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Hehehehehe..! Are you really going to spend a week researching long distance haulage driving???? Haven't you got better things to be doing?Stately wrote:I'm on a mission now.
I'm going to spend the next week becoming an expert on long distance haulage, and will be sure to post up my findings on here
So, just to be clear.
You are saying that a 22 year old long distance lorry driver is not uncommon ?
Dunno about that either m8, the pay is generally crap, the conditions unless you are driving a new truck are atrocious, the hours are long and the life is hard, been there done it, woken up outside some factory gates at 7 in the morning in winter in the pissing rain and have to unload the truck, no wash, no breakfast nothing, its the pits. Drive from Wales to Aberdeen 10 hours solid at 56mph and still be two hours short of your destination when you run out of driving hours and have to spend the night in some truckstop with overpriced food and cold showers and pay £8 for the privilige. Nearly every driver in my last long haul job would have got out if they could but its the same old thing, they are qualified for nothing else, the only ones that enjoyed it were those who had a bad homelife and it was a relief to be away all week. According to one haulage association website there is a shortage of 15,000 drivers nationwide with people retiring faster than they can train them so in theory it will become easier for younger drivers to get a job driving trucks............Stately wrote:Apparently, long distance haulage is the holy grail for HGV drivers, and no one get's in untill they've had many years of local driving experience.
Your boring now You know [censored] all and it shows. Your just a sad little git with nothing more than a computer and a sad incorrect imagination. 
Oh dear.Blue wrote:It's boring now
I'll tell you what stanley. I'm on a week off now. You post up a ride out and I come on it and we can meet and see who is the real biker. Let's keep it between ourselves.Blue wrote:Nope just bored
Stately wrote:Let's keep it between ourselves.Blue wrote:Nope just bored
Send me a PM, tell me where and when, and I'll be there.
Easter weekend is good for me
I see you're in Honiton.
I know a few good challenging roads arond there where we can put it to the test
I'll be the one on the motobike, What colour is your Raleigh Chopper?Blue wrote:You have a PM that says 10am next sunday at Exeter Services . Why so secretive Stanley. I just wont fancy you
Blue wrote:You have a PM that says 10am next sunday at Exeter Services . Why so secretive Stanley. I just wont fancy you
billinom8s wrote:
and his pants for bumbum
Blue wrote:I'll be the one on the motobike, What colour is your Raleigh Chopper?Blue wrote:You have a PM that says 10am next sunday at Exeter Services . Why so secretive Stanley. I just wont fancy you
) distance from home for me ...... can I come please? that way I won't bring a nasty big noisy bike to scare him away with I take it your classing the A30 duel carraigeway as challangingStately wrote: I see you're in Honiton.
I know a few good challenging roads arond there where we can put it to the test
I don't think i will find that i am wrong because i have got the insurance policy in front of me and its my business to know how young a driver i can employ. All my company stipulates is that under the age of 24 they are regarded as a 'young or inexperienced driver' and therefore attract a higher policy excess but there is no restriction on the use of a driver this age. I would much rather use a younger driver trained by myself on my truck as i know he or she would be trained to do the job correctly rather than a driver with perhaps 10 yrs experience aged 35 who thinks he or she knows it all.Stately wrote:
I think you'll find that even with fleet insurance, there are stipulations in regard to the drivers who are allowed to drive on it.
You are saying that a 22 year old long distance lorry driver is not uncommon ?
You seem to have misunderstood my post.Johnnyb wrote:I don't think i will find that i am wrong because i have got the insurance policy in front of me and its my business to know how young a driver i can employ. All my company stipulates is that under the age of 24 they are regarded as a 'young or inexperienced driver' and therefore attract a higher policy excess but there is no restriction on the use of a driver this age. I would much rather use a younger driver trained by myself on my truck as i know he or she would be trained to do the job correctly rather than a driver with perhaps 10 yrs experience aged 35 who thinks he or she knows it all.Stately wrote:
I think you'll find that even with fleet insurance, there are stipulations in regard to the drivers who are allowed to drive on it.
You are saying that a 22 year old long distance lorry driver is not uncommon ?
I am saying that without a doubt there will be 22 year old long distance lorry drivers on the road, as for whether its common or not, then i don't know because i don't employ them all. Its not actually the distance involved that makes it a hard job to do its the size of the vehicle. A 22 year old driver could be driving a 7.5tonne HGV from London to Aberdeen which is long distance on the other hand we have a 25 year old girl who drives a cement tanker which weighs in excess of 42 tonnes and each journey is around 100 miles each way and no i don't know how long she has been driving it.
You might want to take a look at this site here:
http://www.skillsforlogistics.org/en/in ... ining/yds/
This scheme is providing young people with a HGV licence at 18 and a class 1(C+E) by the time they are twenty one so they could have three years experience driving rigid HGV's long distance by the time they are 21..............
