Ok was it you Xmas Day?

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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I went from North Yorks down to Sheffield on an errand today thinking the roads would be nice and clear around lunchtime. They weren’t bad but not as clear as I was expecting.

I saw no less than 6 artics!!! Who the hell is working Xmas day??

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dunno, but, if i was to hazard a guess, i would say, no less than 6 artic drivers :wink: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Pretty sure it wasn’t Dozy :laughing:

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Foreign drivers who do not celebrate Christmas and milk tanker drivers.

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You can usually, but not always, tell by looking at the trailer or unit, the company name or owner will be on the side. Hth.

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Pat Hasler:
Foreign drivers who do not celebrate Christmas and milk tanker drivers.

Spot on, I had to run over to Sheffield to pick up my daughter yesterday and saw a milk tanker on the 62 towards Manchester and a foreign plated Nobby Dressingtable wag and drag parked up in a lay by on the Woodhead

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Got on the A1 nthbound at 5am Christmas morning to go up to York to pick my step son up and bring him home for Christmas ( he was on shift at York hospital until 7am and his car wad stolen on sunday) and as I joined the main carriageway a container wagon ran sthbound with a plain white FH on the pin. Saw about a dozen or so on the way up only one foreigner and one milk tanker the rest were general haulage motors.
Only saw a couple of foreigners on the way back down. My guess us the early ones were running in from nights out…

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If they paid me enough, I’d have worked yesterday no probs.

I was sober until 10pm anyway and having a barney with the missus really makes Christmas.

I’d have rather been in a truck earning :grimacing:

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waynedl:
If they paid me enough, I’d have worked yesterday no probs.

I was sober until 10pm anyway and having a barney with the missus really makes Christmas.

I’d have rather been in a truck earning :grimacing:

your missus would have rather you been out earning too :smiley:
Try tramping ,you get the both of best worlds, you earn it, she spends it, don’t have to see each other, happy marriage :smiley:
Or get rid of missus, don’t work many hours, no nights out, have lots of money for beer and be happy, free and single :smiley:

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green456:

waynedl:
If they paid me enough, I’d have worked yesterday no probs.

I was sober until 10pm anyway and having a barney with the missus really makes Christmas.

I’d have rather been in a truck earning :grimacing:

your missus would have rather you been out earning too :smiley:
Try tramping ,you get the both of best worlds, you earn it, she spends it, don’t have to see each other, happy marriage :smiley:
Or get rid of missus, don’t work many hours, no nights out, have lots of money for beer and be happy, free and single :smiley:

I normally am a tramper, been on day work for about 6 weeks, (3 jobs) which probably proves your point correct :grimacing:

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Certainly not me i’ve a whole week off whoopi wee . :laughing:

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Well it wasn’t me, I didn’t work Xmas eve cause the night driver was still at Tilbury.Bet he was a happy bunny, I shall find out tomorrow. Why were you chaps going to Sheffield, it wasn’t that good, believe me I was here all day.

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I went out for a run very early on Christmas day morning and the only moving vehicle I saw was a Cotteswold Dairy milk tanker on the Ross on Wye bypass. Later on the journey down to Surrey there were maybe five or six artics, all foreign registered.