i got lost, tipped a pallet over, let the pallet truck roll around in the back standing up so it smashed everythng, i lost the tail lift key, the paper work blew away in the wind, i got a heavy pallet stuck in a pothole and had to handball the whole thing... didnt have my tacho card in for the first hour, went up a narrow path and met a 9ft bridge, reversed out and burst a tyre on the high kerb. They had me monday to friday that week but after the first day they... reassessed =].
@@keithmartin1328 it was indeed I still cringe when I drive by that place… not to suggest that was the only rough day I had ✋😂…. I have had more utterly shambolic shifts than I care to remember… 🤦♂️
This made me cry laughing thank you 😆 I have my first day coming up, straight from car to class one... I'm a tad nervous. Reading these comments has made me feel a bit better knowing everyone else has been though it 😆
@@thedustbinstudio2309 Good Luck… one bad shift can be enough to put some people off forever ✋😖… but every driver has their bad days.. it’s all just experience no way to short cut it..
I have lots of respect for HGV drivers who pay lots of money for lessons and pass their tests. I did it for free with the army. I did a couple of agency jobs to start . I couldn't get over how comfortable how comfy the trucks were, power steering,heaters, a bunk bed, nice big mirrors.
My first job on class 2 was at bargain booze. Didn’t even have an assessment and jumped straight into a 4 over 4 manual DAF. I didn’t have a clue how that worked. Also clipped a roundabout and two pallets went over. It was like there had been a massacre in the back. Red wine over everything and leaking out the bottom of the curtains 😂😂
I remember my first day in a class 2, when I was 21,back in January 2001. I wrecked the gear box out on the M6. Stranded for 5 hours waiting for the brake down recovery vehicle.
Great vid Scott, still playing catch up lol. So glad you told the stories, nice to know how you started etc. Very surprised how you got taken on with work experience as a drivers mate and not driven, but then you elaborated and I got it, you were observing, assisting, unloading and everything else to gain that experience, you already could drive so I understood more and you've just gone forward from there! Bloody awesome!
Yep.the biggest problem is they teach you a formula instead of how to reverse. I didn’t get my first hgv job because of that. My driving was perfect but it took too long to reverse on my assessment. I was so disappointed because it was a really good role with unusually good money within a respected company. And they were willing to take new license holders but I blowed it. (Talking about class 1)
In reality it's a case of you've paid us best part of two grand to get you "adult" van drivers licence. Youll need to pay a grand more for the big boys class 1. Where you can make money. But and I says butt, we'll teach you to drive but we wont teach you to be a trucker worth sh*t.
I'm about to be made redundant from a job I've had for 24 years. I'm considering doing my class 2 and going into truck driving so been looking through TH-cam as research to get an idea what it's like. Have to say I really like your channel and I love how upbeat and positive you are! Should be more people like you in the world Scott, it would be a happier place mate.
@@777MrJoe one thing that puts me off Scott is the hours they have you doing sound insane. Like I'm sure I heard you say in a video you'd been driving for 14 hours! To me that seems crazy! Are all the trucking jobs as exhaustive as that?
Droving a HGV has so much variety. I've worked with companies that would give you 4 hours work and still paid for 8 and then others that expect the full 15. Really depends on the sector
Passed my test 10 years earlier 1 day course.Came out Army after 10 years HMMM i'm skint may try this HGV stuff.Shit myself didnt know nothing went agency got sent down london first day with timber tramping all week.Elephants castle had a Rollaway parking ticket' Smashed bumpers'and Mirrors and wheels.All on the friday which was April fools day.Got a bottle of Vodka because i was sacked from agency got pissed.Put my Fray Bentos in oven and scholded all my wrist getting it out.Thats progress.
Great vid as usual. My first class 2 day on my own for a kitchen delivery company involved dropping the suspension on a 18T merc reversing under a box to line up the locating pins, raising the box, putting the legs away to then secure the twist locks. Oh and it's 5am in the pitch black. Good job I wasn't wearing a heart rate monitor .
I had a baptism of fire, when I was sent out with a Matador ex RAF crane lorry. Having only driven a Mini (I was 18) it was quite an experience, especially in a busy town. Told later that it was a test, and as long as I didn't hit anything, I would be allowed out in the rest of the fleet.
Hi Scott, the first 'driving' job I got years ago now (I'm retired) I'm driving, mate sent out to keep an eye on me is sat in other seat. Suddenly SCREEEEEEEECHHCH!!!! right along the edge of the kerb on a country lane. 'OK' he says, 'I won't tell the boss you tried to park his van at 40 miles per hour'. 🤣🤣I do very much agree though, that you go in person to ask for work (it was easier back then) let them see who they're potentially hiring. Now they just want a cv that they'll probably bin as soon as it arrives. I did end up shunting buses and coaches as a few years later and got quite good at it. BTW, I am subbed to you but this video came up in my recommendations. Thanks for the memories, Norm.
1st Driving job (confessions?)..Well back in the good old days, you could go straight from car to Class one...I did...one weeks driving coarse then a test at the end of the week. Before I took my coarse/test I used to drive the shunting unit around the Yard at the warehouse where I worked, it was an old DAF 4 over 4. So my first agency class one driving job was for Netto at Pontefract one wintery dark wet very early morning...But to my relief they gave my a DAF unit same as I had been riding round the warehouse yard in...I found my loaded trailer and set off for Manchester (a world away!)..eager to get going I headed for the A1North, but...I couldn't get the gears to go in to high box....I continued to grind and crunch but could not get out of low range...it was still very very dark..long story short..I drove al the way to Manchester..A1 M62 in low range..and...it was not till after I had done my drop and returned to the DAF cab in the now day light...I discovered that this DAF had a splitter, and it's splitter was in the position of the range change on the other 4 over 4 box....It was a long long day.
