Becoming a HGV driver (connor)
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From: SteveH on 10 Dec 2006 18:18 Conor <conor.turton(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > There are many reasons why I chose to fly over, none of which are to do > > with my ability to ride 600 miles in 2 days on a bike. > > > Poverty I reckon. Costs money to take your own vehicle across. It also costs to hire a bike over there. Flights aren't exactly cheap either. However, my wife wasn't entirely keen on doing a 600 mile hit on the back of a bike in 2 days. Especially as we'd also have a 100 or so mile trip to the port in the UK, in October. The pillion seat on a bike isn't a nice place to be when it's cold and wet - as the UK and Northern Spain tend to be at that time of year. -- SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo' www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #
From: Conor on 10 Dec 2006 18:19 In article <1hq53ox.hzmq6ad13k7cN%steve(a)italiancar.co.uk>, SteveH says... > Knight Of The Road <russiatrucking(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Yes, there's nothing more delightfully- if slightly sadistically- funny > > than having a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent and in this respect, > > SteveH plays his role to perfection. > > Only in your fantasy world. > > The only ones who appear to be retarded fuckwits in this thread are you > and NM. > Still having trouble with "There's" and "There are"? -- Conor The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
From: SteveH on 10 Dec 2006 18:22 Conor <conor.turton(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In article <1hq580r.1fvuiij1ulx9bbN%steve(a)italiancar.co.uk>, SteveH > says... > > > But you did that in an HGV, which means it's a less than enjoyable > > experience. > > How exactly? It's work and you have a very slow and large vehicle with you. You're also fairly limited in where you can go and when you can go there. > > Doing it in my car or on the bike would be fun. > > Paying to do it instead of being paid and hoping the hotel is > habitable. Well, I don't exactly have many financial contstraints so I'm sure I could manage to book hotels that were of a far superior standard than sleeping in the cab of a truck. > > Doing in a > > truck is just a job. A dull job at that. > > > Of course it is Steve. Many films made about your job were there? There's many dull films out there. Just because a film was made about your job, it doesn't make it any less dull. > > Funnily enough, neither am I. Because that's nothing like life for me, > > or most other middle managers. > > > You're the first to get fired as middle management is the dispensible > layer of a company. Depends on the company, really. If they fired the field management team, we would no longer have a UK business. -- SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo' www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC #
From: Conor on 10 Dec 2006 18:22 In article <1hq59rs.14jt0ls1c9h6u0N%steve(a)italiancar.co.uk>, SteveH says... > > I don't really GAF if, as you claim, HGV drivers earn more than me. I do > know that, in order for them to do this, they have to do shite jobs and > put in lots of unsociable hours. Whereas I do what I want when I want > within a very loose set of guidelines. > I've just decided this week that I'm going to take the rest of December and all of January off. When I feel like it, I send other people to do my job in my place. I doubt you can do that, wage slave. And middle management types tend to put in many long and unsociable hours too for fear of losing their jobs to colleagues who do come firing time. -- Conor The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
From: SteveH on 10 Dec 2006 18:23
Conor <conor.turton(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In article <1hq51ap.nnkq7y1ge7t1N%steve(a)italiancar.co.uk>, SteveH > says... > > > > > On the evidence of your usenet postings you'd struggle with anything > > beyond flipping burgers if you weren't driving a truck. > > > If anyone has displayed a low standard of education, it's been you. Of course it is. Whatever you say. You're *always* right. Especially when you type swear words in captial letters. I give up, it's like arguing with school kids. -- SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo' www.italiancar.co.uk - Honda VFR800 - Hongdou GY200 - Alfa 75 TSpark Alfa 156 TSpark - B6 Passat 2.0TDI SE - COSOC KOTL BOTAFOT #87 - BOTAFOF #18 - MRO # - UKRMSBC #7 - Apostle #2 - YTC # |