madtrucker

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

OK !! hands up all of you that have been enjoying some warm spring days recently only to wake up to a covering of snow this morning ??? I know that talking about the weather is a national past-time here but come on nature get your act together !! we go to all the trouble of changing our clocks last weekend and you give us SNOW!! April showers we expect, no problem we can deal with that but now you are taking the joke too far after a "White Easter" !!

So brace yourselves Britain as you know the government will not look this gift horse in the mouth and come up with a " Spring Snow " tax of some sort as we have caused this climate change as we do not pay enough "green" tax already and you know they must be running sort of a few quid to pay for all the expences they are claiming !!!

For anyone out there that in the past has read any of my blogs and has been wondering where I have gone ?? the answer is nowhere!! I can just not get my blogs accepted on here for whatever reason ?? Blog UK seems to chew them up and then spit them out so the lack of blog has not been from the want of trying I promise