Driver Shortage confirmed

To be contoversial for a minute I do agree with UKt,.aka JC :smiley: .
There are a lot of drivers about who do themselves no favours aesthetically speaking.
All it does is pander to the stereotypical view held by the anti truck brigade of a driver.
No excuse for looking like a complete ■■■■ imo, especially as drivers like myself who make an effort. are tarred with the same brush.

I passed my class 2 test and CPC only a few weeks ago now, so I wouldn’t exactly call myself an experienced driver at all. However, I think I can contribute something useful to this discussion;

I was offered interviews and assessment drives with 5 different companies only a few days after I had passed my test and, whilst 3 of them hadn’t checked the age restriction on their insurance policy and I later found out that I was unable to get a job there due to my age, only 3 weeks after passing my test, I have a well payed job lined up.

I would say that there must be some kind of shortage here in the UK, surely? If I can get offers from 5 different companies, even despite the clear lack of driving experience, then either I’ve been lucky, or there is a shortage.

Captain Caveman 76:
Have you read the forum rules? There’s an interesting snippet from the below. You may wish to read them.

Baiting other members
Posting simply to get a rise out of another/other members will simply lead to the poster no longer being able to post without their posts being scrutinised first no warnings- it will just happen. any such posts will be removed
the arbitors of this will be the admin team.

and am sure you will do your damnedest to complain. Please this is for serious discussion only. If you cannot contribute then please don’t. If you have something to say about this and every decent poster will have, then say it.

Juddian:
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Double post.

robroy:
Double post.

I know, I hold Juddian in such high regard. why does this happen? I only posted omce

We have units parked up every day whilst we have subbies pulling our trailers. Very few of our drivers are as pretty as me.

There, that about covers driver shortages and fugly drivers.

the maoster:
We have units parked up every day whilst we have subbies pulling our trailers. Very few of our drivers are as pretty as me.

There, that about covers driver shortages and fugly drivers.

Got to be honest here, I do put the glamour back into our place. Just good genes, call it lucky but I do also feel for the less fortunate. So not knocking those less fortunate in the looks dept. (Disclaimer No ugly insane looking drivers were hurt in this post)

“Gormless” drivers are very much preferred, it’s what the employer has become to want. Even the roads are tailored for ‘gormless’ drivers, for example the ‘smart motorway’, all moving at the same speed and ‘in sync’. It’s all part of the transformation for Truck drivers to soon be replaced by autonomous vehicles. It’ll be happening right before the gormless bastrds eyes and they won’t realise it.

Honestscott76:
“Gormless” drivers are very much preferred, it’s what the employer has become to want. Even the roads are tailored for ‘gormless’ drivers, for example the ‘smart motorway’, all moving at the same speed and ‘in sync’. It’s all part of the transformation for Truck drivers to soon be replaced by autonomous vehicles. It’ll be happening right before the gormless bastrds eyes and they won’t realise it.

Top marks for this reply. :smiley:

Why are you so obsessed with what other people look like or how you perceive them to be?

Why worry or even care about it, yes we have to wait in places with some minging people and it can be bothersome, I just stay as far away as I can or get some fresh air.

Be more interested in yourself than others and tell us how good you are, oh check you’ve already done that a few times. [emoji1]

simcor:
Why are you so obsessed with what other people look like or how you perceive them to be?

Why worry or even care about it, yes we have to wait in places with some minging people and it can be bothersome, I just stay as far away as I can or get some fresh air.

Be more interested in yourself than others and tell us how good you are, oh check you’ve already done that a few times. [emoji1]

Because if you take a pride in yourself, and I do. Then it sort of projects what your going to be like in keeping your truck clean and actually caring about what you are doing. It is also a very basic skill set and I am not talking of purely hygiene here either. If I wanted to be tarred with looking insane and these drivers did, teeth missing, grossly overweight, gormless looks I will go as far as to say the room resembled a soup kitchen for the homeless. Now I have never seen so many look like this before and it reflected to me how desperate employers are to get the seats filled. My point is simple, there has to be a driver shortage or these types would struggle to get their bums into a seat as well as literally. It isn’t about knocking the unfortunate it is an observation I have never made before. Yes there are a sprinkling of a few you see but this was a room full of them, I was stood in the que with them. I could see the faces on the office staff were shocked too. Bet they were glad when my pretty face appeared at the window.

Did it occur you you mate that these poor buggers may look a bit gormless because they are sat/stood in a queue waiting for paperwork whilst their brains slowly melt from their ears out of pure boredom

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This ‘king Ukt has got to be a bloody big wind up … his second post on this thread he’s saying ‘he’s a respected fridge fixer’ but then on his 4th post he is spouting more b/s by saying ’ don’t like to talk about fixing fridges’ !!! make up yer friggin mind supertroll !!! :unamused: :unamused:

emwmarine:
I was talking to a respected refrigeration engineer at the weekend. He pulled up in his van, played a strange tune and then I bought a 99 from him.

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I often imagine there must be many a hedge that have witnessed many a mouldy rogue travel backwards through them.

UKtramp:
I am not sure if this is a new trend or there really is a driver shortage. I was in the Ports today and had to go and get my paperwork for the load that I had just picked up. Well you all know the score here, lots of trucks parked up and drivers all doing the same. As I was stood in the que for the window to the office, I was amazed at the state of most of them and the gormless looks most had. It honestly resembled a scene from “one flew over the cuckoo nest”. I actually felt quite embarrassed stood among them. I got to thinking who the hell would employ some of these people. Are we really in a driver shortage as these people looked completely insane.

At present truck and do container job can any formless people.No need to many IQ.

ben.blakemore:
Did it occur you you mate that these poor buggers may look a bit gormless because they are sat/stood in a queue waiting for paperwork whilst their brains slowly melt from their ears out of pure boredom

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I was in the very same que, and to be honest I spend most days hanging around waiting to be loaded or waiting for paperwork, I don’t understand your point? Do you think waiting for paperwork turns you into this.

raymundo:
This ‘king Ukt has got to be a bloody big wind up … his second post on this thread he’s saying ‘he’s a respected fridge fixer’ but then on his 4th post he is spouting more b/s by saying ’ don’t like to talk about fixing fridges’ !!! make up yer friggin mind supertroll !!! :unamused: :unamused:

Are you really this dumb?

Andrejs:

UKtramp:
I am not sure if this is a new trend or there really is a driver shortage. I was in the Ports today and had to go and get my paperwork for the load that I had just picked up. Well you all know the score here, lots of trucks parked up and drivers all doing the same. As I was stood in the que for the window to the office, I was amazed at the state of most of them and the gormless looks most had. It honestly resembled a scene from “one flew over the cuckoo nest”. I actually felt quite embarrassed stood among them. I got to thinking who the hell would employ some of these people. Are we really in a driver shortage as these people looked completely insane.

At present truck and do container job can any formless people.No need to many IQ.

Not containers, they empty containers too you know Andrejs.