A note about "stupid" a few years ago while working, I was on Highway 11 Ontario. It was winter, poor road conditions, all of a sudden an Skd-doo fly past on the inside, how that idiot got past I don't know, so we have lots of stupid road user's here also, and of course that thing should not have been on the roadway lol, just say in'.
Been an artic driver for 40yrs now retired I wouldn’t have missed it for the world but I would definitely not go back , if the families of the truck driver’s knew how their men where treated they wouldn’t let them out of the front door, now I know a lot of drivers have good jobs but I’m talking about the trampers the general haulage side of driving. They are shutting truck stops and cafes then when the moterway services are full and your running out of time (tacho) another infringement. At delivery or loading points the staff treat you like a retard and speak to you like a dog , I’ve sat at firms four five six hours waiting for loading or tipping and never been offered a drink or food and latest is put your vehicle on a bay then walk back to the transport office hand your keys in and sit in a room sometimes for hours etc etc etc
THERES NO SHORTAGE OF DRIVERS. THEY JUST DONT WANT TO PAY FOR THE GOOD ONES THAT WHY THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT HAVING FORIGN DRIVERS. THEY BRING THEM IN TO BE ABLE TO HOLD THE WAGES DOWN. SOUNDS FAMILIAR TO HERE IN THE STATES DONT IT?
indeed, but the money they save on salaries they buy better trucks. I have not seen any small cab truck in the UK, or old ones, only euro 6 (and some euro5) with the biggest cab. And they could say "oh we dont pay your parking in service stations, park in lay-bys" but most of the companies allow you to park there. So every coin has a flipside...
48hour week for a owner driver is just plain stupid.A heavy lorry ownly does 8 miles to the gallon. The cost of travelling long distance is horrendous.If hauliers were paid a fair rate and on time,they would be able to pay drivers a better salary.The revenue a lorry produces helps pay for the public sector. The lorry driver should be able to do his job without being harassed ,by road side police.
I remember saying to a driver when I was a child can't wait till I can drive a wagon now I'm so happy I don't drive a wagon anymore I thought they were miserable bastards now I know why.. reason why I left this job wages are s*** and accommodations roadside services are pathetic and and a spotty kid as a transport manager never been in a wagon clueless it's only this far on a map..
10yrs out of the game. Long antisocial hours, poor pay, bad working conditions, and heavy physical work resulted in irreversible chronic health problems, put paid to my working life. Lorry driving makes young fit men, old and sick quickly. Seen and done some wonderful things and been to places in the 30 years I would never have experienced otherwise. Unfortunately, the young blood don't want to do this work, £3500 to get through their training & test, for little more than the living wage to start, huge responsibility, long hours, nightmare traffic and away from home all week. Driving a car in this country is bad enough now, i don't imagine there's much pleasure in driving an artic on today's roads. Why would the young bother when they can go straight into the transport office from university with their degree and keep their hands clean and knock off after 8 hours? Driver's with 40 years in, are quitting the job and retiring early, because they're being told how to suck eggs by logistics graduates who have never driven a truck, and made to do their CPC when they've forgotten more about the job than the trainers will ever learn.
Holy Shit! It's the same in the US. I drove semis ( I think what you guys call artics-- combination vehicles- 80000 pounds, pulling 53 foot trailers) for 12 years all over the US. I would easily describe it as one of the worst pleasurable jobs I ever had. A whole lot of ball breaking hassles. No one , from shipper to dispatch to mechanic to receiver gives a shit about your time and places no value on it. You have a 0500 appointment and they don't chuck a pallet on the trailer until 1100? Oh well, tough shit. Suck it up. Trucking ain't for sissies. Waited 6 hours to get a fucking trailer tire changed with no pay? Oh well, suck it up. Trucking ain't for sissies. Office staff induces assault. You can almost feel the contempt they have for you, even in text messages. I once had some fucking 22 year old twunt dispatcher tell me ''get that truck moving!! you have an appointment!! don't be late!!"" I had to advise this simple cunt, --'t The fucking road over the mountains is closed . Seems it's buried in 5 foot snow drifts. I'm parked in Reno. I won't be going anywhere until the road is opened. Reschedule the delivery of used car batteries." Fucking cunt.
