Juddian:
Jesus wept, 73 hour week isn’t a job its a sentence.
Depends how you look at it I suppose. There are days I want to be home earlier but then there are days that I get paid and forget about going home. Hours are long but it’s an absolute doddle of a job. Beats driving a transporter around London collecting scrap cars hands down
The easiest day’s I’ve had were shunting stock for a child car seat firm from factory to farm storage unit across town 4 miles and visa versa all I did was drive and open and close back doors plus drink tea the firms staff did all the loading unloading
My current job is the cushiest i’ve had.
Get some crap runs from time to time, but I spend most of my working days with my feet up supping tea & watching iPlayer then go home for tea. That, whilst taking home more money each week than a lot of police officers, care workers & nurses.
Lets face it, lorry driving in this day an age is a total doss really no matter what gripes you might have with office staff etc.
Cushiest job I ever had was a night at Proctor & Gamble, Thurrock. Spent first two hours drinking coffee and chatting then took trailer round corner to Tesco, Thurrock, tipped it and ran back, they told me to get my head down and they’d wake me up when it was time to go home. Money was pretty good as well including bonus as they were desparate for drivers. 
Evil8Beezle:
Get ready for Robroy telling us how he slept on a plank full of nails in the arctic winter of 1894, with only a candle to keep him warm!
id have murdered you to have a candle in my cab…around where i worked,if you were found with a candle in your cab ,then you got dragged round the back of the shed,and given a good kicking in case you were a woofter,ust to be on the safe side… 
BradCarTransporter:
Last week I clocked 73 hours.
What is it like not having a life? Even doing the industry average 55hr week leaves you with no life compared to the rest of society. When you get a regular 40hr a week job you realise just how much you’ve missed out on. Nothing big or clever about doing loads of hours, sadly too many don’t seem to see that.
dieseldog999:
Evil8Beezle:
Get ready for Robroy telling us how he slept on a plank full of nails in the arctic winter of 1894, with only a candle to keep him warm!id have murdered you to have a candle in my cab…around where i worked,if you were found with a candle in your cab ,then you got dragged round the back of the shed,and given a good kicking in case you were a woofter,ust to be on the safe side…
Cab? You had a cab? We used to share a donkey jacket between 6 drivers and as the new boy I used to get July & August.
Kerragy:
dieseldog999:
Evil8Beezle:
Get ready for Robroy telling us how he slept on a plank full of nails in the arctic winter of 1894, with only a candle to keep him warm!id have murdered you to have a candle in my cab…around where i worked,if you were found with a candle in your cab ,then you got dragged round the back of the shed,and given a good kicking in case you were a woofter,ust to be on the safe side…
Cab? You had a cab? We used to share a donkey jacket between 6 drivers and as the new boy I used to get July & August.
Donkey jacket!!! You were lucky…we ‘ad a cardboard box in t’middle o’ t’road…
An’ t’transport manager used ter bray us to death every night.
Try telling that to the young lads to-day, and they wont believe you.
Conor:
BradCarTransporter:
Last week I clocked 73 hours.What is it like not having a life? Even doing the industry average 55hr week leaves you with no life compared to the rest of society. When you get a regular 40hr a week job you realise just how much you’ve missed out on. Nothing big or clever about doing loads of hours, sadly too many don’t seem to see that.
If that is his choice, thats entirely up to him! Change the record, you’ll be telling us how you could earn 43k full time at howdens next 
but you have too much of a life to lead…
£500-600 pw after tax (any over time makes that close to the 600), working 1700-0300
Driving from MAN to LBA (airport cargo centers) 4 hours of your day, then 3 hours waiting to be loaded to deliver to the bonded warehouses at man. 80% of time recorded on tacho POA or rest depends if your a tool or not.
F-reds:
Conor:
BradCarTransporter:
Last week I clocked 73 hours.What is it like not having a life? Even doing the industry average 55hr week leaves you with no life compared to the rest of society. When you get a regular 40hr a week job you realise just how much you’ve missed out on. Nothing big or clever about doing loads of hours, sadly too many don’t seem to see that.
If that is his choice, thats entirely up to him! Change the record, you’ll be telling us how you could earn 43k full time at howdens next
id have thought having a mundane night trunk would be as close to having no life as anyone could handle…fair play to the dude for 73 hours at £15 per hour,make it while you can.40 or 50 years doing that,then mabey,ust mabey,he could afford to jack it all in,sign up as a limper,get a zero hour contract and live the good life…
dieseldog999:
F-reds:
id have thought having a mundane night trunk would be as close to having no life as anyone could handle…fair play to the dude for 73 hours at £15 per hour,make it while you can.40 or 50 years doing that,then mabey,ust mabey,he could afford to jack it all in,sign up as a limper,get a zero hour contract and live the good life…
That’s only 764quid a week bro, that seems alot of work for more then doing pretty much nothing with airfreight
dieseldog999:
id have thought having a mundane night trunk would be as close to having no life as anyone could handle…fair play to the dude for 73 hours at £15 per hour,make it while you can.40 or 50 years doing that,then mabey,ust mabey,he could afford to jack it all in,sign up as a limper,get a zero hour contract and live the good life…
Am I the only one that can hear The A-Team theme tune in his head as I read that?? 
