Colonel:
I am 72 now, and unless you are retired then, my experience in Trucking is more than you may have clocked up. I might add that I went to the USA a second time and re-took the CDL in a different State (Missouri) at the age of 65. The first time was in 1997 when I was 60 and I took the CDL in Little Rock (Arkansas).
Then surely it can only be the frustration of advanced age that causes you to try and ridicule younger drivers with less experience than yourself ?
Or has the passing of time clouded the memories of when you first started and knew nothing ? when passing the various borders was viewed not only as a formality but also as an opportunity for gathering information about the next part of the journey into the unknown, all that has now been replaced by forums where questions are asked and answered.
jimti, i see that you have commonsence, i would say you ar spot on. when i met drivers on the boats or truckstops they could do caen irun in 10 hrs, never in my life was i able to do it, not even when i worked for a paddy and on the wire. the problem with this industry is a lot of drivers talk a lot of verbal diohrea.
Colonel:
I am 72 now, and unless you are retired then, my experience in Trucking is more than you may have clocked up. I might add that I went to the USA a second time and re-took the CDL in a different State (Missouri) at the age of 65. The first time was in 1997 when I was 60 and I took the CDL in Little Rock (Arkansas).
Then surely it can only be the frustration of advanced age that causes you to try and ridicule younger drivers with less experience than yourself ?
Or has the passing of time clouded the memories of when you first started and knew nothing ? when passing the various borders was viewed not only as a formality but also as an opportunity for gathering information about the next part of the journey into the unknown, all that has now been replaced by forums where questions are asked and answered.
The only frustration I suffer with Vascoingles, is not being able to do the work that I spent a lifetime enjoying. I was fortunate enough to have been around at a time when Continental driving had just started and this broadened my horizons, somewhat. Everyone has to learn, but in those days borders were not the formality they are today and had to be taken seriously, or the repercussions would catch up with you later.
I have not attemptd to ridicule anyone on this forum but I am allowed to put my point of view. It may differ from yours and that is healthy, but if anyone is rude to me then I will respond in kind.
I see you live in Spain, as I did in 1980 to 1983.
browncow2:
jimti, i see that you have commonsence, i would say you ar spot on. when i met drivers on the boats or truckstops they could do caen irun in 10 hrs, never in my life was i able to do it, not even when i worked for a paddy and on the wire. the problem with this industry is a lot of drivers talk a lot of verbal diohrea.
So browncow, you are saying that I could not make Castets in a legal shift. I never said I made Irun, did I? So you admit to running on a wire, something I never felt the need to do, but then there are drivers and then there are drivers. I now know which category you have placed yourself. Some drivers were also educated and had no need to spout the diarrhea you are referring to.
browncow2:
jimti, i see that you have commonsence, i would say you ar spot on. when i met drivers on the boats or truckstops they could do caen irun in 10 hrs, never in my life was i able to do it, not even when i worked for a paddy and on the wire. the problem with this industry is a lot of drivers talk a lot of verbal diohrea.
I must admit we did once have an F12 Gobstopper that could do Cherburg to Irun in 9:30 and only showing 90kph on the tacho, I only ever took it to Spain once and was happy to stop after 8:30 and park at Castets, it was a rocket, someone had been playing with it me thinks as I was passing everything
There are too many drivers who can do the impossible and think when they tell other driver who do the job they will be believed
Colonel:
I have not attemptd to ridicule anyone on this forum
Colonel:
Call yourself a driver
that is the bit that got up my goat even though it was not aimed at myself.
1 thing I will give you is that you are not stupid because you have worked out a way of phrasing your comments that will not always be understood by others less educated than yourself and then hitting them with comments like that afterwards.
Colonel:
I see you live in Spain, as I did in 1980 to 1983.
