>> in some ways a lot better than driving a truck . <<
Driving a truck, or as we call them, lorries, is one of the best jobs in the world.
You get to see the whole of the country, spend time alone and have very little interaction with 'people'.
Working unsociable hours, the road belongs to you and the wildlife.
The sunrises are amazing, as is the low lying mist on a summers morning.
There's a sense of pride in what you do and a continual sense of achievement when you manage to reverse into a space with inches to spare.
When you pull out of the yard you're the captain of the ship and make the decisions, without a boss breathing down your neck, and good ones don't even bother phoning you.
You get given brand new lorries and trailers valued at around £150,000 for the two of them and these are renewed every three years or so and you don't have to pay for them.
Best of all, you get to live/sleep/eat in them, in your own little world wherever you run out of time with just a friendly crow for company.
I could go on....but I would bore you.
I miss it so much.
Pat
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