How long have you been riding

[Cheese Monkey]

PS, gutted I'm working Sunday, so cant meet GOD INCARNATE statley

[Stately]

PS, gutted I'm working Sunday, so cant meet GOD INCARNATE statley

It's as I thought

I thought me and Blue had a private arrangement to meet up, but oh no.

He has to broadcast it to everyone in the hope they'll turn up.

What's the matter Blue

Too scared to meet me alone.

I thought as much.

[Johnnyb]

Like i said, you might want to take a look here http://www.skillsforlogistics.org/en/in ... ining/yds/
If there was no market for drivers in this age group then why bother getting a government backed scheme to provide drivers in this age group. Also the age at which a driver can qualify is 21 for Classes C and C+E and 18 for class C1 and C1+E so your awareness isn't as full as you would like to think. Personally if i had a tractor unit and trailer loaded and waiting to go and the only option was to send out a newly qualified young driver then you have to make the choice leave it parked up and lose money and perhaps customers or send it and i would send it everytime. Keeping the customer happy is the only thing that matters in the haulage business.........

Well so far I've phoned three haulage companies asking about opportunities for recently qualified drivers and in all three cases the answer has been no, they won't employ because of age and lack of experience.

My research is ongoing and I will post up the results, with proof of course, once I am satisfied that I have enough to prove the point.

Didnt say it would be easy to get work as a newly qualified driver its not easy to get work as a newly qualified anything, once you have rang the several thousand haulage companies in the UK and got their opinion and then started on the hundreds of driving agencies that employ temp drivers then post up the results just to get a true picture you understand........

[Stately]

Like i said, you might want to take a look here http://www.skillsforlogistics.org/en/in ... ining/yds/
If there was no market for drivers in this age group then why bother getting a government backed scheme to provide drivers in this age group. Also the age at which a driver can qualify is 21 for Classes C and C+E and 18 for class C1 and C1+E so your awareness isn't as full as you would like to think. Personally if i had a tractor unit and trailer loaded and waiting to go and the only option was to send out a newly qualified young driver then you have to make the choice leave it parked up and lose money and perhaps customers or send it and i would send it everytime. Keeping the customer happy is the only thing that matters in the haulage business.........

Well so far I've phoned three haulage companies asking about opportunities for recently qualified drivers and in all three cases the answer has been no, they won't employ because of age and lack of experience.

My research is ongoing and I will post up the results, with proof of course, once I am satisfied that I have enough to prove the point.

Didnt say it would be easy to get work as a newly qualified driver its not easy to get work as a newly qualified anything, once you have rang the several thousand haulage companies in the UK and got their opinion and then started on the hundreds of driving agencies that employ temp drivers then post up the results just to get a true picture you understand........

Results pending in a few days.

I think you're going to be surprised

[Johnnyb]

Like i said you have to contact a huge number to get a representative picture not just a few that reply in your favour and even if they didn't you would still say they did because you like to be right.........

[Blue]

"StatelyWell so far I've phoned three haulage companies asking about opportunities for recently qualified drivers and in all three cases the answer has been no, they won't employ because of age and lack of experience.

My research is ongoing and I will post up the results, with proof of course, once I am satisfied that I have enough to prove the point.

But to get REAL results to prove me wrong you would have to have phoned all those companies 17 YEARS AGO. and of course my bike goes to the garage for an oil change, Its why it has full service history unlike your hunk of poorly repaired bodged writeoff. If it was that bad that you had to send so long sorceing parts it was written off for a very good reason. It was scrap.

[Stately]

But to get REAL results to prove me wrong you would have to have phoned all those companies 17 YEARS AGO. and of course my bike goes to the garage for an oil change, Its why it has full service history unlike your hunk of poorly repaired bodged writeoff. If it was that bad that you had to send so long sorceing parts it was written off for a very good reason. It was scrap.

Actually rebuilding write offs is good fun and a challenge.

It's all about care and patience but the end result is always worth it.

I've done a few of these now, and it's great fun.

Blue I have to say, that you are thick.

Really.

Aged 40 and hasn't even got his own house.

