After all the moaning you guys do about security staff at RDCs,why not shake hands with them when you leave the site as Stobarts obviously train their drivers to!!!Makes them so friendly and amenable!!!Try it for a week then post on here how much nicer life has become.Wonder what VOSA would make of the ornament dangling in Mr Supertank’s line of vision…
OVLOV JAY:
That Mo fella came across like a complete ■■■. Why the hell did he go round the circ, into the roadworks, instead of going south. And his little hissy fit at aveley. You move and get an infringement so I dont! What a nob
If I’d been the 1 parked up with 5 mins left on my 45 and he told me to move, I’d have got out, ■■■■■■■ the fat ■■■■■ got back in my truck and started my 45 again - interrupted you see 
Muckaway:
daleyboy:
Tut tut mo drinking while driving, using his on board computer to make a call while driving and going over his 15 hours. Yeah shows just how professional he is, well done top ■■■ sorry I mean top gun. Don’t make me laugh I bet he is the only one who calls himself top gunHow those truck washers take crap off him I’ll never know-I’d go for the mechanical truckwash if I had the choice. Oh and where do you get this “highly explosive diesel”? I’d love to put some through my CAT engine!
By the looks of it with a lot of sarcasm, but it seems to subtile for Mo to understand, Ithought they seemed like the only guys that weren’t playing up to the camera. 
Mo does come across as an arrogant [zb] that should be taken round the back of a few trailers and introduced to the heavy end of a baseball bat, or maybe it was just the editing, If so then Mo should take the production team round the back of the trailers.
This programe was made by Ch5 for TV, it has to capture peoples imagination, but with lots of inaccuracies…
I’m pretty sure William will be having a word with Mo REMOVED, or the production crew…Either way I don’t think William will be a happy Bunny this morning…
But haven’t we all met people like him down the road? I don’t think ESL have the exclusive rights on REMOVED
But it was a pretty poor copy of Ice Road truckers, which was also crap…(imho)
But at the end of the day he is still a Multi Millionare who has done rather well for himself…
Saw this thread last night and wondered what i missed. Channel surfing this morning and what do i see on Channel 5? The very program, turned it off after half hour, usual bigging up stuff for the camera etc which is really nothing new tbh. As long as it makes for good ratings and everybodys “favorite haulier” makes money, well, that’s the name of the game isn’t it? 
I wonder what the outakes of this program are like, you know, with the real life idiots on the road cutting the trucks up, and the drivers swearing at them… don’t see any of that do we?
Deepinvet:
I’m pretty sure William will be having a word with Mo , or the production crew…Either way I don’t think William will be a happy Bunny this morning…
Ooh I dunno, if I was a road haulier I would be rather pleased at getting an hour-long advert on the telly for free.
Treat it for what it is, light hearted entertainment. Too many people seem to be getting their knickers in a twist!.
Deepinvet:
But it was a pretty poor copy of Ice Road truckers
but without the Ice. simply ‘Road Truckers’
Is Mo trying for the Hugh/rick character?
bottom line is we know it’s all edited & played for , i haul farm feed on a bulk blower , not everyones cup of tea but just done a week on genral haul to many of the RDC i read about on here & thats not my cup of tea either , but if i had to i’d do it ,as for EST most of it looks BS but as the mrs said , if i had to i’d do it ,
yeah i’d drive for stobarts , doesn’t look that hard a life , i don’t think it’s a job that would hold my interest but if it pays the bills i’d do it .
believe me i’ve worked for worse,we all have , i bet none of the stobart drivers have been told , ‘ah yeah about your wages , well things a a bit tight this month , so can i pay you half with next months money & the other half maybe the next month after’ & don’t worry about the fuel cards just give me a ring & i’m sure we can sort something , just put a £100 in to keep you going like
yeah i’d drive for stobarts ,new clean truck to drive , uniform supplied & their day all mapped out for them suits some not others
but we cant tar all the drivers with the same brush , i’ve talked to a few some like it some dont , cant keep everyone happy
This programme is obviously made for the benefit of his clients and potential clients, wild inaccuracies , exaggerations and all.I have nothing for or against ESL myself,but they do know how to milk publicity and marketing (also having the budget others do not !!),i would not be surprised if they funded the entire production themselves and i agree about the chap drinking the bottle of water whilst driving,stern talking to there i think,that said i thought it was entertaining all the same.
