Hgv Driver's

[Ratreeper 441]

 

I've got to agree with some of the above posts; in general, HGV drivers do a great job, and providing you treat them with respect on the roads they reciprocate.

 

The problem is car drivers. They treat anyone who is driving anything slower than them as a nuisance.

 

Yesterday, I was towing the trailer back from Exmoor, up the M5 and than A303. I was rolling along nicely; sticking to just above the speed limit of 60mph on the dual carriageways and 50mph on the single carriageways. The idiots that overtook me ignoring double white lines and cutting in front of me forcing me to brake were at each roundabout just in front of me. It always amazes me that so many people are willing to take a chance and risk their lives just to travel an extra mile or two an hour.

 

I've a feeling CB was excluded from the law regarding mobiles; but I'm happy to be proved wrong. I've got one in the van as the mobile signal is shite in some of the areas I work in and the farmers all still use it around here. It's got me out of trouble a few times, and breaks up the boredom of a journey when there's shite on the wireless. Ever wondered why you're sat in a two mile queue on the motorway? Ask the truckers flying past on the opposite carriageway and they usually know the answer........

The biggest issue we have is that others on the roads just don't know are speed limits and that all the big firms wagons are tracked and flag you up on screen if your speeding,single carriageway max is 40mph,dual carriageway is 50mph and motorway is 56mph and that is max limit as all the trucks are limited to 56 but some are limited as low as 50 for lower insurance rates.

I think you can still be done for using the mike but coppers discretion and the cb is great for traffic issues.

 

 

Still annoying though isn't it? I bet a lorry that can do 56mph on a motorway gets f****d off if they get stuck doing 50mph, or behind some old divvy dragging a caravan so why is it wrong for a car driver to get annoyed and wanting to get round a lorry they have trailed for miles doing 2/3 of the speed limit? If a HGV driver can get annoyed at cyclists and horses then isn't it hypocritical to not appreciate a lot of car drivers feel the same about HGV's?

 

My half-brother is a HGV driver since he got injured in the forces so I am not having a go at drivers, I get more annoyed at cyclists and horses around here and don't see many lorries at all any more. But I am off to Norfolk tomorrow and I know somewhere along the way, guaranteed, a HGV driver will pull out in front of me just before I am side-on to it when there will be nothing behind me and he could have waited two seconds. They just click the indicator on and pull out, at least most other drivers wait for a gap.

[Westy76 546]

 

 

 

I've got to agree with some of the above posts; in general, HGV drivers do a great job, and providing you treat them with respect on the roads they reciprocate.

 

The problem is car drivers. They treat anyone who is driving anything slower than them as a nuisance.

 

Yesterday, I was towing the trailer back from Exmoor, up the M5 and than A303. I was rolling along nicely; sticking to just above the speed limit of 60mph on the dual carriageways and 50mph on the single carriageways. The idiots that overtook me ignoring double white lines and cutting in front of me forcing me to brake were at each roundabout just in front of me. It always amazes me that so many people are willing to take a chance and risk their lives just to travel an extra mile or two an hour.

 

I've a feeling CB was excluded from the law regarding mobiles; but I'm happy to be proved wrong. I've got one in the van as the mobile signal is shite in some of the areas I work in and the farmers all still use it around here. It's got me out of trouble a few times, and breaks up the boredom of a journey when there's shite on the wireless. Ever wondered why you're sat in a two mile queue on the motorway? Ask the truckers flying past on the opposite carriageway and they usually know the answer........

The biggest issue we have is that others on the roads just don't know are speed limits and that all the big firms wagons are tracked and flag you up on screen if your speeding,single carriageway max is 40mph,dual carriageway is 50mph and motorway is 56mph and that is max limit as all the trucks are limited to 56 but some are limited as low as 50 for lower insurance rates.

I think you can still be done for using the mike but coppers discretion and the cb is great for traffic issues.

Still annoying though isn't it? I bet a lorry that can do 56mph on a motorway gets f****d off if they get stuck doing 50mph, or behind some old divvy dragging a caravan so why is it wrong for a car driver to get annoyed and wanting to get round a lorry they have trailed for miles doing 2/3 of the speed limit? If a HGV driver can get annoyed at cyclists and horses then isn't it hypocritical to not appreciate a lot of car drivers feel the same about HGV's?

