Whatever they change it to has to be better than the current situation. Im sick of breathing particulates and poisons in every lungful.
Carryfast:
Let me guess you’ll also say I’m not driving a moped doing fast food deliveries, which many young people also seem to prefer than driving a truck, because the employers don’t want to employ me in that role either.
‘Let me guess’, Carryfast debate tactic number 1. Never let the fact someone didn’t say something get in the way when you can just invent opinions.
Carryfast:
switchlogic:
What makes me sad is how he’s clearly not a stupid man and if he had used his 20+ year retirement for something worthwhile he could have done so much. But that would require not being retired and I doubt he’s up for a move that radicalYou seem to have missed the references to I have been ‘working’ in my ‘retirement’ driving cars around the country instead of trucks.I also enjoy doing the job just as much as I did driving trucks.
The problem being that there is laughably insufficient work because there are equally laughably far too many other younger people who also want the same work, because they don’t want to be a labourer/LGV ‘driver’.
The rest of them can either be seen lined up with their mopeds outside the fast food outlets doing local fast food deliveries.
Or applying for the limited trainee train driver apprenticeships on offer.
Or possibly a combination of all three.
I’ll probably regret asking this but here goes……why did you give up truck driving then?
Carryfast:
The resulting first and last major nuclear disaster will stop this silly agenda in its tracks.Probably with all the excuses by its proponents no one could have foreseen such a disaster.Obviously too late by then.
Do you never actually realise how ridiculous you sound? Rhetorical question.
tmcassett:
Carryfast:
You mean the similar problem as the lorry world of employers trying to save wage costs by trying to fill the role of vehicle condition/valuation assessor and calling the role car delivery/collection driver.
Obviously loads of staff turnover in that sector virtually constant adverts.
I’m surprised that many vehicle lease customers haven’t challenged their lease return valuations/condition ‘assessments’ on the basis of the automotive engineering qualifications of the ‘assessor’.
It was me who walked away from two such inductions and wouldn’t touch those constantly advertised jobs with a bargepole not the employers refused to employ me.
I was obviously referring to the better quality work in which the job role title means what it says.
Either way the employers can get away with it because young people still prefer that than working as a logistics operative/labourer/LGV Driver.
A situation which can only get worse as the ‘road transport industry’ continues its degenerative spiral back to its position in the 1930’s of a local delivery service.
Let me guess you’ll also say I’m not driving a moped doing fast food deliveries, which many young people also seem to prefer than driving a truck, because the employers don’t want to employ me in that role either.My point is proven - you are unemployable and the reason is staring back at you in the mirror!
All that’s ‘proven’ is that the car fleet movement sector is infested with job adverts for vehicle condition/valuation assessors being laughably misrepresented as trade plating ‘driving’ roles.
Just like warehouse/site/yard labourer jobs being misrepresented as ‘driving’ roles which can only get ( much ) worse as road freight journey distances reduce further as more distance frieght movements are moved to rail.
The result being that more young people would prefer to drive a moped delivering fast food than drive a truck around the same local streets.
Or take whatever decent car driving work that’s out there which obviously doesn’t mean qualified vehicle condition assessor for driver money.
You sound like a typical boss, trying to sell a typical zb job vacancy, then blaming me personally for the fact there are no takers.
switchlogic:
Carryfast:
The resulting first and last major nuclear disaster will stop this silly agenda in its tracks.Probably with all the excuses by its proponents no one could have foreseen such a disaster.Obviously too late by then.Do you never actually realise how ridiculous you sound? Rhetorical question.
There’s nothing ridiculous, in making the connection, between this unaffordable all electric nightmare and by implication the resulting proportional increase in the risks of the inevitable nuclear disaster.
As for truck drivers wanting more freight to be moved from road to rail that’s the same logic as thinking that increased labour supply is good for the working class and everyone is happy to do local multi drop and to work as a warehouse labourer for most of the time when/because they aren’t driving anywhere.
I trust that you’ve replaced your nasty gas boiler with all electric at 26p per kwh.
JeffA:
Whatever they change it to has to be better than the current situation. Im sick of breathing particulates and poisons in every lungful.
Ironically you wouldnt know you were if you hadn’t been told you were…
The answer to stopping pollution is to stop all vehicle movements. Not sure it would go down well in any other way than pollution control though.
Another irony is that the wind produced by bovine creatures (a natural process whether we eat them or “steal” their milk or not) is also a heavy polluter…
Wonder if anyone told mother nature that?[emoji41]
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JeffA:
Whatever they change it to has to be better than the current situation. Im sick of breathing particulates and poisons in every lungful.
So you live in Beijing then? 
The situation has hugely improved in this country. I remember a day trip to that London in August 1982 and being surprised at the black mess that came out of my nose when I blew into a tissue after a sneezing and coughing episode….
The last time I paid a visit to said Metropolis was 2006 and had no such problems and I would imagine the situation has improved even further now, not that I have any intention of ever going back anytime soon with the loathsome Sadistic Khan making the place very unappealing in general.
tmcassett:
Probably plenty of work going in that industry based on that podcast posted above.
Wouldn’t be surprised if you wrote this advert.
Needless to say no fast food delivery bikers let alone any self respecting ‘driver’ will be applying any time soon.
bigstraight6:
JeffA:
Whatever they change it to has to be better than the current situation. Im sick of breathing particulates and poisons in every lungful.So you live in Beijing then?
The last time I paid a visit to said Metropolis was 2006 and had no such problems and I would imagine the situation has improved even further now, not that I have any intention of ever going back anytime soon with the loathsome Sadistic Khan making the place very unappealing in general.
The way that those within the LEZ were ■■■■■■■■ about having no fuel and the fact that if Kahn was serious he would have banned all diesel and petrol vehicles and made EV’s compulsory there, suggests the rumours, that his stated election figures aren’t excatly ‘accurate’, are credible.