If it all works out then I’ll be leaving the industry and starting a job working up at Ardargh Glass in Barnsley ( some of you may have loaded out of there) as a cold side palletiser.
My partners dad is a manager up there and said some jobs have come up and advised me to go for it, he says it’s easy money. It’s 4 on 6 off work 2 days then 2 nights from September to June you then have 18 days off then go onto 4 on 4 off. Take home pay is £2,500 a month plus plenty of overtime available on the days you have off if you want it.
It’s a no brainier for me as i earn probably just £200 more a month for doing 60+ hours a week and staying out all week in the truck and having no home life and only seeing my daughter on a weekend. With this job I’ll have plenty off time to do things as a family, take my daughter to school and pick her up even get healthier by rejoining a gym something I haven’t done for 15 year( I used to love going and went 4 times a week) I’m even going to join a boxing gym.
I don’t know what to expect as apart from being an apprentice mechanic after leaving school driving trucks is all I know and it’s what I wanted to do. I’ve enjoyed the life on the open road and being able to go to and see different places in our great country I’d probably not have the chance of visiting such as the Scottish Highlands, Outer Hebrides, Ireland I’ve even been over the water once on a run down to Italy. It’s true what they say you either have tramping in your blood or you don’t and I can say I did.
There’s plenty of opportunity in the new job to better yourself and train up to do new roles with better money opportunities a very good pension scheme and bonus scheme, our lasses sisters bloke works there and he worked Xmas day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day all night shifts and got £800 for each shift 
Is there anyone on here who decided on a career change and have never looked back or those that did do something else and regretted leaving the steering wheel behind?
Never had a career change apart from military to truck driving, but hand on heart Steve I wish you the very best for the future. If the thought excites you then imo you’ve made the right decision. This job is ■■■■■■, so crack on mate and have a real life.
No brainier really. [emoji106]
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the maoster:
Never had a career change apart from military to truck driving, but hand on heart Steve I wish you the very best for the future. If the thought excites you then imo you’ve made the right decision. This job is [zb], so crack on mate and have a real life.
Cheers fella, I’m a bit nervous but also excited at the same time 
I’ve always got this to fall back on if it doesn’t work out or enjoy it but I’m determined to give it a shot as I’ll have a better quality of life.
You are going to find the first two weeks difficult, as you are going to be working with other people, this is the hardest part of going from a solitary job to a multiple job. Good luck, hope it works for you, if not there’s always a job here for you. 
Silver_Surfer:
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Exactly mate.
biggriffin:
You are going to find the first two weeks difficult, as you are going to be working with other people, this is the hardest part of going from a solitary job to a multiple job. Good luck, hope it works for you, if not there’s always a job here for you.
Cheers. That’s the hardest thing to get used to in my mind too. That and the fact I won’t be able to listen to TalkSPORT all day on the radio like I do now 
When i went to driving a desk instead (many moons ago), after about a month I was stir crazy, so I had to take a couple of days holiday or loose them due to the companys holiday year arrangements. i went to work driving for a mate for a couple of days - that quickly reminded me of why I had made the change and stopped me looking at things through rose tinted glasses, never regretted it and i would say give it at least 3 months if you think it isnt working out
Get a job in aldis or lidl on the till. Better paid than most haulage pay now.
hardyd44:
When i went to driving a desk instead (many moons ago), after about a month I was stir crazy, so I had to take a couple of days holiday or loose them due to the companys holiday year arrangements. i went to work driving for a mate for a couple of days - that quickly reminded me of why I had made the change and stopped me looking at things through rose tinted glasses, never regretted it and i would say give it at least 3 months if you think it isnt working out
Cheers for the wise words.
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
If it all works out then I’ll be leaving the industry and starting a job working up at Ardargh Glass in Barnsley ( some of you may have loaded out of there) as a cold side palletiser.
My partners dad is a manager up there and said some jobs have come up and advised me to go for it, he says it’s easy money. It’s 4 on 6 off work 2 days then 2 nights from September to June you then have 18 days off then go onto 4 on 4 off. Take home pay is £2,500 a month plus plenty of overtime available on the days you have off if you want it.
It’s a no brainier for me as i earn probably just £200 more a month for doing 60+ hours a week and staying out all week in the truck and having no home life and only seeing my daughter on a weekend. With this job I’ll have plenty off time to do things as a family, take my daughter to school and pick her up even get healthier by rejoining a gym something I haven’t done for 15 year( I used to love going and went 4 times a week) I’m even going to join a boxing gym.
