Harry Monk:
She was fine when I was round there last week Dozy.
But what problem.In Stobart can change from tramping to day drivers.
I have to concur with the menopause Vs empty nest or both possibilities.
To find out which it is, next time you speak to wife ask if she fancies having any more kids.
If she gives you logical reasons why it maybe to late then go for empty nest.
If you get hysterics and severe blubbing I’d go with menopause.
More seriously the bottom line is she wants to spend more time with you look at what you can do to make a change and count yourself lucky you have someone who loves you.
Hang on didn’t you leave a job on days to go back tramping.
Oh and this resonates with me a bit as my wife also misses me although we get on better on the phone some weeks. Most Fridays I get home and just spend the first 2 minutes looking at the back of her head in a slap the arris ride the ripple stylee… 
I’ve seen a gap in the market here for an app…Dragons den style!
Trampers can register their wife’s location on it so all you trampers can keep each other’s wife’s company when your away from your own
No more lay-bys for you guys!,could call it tramp-a-wife 
Andrejs:
But what problem.In Stobart can change from tramping to day drivers.
The night driver would probably protest to having three air fresheners per sq foot, a crappy banner on the windscreen and no Anderson lead or trl number plate, but on the bright side the night driver would never have to work Fridays because dozy wont make it home
Dozy, it sounds like shes depressed…many on here ask if you can go on day work, but i do know finance is the problem…as you would have to take a cut in wages, + the night out allowance of around £130 - £150 so maybe thats where the problem lies as to why your reluctant to switch. We as truckers are often called Loners but we rarely consider the other half…my wife often phones me…or i phone her, but its also a lonely life for them too, especially with no one left at home to keep her happy…my advice would be to keep her happy, before she ups sticks, or changes partners…sorry to be so blunt, but this has all the hallmarks of the decline of a marriage…so get home as fast as you can, discuss the options…and ask her if she would like you to be home a lot more…then make up your mind, and i wish you all the best, you work to live, not the other way. round.
Rjan:
Your wife has been crying on the phone every night for the “last few years”, and you’re only now wondering whether it’s normal? Good heavens!
At least someone here managed to spot the hook.
Dosey =Drama queen ,Jackanory ,Needs to post tripe as he works at stob PRATS .
Most long time trampers don t want change tramping life stile to day driver.If dome company will pay more money for day drivers that some of trampers will prefer stay in tramping.
Wait till she leaves him he won’t have to worry about his
Steak or getting home on a Friday
For someone to say what he said she must be a nightmare to live with or him
Off topic, but swear you passed me on the M1 this afternoon Dozy, caught the fleet number but wasn’t sure if it was you or not.
the nodding donkey:
Harry Monk:
Somebody asked me the other day “Why are you so fat?” so I said “Because every time I shag Dozy’s wife, she gives me a biscuit”.You had us all fooled… You’re not a truck driver. You are a cricket player. A fat antipodean cricket player…
Zimbabwean actually. The original exchange was between Glenn McGrath and Eddoe Brandes, who apparently was far better at one-liners than he ever was at cricket.
For the most part tramping and wives don’t mix, she has to be very understanding, driving trucks has cost me 2 marriages in the past, the first when doing night work and my fist wife taking care of the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker LOL, I went to work one Friday night and she said “I love you, when you come home there will be a big surprise for you, I came home at 04.00 to an empty house 
My second wife and I parted when I was working my last UK / European job, I had been away for a month and was doing a show in Tunbridge Wells, I called home and told my wife I would be home on Sunday for the whole week, my boss called me minutes later and told me to basically turn around and head for Padebourne in Germany for the Rhine Army show, I called my wife back and told her and she said :When you eventually get home I am not going to be here”
She was never seen in the house again
My current wife almost lost it when I was doing the self employed 48 states bit, I had been out for 6 weeks and on the phone she told me if I don’t change jobs consider her as single again. I looked for another job and have been with Foodliner ever since. I am still away about 3 nights a week, sometimes 4 but I am home all weekend, she puts up with it because the money is very good.
The best “type” of wife gor long distance lorry drivers are probably independent, strong-minded, competent, self-reliant types. These women generally don’t want to marry anyone though. Close to a genuine “Catch 22” situation.
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Franglais:
The best “type” of wife gor long distance lorry drivers are probably independent, strong-minded, competent, self-reliant types. These women generally don’t want to marry anyone though. Close to a genuine “Catch 22” situation.Sent from my GT-S7275R using Tapatalk
More like a “win win” situation![emoji3]
Menopause! Count your blessings it’s only tears, the other end of the spectrum is violence. The hot flushes are something special too, the heating is on and off every 5mins, windows open, windows closed, on the plus side, no wait, there is no plus side lol
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The only know cure is grandchildren…if you forgot to father a daughter, or your daughter doesn’t want kids, you only solution is to build yourself a shed and spend the next 10 years in it.
Or get a job tramping for Stobart!
Let me know if I can help !
GasGas:
you only solution is to build yourself a shed and spend the next 10 years in it!
Reminds me on someone I know, with a wife and several teenage daughters, he was regularly banished to the garage for several days each month