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galwaygreen
 


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HOW TO BECOME HGV DRIVER

just looked thro the rules ..it aint straight forward and not cheap..no wonder not everybody is flocking to
join up.....houston we have a problem
  
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LT
 


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Several thousand pounds to get the training and then wait months to be tested. In the meantime…….
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Post #225336725th Sep 2021 12:13 am
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Moo
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And you also get to p155 and cr4p in a lay-by, not see you’re family and wash and clean up with baby wipes.

I wonder why people aren’t flocking to it.
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Admirable
 


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Plus you need your CPC
  
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Compared to what driver facilities you get in France, the UK is shocking.

Maybe it’s time trucks are redesigned to be self contained with toilet and shower rooms etc
 

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Farmer Chalk
 


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The CPC part is probably the most irrelevant part… you have to show the tester how to tie certain knots, and drive economically…

Probably how they should be teaching them is how to avoid idiots on the road who treat the road like a race track. It’s not uncommon whilst overtaking another large vehicle for car drivers to undercut you at high speed on the inner lane when you are indicating and about to pull back into lane one. You have to spend your life in the mirrors looking for idiots…

Plus last minute junction swervers who pull across you to turn off the motorway….. or queue jumpers who try to push in last minute at a congested junction and then stop in front of you in lane one whilst trying to force themselves in….

You’ve got me started now…
  
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M3DPO
 


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Not to mention you've got 40 tons a few inches behind you!
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It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't. 
 
Post #225338825th Sep 2021 7:56 am
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Stevepd
 


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I used to drive having (still got my Class 1). I found it boring but so unorganised I felt I couldn’t take this for the rest of my working life. Somebody in work said they’re 100,000 short but there are 600,000 licenses still valid but not in the trade. That figure may be wrong as it was yesterday Rolling Eyes , but it was a decent amount. I did also have my ADR but let it slip as there was nothing around me to warrant retaining it, then I moved on. I suspect I’m not the only one…….
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HWN
 


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Moo wrote:
And you also get to p155 and cr4p in a lay-by, not see you’re family and wash and clean up with baby wipes.

I wonder why people aren’t flocking to it.


They don't even stop in a layby for the first one. A two-litre bouncing-bomb into the central reservation or onto the verge.
 
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Lrstaylor
 


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Stevepd wrote:
I used to drive having (still got my Class 1). I found it boring but so unorganised I felt I couldn’t take this for the rest of my working life. Somebody in work said they’re 100,000 short but there are 600,000 licenses still valid but not in the trade. That figure may be wrong as it was yesterday Rolling Eyes , but it was a decent amount. I did also have my ADR but let it slip as there was nothing around me to warrant retaining it, then I moved on. I suspect I’m not the only one…….


You pretty much have it right, iv got my class 1. It was Censored 25 years ago its still Censored . Maybe that's why I teach people to ride motor bikes.
  
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Erea
 


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I know I shouldn’t post this but …
  
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Paul J.
 


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You need to join the ‘Off Topic - Politics’ sub-section for your answer*.

* By which I mean you can read lots of squabbling about the subject. Laughing
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LT
 


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Erea wrote:
I know I shouldn’t post this but …


The same applies to all the seasonal workers in fruit, crop, poultry picking/processing and etc. Thumbs Up
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2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
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2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography 
 
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Dear Johnny Foreigner, I know we spent five years telling you to go home, but how about helping us out for three months then Censored off again on Christmas Eve?
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Paul J.
 


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Are you against them spending Christmas with their family?

Wink
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..... now on the JLR electric highway. 
 
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