I know a guy who stacked a few "light" pallets of cheese ontop in the back of trailer full of yogurt on his first day. The cheese turned the whole trailer into a yogurt tanker. Flooded into the receivers warehouse. LOL
if you don't have little whoopsies in the first couple of years, then it doesn't improve your driving, because that is how you learn is where you make mistakes, and then depending on that is whether you learn from the mistakes, or whether you keep making the same mistakes. I agree with Wayne Ashton, they teach you how to pass the driving test rather than life on the road, my driving instructor was there, the speed limit is 30 so therefore you do 30, regardless of traffic coming onto my side of the road, and the fact I had to watch the kerb in the passenger mirror in the class 2. made it so interesting that if you had milkshake satches, and a gallon of milk, you would end up with scrabled eggs by the time you got to your destination!! lol. the 18 tonne trucks have a payload of 7 tonnes, as the trucks are 11 tonnes gvw.
Started my driving experience in Army hauling munition and explosives on a 6x6 Scania with 4 axle dolly trailer in a snowy Sweden on- or offroad. It took me then 8 years until I had all formal civilian licenses to do that again! Of course without permit to drive offroad. Haha
scot my first day was 3 days after passing my test early 80s got there at 5am to be told your going to newquay i thought sh,t thats so far away ( bassed in coventry ) left the yard and headed south 6 hours later i got there i stoped a postman 2 ask 4 directions no satnav back then , to be told no place with that name there i found a phone box phoned work and got shuch a rollocking , i shud have been in new quay mid wales , when i got back i pointed out it didnt say wales or cornwall on paperwork so i just about saved my job just
@@wayneashton I was given a adress by my boss and I've always been told to follow postcode so I did I had a full load of sawdust on all 26 tons of it so left huddersfield west Yorkshire headed down to Plymouth to the postcode and when I got there it had a different name on the street so called customer so find out I had the correct house number and street name on paperwork but the postcode I had was wrong I was supposed to be in Durham. Let's just say the company we where delivering for got a mega bill for there screw up thay paid reluctantly but thay admitted fault
Thanks Scott for another upload hope you are doing well and enjoying your time off. You deserve this time off. Hope to see you on the road soon though:)
You can't teach experience, you've just got to do it. However, having someone who is experienced watch your back while you are beginning is priceless. I am retired now and the previous sentences reflect my life experience. I have just now got my class C HGV and am about to embark on my first job as you have just described; I suspect it's going to be messy for a while:)
so true, ive been driving hgv on n off for 30 years, first 5 years you learn from your mistakes, you will make mistakes, you will get stuck in places, you will hit a few cars and buildings, most of time not your fault, a few tree branches etc etc, you become a road ninja in the end
You just reminded me how hard it was to get a HGV driving job years ago. Actually it was a lot harder for me as I was too young and being a woman didn't help much. People used to look at me and say you're so tiny you can't drive big trucks and just when I was about to give up one company asked me to drive for them for a day and then just decided to keep me. Been there 3 years now and absolutely love my job. Great video,stay safe
Scott, at the end of the day, it can also be down to gaining more experience with driving what was a big wagon to you at the beginning. However, since you got that experience with learning how to drive bigger wagons
I can relate, I've done that job many times as an agency driver, the same run even. I was able to give up the driving about 5 years ago. tough job when you have 3 tons in the back and carry every ounce of it into the customer.
Can I suggest that when you get your first job be it agency or whatever, when they give you the sheet that tells you what you have to deliver, always ask someone "is this in order or do I have to choose which one to do first" too many of my first runs were just randomly listed and had me running up and down everywhere i.e. "place b > e > A > f> C" etc or they didn't make it clear that certain loads had to arrive by a particular time... Never be afraid to ask as coming back later with stuff on the back isn't going to help you get another run the following day..
Nice to see you drive through my home town Llanwrtyd, we often fly down that road in a big red truck and blue lights, hope to give you a wave if you pass through again, thanks for the story thanks for sharing
Passed my class 2 in July 4 days later was driving a 26t for a local haulage firm did exactly what you said I went direct to the company to apply had no experiance but obviously they liked me as a person been there 5 weeks now
@@joewoods6771 I did! First time thankfully with only one minor! It’s been very easy to get work, ive had lots of phone calls and interviews. I’m currently working for jewson and being put through my crane HIAB licence. Really pleased with how everything has gone.
Hi Scott. Just come across your channel and great to hear the old familiar town names during your first excursion out as a new Class 2 . I was based at RAF Brawdy for a number of years, now looking at getting into getting my Class C and up. Currently have 7.5 tonne and done some agency work. But yes you are right the agencies just throw you in at the deep end. . Maybe one day end up back in that neighbourhood. Love the videos and have just subbed to it.
My first class 2 was a skip driver job, on one of my first jobs I took out a old style oil lamppost and scraped up a freshly laid drive at a house build, it out me off and haven't really driven a hgv since. I have recently renewed my license and plan to get back in the seat just not skips. Still struggling with the anxiety of that job haunting me tho.