Pays his landlords mortgage for him

I bet your kids must be really proud to have such a good provider

[Blue]

Oh no someone help me I'm a bad parent Like you would now what kids are. You cant get a women to [censored] you let alone even dream of hing you baby. My kids think Im' a great dad actually. We live in a big house and they have all the stuff they want and really nice holidays. But you'd wouldn't understand any of that. Window licker

[Stately]

Oh no someone help me I'm a bad parent Like you would now what kids are. You cant get a women to [censored] you let alone even dream of hing you baby. My kids think Im' a great dad actually. We live in a big house and they have all the stuff they want and really nice holidays. But you'd wouldn't understand any of that. Window licker

You're a flop.

I have a decent house too, but mine is payed for with no mortgage now.

You'll be paying rent for the rest of your working life, and will have nothing to leave your kids.

[Blue]

Apart from the experiences of different countries, good educations leading to their own better futures that they have built for themselves instead of the waiting for dad to die so they can sell of a pile of bricks that won't be worth anything after they have paid the solicitor, estate agent and the taxes. I have owned houses in the past, here and abroad and managed to sell them all at a profit. Yep my rents high but so what, unlike you all my capital is not tied up in a house. which is why I don't have to ride a bodged write off

Stanley, Lok at what your writing and the responces your getting, Life is more paying a mortgage, It's about living.

Who is the real loser Instead of a computer monitor, look in a mirror (assuming your have any that aren't broken) and hae a real long look at what is staring back at you.

[Lady g]

Stately - I feel I must post that I think your recent posts directed at Blue are quite out of order..

There will always be people who have more than you, and people who have less. It's not your place to judge.

[TLS-Moose]

Oh no someone help me I'm a bad parent Like you would now what kids are. You cant get a women to [censored] you let alone even dream of hing you baby. My kids think Im' a great dad actually. We live in a big house and they have all the stuff they want and really nice holidays. But you'd wouldn't understand any of that. Window licker

You're a flop.

I have a decent house too, but mine is payed for with no mortgage now.

You'll be paying rent for the rest of your working life, and will have nothing to leave your kids.

Although it go's in a completely different direction, this raises a question that has intrigued me for some time ..... although I too am part of the rat-race created by Maggie and her "every Englishman should be entitled to own his own home" policy, for people in lower income brackets or riskier employment roles, I have oft wondered if this is the wisest move ..... If you buy a house in say, your forties statistically you are quite likely to see out your days there. Given average life expectancies this probably means by the time you're drawing your pension you'll be lloking at bills for new windows, roof, central heating, wiring, etc.,. If you are unemployed for any period you get little or no help with covering costs, and in retirement if you fall ill and require care said assets get sold off to cover costs. If you rent, your rent is covered during unemployment, you get assistance with it in retirement, and assets gained can be dispersed more easily prior to having to pay care costs. Add to this the savings made from not having to pay for the upkeep of the properties external fabric, and I start to question the cost benefit of ownership, and who is getting the better deal ..... uncontrolled lending ever increasing amounts of money to fund such policies is a large contribution to the current economic climate

Regarding inheritance, I have always told my parents (tongue in cheek) that as long as there is enough to cover the costs of their funeral I expect no more - they have worked hard all their life for what they have, and should be able to benefit from it rather than me. I would suggest that, given the average age at which ones parents generally pass on (40's/50's), if the average person is in such a perilous financial position they are reliant on said inheritance then they haven't done much with their life .......

[Funky]

An expert in a week? with no actual experience just theoretical? good luck holding an argument with people who have done the job for years. you total deluded and complete moron.

[Blue]

Do you think I can use this forum as proof that I have been doing carity work with the care in the community

Moose, I havent owned a house since I sold th one in spain and moved back to the UK just over 4 years ago. The prices were still going up then and are still falling now so again it stilll not a good time to by here yet.I have been looking a bit but I have taken a liking to some houses on a certain road but the prices there have already fallen b £60k since they were built 3 years ago so maybe when the prices level out it might be an option, but at the moment I'm happy as I am. The only good thing is where I work they are actually taking staff on at a rate of about 10 a week so my job's pretty safe, I hope

[mattr6]

The last few posts by Stately have been well out of order.

We're on here because we share an interest in bikes. I'll quite happily admit that my bike goes to the dealers for oil changes/ services and I only ride in decent weather. Whether that makes me less of a biker in your eyes, I really couldn't care less.