Hi folks i am need of a bit advice i am looking into becoming a part time ■■■■■■ driver as i am a Dog handler my van is new ish 04 plate ex rac unmared hi viz grade 3mm 50" Lightbar with grille lights and dash amber led all with separate flash patterns.I have looked at the genral guide lines.I work all round the uk and cover aleast 2500 miles a months mostly motoway driving Here comes the BUT! i have only been driving for 8 months.Personally i think this will go against me in a interview.Is it also possiable do ■■■■■■ Driving on a self Employed Basis with all the right public liability inssurance any help would be great
brightlight:
Hi folks i am need of a bit advice i am looking into becoming a part time ■■■■■■ driver as i am a Dog handler my van is new ish 04 plate ex rac unmared hi viz grade 3mm 50" Lightbar with grille lights and dash amber led all with separate flash patterns.I have looked at the genral guide lines.I work all round the uk and cover aleast 2500 miles a months mostly motoway driving Here comes the BUT! i have only been driving for 8 months.Personally i think this will go against me in a interview.Is it also possiable do ■■■■■■ Driving on a self Employed Basis with all the right public liability inssurance any help would be great
Learn to speak French and Spanish fluently and there are many openings as a Convoi Exceptionnel
pilot car driver. Of course you have to know the rules and regs as well, cos it could become quite expensive as you move a bridge in the centre of Paris. or scrape a passenger module on the Zelzate Tunnel 
convoiexceptionnelltd.co.uk/ … -news.html
A bloke with an LGV C+ E doesn’t necessarily make a good lorry driver, neither does owning a van with flashing lights make it a pilot car 
I can’t imagine that you would see a job of this nature advertised,ever.I would have thought that an ■■■■■■ driver must have some LGV experience to at least understand the truck drivers perspective and anticipate the hazards as they happen.These positions are surely filled from within.
brightlight:
Hi folks i am need of a bit advice i am looking into becoming a part time ■■■■■■ driver… Here comes the BUT! i have only been driving for 8 months.Personally i think this will go against me in a interview.Is it also possiable do ■■■■■■ Driving on a self Employed Basis with all the right public liability inssurance any help would be great
[Extract from] Highways Agency Code of Practice - Self-escorting of Abnormal Loads and Abnormal Vehicles
Essential Skills and Qualifications
4.3 Essential Skills and Qualifications required are:
- a minimum age of 21 years old;
- a full standard driving licence held;
- to be able to speak and read the English language16; and
- to be competent through training and/or
experience in the movement and transportation
of abnormal loads or abnormal vehicles.
Desirable Skills and Qualifications
4.4 Desirable Skills and Qualifications are:
- basic First Aid Training and Qualification17; and
- basic use of a Fire Extinguisher Training18.
The CoP is not a legal requirement HOWEVER any employer who had an incident and was found to be in breach would be taking a big BIG (and unnecessary) risk.
The recession has affected the Abload sector as I am sure it has all of the transport industry, as a result hauliers are protecting their own drivers jobs by putting them in their own ■■■■■■ vehicles and freelance escorters are also suffering as a result.
Deathstar is right — it’s highly unusual to see this kind of job advertised — it usually goes to an ex-driver/semi-retired etc of a haulage company or self-employed (freelancer).
If you are really keen and have the time/inclination — try to make contact with a local freelancer and see if they will take you out on a job as an observer. I wish you well - you sound like you might be a realistic kind’a guy so I hope you will take the info/suggestions constructively.
Wheel Nut:
A bloke with an LGV C+ E doesn’t necessarily make a good lorry driver, neither does owning a van with flashing lights make it a pilot car
Thats is the best Quote ive read in a long time and very true …
I ■■■■■■ trucks like road pilot , I know Truck drivers that i ■■■■■■ dont like Driving ■■■■■■ Vehicles and escorting other drivers … Now this is a job that you could end up in jail at the end of the day thru no fault of your own , this job has to be done illegaly , you cant do it legaly , 100% honestly i can say you cant do it legaly altho the powers that be think you can ,Really you cant, if you were a driver and the police escorting you stopped the traffic ,so you could example go wrong side of traffic light or a traffic island then that was legal , now the police have given up the escorting, to the private escorts the same load going down the same road comes to the same traffic lights or island and has to go wrong side , as before then it becomes an ilegal the ■■■■■■ hasnt the powers to stop the traffic and you as the truck driver cant controvene a traffic act or traffic sign without the police so what do you do , (A) stop call police wait for them to arrive and hold all the traffic behind you , Erm dont think they are going to very happy getting held up by you , or (B) take your chance stopping traffic and carrying on with the journey hoping nobody has sussed out yo have broken the law , But if the [zb] hits the Fan are you going to say it was your decision to wrong side the obstruction
Dodging the auto-censor by using stars does NOT make a banned word become acceptable. dd. 