Hi Scott. Just came across your channel, great videos, takes me back to my class 2 driving days back in the eighties, multi drops on a 10t & 17t . My first day was 24 drops around St Albans , Watford & Rickmansworth in a day on my own. No M25 then based in Kent had to go through London no sat navs just the jolly A-Z needless to say 4 hrs later I got to my first drop after getting lost in London( normally 1 1/2 hrs ) . The ironic thing was I saw one of our other drivers finished and going home after my first drop .😟 Miss the driving but not the traffic. Got me to places you would never see.
My worst one, several years ago was a pallet of 144 boxes of 24 Budweiser (that’s 3456 bottles) going over when taking a roundabout too fast in Clapton, East London. Customer didn’t want it and everything else stunk of beer!
Scott your videos are absolutely amazing👍 I am a livestock trucker go to similar places to you quick and simple I'm sure you'll understand when they say we have had wagons down this lane before do you mean milk tankers that's when you start to think credit to you mate absolutely brilliant regards from Andy
@@ScottAndrews Scott your videos are amazing especially you going with straw to these local farms like I say they always say we are bad arctic down here don't really think so mate when you get there you mate credit tell you lovely videos you sound such a chilled Guy which I think you have to be to put up with what you do
Really good advice Scott going to the company face to face has always proved my best approach and can honestly say if I had just stuck to sending out CV's I'd still be looking for work.
Excellent Scott that was a great video reminds me of all the mistakes I made when I first started driving 😂 🤣 would make a great channel on its own "truckers tales" most of us could write a book im sure 😂 🤣
I have finally passed all my theory tests cpc hazard perceptions ,medical, got my provisional that took nearly a year to get. I am just waiting for my practical to come up now . Hoping I don't have too long to wait now so I can get started. I am going straight in class 1 license as well can't wait to get started now
When I got my truck endorsement the first truck I drove then was a Mercedes (long since replaced) with a dual axle semi trailer. Were I grew up they had an annual truck show, and what do you think teenage me had found on the Merc stand? Yep the spec's for their semi's. My first Training center truck had a full sycro gearbox I knew it and wasn't double clutching as a result. The instructor wasn't impressed! Took me off it and put me in a single axle rigid because apparently I couldn't drive "period"!
I'm absolutely killing myself laughing here at your confessions of a lorry driver Scott good to see you once again Scott take care of yourself bud and keep safe and well buddy
First days are fun lol examiner wrote me my class 2 ticket followed by my car ticket in May 1976 ( you could do that in those days) . Two days later I left the angel in Edmonton just off the North Circular in a Bedford 6 legger with 10 ton steel tubes on the back and a box of Log books in the cab. 17 hours later I arrived at our warehouse beside Glasgow airport with a non functioning hand brake, a starter motor you had to short across to start and a cab full of strangler cable that came out the first time I tried to switch off for a tea break 😂😂😂😂😂 mad days lol
Brilliant mate!! Absolutely class! Was in stitches most of that video myself ;) Not many would own up too so many mistakes haha :) Hope there are many more stories in the not too distant future. Hope your keeping well fella.
i kinda stumbled into the "dream" lorry job used to be a bus driver then applied for a car transporting job and somehow got it - never drove lorries before the car transporter (cat c) and still going brill. good vid Scott - been watching a while now 👍🏼
My first day driving class 2 was very similar , doing a multi drop with a second man for palmer and Harvey ,to shops , petrol stations etc , I forgot to have a 45 minute break . No issue with the driving apart from a woman walking in front of the cab as we were pulling off from a drop and I couldn't see her . I passed in a 24ft box van and this was a 24ft box so reversing and going in tight spots was ok . Never went back there though .
yeah they finished the road works below sugar loaf, after four years then they put up road liable to flooding signs straight afterwards, so expect some more traffic lights soon.
Just watched this video and loved it! Just had my medical and sent my dl to the dvla! Really informative! Thanks for the good advice and let's hope my 1st day goes a bit smoother than yours 😉
I just signed up for an agency and passed my class 2 , 2 weeks ago. I’m so nervous to start a job, I don’t even know how to use the digital card, print etc. I feel like ima screw up so bad.
Brilliant video Scott, as always. I have my theory test in October, so I would love to hear more about your experiences getting started in this career, and passing your test. I'm definitely taking mental notes. Also love to hear about any mistakes we can learn from. I'm working for an agency driving 3.5 tonne flatbeds in an attempt to gain experience in the industry before I pass my test. The driver training companies were telling me there will be no problem getting a job as there is such a large driver shortage at the moment. Do you think this is just lies to get me to sign up and give them money, or do you think it has changed a bit since you passed your test?
As soon as you get that first bit of experience in I'd say you wouldn't have trouble finding a job, as you're already driving I think you'd be fine. finding THE RIGHT job on the other hand might take longer
I have had my Class 1 for about 18yrs now and used it for most of that time. There has been a driver shortage since I can remember, so that won't get you to the front of the queue and land you a great job. You will have to take what you can and learn your trade from wearing shorts and pushing trolleys loaded with frozen butter to school canteens for Brakes to doing multi drop parcel/pallet work until you get a feel for the industry and land yourself a nice number your happy with. The beauty of road transport is the sheer amount of sectors it covers, in that there is no end of choice in what type of work you can do. Good luck
Thank you Scott. Another video Enjoyed. And loved your Story Can we have some more. A lot better then following the wrong Farmer. 😂😂😂 Sorry just had to mention it 😂😂. Thanks again. Take care and stay safe and safe trucking. John Whitehouse.
Max's trucking videos. You can’t possibly know that! It was uploaded 15 minutes ago and your comment was added 14 minutes ago. You watched a 30 minute video in 1 minute.
