A long break

 After so long writing this blog, from time to time I get fed up with the monotony of the places I visit and the people I meet.. There is only so many rude clerks or nasty forklift drivers to write about so I took a break from posting for a few weeks hoping to find my spark again. Well no spark but I did find an appetite to report what an awful industry I work in again. Long hours, terrible conditions and very little reward,unless you count £300-£400 a week a reward.So why do we do it? well quite frankly some do it because they are otherwise unemployable, bad hygiene, terrible people skills, very little literacy skills, but enough about the managers, this description could apply to some drivers as well.

I do it because I lost a small business a few years ago and had no qualifications and no working history except self employment which on most cv's counts for zero.
As  the current drivers age, there is going to be a serious shortage of people stupid enough to want to drive a HGV's around UK roads with certificate's, licences plastic cards  and legislation coming out of there ears but being treating like the proverbial by morons and jobsworths at every factory gate and supermarket RDC. I wish I had of done a lot better at school but at 42 I guess that's a regret to far now. OK Rant over now its time for the pictures.

 I was being loaded in Ipswich for a run down to the NEC next door to this DVLA test center when we heard the car crash into the fence on the Bay parking exercises. FAIL. the pictures don't really do the poor students situation justice as it was a restricted view but we can all imagine how they must of felt.

 These are the cars being driven by the warehouse staff in Suffolk these days.

Kew Gardens in London. I was expecting to see a lot of the gardens but only got as far as the service entrance.

 This is the smart car dealership and Mercedes franchise on the M4, only a few that are allowed the tower displays that they have in Germany, The UK denied most of them Planning permission.

 These are taken in Brighton, the new stadium , which isn't actually in Brighton !

 This construction site is in Peacehaven and had holes being drilled hundreds of feet down.

 As ever they always look better  original.

 This is a well known electrical supplier ,"trusting" their workforce by having them searched out in the open before they are allowed to take their break.

These were the slowest "Joy riders" I have ever seen, their ridiculous cars were so low that they couldn't even reach 20 mph in the mean streets of Nuneaton! they were passing a suspicious looking roll up back and forth at traffic lights as well. 

 The usual mess on the A 14. Two lanes means its a gamble taking this route if you want to get back in your allowed time each day but thousands of us have to take that gamble every day.

 My favourite breakfast cereal lives in Manchester. Cool.