Spot on mate, job was ok till the 90s when it started to go downhill. One company I worked for employed school leavers as planners, didn't know Aberdeen from Aberystryth.
loved my time on class 1 better still when left alone to get on with it. Instead of kids asking for eta all the time , and not forgetting the CPC glad i am finished with all that crap
I retired at 62 when the boss said I keep up with the Eastern European drivers I said hillocks after 35years now I'm glad they have got troubles employing poeple ?I like walking my dogs now
Kay Simpkins as I said Kay I retired at 62 I am 67 now and I get hauliers and agency's phoning me if I would do work for them my really is I need to take the medical again and cause my age I have to have a med exam each year that's the law ? but it cost 145pounds and no guarantees you fit enough
Good video I find the digital tachometer much easier than the old analogue type , messing around with little round paper things. The working time rules regarding the limit of hours can work is for safety reasons and its up to employers to pay better wages so drivers don't have to work long hours .
I have been driving all shorts of vehicles over the last 27years, Class one, Two and Three, I have never been unemployed because I have worked all over the uk and going where the Jobs are, from Fridge, Flats, Curtainsiders, Tippers, From Steel, Sand n gravel, I have worked for the Big Name supermarkets on (15) different shift Pattons. My list can go on and on, as long you know the WTD and the Driving Hours then most of the time all should be well.
well known UK hauliers are now full of drivers from all over the EU. All happy on 8.50 an hour. Then you have the ex eastern block countries like Romania, i saw two of there trucks parked in the same spot for a week. drivers cooking and washing in the empty trailer. waiting for a return load. The only young drivers you get are family members of the haulage company.
I saw that UK drivers are lazy fat pricks, they never cook or clean the truck or anything... you should take a closer look at the eastern drivers, they have very clean truck, they eat real food that they cook for themselfs, and they rather wash their clothes in buckets than the dirty ass washing machines that some service station have that washed over 1000+ people clothes during its lifetime without cleaning it... Its a lifestyle, and they enjoy it, while your kind is just whining like a pussy ass bitch
Always wanted to drive a truck since being a kid, I got my licenses and it wasn't what I thought it would be like. It is a horrible job, too many rules and the pay is crap, it wasn't worth the 8.50 per hour, I now drive a 3.5 tonner and get 20p more than I was driving the class 2.
Truckers treated like they have only two brain cells, waiting four hours to be tipped, in a waiting area with a dirty toilet and no coffee machine, no smoking on site rules, shitty hours, and I could go on and on till tomorrow with the reasons why the drivers are fed up.
the transport business these days is so stressful trying to keep to strict deadlines with the new digital tacographs and driver cpc its just to much hastle not to mention the amount of traffic on our roads these days i used to do regular runs from cardiff to stockport and used to dread that m6 motorway on the way back home to south wales guaranteed to get caught in a traffic jam its the last thing you want on a friday night fucking nightmare it was im glad im out of it
i got out of hgv driving a little over 2 years ago i will never go back fed up with poor wages over regulation and transport managers telling you lies to get that load where they want it by any means and also using bullyboy tactics and threats to get you to do as they want not giving a any care that its the driver that gets the fines and points on thier licence not to mention poor facilities and rip off parking charges no where to park if you need to go to a shop for food during the week and car drivers taking stupid risks overtaking trucks or break checking us and thinking we can stop in the same distance they can too much stress poor diet no excercise and long working days all contribute to health problems too so here it is no truck drivers = nothing in shops no industry supplies so no jobs no economy so its about time the country and government took a long look at the industry
Why? Those things have never bothered me. I wouldn't have thought of them in a million years. Why do you need to be going faster than 56mph and what's wrong with pulling on a seatbelt?
@@grahamlive It used to be a fare more pleasant, easier experience driving a HGV without a speed limiter, you had more control. Going up hill yo could accelerate to compensate for the hill, going past vehicles you could get a liitle more speed to get passed cleanly rather than at 1mph that currently happens. I just found it more tiring, much more of an effort. Seat belts are restrictive, you can't see out of truck cab in the same way you can out of a car, it stops you leaning out to check for traffic, or means you need to take it off then struggle to put it back on. Also doing mult drop it is a pain, why do taxi drivers not need to wear one and delivery drivers must, make no sense to me.
The biggest mistake I made was getting into this industry when I left the army 17 years on and I'm still trying to find another way it's an awfull industry to work in....
Neil Keeping it real I became a freight train driver. Same job, much much better pay. Less hours, but obviously still a lot of nights and early mornings.
