mr “just testing”,class 2 will always be “lower paid” etc and just like a “large van”■■? (zb)!!! i drive an 8 wheel grab lorry (with 13 speed fuller box) get paid £8.50 an hour & 16.95 overtime.however i can rope and sheet an artic ,how many so called professional class 1 drivers cant use a constant mesh box or rope and sheet and make running repairs? why would i want to drive an artic for less money?
edited for languagenot quite subtle enough 
mrs mix
Ahh… he’s just jealous because we can drive straight vehicles better than he can, and we can still park our cars in supermarkets
I’ve driven Actros, and ERF and Foden, and so many different trucks, I’ve done stupid multi-drop and I’ve tramped, I hate EPS and I love the Twin-Splitter, what makes me so different from the class one drivers? Oh yeah… a trailer… big deal.
and.rs1800:
mr “just testing”,class 2 will always be “lower paid” etc and just like a “large van”■■? (zb)!!! i drive an 8 wheel grab lorry (with 13 speed fuller box) get paid £8.50 an hour & 16.95 overtime.however i can rope and sheet an artic ,how many so called professional class 1 drivers cant use a constant mesh box or rope and sheet and make running repairs? why would i want to drive an artic for less money?edited for languagenot quite subtle enough
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And your point is 
I can drive a constant mesh box 
. I can and have roped and sheeted full artic loads . I then drove that sheeted load and stripped it and delivered it . I couldn’t do a quick hash job of it and leave some other poor sucker to try and deliver that load with bits flapping about.
I drove an ERF EC14 340 with an eaton twin splitter, on steel work for two and a half years. I then worked on sawn timber haulage for another year. Timber south and general haulage north, all on flats, with sheeted loads 
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Does any of that make me a better driver Of course not. It makes me a more experienced driver than someone who has never done any of those things 
I am now, as well as being a full time working trucker, a member of Trucknet 
. One of the reasons for that is so that, if asked, I can try to pass on the benefit of that experience to someone who wants it .
well it certainly looks like JT has rattled some cages here
im class two but i drive drawbars through “grandfather rights” and ive had many a class1 driver gob smacked at the shear size and expertese of my driving 
. it doesn`t matter what class you are were all truckers in the end.
P.S.i am the driver formally known as english_jock.
(well if its ok for prince its ok for me )
allikat:
Ahh… he’s just jealous because we can drive straight vehicles better than he can, and we can still park our cars in supermarkets.
nah, JT’s not jealous, he’s just trying to wind everyone up - and succeeding 
if it earns me a decent wage i will drive anything as long as its legal.
Simon:
I can drive a constant mesh box
I drove an ERF EC14 340 with an eaton twin splitter, on steel work for two and a half years. I then worked on sawn timber haulage for another year. Timber south and general haulage north, all on flats, with sheeted loadsDoes any of that make me a better driver
Well said Simon, same here mate!
Mal.
neil46:
if it earns me a decent wage i will drive anything as long as its legal.
Drive? I will push for the right amount of dosh!!
just testing,i made a mistake breaking my wages down into hourly pay as i get paid by the shift(£116)we get 8 hrs a day at approx £11.30 an hour and 1 & a half hrs o.t at £16.95.any ot after this is £16.95 also.weekends are 8 hrs at £16.95 although might only work 5hrs.if i work 5 & a half days i can take home £600.MY POINT IS ;you said “class 2 will always be lower paid”,lower than what exactly■■?
and.rs1800:
just testing,i made a mistake breaking my wages down into hourly pay as i get paid by the shift(£116)we get 8 hrs a day at approx £11.30 an hour and 1 & a half hrs o.t at £16.95.any ot after this is £16.95 also.weekends are 8 hrs at £16.95 although might only work 5hrs.if i work 5 & a half days i can take home £600.MY POINT IS ;you said “class 2 will always be lower paid”,lower than what exactly■■?
Sorry thought this thread was long dead so you "can take home £600. " I take £2400 each and every month for 5 days a week. If you can put up with driving a wheelbarrow good luck to you, I admit your on good money but I wouldnt want to do it, and I never would unless I was desperate for a job.
lol at “wheel barrow”! better than a big van i suppose
neil46:
if it earns me a decent wage i will drive anything as long as its legal.
Me too
interesting this one.
i started on rigids then wagon and drawbars then coaches and then artics.
i drive an artic now becauses thats what we have. when i was,nt on my own truck i would drive anything. i even took out a hired in rigid curtainsider cause know one else wanted to.
variety is the spice of life and all that.
oh and to the driver who said *ive never drove a rigid".
well you have, every day you have. a tractor unit is a rigid truck, just happens to have a trailer on the back
I love driving an artic now, we drive anything from a luton to artic at our place and while it pays the bills I dont care what it is. I do prefer to drive the artic though as it normally means less work
Went out in the 18tonner the other week to merc for servicing(first time in about 8 weeks i’d drove it) and couldnt park the bloody thing in the big bays! My gaffa followed me to bring me back and sat watching and laughin his head off at my 10 shunts to leave it parked at an angle 
Loved the big wind up to, seems a lot of folk on here are very easy bait lolol 
ATKIG11:
A couple of times I have seen the comment 'I’ve only got a class 2"Well I have never taken a class 1 and I don’t care !!!
I have always had work.
CLASS 2 AND PROUD
cheers
STEVE.
sorry bud done my 3/2/1 im a driver
says it all got a class 1 went to Felixstowe to get a job
that’ll be boxes …dead easy
then you got bored then got a tipper job…
driving is driving
not everyone can do every type of work
just testing:
Sorry if this upsets anyonebut I wouldnt drive a rigid unless I was desperate , just dont like them nothing more then a big old van, and 90% of them are now driven by amateurs who seem to know it all and are only driving a rigid until someone pays for their test
And no I didnt ever drive one, passed class one in good old days before laws changed , when you paid for your own licence instead of holding your hands out and expecting grants etc. 13.04.96 to be exact, straight into a job out of Felixstowe , real work
Oh well suppose that will upset afew but that is my opinion, a class 2 will always be a lower wage, because a class 1 driver is a better driver . So there is a diffrence.
ROTFLMAO…
Is that right? Class 2 will always be a lower wage? Not where I am from! But then I live in “The Triangle.”
Ok I am not a “normal” class 2, I have Hiab, PTS, CPCS. Class 2 drivers at our place are on more than Class 1. How do you work out that Class 1 is a better driver■■?
Class 2 drivers are nothing more than PUDDLEJUMPERS!
Low life the lot of you! If I was running the country I’d recommend a national DECREASE in the Class 2 hourly rate.
Stop kidding yourselves on, show some balls and get your Class 1 - and go and get a real driving job!