Congratulations, I hope you will be treated a lot better at your new place. 
Well done. You made a good impression. Take it nice and steady and see you out on the road.
A diary of first week there would be good 
I reckon you done nothing at all wrong mate, and judging by most of the comments your boss canât be right and everybody else wrong. If anybody tries to push me or imply I have done the job too slow, when I know I havenât, it has the opposite desired effectâŚI take longer! (but I realise in your case being a newbie doing that would be more difficult) As for you considering taking a break when tipping, it aint a break is it, and if you start doing that itâs the thin end of the wedge, he would have you doing worse. If you have left why not name the firm, you have nothing to lose, so just show the â â â â â â up!
totally agree the job takes as long as it takes! sounds like your boss is a mk1 â â â tbh and yeah 1st you tip on break then it becomes oh just do this etc. work the rules to suit yourself not the boss! good luck in the new job.
war1974:
totally agree the job takes as long as it takes! sounds like your boss is a mk1 â â â tbh and yeah 1st you tip on break then it becomes oh just do this etc. work the rules to suit yourself not the boss! good luck in the new job.
Thanks guys, iâm really looking forward to my new job now so donât need to worry about them anymore, iâm not going to name them as to be fair before this there wasnt a problem and to be honest i never like to burn bridges.
At the end of the day if it hadnât been for them i wouldânt have been driving, as i said before 10 years on coaches and the like doesnât seem to count when youâve only just passed your HGV test.
I think i was just a bit down over it and really wanted to know if others thought it was slow and obviously it wasnât so again thanks for the comments and encouragment, hopefully see some of you out there on the road sometime, you will recognize me, i will be driving a F&W truck with a massive smile.
Madguy 
Driving coaches has probably made you a controlled smooth driver (passanger comfort), richard head boss was expecting the wacky races âstyleâ of driving to meet HIS deadlines. 
just go to the speed and pace you are comfy with any decent TM will understand if not happy give him the keys and say you give it a go
Just ignore any idiots like that Transport manager when you come across them again - which you will.
Drive at what YOU consider to be a safe and legal speed. Stop when you feel tired etc. No one says that you MUST drive for 4 hours plus before you can stop for a break. Beware of the âdo what you can to get thereâ instructions when thereâs been a some reason for you not having been given enough time to reach the delivery point - if itâs late, itâs late, tough; you and the lorry are OK. You can be sure that the office staff will be going to the loo when they feel the need, and will not be treating it as part of their unpaid lunch break; so you do the same. By all means if time is looking tight to get home again, then put it on break at appropriate and legal moments and hang about for the extra 5 minutes, or whatever, so that it counts as a full 15, 30 or 45, but certainly not so that the company get their lorry back earlier and you get paid less. A break is meant so that you can get rest and refreshment, not so that you stand in a RDC waiting room for however long on your only break of the day. That is unless YOU want to.
I was once asked why iâd pulled up in a lay-by for 5 mins on a night shiftâŚI asked if he was taking the â â â â ⌠
Truckulent:
Your boss is a complete Bell EndâŚdoes he not know that encouraging you to rush is likely to result in errors?[zb] him, heâs an utter â â â . Iâd sling him the keys and say âletâs see you do it quicker mateyââŚ
Agreed
Back in the day, if the boss asked me âwhere the hell have you beenâ, my answer was always âwhere was it you sent me? thereâs your answer!â then walk away. I never had any problems. I was the one doing the run, I had to cope with the problems arising on the run, I got back when I got back. if they had a problem with that then send me somewhere else. Simples!
madguy:
xfmatt:
you had a total of 5 hours drivingI took nearly three hours each way, 129 miles there 137 miles back to depot, 266 total.
Madguy
Which is right takes me 2.45 3 hours from rugby to Hull Sutton Fields Estate.
Sod him/her i imagine they can drive a Desk quite well but not a Truck?
I had same thing Sat at east kilbride manager made me wait 2 hours because i was late. Took me 6 hours to get from rugby to east kilbride which is good going inc the break.
I get this on a weekly basis with my Richard of a manager , I just tell him to come with me , I will drive to the sites & he can manoeuvre in & use the hiab to show me where Iâm going wrong & how I can improve , he does not have an hgv or hiab & so far has not taken me up on my offerâŚ
Just before I read you got a new job I was going to say thereâs many bellends in this world and some of us have them as a boss but if thatâs the case you just ignore them carry on as normal and use the job as a stepping stone for a new better job.
Congratulations hopefully you wonât meet another bellend
Bleedinâ ell! Is this what wagon driving has come to? Itâs a pity you hadnât had the presence of mind to ask how long it normally takes his âBlue-eyed-boysâ to do it. Then tell them to get them to do it in future. You lads need to start standing-up for yourselves.