dwjinuk:
‘I keep motorists alive’
I like that one. 
placidcasual:
Just because we drive trucks it doesn’t mean that we are all uneducated. I have a BA Hons in Accounting and Finance, returned to trucking as its less stressful and its what I’m happier doing for the mo.
Same here… Stress free, but certainly NOT un-educated… (did I spall that right… 
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I’m dead proud to be a trucker… WAY more than when I was a programmer…
Luv
Chrisie… 
Nothing wrong with being a cleaner, if we had a few more - better appreciated and paid naturally - there’d be less MRSA in hospitals.
I’ve also had the advantage of higher education but that cut no ice with my consultant surgeon father in law when he discovered I then ‘drove lorries for a living!’
‘I’ll pay for the divorce,’ he stage whispered to my wife as we walked into the registry office.
Now I write about trucks rather than drive them I’ve become socially acceptable in his eyes (and 27 years on I’m still married to his daughter).
I am a cleaner - somebody has to clean the wagons when the other guys leave em in a state! 
I’ve only just passed my class 2, but I’d been driving vans for a living for a good 5 years before now. Anyone who treats me like ■■■■ gets the same back and can kiss my arse, same goes for ‘goods in’ people who think the only thing they should lift is their pen to sign the ticket.
Outside work I like to think the same applies, if people are ■■■■■■ to you for any reason, just forget the ■■■■■■■.
I also have a degree - BSc Conservation Science with honours in Conservation Management.
Actually, it really annoys me when people ask why I drive trucks instead of using my degree. Very few people I knew at uni got a job in their field - a lot of them ended up behind a bank till or a cash register. I like driving a lot better!
TONY:
Its official, i read in a sunday paper that lists truck drivers alongside cleaners and other unskilled labourers
That can’t be right , labourers and cleaners get paid more don’t they ? 
It seems to me that the people that have a low opinion of truck drivers are the ones that don’t know how hard you guys work, how much skill is actually involved, and are just looking for way to make themselves feel better for settling for a job they aren’t satisfied with… most truck drivers love their work, and other people are jealous of that. Be proud of what you do… the rest of us would have nothing if it weren’t for you guys! 
At the end of the day other people’s opinions on what i do for a living really do not bother me. I’m happy and that’s all that counts. Us british are always so wrapped up in what people do for a living, it’s like oh your only a driver, your like (zb)on the bottom of my shoe, now i can talk down to you.
Phah!
edited for language if it needs the spelling changed to get it past the censor it means it’s not allowed mrs mix
You talk down to me and I tell you to go away most impolitley. For instance. “Their’s a box missing off that pallet. I don’t trust you drivers.”
“I trust you warehouse staff even less. In my experience, that’s where all the holes in the boxes come from. Now go away.”
'Phoned transport about it and they said they’d tell her to eff off if she rang .
Love being a driver, everyone else can swivel .
For my own part, I’ve allways tried to speak as though I’m spoken to, especially to cleaners as they’re doing a job I don’t want to do . In my book that put s them above me in the general scale of things.
Just an addition here…
The first question you get from someone you just met is “what do you do?”
Try being a housewife and mother… think we’re the lowest on rank. Since we tend to define people by their occupations and we don’t technically have one, it makes us NOTHING to others… we aren’t taken seriously, its assumed we don’t have a brain or don’t know how to use it if we do have one, or are just too lazy to work…
Its a double edged sword. If a married woman with kids works, they’re considered greedy and are leaving day care providers to raise their kids just for financial gain… making them bad mothers. If they don’t work, then they are lazy and using the kids as an excuse to stay home. Its a frustrating, no-win situation. So much for family values in todays society. 
TONY:
Its official, i read in a sunday paper that lists truck drivers alongside cleaners and other unskilled labourers,so if you meet a classy bird, or want to impress,and are asked what you do, whatever you do dont mention truck driving…
Pass me my MOP ‘N’ BUCKET then please Tony
me personally i am bloody proud to be a lorry driver and will treat my licence better than the wife but don’t tell er that lol…although i think she is already starting to get the point lol
no seriously i am very proud indeed to do what i do there aint many people in the country that can do what we all do…if i ever get a funny look or reaction to what i do, my reply would be " can you do it■■? no…thats what i thought!!" stuff em people who look down on lorry drivers are the ignorant and uneducated ones 
Kate Hasler:
Try being a housewife and mother… think we’re the lowest on rank. Since we tend to define people by their occupations and we don’t technically have one, it makes us NOTHING to others… we aren’t taken seriously, its assumed we don’t have a brain or don’t know how to use it if we do have one, or are just too lazy to work…
Kate my wife was in hospital for a few days last year and i had to watch the kids and "run " the house and believe me driving a truck is the easiest thing thing in the world when it comes to being left alone with those little monsters!!!.
It,s not just watching the kids its booking in the ironing woman and the cleaner (commonly known as the mother in law) to come round at the right time:):), i dread to think what it would be like if i had to do all that stuff as well as be beaten up by the kids .
Dapper Scavenger:
I also have a degree - BSc Conservation Science with honours in Conservation Management.Actually, it really annoys me when people ask why I drive trucks instead of using my degree. Very few people I knew at uni got a job in their field - a lot of them ended up behind a bank till or a cash register. I like driving a lot better!
I feel the same way, I’ve got a BA in Business Management and, very soon, a MSc in Information Systems. I used to work for a global telecommunications corporate as a Pricing Analyst; I was responsible for pricing voice and data telecomms networks for other corporates throughout Europe.
Friends used to think it was a glamorous job - flying around Europe, living in 5-star hotels, a large expense account, and so on. I used to live in hotels most of the time because I worked in various offices throughout Europe. I’d be at my desk by 0600, leave around 2000 - 2100 and then spend a further hour or so working in the hotel room.
What people don’t understand is that you have to devote your life to these kind of jobs. Spending time with your family or socialising with friends becomes secondary, the company comes first. If an account had to be “commited” within a certain deadline then you had to stay until it was done. If you’d planned and arranged to spend some time with the family - tough, the job came first.
Although the money was extremely good, I wouldn’t go back to it - lorry driving is far less stressful, believe it or not!
brummie:
Spending time with your family or socialising with friends becomes secondary, the company comes first.
Not that different to driving a truck then