P.S. Forgot to say. Always present yourself as a Professional and set yourself a standard to leave by, Don;t let others treat you as a Second rate Person, establish respect from the off and treat the office crew as you would like tobe treated.
I know this is nearly five years old, but my two pennarth is that I drove artics in England in the 60's, early 70's and it was a good job then. Hard work but a good job. Left alone to do it. I was lucky that I went all over with me dad as a kid and could load, rope and sheet as soon as I was strong enough to chuck the ropes over... Proper sheets were another thing, built me strength up though. I learnt how to reverse an artic by watching him for years. People nowadays don't get that advantage. They have to spend thousands of quid to get a licence and then more for all this dcpc crap, that, from what I've heard (I live in Oz now) is often taught by cretins that don't know what they're talking about. Too much traffic, too many morons on the road, too many arrogant gits all around you and the tacho's that you seem to need a degree to understand. Too much of someone getting on your back. My attitude was and always is, 'it gets there when it gets there... safely.' I'm retired now but drove here in Oz, buses, semi's, rigids and it's a different ball game. Some of the problems are brought about by drivers themselves by allowing some dick in an office to put pressure on them to fly about and end up having a smash or simply annoying every other bugger on the road and getting all hgv drivers a bad name. Cor, that feels better. :-)
Limited to working 48 hrs a week. Thats a joke. Driving hrs maybe, Plus many hours loading & unloading. My time as a hgv driver Was work, eat, sleep, repeat. Out of the house around 5 return at 10pm. Never again.
In 23 miles I'll be spending the night at the biggest truck stop in the world at Walcott Iowa. With everything a truck drivet needs on the road available to him. 3 movie rooms 5 places to eat, barber , massage therapy to name just a few.
Para mi opinión los gobiernos quieren comer parte del pastel de los camioneros una 100 permisos 2 estan arriba d ti para poner multas x nada creo q deberían d soltar un poco mas a los camioneros y no abusar tanto
No shortage of drivers just a shortage of decent wages. I gave up driving class1 & coaches after 20 odd years for more money working in a yard and i only need to work 40hrs a week now. No more hassle or stress or sleeping in laybys with no facility's 👍
It makes me wonder how anything ever gets done, so many rules, etc, if I came back there to drive, but I never would of course, (79 now) I think maybe I would last ten mins before throwing my hands in air lol.
I work in the haulage industry. Europeans are great drivers. Lol. As long as it starts, got some wheels on, the rest is "bullshit ". Ever heard of 3 wheels on my waggon and I'm still rolling along? X
There’s more. Traffic. Never, have HGVs been considered in terms of priority on urban networks in spite of highly efficient SCOOT controlling traffic signals in cities and an associated ‘common database’ which can accept real time positioning from HGVs and their purpose... ie priority. That information, combined with SCOOT real time traffic data can be used to assign priority to an approach based on relative importance of each vehicle on it. HGVs keep our economy moving yet we do Nothing for them.
48 hours a week? I know England is small, but how do you get anything done? I've been with the same company in Michigan for 20+ yrs. so my gravy run is 500 miles a day 6 days a week.
Why they do not hire foreign drivers from asian countries what the reason greediness? Look at the UAE,QATAR,BAHRAIN, KSA around in the middleast there's no issue of driver shortage
they put that much pressure so it is harder to make money, so only younger driver driver get to business ,as older driver, can not fart around and make lot's money government get his money ,business have more young driver who are willing and can work longer hours it actually helps driver retire sooner and start enjoying, the life more, get to know the people who were getting free food at home all theses years yes, honey ,those three at the other side of table are our kid ,the other two are your nephews!!!
Really is a dreadful job.Enough said and it's far worse now than when this was aired,Dcpc what a demeaning and ridiculous waste of time,on my last course there was a Rumainian driver nice enough person,didn't understand English passed with flying colours as did we all,the very next day he did exactly the same course in a different location with the same instructor,that's just one example of why I don't like doing the job.
Fuel in France isn't much cheaper. It's actually about the same. I've been to france so ok I know. UK fuel is imported from the Middle East. So its not even UK fuel.