After 6 years in Germany and 8 years in Holland this is where I ended up yes and not in the muppet area down south either
Why is it that people come on here and start to beat their chests and proclaim all wondrous things they have done when those who have been there and done it be it the dustman doing his rounds to the one who goes from lands end to isle of Skye , and then we have those who travel daily to and fro across the channel, the guys doing the M/E or further they just read and post quietly and then some one justs puts down words that irritate and make people place a reply, Me i just like reading all the posts from whoever and he or she does not have to be a super duper truck driver racing away as these days are long gone in western Europe, lets please refrain from who is the king of the hill Colonel AS IT JUST AN;T WORTH IT ,we are or were all drivers just enjoying a exchange of views and information which used to be when we meet in the cafes or pubs but now is done via the WWW ,.
Colonel:
I also do not respect people like yourself who are sitting in judgement, when you have no first hand knowledge of the person writing any comments.
Have a nice day.
which is exactly what you were doing yourself when you were asking the other poster if he called himself a driver
Well you must be bloody thick then, I personally think you are a wind up merchant as on another truck based website it is being suggested you are a real Wayne Ker , I know you are not, bigot is the word I would use
browncow2:
jimti, i see that you have commonsence, i would say you ar spot on. when i met drivers on the boats or truckstops they could do caen irun in 10 hrs, never in my life was i able to do it, not even when i worked for a paddy and on the wire. the problem with this industry is a lot of drivers talk a lot of verbal diohrea.
So browncow, you are saying that I could not make Castets in a legal shift. I never said I made Irun, did I? So you admit to running on a wire, something I never felt the need to do, but then there are drivers and then there are drivers. I now know which category you have placed yourself. Some drivers were also educated and had no need to spout the diarrhea you are referring to.
Colonel, can I start by saying that you first mentioned Toledo then ridiculed someone for mentioning Madrid in reply to you, it was you that ‘muddied the water’ in a thread about Porto - Irun by bringing Toledo in 36hrs into it!!
So Colonel, are you saying that because you “never felt the need to” run ‘on the wire’ (etc) that makes you somehow more educated / better than a driver that did?? because you certainly intimate that drivers who did this placed themselves in a “category”!!
I used to get from La Pobla de Valbona to Dieppe most weeks on two cards with a full load of onions, what category does that put me in?
verbal diarrhoea,
wire man,
hard worker (good driver) or■■?
other?
Well, well, well, I have obviously hit a nerve with some of you. The cap must fit, is all I can say. Funny how most of you have left these shores of ours to hide amongst europeans.
I will get my two pennys worth here as a brit who has lived and worked abroad in various parts of this globe and now lives in Germany, one goes where the wife wishes and the life style is one that agrees with you, I will not mention money as believe it or not there are better paid jobs for drivers in GB than in many places outside of GB; but money is not all ways the reason for living and working outside of GB
Colonel:
Well, well, well, I have obviously hit a nerve with some of you. The cap must fit, is all I can say. Funny how most of you have left these shores of ours to hide amongst europeans.
Possibly most people replying on this thread have moved to the European mainland.
That doesn’t mean that most people on European work have done so.
It might be worth your while using the brain cell which got you the rank you claim.
I do, however, know that I am a driver. I used to regularly beat the Davies drivers to Madrid even though my motor, and it was my own motor, wouldn’t do Castets on a 10 hour shift from Cherbourg or Pompey.
If you really are 72 then you would have more courtesy than you display. Personally, I am 40 so I cannot have been driving as long as you purport to have been. However, I have been on the road for half my life and I am running hard, as they say.
I moved to Canada because I could see how things were going over there and was heartily sick of it. It has nothing to do with money and is most certainly not because I wasn’t good enough.
It was the fools on the ferries that drove me to distraction, and the idiots I met abroad. There weren’t that many but they made it sour.
As my dad says, don’t teach your granny to ■■■■ eggs.
Colonel:
Well, well, well, I have obviously hit a nerve with some of you. The cap must fit, is all I can say. Funny how most of you have left these shores of ours to hide amongst europeans.
Something that you claim yourself to have done ■■?
Basically I left to get away from the kind of mentality that seems to form the context of most of your posts, the I have done it faster, better longer and bigger brigade, I preferred to just go and do it quietly and get better paid for it than what was being paid at the time, it also gave me the opportunity to acheive fluency in 4 different languages apart from my own not only spoken but written as well something that would have been difficult to achiEve without leaving the UK
