Useful Again !

This post is being written in a motorway services with absolutely no 3G or even GPRS.

“Vodafone should hang their head in shame so low that their foreheads touch their boots."
I don’t' want to trivialise the Ghurkha’s struggle I was just trying to be topical and witty and I thought it was a great quote.

I have had a pretty crap week and it just seems to be getting worse.
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I’ve been getting less and less hours at work for a while now and last week I only had two days in the Lorry.

They were long days but still only 30 hours in total with one night out.
Things were not looking good at work for ages but they took a sharp turn for the worse for me.

I was told on Friday that my job was up for review and that out of the two class C drivers we have, one was going.

On Monday I was issued with a criteria to evaluate my job against the other Class C driver to see who scored higher, We both score the same but because he has been with the company longer I knew it was me going.

I am gutted… It was a hard job and sometimes it drove me mad. But it was also a great job and allowed me hours and hours of freedom. A lot of those hours were spent in far flung and beautiful places.
It allowed me thinking time, dreaming time, worrying time and time to be thankful for everything.
It is also a great little truck. Well maintained. A DAF CF on a 54 plate, its pulls like Dale Winton in a lap dancing club but it’s great down hill.

I have been contacting old agencies I used to be registered with over the weekend and alarmingly most of them have now disappeared.

The job centre websites are full of Agency’s offering jobs that don’t exist and even the old certainty’s like Landfill jobs and the bins are not there anymore.

I took off on Monday after the meeting with the boss to register with any agency that would have me.
I cleared everything out of the truck because I didn’t fancy emptying it with all the other blokes around.

I didn’t go in on Tuesday and expected to go in on Wednesday to the meeting the boss had scheduled
It was supposed to inform us of his decision.
Instead I got a phone call saying I had a run, maybe a night out. A run to Wales, All of Wales as it goes.
Welshpool, Cardigan, Tenby and then finish off in Swansea. One pallet at each drop. Seems I am useful sometimes.

I didn’t get home. My ten hours finished in the Lorry park of Strenshaw services on the M5. That’s were I am now listening to the game.

I have not heard from work so I’m in limbo really, I know I’m out of a job, but I’m not out of a job yet. Weird.
I am running in early after a 9 hour daily rest and then I think we will have the meeting that was planned for today.

I have had a tiny piece of good news.
The Agency I did my test with and worked for before doing this job actually called me back and offered me some work next week after the bank holiday… for ADR! Ahhh!!!! I didn’t do the ADR because I was given this job instead. I decided to book on it while I’m doing nothing. They have a contract with Calor so who knows?

I will still keep the Lorryday going; it might be Lorry week with all the other posts about my job search and training.

I‘m still going to Truckfest and I’m going to write a blog about it, so I’ll have something to look forward to this weekend.

The day was really nice and I will post when I get back to civilisation
But I have to stand on the cab roof and hold this lappy up to the moon to get a few KB to send this.