The YouTube algorithm suggested to me that I watch a video by a newly passed truck driver, so I thought I’d take a look during a break the other night. To be honest, it was a load of old cobblers. 30 minutes of an agency class 2 driver with a Lancashire accent you could cut with a knife, making food or building supply materials deliveries around the North West and doing nothing that special apart from a lot of talking. Throughout the video, he steadfastly referred to his truck as a wagon and it got me to thinking. Who on here refers to their truck as a wagon and who says truck or lorry.
It seems a bit of an outdated reference to me these days, harking back to days of steam driven wagons or something. If people ask me what I do for a living, I just say I’m a truck driver as I don’t think people would know what a wagon driver (or wheel attendant) was. Saying that, the term for truck driver here in Holland is ‘vrachtwagen chauffeur’ so maybe I am a wagon driver after all?
So, who says what and is it maybe a North South thing? What are you Robbie… oops I mean Robroy? Wagon, truck, or lorry driver.
Most of the English speaking world call it a truck and Brit transport cafe slang often a wagon while lorry was often a term used by old women gossiping at the shops.Hope that helps.
When I passed my test and became an HGV licence holder, I drove lorries. Trucks were used to carry coal on the railways, or removals men would slip a pair of trucks under a grand piano.
I now hold an LGV licence, and drive a truck*. Sometimes I see other truck drivers behind the wheel of a wagonndrag though.
Its not a lorry. It may weight more, but it aint a proper lorry.
I’ve never driven a “truck” it’s always been a lorry, but my young son ( he’s only 50!) drive a truck. On the other hand I always called a lorry and trailer a wagon and dangle! Regards Kev.
Depends what mood i’m in really, generally gets called a wagon but i do reserve the title bag of ■■■■ for especially high mile/poorly maintained/smoked in vehicles.
One thing i can’t stand is people calling an artic a ■■■■ ing van, did the tesco store deliveries contract for a company once and some little scrote in the shop said “can you lower the back suspension on your van a bit pal” I must have looked at him like he just told me he had a 3rd ■■■■■■. I don’t know why but my brain just rejected it, i’m genuinely amazed i didn’t end up explaining to the manager why his employee just got ■■■■■■■■
Now if you ask me what i do for a living, i’m a lorry driver. Clean, simple and rolls off the tongue and explains why i’m overweight.
joe royal:
Personally I say I’m a lorry driver , truck is an American term.
“Truck” comes from “Trochus” meaning “wheel” in Classical Greek, and has been used in British English to describe wheeled vehicles since the 1600s. “Lorry”, to describe a self-propelled goods-carrying vehicle first appeared in 1911.
citycat:
So, who says what and is it maybe a North South thing? What are you Robbie… oops I mean Robroy? Wagon, truck, or lorry driver.
Round here it’s wagon pronounced ‘wagin’ I usually refer to it as truck nowadays, just the way things have evolved I reck, …it isn’t exactly the first Americanism to catch on is it.
Lorry driver always conjures up an old guy from the 1950s with bib&brace, cloth cap, clogs and Army greatcoat driving a Thames Trader in my mind.
Btw, don’t know why you’ve signalled me out tbh, but Robbie is fine I suppose …and an improvement on what some on here call me.
citycat:
So, who says what and is it maybe a North South thing? What are you Robbie… oops I mean Robroy? Wagon, truck, or lorry driver.
Round here it’s wagon pronounced ‘wagin’ I usually refer to it as truck nowadays, just the way things have evolved I reck, …it isn’t exactly the first Americanism to catch on is it.
Lorry driver always conjures up an old guy from the 1950s with bib&brace, cloth cap, clogs and Army greatcoat driving a Thames Trader in my mind.
Btw, don’t know why you’ve signalled me out tbh, but Robbie is fine I suppose …and an improvement on what some on here call me.
Oi you , I resemble that remark , but in the 60s .
citycat:
So, who says what and is it maybe a North South thing? What are you Robbie… oops I mean Robroy? Wagon, truck, or lorry driver.
Round here it’s wagon pronounced ‘wagin’ I usually refer to it as truck nowadays, just the way things have evolved I reck, …it isn’t exactly the first Americanism to catch on is it.
Lorry driver always conjures up an old guy from the 1950s with bib&brace, cloth cap, clogs and Army greatcoat driving a Thames Trader in my mind.
Btw, don’t know why you’ve signalled me out tbh, but Robbie is fine I suppose …and an improvement on what some on here call me.
I only singled you out as you’re one of the Village Elders of Trucknet. The wise old sage that people come to, to hear your words of countenance.
And Dieseldog999 is the elder that everyone has to control before it kicks off around the fire !
By the way, every time I overtake a truck, a little Robroy voice in my head says ‘not yet not yet… now you can start to signal back in’.
joe royal:
Personally I say I’m a lorry driver , truck is an American term.
“Truck” comes from “Trochus” meaning “wheel” in Classical Greek, and has been used in British English to describe wheeled vehicles since the 1600s. “Lorry”, to describe a self-propelled goods-carrying vehicle first appeared in 1911.
Impressive, but do you know where “juggernaut” comes from?
citycat:
So, who says what and is it maybe a North South thing? What are you Robbie… oops I mean Robroy? Wagon, truck, or lorry driver.
Round here it’s wagon pronounced ‘wagin’ I usually refer to it as truck nowadays, just the way things have evolved I reck, …it isn’t exactly the first Americanism to catch on is it.
Lorry driver always conjures up an old guy from the 1950s with bib&brace, cloth cap, clogs and Army greatcoat driving a Thames Trader in my mind.
Btw, don’t know why you’ve signalled me out tbh, but Robbie is fine I suppose …and an improvement on what some on here call me.
I only singled you out as you’re one of the Village Elders of Trucknet. The wise old sage that people come to, to hear your words of countenance.
And Dieseldog999 is the elder that everyone has to control before it kicks off around the fire !
By the way, every time I overtake a truck, a little Robroy voice in my head says ‘not yet not yet… now you can start to signal back in’.
Not so much of the ‘‘elder’’ and ‘‘old’’ eh, I’m just in me prime ffs.
Love the overtaking story btw, looks like my belly aching and preaching about it has got through to somebody at least.
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just casually drop in the word " camion" into the conversation and let everyone assume your a driving eurogod…
Aye but if you try and be clever with the laydeeez (and pretentious ) and use the words ‘Chauffer de’ in front of it, they think you wear a silly hat and drive a fat rich bloke around in the back of a Roller all day.
Wagon, truck, or lorry driver.
