Plan B, tanker driver

[Sockpuppet]

Why are jobs at refinerys so bad?

Becuase they are the only section of truckers that ever bothered to use a union. Also its a man to boy type place. Hard to get into but in the past wages of £50k+ are not uncommon.

Come down a lot now for new recruits but still after a while you get some dosh.

[BrilloPad]

I have a C+E licence so technically am a trucker. Its my plan B for when I have no contract.

I also have an ADR licence (HAZMAT) but jobs at refinerys are like rocking horse tulip.

Why are jobs at refinerys so bad?

[ace00]

You'd have to grow an enormous beer gut, eat nothing but burgers, molest young prostitutes in lay-bys, side-swide people in the fast lane on the M6, piss in people's gardens because your'e too stupid to park in a lorry park, and generally hold up the country's economy because you think pressing a gas pedal and turning a steering wheel makes you some sort of fliping VIP who deserves special tax laws.

Can you do all that?

Well that's the weekends covered, but what do you need to do when you turn up for work?

[Sockpuppet]

"we"?

I thought you weren't a trucker?

I have a C+E licence so technically am a trucker. Its my plan B for when I have no contract.

I also have an ADR licence (HAZMAT) but jobs at refinerys are like rocking horse tulip.

[BrilloPad]

Here you are for some like minded people

http://forum.truckersworld.co.uk/vie...ef36e1f7cb7441

Possible summer vacation?

Could someone start a thread "Plan B - become an IT contractor".

[DodgyAgent]

Here you are for some like minded people

http://forum.truckersworld.co.uk/vie...ef36e1f7cb7441

[BrilloPad]

You forgot "bitch and moan a lot".

We're good at that.

"we"?

I thought you weren't a trucker?

[Sockpuppet]

You forgot "bitch and moan a lot".

We're good at that.

[TheBigYinJames]

I quite fancy being a tanker/lorry driver. Do I need therapy?

Yes. Also a carpet to roll your victims up in.

[BrilloPad]

'The drivers, who supply the vast majority of Shell forecourts, are calling for a pay rise of 13 per cent. The company, Hoyer UK, has offered 6 per cent.'


'Hoyer says its 6 per cent offer would see the average driver's £36,000 salary rise to £38,500. The union is calling for a minimum wage for all drivers of £36,000.'


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...hout-fuel.html



Plan B anyone ?

Milan.

I quite fancy being a tanker/lorry driver. Do I need therapy?

Maybe Bazza could tell us the good and bad points of the job?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

You'd have to grow an enormous beer gut, eat nothing but burgers, molest young prostitutes in lay-bys, side-swide people in the fast lane on the M6, piss in people's gardens because your'e too stupid to park in a lorry park, and generally hold up the country's economy because you think pressing a gas pedal and turning a steering wheel makes you some sort of fliping VIP who deserves special tax laws.

Can you do all that?

You forgot

Drive inches from the vehicle in front at way over the speed limit, ignore give ways, traffic lights and roundabouts in direct proportion to your ability to imtimidate, kill and maim people out of the way, drive with bald tyres and faulty brakes, send texts whilst driving a 44 tonne WMD, murder women and roll them up in carpets, ignore weight limits and parking restrictions, destroy rail bridges because you are too stupid to compare a huge plate in the cab with a headroom sign and then claim you are the backbone of the nation

[TheBigYinJames]

You'd have to grow an enormous beer gut, eat nothing but burgers, molest young prostitutes in lay-bys, side-swide people in the fast lane on the M6, piss in people's gardens because your'e too stupid to park in a lorry park, and generally hold up the country's economy because you think pressing a gas pedal and turning a steering wheel makes you some sort of fecking VIP who deserves special tax laws.

Can you do all that?

[milanbenes]

'The drivers, who supply the vast majority of Shell forecourts, are calling for a pay rise of 13 per cent. The company, Hoyer UK, has offered 6 per cent.'


'Hoyer says its 6 per cent offer would see the average driver's £36,000 salary rise to £38,500. The union is calling for a minimum wage for all drivers of £36,000.'


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...hout-fuel.html



Plan B anyone ?

Milan.