UKtramp:
Please don’t go there. my business is still ongoing, I have not failed by being a lorry driver, I could explain but you wouldn’t understand. I actually sold my thriving business out and left myself a much smaller concern which I still to this very day partake in the odd job. Pass me a gun I will shoot your foot for you. Oh and no you haven’t offended me in the slightest, how on earth could you.
Will you still be pursuing your smaller concerns when your tickets expire later this month?
Depends on which tickets need replacing, if I am not going off shore or to the middle east again which I seriously doubt that I will. Then those tickets will slip away, I will be renewing my lower grades though which enables me to keep my hand in.
UKtramp:
Please don’t go there. my business is still ongoing, I have not failed by being a lorry driver, I could explain but you wouldn’t understand. I actually sold my thriving business out and left myself a much smaller concern which I still to this very day partake in the odd job. Pass me a gun I will shoot your foot for you. Oh and no you haven’t offended me in the slightest, how on earth could you.
Will you still be pursuing your smaller concerns when your tickets expire later this month?
Depends on which tickets need replacing, if I am not going off shore or to the middle east again which I seriously doubt that I will. Then those tickets will slip away, I will be renewing my lower grades though which enables me to keep my hand in.
UKtramp:
My fridge licences F gas and ammonia are due Oct this year. They are willing to renew them for me but I was not planning on renewing them anyway. Gained nothing here but £200. My argument is that fridge work is not the norm to ask a driver to do. I also am having to issue certs for them for leak testing and re gassing. Come Oct I had a good case of saying no.
Ah, so you’ve changed your mind from a couple of days ago then.
question for the salty seadog professors ( refrigerated or otherwise) once you have stopped the handbags at dawn fannying…how many types of boat does the royal navy have then?
UKtramp:
Please don’t go there. my business is still ongoing, I have not failed by being a lorry driver, I could explain but you wouldn’t understand. I actually sold my thriving business out and left myself a much smaller concern which I still to this very day partake in the odd job. Pass me a gun I will shoot your foot for you. Oh and no you haven’t offended me in the slightest, how on earth could you.
Will you still be pursuing your smaller concerns when your tickets expire later this month?
Depends on which tickets need replacing, if I am not going off shore or to the middle east again which I seriously doubt that I will. Then those tickets will slip away, I will be renewing my lower grades though which enables me to keep my hand in.
UKtramp:
My fridge licences F gas and ammonia are due Oct this year. They are willing to renew them for me but I was not planning on renewing them anyway. Gained nothing here but £200. My argument is that fridge work is not the norm to ask a driver to do. I also am having to issue certs for them for leak testing and re gassing. Come Oct I had a good case of saying no.
Ah, so you’ve changed your mind from a couple of days ago then.
No not changed my mind but it is no concern of yours. BTW aren’t you offended by this post entitled smelly drivers? you have just been on my post complaining. Is this different then or was your intention to simply gord me?
dieseldog999:
question for the salty seadog professors ( refrigerated or otherwise) once you have stopped the handbags at dawn fannying…how many types of boat does the royal navy have then?
8 types of boats, surface ones anyway. I am no expert as it may come as a surprise, but the 8 types are easy to define.
dieseldog999:
question for the salty seadog professors ( refrigerated or otherwise) once you have stopped the handbags at dawn fannying…how many types of boat does the royal navy have then?
Not sure if you were including me in this or not (especially as I’d backed out after saying my piece) but either way I’ve no idea to be honest, I’m just a (not currently working) truck driver, my Brother was the one in the RN, you could always Google it if it’s that important to you, apart from that family tour on the HMSM Swiftsure the only other boat I’ve been on was the Pembroke Dock to Rosslare ferry.
dieseldog999:
question for the salty seadog professors ( refrigerated or otherwise) once you have stopped the handbags at dawn fannying…how many types of boat does the royal navy have then?
8 types of boats, surface ones anyway. I am no expert as it may come as a surprise, but the 8 types are easy to define.
1 type of boat…a submarine, …or possibly 2 if there are still Patrol Boats.
The rest are Ships.
My Dad is ex RN,.and he used to play hell with me if I referred to a ship as a boat.
robroy:
My Dad is ex RN,.and he used to play hell with me if I referred to a ship as a boat.
Yeah my Brother used to get rather irritated if anyone called a sub a ship, so of course being the typical annoying little Brother I was always happy to oblige
dieseldog999:
question for the salty seadog professors ( refrigerated or otherwise) once you have stopped the handbags at dawn fannying…how many types of boat does the royal navy have then?
8 types of boats, surface ones anyway. I am no expert as it may come as a surprise, but the 8 types are easy to define.
1 type of boat…a submarine, …or possibly 2 if there are still Patrol Boats.
The rest are Ships.
My Dad is ex RN,.and he used to play hell with me if I referred to a ship as a boat.
A mate of mine is ex RN and he used to flip whenever I said boats, You won’t believe this but I kept referring to them as boats quite often in his company. I couldn’t resist.
dieseldog999:
question for the salty seadog professors ( refrigerated or otherwise) once you have stopped the handbags at dawn fannying…how many types of boat does the royal navy have then?
8 types of boats, surface ones anyway. I am no expert as it may come as a surprise, but the 8 types are easy to define.
