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[Shep Shepherd]

Where is local? A couple of neighbours at work always seem to want drivers- conference haul and CARS international both in GU248jb.

 

Local for me is the SS postcode

[richardmorris]

If companies always looking for drivers there's usually a reason! Could be an experience gained though.

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They’re both expanding quite quickly.

[HillmanImp]

Who was looking for Range Rover bits?

Prince P may be breaking one soon.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46912691

Don't know exactly what happened there, make of it what you will.

Police are looking for a white Fiat Uno in connection to the incident.

[beko1987]

Didn't realise he rolled it! It was on lbc as I drove home and the way they described it he dinked someone's car, they shook hands and went their seperate ways!

 

Rolling a modern rr must take some doing with all the electricity bollocks they have, when I nearly got driven into on the a1 in days hyundai ioniq modern it pretty much braked itself and lit the dashboard and lcd up like a Christmas tree. Nearly ruined my planned manouver into l2 as it had the brakes on!

[JeeExEll]

^ Aah well, fortunately no-one was seriously injured in either car.

Which is surprising given his age.

Cue 'safe Land Rover' advertising.

 

The outcome could have been less fortunate had he taken the Imp today.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Local for me is the SS postcode

Sarfend? Tescos?

[New POD]

I wouldn't want to be the one to try to tell him what to do

I'd like to be the magistrate who convicts him of dangerous driving with intent to endanger life and gives him a custodial sentence. Who the Fucking hell thinks a demented senile 97 year old should be allowed at the wheel of a motor car ? His children and grand children should have dealt with the problem before he had a serious crash. Spineless twats all of them. Apart from Simitar Anne.

[New POD]

Police are looking for a white Fiat Uno in connection to the incident.

Have you read Barcelona Plates by Alexi Sayle???

[Shep Shepherd]

Sarfend? Tescos?

 

Southend, yes ^^

 

The idea of driving for Tesco has some appeal, but their nearest depot is in Thurrock, which is an area I've worked in for ages (I currently work in Grays, having previously worked for the same company in West Thurrock for eight years) and would dearly love to get away from, due to how far it is away from home and how awful the traffic often is around Lakeside and on the A13 at peak periods.

[dollywobbler]

Yeah, winter is here then. Mrs DW had to go to Cardiff today, so she drove to the standard collection caper train station of Caersws, which is pretty much in the arse end of nowhere, so she could at least do some of the journey not in a Perodua Nippa. She arrived back at the station at half ten pm, and discovered the front door locks entirely seized shut with ice. Thankfully, she had phone signal, and I suggested the tailgate (being a hardened 'shiter when it comes to getting into a car with broken locks) which was fine. She's now in and driving home, but both front doors are still iced shut! She's not happy about that, but she is at least in a gently-warming car and on her way.

[Angrydicky]

Today, exactly 14 months to the day since I passed the LGV Class 2 driving test, I passed the module 4 driver CPC practical demonstration test (I somehow managed to get a perfect score), which means that I can finally drive trucks for a living 

 

Now, to find a local haulage company which will take on newly-qualified drivers (newly-qualified, but with nigh-on 25 years of prior experience of driving other vehicles, including vans, minibuses and 7.5 tonners). I already have a couple of leads.

Congrats! One of my friends passed his test and managed to get in quickly at Canute Group. He was only about 22 at the time as well. Worth a try!

 

Edit: they went down the pan in December apparently. My pal had moved onto another driving job a year or two ago so I wasn't aware they'd gone. Their yellow artics used to be all over Sarf Essex at one point.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Southend, yes ^^

 

The idea of driving for Tesco has some appeal, but their nearest depot is in Thurrock, which is an area I've worked in for ages (I currently work in Grays, having previously worked for the same company in West Thurrock for eight years) and would dearly love to get away from, due to how far it is away from home and how awful the traffic often is around Lakeside and on the A13 at peak periods.

 

Friend of mine also lives in the SS2 postal district, and he drives for Tescos. He's probably somewhere out there on the road as we write....

 

.....One of my friends passed his test and managed to get in quickly at Canute Group. ....

Edit: they went down the pan in December apparently. ....

 

Couldn't hold back the tide, then.

[Shep Shepherd]

Congrats! One of my friends passed his test and managed to get in quickly at Canute Group. He was only about 22 at the time as well. Worth a try!

 

Edit: they went down the pan in December apparently. My pal had moved onto another driving job a year or two ago so I wasn't aware they'd gone. Their yellow artics used to be all over Sarf Essex at one point.

 

Canute were based just off the A13 in Wennington. I had no idea that they'd gone bust.

[Shep Shepherd]

 

Friend of mine also lives in the SS2 postal district, and he drives for Tescos. He's probably somewhere out there on the road as we write....

 

 

I'm in the SS1 postal district, which is GR9 for the seafront and town centre 

[320touring]

Yeah, winter is here then. Mrs DW had to go to Cardiff today, so she drove to the standard collection caper train station of Caersws, which is pretty much in the arse end of nowhere, so she could at least do some of the journey not in a Perodua Nippa. She arrived back at the station at half ten pm, and discovered the front door locks entirely seized shut with ice. Thankfully, she had phone signal, and I suggested the tailgate (being a hardened 'shiter when it comes to getting into a car with broken locks) which was fine. She's now in and driving home, but both front doors are still iced shut! She's not happy about that, but she is at least in a gently-warming car and on her way.