Haha all drivers now are gettin on or ex squaddies British wise the rest are the euro lot but that's because they take the hit on overloaded trucks and driving hours and get a slap on the wrist if one of us do it we pay a fine and the company gets one too
Yeah ban foreign companies XD We will see who will be trucking in your country... Old truckers passing away and young people want work in office with computer 8 hours a day not 15 like truckers... and sleep in truck...
everybody on here is moaning about being a wagon driver, yes, theres plenty wrong with our industry but it beats the shit out of sitting in an office all day with people you hate. eastern europeans have kept wages down in lots of industries not just haulage, look at the building trade. i would'nt swap my job for all the tea in china.
what was the gov thinkin after the second world war the U K should have moved to the other side of the road like finland did by the way your trucks are ugly give me a Kenworth or a Freightliner any day
Artics for 38 years, now retired its bliss, i cant stand driving to the local shop these days.
A note about "stupid" a few years ago while working, I was on Highway 11 Ontario. It was winter, poor road conditions, all of a sudden an Skd-doo fly past on the inside, how that idiot got past I don't know, so we have lots of stupid road user's here also, and of course that thing should not have been on the roadway lol, just say in'.
I'm with you there mate
74 now i was a artic trucker 45 years good days still miss them days
One of the best things I ever did was get out of the haulage industry.
I agree with that
Bloody hell this is old ! Now we have driver behaviour software, and driver facing cameras! I'm glad I left the industry in 1999.
Been an artic driver for 40yrs now retired I wouldn’t have missed it for the world but I would definitely not go back , if the families of the truck driver’s knew how their men where treated they wouldn’t let them out of the front door, now I know a lot of drivers have good jobs but I’m talking about the trampers the general haulage side of driving. They are shutting truck stops and cafes then when the moterway services are full and your running out of time (tacho) another infringement. At delivery or loading points the staff treat you like a retard and speak to you like a dog , I’ve sat at firms four five six hours waiting for loading or tipping and never been offered a drink or food and latest is put your vehicle on a bay then walk back to the transport office hand your keys in and sit in a room sometimes for hours etc etc etc
THERES NO SHORTAGE OF DRIVERS. THEY JUST DONT WANT TO PAY FOR THE GOOD ONES THAT WHY THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT HAVING FORIGN DRIVERS. THEY BRING THEM IN TO BE ABLE TO HOLD THE WAGES DOWN. SOUNDS FAMILIAR TO HERE IN THE STATES DONT IT?
indeed, but the money they save on salaries they buy better trucks. I have not seen any small cab truck in the UK, or old ones, only euro 6 (and some euro5) with the biggest cab. And they could say "oh we dont pay your parking in service stations, park in lay-bys" but most of the companies allow you to park there. So every coin has a flipside...
The insurance cost has been a big expenses for U.S. Truckers thus causing a chain reaction! Blame it on the lawyers? Perhaps!
48hour week for a owner driver is just plain stupid.A heavy lorry ownly does 8 miles to the gallon.
The cost of travelling long distance is horrendous.If hauliers were paid a fair rate and on time,they
would be able to pay drivers a better salary.The revenue a lorry produces helps pay for the public sector.
The lorry driver should be able to do his job without being harassed ,by road side police.
I remember saying to a driver when I was a child can't wait till I can drive a wagon now I'm so happy I don't drive a wagon anymore I thought they were miserable bastards now I know why.. reason why I left this job wages are s*** and accommodations roadside services are pathetic and and a spotty kid as a transport manager never been in a wagon clueless it's only this far on a map..
10yrs out of the game. Long antisocial hours, poor pay, bad working conditions, and heavy physical work resulted in irreversible chronic health problems, put paid to my working life. Lorry driving makes young fit men, old and sick quickly. Seen and done some wonderful things and been to places in the 30 years I would never have experienced otherwise. Unfortunately, the young blood don't want to do this work, £3500 to get through their training & test, for little more than the living wage to start, huge responsibility, long hours, nightmare traffic and away from home all week. Driving a car in this country is bad enough now, i don't imagine there's much pleasure in driving an artic on today's roads. Why would the young bother when they can go straight into the transport office from university with their degree and keep their hands clean and knock off after 8 hours? Driver's with 40 years in, are quitting the job and retiring early, because they're being told how to suck eggs by logistics graduates who have never driven a truck, and made to do their CPC when they've forgotten more about the job than the trainers will ever learn.
