What are your views? Would you do it?
live and let live but not for me thanks 
At times I think it’s a bit sad but I do like riding my truck on a fb page!
Don’t do truck spotting as such , but generally like to take photo’s and talk to the drivers when they come into our yard , wouldn’t stand at motorway bridges looking for certain companies ect , each to their own have no problem with people that do .
Same as the above. It’s not my thing, but then neither is 22 grown men kicking a cow’s stomach around a field, or spending £1,000 on fishing gear so you can sit out in the ■■■■■■■ rain for eight hours to catch a fish that you could buy for a fiver from a fishmonger.
My interests are preserved steam railways, canal narrowboats and restoring pre-decimal amusement arcade machines and on the face of it, there’s no great logic there either. That’s the whole point of any hobby, it’s something totally unproductive that you do as an end in itself.
Harry Monk:
Same as the above. It’s not my thing, but then neither is 22 grown men kicking a cow’s stomach around a field, or spending £1,000 on fishing gear so you can sit out in the ■■■■■■■ rain for eight hours to catch a fish that you could buy for a fiver from a fishmonger.My interests are preserved steam railways, canal narrowboats and restoring pre-decimal amusement arcade machines and on the face of it, there’s no great logic there either. That’s the whole point of any hobby, it’s something totally unproductive that you do as an end in itself.
If you ever come up north narrow boating Harry giz a shout, im desperate to do it!!
Harry Monk:
Same as the above. It’s not my thing, but then neither is 22 grown men kicking a cow’s stomach around a field, or spending £1,000 on fishing gear so you can sit out in the ■■■■■■■ rain for eight hours to catch a fish that you could buy for a fiver from a fishmonger.My interests are preserved steam railways, canal narrowboats and restoring pre-decimal amusement arcade machines and on the face of it, there’s no great logic there either. That’s the whole point of any hobby, it’s something totally unproductive that you do as an end in itself.
Some good hobbies there Harry ,very interesting particularly the steam railways , going to do the Steam train up the west coast to Mallaig this year , as said what’s for me ain’t for everybody else , maybe my interest in Trucks is because I don’t drive them yet , might be different when I start earning a living from them ha ha
xfmatt:
If you ever come up north narrow boating Harry giz a shout, im desperate to do it!!
My current plan is to run my truck until June 2015, when the finance finishes. Then I am considering one of two options, either sell the truck and maybe the company, or keep the truck, work it through the Winters, spend April-September on the boat and October-March working the truck every year from then on, but I certainly cannot hack another 11 years or so of the daily grind… Yes, of course, if I do manage to put a boat on the water I’ll post about it here and anyone will be welcome to visit. I do plan on mostly travelling around the north.
Part of me hopes that I’ll fail my HGV medical this year so I can bring the plan forward!
As a kid in the early 1960’s I was ill and housebound for a couple of months and, living on an A road (A329), trucks rolled past day and night in those pre M4 days! To pass the time I started logging reg numbers and makes and had most of the Berkshire based fleets, plus Tate and Lyle and other large fleets from London and Bristol etc. I suppose the book got lost when I married and moved up country, it was a decent account of road transport in the Reading area!
However these days I couldn’t care less… 
Pete.
Dont do truck spotting as such but will admit to attending vintage truck rallies and taking photos to put on sites such as trucknet and the likes so has to leave a little bit of history of the haulage business for future generations,just like the lads from the 50s/60s have done for us.
Stanfield:
Dont do truck spotting as such but will admit to attending vintage truck rallies and taking photos to put on sites such as trucknet and the likes so has to leave a little bit of history of the haulage business for future generations,just like the lads from the 50s/60s have done for us.
I’m talking about the 40 year old men standing on a bridge everyday in trackie bottoms and a mankey old jumper… Do they work for a living?!
If you look on the photo section on tnet a lot of people do and fairplay to them,facebooks full of truck spotters,if i was driving a tidy truck id like to see a photo on net,better than train spotting or hiding in a bush bird watching.