Not bad for a bloke whos; living the dream ;,so it says under his username
That is about your mark seth, picking on a guy who has just suffered a traumatic experience. Bully boys like you and that other moronic mate of yours are the standard by which decent people measure drivers and bring the standards down. Now get back to your little squalor and leave the guy alone there’s a good dog
I havent seen any of steve66 previous posts until just now and ive just looked back so i do appologise to the man,thats why i had a confused look on the smiley at the end of the sentence,so be a good agency man and go sit by the phone and hope it rings so you can get a days work tmrw pal,prick…
fredthered:
Seriously? Nothing anymore, the very life and soul has been ripped out of it and the dreaded day of retirement can’t come soon enough!
But on the positive side, I’m still happy(ish) and healthy!
Sadly, I’d have to say that I’m in this camp too, the job has changed beyond all recognition since I started. If I was 25 now, I wouldn’t dream of becoming a truck driver.
After driving buses for years and a few years in an office until redundancy in 2010, with 13 years TA in the RLC formally RCT I got back driving.
It was something I never wanted or planned after a long extremely bad accident in 2003, but I got my head together and gave it a go again.
Best decision I have made, after a few initial issues, showing I would not have the ■■■■ taken out of me i must say I could not be happier.
We are treated fine, if we are allocated to much work then we just call up and explain, no questions asked.
It could be four nights out a week or no nights out for a month, just how it goes, we all have our own well equipped wagons with no maintenance issues what so ever, good pay, and the pay, me class 2 average 48 hours a week 27k, plus nights out and meal allowance separate. Good crack and very varied, every day somewhere new plus our regulars.
Still get nissed off occasionally though.
Monday to Friday. 7am to 4pm, maximum 6pm. No pressure, 6 jobs or 11 does not matter. You’ve done one job, call office for next job. Close to home, 2 miles.
Bad points: Dirty, low wage 8.5, moaning about holidays.
But I’m new driver, so I’m ok for now.
Do the job right they leave you alone, not pushed, the job takes as long as it takes.
Paid well, salaried with short overall hours and many extra days off due to shift pattern which does include weekend working regularly which suits us fine, no nights out unless something goes seriously wrong.
Still allowed to take a pride in your work and so long as its done safely and the customer serviced you do it your way within reason.
Good well maintained equipment.
No RDC pits of hell to suffer.
Treated with respect, so respect and assistance given back in spades.
Not hire and reward but that’s obvious by now.
I enjoy sitting behind my desk looking out the window of my portakabin making sure all the old and bold are doing their job properly which more often than not they ain’t.
So it takes a dynamic bloke like myself to identify those issues and get them resolved.
The boss has given me a 6 year old Perrywinkle Blue Ford Mondeo, which I had strived to work for since 1999. I have achieved my goals, this car now sits on my paved driveway to my semi-detached house.
So I feel Iam at the top of my game.
So to summarise, I really do feel Iam enjoy working where I am.
the other workers are good hands, its at the end o the street,home every night,Monday- Friday 99.5% and even then its 3hrs Saturday morning dumping a load o redi mix. No logbooks needed only defect book.
older well maintained fleet(no emission crap to w orry about),trusted and left to get on with it when hauling aggregate I will say hello on the radio when dumping in the yard can go all week yard -quarry-yard and the only other company guy I will see is the other aggregate driver.
if you ■■■■ up you get the disappointed in you speech then its all forgotten about.
pays good money for a rural company.paid from clock in to clock out .
when grabbed for redi mix meeting new folk/places.
summary …if my old job in the uk was this good I would never came to canada
It gets me away from my girl ( 24 ) who seems too being going though a phase of how can I wind up my dad ,and they say It gets easier as they get older
I was sat last night having a meal and a pint in a beer garden in a Devon village pub in the sun looking like a tourist. Truck parked up in a small engineering firm yard up the road.
That’s what I like about the job in the summer.
You lot that spend half your lives parked up in ■■■■ lay bys should give it a go. Nice to get a bit of social life out of the job.