Key blade in mouth for 10secs, pop in lock.

 

Boom

[beko1987]

Yes, I discovered the 406 freezes it's doors to the seals this morning, not had that since the blue zx!

[Guest Hooli]

Vasaline on the doorseals?

[dollywobbler]

Key blade in mouth for 10secs, pop in lock.

 

Boom

 

Yeah, the front doors won't even unlock from the INSIDE apparently. 

[320touring]

Yeah, the front doors won't even unlock from the INSIDE apparently.

One for a hairdryer and graphite oil then..

[Angrydicky]

 

Friend of mine also lives in the SS2 postal district, and he drives for Tescos. He's probably somewhere out there on the road as we write....

Grew up in SS9 (Leigh) and then lived in SS3 (Wakering) and SS0 (Westcliff) before moving away. Yeah it's far from perfect but I miss the place, the shite content in the area is second to none too. I'd consider moving back if the house prices weren't so mental.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I'm in the SS1 postal district, which is GR9 for the seafront and town centre 

Ah....the seafront, the Kursaal, Churchill's nightclub, the memories.... When I used to visit SS2 regularly, the "Cruise" involving various luridly-painted, jazzed-up small cars (mostly Corsas, Saxos, 106s) parading along the seafront was the thing. I took my 635 along that stretch and felt very out of place.

[Shep Shepherd]

Ah....the seafront, the Kursaal, Churchill's nightclub, the memories.... When I used to visit SS2 regularly, the "Cruise" involving various luridly-painted, jazzed-up small cars (mostly Corsas, Saxos, 106s) parading along the seafront was the thing. I took my 635 along that stretch and felt very out of place.

 

I currently live within five minutes' walk from the Kursaal 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I currently live within five minutes' walk from the Kursaal 

I wonder if I should try the CX over the speed humps on the seafront? Just for the craic, like.

[Shep Shepherd]

I wonder if I should try the CX over the speed humps on the seafront? Just for the craic, like.

 

The speed humps were removed a few years ago, when the council turned the Golden Mile into a 'shared space' with a 20mph speed limit and average speed cameras 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The speed humps were removed a few years ago, when the council turned the Golden Mile into a 'shared space' with a 20mph speed limit and average speed cameras 

The shites!

 

Ah now, that tells you how long ago I was last there. The SPECS cameras on the inbound A127 (just where the 40mph zone begins) were bad enough.

[Shep Shepherd]

The shites!

 

Ah now, that tells you how long ago I was last there. The SPECS cameras on the inbound A127 (just where the 40mph zone begins) were bad enough.

 

I drove past those fuckers at 70mph the day after they were switched on, with no announcement in the local press; I wondered why everyone was going so slowly. Thankfully, nothing came of it.

[bub2006]

Is it just me or does the guy off the aging wheels trabant video sound like Kermit?

[tooSavvy]

^ Aah well, fortunately no-one was seriously injured in either car.

Which is surprising given his age.

Cue 'safe Land Rover' advertising.

The outcome could have been less fortunate had he taken the Imp today.

.... Yes, well, I fitted inertia reel belts in my '63 Sal and as my Tbone 'slo moed' before my eyes - TF!

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

I expect he’s used to it. A lifetime of obeying his wife. These sorts of shocks tend to have delayed effects in confidence at his age ( from experience anyway ).

 

I thought the law/regulations on driving insist on re-tests and eyesight checks periodically over retirement age. When was he last re-tested for any of that, or behind the wheel? He isn't immune is it?

 

Yeah, winter is here then. Mrs DW had to go to Cardiff today, so she drove to the standard collection caper train station of Caersws, which is pretty much in the arse end of nowhere, so she could at least do some of the journey not in a Perodua Nippa. She arrived back at the station at half ten pm, and discovered the front door locks entirely seized shut with ice. Thankfully, she had phone signal, and I suggested the tailgate (being a hardened 'shiter when it comes to getting into a car with broken locks) which was fine. She's now in and driving home, but both front doors are still iced shut! She's not happy about that, but she is at least in a gently-warming car and on her way.

 

 

Yes, I discovered the 406 freezes it's doors to the seals this morning, not had that since the blue zx!

 

I fell foul of this this morning too - vaseline shall be deployed tonight before I forget. Munchkin was, however, late for school - ooooops

[wuvvum]

Rover 75 also had its doors frozen shut this morning.  Then when I eventually got in I ran out of deicer trying to get rid of the thick layer of ice over all the windows.  I couldn't even wipe the inside of the windscreen with my demisting cloth as that was frozen as well - I had to get the last dribble of deicer onto the cloth and wipe it over with that.  And one of the door courtesy light microswitches had obviously frozen up too as I had a Door Open warning all the way in to Norwich - fortunately it cleared just as I got in to the city as I wouldn't've been able to lock the car otherwise.  Obvs I was late for work.