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My first ever trucking job on my own. how did it go?
gtomo2:
Yea dont be put off by your first day. Other divers have had worst first days. Finding a new place can be hard. best thing to do is ask a driver to do you a map of it.
I still have bad days like yours and have been driving trucks for a long time now.
Once did agency work for a express courier firm about 37 drops around north and mid wales think i brought about 27 back to the depot as i could not find them.
Ask you agency to start you on things like bin wagon driving or sunblest bread type work. Its a good starting point as the routes are all pre set.
Stick with it you will be ok.
Drift:
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--- Quote from: muddyjames on March 22, 2010, 17:26:02 ---I keep thinking the police and fire bregade. I am not sure I have the right mind for police as I couldnt handle the little ejits at work. It could toughen me up though and make me a better person.
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no not fire service, no not that.... I wouldn't like to think you're a fireman somewhere, Jesus no.
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As long as he isnt driving the truck :lol: :lol:
Seriously, things will get better with experiance ;)
muddyjames:
my down fall in life is finding places. I always get lost and in a lorry into places in the back end of no where is not good. I couldnt find adocado on a huge busines park! Mainly because I was told I go past it then go round the roads and back in again, so I was looking for it on the a1001 but couldnt see it, mainly due to it not being by the road! And the map they gave me ust pointed to a big square blob of grey which was the park and no roads in it!
Disco Matt:
If the agency are willing to give you another chance then take it. Talk to them. You've put a lot of time, effort and money into getting that HGV licence, I wish I could afford to do the training.
You can buy special trucker versions of Tomtom that will avoid narrow roads and low bridges, that should help with finding places.
frosty:
We all have carp days driving lorries..I now know there are certain driving jobs I dont like and wont do..fridge work, skip work,general haulage or work for any of the big firms (tescos, or stobarts type thing) arent for me, however tippers, low loaders, builders merchants, hook loaders and recovery are for me.
When I first left the army I went into brake brothers at Grantham as an agency driver over the xmas period, they sent me down to london the day the sales started with 8 drops, the first 2 were in underground delivery areas which were a nightmare and the 3rd involved reversing into a nccp car park which was above a woolies, I had to wait 45min in order for the car park attendant to clear a route in for me and find his broom as he used that to hold the phone lines up so the lorries could back in! I decided I didnt want to play games like that and as I was running out of driving hours (id spent over 2hrs in a traffic jam) I headed home. the transport manager then rang and used every way of convincing me I should finish my drops including threats of violence! Funnily enough when I got into the yard he changed his mind and ran off! I vowed there and then never to do fridge work again!
Theres only one way to get experience in the haulage industry...and thats to keep at it fella
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