i’ve pm’ed you and am interested if you want to get back to me,thanks
i emailed you.
left my phone number.ring anytime.
we all know the uk money is now as good as continental.
why do some of us rather do european?
you get treated a lot better out in europe.
we have better parking facilities out there and no one demanding money off you in most cases.
17/21 pound in service areas in the uk,
its a disgrace having to pay that type of money to park up at night.#i have never done it in my llife.
the food is far superior to whats available in your regular transport cafe and definitely the services.
the traffic jams can be bad in some parts of europe…paris…antwerp…milan.
but not as bad as the daily tramp down the m6or m1.
i could never understand how the uk drivers worked england the whole time.
i had enough going from holyhead/liverpool to dover and back once a week.
give me europe any time.
TheBear:
use a name:
We may be recruiting, we run food tankers to Belgium, Holland, France & Germany.We pay £90 a day Monday to Friday plus £25 night out over the water £20 uk.
We also pay £12 per hour Saturday & £16 per hour Sunday and bank holiday’s.PM me if you may be interested, we are based in Newbury, run DAF 95 Super Space Cabs, Magnums.
this was posted by alanjblack on march 16th 2008Only any good if you have tanker experience then. I have never been near one in my life.
where does it stipulate that then bear? sorry btw i obviously missed the post on the 16th 
Scaniaman and greg, let us know how it goes, it would be nice to hear from English drivers working for an English outfit, as there arent many of us left, hope alan replies to you and to us.
i hope he does as well kindle.
i did this job for 25 years and still miss it.
the addiction never left me.
i cant understand guys who
go for a job on european work.
then cant work weekends.
its a day to day job.
you go to load.the load is not ready until tomorrow or the day after.
that the way it is.
if you are going on holidays,you cant work for days before in case something comes unstuck and your plane tickets and wife would be gone.
you live day to day in the truck.
well.
the man wants drivers.
theres two of us here willing to go for it.
i dont know scania man but,i love his avetar.
its like my screensaver.
a working v8 engine from the scania website.
pistons and camshafts and all move.
fantastic if you want to learn about engines
if anyone wants it.
pm me
greg50:
i hope he does as well kindle.
i did this job for 25 years and still miss it.
the addiction never left me.
i cant understand guys who
go for a job on european work.
then cant work weekends.
its a day to day job.
you go to load.the load is not ready until tomorrow or the day after.
that the way it is.
if you are going on holidays,you cant work for days before in case something comes unstuck and your plane tickets and wife would be gone.
you live day to day in the truck.
well.
the man wants drivers.
theres two of us here willing to go for it.
i dont know scania man but,i love his avetar.
its like my screensaver.
a working v8 engine from the scania website.
pistons and camshafts and all move.
fantastic if you want to learn about engines
if anyone wants it.
pm me
Is that Greg Faulkner from liverpool? 
you got it in one.
whos that.
you have the surname wrong,never mind everyone else does as well including family members.
greg you have pm
good job i wasnt saying anything dirogatory scott.
you couldnt hide for long if you wanted to.
Hombre:
This can be and often is a bloody lonely job - no thats the wrong word, its not a jo its a way of life. If you look at it from any other way then in my (humble) opinion youre best off sticking to UK work.
truer words you could not say.
most of my old friends in dublin are lorry drivers.
tramping dublin to cork day in day out for the last 30 years or more.
they used to think i was crazy,away all the time in italy or spain or if in holland i used to think it was a local run.
i would have commited suicide after 2 or 3 years of dublin…cork.
us,the continental driver has seen more of europe and beyond than the locals of the countries we travelled to.
i probably know england better than a lot of english people[not lorry drivers]
i would say the same about france,italy and spain.
we would never have seen so much of the world in a lifetime of package deal holidays.
definitely not a job hombre
a way of life as you said
What I would like to know is how much are you paid when weekended. Its not so bad the £12 an hour on saturdays if you are actually working but what happens if you get to a delivery or collection on a Friday night and they say come back Monday. Are you just paid the night out money or is there a rate for weekended when the wheels are not turning.
Paul
If my redundancy goes ahead I’ll have a chat with you Alan- hopefully it isn’t tho.
I’ve had some fantastic weekends away- riding the Moscow metro to Red Square, seeing the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, laying on the beach in Spain… but I’ve also had my share of weekends in rainy Belgian motorway services because I ran out of hours on the way back.
