My Driving job

I drive all over the country and meet a lot of people in this lorry driving job .
Every time I get out of my cab to get unloaded I dread them opening there mouths.

Most people look at my skin (white) and think that I share there views, they spout their racist, bigoted and ignorant opinions.
Its all ways the same, pointless,boring and sometimes sick comments, all spouted in a vicious and often nasty way.
I just wanted to get this off my chest. I'm going to use this blog as a daily diary for my lorry driving which takes up most of my life lately.

I am sitting in the yard right now waiting to go out , no jobs as yet.

Yesterday I was sent to Chelsmford from our base in Leicester one pallet of books for the Essex county council. I dropped them off with the tailflift and then over to Basildon to collect two radiators for the Irish lorry , I knew this would cause me a problem later on in the day because It had to be back before 5 pm and I was due in Brighton next.
I arrived in Brighton @ around 11 am and found the address. The hills were amazing, I had to deliver to Albion Hill rd.I have never seen hills like them.
The load was over a tonne of wood flooring. The lorry was tipping like a double decker bus on the tight hilly roads and I had barely 6 inches either side of my truck as I crept down the sides of the parked cars. I tried to park up and the lorry rolled precariously as I pulled onto the side of the rood outside the house, I pulled away but the Lorry's rear lights had caught the rear tyre of a transit van behind me and pulled it clean off. I jumped down and inspected the damage.
The van`s owner was brilliant and said there was no problem.
I told the customer I was there and she looked at me very surprised , She expected me to unload all the flooring on my own and to put it inside her front room were she wanted it.
We are normally told to deliver outside the house only as someone should be there to unload with us but as usual this was not explained to the her. I just got on with it.I put the tacho on break so I could get straight to the next drop in Lewes and then all the way back to Leicester before 5 pm and meet the Irish truck.
Got back at 4 45 pm, then back to the yard and home . 9 hour and 45 min driving time used up.