To be fair most drivers i’d say are ok, although i dont tend to stand around chatting. All the drivers where i work are sound, they all know the crack and dont chat ■■■■■■■■, but thats what you expect working for a proper haulage firm!
Saaamon:
To be fair most drivers i’d say are ok, although i dont tend to stand around chatting. All the drivers where i work are sound, they all know the crack and dont chat ■■■■■■■■, but thats what you expect working for a proper haulage firm!
I don’t believe you! 
Stobarts seems too bee closing everyday.
What about the driver who comes over, opens your door in the peeing rain, and then waffles about their entire day?
…And you were in a hurry.
I worked with a happy chap who would start/■■■■ in on a conversation with “what have you got today?”
Every load I had, I’d create a backload after each one, to put up his blood pressure that bit more. (Tipper drivers and their bonuses you see)
If every driver that was supposed to be on “The Herald of Free Enterprise” was actually on it then it would have sunk with the weight of 2000 wagons!!!..mind you the tyre companies must have been busy with the amount of lorries that had blowouts 10 miles from the port and missed it 
Whats this chalking business?
Being at an RDC and running out of time. VOSA/Police are called who insist you don’t move and to ensure you don’t move your vehicle, put chalk marks on the ground around your tyres.
Yeah, I know complete nonsense.
It isn’t just the bullshippers that do my nut in, it’s the gob ■■■■■■ s in truckstop bars or caffs that have to shout so everybody can hear them, I went for a quiet pint at Carnforth ts the other week, this guy was trying to impress the (embarassed) barmaid and had an opinion on everything, at the same time managed to slag off every minority you can think of, his younger mate who worked for the same firm just encouraged him by laughing at all his crap jokes, felt like decking the mouthy ■■■■■■■ 
, I’m a bit older and wiser now , but Ive seen the day that I would have
robroy:
It isn’t just the bullshippers that do my nut in, it’s the gob [zb] s in truckstop bars or caffs that have to shout so everybody can hear them, I went for a quiet
Slightly off thread, but this reminded me, many years ago indeed I worked with Tony Jones (one who lost his leg in an accident on M6)
Anyway, we are having a beer in a pub outside cambridge somewhere and he finds the biggest truck driving bloke in the pub whos mouthing off to everyone, taps him on the shoulder and says "see that bloke over there (pointing at me) well he’s a nutter and he thinks your a wa###r, looking back it was funny, but it wasn’t at the time. 
Its because if you’re sitting on your arse all day, the hot air has to come out somewhwere!
I think the main difference is in other jobs they tell the same people everyday until somebody tells them to [zb] off or everybody keeps away from them. A truck driver gets a new audience at every tip.
This
mick.mh2racing:
Being at an RDC and running out of time. VOSA/Police are called who insist you don’t move and to ensure you don’t move your vehicle, put chalk marks on the ground around your tyres.
Yeah, I know complete nonsense.
Remember it is pink chalk that they have to use
But remember the children
muckles:
shytalk:
Bull…shiners in all walks of life…not just drivers.This is true, but I think the main difference is in other jobs they tell the same people everyday until somebody tells them to [zb] off or everybody keeps away from them. A truck driver gets a new audience at every tip.
I once gave a goods in guy a lift after delivering a load of spuds to the factory on a Sunday night, as I was going past his house on the way home.
Anyway we stuck his battered old push bike on the catwalk of the bulker and proceeded to drive through Norwich. On the journey he proceeded to tell me he was actually a millionaire and married to a model,now of course his could all be true, but looking at the bloke it seemed unlikely especially as he was working on a Sunday for the overtime pay.
Did he take his bicycle clips off when he drove his Rolls Royce?
mick.mh2racing:
Being at an RDC and running out of time. VOSA/Police are called who insist you don’t move and to ensure you don’t move your vehicle, put chalk marks on the ground around your tyres.
Yeah, I know complete nonsense.
Personally if I wanted to stop someone moving a vehicle, I’d make sure they didn’t have a key for it…Chalk sounds good though…
I think its in the small print on the back of your hgv pass certificate that by law once you get past 20 years of proffessional driving in you have to spout complete rubbish to anyone that looks younger or less experienced 
as every story ive been told by drivers they have always been driving wagons for over 20 years
Better than running out of time on the Herald and then having your tyres chalked I guess lol
Hi don’t know about chalk but i been on the Herald although it didn’t sink that time. S A S outside of Hereford everyone knows its Santhaia or Cariso is the base
I usually say nothing and let them tell the story and at the end of it ask if they really believe all that crap they’ve just spouted.
robroy:
It isn’t just the bullshippers that do my nut in, it’s the gob [zb] s in truckstop bars or caffs that have to shout so everybody can hear them, I went for a quiet
I don’t think I well ever step foot in that bar again. Went for a pint a few weeks back and all I could hear was this gobby wee pollock driver. There was about ten of them all hanging on his every (shouted) word. Complete ■■■■■■■ pollock ■■■■■■■■■
i’ve been in this game a long time, and the only bull i’ve heard is when drivers are having a laugh between themselves. sometimes someone might come in and think you’re all being serious. but they’re usually gobby brain dead stearing wheel attendant muppets.
i’ve not been believed at some places because i’ve brought a load in myself from the continent.
they really didn’t believe that us english went there.
24 hours early in the 2010 snow. they didn’t know how i managed to get here from austria when there own trucks were stuck just doing uk work.
they thought it was BS. well it’s here, i’m here, and that’s my name on the cmr. but it was still BS.