I think my first trip in a lorry was collecting dead sheep and pigs on a Saturday morning, when we got back, we pulled off the sheeps fleece with an electric winch and cut them into pieces. we boiled the meat in tin baths and made it into dog food. I always remember getting a full english breakfast on our way home, so wanted to become a lorry driver.
My grandfather had a couple of lorries in (I think) 1930’s then brought a small farm and sold them. He had 2 sons and my uncle took over the farm and my father went into haulage for about 15 years. Due to ill health and the 3day week of ted heath days he sold up and again brought a small farm. Cut a long story short he got into money problems and I thought I will start a haulage business to help save the farm. The farm debts where too much so the farm had to go and I carried on for 10 years to I had enough and sold up. I got now a easy life doing high street deliver’s and now my oldest step son got his class 2 license and driving aswell.
I sometimes wish I had carried on but transport is such a tough business and the pressure was unbelievably. I now liking my days off unlike when I was on the farm and doing transport which was 7 days a week 52 weeks a year
Grandad, Dad , Uncle all drivers on tanks which is what I’ve ended up on after twenty odd years in different parts of the industry. My cousin also has his class 1 but spends his time on the spanners.
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Thanks for replies and votes. Today’s post concerns my childhood, spent in various haulage yards as Dad fixed lorries. This will get Carryfast red faced but my Dad wasn’t a full time driver till nearly 40 years old, he was a mechanic for first 20 odd years of his working life. But only a few years after going full time he too was piloting a truck round Europe. So it seems Carry was kept down in favour of young mechanics as well as young bus drivers 
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elsa Lad:
I sometimes wish I had carried on but transport is such a tough business and the pressure was unbelievably. I now liking my days off unlike when I was on the farm and doing transport which was 7 days a week 52 weeks a year
Yes, in my under a year as a TM it put me off ever going for a TM’s job ever again! And I didn’t even own the company, can only imagine the extra pressure that heaps on you