So the first www.lorry-driver.com online driver CPC date has been set for the 11th of February 8am. Drivers Hours and Tachographs. Book in my store  BOOK HERE

On train heading to Bristol for my first Driver CPC class tomorrow(for a company). Feeling a mix of terror and excitement. It’s quite a big step! But an exciting one. As I said to my best buddy the other day this is my whole future taking shape. Normally you never realise how important events are till later but I really do this time, which sort of adds to the terror in a way 😂 But……..I’ve not felt as excited about a job since I first started driving, back then I also knew my future had begun the moment I sat in that bus driving seat for the first time and it’s been a fantastic life. Let’s try and make the rest live up to the first 45 years 😂 I even bought a new work jacket for the occasion! https://lorrydriverdotcom.sumupstore.com/products?category=driver-cpc-courses

  #ThrowbackThursday So I’m preparing to take my first driver CPC on Saturday and I’m doing a short little bit at the start just to run through who I am and to show that I’m talking to them from a place of experience, by the time we get to this picture, not long after the Nolan’s picture it’ll be perfect time to make a joke because let’s face it, working for Nolan’s and HSF in the first five years of your driving career is quite funny! And a blatant ‘been there done that’ without having to utter that bullshit line! I left Nolan’s to follow Dad into agency in North London, back in the days when the only thing stopping you was how long it took to get from one customer to the next. We’d regularly be in say Iceland Enfield at 4am, work 15 hours, then off somewhere to do a night trunk before being back into Iceland next morning! Money was insane. It went dead in January so I rang up HSF and off I went. With another driver for 4 days then to Nijmegen where I got my truck. I lived in St H...

 

So as most of you know my dream job for as long as I can remember has been to be an international truck driver. When my Dad started doing it if he was going somewhere interesting I’d often skive off school to go with him! And later on skive off work! I was never too old to go for a spin with my Dad and never will be, I went for a ride with him last only a year ago and had a great day. Being a weird adult as I am you can probably guess I was a weird child. My childhood car obsession was Italian cars…….nothing weird about that you think…….specifically Fiat Pandas! My Dad had a couple and so yet another parent influenced obsession began. Back in the early nineties they were all over West Wales and I started a business breaking them and selling the parts secondhand in the FreeAds papers! It was quite sucessful! Because of this and because you have to cross a mountain range, I’m obsessed with mountains, Italy was my dream destination. However it was fairly late before I got to go and I had ...

So…….seems I’ve some ridiculously amazingly good news! 😂 Thanks to Avon Commercial Training in Bristol im now an APPROVED CPC TRAINER! How brilliant is that! Go and like their page to say thank you! Going forward we shall be working together to provide training, means I can offer via them the whole range of from CPC to ADR to getting your licence in the first place. Hopefully going to start taking some other courses too but for now just driver CPCs. If you book via my shop it will be guaranteed to be me taking your classes, like that’s an incentive! Also going to be working on their social media so again, go and like them! I can’t stop smiling 😂 Dates to follow when I’ve calmed down and sorted it all out 👍🏻

  #ThrowbackThursday: Growing up with the wonderful father I have, not only was my dream to drive trucks set almost before I could walk but I also came to want a career like his. Jumping all over the place from job to job constantly. Back when we were kids he could leave for one job in the morning and come home from a different one. He wasn’t a full time lorry driver till his late 30’s I think, he started out a mechanic, one of the best mechanics you’ll ever meet. Wasn’t for me tho, driving is for me! As a result, operators who basically only did one type of work didn’t attract me hugely, tho had a great time working for HSF. It was more about a job with HSF coming at the right time. I initially called Virginia as they looked more my sort of company, and it turned out they were. I’ve had 25 jobs in 26 years…….but spent 9 years at Virginia which I think tells its own story. Partly it was because of the sheer incredible variety on offer. You’d as likely find me on a building site cov...

Greetings friends. Just to let you know I’m available as an external transport manager in the Wales traffic area. Happy to do just the standard external TM thing or integrate it with social media promotion for your company. Pop me an email and we can have a chat about your requirements luke@lorry-driver.com   https://linktr.ee/lorrydriverdotcom