Holy Shit! It's the same in the US. I drove semis ( I think what you guys call artics-- combination vehicles- 80000 pounds, pulling 53 foot trailers) for 12 years all over the US. I would easily describe it as one of the worst pleasurable jobs I ever had. A whole lot of ball breaking hassles. No one , from shipper to dispatch to mechanic to receiver gives a shit about your time and places no value on it. You have a 0500 appointment and they don't chuck a pallet on the trailer until 1100? Oh well, tough shit. Suck it up. Trucking ain't for sissies. Waited 6 hours to get a fucking trailer tire changed with no pay? Oh well, suck it up. Trucking ain't for sissies. Office staff induces assault. You can almost feel the contempt they have for you, even in text messages. I once had some fucking 22 year old twunt dispatcher tell me ''get that truck moving!! you have an appointment!! don't be late!!"" I had to advise this simple cunt, --'t
The fucking road over the mountains is closed . Seems it's buried in 5 foot snow drifts. I'm parked in Reno. I won't be going anywhere until the road is opened. Reschedule the delivery of used car batteries." Fucking cunt.
Irreversible health problems? Your driving a truck not working down the COAL PITS!!!
@@Michael77999 bad diet, weird hours, uncomfortable beds, manual handling - all contributors to ill health.
@@Michael77999 oh you have no idea
Spot on mate, job was ok till the 90s when it started to go downhill. One company I worked for employed school leavers as planners, didn't know Aberdeen from Aberystryth.
loved my time on class 1 better still when left alone to get on with it. Instead of kids asking for eta all the time , and not forgetting the CPC glad i am finished with all that crap
I retired at 62 when the boss said I keep up with the Eastern European drivers I said hillocks after 35years now I'm glad they have got troubles employing poeple ?I like walking my dogs now
Bob Smart a
Kay Simpkins as I said Kay I retired at 62 I am 67 now and I get hauliers and agency's phoning me if I would do work for them my really is I need to take the medical again and cause my age I have to have a med exam each year that's the law ? but it cost 145pounds and no guarantees you fit enough
Cant fault ya fella you done the right thing at the right time coz its only getting worse
Good video I find the digital tachometer much easier than the old analogue type , messing around with little round paper things. The working time rules regarding the limit of hours can work is for safety reasons and its up to employers to pay better wages so drivers don't have to work long hours .
Packed in hgv I drive a Mercedes sprinter now absolutely love it
40% …. oh hell no that's in the early 90's … in 2018 its now 85% is now government tax
I have been driving all shorts of vehicles over the last 27years, Class one, Two and Three, I have never been unemployed because I have worked all over the uk and going where the Jobs are, from Fridge, Flats, Curtainsiders, Tippers, From Steel, Sand n gravel, I have worked for the Big Name supermarkets on (15) different shift Pattons. My list can go on and on, as long you know the WTD and the Driving Hours then most of the time all should be well.
well known UK hauliers are now full of drivers from all over the EU. All happy on 8.50 an hour. Then you have the ex eastern block countries like Romania, i saw two of there trucks parked in the same spot for a week. drivers cooking and washing in the empty trailer. waiting for a return load. The only young drivers you get are family members of the haulage company.
I saw that UK drivers are lazy fat pricks, they never cook or clean the truck or anything... you should take a closer look at the eastern drivers, they have very clean truck, they eat real food that they cook for themselfs, and they rather wash their clothes in buckets than the dirty ass washing machines that some service station have that washed over 1000+ people clothes during its lifetime without cleaning it... Its a lifestyle, and they enjoy it, while your kind is just whining like a pussy ass bitch
@@johnnyhun1 wow. fighting talk ! Where are you from then big man?
Always wanted to drive a truck since being a kid, I got my licenses and it wasn't what I thought it would be like. It is a horrible job, too many rules and the pay is crap, it wasn't worth the 8.50 per hour, I now drive a 3.5 tonner and get 20p more than I was driving the class 2.
Just like to add, started lorry driving in 1978 and I'm so glad I'm not involved in that crap now, it has changed beyond recognition
Started in 73 drove unti 2018
Glad to be gone.
Truckers treated like they have only two brain cells, waiting four hours to be tipped, in a waiting area with a dirty toilet and no coffee machine, no smoking on site rules, shitty hours, and I could go on and on till tomorrow with the reasons why the drivers are fed up.
the transport business these days is so stressful trying to keep to strict deadlines with the new digital tacographs and driver cpc its just to much hastle not to mention the amount of traffic on our roads these days i used to do regular runs from cardiff to stockport and used to dread that m6 motorway on the way back home to south wales guaranteed to get caught in a traffic jam its the last thing you want on a friday night fucking nightmare it was im glad im out of it
Were still on discs
Good for you
i got out of hgv driving a little over 2 years ago i will never go back fed up with poor wages over regulation and transport managers telling you lies to get that load where they want it by any means and also using bullyboy tactics and threats to get you to do as they want not giving a any care that its the driver that gets the fines and points on thier licence not to mention poor facilities and rip off parking charges no where to park if you need to go to a shop for food during the week and car drivers taking stupid risks overtaking trucks or break checking us and thinking we can stop in the same distance they can
too much stress poor diet no excercise and long working days all contribute to health problems too
so here it is no truck drivers = nothing in shops no industry supplies so no jobs no economy so its about time the country and government took a long look at the industry
Surprised speed limiters and safety belts haven't made the list, both are a pain.
