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I love my job even after 7 years though I am looking at leaving when I pass my class 1 (just waiting on a test date). If you don’t like it eff off, there’s plenty of drivers who do still like it that want a job.
Still love my job,been a bulk tanker driver for 15years and wouldn’t change it,i haven’t spoken to the boss since last Wednesday as i have work emailed to me 9 outa 10 times.Usually Im always chasing what im doing next,i just get left to get on with it. Most of my tips are 24 hour and i never get held up with lunch and break times. im away most of the week doing around 500km a day,it’s a hard life.
. Every now and then i end up waiting for a trailer at Killingholme but that’s the worst bit about my job.
I love my job more now than the day I started. School holidays are nice times because I have one of my two sons with me. I still wake up with a smile on my face Monday to Friday.
Breedy.
Enjoy mine, pays crap but theres decent perks to it that sort it out, but I am bored, fancy doing abit of distance work as ours is all local, Miss the van days where I went here there and everywhere.
Ditto,that’s a bonus. May pick my 7yo up on Thursday so she can keep me company for a couple of days.
Personally, to me it’s a way to earn money, nothing more. It beats sitting in an office, but then again I’d rather shovel ■■■■ then listen to a group of women chattering about mindless soaps and Facebook in an office somewhere. (Apologies to the females amongst us that also hate offices!!)
Recently I’ve been doing other things and though I still enjoy the odd shift, I wouldn’t do it full time. There’s just too much ■■■■■■■■■ and not enough coin in the job to put up with it. 
at my present job,there are good runs,and there are really ■■■■ runs.i’ve got a good run at the moment,and enjoy it…just dread someone not turning in and getting lumbered with one of the ■■■■ ones!
scaniason:
MADBAZ:
I thought that maybe the rose tinted shades would’ve faded by now. Not a chance, beats pushing buttons in a factory/office, get to see the country for free and summers coming where the tops get lower and the skirts get higher^^^This + a lot!
what they said
Yes , still enjoy my job also.Tramping Mon to Fri. Been doing it for 33 years, 29 direct for a manufacturing company and then 4 more so far after being TUPED to a haulier. In those 4 years I’ve only seen senior management once! work is organised by phone and email. If the work gets done, I get left alone. Perfect!!
robroy:
Think a lot depends on how long you have done it, most of the older ones on here remember when it REALLY was a good job and tend to compare it with all the BS we have to put up with today, and how much the pay has gone down in line to living costs. After saying that I have had jobs in the last 10yrs that I have enjoyed, where as now the firm I work for look upon their drivers as a necessary evil and are basically greedy [zb], I no longer put in long hours for a good wage but for a living wage, and I am on less money than I was on 12 yrs ago, but at least I am in work and I suppose it is a similar situation in some other industries also, but if you lads have a good firm that looks after you and you enjoy it fair play to you.
^ This…26 years on the road and counting. 
I have a cracking job i enjoy what i do
I work with a good bunch of lads and lass
We all have the odd off day but other than that im left alone to do the job.The office very very rarely ring me all my work comes through via text.Nothings a problem even when i damaged a trailer all i was told was dont worry we"ll sort it the wages are paid on the dot.The kit is good bar the odd old trailer
So all in all im very happy with my lot 
Yes, I still enjoy the job and not just the driving either. I still enjoy securing a load properly and neatly, finding and doing deliveries to awkward locations or even awkward customers.
Most of my mates at home are builders, roofers or run their own small plant or wagon firms (in fact, I think it’s only me who’s cards in). They are never as negative about work as some of the attitudes on TNUK and those guys really are having it tough.
Personally, when I think of my mates, I actually think I’m lucky to have a full time job that I enjoy.