We've all got to start somewhere, that'll be me in a few years, hopefully what happened to you won't happen tome but only time will tell haha, great video, can't wait for some more story time with Scott haha
Genuinely cracked up at that, Frog! We've all been there and done that! Well, except me, I was perfect from the get go.... Apart from that time I got arrested by Scotland Yard in London......
@@ScottAndrews Sitting comfortably? I shall begin. Many, many years ago a fresh faced, 21 year old Diefer, only ever driven transit vans up until this point. Got a job with a local manufacturing company as a cover driver. Had a week with each driver (only 3 of them) that had their own routes. Two weeks later, had to cover one driver for his weeks holiday. YAY! Finally out in a 7 & a half tonne truck! KING OF THE ROAD! In the centre of London.... Oh hells bells. Before the days of Twat navs. Good old paper maps that keep closing as you put them down and lose your place. So, there's me, just delivered to a shop on Charing Cross Rd (Right next to Capital FM)!!! Needed to get back up thru Covent Garden to the West End. Except I'd managed to go the wrong way down Whitehall towards the Houses Of Parliament. With no where to do a legal Spinny, I decided to go down to Parliament Square and come back on myself. "You've got this Dief " I say " O0o0o0 there's Westminster Hall and the houses of Parliament, St Margaret's Church and Westminster Cathedral, The Supreme Court, I'll turn off here" NOOOOOOO!! TOO SOON! I'm now hurtling West down Birdcage Walk, south of St James's Park, which has a local ban on all Trade or business vehicle unless authorised, in a plain white goods vehicle that isn't authorised, with a very dodgy, sweaty, panicked looking driver behind the wheel, heading straight towards Buckingham Palace! Within seconds, I had 3, yes THREE Armed Response Vehicles chasing me, asking ever so nicely if I would kindly stop my vehicle, guns pointing. I'm pretty sure I gave birth to something... Arrested, truck seized. sat in Scotland Yard making a very embarrassing phone call to my new boss trying to explain to him what had happened. That was after he'd stopped crying with laughter. I eventually became a full time drive and drove for them for 11 years..... In London. I NEVER EVER went any where near Whitehall EVER AGAIN! They even put me thru my class II Many years on, I'm now a class I driver for a well known supermarket. I'll stick with this if that's ok
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i got lost, tipped a pallet over, let the pallet truck roll around in the back standing up so it smashed everythng, i lost the tail lift key, the paper work blew away in the wind, i got a heavy pallet stuck in a pothole and had to handball the whole thing... didnt have my tacho card in for the first hour, went up a narrow path and met a 9ft bridge, reversed out and burst a tyre on the high kerb. They had me monday to friday that week but after the first day they... reassessed =].
A memorable day then 😂
@@keithmartin1328 it was indeed I still cringe when I drive by that place… not to suggest that was the only rough day I had ✋😂…. I have had more utterly shambolic shifts than I care to remember… 🤦♂️
This made me cry laughing thank you 😆 I have my first day coming up, straight from car to class one... I'm a tad nervous. Reading these comments has made me feel a bit better knowing everyone else has been though it 😆
@@thedustbinstudio2309 Good Luck… one bad shift can be enough to put some people off forever ✋😖… but every driver has their bad days.. it’s all just experience no way to short cut it..
I'm guessing you didn't win the lottery either LOL 🙂
I enjoyed that video. Reminds me of when I first passed and wrote off a 7.5 tonner down a country lane a low tree and I drove straight into it 😬
I have lots of respect for HGV drivers who pay lots of money for lessons and pass their tests. I did it for free with the army. I did a couple of agency jobs to start . I couldn't get over how comfortable how comfy the trucks were, power steering,heaters, a bunk bed, nice big mirrors.
I thought about getting started with the army but the pay is absolutely atrocious
My first job on class 2 was at bargain booze. Didn’t even have an assessment and jumped straight into a 4 over 4 manual DAF. I didn’t have a clue how that worked. Also clipped a roundabout and two pallets went over. It was like there had been a massacre in the back. Red wine over everything and leaking out the bottom of the curtains 😂😂
Been in that boat too, lost a cage of wine off the back of a tail lift. Not good.
I remember my first day in a class 2, when I was 21,back in January 2001. I wrecked the gear box out on the M6. Stranded for 5 hours waiting for the brake down recovery vehicle.
Great vid Scott, still playing catch up lol. So glad you told the stories, nice to know how you started etc. Very surprised how you got taken on with work experience as a drivers mate and not driven, but then you elaborated and I got it, you were observing, assisting, unloading and everything else to gain that experience, you already could drive so I understood more and you've just gone forward from there! Bloody awesome!
They teach you how to pass the test, not so much how to drive in the real world! Great storytime, will look forward to more in the future.
So true!
So true, aaaand seemingly nobody gets it.
Yep.the biggest problem is they teach you a formula instead of how to reverse. I didn’t get my first hgv job because of that. My driving was perfect but it took too long to reverse on my assessment. I was so disappointed because it was a really good role with unusually good money within a respected company. And they were willing to take new license holders but I blowed it. (Talking about class 1)
In reality it's a case of you've paid us best part of two grand to get you "adult" van drivers licence. Youll need to pay a grand more for the big boys class 1. Where you can make money. But and I says butt, we'll teach you to drive but we wont teach you to be a trucker worth sh*t.
They dont teach you what you really need to know - reversing with no help in the tightest spots imaginable on a daily basis
I'm about to be made redundant from a job I've had for 24 years. I'm considering doing my class 2 and going into truck driving so been looking through TH-cam as research to get an idea what it's like. Have to say I really like your channel and I love how upbeat and positive you are! Should be more people like you in the world Scott, it would be a happier place mate.