Conor:
BradCarTransporter:
Last week I clocked 73 hours.What is it like not having a life? Even doing the industry average 55hr week leaves you with no life compared to the rest of society. When you get a regular 40hr a week job you realise just how much you’ve missed out on. Nothing big or clever about doing loads of hours, sadly too many don’t seem to see that.
Working long hours for a good wage at the end of the week/month is a fact of life, unless your lucky.
55 hours driving a truck for 30K is a total doss compared to what most of ‘the rest of society’ have to do to earn that much. We don’t have senior/managerial responsibilities, we don’t think about work once we have gone home, the job is no more than semi-skilled…most of us do alright all things considered in my opinion. Most people elsewhere in society in the position we are working flat 40 hour weeks are low earners, doing menial jobs in offices and warehouses.
F-reds:
dieseldog999:
id have thought having a mundane night trunk would be as close to having no life as anyone could handle…fair play to the dude for 73 hours at £15 per hour,make it while you can.40 or 50 years doing that,then mabey,ust mabey,he could afford to jack it all in,sign up as a limper,get a zero hour contract and live the good life…Am I the only one that can hear The A-Team theme tune in his head as I read that??
thik i was the only one that could hear it as i wrote that…
tommymanc:
dieseldog999:
F-reds:
id have thought having a mundane night trunk would be as close to having no life as anyone could handle…fair play to the dude for 73 hours at £15 per hour,make it while you can.40 or 50 years doing that,then mabey,ust mabey,he could afford to jack it all in,sign up as a limper,get a zero hour contract and live the good life…That’s only 764quid a week bro, that seems alot of work for more then doing pretty much nothing with airfreight
Also I get travel expenses on top and meal allowances so it actually pays well overall.
Granted it’s a long old week but being that I’m the sole bread winner in the house, I’ve got 2 kids under 2 and a mortgage to pay I’m happy. Each to their own I suppose.
dieseldog999:
F-reds:
dieseldog999:
id have thought having a mundane night trunk would be as close to having no life as anyone could handle…fair play to the dude for 73 hours at £15 per hour,make it while you can.40 or 50 years doing that,then mabey,ust mabey,he could afford to jack it all in,sign up as a limper,get a zero hour contract and live the good life…Am I the only one that can hear The A-Team theme tune in his head as I read that??
think i was the only one that could hear it as i wrote that…
hum along to this then…
in 19 canteen a crack limper was sent to work by a recruitment court for having an attitude that nobody else had. this man went to work every night on a motorway trunk where he promptly escaped…from reality and hid during daylight hours until he morphed into what is known today as…roboconor…today,still on nights on a zero hours contract…if you have a shift that is so boring and mundane that no one else can help,and if you can phone him,then mabey ,just mabey,you can hire…THE NUMBER 1 BE ALL AND END ALL OF DRIVING SUPREMACY…ROBOCONOR…
Juddian:
The older gen who said it was easier are talking out their collective arse, 21 ton handball bags on and off, rope and sheet every load, no power steering/clutch constant mesh gearboxes, no aircon no electric windows or mirrors, course no speed limiters either, unless you were unfortunate enough to have a Gardner under the bonnet that couldn’t reach present limiter speeds without a long downhill run.More enjoyable? without question it was, so long as you didn’t mind a bit of graft.
Cushiest job is the present tanker job, short hours and go home every afternoon, hardest work i do is connect a couple of pipes or nip up onto the gantry to load, there is no work involved in sitting behind the wheel of a modern lorry that near enough drives itsen.
Most of us were fit as butchers dogs in those days and most of us had no need to rush around. Less traffic on the roads, not so many twonks. No belting about with a Gardner under the lid, although I did enjoy a Leyland etc when I could zip along at 70 plus until it saw a hill. I was a lot happier then than I would be now, even with all the mod cons. The last artic job I had was over here with an old '83 Merc pulling a curtain sider, no rushing, home every night and no stress. About the only difference from years ago was not being able to show off me roping and sheeting skills. Oh, and it wasn’t handball.
dieseldog999:
in 19 canteen a crack limper was sent to work by a recruitment court for having an attitude that nobody else had. this man went to work every night on a motorway trunk where he promptly escaped…from reality and hid during daylight hours until he morphed into what is known today as…roboconor…today,still on nights on a zero hours contract…if you have a shift that is so boring and mundane that no one else can help,and if you can phone him,then mabey ,just mabey,you can hire…THE NUMBER 1 BE ALL AND END ALL OF DRIVING SUPREMACY…ROBOCONOR…
Have you seen this driver?
Recently seen on a nigh shift truck in the M6 area…
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