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Thursday 9th February, 10 pm, Channel 4.
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Saw the trailer for that. Might inspire a lengthy thread.
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Not from me!
I will make my postition clear now.
I know and like all the ladies involved BUT I have refused the join the Lady Truckers Club all of my working life.
I'm a lorry driver and NOT a Lady Trucker.
I feel that to ask to be treated equally with the lads then define yourself as different is so wrong, and I can't compromise my principles.
They understand that.....I think:)
Pat
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Pat - I'm disappointed. Was hoping to get a glimpse of you in action :-)
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>> Pat - I'm disappointed. Was hoping to get a glimpse of you in action :-)
I have, the body shop are knocking the dents out of my rear bumper next week...
I better put a smiley in there i think
;)
there
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A smiley from Zero. Doesn't seem right somehow....
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If I was them I would drive my truck through the front doors of the studio exec and complain about the title of the series....
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Mothertruckers
Crazed monarchs of the asphalt! Worthy avatars of Toad!
Your duty is to to try to make a racetrack of the road.
Yes! Show your fellow humans that it’s good to be alive:
Put a hundred in the hour on a packed M25.
You’re quicker round the roundabout than through the underpass,
So just enjoy those generous excursions on the grass
As you undertake and overtake and squirt it down the shoulder
Using sliproads and embankments with decision ever bolder,
Blasting your raucous klaxons as you exercise your toys...
For it’s just the joyous ticket
To really, really stick it
To those jiveass mothertruckers and those white van ladyboys.
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Well Pat - I've watched the first 2 minutes and an keen to know.......
Do you have pink rubber gloves?
Do you wear really high heals when trucking?
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We demand to know Pat.>:)
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I haven't seen it yet but have it recorded!
Now you can see why I insist on being a lorry driver:)
Pat
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I have not watched it yet either but I hope its not full of typical clichés, it sounds like it is :( The name really puts me off this programme too.
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Well, I've just sat and watched it and it certainly wasn't much like the job the rest of us do in the real world!
When the tramper parked up on the industrial estate though it did make me envious for my own cab, my own company and the ability to be independent.
Pink gloves...Tccchhh.
Pat
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>> When the tramper parked up on the industrial estate though
Let's hope she doesn't become a target for wierdo's and the like, now that they know where she parks up, and what truck she drives. Before the tv show, she was an unknown entity behind curtains in the cab. Not now though.
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Had to laugh when the narrator said "Mother Truckers need to know how to put a strap on" - he was in fact referring to tie down straps for the bales of hay.
One of them wasn't a 'real' Mother Trucker though. (s)he used to be a fella in the army.
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I also fail to see why they need to use the language they did to prove they are a true lorry drivers, presumambly.
I never found it necessary, but never chided the other lads who did.
Because of that a lot of them would automatically moderate their language when talking to me which I appreciated. (and told them so)
Pat
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>> I also fail to see why they need to use the language they did ...........
I feel similarly about comedians' language on TV.
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>> >> I'm a lorry driver and NOT a Lady Trucker.
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>> I feel that to ask to be treated equally with the lads then define yourself
>> as different is so wrong, and I can't compromise my principles.
That sort of thinking rather heartens me. I've always seen the formation of an exclusive club/group to be a retrograde step in trying to ensure equality.
Education, proving yourself and (immense) patience would be the tools i'd imagine would be the way forward... being a heterosexual, male 'wasp' i'm never going to truly know am I?
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It was enjoyable enough, in a fairly shallow, heavily directed for TV entertainment, sort of way.
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>>Education, proving yourself and (immense) patience <<
You've hit the nail on the head there Westpig, once you've proved you can do the job and don't try to do it better, just as good as, then respect follows.
We had another female driver for a few months and I found her in the yard one day in tears because she'd had the mickey taken out of her...a bit cruelly, but it's what we do best!
I told her never, ever let the lads see you in tears, laugh with them and cry alone, that saw me through;) and probably explains why I'm known as The Flying Witch at work!
Pat
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>> and cry alone, that saw me through;) and probably explains why I'm known as The
>> Flying Witch at work!
Now that would look really good on the front of an Eddie Stobart truck, Beats "Ellen Louise" any day of the week.
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And the verdict is ... very interesting, I enjoyed the first half of the program and shall watch part 2,
I drove small lorries for 5 years in the 70's delivering reams of paper to printing works and its no easy job, especially this time of the year, so I 'take my hat off' to women truckers (even if they do earn £600 pw!)
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They don't, Dog....trust me!
Pat
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I suppose there could be ways they earned 600 notes a week ;-)
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Perhaps one of them could do some moonlighting on her broomstick.
;>)
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>> 'take my hat off' to women truckers (even if they do earn £600 pw!)
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I work with two and am brother to another who all earn a fair bit more than that.
Neither of them afraid of hard work cold or dirt and doing responsible skilled jobs as well the blokes.
Not as good as whining and moaning as the blokes though, still manage to smile through it all.
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Watched the 2nd alf and enjoy it (thanks L'es) a fine bunch of girls indeed (especially Vikki Marie)
I can understand their liking of 'the open road' and having no gaffer on your back because that is exactly the reason I took to the road in the early 70's after having enough of bosses and workplace politics!
Bikers and Truckers are ok OK!
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Mother Truckers - CGNorwich
