They pay two or three grand for an artic licence , drive a truck that is worth £ 120,000 ,or more, haul cargo that can cost millions but dress like vagabond tramps that came out of hedge backwards, they are a disgrace to the road haulage industry.
They wear rigger boots when there is no need, drive all day in a dirty hiviz, urinate on their wheels, toss out Truckers Tizer out of the window, ■■■ in lay bys because their boss won’t pay parking money.
Talk on their idiotic Blue Tooth ear phone piece like demented idiots, rev their engine at 3 am knowing full well drivers are asleep.
Have loud conversations at 3 am about where they have been and how long it took to unload and how many pallets .
Moan about fridge trailers waking them up, run the boss down but don’t have the guts tp leave .
Relax mate…you could be married to this
Baggie:
Relax mate…you could be married to this0
Maaan that’s nasty
Berty:
Baggie:
Relax mate…you could be married to this0
Maaan that’s nasty
Hey! Lower back tattoo = UTA girl 
Baggie:
Relax mate…you could be married to this
You’re right, he could be. How do you know he isn’t? 
toby1234abc:
They pay two or three grand for an artic licence , drive a truck that is worth £ 120,000 ,or more, haul cargo that can cost millions …
it is also one of the most essential and important jobs within society and carries great safety implications.
and yet the pay is often little more than someone who pushes a wheelbarrow. there is something very very wrong and it is not how the driver dresses.
Contraflow:
Baggie:
Relax mate…you could be married to thisYou’re right, he could be. How do you know he isn’t?
Because she’d play havoc with his axle weights
I look scruffy because I do a potentially dirty job. I’m not the type to wear my best outfit and then put on a mechanics boiler suit everytime I get out of the cab
mrginge:
I look scruffy because I do a potentially dirty job. I’m not the type to wear my best outfit and then put on a mechanics boiler suit everytime I get out of the cab
Yes, this. Everything I wear ends up with a big smear of fifth wheel grease on it sooner or later so I tend to wear the same clothes to work until they fall apart, and save my other clothes for when I’m not working.
Always have my orange work trousers on and i have company logo tee shirts but i also get those cheap polo shirts for work from sports direct.
I manage to make me work trousers last the week out usually, but lighter colour polo shirts a fresh one every day, we have to be clean and the vehicle’s as clean as we can manage (some better than others for this it must be said due to negligence indifference and bone idleness from some) due to being bulk tanked food stuffs direct to customer, we have a good steam cleaner with good chemicals and proper washing gantries so no excuse for going out with the appearance of a landfill operation…
Depends on the type of work, bulk tippers, waste, walking floors, you aint going in you’re best bib and tucker.
Rock up with a fridge with a load people will eat then no excuses for being filthy, first impressions count its not what you are its what people think you are.
Turn up looking like a tramp with a belly hanging over a food stained vest and a filthy high viz coat and bobble hat don’t expect the red carpet.
mike68:
Depends on the type of work, bulk tippers, waste, walking floors, you aint going in you’re best bib and tucker.
Im OK then as I pull those trailers, throw in occasional low loader and cattle trailer jobs im never going to be seen polishing my boots and ironing my clothes
That and I suppose I work for a company that likes the driver to work on the lorries as much as possible to limit call outs it can get a little hands on.
The fridge drivers running between RDC’s shouldn’t have any difficulty really in keeping clean.
mrginge:
mike68:
Depends on the type of work, bulk tippers, waste, walking floors, you aint going in you’re best bib and tucker.Im OK then as I pull those trailers, throw in occasional low loader and cattle trailer jobs im never going to be seen polishing my boots and ironing my clothes
That and I suppose I work for a company that likes the driver to work on the lorries as much as possible to limit call outs it can get a little hands on.
The fridge drivers running between RDC’s shouldn’t have any difficulty really in keeping clean.
The trick is to look presentable but not to over the top, shiny shoes and creases you could shave with won’t do.
Everyone then thinks you’re ex forces and totally incompetent.
Fair enough. I do think that some drivers most think im odd when I rock up at the services and proceed to get an air line out the locker to pump up a slow puncture I have been nursing the last few days before returning to base or god forbid changing a bulb.
One driver even questioned why I was using cable ties to repair the holes in my trailer nets once in the services when surely I could call someone out to fix them.
To be fair I enjoy getting mucky it so it suits me, and its a great excuse for looking scruffy when toby1234abc is around
mrginge:
I do think that some drivers most think im odd when I rock up at the services and proceed to get an air line out the locker to pump up a slow puncture I have been nursing the last few days…
They’re probably just eagerly awaiting the inevitable explosion and catastrophic injuries.
Contraflow:
mrginge:
I do think that some drivers most think im odd when I rock up at the services and proceed to get an air line out the locker to pump up a slow puncture I have been nursing the last few days…They’re probably just eagerly awaiting the inevitable explosion and catastrophic injuries.
Saw a bloke doing this the other day . Pumping up a very soft tyre whilst sitting on the kerb in front of it… absolute madness
Contraflow:
mrginge:
I do think that some drivers most think im odd when I rock up at the services and proceed to get an air line out the locker to pump up a slow puncture I have been nursing the last few days…They’re probably just eagerly awaiting the inevitable explosion and catastrophic injuries.
I was thinking similar…, but as usual not as harsh and to the point as you
Black designer combat style kecks, shorts in summer, nubuck boots, co.polo shirt with obligatory lumberjack shirt, oh! and Ray ban shades in summer to look ultra cool…or as some say a complete ■■■■. 
(Note…LJ shirt to maintain my '‘Barroca Rob/trucker chique’'image … but mostly to cover up my co.name on polo shirt, in case I have misfortune to meet some gob ■■■■ on same firm/different depot who will.latch on to me like a ■■■■■■■ limpet 
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Who was it that got slated on here last time this was discussed, after posting a pic of himself in his work kit…posing in a ‘Man from C&A/Kay’s catalogue’ stylee.
chester1:
Contraflow:
mrginge:
I do think that some drivers most think im odd when I rock up at the services and proceed to get an air line out the locker to pump up a slow puncture I have been nursing the last few days…They’re probably just eagerly awaiting the inevitable explosion and catastrophic injuries.
Saw a bloke doing this the other day . Pumping up a very soft tyre whilst sitting on the kerb in front of it… absolute madness
Seems fine to me (Maybe im wrong then), if the tyre is down to 60-70psi it takes what seems like an age even with the engine idle raised to get the tyre up to 120psi before I get bored. I don’t see the issue really, just this week I pumped up a tyre in Tibshelf, checked in Tamworth and then pumped it up again in Tewksbury. Back to our base in Gloucester for a tyre swap, saved the firm some money and got the loads done, job done.