just testing:
Sorry if this upsets anyone but 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 etc etc!!! so that leaves 10% of them who are mostly old fellas just running up to retirement, who know what they are doing.
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 no silly little agency jobs.
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■■?
This has clearly gone way over your head mate It was a wind up from the start and most folk who read it bit Just like you have lol.
And Andy dont get them started again, it seems that humour is not something that is easily taken in on this thread
just testing:
Sorry if this upsets anyone but 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 etc etc!!! so that leaves 10% of them who are mostly old fellas just running up to retirement, who know what they are doing.
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 no silly little agency jobs.
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■■?
don’t expect a reply , Just testing hasn’t logged in since March 2004
just testing:
Sorry if this upsets anyone but 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 etc etc!!! so that leaves 10% of them who are mostly old fellas just running up to retirement, who know what they are doing.
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 no silly little agency jobs.
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.
You are only a main road driver, easy on dual carriageways and moterways try off road with an eight wheeler tipper on a big site, or a big road job where they will push you out of the way with a big bulldozer if you get in the way, mans job, no collar and tie.
Also driven artics, boring.
just testing:
Sorry hunter aint into points scoring I work full time to enable one to stay at boarding school get a decent education as her mother would have wished for and am lucky to have helpful inlaws who take care of my other daughter, I consider myself to be a parent and a driver and it is easier to be a driver I agree but I am still a good parent and at the end of the day I am only driving because it is a way of making decent money to afford my daughter a decent education, so unlike me she can make something of her life.
Dont put yourself down you are what we could do with mopre of .When mine were younger I had difficu
lty being a father and a driver.
just testing:
, 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 etc etc!!! so that leaves 10% of them who are mostly old fellas just running up to retirement, who know what they are doing. .
don’t forget those of us who drive rigids because and artic wouldn’t fit in 90% of the places we go
And no I didnt ever drive one, .
so you don’t have any experience to base your opinions on
Always makes me laugh that, I started off on a 4 wheeler flat, and a 6 wheeler tipper. You had to learn to put them in places where you wouldn’t put a transit van, It was loads of handball, sheeting, and disdaining looks fro the artic drivers.
Only thing I can say is, I like to think it made me a better artic driver, and ceratinly not so condescending to other road users
It seems to me that the rate of pay for any LGV job is proportional to the cost of all the training required to be able to do the job, so in essence, it could be construed that it’s the DSA/Governments fault, along with the employers that cause the difference in rates of pay. It is a common perception that you must have to be more skilled to be driving around in a C+E vehicle than a C vehicle simply because the vehicle behaves differently to your average rigid vehicle (ie. car, bike, class C etc.). Personally, I can’t get my head around the trailer thing when driving a C+E, particularly whilst reversing, but as my C training only starts next week, I’m thinking that I would have to just have a go and see what happens when the time comes for C+E training and test. Btw, I’ve met a lot of drivers who have told me that they find an artic much easier to maneuver than a rigid with practise, so I’ll just have to wait and see, as inevitably, I’ll form my own opinion on the whole thing.
difference apart from bending is the work
RIGIDS mainly multi drop or skip tipper bin lorries mainly on days
ARTICS truncking days or nights or tramping
I didn’t pay for my training, Driverhire did and they paid me a good wage for the week I was on the course. I could afford all the things I needed to pay for any other week food, mortgage petrol etc and at the end of the day my licence looks just the same as the one belonging to a muppet who paid for it out of his own pocket.
Only had to work for the agency for 1 year and the debt was totally paid and this was a year where I got a lot of experience of driving for various companies in a selection of trucks doing a whole spectrum of work. I think my way was best but if you think you were better off by losing 2 weeks holiday/pay and forking out the cost of training that’s cool. Presume you also pay for ADR/CPC/Hiab and any other training you need ( your boss must love you ).
Willy Gofar:
… muppet who paid for it out of his own pocket.
Beg pardon??
I wanted to drive LGV, so I paid for it.
Would that one year tie down have stopped you getting work with any other agency if Driver Hire had nothing on?? As many agencies have been finding lately.
Creek and paddle springs to mind in that situation. Its fortunate for some that they can get the cost covered, but personally, I don’t like being “owned” by anyone.
What old JT forgets, at the end of the day we can just park up without a phone call saying “can you just pick up this trailer on your way back and drop it at the yard”.
Most fun I have had in a rigid, was a 26t 6 wheeler through the splat centre of the congestion zone in London, that was fun.
but 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
It was a wind up from the start and most folk who read it bit 
where they will push you out of the way with a big bulldozer if you get in the way, mans job, no collar and tie. 