I WOULD work for them probably wouldnt last long with all the bs but would try it before i slagged it , love too be the bloke shaking WTF !!! as his new volvo is bought too him in next weeks episode 
topmixer11:
I WOULD work for them probably wouldnt last long with all the bs but would try it before i slagged it , love too be the bloke shaking WTF !!! as his new volvo is bought too him in next weeks episode
Oh, how exciting, I’ve replaced my old worn out hammer with a new 1…
They’re only tools to do the job, sad gits lol.
waynedl:
topmixer11:
I WOULD work for them probably wouldnt last long with all the bs but would try it before i slagged it , love too be the bloke shaking WTF !!! as his new volvo is bought too him in next weeks episodeOh, how exciting, I’ve replaced my old worn out hammer with a new 1…
They’re only tools to do the job, sad gits lol.
I don’t know have you ever seem mechanics screaming like little girls when the Snap On van turns up.
waynedl:
topmixer11:
I WOULD work for them probably wouldnt last long with all the bs but would try it before i slagged it , love too be the bloke shaking WTF !!! as his new volvo is bought too him in next weeks episodeOh, how exciting, I’ve replaced my old worn out hammer with a new 1…
They’re only tools to do the job, sad gits lol.
hey thats a bit harsh , i usualy get a bit light headed when i but a new hammer, i think i actaully died when i last had a new truck 
i new truck , ah i feel pleased for the lad , just a shame it looks exactly like the other 100 in the yard 
i know drivers that have been in the job for over 40 years & never had a new truck 
muckles:
waynedl:
topmixer11:
I WOULD work for them probably wouldnt last long with all the bs but would try it before i slagged it , love too be the bloke shaking WTF !!! as his new volvo is bought too him in next weeks episodeOh, how exciting, I’ve replaced my old worn out hammer with a new 1…
They’re only tools to do the job, sad gits lol.
I don’t know have you ever seem mechanics screaming like little girls when the Snap On van turns up.
too funny
i think you’ll find they get a bit tetchy being callec mechanics …they’re technicians now dont you know
why is it on ice road truckers or axmen , some individuals have a passion for heavy drinking, sleazy women & fighting , yet we get a stobart trucker who’s a plane spotter 
I did notice something, and that was, where the hell did they hide ALL their grossly obese drivers?
I never saw any in the clip I saw, and every where Ive been in the last few weeks 90% of eddies Ive seen look fit to burst
Im very very surprised at you lot on here not noticing how many times the narrator said…once the driver has emptied his load, or drops his load. Its like something out of the viz magazine, (finbarr saunders). the whole show was like a film trailer just full of short clips all the time but there was quite a few action sequences…
ie
GASP as tanker man takes a wrong turning
!SHOCK HORROR! Man turns up to a well known diy store (wickes) only to find another wagon getting tipped in front of him !
AWE IN AMAZEMENT as 7 yes count them 7! trucks wait at pumps while man fills up the fuel bunker which takes 45 mins.
i look forward to the next thrilling installment of est&t
m6again:
Im very very surprised at you lot on here not noticing how many times the narrator said…once the driver has emptied his load, or drops his load. Its like something out of the viz magazine, (finbarr saunders). the whole show was like a film trailer just full of short clips all the time but there was quite a few action sequences…
ie
GASP as tanker man takes a wrong turning
!SHOCK HORROR! Man turns up to a well known diy store (wickes) only to find another wagon getting tipped in front of him !
AWE IN AMAZEMENT as 7 yes count them 7! trucks wait at pumps while man fills up the fuel bunker which takes 45 mins.
Yes, despite the breathless faux-drama, it’s not quite got the seat-of-the-pants adrenaline of Ice Road Truckers… At one stage the narrator said something like “and then disaster strikes- there’s a traffic jam on the motorway!!!”
I did a couple of years for stobarts on the agencies and had some good times but this program aint realistic.everything timed within minutes my arse,say that when you have sat outside coke wakefield for four hours for your load and then when you finally get it you have to take it back in because a case of diet coke is bust.or see other drivers with headlamps hanging on with insulation tape because they are short of wagons and they sent it out anyways or my favourite a driver gets handed some keys and says i cant take that out so they hand it to some other chump who then goes outside and finds the windows dont wind down which is good fun in the middle of london when reversing (i was the chump).when i was there the handsfree speakers nearly never worked but they could hear you swearing at the bloody thing.or getting a trailer which someone else has left bodged and you get in it and the pole comes out of the back going down the road…