I don’t know what to expect as apart from being an apprentice mechanic after leaving school driving trucks is all I know and it’s what I wanted to do. I’ve enjoyed the life on the open road and being able to go to and see different places in our great country I’d probably not have the chance of visiting such as the Scottish Highlands, Outer Hebrides, Ireland I’ve even been over the water once on a run down to Italy. It’s true what they say you either have tramping in your blood or you don’t and I can say I did.
There’s plenty of opportunity in the new job to better yourself and train up to do new roles with better money opportunities a very good pension scheme and bonus scheme, our lasses sisters bloke works there and he worked Xmas day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day all night shifts and got £800 for each shift
So if you keep coming on here will you be changing your username to SteveBarnsleycoldsidepalletiser ?..we need to know these things.
Hope it goes ok for you mate,.and good on you for being brave enough to make that move.
It’s a shame that this job has become so crap with the ridiculous hours and working conditions, that decent long term drivers are jacking it to do something else.
I’d imagine you’ll also have terms such as being paid whilst off, and all the other things that this crock of ■■■■ job does not apply to.
I wish I’d done something similar years ago, when I first noticed all this drastic change first starting to take place, but I reckon I’d be a fish out of water if I did it today unfortunately, so I’ll just continue to try and make the very best of it for myself.
Btw…buy yourself a set of wireless earphones for listening to the likes of Alan Brazil and Hawksbee & Jacob’s, but don’t be surprised if you’re labelled that ‘Miserable sod ex trucker who never speaks to anybody’’
Good luck with it all mate, and enjoy the new found quality of life. 
Good for you mate, hope it works out.
The only thing i would say is to maybe keep quiet about you being related as it were to a manager, he might be looking out for his daughter by tipping you the wink but doubt he’d be daft enough just to let you know about a job because of that relationship and he obviously sees a valuable potential employee in you, but your new workmates might not look at it in quite same light.
So i’d be inclined to edit your OP to remove the company name, and no doubt anyone who has quoted your post would follow suit if you decided to do so.
Just my opinion there, bloody good luck to you in the future however it works out.
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
If it all works out then I’ll be leaving the industry and starting a job working up at Ardargh Glass in Barnsley ( some of you may have loaded out of there) as a cold side palletiser.
My partners dad is a manager up there and said some jobs have come up and advised me to go for it, he says it’s easy money. It’s 4 on 6 off work 2 days then 2 nights from September to June you then have 18 days off then go onto 4 on 4 off. Take home pay is £2,500 a month plus plenty of overtime available on the days you have off if you want it.
It’s a no brainier for me as i earn probably just £200 more a month for doing 60+ hours a week and staying out all week in the truck and having no home life and only seeing my daughter on a weekend. With this job I’ll have plenty off time to do things as a family, take my daughter to school and pick her up even get healthier by rejoining a gym something I haven’t done for 15 year( I used to love going and went 4 times a week) I’m even going to join a boxing gym.
I don’t know what to expect as apart from being an apprentice mechanic after leaving school driving trucks is all I know and it’s what I wanted to do. I’ve enjoyed the life on the open road and being able to go to and see different places in our great country I’d probably not have the chance of visiting such as the Scottish Highlands, Outer Hebrides, Ireland I’ve even been over the water once on a run down to Italy. It’s true what they say you either have tramping in your blood or you don’t and I can say I did.
There’s plenty of opportunity in the new job to better yourself and train up to do new roles with better money opportunities a very good pension scheme and bonus scheme, our lasses sisters bloke works there and he worked Xmas day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day all night shifts and got £800 for each shift
Go for it driving as a job is rubbish and ruined these days I don’t think you’ll regret it, providing you can cope working with the father in law, not for everybody
who dares wins bud.
whats the worse case scenario.?
6 months from now itl either be the life of riley and you will be thinking why didnt i do this years ago?,or you can decide you prefer to return to the self inflicted masochism of todays modern truckie and take your pick from the hundreds of vacancies thatl be looking for an experienced driver instead of a kebab in a hiviz steering wheel holder.
if you think your jobs ok just now,then make sure you leave on good terms,and itl be there for you after the summer anyway.
your in a win win situation.crack on drive… 
Go for it mate, hope it all works out well for you.
I think a lot of drivers would like to do the same and find a way to come off the road if they could.
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About 8 years ago I came off the road after about 12 years of doing it. It wasn’t a massive change as I started on a farm, which is something I had no experience of, but spent most of my time driving big modern tractors, telehandlers and self propelled sprayers. I never missed the trucks which really surprised me, as it’s something I always wanted to do and grew up going with my dad in the wagon.