Why? Those things have never bothered me. I wouldn't have thought of them in a million years. Why do you need to be going faster than 56mph and what's wrong with pulling on a seatbelt?
@@grahamlive It used to be a fare more pleasant, easier experience driving a HGV without a speed limiter, you had more control. Going up hill yo could accelerate to compensate for the hill, going past vehicles you could get a liitle more speed to get passed cleanly rather than at 1mph that currently happens. I just found it more tiring, much more of an effort.
Seat belts are restrictive, you can't see out of truck cab in the same way you can out of a car, it stops you leaning out to check for traffic, or means you need to take it off then struggle to put it back on.
Also doing mult drop it is a pain, why do taxi drivers not need to wear one and delivery drivers must, make no sense to me.
The biggest mistake I made was getting into this industry when I left the army 17 years on and I'm still trying to find another way it's an awfull industry to work in....
Neil Keeping it real I became a freight train driver. Same job, much much better pay. Less hours, but obviously still a lot of nights and early mornings.
P.S. Forgot to say. Always present yourself as a Professional and set yourself a standard to leave by, Don;t let others treat you as a Second rate Person, establish respect from the off and treat the office crew as you would like tobe treated.
that never works. office crew are usually kids who don't give a toss.
Jimmy got it right don't miss it after 40 years
I know this is nearly five years old, but my two pennarth is that I drove artics in England in the 60's, early 70's and it was a good job then. Hard work but a good job. Left alone to do it. I was lucky that I went all over with me dad as a kid and could load, rope and sheet as soon as I was strong enough to chuck the ropes over... Proper sheets were another thing, built me strength up though. I learnt how to reverse an artic by watching him for years. People nowadays don't get that advantage. They have to spend thousands of quid to get a licence and then more for all this dcpc crap, that, from what I've heard (I live in Oz now) is often taught by cretins that don't know what they're talking about. Too much traffic, too many morons on the road, too many arrogant gits all around you and the tacho's that you seem to need a degree to understand. Too much of someone getting on your back. My attitude was and always is, 'it gets there when it gets there... safely.' I'm retired now but drove here in Oz, buses, semi's, rigids and it's a different ball game. Some of the problems are brought about by drivers themselves by allowing some dick in an office to put pressure on them to fly about and end up having a smash or simply annoying every other bugger on the road and getting all hgv drivers a bad name.
Cor, that feels better. :-)
And shouldn't think you get the camaraderie anymore
@@robflood8003 Yeah, no one seems to bother.
Limited to working 48 hrs a week.
Thats a joke. Driving hrs maybe,
Plus many hours loading & unloading. My time as a hgv driver
Was work, eat, sleep, repeat. Out of the house around 5 return at 10pm.
Never again.
This video looks like it was made in 2002 the lorries featured were registered in the 1990s.
2021 and Curries are advertising for class 1 drivers at £460 for 50 hours....
In 23 miles I'll be spending the night at the biggest truck stop in the world at Walcott Iowa. With everything a truck drivet needs on the road available to him. 3 movie rooms 5 places to eat, barber , massage therapy to name just a few.
£520 on XF fuel fill up today
We’ve got the same problem here in the USA.
Para mi opinión los gobiernos quieren comer parte del pastel de los camioneros una 100 permisos 2 estan arriba d ti para poner multas x nada creo q deberían d soltar un poco mas a los camioneros y no abusar tanto
No shortage of drivers just a shortage of decent wages. I gave up driving class1 & coaches after 20 odd years for more money working in a yard and i only need to work 40hrs a week now. No more hassle or stress or sleeping in laybys with no facility's 👍
It makes me wonder how anything ever gets done, so many rules, etc, if I came back there to drive, but I never would of course, (79 now) I think maybe I would last ten mins before throwing my hands in air lol.
