Anyone ever worked with a driver who wrecks trucks and then takes the trucks home and repairs them himself? Is this the sign of a true professional driver or a bum licking useless numpty?
No, but we do have a driver who takes bumpers/pannels home to fix that everyone else breaks.
Nothing wrong with taking responsibility.
Be a bloody help if some of the twerps could manage a week without clouting summat though, and thats without reversing, they call 'emselves professionals, Jesus wept.
truckpro:
Anyone ever worked with a driver who wrecks trucks and then takes the trucks home and repairs them himself? Is this the sign of a true professional driver or a bum licking useless numpty?
No but we’ve got a driver who thrashes the motor, has demolished walls, rear ended vehicles etc and has kept his job…He doesn’t repair damage himself though; just laughs it off with “■■■■ 'em!”
Thanks to retirement laws they can’t pension him off when he hits 65 this month…
Hey there, I would say the latter, I worked alongside a ‘driver’ who did exactly that, ie took home trucks that he had wrecked to ‘mend’ them, biggest laugh was, he was an ex traffic cop and thought he was perfect, he comes on here rubbishing everybody and is so brazen goes by his real name although ‘nearside nick’ is what his colleagues knew him as because of all his nearside calamities!
Yes, a lad at a place I used to work at was in most weekends doing repairs to mudguards or light units, and I asked him once if it’d just be easier not to damage them in the 1st place.
We all have the odd bit, a mud guard can easily be lost in a scrap metal yard, but to do something EVERY week.
Oh, and in the time I was there, nothing, nada, nowt, doing exactly the same jobs…
We have a similar one who lives close to the yard but he goes back to the yard and find “replacement parts” on the other lorries in there 
Office staff don’t go home and put right the mistake they made when they sent you to the wrong address, or to the right address but on the wrong day etc etc etc… 
robbo99:
Hey there, I would say the latter, I worked alongside a ‘driver’ who did exactly that, ie took home trucks that he had wrecked to ‘mend’ them, biggest laugh was, he was an ex traffic cop and thought he was perfect, he comes on here rubbishing everybody and is so brazen goes by his real name although ‘nearside nick’ is what his colleagues knew him as because of all his nearside calamities!
Indeed, I do use my own name and yes, I did damage the nearside door of a lorry on a fence, at Freshtime
in Boston, to be exact and yes, I did take the lower fibreglass door panel home and repair it.
The company paid for the fibreglass and the paint.
Yes, I also damaged the nearside of another lorry, however, I was assisted in this by a Frenchman who tried
to fit his Land Rover and trailer between me and a slip road crash barrier.
The damage was far too severe on this occasion to repair it myself, so his insurance company did it for me.
Regards,
Nick.
truckpro:
Anyone ever worked with a driver who wrecks trucks and then takes the trucks home and repairs them himself? Is this the sign of a true professional driver or a bum licking useless numpty?
WHAT? You have got to be sh^tting me! 
There is no way in the world I would ever pay a penny towards damage I did at work.
Even a McDonalds burger flipper doesn’t have to pay for a burger he accidentally drops on the floor, and it amazes me that so many truck drivers consider themselves to be lower down the pecking order than that.
No wonder we are treated so badly when there are so many pathetic forelock-tuggers in our midst. 
Harry Monk:
There is no way in the world I would ever pay a penny towards damage I did at work.Even a McDonalds burger flipper doesn’t have to pay for a burger he accidentally drops on the floor, and it amazes me that so many truck drivers consider themselves to be lower down the packing order than that.
No wonder we are treated so badly when there are so many pathetic forelock-tuggers in our midst.
F***in’ too right Harry.
Harry Monk:
There is no way in the world I would ever pay a penny towards damage I did at work.Even a McDonalds burger flipper doesn’t have to pay for a burger he accidentally drops on the floor, and it amazes me that so many truck drivers consider themselves to be lower down the packing order than that.
No wonder we are treated so badly when there are so many pathetic forelock-tuggers in our midst.
I don’t agree with a driver paying for damage. But you have to admit that a bumper, headlight etc costs a bit more than a burger, so anything to help reduce the cost of repair is OK in my eyes. If I could help patch it up with some fiberglass and a can of spraypaint, then why not?
But nearside nick,according to one of your posts, all accidents are preventable, would checking your nearside mirror have helped? , or did he just appear out of thin air? I dont twist my comments to suit, unlike some. When you slag people off on here you should go on facts and not presumptions or hearsay. I seem to remember the paint pot appeared a few times too. Are you sure it was only the nearside door panel you wrecked on the first one??
I have never named any of my ex “colleagues”, regardless of the nature of the post, nor
given any information that could possibly identify them to anyone else.
I am not sure what you are trying to achieve here 
Regards,
Nick.
i’ve been asked to ship my lorry in for service, but it would mean me losing money. they asked what the alternative could be. i got them to send me some money, some filters, and oil. and i serviced it myself outside the house.
the way i see it, is if it saves me money, or makes me money, then i’ll do it myself for myself.
^^^^^ BULLS HIT
Phill the international trucker/smuggler/ terrorist/ ladies man/ and of course top quality truck mechanic. F me I’ve heard it all now. Never heard as much mad dog sh it in all my days.
Harry Monk:
There is no way in the world I would ever pay a penny towards damage I did at work.Even a McDonalds burger flipper doesn’t have to pay for a burger he accidentally drops on the floor, and it amazes me that so many truck drivers consider themselves to be lower down the pecking order than that.
No wonder we are treated so badly when there are so many pathetic forelock-tuggers in our midst.
You’re gonna have to now harry. 
Maybe not nearside nick, but you have provided your own name, posted pics of a truck with your companies name all over it and referred many times to your ex “colleagues” in a very derogatory manner, the world wide web is global but is also local