I think you get a smart phone for less than 40 quid now. Sometimes cheaper. Could download roadlords app or use Google maps and watch your limit signs.
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Hahaha englishdriver1970 , admire your balls for knowing when to throw the towel in.
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Hahaha englishdriver1970 , admire your balls for knowing when to throw the towel in.
I haven’t told the full story of my 30+ hours out on my 1st job.
On route to the 1st delivery driving from overnight stop in Goole Yorkshire to the delivery in Hunasby near Scarborough, I pulled into a small petrol station for directions.
As I pulled away the bottom rear corner of the truck caught a small post protecting the fourcourt air/water supply machine, ripping the truck rear light cluster off.
I carried onto 1st delivery. Once that was done I headed back to the A1 but stopped locally in a lay-by to report back to base regarding the light.
That’s where I stayed for the next 5 hours waiting for a light replacement.
On the approach to the A1 the sign said north or south. Split second decision made me turn south.
Curious to know what you were doing in Goole enroute from Felixstowe to Scarborough.
I went A1 M56 M18.
Yeah, you definitely need some maps.
Driving isn’t for you pal.
I do hope they didn’t pay you for wasting their time and letting not only yourself but the employer and their customers down.
“They didn’t supply a satnav”, has to be the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard.
I left the army in 83, started work for Smiths of Scotter, 1st run was to Ardersier in Scotland, when I got back I picked up a trailer and set off for 2 drops in Milan, satnavs hadn’t been invented but fortunately brains had.
I suspect you lacked a pair of bollox as well.
I bought my 1st satnav about 5 years ago, before that I never felt the need to turn round and come home crying from anywhere in Europe or Scandinavia because I couldn’t find either a delivery or collection point.
Best you stay in bricklaying pal, that’s if you can manage to find your way to work in a morning.
This has to be a wind up, there is nobody that stupid, is there?
Grumpy_old_trucker:
Driving isn’t for you pal.
I do hope they didn’t pay you for wasting their time and letting not only yourself but the employer and their customers down.
“They didn’t supply a satnav”, has to be the lamest excuse I’ve ever heard.
I left the army in 83, started work for Smiths of Scotter, 1st run was to Ardersier in Scotland, when I got back I picked up a trailer and set off for 2 drops in Milan, satnavs hadn’t been invented but fortunately brains had.
I suspect you lacked a pair of bollox as well.
I bought my 1st satnav about 5 years ago, before that I never felt the need to turn round and come home crying from anywhere in Europe or Scandinavia because I couldn’t find either a delivery or collection point.
Best you stay in bricklaying pal, that’s if you can manage to find your way to work in a morning.
I certainly won’t be taking any advice from the 2 Ronnies AKA Grumpy Git and Wheel nut.
English driver 1970:
I certainly won’t be taking any advice from the 2 Ronnies AKA Grumpy Git and Wheel nut.
I wouldn’t expect you to!
I’m surprised you manage to find the quote button, it appears you can’t find anywhere else.
Grumpy_old_trucker:
English driver 1970:
I certainly won’t be taking any advice from the 2 Ronnies AKA Grumpy Git and Wheel nut.I wouldn’t expect you to!
I’m surprised you manage to find the quote button, it appears you can’t find anywhere else.
As I say you Grumpy sod don’t give a toss what you think.
And what I’ve read over many months on here, nobody else does either.
English driver 1970:
As I say you Grumpy sod don’t give a toss what you think.
You obviously do or you wouldn’t keep replying to my posts.
From reading your OP you are the epitome of all that’s wrong with this industry.
24 hours and you’ve damaged a truck, sitting in a lay-by crying for 5 hours because you’re homesick and turning round and running home to your bed sit without completing your deliveries.
Even worse than that, you’ve felt the need to embarrass yourself by posting how daft and immature you are on a public forum.
I suggest you request your username be amended and remove the word “driver” from it as that’s something you most certainly are not!
Go dust off your trowel and spirit level, although I would doubt you’re competency with those tools.
I cannot work out if this whole thread is a wind up haha
Grumpy_old_trucker:
English driver 1970:
As I say you Grumpy sod don’t give a toss what you think.You obviously do or you wouldn’t keep replying to my posts.
From reading your OP you are the epitome of all that’s wrong with this industry.
24 hours and you’ve damaged a truck, sitting in a lay-by crying for 5 hours because you’re homesick and turning round and running home to your bed sit without completing your deliveries.
Even worse than that, you’ve felt the need to embarrass yourself by posting how daft and immature you are on a public forum.
I suggest you request your username be amended and remove the word “driver” from it as that’s something you most certainly are not!
Go dust off your trowel and spirit level, although I would doubt you’re competency with those tools.
Bedsit Lol……your the one who’s earnings over last 10 years has been below a tenner an hour. Luckily being highly skilled I can choose what I want to do.
You sound very bitter over your career thus far. My house is paid for from hard graft and great earnings. I now want an easy job, like driving, especially as pay has now gone over the poverty threshold. After 30 years of a working career I’ve never jacked in on the job. But as they say you learn from experience.
Although I understand nobody’s experienced in life as you.
Bedsit Lol……your the one who’s earnings over last 10 years has been below a tenner an hour. Luckily being highly skilled I can choose what I want to do.
You sound very bitter over your career thus far. My house is paid for from hard graft and great earnings. I now want an easy job, like driving, especially as pay has now gone over the poverty threshold. After 30 years of a working career I’ve never jacked in on the job. But as they say you learn from experience.
Although I understand nobody’s experienced in life as you.
Driving is not always that easy if it was everyone would do it you may learn this
As I said I have been thrown in at the department end more than once but I don’t know any employer that supplies maps or sat nav they are part of YOUR kit
You had a phone you could have phoned the office for advice & directions wrote done on you paper with your pen/pencil yes I have done that
Sorry to hear that the first job didn’t go to plan, sounds a bit of a nightmare of a situation, certainly didn’t sound like they pay any attention to you being new to the job! but oh well you tried and made a decision to finish it, while there seems to be a lot of arsy comments, i’m sure they have never had a bad experience or made mistakes, yeah I can see the point some better planning might have helped you out but oh well a lesson learned, you are honest and open enough to not talk crap about it and will do better next time!
English driver 1970:
After 30 years of a working career I’ve never jacked in on the job.
You bloody liar, I’ll call you out on that.
What’s this thread about you bullshiner?
You openly admit in your OP that’s exactly what you did you trouser wetter.
Clear off back to bricklaying, your brief foray into transport was a disaster because you haven’t and never had what it takes!
There’s girls driving trucks who can manage to make it from Suffolk to the North East without crying and running home to mummy, even more embarrassing for you there’s Eastern European’s manage it as well.
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