 

My half-brother is a HGV driver since he got injured in the forces so I am not having a go at drivers, I get more annoyed at cyclists and horses around here and don't see many lorries at all any more. But I am off to Norfolk tomorrow and I know somewhere along the way, guaranteed, a HGV driver will pull out in front of me just before I am side-on to it when there will be nothing behind me and he could have waited two seconds. They just click the indicator on and pull out, at least most other drivers wait for a gap.

I've no doubt people get the knock with wagons but sadly there needed we all get fecked of having wait but hey ho.

You ever driven yourself? If you always waited for a decent gap to pull out in you'd be there forever and the clock is always ticking we don't do it to piss anyone off just got to get on.

[unlacedgecko 1,466]

The answer is agency work on a self employed basis. I would never do any salary driving, as the hourly rate works out really really low.

[nans pat 2,575]

to listen to some lorry drivers you would think their doing the public a favour.

[Westy76 546]

The answer is agency work on a self employed basis. I would never do any salary driving, as the hourly rate works out really really low.

No mate agency work is the pits here Sussex isn't a hotbed for haulage and self employed driving atm is to risky.

I'm a chef by trade and have a small catering firm specialising in spitroasts for high end events but I'd like to build it up to full time but its seasonal and am trying to get the catering on our local shoots during the season to make it year round work.

[unlacedgecko 1,466]

 

The answer is agency work on a self employed basis. I would never do any salary driving, as the hourly rate works out really really low.

No mate agency work is the pits here Sussex isn't a hotbed for haulage and self employed driving atm is to risky.

I'm a chef by trade and have a small catering firm specialising in spitroasts for high end events but I'd like to build it up to full time but its seasonal and am trying to get the catering on our local shoots during the season to make it year round work.

 

 

Yeah that is the problem, demand is localised. If you are prepared to move for the work, I have 3 agencies fighting over me at the moment in Bristol. If you stay in Newark over the winter, you can invoice over £600 per week, on a self employed basis.

[Westy76 546]

to listen to some lorry drivers you would think their doing the public a favour.

We are mate who else keeps the brasses numbers down?

[Westy76 546]

 

 

 

The answer is agency work on a self employed basis. I would never do any salary driving, as the hourly rate works out really really low.

No mate agency work is the pits here Sussex isn't a hotbed for haulage and self employed driving atm is to risky.

I'm a chef by trade and have a small catering firm specialising in spitroasts for high end events but I'd like to build it up to full time but its seasonal and am trying to get the catering on our local shoots during the season to make it year round work.

Yeah that is the problem, demand is localised. If you are prepared to move for the work, I have 3 agencies fighting over me at the moment in Bristol. If you stay in Newark over the winter, you can invoice over £600 per week, on a self employed basis.

I had a few pals doing that £600 aint great money to be moving for really.I just do day work now and love kipping in my own bed!!!

[nans pat 2,575]

 

to listen to some lorry drivers you would think their doing the public a favour.

We are mate who else keeps the brasses numbers down?

 

[bracken boy 584]

if you get annoyed easy then.in my book you shoudnt be driving trucks end ov. when i first started i got stressed but had to get it sorted and did.. its hard to stay cool but thats where the proffesional in you should shine..

[Westy76 546]

if you get annoyed easy then.in my book you shoudnt be driving trucks end ov. when i first started i got stressed but had to get it sorted and did.. its hard to stay cool but thats where the proffesional in you should shine..

Air con helps keeps you cool

So basically your numb and nothing fazes you? Your a better man than me then when some Doris pulls in front of me in the gap I'VE left for safe stopping with a car full of kids and puts me in the position where I may have to go through her motor as they've anchored up that gets me going.