Isn’t a BOAT defined as a sea worthy craft which can be carried on a SHIP, just an observation from a Pongo
UKtramp:
Ah, so you’ve changed your mind from a couple of days ago then.
No not changed my mind but it is no concern of yours. BTW aren’t you offended by this post entitled smelly drivers? you have just been on my post complaining. Is this different then or was your intention to simply gord me?
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No, no goading, just curious.
dieseldog999:
question for the salty seadog professors ( refrigerated or otherwise) once you have stopped the handbags at dawn fannying…how many types of boat does the royal navy have then?
8 types of boats, surface ones anyway. I am no expert as it may come as a surprise, but the 8 types are easy to define.
1 type of boat…a submarine, …or possibly 2 if there are still Patrol Boats.
The rest are Ships.
My Dad is ex RN,.and he used to play hell with me if I referred to a ship as a boat.
smartypants…i had them there till you spilt the beans…
villa:
What are you suposed to do if you produce a large brown log and it doesn’t go away when you flush the toilet 2 or 3 times ,
Anything larger than 2Kg should generally be lowered by hand before manually forearming down the U bend…
i went into an optician with one of them 2gk ones sitting inside a shoebox.
i showed him it and asked him if there was anything he could do for me…he asked me if i had dumped one like that,then why was i asking an optician…i said,cos every time i drop one like that,my eyes water like buggery…
UKtramp:
Please don’t go there. my business is still ongoing, I have not failed by being a lorry driver, I could explain but you wouldn’t understand. I actually sold my thriving business out and left myself a much smaller concern which I still to this very day partake in the odd job. Pass me a gun I will shoot your foot for you. Oh and no you haven’t offended me in the slightest, how on earth could you.
Will you still be pursuing your smaller concerns when your tickets expire later this month?
Depends on which tickets need replacing, if I am not going off shore or to the middle east again which I seriously doubt that I will. Then those tickets will slip away, I will be renewing my lower grades though which enables me to keep my hand in.
UKtramp:
My fridge licences F gas and ammonia are due Oct this year. They are willing to renew them for me but I was not planning on renewing them anyway. Gained nothing here but £200. My argument is that fridge work is not the norm to ask a driver to do. I also am having to issue certs for them for leak testing and re gassing. Come Oct I had a good case of saying no.
Ah, so you’ve changed your mind from a couple of days ago then.
Don’t waste time working out what he says is true and what is crap. All he has done on this forum is spout drivel.
Heisenberrg:
Okay…it’s ‘minutes’ …not 'minuets '. The reason that they are not allowed anything more than a 2 minute shower is that when the fresh water is released it leaves a signature in the salt water of the ocean. As an expert regrigerator consultant you should have known this.
Your’e digging yourself a deeper hole, I have worked on many, many refrigerated sea going systems. For example Air conditioning fed by sea water is filtered. We didn’t have it run for a max of 2 mins. My own company used to service and install these large systems on North sea ferry’s, Off shore installations, MOD work too. I think your done now don’t you? any pics to post?
Cant beleive I am saying this but I sort of agree with all uktramps points …
Chilling water on subs/ships has nothing to do with showers , the limited time scale comes from having limited storage tanks and limited output from reverse osmosis or evaporation plants
Oh and submarimers smell like tramps undercrackers…but get paid extra for the privilage
Many of us have come across “Ming the Merciless” types at the yard, not even limited to the summer months.
There was one guy who used to smell really sweaty in the afternoon when you went into the office where he worked, and the whole room smelled like a used jock strap.
He swore blind that he showered every day, and bathed every night.
Here’s the rub folks… If you don’t use Deodorant, then the body gets sweaty pretty darn quickly after scrubbing yourself even for the longest time.
Being smelly then - has less to do with “not washing enough” and more to do with “a poor sense of smell”.
If you’ve got a decent nose - you’d be the first one to know you pen and ink - right?
Personal hygiene is a matter of self respect and presentation, it assists in the combat the spread of communicable diseases, doesn’t matter if you’re a driver, or a muggle.
A driver is a representative of his/her company, and turning up smelling like a bag of festering onions isn’t a good advertisement, no one can avoid the occasional build up of BO during the day, and there’s no excuse not to mask it with a bit of deodorant until the days over and you can get sorted, and for those that sweat heavily deodorant doesn’t always cut it, anti perspirant prior to getting dressed is the way forward, and deodorant for during the day, the clues are in the names.
Those of us who are ex forces have a regimental styled OCD, carrying out our 5 points of contact ablutions, gone are the days though whereby you could grip the swampie, strip him sling him in the shower and bask broom him clean with the aid of deepio.
I’m away for 3 to 4 weeks at a time parking at services or truckstops whenever possible and shower daily, twice during the summer months if I can, I even carry a bowl and plenty of water just in case I get caught out nothing wrong with a strip wash at the side of the truck, hands, face, pits, bits and feet, until a service area is found, although some of our collection and delivery points have facilities available for drivers.
Clean gruds and socks daily and if it’s a two or three day drive I’m doing I may stretch my Tshirt over two days, although I carry 3 weeks worth of clothes, my laundry is done first return trip back calling into one of our yards that has washing facilities.
