There were some agency drivers at Kiln Farm who had been there for years. I started as agency and was given my perminant tractor after 3 months, M28TBH it was only 4 months old, I had that till I transfered to Brackmills.
How about a nice spotted bow tie that lights up and spins round.
I your going to wear a shirt and tie, wear it properly.
No point having an un ironed shirt and tie at half mast, IMO.
I remember my dear old departed dad wore a tie every day of his life except Sundays and if we went on Holiday and the poor old bugger only ever worked in factories, brings a tear to my eye thinking about it.
Sorry for the thread hijack 
Rambo, you’ll be resurrecting that old spoof tv show about extreme ironing next;
‘here we have Dave quickly pressing his shirt on the catwalk whilst stuck in traffic on the M25, oh shame, he just his tie caught in the suzie and now its covered in ■■■■■■
Sorry to revive such an old thread.
I have just been asked to do a job, it would entail wearing a shirt, tie and trousers.
The conversation ended there.
Am I being awkward, or is it just stupid to expect a driver to do up curly pipes in a shirt and tie?
Going a bit far with the trousers ain’t they. Do they think you’re made of money, or what. Nowt wrong with filthy grey, baggy underpants.
I chose to drive a truck rather than a job that would entail wearing a tie, Personally I think they look ridiculous, and every time I meet a bloke wearing a suit and tie my first though is…
This bloke’s going to try and con me, or sell me something I neither need, nor want.
Think about who wears a tie every day. Politicians, Real Estate Agents, Lawyers, Second hand car dealers, Bankers, Finance dealers, Blokes in court trying to look respectable… I rest my case your honor.
Jeff…
You can’t polish a turd.
Making the average driver wear a shirt and tie will just give you a scruffy ■■■■ in a shirt and tie. You can look smarter in a polo shirt and jeans than some people loo in a shirt and tie. It’s about how you dress not what you wear.
trubster:
Sorry to revive such an old thread.I have just been asked to do a job, it would entail wearing a shirt, tie and trousers.
The conversation ended there.
Am I being awkward, or is it just stupid to expect a driver to do up curly pipes in a shirt and tie?
You were being awkward, unless you didn’t really want the job.
If the job was the right one, the money was right and the company provided the uniform, I’d wear it.
Used to wear a shirt and tie when I worked in computers and when I drove busses and coaches, so it wouldn’t bother me at all
The other day I saw an HGV driver wearing a tie.
Yes I know, there were companies in the past that insisted their drivers wore ties, but I thought that had pretty much been relegated to the dim and distant past. So it got me thinking…
If your boss asked you to wear a tie, would you? Or would you object?
I can only imagine what other drivers would say as you walked into a Tesco RDC waiting room, but hey, you never know…
I wouldn’t, I haven’t worn a tie since October 1981 and have no intention of wearing one any time soon.
no
no, im a lorry driver not an office monkey
Pay me £500 a week take home and i will wear a skirt if they want me too 
I’d wear one but would feel a right prat.
SWEDISH BLUE:
Pay me £500 a week take home and i will wear a skirt if they want me too
Wrong website mate. 
SWEDISH BLUE:
Pay me £500 a week take home and i will wear a skirt if they want me too
£500 a week take home gets, baggy cargo trousers and an oily tee shirt. Up the ‘ante’ and a tie may well be proportionate/justifiable…
Last time I wore a tie (albeit a black one with a white shirt)((well the job was in it’s funeral pire by then anyway)) was when doing Agency work for Stobart’s out of their old Woolfox Stamford Depot on the southern A1 carriageway side. Circa 1992 as I recall
I remeber the Agency (Manpower) said if you don’t wear a tie, you’ll be turned away. I had a blast trunking trailers all night from Stamford to Wisbech in a ■■■■■■■ powered Ford Cargo with my tie on… 
Stobart’s (gotta love 'em!) have a confused uniform policy now they are so high in the public eye. I really would have thought nowadays would have been the time when wearing a tie was probably justified (compared to 10 or 15 years ago). I recently turned up at their Crick emporium on a blisteringly hot day wearing cargo shorts and a buttoned up shirt, but was promptly escorted off site and told to go home and change. Oh well, fair do’s, but I just love testing the water and pushing boundaries. . .
There was an article in one of the Truck mags recently about that company ‘Rick Bestwick’ does speciallity foods, think they are from the Chesterfield area 
run white FH’s & pulling white reefers and Im sure it said their drivers had to a wear a shirt & tie, not sure about the rest of the uniform though
Regards
Dave Penn;
davepenn54:
There was an article in one of the Truck mags recently about that company ‘Rick Bestwick’ does speciallity foods, think they are from the Chesterfield areaRegards
Dave Penn;
That sounds quite good as a job. Spose it just depends where you go and what your delievering.