sammym:
To add another quality post to trucknetuk I want to give a shout out to our road gypsies who keep general haulage going.
Trampers have to go through a lot. They have to sleep in tiny little tin boxes. They have to eat a diet consisting of pot noodles and McDonald’s. Their morning tea is made with powdered milk. They rarely can wash themselves or their clothes. It’s a job very few would choose to do.
For those that have never done it - imagine having underwear where it’s gone stiff from the crustiness built up over a week. The RSPCA save dogs from being locked in vehicles in the Summer - but trampers just have to endure it. Imagine your wife taking a garden hose to you in the garden before she lets you in the house.
But to add insult to misery they will be missing out on Love Island tonight
You’ve forgotten to mention all these drivers that have found sleeping in a tin box wasn’t not challenging enough for them and their families, have decided to move across the pond to Canada, allowing themselves to be used and abused for 3-4 years before getting their PRs sorted, just so they be living on the road in tin boxes for weeks or months at a time and not being able to see their families.
If that’s not real love for extreme tramping, I don’t know what it is
dozy:
well I’ve found a positive today for tramping
So all your greeting to get home constantly is so you can watch the telly?
That is sad.
it’s tues bloody morn at 5 .30 am and I’m having my 45 at home as my house is just off a1 and I’m passing , I’ve popped in to get a shower / cup of tea / cereals and a catch up on teletext football / news while I drink my cuppa , what do you want me to do kick the Mrs out of bed and go to the coast for the 45 mins roll:
Dozy lives around Grantham near Lincoln NOT in Bristol
stop talking ■■■■■■■■ about Tramping. Either you like it or you hate it.
To Dozy
How often did you tell us that you put your notice in???I don’t know, nearly every week. So stop talking ■■■■■■■■ about driving for somebody else. You not gonna do it anyway.
Well I got offered a weeks euro tramping today starting on Sunday night. After all my chat I am a little bit tempted. All I know is that I’d be pulling a fridge. And the agency can’t tell me exactly where I’d be doing for a week.
My problems are: I’ve never driven in europe, I’ve never tramped and I’ve only done two shifts on an artic. So it probably isn’t the best idea but it seems like an adventure. Did tell the agency all of my disagvantages but they say the client is desperate… I probably won’t do it but I can see how people get hooked in. However I don’t have a clue what I’d do if I totaled the truck in France.
sammym:
Well I got offered a weeks euro tramping today starting on Sunday night. After all my chat I am a little bit tempted. All I know is that I’d be pulling a fridge. And the agency can’t tell me exactly where I’d be doing for a week.
My problems are: I’ve never driven in europe, I’ve never tramped and I’ve only done two shifts on an artic. So it probably isn’t the best idea but it seems like an adventure. Did tell the agency all of my disagvantages but they say the client is desperate… I probably won’t do it but I can see how people get hooked in. However I don’t have a clue what I’d do if I totaled the truck in France.
You’re gonna pass up the oppertunity? Mate no ■■■■■■■■ here, if I was in your shoes I’d take it as it might never come up again AND it’ll look good to future employers that you made it round part of europe on your own in an artic.
My life motto at the minute is ‘■■■■ it, lets do it’ and so far I’m doing the national 3 peaks challenge with very little walking training and I’m going to a rave in Birmingham (never been there) do it before you regret pussying out!
sammym:
Well I got offered a weeks euro tramping today starting on Sunday night. After all my chat I am a little bit tempted. All I know is that I’d be pulling a fridge. And the agency can’t tell me exactly where I’d be doing for a week.
My problems are: I’ve never driven in europe, I’ve never tramped and I’ve only done two shifts on an artic. So it probably isn’t the best idea but it seems like an adventure. Did tell the agency all of my disagvantages but they say the client is desperate… I probably won’t do it but I can see how people get hooked in. However I don’t have a clue what I’d do if I totaled the truck in France.
You’re gonna pass up the oppertunity? Mate no [zb] here, if I was in your shoes I’d take it as it might never come up again AND it’ll look good to future employers that you made it round part of europe on your own in an artic.
My life motto at the minute is ‘[zb] it, lets do it’ and so far I’m doing the national 3 peaks challenge with very little walking training and I’m going to a rave in Birmingham (never been there) do it before you regret pussying out!
I live in Birmingham - with that attitude send me a message and I’ll buy you a pint whenever you come over.
And I am very tempted. But here is the reality of it - I have other stuff on which I could get out of at a push. But I also have only reversed onto a bay twice with an artic. And the first time I took about 20 mins to do so. I’ve not even thought about a blindside. And here I am living in cloud cuckoo land with the agency egging me on to go abroad. I doubt I could even reverse on or off the ferry easily - I’d need help. But I am thinking about it. Going to buy some beer and make my mind up whilst tipsy.
sammym:
I live in Birmingham - with that attitude send me a message and I’ll buy you a pint whenever you come over.
Probably be off the bus and into the rave then god knows what’ll happen, maybe drunk maybe… not, but if I’m there early and go for a pint you might get dragged along
sammym:
And I am very tempted. But here is the reality of it - I have other stuff on which I could get out of at a push. But I also have only reversed onto a bay twice with an artic. And the first time I took about 20 mins to do so. I’ve not even thought about a blindside. And here I am living in cloud cuckoo land with the agency egging me on to go abroad. I doubt I could even reverse on or off the ferry easily - I’d need help. But I am thinking about it. Going to buy some beer and make my mind up whilst tipsy.
Get some refresher training, pay for it yourself if you have to, yeah means money out of your pocket but might benefit you in the long tearm! I haven’t even been out of the UK in 16 or more years never mind driven any where except england/scotland but I’d still do it just for the life experience!
Don’t think, just do! (unless its heroin, meth or crack! Don’t do them!)
Ghiabox:
Get some refresher training, pay for it yourself if you have to, yeah means money out of your pocket but might benefit you in the long tearm! I haven’t even been out of the UK in 16 or more years never mind driven any where except england/scotland but I’d still do it just for the life experience!
Don’t think, just do! (unless its heroin, meth or crack! Don’t do them!)
Well I’d be leaving on Sunday evening to get the ferry over. So I don’t really have any time to get any training in.
But I’ve called the agency and said yes. They will confirm tomorrow.
We shall see how it goes. Worst case scenario I balls it up and make a fool of myself. I know plenty of drivers who have never been abroad - and here is me with my class 1 for a month and no experience being offered a nice jolly. I’d be a fool to say no really. Even if I cack it up so badly that I don’t get paid it could be a fun experience.
sammym:
Well I’d be leaving on Sunday evening to get the ferry over. So I don’t really have any time to get any training in.
But I’ve called the agency and said yes. .
This thread is Comedy Gold.
Well you were one of the people who inspired me. Your descriptions of Europe made me think that doesn’t sound too bad.
I am waiting on the confirmation tomorrow. But I think it will be fun. Taking my 45 at a vinyard in the south of France etc. I have nothing to lose.
Hope you get it! Even if you balls it up, so [zb]! Its a story to tell and you’ll laugh about it eventually, do whatever you can to better your chances at getting full time employment in a job you’ll enjoy!
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