I am paid a fair wage and I’m given the due courtesy any experienced and responsible driver would expect. On the flip side, I act in the dilligent and responsible manner that my employer should expect of me. Something that is sometimes lost on some of my more erstwhile colleagues…
As for wages, improvements across the industry have been slow but conditions have changed. In relative terms, I used to earn slightly more at H&S Transport in Barneveld in the nineties but the pressure and hard graft that went into earning that little more were far worse than anything I’ve experienced in modern transport. As for the ‘good old days’ in the UK before I went to Holland…? Hahaha
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SteveBarnsleytrucker:
i love the job,tramping all week,see all four corners of the country,company leave you to it and dont bother you as long as you do the job and dont take the p–s such as going an hour and half down road then parking up for an hours kip! I take home a deacent enough wage to live off each month. I’ve been with the company im with now 6 year the works great and varied,good tackle(just got 30 new slideing roof trailers) also do flatwork, love my own space and being able to listen to what i want on the radio and not have to put up with workforce crank or gaffer in my lug hole every 5mins but i also love meeting new people everyday and like to have a good crack with the lads i meet on sites,builders yards,other drivers etc. Yes you have bad days but does’nt every job? I find the good days far outweigh the bad and there is no finer job in my eyes than ours when the suns out,window down some great music blasting out the radio and driving over say the A66 at Stainmoor Cafe looking over that fantastic view towards the lake district or any other similer road in this country. You dont get that sat in an office or on a production line. I’ve been off work since January 4th with retinal tears in both eyes and a detached retina in my right eye, i was weeks away from going blind and all i was suffering from were floaters in my eyes and some blurred vision. If my girlfriend didn’t force me to go to the opticions(spelt wrong i know) who then refered me to the hospital for an emergency op i would now be blind in both eyes. I have to have another op then hopefully i can return to work and it cant come quck enough if i’m honest. sorry if the thread went on a bit folks!
sorry to hear that! 
question, if I may? Reference the floaters? Are you diabetic Steve? Quick recovery pal
Fatboy slimslow:
Reference the floaters? Are you diabetic Steve? Quick recovery pal
Ive had floaters in my eyes since well forever, im not diabetic…
Well at least I dont think I am, got to go see the Vampire on Friday for 3 lots of blood - 3 monthes ago after the last one the doc said my fasting blood sugars were borderline 
Fatboy slimslow:
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
i love the job,tramping all week,see all four corners of the country,company leave you to it and dont bother you as long as you do the job and dont take the p–s such as going an hour and half down road then parking up for an hours kip! I take home a deacent enough wage to live off each month. I’ve been with the company im with now 6 year the works great and varied,good tackle(just got 30 new slideing roof trailers) also do flatwork, love my own space and being able to listen to what i want on the radio and not have to put up with workforce crank or gaffer in my lug hole every 5mins but i also love meeting new people everyday and like to have a good crack with the lads i meet on sites,builders yards,other drivers etc. Yes you have bad days but does’nt every job? I find the good days far outweigh the bad and there is no finer job in my eyes than ours when the suns out,window down some great music blasting out the radio and driving over say the A66 at Stainmoor Cafe looking over that fantastic view towards the lake district or any other similer road in this country. You dont get that sat in an office or on a production line. I’ve been off work since January 4th with retinal tears in both eyes and a detached retina in my right eye, i was weeks away from going blind and all i was suffering from were floaters in my eyes and some blurred vision. If my girlfriend didn’t force me to go to the opticions(spelt wrong i know) who then refered me to the hospital for an emergency op i would now be blind in both eyes. I have to have another op then hopefully i can return to work and it cant come quck enough if i’m honest. sorry if the thread went on a bit folks!sorry to hear that!
no im not mate,floaters are black dots that apper in you’re eye and when you look at something they follow you’re movement you can even see them when you’re eye’s are shut. I was even seeing flashes of light go off at random moments ,the consultant said this was because the retina gets pulses from the brain and it sorts out different aspects of light that you’re eyes see. With my retina detached from my eyeball the pulses from the brain were not going through to the front of my eye. I also could’nt see out the corner of my right eye but i suffered no pain at all. I’d recommend anyone who has any slight problem with their eyes to get an eye test stright away. thanks for kind words mate. Just want to get back on the road tramping again
Sorry to read about your eyesight Steve, sorta puts things into perspective…
Hope you make a full recovery and get back on the road soon fella.
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AlexWignall:
Sorry to read about your eyesight Steve, sorta puts things into perspective…Hope you make a full recovery and get back on the road soon fella.
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cheers Alex. must be mad to say i cant wait to get back to tramping but its in my blood! 
I do but not for much longer I don’t think…
Hope you get eyes sorted soon Steve:-|
Regarding job, i’m happy most of the time. Negativity from work mates can depress me though.