wilbur:
hiabman:
Using the word “pants” isn’t remotely an Americanism.It’s just a colloquialism.
Pants (in the North West, for example) for some has always meant trousers.
Lots of ‘Americanisms’ are actually old bits of English which we’ve abandoned but they kept using. Obviously, in some very backward parts of England, they may still be in use…
Smiley fella at the end there was needed!
Backwards my arris.
It’s standard northern parlance tha knows.
Pants is pants.
oatcake1967:
Maybe its because they are just starting out in their
driving career and dont know about the fantastic
range of furry clogs, checked shirts and wallets
on chains that are available.
and the above look just as daft as the baseball cap and white trainers crew!
DAF95XF:
Contraflow:
DAF95XF:
Yes because this is England…Actually… this is the internet.
And most of us are in England, fair enough if you’re actually in America…
Great Britain or United Kingdom, I should imagine our Scottish Welsh and Irish friends are not impressed.
andrew.s:
your firm supply your pants?
Yes, they supply all the personal protective gear, inc boots, cargo pants (or trousers if you prefer, or troos if like me you are from Scotland), polos, hi-viz, hard hat, gloves, whatever is needed. i get to claim the HMRC allowance for keeping them clean though. Is that unusual?
I wear jeans, a black t-shirt, various plaid shirts (that I liked to wear long before I started driving) and a hi-vis vest that I keep on all day. I also have long hair, a beard and I’m pretty much always in a black wooly hat.
My firm hasn’t supplied me with a uniform, so I wear what makes me comfortable. I keep my hi-vis vest on because it is a light piece of meaningless clothing, if it were a big hi-vis jacket thing then of course I’d take it off but not out of any “Can’t make me wear PPE when I’m not on site!” protest.
Here is my question though. What bloody difference does it make what I wear, assuming both I and my employers are happy with it? If you don’t wear cargos and a polo shirt you’re unprofessional? You can get all suited and booted if you want but you’re still going to be seen as an uneducated working class underachiever by the masses. You could argue that it’s a matter of personal pride. Right on, more power to you, but why look down on those who are happier otherwise? I take an immense amount of pride in looking like I do, because to me it’s a statement that I don’t give a ■■■■ what society at large expects me to be, I can only be who I am.
Hell, one of the reasons I got this license is because it’s one of the few jobs that allow you that freedom. My point is, I don’t look down on the guys with a polo shirt and a truckers no. 2 you see all over. I don’t look down on the old boys who maybe still wear overalls and a flat cap, or even the occasional shirt and tie you see behind the wheel. Infact, as much as I dislike the culture, I don’t even look down on the chavs who wear tracky bottoms and baseball caps because how you chose to look is a choice that has no bearing on your ability to drive a truck/unload some pallets/sit in an rdc.
I will add that if a uniform were provided for me I would wear it, simply to save the costs for myself on clothes, but my hair and beard etc are non negotiable.
I am going into a lot of RDC’s at the moment, as are a lot of you, it pains me to see the scruffy ■■■■■■■■ that drive nowadays, wtf, is it a competition?, smelly, scruffy, unshaven dirty looking people that are driving and going into customers premises. Do these drivers behave like that at home?, I would never turn up like that and I don’t know why their employers don’t make them look a bit tidier, it doesn’t take much. I shave every morning, I wear uniform style clothes, (my own as I haven’t got my company issued uniform yet) polo shirt, it looks quite smart, I don’t understand them, I wouldn’t like to stand behind some of them in a queue, it must be as bad for the people in goods in receiving, having these slobs turn up every day, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE
Sapper
Black , navy or dark coloured polo shirt in winter or cold weather, in summer dark short sleeved shirt if its hot weather, night shift, & winter, black tidy jeans when I’m on containers, & black or dark blue work trousers of lightweight in the hot weather. Dark jumper if needed. Dark Fleece if really cold, & dark bodywarmer & dark jacket if freezing .
And steel toe cap boots, & hi vis when required 
Either black cargo trousers or shorts, navy or French blue polo shirts (usually with an electrical company logo on them), black steelies outside, jumper or hoodie (again with leccy logo).
Always shower every day without fail, but often don’t shave for several days, as I’ve yet to find any means of shaving more than every 4-5 days which doesn’t bring my face up in an orrible rash.
What a bizarre thread!
I can’t quite figure if people are posting what they personally wear in an attempt to distance themselves from the stereotypical string vest, Kappa wearing image, or whether they’re describing their attire in the hope that someone rushes up to them in some RDC/MSA gushing that “i just knew it had to be you from your description”.
Ignore me, Fosters £2 a pint and a late start tomorrow! 
