I’m not so good and better than you because I’m class 1, it’s because I have a full brain unlike the half you seem to have 
kjw21:
Sorry it’s took a while to get back to this thread I was just beating the women back that are flocking around the truck with the cab jack handle.Funny thing is they just didn’t seem to notice the rigids as they sprinted towards my obviously ■■■■■■■■ magnetised Premium.
Lol that cracked me up
many years ago , my dad offered me a brand new Ford D series rigid to use on mobile homes, not likely says i , i’m sticking with my F86 artic.
he got to go to St Tropez and Frejus fairly regularly, i got to go to Harwich even more frequently
Saaamon:
Terry T:
I think rigid drivers are just jealous coz they have to do a thousand gear changes every day in their little puddle jumpers while us pros who have made it breeze around with our feet up in our i-Shift, Powershift, Opticruise behemothsIm still rocking a manual
50/50 here. Some days manual, some days auto. And some days, shock horror, an 18 tonner. I wear a mask on those days though, don’t want any Class 1’ers poking fun at me
kjw21:
Sorry it’s took a while to get back to this thread I was just beating the women back that are flocking around the truck with the cab jack handle.Funny thing is they just didn’t seem to notice the rigids as they sprinted towards my obviously ■■■■■■■■ magnetised Premium.
A Premium? A bloody Premium?
There is a hierarchy between even us class 1 drivers too you know! 
Well if everyone else is making comments, here’s mine… I once jumped out the cab of my “XXXXXXX Premium XXXl space lunar cab top heavy top liner” in a layby and thought oh no i’ve jumped straight into dog ■■■■■■ but it was in fact an FL7 Rigid… Thank you. 
I hate arriving at these threads late!!!
Yes I know your jealous of my exclusive French chariot but let’s not lose sight of the fact it pulls a trailer therefore I still have other drivers whom I can look down on smugly in their skateboard like vehicles.
It’s funny how the ones who shout the loudest are the, ‘I decided not to get Class 1/have one and choose not to use it’ brigade.
They’re happy driving their little trucks, they really are. Thing is, they probably get a hard on when they’re flashed in by one of us Class 1 Drivers as it makes them feel like a real trucker. 
FarnboroughBoy11:
:lol: I hate arriving at these threads late!!!
You’re never late when you drive a V8.
Oh… 
DaiDap:
FarnboroughBoy11:
:lol: I hate arriving at these threads late!!!You’re never late when you drive a V8.
Oh…
True.
I guess that this topic is a wind up as I cannot believe that driver’s today are really that shallow! 
Years ago nobody looked down on anyone else, we were all LORRY (not TRUCK 
) drivers and respected each other and couldnt care less if someone just happened to drive a lorry that hinged in the middle to make it more manouverable to get in tight places that the four, six and eight wheelers mostly needed a shunt or two to accomplish. It also seems, reading these pages, that drivers no longer stand around chatting to one another at the days end, or companies no longer have social evenings with darts etc for the men or whist/beetle drives etc for the wives plus Christmas Dinner/Dances to have a good night out at the end of the year. Sad really, nowaday it seems to be ‘Just a Job’ end of! 
Pete.
windrush:
I guess that this topic is a wind up
You guessed correct 
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You have said it all pete,ive been out on the pick up this morning mini wheeler man,then this afternoon out with an extendable nooteboom to fetch a long wheelbase rigid xf95 in from wem ,i dont mind what i drive.
Saaamon:
windrush:
I guess that this topic is a wind upYou guessed correct
I hope so or I’ve made myself look a right ■■■■■
Think I’d be at the very bottom given i drive a rigid stralis 
maga:
Think I’d be at the very bottom given i drive a rigid stralis
I had a 6wheeler stralis as my first truck! Was a machine that thing, didnt like being knocked about to much though, sudden gust of wind and something would fall off… I think the lever for the auto gearbox was once the throttle lever in an aeroplane lol.
I used to have a few lorries on with a freight forwarder, they had some units of their own, but they were left hookers and couldn’t get anyone to do local work on them without mangling the front right hand corners, I was doing a bit here and there relieving my own drivers, so they asked if I would help out, the money on offer was pretty good, so I went for it and what turned out to be a day here and there turned into a full time job almost. I would drive anything from a Transit, a 7.5tonner, 16tonners or a LHD artic. It didn’t bother me, the money was the same and going to, say, Devon is a lot easier in a 90mph Transit Van than an artic 
I did make myself look a bit of a ■■■■ once though. I was going out with a bird who worked in the office there and went to pick her up from work. I parked near the entrance to the yard, obviously allowing plenty of room for the lorries to get in and out. As I waited a lorry pulled up and started giving it some on the hooter, the driver then jumped out and started mouthing off about how he had a 40 footer and couldn’t get in the gate as I was parked like a ■■■■■ I told him there was plenty of room, he carried on gobbing off, almost to the point where we were going to come to blows (which I couldn’t really do outside a customer/employer) I told him to ■■■■ off and I would drive it in the yard for him. He got in and made a right meal out of it, almost wheelnutting my car, although he did make it with room to spare (as I knew he would)
Next day I was asked to come in and do a run in a Transit, guess who was in the office when I went in for my notes 
Yep, supertrucker 
It made his day and he sniggered as I was handed the keys to a Transit
It all came good for me and my honour was restored when I ran down to Italy with him a week or so later, he was very different towards me when I was in my left ■■■■■■ 142
Dead right newmercman i often have similar issues.
Most of the dopy ■■■■■ on here started out on…puddle jumpers…and certainly after 1997,why look down on another man going about his job…does it realy matter what you drive ?..what matters is what goes in the bank every week…this thread reminds me of the quote…the man driving his big sports car often is compensating for not having a big manhood.