Hi guys,
I’m still a learner but trying to gather as much info as i can before i get behind the wheel.
What problems do ALL HGV drivers face when on the road/off the road? no matter how experienced or inexperienced.
Or what problems do you face whether always or sometimes.
Cheers.
Just read old posts there is plenty of them
Pushing a ■■■■ out that bit too hard and finding out it wasn’t a ■■■■…
xichrisxi:
Pushing a ■■■■ out that bit too hard and finding out it wasn’t a ■■■■…
Being the next one in the unit after the above…
The collapsing roads network.
Parking,road closures,people not wanting you there even though they’ve ordered the stuff and are expecting you!
ibby730d:
Hi guys,I’m still a learner but trying to gather as much info as i can before i get behind the wheel.
What problems do ALL HGV drivers face when on the road/off the road? no matter how experienced or inexperienced.
Or what problems do you face whether always or sometimes.
Cheers.
On the road ,other road users.off the road ,people involved in the job who don’t drive.
ibby730d:
Hi guys,I’m still a learner but trying to gather as much info as i can before i get behind the wheel.
What problems do ALL HGV drivers face when on the road/off the road? no matter how experienced or inexperienced.
Or what problems do you face whether always or sometimes.
Cheers.
Just about everybody wants to get in front of you especially when approaching a motorway junction.
Very rare a car will let you out at a junction.
Not listening at school.
Fighting off all the fanny when they know your a truck driver
Other HGV drivers.
Or the effects of them anyway at least.
You know my pet hate, turning up to a place where you’ve never been before but that’s fine cos your pressing the intercom, but then they raise the gate without even talking over the intercom and your free to enter the compound, not having a clue where your going or what their BS procedure is
Petty, yes, annoying, massively
Running out of ink 2 digits from completing my mobile number in trap 3 at Lancaster services 
What to do with the bodys of the prostitutes you murder
kr79:
What to do with the bodys of the prostitutes you murder
Moors! Basics! 
I dont have any problems. Im hourly paid. Its someone elses truck. Its someone elses load. It`s someone elses problem.
If I have to queue, I call the office after 15 minutes and ask what they want me to do. If there`s no access I call in and tell them and ask them what they want me to do. No fork lift? call the office!
I love it. The industry has brought all this on themselves, well… they can have it.
When I started at age 21 I slept across the seats/engine hump in an AEC or Atkinson, roped and sheeted and found my own return loads. The notion of filling in forms and waiting to get someone to come out and fix an indicator bulb was a very far fetched ludicrous idea, but thats what they want, so they can have it!
Of course I help out if I can, because I work for some good people…but I won`t take flak or lip from delivery sites.
Yes the dead bodies are a problem but I`ve never been caught.
Easy if you are in the north not so easy for us southerners
eagerbeaver:
Not listening at school.
Bang on the money there EB !
eagerbeaver:
Not listening at school.
Driving school or school school? because i dont understand why. Yea HGV is not an office job but it certainly pays better than minimum wage and i’m sure you drivers are or can earn average UK salary which is about £28k.
Many graduates i know in IT are earning way less than that and in dead end jobs. At least in HGVs you can try different routes, Class 2 to 1, ADR, airport work etc mix it up here and there.
kr79:
Easy if you are in the north not so easy for us southerners
hackney marshes, eppinng forest, the thames, house of lord’s. (its full of corpse’s) c’mon kr your not trying. 