I quite liked working and having dinner with others, it was never a problem getting used to it. It was great finishing at 5 most days and having a life after work! Untill harvest! And as time went on becoming more experienced, getting more skilled jobs which ended up in more hours, like the spraying, so that put an end to lot of the early finishes, but it’s very seasonally dependant.
After about 5 seasons I’d now just had a kid and didn’t want to be doing another harvest, it’s crazy hours with pretty much no days off depending on the weather for 10 weeks plus. The mill manager at the same firm heard I was looking for a new job, just at the time they’d ordered a blower feed truck, so me and my mate came off the farm to do 2 weeks working in the feed mill, then 2 weeks on the blower truck, both earliest and late shifts.
We’d got an artic maybe a year prior to this so had done a little bit on it, just with a bulker, fast forward a few years we’ve now got a livestock trailer too and the artic driver left, so me and my mate still job share, now 2 weeks on the artic and 2 weeks of whatever needs doing, mostly just yard work so normal day shifts, and doing Holiday cover on shift in the mill or feed wagon, we do most of the maintenance in the mill between us two too, which is the other thing I love with driving, so I’ve ended up by leaving back driving but I’ve got a job that’s suits me spot on with the work life money balance spot on, I’m not saying it’s perfect, nothing is, but it’s certainly not bad with the variety being the best bit.
Sorry for my life story!! But go for it, it sounds like a perfect opportunity and with plenty of time off so you can always sign up to an agency and just do the odd day if you fancied
Good luck with your move Steve,hope it all works out for you,as said above i think there are a lot of long term drivers that would do the same given half the chance,i know i would.
robroy:
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
If it all works out then I’ll be leaving the industry and starting a job working up at Ardargh Glass in Barnsley ( some of you may have loaded out of there) as a cold side palletiser.
My partners dad is a manager up there and said some jobs have come up and advised me to go for it, he says it’s easy money. It’s 4 on 6 off work 2 days then 2 nights from September to June you then have 18 days off then go onto 4 on 4 off. Take home pay is £2,500 a month plus plenty of overtime available on the days you have off if you want it.
It’s a no brainier for me as i earn probably just £200 more a month for doing 60+ hours a week and staying out all week in the truck and having no home life and only seeing my daughter on a weekend. With this job I’ll have plenty off time to do things as a family, take my daughter to school and pick her up even get healthier by rejoining a gym something I haven’t done for 15 year( I used to love going and went 4 times a week) I’m even going to join a boxing gym.
I don’t know what to expect as apart from being an apprentice mechanic after leaving school driving trucks is all I know and it’s what I wanted to do. I’ve enjoyed the life on the open road and being able to go to and see different places in our great country I’d probably not have the chance of visiting such as the Scottish Highlands, Outer Hebrides, Ireland I’ve even been over the water once on a run down to Italy. It’s true what they say you either have tramping in your blood or you don’t and I can say I did.
There’s plenty of opportunity in the new job to better yourself and train up to do new roles with better money opportunities a very good pension scheme and bonus scheme, our lasses sisters bloke works there and he worked Xmas day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day all night shifts and got £800 for each shiftSo if you keep coming on here will you be changing your username to SteveBarnsleycoldsidepalletiser ?..we need to know these things.
Hope it goes ok for you mate,.and good on you for being brave enough to make that move.
It’s a shame that this job has become so crap with the ridiculous hours and working conditions, that decent long term drivers are jacking it to do something else.
I’d imagine you’ll also have terms such as being paid whilst off, and all the other things that this crock of [zb] job does not apply to.
I wish I’d done something similar years ago, when I first noticed all this drastic change first starting to take place, but I reckon I’d be a fish out of water if I did it today unfortunately, so I’ll just continue to try and make the very best of it for myself.Btw…buy yourself a set of wireless earphones for listening to the likes of Alan Brazil and Hawksbee & Jacob’s, but don’t be surprised if you’re labelled that ‘Miserable sod ex trucker who never speaks to anybody’’
Good luck with it all mate, and enjoy the new found quality of life.
Cheers pal. Funny thing is I ain’t fell out of love with the job it’s just this opportunity allows me to have a better quality of life and family life and also be able to get the most out of the VW Transporter campervan conversion I’m having done in August
740MICK:
Good luck with your move Steve,hope it all works out for you,as said above i think there are a lot of long term drivers that would do the same given half the chance,i know i would.
Cheers mate.
CookieMonster:
Go for it mate, hope it all works out well for you.
I think a lot of drivers would like to do the same and find a way to come off the road if they could.Sent from my SM-G973F using Tapatalk
Cheers pal