Truth:
TWO perfectly reasonable answers
With two young kids (Old Dad I am , 46 with a 2 and 10 year old ) and a mortgage to pay though I feel I like I can’t take the “gamble” of jacking in a job that gives me a comfortable life to TRY and become a concrete truck owner driver as much as I would like to …
I feel like I’m in a similar situation to you. Only difference for me is I just CANT work in an office… After 3 hours my brain turns off and I can’t get anything done. Also due to health I’m no use in most blue collar work anymore so I’ve chucked my savings at my licence so I can be guaranteed to get a job. I’ve spent months trying to get one before and its demoralising. Plus I’ve got 2 daughters and man their expensive. Our shopping bill has 3x what it was before. So I can’t afford to be out of work.
Perhaps might be something too keep in your back pocket if ever you find your out off work.
jbaz73:
i would consider enjoying what you do to be just as important as the wage it brings.
I’d agree with you on that one. Not wanting to put a downer on things but a lot of people who top themselves aren’t poor, and you see a lot of poor people who are happy. Moneys not everything.
If you have a skill, trade or profession, no let me reword that, if you have a brain do not go into lorry driving. Lorry driving is ok if like me you just want to do something until you retire or you have a pension, other job and want to supplement that wage for extra cash etc. or you are an ex squaddie who can’t get a job doing anything else well maybe security guard I suppose. A lot of Lorry drivers (not all) are people who are not team players and cannot work with other people. That is not their fault it is just how they are. If you have a skill like welding etc. you are far better off using that skill and searching for the right job. If you read some of the posts from people like eagerbeaver for example you can see straight away he is an ex squaddie and likes big trucks. Basically he has been drip fed on orders and is suffering from a form of institutionalisation. It is not his fault and I get mad that people take advantage of these people but agencies and haulage contractors will because they are feeding at the bottom of the pool. I implore you not to swim down there. I hope you reconsider. Good luck
alder:
If you have a skill, trade or profession, no let me reword that, if you have a brain do not go into lorry driving. Lorry driving is ok if like me you just want to do something until you retire or you have a pension, other job and want to supplement that wage for extra cash etc. or you are an ex squaddie who can’t get a job doing anything else well maybe security guard I suppose. A lot of Lorry drivers (not all) are people who are not team players and cannot work with other people. That is not their fault it is just how they are. If you have a skill like welding etc. you are far better off using that skill and searching for the right job. If you read some of the posts from people like eagerbeaver for example you can see straight away he is an ex squaddie and likes big trucks. Basically he has been drip fed on orders and is suffering from a form of institutionalisation. It is not his fault and I get mad that people take advantage of these people but agencies and haulage contractors will because they are feeding at the bottom of the pool. I implore you not to swim down there. I hope you reconsider. Good luck
You dont have to read the stuff some these ■■■■■ put on here if you dont want,click on their name then it will ask you friend or foe,click on foe and when they have posted summat it will only show the avatar and nothing else,sorted
eagerbeaver:
Aye up Seth. I quite like reading their rubbish mate. It reminds me of how lucky I am.
You are incredibly lucky eagerbeaver as unfortunately other people have enough intelligence to know what a dead end rubbish job they are in, poor pay, long hours and being shafted from every angle by agencies, dodgy haulage companies and of course the law. How they must wish that they had the frontal lobotomy the army gave you. I bet you are easy to spot at an RDC or in a truck stop? You will be that crazy looking guy crying out for attention probably got a hat with TRUCKER written across it and swaggering up to the coffee counter with an innate grin on your permanently satisfied face. You walk to the pay counter and announce loudly so the whole queue can hear “Ahhhhh nice to stop and get some coffee, chaos out there for us truckers” to which the poor person slaving over the till responds by giving you your change whilst stifling a yawn. I can imagine this happens as I have seen time and time again the sad attempts of humour and the pathetic appeals for friendship on any thread going. You are a new trucker now but in years to come you will have posted all your truck details and if not already, have a number plate in your cab window with EAGERBEAVER or THE BEAVER written in black on that rather fetching yellow background. Other lorry drivers with the same sentiment will recognise you and you will all meet up and exchange the same stories night after night or day after day at the same stops. These places will become your haunts and you will be that sad little group of truckers who think they have figured the world out and have convinced each other that the fabulous scenic view out of “my office window” cancels out all the social injustices that you suffer and that yes joe blogs has his wife and 2.4 children in a semi detached property in suburbia, drives his new company audi, has BUPA for all his family, 3 holidays a year and most of all a pension to die for which enables him to enjoy his retirement with his children, who had a university education, and their children in the peaceful garden of his now paid for house and he is only 55 years old with plenty of time to enjoy it all. Good job this guy did not heed the advice of one eagerbeaver years ago on a forum called trucknet telling him to ditch the education and get out there to do some multi drop HGV class 2 deliveries for poundland because in a couple of months you could be driving a big artic and hit the pinnacle of life like me.
