Why are you assuming it must be an older driver that would be needed? I’m less that 30 but I’m not a steering wheel attendant. I would rather chance a wheel than wait for a tyre fitter to arrive and pull my pants down. If I can save the guy I’m working for a few quid there might be a chance of some of it coming my way as means of thanks. I’ve changed clutches at the side of the road because it was cheaper for us to go out to it than it was to get it dragged in. Of love the chance to have 1 vehicle to look after for a few months through the summer. I have enough work through the winter to keep me busy.
mucker85:
Why are you assuming it must be an older driver that would be needed? I’m less that 30 but I’m not a steering wheel attendant. I would rather chance a wheel than wait for a tyre fitter to arrive and pull my pants down. If I can save the guy I’m working for a few quid there might be a chance of some of it coming my way as means of thanks. I’ve changed clutches at the side of the road because it was cheaper for us to go out to it than it was to get it dragged in. Of love the chance to have 1 vehicle to look after for a few months through the summer. I have enough work through the winter to keep me busy.
Well, that’s fair comment. It will be another year until I do put the plan into action but when I do I will sound out the idea of putting a driver on it. I think it is fair to say that 20 years ago a driver was expected to take a far more hands-on approach than nowadays, not least because he probably wouldn’t even have had a mobile phone. But, if somebody seemed to have their head screwed on then it really wouldn’t matter what age they were.
Cheers, it does annoy me when all of us younger drivers are tarred with the same brush of uselessness.
could always sell it and just do casual driving as and when… 
cliffystephens:
could always sell it and just do casual driving as and when…
Could do, but it won’t be worth a great amount, casual work isn’t that easy to find in my part of the world, especially over the Winter, and I could earn a fair bit more running my own truck, especially as the finance payments will have finished.
Also, I far prefer running my own truck to being an employed driver, and now that production has finished, Renault Magnums are destined to become a future classic, according to a recent article in Commercial Motor anyway, and if they do then it will start going up in value, like F16s and Scania 143s have.
I’m still a year away from jumping though, so there’s plenty of time to finalise a plan. And anything could go wrong between now and then anyways…
In another couple of years the first (1992) Magnums are officially classic vehicles 
I remember the first time I saw one, it was in a chocolate factory in Perugia. He parked next to me in my F12 and stood up, opened the door and swept out the cab with a full size broom, [zb]ing poser 