Definitely a way of life more than a job, I agree.
Paul:
What I would like to know is how much are you paid when weekended. Its not so bad the £12 an hour on saturdays if you are actually working but what happens if you get to a delivery or collection on a Friday night and they say come back Monday. Are you just paid the night out money or is there a rate for weekended when the wheels are not turning.
Paul
I get my normal rate, £90 a day and £27 night out, paid both days.
I class myself as a good driver, I’ve never had a ‘problem’ in all my years of driving, plenty of challenges but never a problem. the job has changed beyond all recognition though, in days gone by if you were weekended you could be sure to find a fellow brit to while away the time & talk bollox over a few beers, find a decent place to eat & even head into the nearest town for a bit of sightseeing, now you’re surrounded by eastern europeans eating out of trailer boxes, not much fun there.
Also the £ hasn’t changed much since the early 90s, I was getting £25 n/o money then & got paid for every day I was in the lorry, if the wheels weren’t turning it wasn’t my fault, I was still available for work, still away from my family & friends so it’s only right.
I also know that rates haven’t improved much & costs have risen dramatically, everybody needs to earn a few £, including the boss, so a compromise must be reached, but when you can earn the same £ in the UK & get home every weekend it’s no longer a compromise but a decision as to whether you earn a lot less per hour than your mates on Tesco/Asda etc, if there’s a female involved then the decision is even harder to make, imagine the scenario, ‘Hello love, I’ve just been offered a job that pays the same as I’m earning now, but instead of being home every night & weekend I’m going to be away most of the time’ there is likely to be a few hysterics, that’s for sure!
Thanks for all the reply’s.
Just got back from Holland tipping and out again tomorrow, will go through the 20 plus PM’s that I have had and will reply, possibly at the weekend, got a meeting on Friday, will be able to make a plan for recruiting after that meeting.
Lot of you seem to think that over 50 is the end of the road, not so, Im 52.
Like I said many thanks again for contacting me.
Joy of being away from office since last Friday, got 74 emails to sort through.
newmercman:
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Also the £ hasn’t changed much since the early 90s, !
I take it you haven’t been to the eurozone since Christmas then, 
my pension has dropped around 5% since the start of the year. 
spardo,would you not be better off getting a french pension.
the british government are not to generous to their pensioners.
i know the irish pension is twice the british one with extras thrown in.
guess where i stamp my card?
alan black.
my friends said to me that i was too old
when i was 50 for going to europe,.
im glad it was friends.
i never said it.
im 55 and still on the go and have a friend whom i wont name but will be known to many english guys as well as us irish.
he 68 and using a crutch to get in and out of the truck but still going to spain and portugal.
if anyone knows who i mean,please dont plaster his name all over the world wide net.
he wouldnt appreciate it one bit and would give you a bang of his crutch as quick as you look at him.
the further the trip the more he likes it.
anyway,these modern truck dont require much skills to drive with automatic gearboxes and clutches and my fav is cruise control.
a great change from the big j4 guy i learned to drive an artic in.
i was religous in those days.
i used to pray i could get the truck into gear,and sometimes i was lucky.
my father would go crazy when i crunched the gears.
i still laugh when i think about it.
the problem now as i see it is avoiding hassle off the police.
Hi Gregg, plenty of your countrymen didn’t manage to avoid VOSA this morning at Switch Island, lots of them were still there when I was on my way home tonight.
Pop in when you get a minute mate, the kettle’s always on.
Ross.
Spardo:
newmercman:
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Also the £ hasn’t changed much since the early 90s, !I take it you haven’t been to the eurozone since Christmas then,
David, I’ve just got 300 euros for £250, absolutely terrible, before we know it the £ & the euro will be worth the same, could this be a way of getting the euro into the UK by the back door
cdriver:
it makes me wonder, where are all those good british drivers that moan so much about poles taking their jobs, here you have what seems like a fair job with a fair boss and i suppose fair pay, and yet the guy struggles to find drivers decent enough to just do their jobs, wht does that tell you?
See? And that’s what I am talking about. If I would have class 1 I’ll be first to PM him.
And I speak languages, what can be usefull…
Edited: Hm… I just seen wages… I had a job once when I have over 100 per day on 7.5 tonner… So it could be more…
From the other hand: that job is now done by Romanian guys in 25
yrs old ex-austrian merc…