Then after the evenings banter you will go back to your truck to bed down for the night in that lonely bunk in your decorated cab and plug in your ear defenders you got free from the army to block out the bloody fridge parked next to you and drift into a troubled and restless sleep to revitalise you for the same again tomorrow. As you drift off a thought enters those few still conscious brain cells “Have I chosen the right career?” “Why do I still think it is a career?”
Just curious I still have friends from my army days and a few of them are earning huge amounts of money as bodyguards or mercenary duties guarding ships from Somali pirates etc. One of them has his own security company in Canada and is worth a small fortune. What made you choose trucking? You weren’t in the catering corps by any chance?
alder:
Just curious I still have friends from my army days and a few of them are earning huge amounts of money as body guards or mercenary duties guarding ships from Somali pirates etc. One of them has his own security company in Canada and is worth a small fortune. What made you choose trucking? You weren’t in the catering corps by any chance?
maybe he fancied something where he wont be shot at or has his life at risk
alder:
Just curious I still have friends from my army days and a few of them are earning huge amounts of money as body guards or mercenary duties guarding ships from Somali pirates etc. One of them has his own security company in Canada and is worth a small fortune. What made you choose trucking? You weren’t in the catering corps by any chance?
maybe he fancied something where he wont be shot at or has his life at risk
Oh yeah what’s the word again ummmm coward that’s it
alder:
Just curious I still have friends from my army days and a few of them are earning huge amounts of money as body guards or mercenary duties guarding ships from Somali pirates etc. One of them has his own security company in Canada and is worth a small fortune. What made you choose trucking? You weren’t in the catering corps by any chance?
maybe he fancied something where he wont be shot at or has his life at risk
Oh yeah what’s the word again ummmm coward that’s it
i dont think so, he may have kids etc and dont want them to grow up without a dad if he was killed doing that sort of job. someone i used to play footy with was in the army, now hes a plumber, wanted something different to that, nothing wrong with it at all
Or maybe I just like driving trucks for £500 per week and doing virtually nothing for it!
Tell you what though folks…I have never ’ gone through 7 agencies ’ (how [zb] do you have to be for 7 Lidl bag employers to bin you off)…and now cant get a job. But he claims he doesn’t need the money and has ’ other skills ', toilet-QUICK!!!
I need to change my Primark’s, being so poor quality they can only absorb so much ■■■■.
alder:
Just curious I still have friends from my army days and a few of them are earning huge amounts of money as bodyguards or mercenary duties guarding ships from Somali pirates etc. One of them has his own security company in Canada and is worth a small fortune. What made you choose trucking? You weren’t in the catering corps by any chance?
I for one don’t like the thought of a career where your paied to run towards little bits of led flying towards you at great velocity… Just saying
And I’m no coward ether I’d just rather die for something I believe in or someone I love, not just cos my boss pays me to die for his own agenda… You can’t take money to the grave
So you join the army and risk life for a small wage for queen and country but you would not risk your life for a fantastic pay? I am sorry but this does not compute and sounds like a load of bull. My best mate got a lance corporals pay and was blown up in Armagh as his Q car passed an INLA bomb hidden in a digger bucket. He then was injured abroad and had to have shrapnel removed from his shoulder, I don’t know the details because of the regiment he was in. He got sod all for all this but now is on the way to his first million dollars for having ex special forces guys sitting on boats doing basic guard duty. He pays his guys a fortune and there is rarely an incident now as the pirates don’t like the odds anymore. You guys are defending a mouthy novice who was not even trained in the army for his class 2 which begs a question The truth is lorry driving is ALL you got and about all you are worth.
alder:
So you join the army and risk life for a small wage for queen and country but you would not risk your life for a fantastic pay? I am sorry but this does not compute and sounds like a load of bull. My best mate got a lance corporals pay and was blown up in Armagh as his Q car passed an INLA bomb hidden in a digger bucket. He then was injured abroad and had to have shrapnel removed from his shoulder, I don’t know the details because of the regiment he was in. He got sod all for all this but now is on the way to his first million dollars for having ex special forces guys sitting on boats doing basic guard duty. He pays his guys a fortune and there is rarely an incident now as the pirates don’t like the odds anymore. You guys are defending a mouthy novice who was not even trained in the army for his class 2 which begs a question The truth is lorry driving is ALL you got and about all you are worth.
) and a mortgage to pay though I feel I like I can’t take the “gamble” of jacking in a job that gives me a comfortable life to TRY and become a concrete truck owner driver as much as I would like to …
so I’ve chucked my savings at my licence so I can be guaranteed to get a job. I’ve spent months trying to get one before and its demoralising. Plus I’ve got 2 daughters and man their expensive. Our shopping bill has 3x what it was before. So I can’t afford to be out of work.
Unlike you I have choices …
The truth is lorry driving is ALL you got and about all you are worth.