Dafman:
Happysack thank you for your helpful advice however you seem to be confusing me with Mr high and mighty, who seems to think class one drivers are thick by his so called question, like has been mentioned before a lot of us use our phones and do not notice the grammar, I don’t care how people spell or punctuate some can some can’t, who cares. Oh hang on I know Mr perfect Raymondo who seems to think he is god’s gift to Grammar and seems to pull a lot of people up about it, to me it is a form of bullying, and as for me am I thick well maybe if I cannot write very well or I am crap at maths well so be it, I seem to be quite good a my job though having been fully employed as a driver since I was 17 so that is 31 years at least I have a bit of respect for other people . I think Raymondo is a vile little man who has high aspirations to be a class one driver, if he went to some of the places I go to with a drag he would probably break down in tears. Show a bit of decency and stop picking on peoples grammar.I will now let you pull mine to bits.
Don’t you see the irony here? On the one hand it’s apparently OK to ridicule other drivers’ dress sense on the basis that the trucks they are driving are in some way inferior, yet to (gently) ridicule someone’s inability to grasp the basics of written English appears to annoy you. There are any number of threads on this board where laughter and general urine extraction is enjoyed at the expense of people who have difficulty reversing or understanding the basics of drivers’ hours regulations - Yet I don’t see you jumping in to demand they stop picking on their victims?
FWIW I have no aspirations to be a class one driver - I already have that on my licence and happily drive whatever vehicle my employer allocates to me. This week it has been a 12 tonne rigid, while “my” unit has been driven by an agency driver. I don’t feel in any way inferior because I’m not in the artic (money’s the same, job is easier in some ways, harder in others).
But whatever floats your boat - I will try my best not to pick on people’s grammar in the future (no matter how much it grates to read some of it) 
Oh - and it’s “Roymondo”, not “Raymondo” (which is awfully close to “Raymundo”, who is nothing to do with me whatsoever!)
quaser:
andrew.s:
your firm supply your pants?Yes, they supply all the personal protective gear, inc boots, cargo pants (or trousers if you prefer, or troos if like me you are from Scotland), polos, hi-viz, hard hat, gloves, whatever is needed. i get to claim the HMRC allowance for keeping them clean though. Is that unusual?
i was being sarcastic…
sapper:
I am going into a lot of RDC’s at the moment, as are a lot of you, it pains me to see the scruffy [zb] that drive nowadays, wtf, is it a competition?, smelly, scruffy, unshaven dirty looking people that are driving and going into customers premises. Do these drivers behave like that at home?, I would never turn up like that and I don’t know why their employers don’t make them look a bit tidier, it doesn’t take much. I shave every morning, I wear uniform style clothes, (my own as I haven’t got my company issued uniform yet) polo shirt, it looks quite smart, I don’t understand them, I wouldn’t like to stand behind some of them in a queue, it must be as bad for the people in goods in receiving, having these slobs turn up every day, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARESapper
The RDC’s could provide shower facilities. As everyone seems to complain about how long they are kept there. At least then they could keep up to scratch on their personal hygiene
Dafman:
Roymondo:
I think you mean " Must have counted…"Or is this apparently random misuse of words and/or punctuation a Class One thing? Just asking, like…
You again, stop pulling people up about there grammar, what the duck has it got to do with you
…their grammar surely!!!
Roymondo:
Dafman:
Happysack thank you for your helpful advice however you seem to be confusing me with Mr high and mighty, who seems to think class one drivers are thick by his so called question, like has been mentioned before a lot of us use our phones and do not notice the grammar, I don’t care how people spell or punctuate some can some can’t, who cares. Oh hang on I know Mr perfect Raymondo who seems to think he is god’s gift to Grammar and seems to pull a lot of people up about it, to me it is a form of bullying, and as for me am I thick well maybe if I cannot write very well or I am crap at maths well so be it, I seem to be quite good a my job though having been fully employed as a driver since I was 17 so that is 31 years at least I have a bit of respect for other people . I think Raymondo is a vile little man who has high aspirations to be a class one driver, if he went to some of the places I go to with a drag he would probably break down in tears. Show a bit of decency and stop picking on peoples grammar.
P
I will now let you pull mine to bits.Don’t you see the irony here? On the one hand it’s apparently OK to ridicule other drivers’ dress sense on the basis that the trucks they are driving are in some way inferior, yet to (gently) ridicule someone’s inability to grasp the basics of written English appears to annoy you. There are any number of threads on this board where laughter and general urine extraction is enjoyed at the expense of people who have difficulty reversing or understanding the basics of drivers’ hours regulations - Yet I don’t see you jumping in to demand they stop picking on their victims?
FWIW I have no aspirations to be a class one driver - I already have that on my licence and happily drive whatever vehicle my employer allocates to me. This week it has been a 12 tonne rigid, while “my” unit has been driven by an agency driver. I don’t feel in any way inferior because I’m not in the artic (money’s the same, job is easier in some ways, harder in others).
But whatever floats your boat - I will try my best not to pick on people’s grammar in the future (no matter how much it grates to read some of it)
Oh - and it’s “Roymondo”, not “Raymondo” (which is awfully close to “Raymundo”, who is nothing to do with me whatsoever!)
I have a cousin who we call Raymondo tut I must have git mixed up
