Evening all.
Just a friendly request to all those out there who may have a time machine in their garden shed. I’m willing to offer you a decent price on it so long as it can send me forward FOUR years until I’m 25 and in a position to be given a job so that I can put my £1400 class 2 licence to use, and whilst I’m at it save the same amount or even more up for the equally ridiculous priced class 1.
I eagerly await your offers!
Try flagging down and hitching a lift in an Irish Registered Scanny 580 or similar powered motor. 
Hint:allow at least a quarter of a mile for it to stop 
robinhood_1984:
Evening all.equally ridiculous priced class 1.
I was in London tonight talking to a guy in the warehouse who says hes been quoted £650 with free retest if he fails first time not that bad really if you can travel.
It is frustrating when you cant get your foot on the ladder - but dont wish your life away - it goes too chuffing fast!
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My mate has just passed his class 2 (friday) and for the full week it cost him £788 including test, not too bad methinks.
class 1 here £590 quid
penfold:
My mate has just passed his class 2 (friday) and for the full week it cost him £788 including test, not too bad methinks.
Definetly not bad. Mine would have been about £950 but I failed twice on silly things, though I never got more than 5 minors and only two minors on the second one I failed and so at £252 per re-test, the money mounted up and took great chunks of my Class 1 funds.
In Ireland FAS ( Irish job centres) will pay you to learn and take your test I paid about 500 Irish punts to get my C licence then when they sent me a job application for an artic I told them I couldn’t drive that only rigids so the asked me if I would like to go on a course for artic’s. 
The paid me 70.00 euro per week plus 50.00 euro travelling allowance and you can work when you not training so the instructor had me in Dublin for 3 or 4 days training and I worked the rest. 
That was about 4 years ago so I not sure if its changed now
Fowler Welch in Spalding are putting drivers through their C and C+E but tying you to a contract for 2 years, but at least it saves you pulling out the cash and secondly gives you the experience.
Davey Driver:
Fowler Welch in Spalding are putting drivers through their C and C+E but tying you to a contract for 2 years, but at least it saves you pulling out the cash and secondly gives you the experience.
I got offered a job with Fowler Welch Coolchain a week after passing my C+E.
The work looked easy - all you had to do was drive. No loading or unloading, and they gave me a choice of motor. I would have had a 6 month old Actros had I taken the job.
I know the money may not be the best, but I thought it was OK. Just shows there are some firms out there that give fresh drivers a chance to prove themselves.
I dont understand!
Why do you need to wait til your 25 to put your Class 2 licence to use??
I started with an agency a month after passing my Class 2 (aged only 21) and 3 months later started with the firm I’m with now.
My advice to you is get listed with as many agencies as possible. I did, I said yes to everything they offered me, and spent my last 2 months with them driving 6 days a week, finishing with 2 weeks on night shift.
Be reliable and they will rely on you!
After you’ve got some experience under your belt, go round the companies that deal with quarries or recycling companies, skips etc. Driver turn over is high with these companies so they are willing to give new drivers a shot a proving themselves. especially if they have a reference that says ‘reliable’ on it
tvradict:
I dont understand!
My advice to you is get listed with as many agencies as possible. I did, I said yes to everything they offered me, and spent my last 2 months with them driving 6 days a week, finishing with 2 weeks on night shift.Be reliable and they will rely on you!
The agency I’m with now started off very well, at first they point blankly refused to offer me anything due to my age and lack of Class C experience but either because of the huge amount of van driving I did for them a year previously, or the fact that they where probably stuck for drivers at the time, maybe a combination of the both I got a phone call and for a couple of weeks was getting 3 or 4 days a week on good pay, always about £8 per hour which I think is very good for Class C, especially someone my age with no experience. But then suddenly they appear to have had a drop in work and in over a week I’ve had nothing from them so I ofcourse phoned up about ALL the class C jobs when the local paper with the jobs section came out on Thursday, well there where only three jobs to be honest. First one was still available but they wouldn’t employ under 25s, second was gone but they also wouldn’t employ under 25s and the third was gone but he did say my age wasn’t a problem and said it was a pitty I didn’t have a Class 1 as he had a job going. Like you say, I’ll register with more agencies and ofcourse respond to any and every advert that comes in the paper/jobcentre etc. I’m only a little annoyed at the moment as I only need a couple of hundred quid more and then I’m in a safe position to go for the next class without blowing all my money and once I have that, I’m promised a job at the company my dad is at.
I struggled for about a year after I passed to find anything decent.
You will find something you just have to keep looking and keep answering the adverts.
the biggest problem is insurance, many insurance firms that offer the lowest rates also state no one under 25 and some also say all drivers must have a minimum of two years experience so if haulage firms have their premiums with any of these companies, their hands are tied as to who they can take on.
a pal of mine used to run four wagons and tried everywhere to get insurance for his son, who was 23yr at the time and couldn’t find a single company willing to insure him on an artic as a new license holder, that was about four or five years ago so maybe there are a few that will provide cover now.
why you suddenly become less of a risk when you reach 25 i’,ve no idea.
paul b:
why you suddenly become less of a risk when you reach 25 i’,ve no idea.
Exactly mate. Funny how they get away with discriminating against people like me, who have never had an acident in anything from my own car to the vans I’ve driven and to the trucks I’ve driven. Like you say, age has nothing to do with it, it depends on the individual and like my dad says, you see plenty of drivers in their 40s or 50s who drive far worse than the average under 25.
My dads boss CLAIMS that he can insure me as his insurance company only increases the excess for a younger driver, I don’t know how true this is, I only have to hope he’s telling the truth, but at the end of the day I’ll only believe it when I see it.
