The Lady and her Trampers (well all drivers actually!) I’m driven to create positive change for the industry that keeps us ALL moving. 📣 Calling all drivers to RATE, REVIEW, RECOMMEND, and stop accepting 💩
TRUCK ME… IT’S ‘FEST BEST’! TRUCKFEST is well and truly underway at Lincolnshire Showground. We’re sadly missing the commanding sight of 🚛 🚛 🚛 convoys driving to the Peterborough Showground…But nothing is forever 😢 So The ‘Boro’s loss is Lincoln’s gain. Sadly I can’t get to join in all the ‘fun of the fest’ this time, but I know that a great many of my Linky family will be. I also know that some people will see the gathering as a bit of a ‘show pony’ moment. Not everyone wants to spend hours buffing and polishing, I get that. But shiny lorries gleaming in the spring sunshine ☀️ make me 😊 And just as the ‘Fest’ is a happy celebration of all things trucking… from vintage to visionary, for me it’s something else. I believe events such as these help showcase the industry and hopefully help to make driving an aspirational career choice. When I was little, to be a lorry driver was always on the list of ‘What We Want To Be When We Grow Up’! It would sit alongside occupations such as train driver, pilot, vet, doctor, ballet dancer, teacher, pop star and princess. (In case you were wondering, princess was top of my list for a number of school terms! 👑) To be a driver was aspirational. Many kids will have grown up wanting to follow in the ‘tyre tracks’ of other family members after being allowed to go out in a truck as a youngster. Changes in rules, regulations, and policy have stopped much of those magical experiences from happening. When your parent is your hero, what kid doesn’t want to do the job that mum or dad do. Think of life without lorries? You can’t… can you! But where are the next generation of drivers coming from? The professional pride and aspiration needs to be put back. We should celebrate our drivers regardless of pandemic or emergency. And we need to look after our current drivers damn sight better than we do. A ‘fest of the best’ will help do that… I hope🤞 #People #HR #Transport #TruckingIndustry #Drivers
I’m still at it, been driving 42 years next month. By the time I’m entitled to my pittance of a state pension I’ll have been driving for 46 years. I used to go with my late Dad when I was a little boy to aged 21 when I passed my HGV. I’m 63 this month and been in transport from leaving school in 1977. Had many happy hours behind the wheel but looking forward to my retirement. This was my first lorry when I passed my test. Good old bad old days.
Thanks Sue. ☺️ I learned to drive when I was a very young lad, thanks to my late Dad. This wagon paid all the bills 😌 my dad on top of the tanker back in 1974. The wages were one of the best for driving lorries back then.
Never a truer word said Sue Having been on the road for over 30years now retired and enjoying life
Hi sue hit the nail on the head the day they stopped kid's going to work with there parents was the demise of a lot of industries when jobs past from father to son mother to daughter and vice a verser needs to be put back in place now
Well said,so true 👌
Nothing beats a shiny lorry! Are you planning to go to any of the other Truckfest's this year?
That's the truth
HGV CE (class 1 ) driver. Full clean UK CE licence with ADR including tanks packages classes 2,3,4,5,6,8,9
5moThis rings some bells for me! Used to go out with my dad as a kid in the late 80’S and 90’s and always wanted to follow in his footsteps, He’d served in the Rct before it was changed to the Rlc and then drove artics out of Grimsby and Immingham when he came out, remember delivering spuds to the McCain factory with him and going to Peterborough truck fest amongst other things. I was unable to join the army and then stupidly decided not to go for class 1 as didn’t want to (in my mind) let him down twice. He then passed away in 2016 and my mum and wife spent from them until 2023 convincing me to do my class one, I passed first time 🤷♂️ and now drive them for a living, my only regret is my dad not having seen me achieve it. My little girl constantly asks to come out with me and it’s 💩 having to tell her no because of the rules……she’ll not get that experience with me that I cherished with my dad.