Category: Life

It’s been a strange and stressful week. I worked the bank holiday Monday but then my run wasn’t on for 10 days. Seems the factory still celebrate Whitsun. I don’t even know what that is. I took advantage and told the agency I was having Tuesday and Wednesday off to train. Ha! Tuesday I was…

It was my birthday! Huzzah! I was working, and I don’t drink or do other drugs, but I celebrated by not dying. Again. Quite the party animal, me. However, it got me to thinking; all I do is work, sleep whenever I can, and train whenever I can force myself to do so. Life is…

It’s been tweaking of the norm at work. I was getting in for 1500hrs, sitting around for 30- 90 minutes for that jobsworth I’ve been sharing a unit (truck) with to get back then trotting off up to the Scottish border, doing a trailer swap and then back to Crewe. This takes until about 2330hrs.…

You know that little incident I had last week with my TomTom (supposedly) Trucknav? The one that nearly had me ringing the police and blubbing like a girl? I got on to TomTom. There was no way to contact them on the ‘phone so I ended up in a protracted email exchange. I said that…

It’s Sunday. It seems like a lifetime ago I was stressing about the induction. That was Wednesday, I think. On Thursday I was in for my first shift. Surprisingly I slept OK, the problems on the road are are manageable because you are not being watched, so you can just work through them. That is…