nsmith1180:
A question:
When did agency drivers become known as Limpers and Limpets? Its a recent thing on here and I’m not a fan of it. I am an agency driver and I am neither clinging on for dear life nor hobbling round the yard. I am in fact just another hard working truck driver with aspirations and dreams. So my lifestyle doesn’t suit the full time employed situation, I can’t do 4 on 4 off, I need flexability to be able to say at fairly short notice that I’m not available for next Wednesday, this is why I am an Agency driver.
Not because I am something to be scraped of the hull and thrown away and not because I am physically challenged.
Can we please stop using this pejorative term for people just as hard working as you?
I personally despise this misbegotten colloquialism and description of agency staff, for those who have a limited vocabulary, it means " ■■■■ take""!
Why oh why do you see fit to encompass hard working and flexible drivers, who probably (and quite happily) go the extra mile than you? Who probably have handballed a full trailer before 8am in the cold and wet, whilst your tossing it off in a lay by, or getting even fatter in the salmonella van in the same lay by you’ve spent all night tossing it off.
I don’t do agency work now, but some years earlier and whilst I was up against it I did do agency. Oh and the best laugh is, the same agency that I did work for in 2004, put me on where I am today. Oh, and guess what? I’m coining it on class two work!! So much so, that I never ever, need take my class one!Ha ha. It’s great isn’t it??
Do not ever, any of you, think you have a " hey look at me in my Scania and my light bar with my frilly curtains , have the audacity to ridicule agency.
This " limper" terminology in my book, us tantamount to racism. How Have we got to 2016 and we’re confronted with trolls on what is purported to be a forum to assist and aide all drivers, without inserting derisory and pathetic comments about other drivers around us.
So to the trolls on here who seem to derive an absolute inane perverse pleasure at the expense of hard working agency staff ask yourself this question: when you are pushing and pushing all week, and " want 4 or 5 nights away, and you are happy to be earning £8.29 per hour in your sad scanny, oh and won’t do handball, and won’t do London, and won’t pay for parking, and won’t wait more than 15 minutes to get tipped, and wont hand your keys in, and wont walk to the toilets, instead, choosing to ■■■■ up a wheel, oh and stay in the middle lane through the restrictions on the motorways, whilst terrorising the mother in the Citroen with 2 kids in the back, …yes that’s you, well go on. Who is the most stupid and pathetic?
If you consider yourself as a “professional” then in the name of Sanity, why not begin to behave like one?
My daughter was terrified last week, because she was in the middle lane of a smart motorway roadworks, and she assures me she was traveling at 50mph, which is the speed limit. Oh and she was in the middle lane because was passing traffic going slower in the first lane. She was frightened beyond belief, that a professional driver from a well known hauler, who is based primarily in the “■■■■■■■■ area, saw fit to " push" her car into speeding up.
I did point out to her that truck Speedos are calibrated differently to a car, but my point is why oh why should she be persecuted like that, by a qualified and probably unwashed psychotic maniac with severe mental issues, who calls himself"professional".
I expect no response to this, because most of you on here will not support or back up what I’ve said…yet, worryingly, most have done it!!!
Enough said.
