I’m currently working a 3 and 4 day week 12 hour shifts working local to home but only doing 3 or 4 hours driving a day and would like more. I have been offered a job doing European work 3 or 4 day trip a week which suits me better than what I’m doing now but the company is based 70 mile away from me. I know your not making this trip everyday but just want to know if many of you would do it? Also only have 1 year driving experience so would the jump to European work be too much and should I stick with the local work for a while yet?
Take the new job. Far better to regret something you have done than regret something you never did.
Edit to add; unless you’re an incompetent hitman, then it’s better not to do something.
Take the job. Even if it doesn’t work out, it will look better on your cv and make it easier to find better job in the future.
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I lived in Wakefield and…
Drove for Continental Express out of Waltham Abbey for just under three years.
95% of the time I went home after every trip but occaisionally I’d stay in London and go on the lash.
Go for it!
Depends a lot on your personal circumstances, security, debt, married, single, kids, mortgage.etc.just decide bearing those that apply in mind.
If everything fits give it a go, …if single no commitments …DEFINITELY give it a go. 
All the above.
Leave on good terms, and if it doesn`t work you will have maybe the chance to return or at least a good reference.
Go for it. You obviously fancy a crack at it and its the only way you will find out. Good luck with it.
Take the Euro job , i used to commute to Wakefield for a one man band doing Euro for him , i commuted 250 miles one way , but being away for weeks or months was ok , or i would take the train home on my time off or drive home with all the laundry .
He would let me bring the lorry home when i was near my area .
In Europe , you have free parking , hotels and supermarkets allow lorry parking , the food is better , you can have a jug of wine or a beer with a meal .The weather is better , more sunny days than gloomy old England with no place to park over night , full up by 18.00 .
The fines or court deposits are higher in Europe , to be paid by the road side , a small offence in the UK could be more serious in Europe , but the fine can be contested at court, which nobody bothers with , as taking time off work to attend and paying for legal advice with a language barrier .
An adjustment from UK to European driving is not a big deal , a few days on the other side of the road is no drama , and if your truck is left hand drive , a few days of that , then you will hardly think about it .
There is better scenery abroad , goods in staff and fork lift drivers have more time for you and more polite and patient than the English monkeys who think they are better than you , the same for the English yard shunter , tearing around the yard he owns , and if you upset him , he will drop your trailer so close to another trailer with millimetres distance .
If you can not find an address abroad, and ask somebody for help , he will ■■■■■■ you in his car , to find it , buy you a drink at the bar , and say do not load today as they are shut .
I think you’re lying as Carryfast says its impossible to get a job on continental even though you have and also I personally go out regularly.
Seriously though take it, purely for the wise words The Maoster posted in that it’s better to try something and it not work rather than wonder what if.
I enjoy working out there much more than I do piffling about in the UK. If you have any questions PM me and I’ll try and help answer anything.
6 months on the continent and you will become a very experienced driver, and you will love it, it’s not for ever, you be mad not to take it, it also sounds like a round trip
toby1234abc:
Take the Euro job , i used to commute to Wakefield for a one man band doing Euro for him , i commuted 250 miles one way , but being away for weeks or months was ok , or i would take the train home on my time off or drive home with all the laundry .
He would let me bring the lorry home when i was near my area .In Europe , you have free parking , hotels and supermarkets allow lorry parking , the food is better , you can have a jug of wine or a beer with a meal .The weather is better , more sunny days than gloomy old England with no place to park over night , full up by 18.00 .
The fines or court deposits are higher in Europe , to be paid by the road side , a small offence in the UK could be more serious in Europe , but the fine can be contested at court, which nobody bothers with , as taking time off work to attend and paying for legal advice with a language barrier .
An adjustment from UK to European driving is not a big deal , a few days on the other side of the road is no drama , and if your truck is left hand drive , a few days of that , then you will hardly think about it .
There is better scenery abroad , goods in staff and fork lift drivers have more time for you and more polite and patient than the English monkeys who think they are better than you , the same for the English yard shunter , tearing around the yard he owns , and if you upset him , he will drop your trailer so close to another trailer with millimetres distance .If you can not find an address abroad, and ask somebody for help , he will ■■■■■■ you in his car , to find it , buy you a drink at the bar , and say do not load today as they are shut .
That is so true,I remember two young maidens in an Italian village guiding me to the Ferrero Rocher factory in distant times.I nearly shed tears at their benevolent gesture at the time.If you’re in that fine nation,expect the unexpected and you won’t go far wrong.
Try the Euro job out. You did apply for it after all.
Don’t be scared. The experience in it self is a bonus.
If you don’t go for the job, would you be so kind as to put the company advertising the job on here, as I think there’s other people on here who wouldn’t mind ticking that off their bucket list of jobs.
go for it.end of story.
if nothing else then itl give you an insight to the different world of eurotramping that you will either love or hate.
if you dont try it,then itl nag away at you like a bad tooth.
tapart from the vastly improved roads,conditions,food,ectect,then theres also the fact that without kicking the jacksie out of it,then say 80 case of wine,and a few cartons of ciggies and tobacco with easily throw you 6 or 7 hundred quid every trip and you can get your mates,family,ect to flog it on when your away.
add £1 onto a bottle of jp chenet and its £480 alone and you can still punt it at half price…it will never be a murder investigation for that amount but it doubles your wages every trip so long as you have a few quid to lay out. 
3-4 days trip a week, sounds like a plum job.