DVSA is killing it to, hgv are hammered by these,fines for anything they feellike on the day.
I work in the haulage industry. Europeans are great drivers. Lol. As long as it starts, got some wheels on, the rest is "bullshit ". Ever heard of 3 wheels on my waggon and I'm still rolling along? X
There’s more. Traffic. Never, have HGVs been considered in terms of priority on urban networks in spite of highly efficient SCOOT controlling traffic signals in cities and an associated ‘common database’ which can accept real time positioning from HGVs and their purpose... ie priority. That information, combined with SCOOT real time traffic data can be used to assign priority to an approach based on relative importance of each vehicle on it.
HGVs keep our economy moving yet we do Nothing for them.
Amazing, and to think American truck drivers complain about the government rules and regulations.
Ahh yes a timely reminder to me why after 20 years doing this shit i still hate it and still want out of it but sadly easier said than done
The digital tacho made absolutely no difference at all
Whats changed. Nowt, paid less now than when runnin for paddys in 90,s.
I do agree with UK truck stops. They are disgusting.....ever heard of bleach.
snap parking places are better than the motorway ones (most of them)
How old is this film? I thought the Little Bistro was flattened years ago. It was rough and ready but I had some good meals there.
0:14 isn't that dangerously top heavy?
48 hours a week? I know England is small, but how do you get anything done? I've been with the same company in Michigan for 20+ yrs. so my gravy run is 500 miles a day 6 days a week.
500 miles a day 6 days a week, any vacancies on that job?
So, no ambition then?
Why they do not hire foreign drivers from asian countries what the reason greediness? Look at the UAE,QATAR,BAHRAIN,
KSA around in the middleast there's no issue of driver shortage
Those poor people still cant drive on the right side of the road :/ Driving in the opposite lines
The problems facing British truckers are themselves, they are their own problem
And you know what you're talking about another car driving wannabe cnut possibly works as a warehouse skivvy 😂😂
Working hours 48 per week? She knows shit 70 per week is standard for the price of 40, also owner drivers
they put that much pressure so it is harder to make money,
so only younger driver driver get to business ,as older driver, can not fart around and make lot's money
government get his money ,business have more young driver who are willing and can work longer hours
it actually helps driver retire sooner and start enjoying, the life more, get to know the people who were getting free food at home all theses years
yes, honey ,those three at the other side of table are our kid ,the other two are your nephews!!!
Really is a dreadful job.Enough said and it's far worse now than when this was aired,Dcpc what a demeaning and ridiculous waste of time,on my last course there was a Rumainian driver nice enough person,didn't understand English passed with flying colours as did we all,the very next day he did exactly the same course in a different location with the same instructor,that's just one example of why I don't like doing the job.
the biggest problem is dawdlers
48 hours a week would suck. I bitch about being limited to 70.
you are/were the problem my friend.
Fuel in France isn't much cheaper. It's actually about the same. I've been to france so ok I know.
UK fuel is imported from the Middle East. So its not even UK fuel.
Is this video from like 2001? Looks like it.
no...its from 2031
Automation is coming
Worldwide
Scania ever such populuar trucks
Kings of the road is scania
Haha all drivers now are gettin on or ex squaddies British wise the rest are the euro lot but that's because they take the hit on overloaded trucks and driving hours and get a slap on the wrist if one of us do it we pay a fine and the company gets one too
Its haulers not haulyers
it's neither. try hauliers !
just 10 problems ? you aint driven a truck love
Fookin hell, truckers don't half moan!
I think you'll find that it's the ex truckers who are commenting. this is the comments section after all.
Yeah ban foreign companies XD We will see who will be trucking in your country... Old truckers passing away and young people want work in office with computer 8 hours a day not 15 like truckers... and sleep in truck...
everybody on here is moaning about being a wagon driver, yes, theres plenty wrong with our industry but it beats the shit out of sitting in an office all day with people you hate. eastern europeans have kept wages down in lots of industries not just haulage, look at the building trade. i would'nt swap my job for all the tea in china.
Still happy with your choice?
Shouldn't have to work more than 48 hours to earn a living, another load of propaganda shit.
what was the gov thinkin after the second world war the U K should have moved to the other side of the road like finland did by the way your trucks are ugly give me a Kenworth or a Freightliner any day
michael purkiss it's not our fault you drive on the wrong side of the road it's napoleon's
let's see you take one of your marvelous machines into London. Then tell us which is best!