Do it, even if you find something else in the future you’ll have your license to fall back on, anyways handy to have!
@@777MrJoe one thing that puts me off Scott is the hours they have you doing sound insane. Like I'm sure I heard you say in a video you'd been driving for 14 hours! To me that seems crazy! Are all the trucking jobs as exhaustive as that?
Droving a HGV has so much variety. I've worked with companies that would give you 4 hours work and still paid for 8 and then others that expect the full 15. Really depends on the sector
Passed my test 10 years earlier 1 day course.Came out Army after 10 years HMMM i'm skint may try this HGV stuff.Shit myself didnt know nothing went agency got sent down london first day with timber tramping all week.Elephants castle had a Rollaway parking ticket' Smashed bumpers'and Mirrors and wheels.All on the friday which was April fools day.Got a bottle of Vodka because i was sacked from agency got pissed.Put my Fray Bentos in oven and scholded all my wrist getting it out.Thats progress.
😂😂 theres me thinking I just had a bad day lol
I just passed my Class 2. Having heard your story. I don't want to do it now!!!!! Thanks for sharing your experience
Brilliant Butt. My Mrs nearly wet herself when you got to the bit about “running off the road”. Got to be 1st day as a class 1 driver next. Stay Safe
Michael Jepps coming off the road then did it twice more , cracked me up
Great vid as usual. My first class 2 day on my own for a kitchen delivery company involved dropping the suspension on a 18T merc reversing under a box to line up the locating pins, raising the box, putting the legs away to then secure the twist locks. Oh and it's 5am in the pitch black.
Good job I wasn't wearing a heart rate monitor .
Sounds like Wren! I had a job like that delivering office furniture. I know the struggles of 5am box swaps
I did the same with a 7.5 tonner on weekends, sofa deliveries . Reversing under in the dark . Not fun
Scott is always the best.
Thanks Scott, more Story Time please, you are a darn good teller of stories. Take care, enjoyed that and the scenery.
More to come!
Kept me hocked all the way to the end! Brill story.
I had a baptism of fire, when I was sent out with a Matador ex RAF crane lorry. Having only driven a Mini (I was 18) it was quite an experience, especially in a busy town. Told later that it was a test, and as long as I didn't hit anything, I would be allowed out in the rest of the fleet.
Good test 🤣
Hi Scott, the first 'driving' job I got years ago now (I'm retired) I'm driving, mate sent out to keep an eye on me is sat in other seat. Suddenly SCREEEEEEEECHHCH!!!! right along the edge of the kerb on a country lane. 'OK' he says, 'I won't tell the boss you tried to park his van at 40 miles per hour'. 🤣🤣I do very much agree though, that you go in person to ask for work (it was easier back then) let them see who they're potentially hiring. Now they just want a cv that they'll probably bin as soon as it arrives. I did end up shunting buses and coaches as a few years later and got quite good at it. BTW, I am subbed to you but this video came up in my recommendations. Thanks for the memories, Norm.
1st Driving job (confessions?)..Well back in the good old days, you could go straight from car to Class one...I did...one weeks driving coarse then a test at the end of the week. Before I took my coarse/test I used to drive the shunting unit around the Yard at the warehouse where I worked, it was an old DAF 4 over 4. So my first agency class one driving job was for Netto at Pontefract one wintery dark wet very early morning...But to my relief they gave my a DAF unit same as I had been riding round the warehouse yard in...I found my loaded trailer and set off for Manchester (a world away!)..eager to get going I headed for the A1North, but...I couldn't get the gears to go in to high box....I continued to grind and crunch but could not get out of low range...it was still very very dark..long story short..I drove al the way to Manchester..A1 M62 in low range..and...it was not till after I had done my drop and returned to the DAF cab in the now day light...I discovered that this DAF had a splitter, and it's splitter was in the position of the range change on the other 4 over 4 box....It was a long long day.
I know a guy who stacked a few "light" pallets of cheese ontop in the back of trailer full of yogurt on his first day. The cheese turned the whole trailer into a yogurt tanker. Flooded into the receivers warehouse. LOL
Appreciate this video Scott. Another great video
Cheers Morgan
if you don't have little whoopsies in the first couple of years, then it doesn't improve your driving, because that is how you learn is where you make mistakes, and then depending on that is whether you learn from the mistakes, or whether you keep making the same mistakes. I agree with Wayne Ashton, they teach you how to pass the driving test rather than life on the road, my driving instructor was there, the speed limit is 30 so therefore you do 30, regardless of traffic coming onto my side of the road, and the fact I had to watch the kerb in the passenger mirror in the class 2. made it so interesting that if you had milkshake satches, and a gallon of milk, you would end up with scrabled eggs by the time you got to your destination!! lol. the 18 tonne trucks have a payload of 7 tonnes, as the trucks are 11 tonnes gvw.
Definitely learnt from that day!
