damoq:
You know you are carrying to much stuff when you contemplate getting Pickford in to help you move stuff from your old truck to your new one. [emoji1]
With Robroy telling them where to put the box marked ‘dream catchers’. 
Trouble:
I cab hop regularly, so everything I need is in a holdall. I started with a ruck sack, soon ran out of space with that
Why not get a bigger bag?
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robroy:
PaulNowak:
Takes me a good 90 minutes from getting back to the yard to bail out of my motor. Although this does include refueling and washing.I try and stop for half an hour down the road if I can, to bag all my gear up.
Could do it in a fraction of the time if it was my own sole motor, and nobody else ever used it, all I’d be taking out would be my bedding bag, my food bag, water carrier etc.
But that’s not the way the world works anymore, so I take absolutely everything out, with the exception of my seat covers.
I’ve only got a little Polo, and the back seat hasn’t seen the light of day for over 12 months.
The day men/foreigners will have anything away. A bog roll, kitchen towel, I’ve had my spare 5 litres of screenwash robbed,
And as was mentioned before, the second you say, not bloody used this in ages, not going to bother with it anymore, is the day you need the cable ties and gaffer tape.
Unless I’m on hols, nobody ever sleeps in my motor, (although they still manage to use stuff that even I don’t bother with - I’ve never one sat in my passenger seat, but it’s always folded down when I get back in it)
My suggestion has been that they should put deadlocks on the side lockers, and just let the allocated driver have the keys. That way, I could leave loads of gear in it, maybe convert my car back into a car again.
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That would do my nut in mate, in fact enough to find another job.
I like my own space and my own truck (ok, firms truck before the usual crew pipe up) and I am very arsey if someone messes it up inside and get violent tendencies if my own kit has been ratched through.
I just accept that it goes with the job bud.
And I book all the hours for getting it just so, and bailing out.
There’s nothing I’d consider jumping ship for remotely close to home, the office leave me to it, and it’s 100% legal.
Some folk within say an hours radius, do still do one man, one truck, but I bet they still have analogue tachos, worn out tat, and probably wearing badges like Iveco or CF, or worse still, Premium.
Was talking to a Polish lad today at our place, he’s getting rather Anglicized, makes me laugh. He got a 16 plate in July when I got mine, it was in for service this weekend, so he was put in a 66 for a couple of days.
Some of the old school boys were fuming, as they haven’t even had a sniff of a Merc yet.
So Kris being Kris, he didn’t tell the whole story, and let them assume he’d just got another new truck.
Was handing his keys in same time as me. And he just came out with…
“stop giving me a new truck every time one comes in, I’d gladly drive an 07 plate if you had one, if can have an extra 2 quid an hour”
I’m no accountant, but I do actually think that if full time drivers had their own motors, they’d last much longer, be taken care of, and probably be a cost saving in the future.
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I used to go away for 6+weeks on the trot in flat top F12s etc and always managed with the room I had, never wasted a spare inch of space, something would be stuffed into it, now I’ve got one of those huge American Volvos with drawers, cupboards, wardrobes, fridge freezer and cubby holes all over the place and if I brought an extra packet of ■■■■ with me I’d have to put them in my pocket as every ■■■■ and cranny is full to the brim!
I think I’m a bit of a hoarder [emoji45] [emoji45] [emoji45]
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newmercman:
I used to go away for 6+weeks on the trot in flat top F12s etc and always managed with the room I had, never wasted a spare inch of space, something would be stuffed into it, now I’ve got one of those huge American Volvos with drawers, cupboards, wardrobes, fridge freezer and cubby holes all over the place and if I brought an extra packet of ■■■■ with me I’d have to put them in my pocket as every ■■■■ and cranny is full to the brim!I think I’m a bit of a hoarder [emoji45] [emoji45] [emoji45]
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We knew nothing else then but flat tops with few or even no cupboards and just got on with it and made the best of.
I reckon the F12s were one of the better cabs at that time and were luxurious compared to some others…I tramped regularly without a ■■■■ proper bunk, it’s what you just did then, which would be outrageous today and rightly so.
Trucks have improved vastly for storage over the years but as you say the more space you have the more you use.