Thread: You never know who is watching....Warning Long Story!

Originally Posted by amshaw

Thanks Dave for the info. Anything else you can think of just let me know please.

The prussure is on me as another member of my brigade got his HR liscence a few weeks ago and got 97% . Thats the highest mark ever given in our area, or so we were told anyway.

Thats the main reason Im going for mine, its a matter of, if he can get I will have no problems.......Might sound cocky but the other guy is....well lets just say he is a bit simple, good bloke but is the typical type bouncer, loves his job .

He got 97% but to be honest I have no idea how, Im hopless at spelling etc but he can hardly read and wright, but I relise its not his fault.......

But having said that one day after getting his ticket he took a local santa on a run to a school before xmas.....and took out the side of the tanker on a couner of a house.......... So he may have passed the test but has more driving to do.

We see that alot around here, as soon as they get the ticket they think thats it, well I think its only just starting, still need to do lots of hours to get better......but thats just me.

In our Brigade we have a system that we need to follow in gaining a "Code 1" tick, which means we cant drive to a job lights and bells for a while and even then a senior driver needs to be in the truck if we do. Thats just to prove that we dont do anything stupid, well if thats the case maybe some of the guys need to go back to basics and start again

Thanks to everybody else re "well done", thought I had better not thanks with heaps of posts......

Don't get too taken with what mark you get so long as its enough - They wont give you a better license because you got 98%

Originally Posted by numpty

Well done mate. Did my HR test in the early 80's in a Thornycroft Nubian Major (ex RAAF crash rescue truck) We had it as a water carrier/second response bush fire vehicle in the NSW Bush Fire Brigade. It was quite a handful with a straight 8 Rolls Royce engine and 5 speed crash box, got plenty hot inside as well. After 1/2 an hour driving around the streets of Miranda and Caringbah, the instructor reckoned I deserved to pass having to drive, in his words "a pig of a thing like that".

Errr nothing wrong with it - great truck to drive once you got the hang of it. .

Mind you it was a long day driving it to Yamba for its last trip.



Martyn

I was psyched up for a long story! To quote Cate Blanchett: "It's a flat in the Archway Road and you think you're Virginia frigging Woolf!"

Congrats! It is amazing the differences NERVES can make to anything.

Why in this day and age do the boxes not have synchros right through? Even the bus drivers and Rubbish men have their auto's!