “I would be happy enough with a 63 plate or something” says a lot about your attitude and it doesnt sound like you have a good enough one
When I passed my class 1 I spent two years trying to find someone to give me a start and when I did, I got given a 53 plate Scania. It was rickety, hot, dusty, ripped interior, manual gearbox, cramped and more. I would rather have had one of their newer 64 plate Actros or a Daf XF but I stuck with it and didnt moan once because I was glad of the experience and to be honest, all I wanted to do was drive artics. I didnt really mind what it was. What I didnt do was throw my toys out of the pram and phone in sick after one days induction.
If (and its a big if) youre not trolling then you need to readjust your attitude. Passing a test does not mean it is not beneath you to prove yourself. Insurance premiums for companies willing to take on newbies with zero experience are sky high and any boss worth his salt will want to test you out for himself first before he trusts you with his newer wagons.
Sounds like your attitude is all wrong and you wanted a brand new lorry and sitting dossing about for a few hours being tipped and are not willing to work up to it. You want it all now and feel it is beneath you to have to prove it because the green slip of paper you were given with “pass” on it should mean you are fully 100% compatant.
Im still siding with the fact youre trolling though. If youre not then prove it. Cut the attitude, be constructive and you will find guys on here offering hints and tips to help you.
I await with bated breath (I dont really. Im off to make a bacon roll but it sounded good to end with)
Yawn
Pathetic troll is… Pathetic…
Haven’t the staff been round yet with your meds !!!
Lordy that’s a ■■■■■ attitude
Just thinking back over me time and the jobs i’ve done.
Here’s three examples.
Kwik Save, simple enough job but no matter how long you’d been driving lorries you got a full days induction and then sent out the next day with an experienced driver to show you the ropes at the stores…then you started learning it, loads of different fridge types plus the usual mix and match of multi drop compartmented trailers
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Car transporters, proper companies minimum two weeks training, more if needed, first few days in the compound then if take to it go out on the road with trainer for the remainder of the fortnight, then assessment…then you started learning it and never stopped learning.
One met a bloke, old school ex general haulage driver, who was having kittens at one of the rental sites alongside Heathrow runway, he had a three deck artic which to be fair was reasonable to learn as such but he’d been given one days training and sent out on his jack bricking it, i obviously helped him as any bugger would but what planet did his boss come from, or did he assume other ■■■■■■ drivers would do the on road training for him, that boss deserved every bit of damage that poor sod was going to do.
Tanks, first day full induction, then next day loading and if possible assist tank tipping in the yard, then out on the road with trainer for rest of fortnight, test on last day, if more time needed more time given…again then you started learning it and never stopped learning.
Common theme here, you never stop learning and thats if you’ve trained properly, i can’t be the only one who’s had a lorry from new for over three years and am still finding little idiosyncrasies, and as for reversing you never ever stop learning and two weeks off for hols is enough to put you back quite a bit for a few days.
The-Snowman:
Jesus. Im actually starting to think you’re being serious!
Would you be interested in buying into a nice little Spanish timeshare? or how about joining me on this enterprising p̶y̶r̶a̶m̶i̶d̶ money earning scheme?
I think he was being rather modest asking for a 63 plate
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Reef:
The-Snowman:
Jesus. Im actually starting to think you’re being serious!Would you be interested in buying into a nice little Spanish timeshare? or how about joining me on this enterprising p̶y̶r̶a̶m̶i̶d̶ money earning scheme?
Cant mate, im tapped out. I met a guy this morning who sold me some magic beans
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt but if he is trolling, at least ill keep him busy in here and stop him spamming the newbie section and putting off genuine newbies who appreciate you never stop learning
Glory Boy:
I am going to work tommorrow so I will come back here and eat humble pie to all of the haters if I mess up the reverse I don’t think I will be because I know I can do it. There is no need to post any more unless it is supporting because I don’t think I have ever seen so many negative posts anywhere before. Some ofou could do with a lesson in how to support a fellow driver and newbie rather than tareing people down all the while.
Good luck, With your attitude and your belief in a God given ability to drive a truck you will fit well in this industry and I’m sure you’ll have a long and distinguished career.
I must admit. I’m a newbie having just got a class CE job.
If I got told to wash the yards floor for a week before driving the lorries I would be greatful that in the end I’d get an opportunity as with newbies we struggle to get a chance.
As said on my post. The test reverse is nothing like I have done so far.
I ended up taking shunts and started to get Het up.
The shunting in the yard for a day would have been good practice for you.
I passed my CE in an auto but have now driven manuals and also autos with clutches that you use in reverse and pulling away.
Any chance to be sat in the seat I would grab.