Most of us older drivers will remember that bumper sticker. Regrettably it’s so far back in the past that I can’t even find a pic of it on Google.
Given the vital (and often totally unappreciated) part we’re playing to keep this country going at the moment, isn’t it high time it made a comeback?
Whilst I totally agree with the numerous memes and posts on Facebook and the like about health workers and care workers selflessly shouldering the burden, nevertheless without us staying on the road the whole country would be stuffed.
Sidevalve:
Most of us older drivers will remember that bumper sticker. Regrettably it’s so far back in the past that I can’t even find a pic of it on Google.
Given the vital (and often totally unappreciated) part we’re playing to keep this country going at the moment, isn’t it high time it made a comeback?
Whilst I totally agree with the numerous memes and posts on Facebook and the like about health workers and care workers selflessly shouldering the burden, nevertheless without us staying on the road the whole country would be stuffed.
To be honest truck drivers have been mentioned a few times on the News as working through to get the job done, so someone out there knows what a great job is being done to get stock on the supermarket shelves, even if Joe public are consuming it at a vast rate.
HobNobRoy:
What about if the shop workers didnt turn up though ? Or the warehouse bods ?
Takes a few people to keep the wheels turning
Indeed it does, but you’re all missing my point.
It’s a given that lorries and their drivers are considered by the wider public to be a necessary evil. Until something like this happens, and even then the appreciation only lasts till the shelves are full again, then it’s back to whining because we’re late, in the way, delaying somebody’s more important journey, etc. I notice that the regulation exemption almost specifically applies to re-stocking the RDC’s with bog roll, soap and baked beans. so once that’s sorted it’ll be back to normal again.
If we are, as an industry, to change the public perception of ourselves, we need to highlight just how much this country would be in the brown sticky stuff if it were not for the likes of us doing hours that many simply wouldn’t consider, for a wage that many wouldn’t get out of bed for, and having to suffer facilities (or a lack thereof) which would cause a riot if it were applied to the scumbags who inhabit our jails.
Like many of you I enjoy my job (or parts of it) and I’m not a hero, just an ordinary working bloke. But nobody ever moans about warehouse workers and shop assistants in the way they do lorries and drivers, nor treats them generally with such contempt.
I guess no one hates the warehouse workers because they dont get in the way like we do.
People havent got any patience or appreciate how slow a fully laden truck is, or why we are parked the way we are trying to deliver somewhere.
stevieboy308:
You could say that about the vast majority of workers though, I really don’t understand all this self importance ■■■■■■■■ that some truckers have!
HobNobRoy:
What about if the shop workers didnt turn up though ? Or the warehouse bods ?
Takes a few people to keep the wheels turning
Indeed it does, but you’re all missing my point.
It’s a given that lorries and their drivers are considered by the wider public to be a necessary evil. Until something like this happens, and even then the appreciation only lasts till the shelves are full again, then it’s back to whining because we’re late, in the way, delaying somebody’s more important journey, etc. I notice that the regulation exemption almost specifically applies to re-stocking the RDC’s with bog roll, soap and baked beans. so once that’s sorted it’ll be back to normal again.
If we are, as an industry, to change the public perception of ourselves, we need to highlight just how much this country would be in the brown sticky stuff if it were not for the likes of us doing hours that many simply wouldn’t consider, for a wage that many wouldn’t get out of bed for, and having to suffer facilities (or a lack thereof) which would cause a riot if it were applied to the scumbags who inhabit our jails.
Like many of you I enjoy my job (or parts of it) and I’m not a hero, just an ordinary working bloke. But nobody ever moans about warehouse workers and shop assistants in the way they do lorries and drivers, nor treats them generally with such contempt.
stevieboy308:
You could say that about the vast majority of workers though, I really don’t understand all this self importance ■■■■■■■■ that some truckers have!
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I really don’t understand this idea of self entitlement that some lorry drivers seem to have, without the warehouse staff the lorries wouldn’t get loaded/unloaded, without the factory and farm workers there would be no goods to load or unload ec’t ec’t.
But nobody ever moans about warehouse workers and shop assistants in the way they do lorries and drivers, nor treats them generally with such contempt.
If you stop and think about this you may realise it’s the fact that lorry drivers are generally seen doing their job far far more than warehouse or shop assistants.
Most realise there are good and bad drivers on our roads and I am afraid all the contempt brought to lorry drivers is the appalling way the bad ones behave on our roads.
Why do we need to be appreciated? It’s our choice and we get paid to do it, which is the reason we do it, we ain’t doing it as charity.
Don’t get me wrong if someone is giving big on some anti truck rant, then it’s worth pointing out the benefits and what trucks deliver, but just bleeting on about not being appreciated / being heros etc is lost on me
Sidevalve:
Most of us older drivers will remember that bumper sticker. Regrettably it’s so far back in the past that I can’t even find a pic of it on Google.
Given the vital (and often totally unappreciated) part we’re playing to keep this country going at the moment, isn’t it high time it made a comeback?
Whilst I totally agree with the numerous memes and posts on Facebook and the like about health workers and care workers selflessly shouldering the burden, nevertheless without us staying on the road the whole country would be stuffed.
Your thoughts?
Time required to train a doctor: 7+ years?
Time required to train a nurse: 3+ years?
Time reuired to train a trucker: 4 days?
I think you have to get in line to get the applause from the public you so much seem to crave.
