IndigoJo:
tommie1shunt:
Dunno if it is the same guy, but when it was Littlewoods they decided that everyone should undergo a assessment. They brought in a guy from Norfolk way, a carrot cruncher, think he was called Derek. Anyway he failed one guy and at the time you got a second chance, he failed again. He was not best pleased and told Derek he should take up masterbation for a hobby and that he had drove more miles in his car than Derek had driven a truck. Maybe that is why Derek dodged the bullet telling you straight to your face.
There was one lad who went out with him and was quite nervous, Derek told him to take it easy and just give him a safe drive, and if it helped he could have a cigarette. The guy immediately put his hand in his pocket pulled out his baccy tin and started to roll a ■■■ as he steered the truck thru shaws rush hour traffic with his elbows!!! He failed to.Were these new drivers or existing ones? If they decided their existing drivers had to pass an assessment to keep their jobs then I can understand him being ■■■■■■ off.
Years before I did my class 2, I was a driver’s mate doing furniture deliveries out in Essex and the driver pulled over on the A12 and rolled himself a spliff. He told a mate on the phone “I’m smaaaaaaassshed” so it was obvious that his behaviour was known about. Never worked there again (they were faff merchants, you’d turn up expecting to be driving a 7.5-tonner and they’d keep you waiting ages then send you out with their stoner class 2 driver - I wanted to know what I was doing before I set out).
New and existing mate, it was not quite the same as today assessments, it was your attitude to driving, safety, rather than nitpicking over say 1 mph over the speed limit. I “failed” on not removing keys from ignition while hooking up a trailer and 3 points of contact leaving the cab. ( At the time never heard of the 3 points of contact) but this was let go and they just give me a pass. The guy that failed twice was a shunter who never went on the road, he was hopping mad, can’t remember what he failed on.
Bad news about the guy smoking weed, totally unacceptable
