Tell Us Something Really Trivial About Your Life (Vol 34)

[ApOrbital]

Good morning all

[anonymous-user]

ApOrbital said:

Good morning all

Mornin’

[Bobberoo99]

Morning chaps
Back to the decorating today!!
Looks to be a mixture of sun and clouds out there!!

[glenrobbo]

Good morning everyone!

V6 Pushfit said:

Mornin’

Blimey, Pushfit!
Chatty this morning, ain'tcher?

[anonymous-user]

Bobberoo99 said:

Morning chaps
Back to the decorating today!!
Looks to be a mixture of sun and clouds out there!!

Decorating story.

I put a patterned pelmet strip up just below the ceiling, all carefully glued in place.
My mate comes round, gets on a chair to inspect the lovely printed band and then waaay! Peels it off it’s backing strip and from his position unpeeled the whole room and let go so there was just a coiled up pelmet strip on the floor.

I hadn’t realised the strip was self adhesive

[White Stiletto]

Morning all.
Sunny and breezy here.
I seem to have missed much action over the weekend. The new man seems to have dropped off the radar, although there was news of a big bloke being treated in the cottage hospital for chest injuries of "a suspicious nature".
My lasting memory of the New Forest was driving past a dead cow with a "Police Aware" sticker on its rear n/s.
Not much planned for today, but you never know...

[DickyC]

glenrobbo said:

To be honest, she had been with me most of the evening, but she was starting to get a little too clingy, and I had another appointment, so I steered her into Dicky's proximity and did one.
She was primed and ready to go, so I thought it would be a nice gesture to give Dicky a bit of company to while away the time until the next train to Newbury.

I asked her to tell me about the corridors of power. She said at Westminster there are double three pin sockets near every third door and a fire extinguisher every six recessed into the wainscoting.

[StuntmanMike]

DickyC said:

glenrobbo said:

To be honest, she had been with me most of the evening, but she was starting to get a little too clingy, and I had another appointment, so I steered her into Dicky's proximity and did one.
She was primed and ready to go, so I thought it would be a nice gesture to give Dicky a bit of company to while away the time until the next train to Newbury.

I asked her to tell me about the corridors of power. She said at Westminster there are double three pin sockets near every third door and a fire extinguisher every six recessed into the wainscoting.

Always wondered what she would look like with a head transplant using Marty Feldmans head.

[DickyC]

StuntmanMike said:

Always wondered what she would look like with a head transplant using Marty Feldmans head.

We could recruit a pixel fixel from the Bobbers Photoshopped thread. They should be here anyway. Perhaps they are lost on Trivmin Moor even as we speak.

[StuntmanMike]

Morning all. Looks bright out but in reality it’s overcast and windy.

Wife is working now so I’ve lost me mucka.

Just had a funny conversation with her.

Her. My shoulders are hurting! ( she has had a bad shoulder for a couple of years).

He. Again?

Her. Yeah, I think I need Toms magic hands. ( physio ).

Me. I’ll use my magic hands.

Her. Yeah, the trouble is you always get distracted with your magic dick.

[Magooagain]

Wotcha everyone!

Nice bright morning ici.
Clio delivered to garage for a service.
Plasterboard bought for a wee job tomoz.

Now it's Mavis time!

A plus.

[StuntmanMike]

Bobberoo99 said:

Look i know it's Sunday night but it's way too quiet in here!!!!

I have a question for StuntmanMike, what's the procedure for obtaining a class2 licence? I presume that once obtained i'd have to undergo some sort of training period with whatever company was stupid clever enough to take me on? Are there set vehicle checks to do each day? Any advice gratefully received!!!

Sorry bobbers, didn’t see this.
There will be local driving instructors near you, I have no idea of the cost because I passed my HGV in 93.

It at the time was the same as a car test except you had to drop and pick up your trailer on class one, you had to do a reverse excercise , reverse into a coned off area, and a gear exercise, pulling off using every gear then slowing to a stop using every gear.

Then you have to get your DCPC. This is a card that looks like you license but is blue and it lasts 5 years. You have to do so many hours of training, 38 split into 5 days classrooms. It covers Drivers hours, hazard perception, load security, legal compliance etc.

Have you got any truck stops near you? In every one a free trade paper is given away ( usually in the canteen ), it carries a lot of adverts in it ( local driving instructors ) or it you go to a newsagent Commercial Motor is the trade magazine aimed more at the industry rather than for the driver, this used to carry ads and list test centres.

Drinking trucks is easy, they are so dumbed down now and are nearly all automatics.

How old are you? You have to have a medical every five years after 45. You also need to have a glasses prescription that is less than two months old for it.

Trouble is, the law and their involvement in HGVs has completely changed in the last ten or twenty years, they are much more proactive in catching wrong doers.
They have a lot of forensics from the truck alone that will get you in trouble.

This was probably needed because there are some right shady characters in the industry ( look what happened in Tilbury last year) but it has really professionalised the industry, trouble is you are held to this super high standard but the money does not reflect it.

It’s also an aging industry, I passed my test in the early nineties and so did most of the guys I meet, so I don’t know what’s involved anymore.

But it all depends on what you want to do?

Some people work days, some nights, some do the odd night out, some live in their trucks.

Have you seen anything that interests you?

[StuntmanMike]

https://www.by-pass.co.uk/

Give these a ring, I’m assuming they are local and just ask the cost of getting a license and what’s involved. LGV cat C is what you are asking about, plus DCPC ( or just CPC as it’s commonly known.

I don’t know what they are like, but they can certainly answer your questions.

[DickyC]

StuntmanMike said:

Sorry bobbers, didn’t see this.
There will be local driving instructors near you, I have no idea of the cost because I passed my HGV at 93.

Hope for all of us looking for a career change.

[Scrump]

Bobbers has his own thread.
Seems I now have one as well:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[StuntmanMike]

Scrump said:

Bobbers has his own thread.
Seems I now have one as well:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Do you split long threads? Dude when you gonna split my Old nightclubs never die thread?

Also, do you have a spare Marty Feldman head? We need one for our Anne Widecome body.

[Scrump]

Bobberoo99 said:

Look i know it's Sunday night but it's way too quiet in here!!!!

I have a question for StuntmanMike, what's the procedure for obtaining a class2 licence? I presume that once obtained i'd have to undergo some sort of training period with whatever company was stupid clever enough to take me on? Are there set vehicle checks to do each day? Any advice gratefully received!!!

The procedure involves opening a Yorkie bar one handed. (Class 2 allows the use of teeth)
Daily checks consist of ensuring the cab contains the minimum number of Yorkie bars and that you have the requisite number of egg stains on your shirt before you set off.

[Scrump]

StuntmanMike said:

Do you split long threads? Dude when you gonna split my Old nightclubs never die thread?

At the posting rate I calculate another 132 years before it would need splitting.

[StuntmanMike]

DickyC said:

StuntmanMike said:

Sorry bobbers, didn’t see this.
There will be local driving instructors near you, I have no idea of the cost because I passed my HGV at 93.

Hope for all of us looking for a career change.

You kind of get stuck in it Dicky.
It’s not a particularly good job and it’s one I would not do again if I had my time over.
Bobbers has a trade, I think he already does the better job.

[StuntmanMike]

Scrump said:

StuntmanMike said:

Do you split long threads? Dude when you gonna split my Old nightclubs never die thread?

At the posting rate I calculate another 132 years before it would need splitting.

Oh. I was proud of that one.