Facinating read! Well worth the effort OP as its entertaining folk after all those years.
Thanks JD for bumping this thread to the top.
I did wonder myself about the break times at first 
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Well done!
That was a good read I miss going over to Italy .
jessicas dad:
just re read this and it is excellent.
Thanks Alex, you still at FL ?
It is a while since i have been on this forum, so i was shocked to get an email notification about my last trip in a wagon nearly 4 1/2 years ago!!
I have worked on the buses at Arriva Yorkshire in Wakefield since that trip, i would love to get back into trucks but i am better off financially at the moment were i am. One day i hope to be back.
Is spliting your break a no-no now then?
It is nice to see that Brian Yeardley is still going, i still have a glance up the yard every time i go past, and to see who is driving Asda and BY motors when i pass!
I would like to wish everyone i know at Asda, BY and all at Trucknet a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I am off to Perth,Western Austraila on the 27th December for 3 weeks 
Glad you all enjoyed it 
jon boy 100:
jessicas dad:
just re read this and it is excellent.Thanks Alex, you still at FL ?
no im on for shuttlespanker on here doing boxes. 
jessicas dad:
jon boy 100:
jessicas dad:
just re read this and it is excellent.Thanks Alex, you still at FL ?
no im on for shuttlespanker on here doing boxes.
Nice. I will stop looking at FL trucks then!
Have you been back to Asda?, i hear there have been a few changes!
Great diary, Jon. I came off the road 2 years ago so I could see my 2 kids grow up. Reading this reminds me how much I used to enjoy doing euro work an how much i miss it 
Still only 15 years to go and I can go back to it, if we still have an industry then 
jon boy 100:
jessicas dad:
jon boy 100:
jessicas dad:
just re read this and it is excellent.Thanks Alex, you still at FL ?
no im on for shuttlespanker on here doing boxes.
Nice. I will stop looking at FL trucks then!
Have you been back to Asda?, i hear there have been a few changes!
i havent been in there for a couple of years now i’d try to avoid it now cos il have to redo a induction and i cant cope with that as well as the dcpc.
good post, and excellent read, i worked for brian yeardley some 14 years ago now, it was the first time i drove a left ■■■■■■, all the globetrotters were geartronics, it was back then that brian decided to buy some new fh’s but not in the famous red and white, these were in blue and yellow, i hadone of them and they did look quite stunning, but rumour had it that brian was owed alot of money, so unfortunatley the trucks had to go back to volvo at hull, shame really 
jon boy 100:
jessicas dad:
just re read this and it is excellent.Is spliting your break a no-no now then?
You can still split but 15 + 30 not the other way round
Pirate:
Great diary, Jon. I came off the road 2 years ago so I could see my 2 kids grow up. Reading this reminds me how much I used to enjoy doing euro work an how much i miss it
Thanks Pirate.
I gave up Euro coach work when my eldest lad was about 6, he told me “dont tell me what to do, your never here”!!. I did one more tour and jacked.
That euro job was a one off for BY, they just needed someone who could do Italy without being babysat ! Lol
When my eldest lad finishes college i hope to return to the trucks, but jobs look thin on the ground for the foreseable !
Enjoy your time at home with your kids, they have been the most pleasurable years for me.
Jon
jessicas dad:
jon boy 100:
jessicas dad:
jon boy 100:
jessicas dad:
just re read this and it is excellent.Thanks Alex, you still at FL ?
no im on for shuttlespanker on here doing boxes.
Nice. I will stop looking at FL trucks then!
Have you been back to Asda?, i hear there have been a few changes!i havent been in there for a couple of years now i’d try to avoid it now cos il have to redo a induction and i cant cope with that as well as the dcpc.
I enjoyed my 2 days of DCPC, 2 days in a warm classroom 0830 - 1530 and free food
Cant wait for the next one
What unit are you driving, i will keep my eyes open.
Santa:
jon boy 100:
jessicas dad:
just re read this and it is excellent.Is spliting your break a no-no now then?
You can still split but 15 + 30 not the other way round
Cheers Santa,
When did that rule come in?
Any other changes in the regs?
Superb pics mate