This is a job I’ve always wanted to do but can’t.
It’s just so boring.
So I’m curious how do you guys do it.
For example I’ve done it for like a week a few years ago.
300 mile round trip to Birmingham and back to Essex
Same roads, same destination night in night out.
I’m just curious if you have any tips for making it an enjoyable job lol.
There isn’t any way of making it enjoyable, but it can be made bearable.
Make sure you have decent music or plenty of podcasts to listen to, same as you would for any long drive.
Failing that, just think of all the time spent going to unfamiliar places, getting lost or stuck, and arguing with the idiots on different sites, and realise that you don’t have to deal with that crap any more
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adam277:
This is a job I’ve always wanted to do but can’t.
It’s just so boring.
So I’m curious how do you guys do it.For example I’ve done it for like a week a few years ago.
300 mile round trip to Birmingham and back to Essex
Same roads, same destination night in night out.I’m just curious if you have any tips for making it an enjoyable job lol.
Why?
Just choose a job you do actually like.
Think I’d get bored if did same run places day in day out.
Job I do could be going anyway in the country
We just go where ever work/ jobs take us
Franglais:
adam277:
This is a job I’ve always wanted to do but can’t.
It’s just so boring.
So I’m curious how do you guys do it.For example I’ve done it for like a week a few years ago.
300 mile round trip to Birmingham and back to Essex
Same roads, same destination night in night out.I’m just curious if you have any tips for making it an enjoyable job lol.
Why?
Just choose a job you do actually like.
There isnt a “job you actually like”. Thats the whole point. If you have an active mind everything gets boring when you are doing it 335 days a year. Even the Beatles hated being the Beatles after a while.
Music and podcasts.
JeffA:
Franglais:
adam277:
This is a job I’ve always wanted to do but can’t.
It’s just so boring.
So I’m curious how do you guys do it.For example I’ve done it for like a week a few years ago.
300 mile round trip to Birmingham and back to Essex
Same roads, same destination night in night out.I’m just curious if you have any tips for making it an enjoyable job lol.
Why?
Just choose a job you do actually like.There isnt a “job you actually like”. Thats the whole point. If you have an active mind everything gets boring when you are doing it 335 days a year. Even the Beatles hated being the Beatles after a while.
Music and podcasts.
No job is perfect maybe, but since Adam has tried trunking, and discovered it isn’t how he thought it would be, why go back?
Its down to the individual.
I personally hate going to new places, I prefer routine. I do the same run every day. Same collection. Trunk to hub. Trunk back. Like someone above said, make sure you have plenty to listen to either radio or podcasts or talking books. Not only do I do the same run, but I also get 2 hours at each end of waiting, so netflix/iplayer saves my sanity! If the weather is good i will also walk around the hub a few times to burn a few calories.
Other people love variety and going to new places, Im just one of lifes worriers so the thought of going to unknown tight locations fills me with dread 
Franglais:
JeffA:
Franglais:
adam277:
This is a job I’ve always wanted to do but can’t.
It’s just so boring.
So I’m curious how do you guys do it.For example I’ve done it for like a week a few years ago.
300 mile round trip to Birmingham and back to Essex
Same roads, same destination night in night out.I’m just curious if you have any tips for making it an enjoyable job lol.
Why?
Just choose a job you do actually like.There isnt a “job you actually like”. Thats the whole point. If you have an active mind everything gets boring when you are doing it 335 days a year. Even the Beatles hated being the Beatles after a while.
Music and podcasts.
No job is perfect maybe, but since Adam has tried trunking, and discovered it isn’t how he thought it would be, why go back?
True. But I guess the problem is whether you can ever find enjoyment in driving up and down like a ■■■■■. I never have.
Swordsy:
Its down to the individual.I personally hate going to new places, I prefer routine. I do the same run every day. Same collection. Trunk to hub. Trunk back. Like someone above said, make sure you have plenty to listen to either radio or podcasts or talking books. Not only do I do the same run, but I also get 2 hours at each end of waiting, so netflix/iplayer saves my sanity! If the weather is good i will also walk around the hub a few times to burn a few calories.
