madtrucker

Well the time has come to bid you all a fond farewell

Having blogged for a while now I have realised that its not for me nor does it seem my blogs are for anyone else !!! lol..

OK !! I have to hold my hands up and confess I am a lousy blogger and to gain interest you first have to show interest !!

Happy blogging to anyone reading this

OK I have brought out the soap box once again as I have need to vent my frustrations once again.

Traditionally the hair dresser's is the realm of women to have a gossip session but yesterday whilst having a very bad hair cut by an under trained young " hair dresser" ( my normal hair-dresser had the day off) I was forced into a conversation between some jack the lad having his barnet "styled" for his big night out and the equally under trained stylist working on his desired look.

The conversation started off about how men always have an agenda when they take a female friend out for dinner or a drink. In other words us guys only take a female friend out in the hope that sex will follow.

Well once upon a time I might have agreed with this guy but he kept going on about how stupid the girl cutting my hair was because she had been out for dinner with a friend thinking it was only because they were friends and the guy was really was only doing it because he wanted to get her in bed. This conversation cost me a chunk of hair which I can ill afford to loose at my time of life and thinning hair . This I could almost excuse but the guy would not shut up and insisted in attempting to get me to agree with him.

I told him that it sounded to me that his conversation was more about his own insecurity than any understanding of friendly relationships between the opposite sexes etc. To this he had no real answer other than I was old and thought differently than young people..lol..lol ( I am 48 he was about 28ish )

He then asked me that if my wife wanted to go away with a male friend for a weekend in a caravan would I let her go ???

My answer to that was that I would be OK with that as I might love and trust her but I would not own her. I have always been of the opinion that in a relationship you are both equal so if you both want to be together then that's how it is and if one wants something else then you should not be together. Its like going out to a night club etc .. if you both have fun and flirt and dance with others etc thats all good and neither partner should get jealous as is more the case than the exception I am sorry to say. As long as my partner wants to come home with me at the end of the night thats what really matters.

I think this guy was missing the number one rule about the sexes.

Men are ruled by whats between their legs not whats between their ears !! The bad thing about this is that men only realise this at a later age (if at all) but women are born with this knowledge

Once you get to grips with rule number one it is more than possible to have a friendship with the opposite sex with out an agenda I believe.

Oh and if you are wondering why I had someone else cut my hair ??? I had to get my hair cut yesterday as I was working today and would not be back in time to get it cut today and as I will be working all next week I could not bare to wait another week to get my hair cut

So any thoughts on friendships between the sexes ?? Was Harry in " When Harry met Sally " right ?? Is it impossible to have a friendship with the opposite sex without it being sexual ???

OK I have not written for a very long time so I am either very lazy or have nothing to say

To be honest I am not sure other than my two faithful friends anyone else takes any notice so I have not been missed

So what have I to say if anything ???

The world has kept turning as has the wheels of my truck. The worrying thing is that in a recession, which we seem to be heading head long into, the first thing that suffers is transport and logistics. Its simple maths really, less good being sold = less goods to be moved = less truck drivers needed. I largely deliver electrical goods which is the first things to be cut back on when times get hard as we would all rather eat and put petrol in our cars than spend hundreds of pounds on a new TV etc.

Still one day at a time, one breath at a time and the world will keep turning and we will all do what we have to no matter what the future holds.

Holidays are great at the start but with all good things they have to come to an end and today is the end of my holiday

Why is it that its exciting to go to collect someone from an airport but depressing to take them back again ?? We all know its coming as we can not stay on holiday forever !! ( mores the shame ) and you know good friends have to go home so they can either come back again another time or you can go visit them

Well a good time has been had by all, so now its back to work to pay for it !! lol..lol

I would however recommend paying a visit to Warwick Castle as they have made many improvements and its well worth going to if you have friends to entertain etc.

Well here's to the next holiday whenever that may be

Well I have reached the half way stage in my holiday and the British weather has caught up with me well at least the forecast has been right once this week its a shame they are right about the bad weather !!

