Bye bye lorries......
- Thread starter Brandane
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Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Good luck with the new job. Did you ever drive your truck in high heels like Weird Al?
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Congrats
Dayvo
just passin' through
- Location
- 59° 50′ 5.55″ N, 10° 47′ 41.89″ E
It's not for Christmas, it's for life!
GlasgowFinn
Guru
- Location
- The People's Republic of Cumbernauld
Nice one! Well done!
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Fantastic news and congratulations 
The "Trucknet UK" version of this thread. I will possibly get a load of flack for not being a truck anorak and telling a few home truths about the haulage industry; but I no longer care.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
Congratulations on your job. Nice start of the new year!
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
So, what are you going to do with all those Yorkie bars?
Mrs M
Guru
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Congratulations on your new job
Best wishes xx
Best wishes xx
[QUOTE 4606684, member: 9609"]I would doubt it there has been a number of threads in there recently of drivers packing it in or longing to get out. The job is just getting worse and worse, 60 to 70 hour weeks for crap pay (sometimes less than the min). Being talked down to and treated as if you were a second class citizen, and this bolloxs of not being allowed to stay in your own cab when being tipped at RDCs, forced to wait in a stinky windowless waiting rooms or even stand in a cage in the middle of the yard, not being allowed to use the toilets. Spending your days on more and more congested roads amongst rapidly decreasing driving standards and having managers hurrying you along all the time. Having to sit in front of driver facing cameras all day. And then after being forced to work stupid hours if you happen to make a mistake and cause an accident you could be going to prison for a very long time.
I would love to go back to the job how it was in the 80s and 90s, good money if you were tramping, proper trucks with proper boxes, give me a cummins powered Seddon with a fuller twin split and Jake, far more desirable than one of these modern high tech pieces of junk, haven't driven for years now and doubt I will again.
Well done you in getting out.[/QUOTE]
That just about covers it
, but you forgot the bit about paying out approx. £400 (not taking into account the 5 days lost wages for attendance) to do CPC training every 5 years. I was determined to get out before my current CPC expired; that was the last straw for me.
Fair enough if it had included some useful practical driver training, but as we both know it is just a jobs for the boys scam; nothing more. Five days sitting in a classroom listening to stuff that you already know, and if you don't then it is because it is completely irrelevant to your role. e.g. an air freight driver like myself sitting listening to someone telling me how to secure a load of logs.
A good use of my hard earned ££, I don't think so.
Expensive overheads such as CPC are a big enough hit for full time drivers, but for part timers such as me it is the difference between it making financial sense (just) or not.
The whole haulage industry is a stinking cesspit of a place and the sooner it implodes and something HAS to be done, the better for all drivers. The trouble is, there are too many drivers willing to prop it up by working stupid hours to make a wage. They aren't helping themselves or anyone else other than the fat cats at the top.
I would love to go back to the job how it was in the 80s and 90s, good money if you were tramping, proper trucks with proper boxes, give me a cummins powered Seddon with a fuller twin split and Jake, far more desirable than one of these modern high tech pieces of junk, haven't driven for years now and doubt I will again.
Well done you in getting out.[/QUOTE]
That just about covers it
, but you forgot the bit about paying out approx. £400 (not taking into account the 5 days lost wages for attendance) to do CPC training every 5 years. I was determined to get out before my current CPC expired; that was the last straw for me.Fair enough if it had included some useful practical driver training, but as we both know it is just a jobs for the boys scam; nothing more. Five days sitting in a classroom listening to stuff that you already know, and if you don't then it is because it is completely irrelevant to your role. e.g. an air freight driver like myself sitting listening to someone telling me how to secure a load of logs.
A good use of my hard earned ££, I don't think so.
Expensive overheads such as CPC are a big enough hit for full time drivers, but for part timers such as me it is the difference between it making financial sense (just) or not.
The whole haulage industry is a stinking cesspit of a place and the sooner it implodes and something HAS to be done, the better for all drivers. The trouble is, there are too many drivers willing to prop it up by working stupid hours to make a wage. They aren't helping themselves or anyone else other than the fat cats at the top.
