dieseldog999:
Grandpa:
wing-nut:
Message you got from Dvla simply means expired due to medical running out. You’re always entitled to your HGV license subject to submitting medical.Thanks wing-nut, you’re a Godsend. Now I have to find an area of high C&E demand (if any exist), as I arrive at Heathrow homeless. I think the end of May will see me returning.
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get a job on euro work and be away for 3 or 4 weeks at a time then you wont need the trouble of a house.
( not that you will get one unless you go straight into private rent).
if you have a dual nationality passport then you may jump the queue a tad,but if your uk pink and single then you might as well buy a tent.
live and earn out of the truck,then do a travel lodge one weekend a month or whatever.
nighting out in europe and getting paid for it beats sitting in a rdc all day and going home to a scabby rental debating on whether to set your alarm for your next agency shift or just slitting your wrists in the bath.
the 1st day,the nearside mirrir will feel like its 20 feet away…by the end of your first week,itl be like your back after a 2 week holiday.
When I say I stopped driving trucks in 2008 I don’t mean I stopped driving. I’ve driven both cars and bikes extensively in Asia and still drive every day. I’m married and we own our own house in Thailand, but to all intents and purposes in the UK I’d be returning as single. The reason I’m coming back is because all throughout Asia they have a professional employment cut-off date of 60 and I need to have a job. No dual nationality, British passport and hopefully the colour will be blue soon?
Perhaps I have a different view to many about agencies. I disliked going somewhere new every night (I preferred nights), but sooner rather than later if you performed well and didn’t come back every morning with bits of truck missing and could actually find your way there and back (the early days of the E. European influx), someone would soon take you on as a core agency (regular) driver. I worked for many years for a BT RDC through an agency; around six regular routes which I soon got to know, two drops maximum – a trunking paradise.
Occasionally, I’d do Sunday day time trunking for Tesco’s or Asda (Wal-Mart); both I found good companies to work for. I’m too old to want to sleep in a truck (occasional nights out OK) and similarly to the majority of us, the ‘Knight of the road’ novelty soon wore off after the first M25 snarl up, or the air-line snapping on a tight reverse in freezing cold rainy weather! I’ve done my travelling and I’ll leave the younger ones to race on to meet those window delivery schedules.