I have a friend from Sweden over for the first solo holiday of her life and it has been a lot of fun if maybe a bit hard keeping up with a 21 year old at my age !! (48) So far I have managed to be the perfect tour guide visiting London etc and it was nice of my home town to arange the towns carnival for the weekend of her arrival to give an added free bonus to the entertainment

You know the younger generation get a lot of well deserved bad press with their anti social ways and disrespect of others and life in general, so its a very great and pleasant suprise when you get to see the flip side of the coin and get to spend time with a free thinking, fun loving wonderful human being that has a great deal of respect for herself and more so for others whilst still being her own person and doing the things her generation wants to do without all the hassle for others.

I think that this is living proof, if proof needed, that its not down to the way life is these days or the schools but the parents and the way people are brought up.

Well at least the roads are a safer place until Monday when I will be returning to the madness of being a truck driver once again so make the most of it people !!!

Its that time of year and I am on holiday and so far have not been rained on and yes I am in England !!! then again its only my second day of holiday !! lol

To be honest when I say holiday I should really have said " tourist guide " as I have my best friends daughter over for a visit so I may be in need of another holiday straight after this one ..lol..

It would seem however that a lack of a sense of direction runs in the family as like her mother, my very welcome guest, managed to get lost three times at Arlanda airport and at one point was trying to get back on a plane that took her back home to the High Coast where she started from could this have been a sign of some sort ?? or just a perfect example of daughter taking after mother still all's well that ends well and no drama's at Heathrow.

So far we have been to Windsor Castle as thats only 15 minutes from Heathrow so a great tourist attraction ticked off with the minimum effort from me and maximum cool points. The ace up my sleeve is that my guest is 21, female and into fashion etc so when all else fails " GO SHOPPING " lol..lol What is it about some women and shopping ??? they spend all day going around every shop trying on everything in every shop only to end up buying from the first shop they went into lol..lol

Well we will just have to see how good a guide I am and how long the English weather will behave itself

OK !! so I am not the most active blogger known to man but does that mean I have nothing to say ??

I would prefer to say that I have far too much to say and not enough time or maybe the skills to say it

As for the time to sit and vent my thoughts on a blog thats a different story all together as my brain is normally fried by the time I have completed a 12 to 15 hour day on the highways and by ways of Britain trying to avoid all the other metal boxes with wheels that seem to think they are the only one on the road.

I have no idea where to start with issues that have crossed my path this week alone!! Tax is driving me mad, memebers of various parliments we have here are once again, to no one's suprise, being caught ripping the country off with their expence claims as it would seem now that not only are we paying for our prime ministers sky TV we are paying for childcare for the for another MP because on occations her nanny has answered a phone call or picked up the mail on the door step!!

Big Brother has appeard on TV once again for the 9 series or something. Can anyone please tell me the point ?? its total rubbish that cloggs up a TV channel for the best part of 3 months !! Just how sad do you have to be to appear on such a crap programme and just how sad a life do you need to get addicted to watching it ??

The Human Rights Act. This week here in the town where I live we had to move a prisoner from one court to another as he was in the wrong court. This was a distance of approx 200 metre's but because meant crossing a road and the prisoner would have to be handcuffed they had to divert a prison van 150 miles to move him as it would have been against his human rights to be seen in public with in handcuff's !!! they could not put him in a police car as " its not the police's job to transfer prisoners" even though the court he was going to is part of the main Police station in town This cost us local tax payers a fortune all to keep these political correctness morons happy.

European Cup Finals .. we have no national teams playing in these finals so why the hell are we getting 2 live matches a day or something ?? there is not enough good programming on TV as it is!! I am sure that they could have put these games on a pay per view channel or something and not on the BBC where once again tax payers money is being wasted on football matches that mean nothing to us. But we do have national Rugby teams playing in New Zealand and south Africa on tours but if we want to watch them we have to pay !!! ( OK I admit I hate football and love Rugby )

Right I am off to connect up my new toy ( DVD player ) this could take some time as with all men I will be attempting this task without the aid of the instruction provided as that how we " MEN" do such things

After another 60+ hour week its nice to switch off and recharge in the sunshine of what might be the weekend we have our summer !!

