Been on night trunking a while now and just started doing APC hub nr Wolverhampton what a top place, tipped within 30/40 minutes( unlike TPN 2/3 hours), Drivers Only rest area with tv, microwave, vending machines, clean toilets, onsite burger van and the iceing on the cake lots of lovely polish girls running around 
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Paulc:
Been on night trunking a while now and just started doing APC hub nr Wolverhampton what a top place, tipped within 30/40 minutes( unlike TPN 2/3 hours), Drivers Only rest area with tv, microwave, vending machines, clean toilets, onsite burger van and the iceing on the cake lots of lovely polish girls running around
Ooh, preposterous a pro Pole post 
We have a Latvian and a Pole working in our local pubs, they are so gorgeous and people struggle to understand my accent in Derbyshire, yet they speak English beautifully.
Paulc:
Been on night trunking a while now and just started doing APC hub nr Wolverhampton what a top place, tipped within 30/40 minutes( unlike TPN 2/3 hours), Drivers Only rest area with tv, microwave, vending machines, clean toilets, onsite burger van and the iceing on the cake lots of lovely polish girls running around
Iāll keep an eye out for ya on M6 when iām coming outta Cannock when iām back on it next wk
Paulc:
Been on night trunking a while now and just started doing APC hub nr Wolverhampton what a top place, tipped within 30/40 minutes( unlike TPN 2/3 hours), Drivers Only rest area with tv, microwave, vending machines, clean toilets, onsite burger van and the iceing on the cake lots of lovely polish girls running around
Absolutely zb unbelievable unless youāve got a night trunking job with Carlsberg.In which case it would be job and finish too and those Polish birds would only be there to do the lap dancing in the canteen while youāre on break waiting for the warehouse staff to get you tipped and loaded. If only it could have been like that when I was doing night trunking in the real world. 
Why do night trunk drivers have sat-navs?
Iāve often seen them running up the road with the tom tom glaring away in the windscreen, they do the same run night after night, surely they know the way by now?
newmercman:
Why do night trunk drivers have sat-navs?Iāve often seen them running up the road with the tom tom glaring away in the windscreen, they do the same run night after night, surely they know the way by now?
Maybe theyāre lonely and like listening to voice on the thing.
merc0447:
newmercman:
Why do night trunk drivers have sat-navs?Iāve often seen them running up the road with the tom tom glaring away in the windscreen, they do the same run night after night, surely they know the way by now?
Maybe theyāre lonely and like listening to voice on the thing.
I have my own voices.
Sometimes they stop. That makes me sad and angry.
Sometimes they tell me to do things.
newmercman:
Why do night trunk drivers have sat-navs?Iāve often seen them running up the road with the tom tom glaring away in the windscreen, they do the same run night after night, surely they know the way by now?
For me, itās the distraction from the monotony.
And, by having my sat nav turned on every night, doing the same run, enabled me to spot the M6 pond man.
For those that havenāt seen it yet, if youāre heading south on the M6, just south of the D road (the bottom junction J15?), a pond appears on your sat nav to your left, and itās shaped like a bloke.
My sat nav has it as a POI now, so as I approach it, itāll say āM6 pond man - 400 yardsā
the maoster:
merc0447:
newmercman:
Why do night trunk drivers have sat-navs?Iāve often seen them running up the road with the tom tom glaring away in the windscreen, they do the same run night after night, surely they know the way by now?
Maybe theyāre lonely and like listening to voice on the thing.
I have my own voices.
Sometimes they stop. That makes me sad and angry.
Sometimes they tell me to do things.
Blimey so those rumours about night trunking driving some drivers nuts were true. 
newmercman:
Why do night trunk drivers have sat-navs?Iāve often seen them running up the road with the tom tom glaring away in the windscreen, they do the same run night after night, surely they know the way by now?
No it just shows that they donāt build trucks like they used to because they knew their own way home when the driver was too knackered to remember.
newmercman:
Why do night trunk drivers have sat-navs?Iāve often seen them running up the road with the tom tom glaring away in the windscreen, they do the same run night after night, surely they know the way by now?
Maybe because some satnavs have built in digital TV and movie facilities to pass the hours when sat in lonely RDCās.
newmercman:
Why do night trunk drivers have sat-navs?Iāve often seen them running up the road with the tom tom glaring away in the windscreen, they do the same run night after night, surely they know the way by now?
Have mine on simply because it has traffic info channel,get a hold up somewhere n u get a notificationā¦ divert to avoid it or ignore it to get some o/t in (but only on the way back so as the customer still receives delivery on time 
)ā¦simples
Actrosman:
newmercman:
Why do night trunk drivers have sat-navs?Iāve often seen them running up the road with the tom tom glaring away in the windscreen, they do the same run night after night, surely they know the way by now?
Have mine on simply because it has traffic info channel,get a hold up somewhere n u get a notificationā¦ divert to avoid it or ignore it to get some o/t in (but only on the way back so as the customer still receives delivery on time
satnavs for nightrunkers (hold my hand its dark)
Was doing nights for TNT a few weeks ago, did a fortnight of one particular run, that was more than enough.
Same thing every night, Didcot to Swindon, back to Didcot new trailer to Kingsbury (M42 Junc 10). New trailer to Nuneaton, bobtail back to Kingsbury, new trailer back to Didcot. Usually took over 12 hours, but that involved at least a couple of hours waiting around.
Facilities were all quite decent, tractor unit car park, pool table, enough seats, working vending machines, clean toilets with liquid soap.
The two weeks were great for me, as it gave me lots of reversing practice into tight bays in the dark, and also lots of trailer swaps. Wouldnāt want to do it all the time though.
So very, very boring.
Alex Lester was all there was to look forward to.
waynedl:
newmercman:
Why do night trunk drivers have sat-navs?Iāve often seen them running up the road with the tom tom glaring away in the windscreen, they do the same run night after night, surely they know the way by now?
For me, itās the distraction from the monotony.
And, by having my sat nav turned on every night, doing the same run, enabled me to spot the M6 pond man.
For those that havenāt seen it yet, if youāre heading south on the M6, just south of the D road (the bottom junction J15?), a pond appears on your sat nav to your left, and itās shaped like a bloke.
My sat nav has it as a POI now, so as I approach it, itāll say āM6 pond man - 400 yardsā
I do a night trunk in a bulk tipper 3 hours driving weigh in at customers sample load then tip weigh out all in 40mins.Then its 1st layby sleep for an hour then 3hours back to yard and get paid for minimum 10hours
Iāve been on nights 19 years, I wouldānt want to go back on days but over the years Iāve noticed how its got busier sooner, from 2am it seems to start picking up again.Iāve only done a couple of one-off day runs and been out twice on training/fuel consumption runs in that time.Itās certainly a different set of skills needed than night driving.