Started my driving experience in Army hauling munition and explosives on a 6x6 Scania with 4 axle dolly trailer in a snowy Sweden on- or offroad. It took me then 8 years until I had all formal civilian licenses to do that again! Of course without permit to drive offroad. Haha
I was reading your description and suddenly found myself singing the Fresh Prince 😂 nice video Scott! 👍🏻
Glad someone picked up on that lol
@@ScottAndrews Thankfully it wasn't about how your life got flipped, turned upside down!
scot my first day was 3 days after passing my test early 80s got there at 5am to be told your going to newquay i thought sh,t thats so far away ( bassed in coventry ) left the yard and headed south 6 hours later i got there i stoped a postman 2 ask 4 directions no satnav back then , to be told no place with that name there i found a phone box phoned work and got shuch a rollocking , i shud have been in new quay mid wales ,
when i got back i pointed out it didnt say wales or cornwall on paperwork so i just about saved my job just
I wonder how many other people have been caught out like that, I bet there are a few! :O
@@wayneashton thousads i bet but i was still getting the pee took 5 years later when i left the firm
@@medler2110 Scott needs to read all the stories haha They are brilliant. :D
Not done it myself, but a lad I worked with went to Newport, Gwent instead of Newport, Ceridigion lol
@@wayneashton I was given a adress by my boss and I've always been told to follow postcode so I did I had a full load of sawdust on all 26 tons of it so left huddersfield west Yorkshire headed down to Plymouth to the postcode and when I got there it had a different name on the street so called customer so find out I had the correct house number and street name on paperwork but the postcode I had was wrong I was supposed to be in Durham. Let's just say the company we where delivering for got a mega bill for there screw up thay paid reluctantly but thay admitted fault
My first driving job. literally started. Left hand drive catering trucks. most are FL6.250 1998 to 2004 with Ategos in the same years
Thanks Scott for another upload hope you are doing well and enjoying your time off.
You deserve this time off.
Hope to see you on the road soon though:)
Back on the road next week! Thanks Thomas
Nice to hear and see the progression in the vids and the driving keep up the hard work😀
You can't teach experience, you've just got to do it. However, having someone who is experienced watch your back while you are beginning is priceless. I am retired now and the previous sentences reflect my life experience.
I have just now got my class C HGV and am about to embark on my first job as you have just described; I suspect it's going to be messy for a while:)
so true, ive been driving hgv on n off for 30 years, first 5 years you learn from your mistakes, you will make mistakes, you will get stuck in places, you will hit a few cars and buildings, most of time not your fault, a few tree branches etc etc, you become a road ninja in the end
You just reminded me how hard it was to get a HGV driving job years ago. Actually it was a lot harder for me as I was too young and being a woman didn't help much. People used to look at me and say you're so tiny you can't drive big trucks and just when I was about to give up one company asked me to drive for them for a day and then just decided to keep me. Been there 3 years now and absolutely love my job. Great video,stay safe
brilliant storytime scott. love the mix of roads and you video.
Brilliant video great story and having worked in retail accepting deliveries I can relate to your story 😂 everyone has to learn the ropes 👍
Scott, at the end of the day, it can also be down to gaining more experience with driving what was a big wagon to you at the beginning. However, since you got that experience with learning how to drive bigger wagons
😂 you crack me up “I failed, I failed”
Excellent story of your driving record Scott and i cannot wait for part two story and have a good weekend.
Thanks James
Great story from you to end my week,thanks,beautiful countryside you get to travel through am slightly envious.
Thanks for the story . Class one next ,takes me back. ROGER
I can relate, I've done that job many times as an agency driver, the same run even. I was able to give up the driving about 5 years ago. tough job when you have 3 tons in the back and carry every ounce of it into the customer.
Physically that's one of the hardest jobs I've done, especially on long days
The hardest job I done was collecting residential recycling, that job is a killer and you get bin juice spilling on you most days!
Nice one. Great stories - real. Good to know not everyone's perfect, first day.
Enjoyed your story we all have to start somewhere.
We always remember our first day at work, or new job.
Great vlog Scott.
Thanks for sharing.
Great video. Thoroughly enjoyed watching. Cheers
Thank you Scott for the discount on my new Tom Tom hope you get a little kick back ....lol
No kick back sadly lol Hope you like it mate
Scott Andrews it’s a cracking bit of kit .... best £311 pound I’ve spent ... stay safe mate 🏴🏴
Just passed my class 2 today.. looking forward to getting in a truck
Congrats Michael :D
Can I suggest that when you get your first job be it agency or whatever, when they give you the sheet that tells you what you have to deliver, always ask someone "is this in order or do I have to choose which one to do first" too many of my first runs were just randomly listed and had me running up and down everywhere i.e. "place b > e > A > f> C" etc or they didn't make it clear that certain loads had to arrive by a particular time... Never be afraid to ask as coming back later with stuff on the back isn't going to help you get another run the following day..
Nice to see you drive through my home town Llanwrtyd, we often fly down that road in a big red truck and blue lights, hope to give you a wave if you pass through again, thanks for the story thanks for sharing
Lived in SE Asia for 20 odd years now had family from that area absolutely loved the drive totally homesick ..thank you!
Passed my class 2 in July 4 days later was driving a 26t for a local haulage firm did exactly what you said I went direct to the company to apply had no experiance but obviously they liked me as a person been there 5 weeks now
Personality matters a lot 👌🏻
How you getting on now mate? Got my test in a week, shitting myself about so many things 😩
@@julianj4026 did you pass?
@@joewoods6771 I did! First time thankfully with only one minor! It’s been very easy to get work, ive had lots of phone calls and interviews. I’m currently working for jewson and being put through my crane HIAB licence. Really pleased with how everything has gone.
Start my job finally on Monday. Class 2 haulage palletised goods. Shitting a brick thinking about it
Hi Scott. Just come across your channel and great to hear the old familiar town names during your first excursion out as a new Class 2 . I was based at RAF Brawdy for a number of years, now looking at getting into getting my Class C and up. Currently have 7.5 tonne and done some agency work. But yes you are right the agencies just throw you in at the deep end. . Maybe one day end up back in that neighbourhood. Love the videos and have just subbed to it.