Well it was April last year when we had a week or so of great,hot weather followed by a very very dissapointing summer or did we just skip summer and move into autum/winter ?? and be warned the same people that forecast a long hot summer followed by a very dry and very cold winter last year and we got the opposite are at it again for this summer so I would stock up on wet weather gear and spend that little bit extra on a holiday with the chance of more sunshine

Have you ever had a programme about your job on TV and sat there thinking "who are they talking about on here !? " well I had one of those moments a few weeks ago watching a programme on truck drivers. On the programme the presenter kept on about the "high" pay of british truck drivers being the reason there are so many eastern european drivers causing mayhem on our roads.

Please allow me enlighten you on truck drivers pay. I am an agency driver and have not had a pay rise since coming back to driver nearly three years ago. Yes I can earn £30,000 plus a year if I work my ass off doing all the legal hours I am offered but at what cost to the rest of my life ?? How many of you would want to work 60+ hours every week ?? OK the money is good if you do the hours as a driver but not so hot if you do not get the hours. The unseen cost that no one see's is that if you are working 12 to 15 hours a day getting up every morning at 3am there is no time for a social life or almost anything other than sleep during the week and at the weekends I am so tired and worn out that I do not want to put the effort into thinking and need to rest mind and body to start it all over again on Monday. Before returning to driving for a living I used to go out to salsa clubs a couple of times a week but that has now had to stop so despite not wanting it to, driving has turned into a way of life not a job.

Next time you curse a big lorry/ truck as its noisy and smelly and blocking up the roads just stop and think about what you need to live and to have fun and then think how it got to your shops or into your life and then think how it got there if not on a truck at one point

Well another very long week at work. 6 days again this week and nearly 70 hours once again.

You know we in Britain work longer hours than almost anyone else in Europe. We pay more tax than most in Europe and we pay more for everything we need than most countries in the world.

We are known the world over as " Rip-off Britain! " and with good reason as the major players in the market place know they can get much more for their good here than anywhere else and we still let them get away with it.

Examples are being shown on how we get ripped off all the time. This week there was a programme on TV proving once again that most of our electrical good such as TV, computers etc are much cheaper in the US as was shown in one example where it would be cheaper to fly to New York for the weekend and buy a top end laptop, pay the tax when you got it back here and still have money left over from the money you would have spent buying the same laptop here !!!

It does not stop there though.. its the same with our clothes and womens make-up, purfumes, sports goods,cars and increasingly our food.

OK we can all do without expensive toys maybe but we can not do without energy to heat our homes and that too we are being ripped off for. Fuel bills for the home have shot up and we are told this is because the cost of the gas and oil are going up all the time and the companies have no choice but to pass on those increases !!?? But how can that be true when for a period last year when they opened a new gas pipeline in to Britain and the gas was being given away to the companies as they had so much of it we saw no decrease in our heating and cooking bills but a massive rise in the profits of the energy providers ???

This rip-off of Britain has been an open secret to the world for decades now and still we have to suffer whilst our own government does nothing. OK they set up commities and agencies to "monitor" and " regulate" the energy companies but these are toothless lions that do nothing much but hand out fines now and then that have no effect on the compamies they fine as they have the power just to pass such fines straight onto us.

So next time you get a chance to ask your MP a question try asking him/her what they are doing about " Rip-off Britain " and see if they have an answer ?? I am betting they don't !!!

So lets look at today !!

I woke up to thick frost on the windscreen of the car ( winter ) I have spent most of the day working outside in my shirt-sleeves with the sun burning my face and arms at times ( summer ) and ended the day getting soaking wet whilst unloading in Leicester ( Autum/Spring ish )

Or can this all be explained by global cooling followed by global warming with global wetting thrown in as something new that should keep the tree hungers busy for a while trying to decide what to protest about next lol..lol

Well I live to fight another day and at least every day is a little different and the weather keeps us Brits busy with something to talk about