Other people love variety and going to new places, Im just one of lifes worriers so the thought of going to unknown tight locations fills me with dread
Whats your fave podcasts? I like Joey Diaz
Thats the good thing about the industry, its a broad church and everyone (except those living in more remote or depressed areas) should be able to find the sort of work they like, especially now.
Due to the sector i’m in i have a limited number of delivery points, but very seldom go to the same place on consecutive days, what i do suits me.
Each to their own.
I made the exact same thread a few months ago when it was killing me (I was a couple months into it or more) Now almost a year doing the same run but it’s 95% non motorway so not so bad. Sometimes diversions, time off work, etc. help. Otherwise yeah it’s a chore but you get used to it. Think about my own stuff rather than work, laugh at other drivers doing the wacky races
adam277:
This is a job I’ve always wanted to do but can’t.
It’s just so boring.
So I’m curious how do you guys do it.For example I’ve done it for like a week a few years ago.
300 mile round trip to Birmingham and back to Essex
Same roads, same destination night in night out.I’m just curious if you have any tips for making it an enjoyable job lol.
I guess like many occupations enjoyment wouldn’t rank high up why people do what they do. For me I’ve historically and currently earn not far short of what many trampers earn minus their night out money. The question being, is how much do you value time at home with family, assuming you have family. Or whether living away all week, which may take you to some exotic locations whether here in the UK (there increasingly hard to find) or abroad. For me it’s always been a no brainer so I’ve chosen to put up with the monotony of trunking pretty much for the last 20 years, the job is what it is, I’m sure there’s worse out there.
All roads are the ‘same roads’ after you’ve used them once.
You have to really like driving in the rawest sense of decent manual transmission and the most challenging truck configuration available to break through the boredom barrier.
Then it all falls into place.
To me driving has always been a therapeutic excercise of brain matched with limbs and eyes and constant planning and coordination.
Too much traffic interferes with that.
While open road and scenery and the ambience of driving through a late sunset and dawn and early sunrise all adds to it.
Then at the end of a decent run reversing a proper drawbar outfit through whatever obstruction gets thrown at it and onto the dock or under a demount box to swap it.
Perfect.
The definition of a trunk driver and some of the most elite work in the industry for those lucky enough to experience it and who could appreciate it.
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Nothing wrong with trunking if it works for you.
J
adam277:
This is a job I’ve always wanted to do but can’t.
It’s just so boring.
So I’m curious how do you guys do it.For example I’ve done it for like a week a few years ago.
300 mile round trip to Birmingham and back to Essex
Same roads, same destination night in night out.I’m just curious if you have any tips for making it an enjoyable job lol.
To make a trip from Essex to Brum more enjoyable - Don’t let it be going into Brum Airport for a Palletliner firm… 
To make a trip from Essex to anywhere else more enjoyable - don’t let it be starting on the wrong side of the river from where you live…
Doesn’t matter…
How long the journey is, if you do it enough times you get bored… simples.
Ask anyone who did Italy frequently.
yourhavingalarf:
Doesn’t matter…How long the journey is, if you do it enough times you get … simples.
Ask anyone who did Italy frequently.
Maybe the word is familiarity and contempt not really boredom ?.
I did a Heathrow - Scottish changeover run to Charnock or Killington, depending on when the Scotch left the depot, every night for around 5 years and always enjoyed doing the run.
Also shorter but double runs were ok given sufficient distance.Like Bristol or Kilworth.
But I looked at the Nuneaton run with contempt by comparison I preferred to be driving than waiting around watching the tele after the change to hub system runs.
I’d guess that the distance contempt threshold reduces with time.
So just running South-Midlands obviously gets a bit old sooner than 5 years of doing Scotch and maybe more in the case of the type of international UK-Italy etc trunk runs which I posted for example.
I also like driving long distances across the continent for my holidays to date in my 60’s.
Many of those routes are now familiar but still enjoy driving them as much as the first time the scenery and roads are as good or better than that you could find anywhere in the world and can’t ever really get bored with that.