Trucker vs lorry driver

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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If i,m not a lorry driver now,just a trucker,can i call myself a “Highly trained sophisticated machinery operator”

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I’m a lurry driver. :sunglasses:

Even in this American version of Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, they are called lorries!

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irish lorries:
Why not just hgv driver

I’m nit picking here Irish lorries. Nowadays its LGV driver. :wink:

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Dave the Renegade:

irish lorries:
Why not just hgv driver

I’m nit picking here Irish lorries. Nowadays its LGV driver. :wink:

And lgv driver :smiley:

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Generally lorries are known as trucks nowadays, the English language constantly evolves and changes. Nobody refers to a mid-morning break as “tiffin” any more.

Even the word “Seafood” originated in America and when it arrived here it was denounced as a ghastly Americanism that no English person would ever be able to understand.

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robert1952:

stevieboy308:
Brought up in the north west, it was only ever classed as wagon driver for me.

Lolly ice or ice lolly? Again in the north west it’s a lolly ice, but here in the north east they all say ice lolly - they’re wrong!!!

I grew up in the east Midlands where they were called ‘suckers’! Lick that! Robert :laughing:

Would that be Ilson or Ayner, then?

Steve

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Rhythm Thief:
Chester’s been at the rum again …

Your as bad as the rest of them on here. A post was presented, I responded. The poster changed his/her question as they didn’t like my response.

You wake up in the early morning and declare yourself a CSI agent :unamused:
Shooting fish in a barrel.

Why do you think somebody would change a question they got a answer to?

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I’ll happily be called a trucker if it gets me discounts on meals and free coffee at gas stations , come to think of it you can label me however you want if the same deal applies :wink:

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Ste46:

robert1952:

stevieboy308:
Brought up in the north west, it was only ever classed as wagon driver for me.

Lolly ice or ice lolly? Again in the north west it’s a lolly ice, but here in the north east they all say ice lolly - they’re wrong!!!

I grew up in the east Midlands where they were called ‘suckers’! Lick that! Robert :laughing:

Would that be Ilson or Ayner, then?

Steve

Ay-up youth! It was neither Ilson nor Ayner, dook, I grew up in Nottingham till age 9. Robert :smiley:

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Now regarded as a “Flourman”-I love un pc job descriptions. :laughing:

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Steering wheel attendant… :sunglasses:

Rolling roadblock technician… :unamused:
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As previously stated, we ceased to be lorry drivers when haulage companies became “Integrated Supply Chain Logistical Solutions”.
Load of old b olli x

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waggon driver sounds right new boys call it truck or trucking

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BillyHunt:
I see it as fairly simple. Are we on TruckNet or LorryNet?

Trucknet was originally American so it has taken its name from there long story which I wont bore you with

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billybigrig:

Suedehead:
‘…when did it become the the norm to … be a trucker…?’

Probably when Convoy or Smokey and the bandit hit the cinema screens :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Probably this

truck = American

lorry = English simple as that

American call anything bigger than a pick up a truck