MAD EVO 4

How much does this roughly cost ??

billymct

over a grand for the complete thing - have to do it in stages (Cat C - large rigids) is one test followed by separate test for artic (C+E).

JoeE30

Dont do it....................................

Stick to what ever it is you do now...

No money in driving unless you do 70+ hours a week and nights out...

And the standard of drivers (car/bike and other lorry) is disgusting and makes your job 1000000 times worse...

MAD EVO 4

cool

can you explain in more detail the process required then please, post on here or pm me

JoeE30

Go to your local test centre book yourself in for a (old Money) class 2 course/test. Once passed send off your license and as soon as it comes back with the class 2 on it and class 1 prov then book yourself in for the course/test. Once passed goto agency and get on the books....

Then get ready for the phone call to say " hi can you do a 0200 start and a run to glasgow with a night out" Thanks....etc etc

15 hours later stop in a shitty services and rest/sleep till you reg 11 hours are up and off you go again...

Thats it!!!!!!!!

discodenkelly

Why not do it?? I've been driving artics sinc last October and am making a decent living out of it. I don't do any where near 70hrs per week cos you can't anymore. I probably do an overnight once or twice a month.
If you do pass get driving car transporters, a lot less hassle than standard haulage

JoeE30

Why cant you do the 70 hours anymore....POA is all i will say.......Sitting at an ndc for hours and hours on end soon adds up.

discodenkelly

The only draw back to my job, you can't get masses of POA built up. I still think you'd have to be going some to build up 70 hrs a week.

scottbrown

70 hours a week. u part timer. lol

MAD EVO 4

Just something i wanna do, fancy being a trucker for a motorsport team

discodenkelly

I'd give it a go mate. Best of luck

MAD EVO 4

we are selling up and moving to canada so something i think will be good to do out there

scottbrown

canada are always crying out for hgv drivers.

checkout
www.trucknetuk.com
or
www.truckersworld.co.uk

for more info on hgv driving and getting driving jobs in canada

swerv

back to the original question, the cost depends what your standard of driving is now?

have you experiance driving 7.5t?

if you have then the cat C should not be to bad, the CE is usually a 5 day course and would around Ł800 on its own

well worth having on your licence but expect difficulties finding a job as you will have no driving experiance.

JoeE30

Fook driving in canada...

Short distance is across canada so maybe a couple of weeks of nights out......

Long distance is down to USA/Mexico.....months away....Was a bit in truck and driver a while ago about this bloke who runs from canada to south america and is away for 3 months at a time.............

KISS MY ROSEY RED RING i hate doing more then 8 hours a day as it is sat behind the wheel....The ass is out of driving, best do something else..

MAD EVO 4

I love driving though bro, so doing it in canada will be ok, would love to it for a motorsport team over there

Simon

Dont bother with trucknet its the most over moderated piece of crap on the internet but truckersworld is ok

simon

JoeE30

So do i mate...

Ok you seem to have this firmly planted in your head and nothing i can say will make a difference, just a few things tho, if it is such a great job how come NO and i mean NO drivers you EVER talk to are happy with their jobs/pay/other drivers/ndc's/transport industry and the hours and second if it is easy to get a job go ask the agencies if they have any work for ya....Not a thing cos the industry is dead on its ass....

Speak in about 6 months after you have spent all the money getting the licence and strugglin to get work and once you do it will all be 3663 or brakes and 15 hours of hanballin frozen food into pubs.........

Good luck anyway...

MAD EVO 4

we are moving to canada once the visa's are through so just thinking of what jobs i can do once im out there

mark_24v_wiring

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[quote="JoeE30
Speak in about 6 months after you have spent all the money getting the licence and strugglin to get work and once you do it will all be 3663 or brakes and 15 hours of hanballin frozen food into pubs.........

Good luck anyway... [/quote]


M8 you need to change companys I love my job.

Nothing wrong with delivering chilled and frozen food its piss easy at least i dont have to sit around on a loading bay waiting for some twat to unload me.

Ok so the start time is a little early but then delivering into London is better done early hours besides i can;t remember the last time i worked a full shift supposed to do 10.15 hours a day inc lunch break so should work out to a 48 hour working week last count i was doing 36 a week lol so im quids in.

It all depends on how you feel about driving and what type of deliverys you wanna do i got a m8 who drives class1 for travis perkins earns 10p/h gets paid for an 8 hour day no matter what he does between 2 and 5 drops a day never works 8 hours lol

I get paid almost the same for driving a 7.5t lol and when my company pay for my class 2 ill be earning more so it really depends who you work for

Simon

Have to agree with this unfortunatly

One bit of advice i will give is get your class 2 first then do the job for a while to see if you like it before you spend the extra on a class 1 licence, As driving is only a small part of the job, its the other shite that goes with it that will put you off.

swerv

i would say 50% of the drivers out there are quite happy they just love moaning

know plenty of drivers who work under 60 hours a week and earn decent money!!

JoeE30

[quote=mark_24v_wiring]I drive a 7.5t, have between 0 and 8 drops a day to the National Grid lads at the side of the road, most days in the summer (ie now) i do nothing all day, and get payed the same as the class 1 drivers.

Get along with all the gas lads and all the other drivers its just the other road users, traffic controller and the management that make a good job bad, but tbh i have found this everywhere i have driven, all the office staff try to get involved with shit they have no idea about......and this makes the job shite.....

Spending day apon day trunkin up and down the country for 15hours a day is mind fucking and then you have to deal with all the shite that goes with it....No thanks as soon as i can im getting out of it....

discodenkelly

Well I enjoy my job, I work for Motor Auctions in Leeds driving a 9 car transporter delivering and collecting cars from dealerships, other auctions etc. I work anywhere between 48 and 60 hours a week depending on what work we have on. The ony bug bear I have is when I'm sat around for ages at a dealership cos the useless twats haven't sorted the trade cars out even though they know we're coming.
Tis always fun driving a car transporter though, you never know when you're gonna get stuck round a corner up against a set of traffic lights etc. All part of the fun
Its even cushier when we're moving brand new cars for certain companies we deal with. Shipping them from 1 compound to the next. Damn easy money.