Your day in 3 words.

[Black estate]

Full size box
truck for you

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T1 Terry

The roads can't handle a standard 50ft artic

 

[T1 Terry]

Are you saying
We have better
roads over here
They have trialled
this rig around
Port Brisbane terminal
Here's the article

Arrow Transport completes A-triple trial - Prime Mover Magazine

Arrow Transport has successfully conducted an A-triple roadtrain trial operating in and around the Port of Brisbane.

primemovermag.com.au

T1 Terry

 

[Black estate]

Are you saying
We have better
roads over here
They have trialled
this rig around
Port Brisbane terminal
Here's the article

Arrow Transport completes A-triple trial - Prime Mover Magazine

Arrow Transport has successfully conducted an A-triple roadtrain trial operating in and around the Port of Brisbane.

primemovermag.com.au

T1 Terry

Can't post my
Thoughts on uk
Drivers as I
Would.get banned.

 

[Ian Key]

Can't post my
Thoughts on UK
Drivers as I
Would.get banned.

Agree with you

Been professional driver*

Over 22 years



*A professional driver is one who has taken an additional driving test e.g. PCV, HGV not drivers with the standard car licence who earn a living by driving.

 

[Archev]

Agree with you

Been professional driver*

Over 22 years



*A professional driver is one who has taken an additional driving test e.g. PCV, HGV not drivers with the standard car licence who earn a living by driving.

Agreed - I don’t profess to be a professional driver at all. I’m just a seasoned amateur who’s covered a million? miles as an incurable addict of the practice. Before the HGV license changes I occasionally drove an artic around the yard and thought about applying but never did. NOW do you all realise how lucky you’ve been out and about ???

 

[siteguru]

But "professional" really

just means that

you get paid

for driving around

 

[Archev]

Hmm lots of us in that category but I think the real professionals are those that had to go the extra “mile” to upgrade their skills and licenses to prove it.

 

[T1 Terry]

But "professional" really

just means that

you get paid

for driving around

Under that definition, an Uber driver and the pizza delivery driver are professional drivers.
Over here, you move into the professional driver realm when you pass your multiple combination licence and actually live in the prime mover more days than at your residential address.
Working as a mechanic in the business, I met a number of drivers whose residential address was the person who did his bookwork, they all had an impressive real estate portfolio, but they actually lived in their truck.

I drove trucks with swinging meat, that is a skill set all of its own, in Tassie, superphosphate tippers, 10 yard, 12 yard and 12 yard with a 10 yard pig, maybe 50% of it was on formed roads, the rest was through paddocks to get to the property air strip. Positioning the truck on the wet moving mud track so it didn't slide down the side of the hill .... school bus pick up runs, infants, primary and high school, bad to back, wide load on a drop deck, again, part of it was cross country because there wasn't a road that went to the rail section they were working ..... but I'd never claim to be a professional driver, they are in a class of their own ....

T1 Terry