Load security wasn’t a problem in the parcel delivery firm where I got my class 1 licence. I drove a three-ton box van with plenty of room for the 56 daily deliveries that people, usually the lady of the house, ordered....

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I’d not had my class licence for long, and the ink was hardly dry when I got a job with a real trucking company. It was a big change from running about the streets in a three-ton van delivering parcels people had order....

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When you’re a young, fit trucker, you never think about growing old and the problems old age will bring. All the old truckers warned you about jumping off trailers and loading docks, “Your knees will give out if ....

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The tagline beside my ruggedly handsome face above my stories reads, His story shows us once again that drivers' problems are universal.A couple of the stories I read in the May-June magazine issue reminded me that compa....

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As I was sitting in a hospital waiting room a few weeks ago with a couple of hours to kill, I thought, I’ll buy myself a magazine to read. In the shop I found a magazine I used to buy regularly but stopped after the pr....

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When I think back to the early days when I was a young inexperienced driver, the trucks were basic, nothing like the warm, quiet, and over here in Scotland, the mostly automatic transmission cabovers we have now.&....

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Reading one of my favourite UK truck magazines the other day, I came across another piece of health and safety nonsense. When I see these things, I wonder how I've managed to get through 40-odd years of trucking w....

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Retirement is a wonderful thing. When my good lady, Isabel, goes out, I can sit in peace and quiet and let my mind drift off into the past. The other day I started to think of all the bosses  I have worked under.One....

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Well, here we go again, another government desk jockey has the answer to the truck driver shortage. They plan to rescind a law imposed upon us by the European Union back in January 1977 that imposed stricter licensing fo....

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Going by the law of averages, it was only a matter of time before I caught the Covid virus. My good lady and I did all we could to stay safe. We had our three injections, we hardly ever went out, and we always wore our m....

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