Ironically I consider just navigating and calling out the challenges and injustices of life a badge of honour.Certainly not a victim card.
As opposed to those who think that Gold Stars being awarded at school, or not and how many tonnes of freight they are happy to handball, is more important, than safe driving commendations from an employer, on a dangerous roads topic.
CF…If you have your ‘safe driving commendations’ down as some sort of badge of honour or accolade, that is up to you.
As for me, a guy who does not give a ■■■■ what anybody thinks of me, (good or bad) and who does not suffer from any self insecurity,.especially enough to feel the need for a pat on the back, these so called certificates would not matter a jot to me.
As long as I am safe in the knowledge myself, that I am a fairly efficient, safe,.and competent driver of a truck in my own mind.well that is enough for me,.I aint interested in anyone telling me so.
If my firm ever feels the need to congratulate me for it (aye right, I won’t be holding my breath btw 
) I would say ‘‘just pay me more instead’’, I wouldnt want nor need their worthless pieces of paper,.and I certainly would not be mentioning them, let alone boasting about them.
Myself personally I preferred being allocated a brand new 750 (twice I might add, a V3 & V4 
) as a pat on the back to a certificate as let’s face it I was never gonna get a safe driving certificate
I once got a certificate for swimming a length underwater. I got a sew on badge too. With hindsight I probably shouldn’t have sewn it over the S on my Speedos
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A colleague saw an hgv on the m25 the other day swerving all over the place almost hitting the barriers of them bridges which vehicles squeeze behind. He got along side him & the driver smiled whilst holding a can of stella. My colleague phone the police, they called him back a while later saying they got him & he was 4 times over the limit. Idiots like him make the roads lethal
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what gets me is how they think they will get away with it. they got to go back to the office pie eyed so they must get caught. They deserve everything they get and so does the company
I can’t remember who it was now, but it’s one commonly seen on the M25. He was transporting huge wooden blocks in a curtainside. Probably an owner driver because his unit was a plain Scania. I think the trailer might have been a European company but the unit and driver were British.
Not everyone goes back to the office at the end of their shift, some just jump in that soft thing behind the seats.
blowing four times over the limit you have a drink problem if your behind the wheel and have to drink like that in the day time. i appreciate some might be trampers but they have to go back to the office some time. or speak to their planners some time. I seriously doubt anyone that would be able to not drink on their last day would get hammered on the rest of the days and they couldnt smell it on them.
There is nothing wrong with the UK roads, apart from the pot holes lol
The problem is the ■■■■■ useing them ? Where do you have to apply for an HGV licence nowadays ? ( Trafford Park by any chance ) take it they send them out by post. And who the ■■■■ employ them, Sharp Suits / Ponty Shoe brigade ffs ie Thick ■■■■■■ I would not trust some to get out of the gate with a vehicle ? Maybe on the end of my boot more like…
What must the real drivers think of the new breed? Time to retire maybe.
What a shame UK Road Transport have dropped to this level, but then again this Great Country is now ■■■■■■, Spot the White Man lol
This guy blew twice the limit, but he couldn’t see the signs.
Cherwell Services: Lorry driver banned after vehicle impaled on sign - BBC News
Trafford Park? Not sure what you’re getting at there
Trafford Park, Kelloggs Corn Flakes, ie Licence out of the Packet.
I take it i am showing my age then lol That was a well know saying,
Ah got you now. Thanks for clearing that up haha