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
