Employers may be able to get financial help to modify a vehicle under the Access to work scheme , this might help you to get a job
Iceman you say you have lost an arm and require hand controls,that’s what I don’t understand we have a driver with one arm and he
manages fine in an automatic rig.Which arm have you lost,is the other fine,our driver has an artificial arm and goes all over Europe
for us.as for the training schools I thought they all used automatics now,suprised they don’t.
ah sorry about that Iceman just read your latest,thought you had lost an arm,your legs, now I understand.Now don’t build your hopes up for ONE reason.
Yound lad I knew saved his money and bought a driving lesson,saved and bought another until he had done enough and passed his HGV test,
I was impressed by this and took him out with me.As we left Plymouth I asked him if he had ever been anywhere,told me he had been to
Weston Super Mare once,well,I’d told him to get a passport,so when I told him we were going to Athens he thought it was the other side of Bristol,
well it was sort off.
Anyway he did the trip,got a bit of experience and eventually got a job.Then he blew his leg off in an accident with his shotgun so when that was
sorted and his artificial leg had settled down he came with me, again.That was when we realised the sitting and the vibration of the lorry caused
problems with his stump,infections etc. sure you know what I mean so I ended up telling him to give up the ambition to drive lorries,which he has.
Armagedon:
ah sorry about that Iceman just read your latest,thought you had lost an arm,your legs, now I understand.Now don’t build your hopes up for ONE reason.
Yound lad I knew saved his money and bought a driving lesson,saved and bought another until he had done enough and passed his HGV test,
I was impressed by this and took him out with me.As we left Plymouth I asked him if he had ever been anywhere,told me he had been to
Weston Super Mare once,well,I’d told him to get a passport,so when I told him we were going to Athens he thought it was the other side of Bristol,
well it was sort off.
Anyway he did the trip,got a bit of experience and eventually got a job.Then he blew his leg off in an accident with his shotgun so when that was
sorted and his artificial leg had settled down he came with me, again.That was when we realised the sitting and the vibration of the lorry caused
problems with his stump,infections etc. sure you know what I mean so I ended up telling him to give up the ambition to drive lorries,which he has.
l am happy to say that wont be my case at all l cant really see how an infection (unless is a old development) can arise from sitting down normal working hours indiferent if is in an office or a truck is no presure on the prostetics or stump any kind of engine vibration V8 lets say wont do such a damage am trully sorry to hear this but…
Thats why l am saying l really dont know what you guys experienced so thats why am trying to make few points here and l am talking of 35 years of living it
l travel all the time all over europe as well because l absolutely enjoy it leeds to budapest for me is 18h drive in my own car of course with breaks but its something that enjoy doing but l guess my health allowes me to do it probably because my accident was ages a go
if you still able to have a co colegue with you l would like to have a bit of long runs truck experience if possible any where at all would be very helpfull for me also to have just a chat with a profesional driver and few bits of advise will be so much appreciated as well 
Denis F:
Employers may be able to get financial help to modify a vehicle under the Access to work scheme , this might help you to get a job
great advice thank you very much 