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Lazy ****. Give me both.

And show your working.

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Of course if the truckers went faster then they would be able to get
home and tucked up in bed much earlier...

 

I'm sure Tuppy will correct me if I'm wrong here but...

If you disable the 5th wheel (i.e. where the trailer would connect to)
you should be able to drive it on a C1 licence (less than 7.5 tonne
category). Which depending on when you got your car licence you may or
may not already have.

 

I suppose you want the weights converted into Babylonian shekels, and
the speeds in inches a second and the energy in electron volts.

DIY.

 

Thanks. I could do with some curtains putting up.

I'm in Bugger's 'ole over the festive period btw. Fancy coming over for
a mince pie?

 

I've got a curtain now, not worth me putting it up yet, as I'm moving in
another month.

Yeh, why not.. email me.

 

Ah - don't sweat it. I've done it loads, and nothing bad ever
happened.

 

Stobarts are wankers. Don't work for them. Their continental
counterparts of Murffits. Shysters.

I always wanted to work for that firm out of Oldham, or J.D.Riby, or
Brian Yeardley.

Unitruc in Southend were probably the best, legal firm I ever worked
for.

The best illegal firm.... I'd better not say.

Depends. This time of year, if you're with an agency, and they phone
you to work you can name your price. That's okay.

The rest of the year, it evens out. There's some really low pay out
there. But the work isn't too terrible (I'd rather do it than haul
chicken shit, for example). Sometimes you might have to push those
wheeled cages off the trailer onto the loading bay.

Night work is good - that's what I'd do by choice: less traffic, fewer
drops, less stress. The only trouble is that there's nothing on Radio
Four after 1am.

The best work, imo, is continental. Miles and miles of empty
motorways, great places to eat, not a great number of
deliveries/collections, and night-out money.

Life has a habit of doing that. I had planned to be a secret agent, a
porn star, or a concert pianist - and here I am in a fucking war zone
doing.

Anyway, if you want to do it, do it. You know that you can't go
straight to artic any more; you have to do a rigid test, then an artic
one.

 

No, if the tractor unit is uncoupled it drops to cat C requirement
from cat C+E. No need to disable the 5th wheel.
There are or were some technical get outs on show tractors, maybe they
still exist, may be not. I can find out, but as I dont do that sort of
thing for a living any more, it could take a while, and I'd have to
charge for it ;-)

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I don't smoke.

 

There are interesting get-oputs on ShiteOldBuses as well, which is why
it's possible to buy an old Routemaster and drive it on a car licence
with no need for a PSV entitlement.

Next time you see some load of pikeys in an old double-decker, give them
a wide berth. Chances are the bloke behind the wheel hasn't actually got
a bus licence.

 

The subsonic sound waves of the snoring would shake whatever the Wing
was travelling towards to bits. Imagine a building suddenly dissolving
into dust. The Wing would sail through the cloud of dust, completely
unharmed.

 

Heh.

 

Yeah, which means too lots of training fees, two test fees, etc. Figure
on two grand as total cost. Don't forget the medical (one day I'll post
here how I managed to wing the eyesight test).

I never worked as a trucker like Tuppy or you. I'd like to think I could
fall back on it if everything else went phut.

But still, driving 480bhp worth of Daf CF or Scania rates as one of the
most fun things I've ever done on wheels.

I remember going for a sighting drive on a new Foden, with YTC himself
in the cab as "photographer".

 

There was an item on the bbc news site about the sale of all the old
routemasters. Let's see if I can find it...

Ah, here it is:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4075085.stm

I don't know why I fancy one, but I do. Nowhere to put it, of course
- same problem as most people, I would think.

 

I'm happy with that. But if you were to disable the 5th wheel then I
thought you might be able to drop the max laden weight to under 7.5
tonne - in which case it would be classified as C1 (under 7.5 tonne).

 

You told IRL - excellent stuff.

I went to the opticians last week, just because it had been 5 years
and I'm very conscious of impending old age. 20/20 vision,
apparently. That's good, then.

I'm betting you'll never be out of work.

You might find that you make a better living at doing the
auto-jumbles, and breaking bikes on a full-time basis than driving a
truck.

It is fun.

The bottom of the A40 on the approach to the Mont Blanc Tunnel, where
is rises from the ground on enormous stilts, to meet the tunnel
half-way up the mountain is a hell of a thing.

The road hugging the cliff on the way to Genoa is stunning.

The moors in North Devon, where you can be the only vehicle in sight.

Great stuff.

I did the reverse with my mate who is a photographer for OK Magazine -
he used to take me to celebrity parties, restaurant openings and so on
as his "scribbler". I just had to have a pad and a pen and note down
who was there - and I had carte blanche to drink as much free
champagne as I could.

I almost blew my cover a number of times, because of an Ace-esque lack
of knowledge of celebrity culture:

Me (brandishing pad and pen): Hi, I'm doing the write-up for OK
Magazine. Who are you?
Famous Person: Gail Porter.
Me: How do you spell that?
Gail Porter:G-A-I-L P-O-R-T-E-R
Me: Okay, got it. So, Gail, what do you do?
Gail Porter: An image of me naked was projected onto the Houses of
Parliament
Me: Oh, fucking hell, yeah - I know who you are. You've got a lovely
arse, love.

 

Murdering hitchhikers?

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Stuff the nuclear deterrent, we've got the Dodger deterrent.

 

There are interesting get-oputs on ShiteOldBuses as well, which is why
it's possible to buy an old Routemaster and drive it on a car licence
with no need for a PSV entitlement.[/QUOTE]

One of my first girlfriends had a PSV license [1]. ISTR her telling
me that if there's no paying passengers you can drive one on a car
license.

She did some of the "two driver to the south of france" coach routes,
where it was standard practise to change drivers in the fast lane of
the autoroute. And then the papers got hold of it and it got all
safety-nazi-fied.

[1] what a very fine woman she was. Still is, in fact.