The solution there seems to be to sign up to a smaller network.
Come join as us at UPN where 4000 pallets is a busy night, and rolling homeward at 4am is considered a late one. 
I’d like to end up on nights I think for driving, but moving out into Class 1 without experience; I think it would be a good idea to get some experience on days before moving to nights. Do you agree? 
Maybe daytime driving requires more experience, as you’ve got to mind all those other knobs on the road after all!
I’d say it takes about 3 weeks to get used to nights. After that, if it isn’t a doddle, then you might not be cut out for driving, let alone nights! 
ive been doing nights bout 2 years now and its best move i made. took a couple weeks to get used to it but im happy with my lot.
london every night is not bad and you certainly see some sights, good and bad
If i was doing permanent nights starting at roughly the same time each night i would love it, the fact being im tooing and froing with start times between 1630 and 2300 finishing between 2am and 7am.
ive also shifted from backshift (1230 start) to nightshift (2200 start) midweek, its a right pain in the ■■■ when that happens.
Gogzy - Those shift changes are a killer - make no mistake!
I agree that you really need a season of same or very similar start/finish hours to make it a relaxing job that it can be.
Poppiesfan - I concur about the London night experience. I drove 17t wagons around dropping at the london railway stations through the 1990’s, and loved it!
It was “job and knock” in those days, no satnavs, no checking your running times - you got given the time it took for an office penpusher to do the same run during daylight hours, and as a result you could get a 2.5hour each way run down to 1hr.15m, thus making a nice bit of time on the small hours finishes to boot!