Your first fulltime proper driving job.
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Like many others and the facti was employed by HM Forces my first fulltime driving job happened a few years after I past my Class one.
I had driven on the agency for years but coincidentally my first fulltime job was also the first agency job as well, ( different depot ).
What was this job, I drove a demountable wagon and drag, ( A frame drawbar ) for United Carriers. Utterly s
t firm that i strangley have very fond memories of.
I had driven on the agency for years but coincidentally my first fulltime job was also the first agency job as well, ( different depot ).
What was this job, I drove a demountable wagon and drag, ( A frame drawbar ) for United Carriers. Utterly s
t firm that i strangley have very fond memories of.Gradual thing for me, 1998 started delivering Transit tippers on trade plates, then 7.5T car transporter (demountable and beavertail), obtained class 1 licence, drove an 18T five car rigid transporter for a while (with a spec frame) then onto artic transporters and wagon and drag, all with the same company.
After that 4 years general haulage with artic curtains.
Past 7 years mostly containers, occasional shunting (same company) though been shunting (Terbergs) full time for the last year and loving it, find driving a chore now.
After that 4 years general haulage with artic curtains.
Past 7 years mostly containers, occasional shunting (same company) though been shunting (Terbergs) full time for the last year and loving it, find driving a chore now.
Baptism by fire for me. I had taken an HGV course for the craic, when a friend of a friend offered me a job driving an insulated tarmac tipper. One day accompanied and then I was on my own, loading red hot tarmac in a quarry in West Derbyshire and tipping into paving machines on the A1M.
Dad owned a recovery company, I grew up in and around trucks. First vehicle after passing my test was a Maestro van... lol
Jumped in a 1990 spec lift transit soon after. Drove that for a few years. Then bought beavertail VW T4's and then moved onto 7.5t Isuzus. I'd never driven a 7.5tonner before, so picking up a brand new tilt and slide from Roger Dysons and driving it home to Surrey was interesting.
Jumped in a 1990 spec lift transit soon after. Drove that for a few years. Then bought beavertail VW T4's and then moved onto 7.5t Isuzus. I'd never driven a 7.5tonner before, so picking up a brand new tilt and slide from Roger Dysons and driving it home to Surrey was interesting.
) doing other things like a lot on here till i was 23 then got a job with a local waste paper firm , 2 trips a day over pennines with full load of paper bales , big sheets that were a bit of a struggle , especialy when it windy or rainy or frosty , well everyday , really old foden , crap gearbox steering too light (use to wander on motorway like a great big wandering snaky thing)
i use to roll the sheets up on top of the paper then when forky was tipping paper just roll them onto deck of trailer, too heavy to pick up , oh what i would of given for a curtainsider , not many about in them days ,
second job was better , steel out of shorpe , paid on percentage , i cold really make that crack and had a brilliant nearly new f10 with the overdrive on the dash , still my favourite truck
i use to roll the sheets up on top of the paper then when forky was tipping paper just roll them onto deck of trailer, too heavy to pick up , oh what i would of given for a curtainsider , not many about in them days ,
second job was better , steel out of s
horpe , paid on percentage , i cold really make that crack and had a brilliant nearly new f10 with the overdrive on the dash , still my favourite truckVans for me, when I was 20
newspapers to the flash hotels in london at first, then multi drop in kent. Yard was in basildon and the round was Canterbury to Hythe and anywhere in between, sometimes 70-80 drops a day :0
Stuck this till I was 23 , got my class 1 and have done a vareity of things for the last 20 years.
newspapers to the flash hotels in london at first, then multi drop in kent. Yard was in basildon and the round was Canterbury to Hythe and anywhere in between, sometimes 70-80 drops a day :0
Stuck this till I was 23 , got my class 1 and have done a vareity of things for the last 20 years.
Passed my test in 2009 with a 9.7m Dennis Javelin after about 15 hours training just after my 19th birthday.
Started work 3 months later with a coach firm and was given a 12m 1982 DAF MB200 with an absolutely fked gearbox to do schools with. Trial by fire!
Luckily the next day I was given a Y reg manual Volvo as my regular coach, even if it was a B7R it was still better than that DAF heap of ste!
Started work 3 months later with a coach firm and was given a 12m 1982 DAF MB200 with an absolutely f
ked gearbox to do schools with. Trial by fire!Luckily the next day I was given a Y reg manual Volvo as my regular coach, even if it was a B7R it was still better than that DAF heap of s
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