Cool vid, like the scenery your rolling by as well, have a good week ahead 👍
My first class 2 was a skip driver job, on one of my first jobs I took out a old style oil lamppost and scraped up a freshly laid drive at a house build, it out me off and haven't really driven a hgv since.
I have recently renewed my license and plan to get back in the seat just not skips.
Still struggling with the anxiety of that job haunting me tho.
Experience is everything. Look at you now👍👍
cool video Scott, this gives me hope!
Glad to hear it!
Hi Scott. Just came across your channel, great videos, takes me back to my class 2 driving days back in the eighties, multi drops on a 10t & 17t . My first day was 24 drops around St Albans , Watford & Rickmansworth in a day on my own. No M25 then based in Kent had to go through London no sat navs just the jolly A-Z needless to say 4 hrs later I got to my first drop after getting lost in London( normally 1 1/2 hrs ) . The ironic thing was I saw one of our other drivers finished and going home after my first drop .😟 Miss the driving but not the traffic. Got me to places you would never see.
Thank you Scott. That was interesting 👍 yes please, more stories.
You got it!
Great story Scott and good timing for me as i have just passed my Class 2. Onward and upwards.
great video as always scott would love to hear more stories in future videos
You got it!
My worst one, several years ago was a pallet of 144 boxes of 24 Budweiser (that’s 3456 bottles) going over when taking a roundabout too fast in Clapton, East London. Customer didn’t want it and everything else stunk of beer!
Scott your videos are absolutely amazing👍 I am a livestock trucker go to similar places to you quick and simple I'm sure you'll understand when they say we have had wagons down this lane before do you mean milk tankers that's when you start to think credit to you mate absolutely brilliant regards from Andy
Yep know exactly what you mean. Cheers Andy
@@ScottAndrews Scott your videos are amazing especially you going with straw to these local farms like I say they always say we are bad arctic down here don't really think so mate when you get there you mate credit tell you lovely videos you sound such a chilled Guy which I think you have to be to put up with what you do
Another great video.
Really good advice Scott going to the company face to face has always proved my best approach and can honestly say if I had just stuck to sending out CV's I'd still be looking for work.
Absolutely
Great bloke,enjoyed your story ty for the tips 👍
Excellent Scott that was a great video reminds me of all the mistakes I made when I first started driving 😂 🤣 would make a great channel on its own "truckers tales" most of us could write a book im sure 😂 🤣
Plenty of tales still to come haha
Just come across this video & tomorrow is my first day Class 1 driving. I’m praying it’s not half as bad as yours mate🤞🤞
Good evening everyone from wellington Somerset
I have finally passed all my theory tests cpc hazard perceptions ,medical, got my provisional that took nearly a year to get. I am just waiting for my practical to come up now . Hoping I don't have too long to wait now so I can get started. I am going straight in class 1 license as well can't wait to get started now
How come it took so long to get your prov bud?
When I got my truck endorsement the first truck I drove then was a Mercedes (long since replaced) with a dual axle semi trailer. Were I grew up they had an annual truck show, and what do you think teenage me had found on the Merc stand? Yep the spec's for their semi's. My first Training center truck had a full sycro gearbox I knew it and wasn't double clutching as a result. The instructor wasn't impressed! Took me off it and put me in a single axle rigid because apparently I couldn't drive "period"!
I bet you proved him wrong
Another awesome vid scot #MoreScott
More to come! #MoreScott :D
Good video Scott, I’m looking forward to your class1 first day story
Coming soon!
Enjoyed that story 😎
I'm absolutely killing myself laughing here at your confessions of a lorry driver Scott good to see you once again Scott take care of yourself bud and keep safe and well buddy
Cheers Wayne! Stay safe
You are most welcome Scott keep the vlogs coming buddy there brilliant
Scott. Cheers for sharing your story it was rather funny. If you have anymore Let’s be avin em... ❤️
Couple more to come :)
Very hard getting work when you just passed been there great vlog
Good video Scott keep it up
Thanks James
proper enjoyed that vid and talk... oh and If you remember I was the black ford fiesta that saw you in penybanc guessed you went to lbs in ammanford
First days are fun lol examiner wrote me my class 2 ticket followed by my car ticket in May 1976 ( you could do that in those days) . Two days later I left the angel in Edmonton just off the North Circular in a Bedford 6 legger with 10 ton steel tubes on the back and a box of Log books in the cab. 17 hours later I arrived at our warehouse beside Glasgow airport with a non functioning hand brake, a starter motor you had to short across to start and a cab full of strangler cable that came out the first time I tried to switch off for a tea break 😂😂😂😂😂 mad days lol
Yes please tell the first day class one Scott 👍
Great vlog great advice and life changing to some watchers
Brilliant mate!! Absolutely class! Was in stitches most of that video myself ;) Not many would own up too so many mistakes haha :) Hope there are many more stories in the not too distant future. Hope your keeping well fella.
Great story
i kinda stumbled into the "dream" lorry job
used to be a bus driver then applied for a car transporting job and somehow got it - never drove lorries before the car transporter (cat c) and still going brill. good vid Scott - been watching a while now 👍🏼
My first day driving class 2 was very similar , doing a multi drop with a second man for palmer and Harvey ,to shops , petrol stations etc , I forgot to have a 45 minute break . No issue with the driving apart from a woman walking in front of the cab as we were pulling off from a drop and I couldn't see her . I passed in a 24ft box van and this was a 24ft box so reversing and going in tight spots was ok . Never went back there though .