[Chid 6,495]

ffs you hgv drivers are wimps ...my dads been driving a truck for over 20 yrs , he dont drive none of your fancy aircon feels like your driving a car model either he is in an old s reg ERF olympic (moved up from a d reg about 3yr ago) he gets a % of what the truck earns if it dont earn nothing he gets nothing , he gets minimum wage after being sat idle for 2hrs if theres a delay in his load... he spent a full week stuck in snow on the woodhead one year... does he moan? does he feck he just gets on with it ,

 

some of you lads want to get out on general haulage , loading 600 bales of hay or straw by hand then roping and sheeting in the rain bet half of you who are moaning are just trunking all day long

[unlacedgecko 1,466]

ffs you hgv drivers are wimps ...my dads been driving a truck for over 20 yrs , he dont drive none of your fancy aircon feels like your driving a car model either he is in an old s reg ERF olympic (moved up from a d reg about 3yr ago) he gets a % of what the truck earns if it dont earn nothing he gets nothing , he gets minimum wage after being sat idle for 2hrs if theres a delay in his load... he spent a full week stuck in snow on the woodhead one year... does he moan? does he feck he just gets on with it ,

 

some of you lads want to get out on general haulage , loading 600 bales of hay or straw by hand then roping and sheeting in the rain bet half of you who are moaning are just trunking all day long

 

If he gets a % of what the truck earns then I bet he gets a f***ing good wedge if the truck has a good week. My missus father owns his own rig. He does very well out of it, only works the summer.

 

I'm not moaning. Think I get a pretty good rate for the hours I do. As its agency, I can choose when I want to work and when I don't. Make more over a weekend than my brother in law does all week working in a warehouse. And I do the lot, trunking, multidrops, shop runs, shunting. At the minute working for a glass bottle haulier, so have to rope all the pallets individually. Done my fair share of loading straw bales when working on farms as well. Manual labour is good for the soul.

[Chid 6,495]

 

ffs you hgv drivers are wimps ...my dads been driving a truck for over 20 yrs , he dont drive none of your fancy aircon feels like your driving a car model either he is in an old s reg ERF olympic (moved up from a d reg about 3yr ago) he gets a % of what the truck earns if it dont earn nothing he gets nothing , he gets minimum wage after being sat idle for 2hrs if theres a delay in his load... he spent a full week stuck in snow on the woodhead one year... does he moan? does he feck he just gets on with it ,

 

some of you lads want to get out on general haulage , loading 600 bales of hay or straw by hand then roping and sheeting in the rain bet half of you who are moaning are just trunking all day long

 

If he gets a % of what the truck earns then I bet he gets a f*****g good wedge if the truck has a good week. My missus father owns his own rig. He does very well out of it, only works the summer.

 

I'm not moaning. Think I get a pretty good rate for the hours I do. As its agency, I can choose when I want to work and when I don't. Make more over a weekend than my brother in law does all week working in a warehouse. And I do the lot, trunking, multidrops, shop runs, shunting. At the minute working for a glass bottle haulier, so have to rope all the pallets individually. Done my fair share of loading straw bales when working on farms as well. Manual labour is good for the soul.

 

if all goes to plan he can earn good money, but its not an overly big % he gets as he is employed and if he as to run empty anywhere or theres no backload he earns nothing for that trip, so some days if he is running the length of the country empty he earns nothing

[Westy76 546]

ffs you hgv drivers are wimps ...my dads been driving a truck for over 20 yrs , he dont drive none of your fancy aircon feels like your driving a car model either he is in an old s reg ERF olympic (moved up from a d reg about 3yr ago) he gets a % of what the truck earns if it dont earn nothing he gets nothing , he gets minimum wage after being sat idle for 2hrs if theres a delay in his load... he spent a full week stuck in snow on the woodhead one year... does he moan? does he feck he just gets on with it ,

 

some of you lads want to get out on general haulage , loading 600 bales of hay or straw by hand then roping and sheeting in the rain bet half of you who are moaning are just trunking all day long

Done that I started off working for farmers,the first truck I bought was an ERF (ive driven loads in fact there my all time fave lorry and had to be prized out of my latest one to drive a poxy merc)and I bought another in Luxembourg to do the continental in a left hooker 525 14 litre Olympic that had aircon.

Yep I can moan mate coz apart from car transporters and F1 I've done most of it in my time,your dad may have done it but you haven't.