Look out, road users...

I passed my HGV Class 2 test yesterday! Hoorah!

9 minor faults and a bit of earache for braking too sharply, some wibbly
steering and mirror work.

I'm not rushing off to get a £7.50/hr TNT job, nor will I be laying out
the massive cost of doing Class 1 (yet hem hem) but I can now legally
drive 7.5 tonners.

So yeah, watch it all you road rules flouting cyclists...

 

Well done, that poisoner.

 

Left Turn <====

 

great. Now I've got the "I like Trucking" song from NTNON[1]

[1] hey, enjoy:

 

It could be worse, it could be the "I like Bouncing" song[2]

[2]

 

Don't forget to kill prostitutes.

 

I thought you could drive 7.5 tonners on a car licence. I hired a 7.5
tonne truck for a week in France a few years ago and drove one here
working as a temp.

 

Not if you passed your car test after 1997.

 

Only us old gits with old licenses. We get it as a right for being old,
the kiddies have to prove their worth.

 

I see, I didn't know that.

 

Too right.

 

Jesus, this puts me in the same age band as Auvache.

Where did my life go wrong?

 

You forgot to die before you got old.

 

# the greatest kick in trucking 'part from knocking down a biker
# is swinging 'round a roundabout and picking up a hiker

this stuff is almost on-topic, you know.

 

oh, you ****.

Anyway, I'm going to retaliate with this[1]:



which is from almost the same year (well, the original is, if not
necessarily this live version).

Compare and contrast.

[1] only because I already mentioned earlier today my involvement with
the FNS[4] "collective" which was heavily influenced by the works of
J.G. Thirwell[2]
[2] and J.G. Ballard[3], but that's another thing.
[3] and Jello Biafra, but that's another other thing.
[4] I am pretty happy that no mention of any of this appears to have
made it on to the internet.

 

eggsacktly.

 

wasn't it that mad scottish bint?

 

*whooooooooooooosh*

although I'm being a little bit childish.

 

If it changed in 1997 you *could* be as young as 31.

Or as old as ****.

 

Quite. I did both car and bike tests in 1994.