robroy:
TiredAndEmotional:
robroy:
Tell you what though mate, being at home all week, for the first time in ages, and lying next to a nice warm wife, I’ve preferred my own bed this week, and I’m even beginning to see your point.You’ll get over it…summer is just round the corner…
Got my shorts Raybans and ‘Good pub guide with a beer garden’ on stand by already.
Were you a consultant for that? 
TiredAndEmotional:
robroy:
TiredAndEmotional:
robroy:
Tell you what though mate, being at home all week, for the first time in ages, and lying next to a nice warm wife, I’ve preferred my own bed this week, and I’m even beginning to see your point.You’ll get over it…summer is just round the corner…
Got my shorts Raybans and ‘Good pub guide with a beer garden’ on stand by already.
Were you a consultant for that?
Yeh, but I get all my info from Maoster.
My mate has been stuck at Warwick since 4 this morning.
Managed to get into Warwick services and they’ve paid for him to get 9 hours in the hotel before he drives it back to Sussex.
They’ve got an agency driver to cover him tonight
I’ve only had to do one unplanned night out (which I documented on here a couple of months ago) but did have night out gear with me at the time.
This week I haven’t taken any night out gear on any of my runs, I don’t see it is a particularly big problem. I’d just stick the night heater on a do my best to get my head down for a few hours on the bunk before driving back in the morning and heading home to freshen up
Gonna give away my trade secret now…
I always carry a sleeping bag with me, a proper thick camping one not one of those cheap nylon paper thin jobbies, but it hardly takes up any space in my day (nights) bag as I have it sealed and compressed flat and to the exact shape of the bottom of my work bag in one of those reusable vacuum bag jobbies that were all the rage in JML, wilko’s and poundies a few years back.
Being in a vacuum bag it also has the advantage of never getting dirty, damp or musty and no fear of it soaking up the contents of a leaking flask or water bottle either.
Yeah ok it makes my day bag a little bit heavier, but I’m sure if I’m ever stuck out even if only for one night over the rest of my driving career being all warm and toasty in it will more than compensate for the extra weight I’ve had to lug from the car to the truck and vice versa every shift.
Unplanned night in for me 
Punchy Dan:
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Unplanned night in for me
By heck the hardships you soldier on with , Dave
rigsby:
Punchy Dan:
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Unplanned night in for meBy heck the hardships you soldier on with , Dave
You’re not wrong, all I have to do is turn the dial and the combi boiler kicks in, bugger loading an archaic log burner and lighting it
rigsby:
Punchy Dan:
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Unplanned night in for meBy heck the hardships you soldier on with , Dave
We all know Owner drivers struggle to make ends meet, the employed drivers upgraded to central heating years ago 
I don’t take any stuff. If it happened and I was caught out, 9 of ours were stuck on the M62. Bang on the night heater and lay on bunk. Wake up 7 hours later fully rested.
sent using smoke signals
mick.mh2racing:
I don’t take any stuff. If it happened and I was caught out, 9 of ours were stuck on the M62. Bang on the night heater and lay on bunk. Wake up 7 hours later fully rested.sent using smoke signals
Have you ever had a night out in a truck with either no night heater, or a night heater that suddenlly stops warming up?
Not good mate, especially in winter. 
robroy:
Any of you daymen/nightmen who…
quote; ''Like their own beds at night ‘’
and who have came on here in the past saying…
‘‘I don’t carry a sleeping bag me, or any kit, as I flatly refuse to have nights out, and expect to be planned accordingly’’ (or words to that effect)
been caught out this week, and wish they had listened to people like me who argued with them on here?
To answer your question, no, never done a night out and never will so there you go
PS let it go man, move on
Reef:
rigsby:
Punchy Dan:
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Unplanned night in for meBy heck the hardships you soldier on with , Dave
You’re not wrong, all I have to do is turn the dial and the combi boiler kicks in, bugger loading an archaic log burner and lighting it
It never goes out m8 ,when i leap out of bed at silly o’clock the first thing I do is load both fires up for the Mrs !
mrginge:
rigsby:
Punchy Dan:
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Unplanned night in for meBy heck the hardships you soldier on with , Dave
We all know Owner drivers struggle to make ends meet, the employed drivers upgraded to central heating years ago
You know me so well got a glow worm boiler best in the world ,never use it though !
Big Roy:
robroy:
Any of you daymen/nightmen who…
quote; ''Like their own beds at night ‘’
and who have came on here in the past saying…
‘‘I don’t carry a sleeping bag me, or any kit, as I flatly refuse to have nights out, and expect to be planned accordingly’’ (or words to that effect)
been caught out this week, and wish they had listened to people like me who argued with them on here?To answer your question, no, never done a night out and never will so there you go
PS let it go man, move on
Sounds like you just jinxed yourself
robroy:
mick.mh2racing:
I don’t take any stuff. If it happened and I was caught out, 9 of ours were stuck on the M62. Bang on the night heater and lay on bunk. Wake up 7 hours later fully rested.sent using smoke signals
Have you ever had a night out in a truck with either no night heater, or a night heater that suddenlly stops warming up?
Not good mate, especially in winter.
Well if you would be stranded on a motorway and be so unlucky to have no night heater or one that had stopped working, surely you would be able to go to one of the other lorries that were stranded and sit in their cab. A broken night heater does not automatically mean your ability to think has broken down simultaneously.
Riho:
robroy:
mick.mh2racing:
I don’t take any stuff. If it happened and I was caught out, 9 of ours were stuck on the M62. Bang on the night heater and lay on bunk. Wake up 7 hours later fully rested.sent using smoke signals
Have you ever had a night out in a truck with either no night heater, or a night heater that suddenlly stops warming up?
Not good mate, especially in winter.Well if you would be stranded on a motorway and be so unlucky to have no night heater or one that had stopped working, surely you would be able to go to one of the other lorries that were stranded and sit in their cab. A broken night heater does not automatically mean your ability to think has broken down simultaneously.
Call me old fashioned, but I wouldn’t fancy a stranger sat in my cab all night if I had to have my time off, having a kip, or maybe it’s just me.
Big Roy:
robroy:
Any of you daymen/nightmen who…
quote; ''Like their own beds at night ‘’
and who have came on here in the past saying…
‘‘I don’t carry a sleeping bag me, or any kit, as I flatly refuse to have nights out, and expect to be planned accordingly’’ (or words to that effect)
been caught out this week, and wish they had listened to people like me who argued with them on here?To answer your question, no, never done a night out and never will so there you go
PS let it go man, move on
PS let what go exactly ?..man. 
peirre:
I go expecting the unexpected
Me too. Even carry a doss-bag in me van, just in case I go somewhere, find a pub I like and decide to stay the night.
My truck’s always tooled up for nights out; I’m the only one at our mill who’ll do them, so I always keep brew-kit, tin of Big Soup or similar, pot of instant porridge in stock. Since our deliveries are to farms, you don’t expect to find a McDonalds etc where you park up so at least I’ve always got some sort of hot meal to start and finish the day with. Also at least one change of work clothes and a decent set of “civvies”; if I have to get my evening meal in a pub, I don’t like to be sitting there in company uniform.
The only bugger of being a tramper is when you have to swap lorries; that BTW is one reason I run a van and not a car, it’s amazing how much crap you accumulate in a sleeper cab!
