Truck Drivers!!!

But not easy!!

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Originally Posted by Bearman

What's your gripe with truck drivers Gsl. The majority of them are bloody good blokes (and drivers) who have spent a lot of time on the road trying to make a decent living for their families at the expense of the big companies and the government. Like all professions there is the odd cowboy amongst them but they are mostly the salt of the earth. All of them started out with a car licence and worked their way up through the classes until they got to HC or MC. Takes a long time and mostly experience on the road to get this far. I have done my share of it over the years, met some terrific blokes that I am proud to call a mate and I take my hat off to the ones who spend a lifetime on the road especially owner/drivers, paying all the tolls/taxes etc and trying to keep up with the sometimes unrealistic restrictions imposed upon them by officials and governments who wouldn't know **** from clay and endeavouring to make an honest living at the end of the day, the knobs in cars who overtake on double lines/ going up hills/ even with oncoming traffic and jeopardise the safety of everyone. Some car drivers just HAVE to get in front of a truck even if they are doing the same speed. I still can't understand that one. There is a fair chance that if you ever come to grief on the road it will be a truckie who pulls you out of the wreckage.

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No gripes at all here Bear, I've worked with just as many as you no doubt and found all of them good blokes. Never had a run in with any on the road either...

Just to bring you up to speed, this thread was a retort to Ian's ****ing motorists thread, just providing the balance in the Aulro Bull**** banter room.

Keep on truckin! :D ... Remember Truckin Life magazines? We used to read em in primary school, childhood dreams of driving big rigs, seems you're living my dream ;).

truck driving Ians?

last one of them I met had me change the head on a ford and then came and took a lathe, drill mill a workbench heaps of cutting bits and who know what else And he got all of that one a piddly little 6x4 trailer... Id hate to be there when he turns up with a truck, youd be lucky if he left the hole in the ground where your foundations used to be...

I tell ya, if the mining industry took lessons from him about how to get stuff from where it was we wouldnt be having any bloody slow down on the dollar, hell everyone who was trying to pick the stuff up would be paying our ship builders a bloody fortune they'd be bloody lucky to get of the gangplank before it was heading back to the water into the collapsing foam where the ship used to be.

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Originally Posted by alien

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Gotta be a mud carter. :p

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Originally Posted by Greatsouthernland

Well as a holder of a truck licence, motorbike, car, boat and some other licences (and I ride a pushbike occasionally), I guess I can take as well as give :angel:

So, I'm assuming you wanted some stirring of the pot? How about they only drive trucks because they keep falling off their bicycles? Or they're not clever enough to drive taxis?

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Not stirring anything, I went off to work a while after my last post, & yes driving a TRUCK...
Got home around midnight, up now to get kids ready for school...
Seems Bearman wrote pretty much what I was thinking...
Every time you go buy something, remember it didn't grow there, it was delivered by truck....
People must think truck drivers just drive them around for the fun of it....
Traffic Jams & impatient car drivers are no fun at all

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Gotta be a mud carter. :p

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He ends up following his own tail lights.
I've seen the photo's.

I stay out of the padlocks now.
Much nicer tipping in concrete yards.
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Kyle, Do you realise you can pull the trailer brake on and walk around the back to check your brake lights. :-)

Taxi drivers are driving trucks, they are called punjabi transport (yes it's a real company) and most of them drive like they are in a taxi.

Bearman, it doesn't take years to work your way up to a MC any more, about 4 years ago the govt changed the rules, due to a supposed driver shortage and now you can walk in at the start of the week with a car licence and walk out at the end with a MC and know nothing about driving on the highway.

A week after I left the army, I got in a White 9000 day cab, in Sydney, and headed to Port Hedland. Three weeks later I got back to Sydney. That was my introduction to civvy truck driving, try getting that past OH&S now :-)

It can be a great life, if only we could get rid of those pesky cars and caravans it would be the perfect job. :-)

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Originally Posted by Corgie Carrier

A week after I left the army, I got in a White 9000 day cab, in Sydney, and headed to Port Hedland. Three weeks later I got back to Sydney. That was my introduction to civvy truck driving, try getting that past OH&S now :-)

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It was an interesting day when I converted my HC from army to civvy....

Cant do it you have to "evolve" your license...

OK, can I get your driving tester to come out and test me for HR first?

sure.

He comes out and there parked in the carpark sits an R series with a 20T and a pair of buckets..

"sorry mate I cant assess you, I dont have a trailer ticket"
"its ok I cant qualify for that, Im just here for HR assessment"
"but you've got a trailer on"
"I'll just drive like its there and you can pretend I dont have it on"
"no I better go get someone who can supervise with a trailer on"

"how are you going to get that out of here?"
"Drive it"
"you cant" out comes my blue book
"no as in you cant just drive out of here, theres no exit that way"
"its got reverse"
"you can reverse that around an Sbend?"
"get in"

2 minutes worth of reverse later and exactly 1 gear change into second.

"you have to go back"
"how come"
"you double clutched, Im not authorised to certify for non syncro gearboxes"

End of the day they gave me HC... but I had to drive with P plates because my old paper license didnt appear on the system.