Good story scott 😀👏, enjoyable to listen,
That's some run your on there with the roads,,,
Stay safe
☘👍👋
Yeah great one Scott, some more tails of your (mis)-adventures would be great
great story scott, #morescott
yeah they finished the road works below sugar loaf, after four years then they put up road liable to flooding signs straight afterwards, so expect some more traffic lights soon.
I'll enjoy it while I can
Great story and format! Please do more if you may.
Practice and experience, that's how we learn.
Nice one Scotty some good honest info.
Great video scott
Where do u get hold of your Download Dog in the back of the cab please i want 1
I got it from the festival. Think they sell them at the online merch shop too
Just watched this video and loved it!
Just had my medical and sent my dl to the dvla! Really informative! Thanks for the good advice and let's hope my 1st day goes a bit smoother than yours 😉
Greatings from Australia love your vlog im ne subscriber
I just signed up for an agency and passed my class 2 , 2 weeks ago. I’m so nervous to start a job, I don’t even know how to use the digital card, print etc. I feel like ima screw up so bad.
We love your content.
Brilliant video Scott, as always. I have my theory test in October, so I would love to hear more about your experiences getting started in this career, and passing your test. I'm definitely taking mental notes. Also love to hear about any mistakes we can learn from.
I'm working for an agency driving 3.5 tonne flatbeds in an attempt to gain experience in the industry before I pass my test.
The driver training companies were telling me there will be no problem getting a job as there is such a large driver shortage at the moment. Do you think this is just lies to get me to sign up and give them money, or do you think it has changed a bit since you passed your test?
As soon as you get that first bit of experience in I'd say you wouldn't have trouble finding a job, as you're already driving I think you'd be fine. finding THE RIGHT job on the other hand might take longer
I have had my Class 1 for about 18yrs now and used it for most of that time.
There has been a driver shortage since I can remember, so that won't get you to the front of the queue and land you a great job.
You will have to take what you can and learn your trade from wearing shorts and pushing trolleys loaded with frozen butter to school canteens for Brakes to doing multi drop parcel/pallet work until you get a feel for the industry and land yourself a nice number your happy with.
The beauty of road transport is the sheer amount of sectors it covers, in that there is no end of choice in what type of work you can do.
Good luck
Thanks for the advice, looking forward to learning the ropes once I pass.
Thank you Scott. Another video Enjoyed. And loved your Story Can we have some more. A lot better then following the wrong Farmer. 😂😂😂 Sorry just had to mention it 😂😂. Thanks again. Take care and stay safe and safe trucking. John Whitehouse.
I'll never live that farmer incident down haha
"Following the Wrong Farmer" is a Classic
Job for Castell Howell by any chance?
Hey dude, welcome back. Will always be here. 👍🏻
Another good vid Scott keep it up
Thanks Max! Will do
Max's trucking videos. You can’t possibly know that! It was uploaded 15 minutes ago and your comment was added 14 minutes ago. You watched a 30 minute video in 1 minute.
Loved story time. More
Look forward to hearing the Class 1 stories soon 🤣
We've all got to start somewhere, that'll be me in a few years, hopefully what happened to you won't happen tome but only time will tell haha, great video, can't wait for some more story time with Scott haha
Great attitude nice video
Genuinely cracked up at that, Frog! We've all been there and done that! Well, except me, I was perfect from the get go.... Apart from that time I got arrested by Scotland Yard in London......
Now that's a story I want to hear lol
@@ScottAndrews Sitting comfortably? I shall begin. Many, many years ago a fresh faced, 21 year old Diefer, only ever driven transit vans up until this point. Got a job with a local manufacturing company as a cover driver. Had a week with each driver (only 3 of them) that had their own routes. Two weeks later, had to cover one driver for his weeks holiday. YAY! Finally out in a 7 & a half tonne truck! KING OF THE ROAD! In the centre of London.... Oh hells bells. Before the days of Twat navs. Good old paper maps that keep closing as you put them down and lose your place. So, there's me, just delivered to a shop on Charing Cross Rd (Right next to Capital FM)!!! Needed to get back up thru Covent Garden to the West End. Except I'd managed to go the wrong way down Whitehall towards the Houses Of Parliament. With no where to do a legal Spinny, I decided to go down to Parliament Square and come back on myself. "You've got this Dief " I say " O0o0o0 there's Westminster Hall and the houses of Parliament, St Margaret's Church and Westminster Cathedral, The Supreme Court, I'll turn off here" NOOOOOOO!! TOO SOON!
I'm now hurtling West down Birdcage Walk, south of St James's Park, which has a local ban on all Trade or business vehicle unless authorised, in a plain white goods vehicle that isn't authorised, with a very dodgy, sweaty, panicked looking driver behind the wheel, heading straight towards Buckingham Palace! Within seconds, I had 3, yes THREE Armed Response Vehicles chasing me, asking ever so nicely if I would kindly stop my vehicle, guns pointing. I'm pretty sure I gave birth to something...
Arrested, truck seized. sat in Scotland Yard making a very embarrassing phone call to my new boss trying to explain to him what had happened. That was after he'd stopped crying with laughter.
I eventually became a full time drive and drove for them for 11 years..... In London. I NEVER EVER went any where near Whitehall EVER AGAIN! They even put me thru my class II
Many years on, I'm now a class I driver for a well known supermarket. I'll stick with this if that's ok
Haha That's brilliant xD Glad your boss had a sense of humour. Although I can definitely see myself doing the same in your shoes