What would make you leave the game

I love my job (yeah I know, I’m still wet behind the ears, wait till I’ve been doing it 10,20,30 years etc.), but what could make me chuck it are the idiots I share the road with. I’ve always had to do a lot of driving (22 years clean car licence) and I’ve noticed a slow decline in the standard of driving. In the lorry it’s much more apparent.

Hat tipped Pierre, best of luck! :neutral_face:

pish:
Wages falling even more? If your boss changed your wagon to a crapper one (for the full timers)? More forced legislation (DCPC, ‘H&S’ enforcement being pushed in by larger companies, etc…)? Driver facing cams? The general standard of driving by people in general getting even worse? Increasing automation of your lorry as technology ‘advances’…?

Just a thought… What would be the ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’ so to speak?

If I was not already retired,e/thing you have just posted.The jobs a joke today with wages to match.I was earning as much when I retired as the lads are today 2001.
regards dave.

I’m facing the prospect of driving a desk from December 1st. Part of me is really excited, another part of me feels slightly bereft at the thought, for 7 years it’s been my livelihood, and I’ve loved almost every second behind the wheel.

Still onwards and upwards! Maybe :confused:

In answer to the original question…

Finding out Glory Boy could make it in this game! :cry:

Fair play to you Pierre.

I sometimes have to help Mrs B out of bed and often clean her up. Don’t know how I would cope if she ever got ill.

To speak the truth U.K. drivers are a spineless bunch who do not have the guts to stick together.
Look at the French drivers blocking off Calais due to attacks and to get that Jungle shut with 10,000 illegals there .
We moan about the 2 grand fine per illegal, the Dcpc, rip off parking at Msa,s, foreign haulage firms taking our work, front facing cameras and tracking but do naff all about it except talking bowl ocks in Rdc,s putting the world to rights with your Blue Tooth and drive with a hi viz on but take it up the rear end from your boss and Government .

I vowed not to touch curtains again when all the load security bs came out. After suffering all the rdc h&s bull crap, it was the straw that broke the camels back, so I have my limits. But whilst I’m enjoying my latest stint on the boxes, I may reassess things when the kids are grown up, maybe just do Friday to Sunday on Tesco or another such outfit. But as for getting out all together, I’m only mid 30’s so even a lottery win wouldn’t get me to retire, although I might start property developing, homes under the hammer style, rather than driving.

Mmmm sounds like am the odd one out , this job is a means to an end for me ( paying mortgage and bills) if I could get a half decent job doin anything I’d give it a go . No family life and the traffic and the hours make it a pretty ■■■■ existence to be honest , it really isn’t the job it used to be !!!

peirre:
I went sideways…
I hung up the keys in April 2015 to look after a parent who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a year before I stopped driving. Now I get by on Carers allowance of £62.50 p/week for a minimum of 30hrs/week input, but it’s more like 70hrs+ that I do, so some of you will have figured out that I get just £1-£2 p/hr. Which direction I’ll go (and wether I’ll return to driving) later on is unknow ATM but I aim to maintain my cards, but I’ve not done any extra DCPC hrs since the 1st round, so I have until sept 2019 before my vocational licence is invalid

Respect Peirre. All the best for you and you parent.

Sumsmeister:
A big lottery win. That would do it. But I’d offer to work my notice.

+1

tattoo5984:
Mmmm sounds like am the odd one out , this job is a means to an end for me ( paying mortgage and bills) if I could get a half decent job doin anything I’d give it a go . No family life and the traffic and the hours make it a pretty [zb] existence to be honest , it really isn’t the job it used to be !!!

That sounds more like the wrong firm than the wrong job mate

Having the day off, for my funeral! :grimacing: convincing the gaffer though, that’s a different story! :laughing: lotto win, few million. :sunglasses:

As much as the job means to me, I’d hang up my keys tomorrow if I could put my family back together and see more of my daughter.