madtrucker

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

Why is it that I always have "good intentions" to make use of any free time I get and never seem to be able to follow through on them ??

Foe example, I had good intentions to get out and about this morning and do some shopping and look at some cars as I have been thinking of buying a new one. These good intentions turned into waking up at 3am and not being able to get back to sleep. ( 3am is my normal wake up time for work) This was followed by surfing the net for a while so at least I managed to look at some cars .. then I thought I would have a "sit" on the sofa and watch the rubiish morning TV .. the sun was shinning through the window and it was going to be a nice morning to be out

The "sit" turned into a sleep and morning into afternoon and the sunshine into rain and hail and all plans and intentions went out the window.. Guess I am what they call more an "ideas " type than the action type..lol..lol I often wish someone would put me up for one of those home make over shows so that all the great ideas I have would one day get done around here..lol..lol

Well there is always another day and more " great intentions " to come up with and you never know tomorrow might be the day I actually follow through on one or two

One of the worst things about my job is that I have to be up very early most mornings ( around 3 or 4am ) so find it almost impossible to not wake up early at the weekends the curse of the early morning worker lol..

I am not a massive sports fan, I have no interest in football, but I do love to watch Rugby and motorsport, mainly F1, so this weekend has been taken up with watching the final games of the Six Nations Rugby and a bonus to not being able to lay in at the weekend I watched the F1 race from Oz this morning in real time

It was great to see England turn up for the game against Ireland, shame they did not do the same last weekend against Scotland and well done to Wales beating France and winning the title and the Grandslam !! England played very poorly this year only really playing the game we know they have against France and Ireland but Wales were head and shoulders above the rest and have a deserved title win.

Big thanks go out to the F1 organisers for taking aways some of the toys the drivers have enjoyed over recent years such as traction control and made the drivers have to work for a living to race the cars instead of just being there to steer the car around the track

For those unsure of what I speak about, over the past years technoligy has taken over many of the skills the old time race drivers had to have. The modern cars had traction control to make it easier to use the massive power of the cars without losing control and launch controls to make getting the car off the start line without spinning the wheels and many other driver aids to make the drivers job so much easier and making the car more the star than the driver in it in my opinion.

So what for the rest of Sunday ??? well a singl mans work is never done lol. so I have laundry and cleaning to do ( yes men can do such things on their own ) and as the weather is rubbish I will be happy to be inside for the day and can even watch the replay of the Grand Prix later hope Lewis Hamilton wins again lol..lol

Hello again Blogland !!

I have no idea what to say most of the time as you might have noticed with the lack of blogs !!

There is so much going on around me in this world of ours that I get so mad and then do not know where to start.

I have had a very very long week at work ( almost 70 hours )and it would seem "care in the community" for the mentally ill does extend to the roads of our fair country lol..lol I am still amazed daily at just how bad the standards of driving is and believe me its getting worse !!! Driving a truck for a living is bad enough with the amount of hassle we get from the job without other road user's seemingly not able to see us or using us for target practise. I could have written off at least 20 cars/vans this week sending their drivers to hospital or worse had I not taken avoiding actions such as slamming my brakes on which is not an easy or safe thing to do in a 44 ton truck.

No wonder that HGV truck driving is in the top 3 most stressed jobs in the UK.

Then we have our wonderful government having their budget statement on Wednesday.

Once again hammering the common folk and handing all the good things in live to those with the money which seem's increasingly to be those in our government with daily outing of our politions and the way they are stealing money from us using their " expense's" to feather their nests. Now we find out that they can claim not only for a second home but for everything they put in that "second" home !! such as £10,000 for a kitchen and having to penny pinch with mere £300 for a rug, each that is !!! You know I think its the least we can do for these poor people that we force into becoming politions, hey !! maybe we should extend this process to all workers that have to commute to work I am sure I could find a place in whatever home I have for a £750 TV or £750 music system such as our beloved polititions can claim for.

As for the budget, well lets see what our party of the common people did for us all. Beer and wine etc up in tax, smoking up in tax, nice cars up in tax, holiday flights up in tax in fact all the things we work hard for as working class people is being put further and further out of our reach and that does not include all the high prices we have now on food and home energy stuff such as gas and electricity.

So its no longer worth working your socks off to get that nice big car of your dreams as you might be able to buy it some day but you will not be able to afford to run it afterwards unless you are one to the rich that support the government with their money and get tax breaks for doing so and are not effected by fuel and road tax increases. The same goes for all the other things fun in life like a good night out and maybe a nice holiday. So who are those in parliment really looking out for as its not the common man as we are the one's being hammered by one tax after another on the every day things we need just to live.

You know I would not mind if we saw something back for all the money that is being ripped from our pay packets and pockets other than reading how those doing it are living the high life claiming massive amounts of our money for themselves for a job the asked to do !! now we know why as they have to do very little whilst making a fortune and then when they are finished doing that they get a pension that would support half a dozen pensioners and all for maybe 5 years in parliment.

I have been reminded again this week of just how lazy we all are here in the UK when it comes to other languages.

We all love our holiday's and chatting to people around the globe on the net as long as we can do it and still speak English !! ( No talking louder and slowly in English does not count as another language ) and of course we expect on the whole to have "British " food and drink to hand.

I think we owe alot of our laziness to history, the "British Empire" etc where we used to "rule" half the world or maybe other parts of history like the two World Wars where the bad guys spoke German and the good guys largely English ( yes American counts as English ) The rest I would put down to TV !! most of the good TV programmes around the world are in English so there is a good incentive for the kids to learn and I think learning from your favorite TV programme has to be better than the French lesson's I had a school.

Cyclists !! ("every truck driver should have one to aim at") There was a radio programme this week with some moron of a cyclist say that truck drivers should have lesson on a bike as part of their driving test to make them more aware of cyclists problems on our roads.

Let see here. As a class one truck driver I had to sit a car driving test, a class two truck driving test and finally a class one driving test to get to where I am now. Every company I have driven for I have had to take a driving test both written and on the road to be able to drive for that company. The last time I looked all I had to do was buy a bike to become a cyclist ??

Lets look at this another way.

The truck I drive is nearly 9 feet wide and 14 feet high and pulls a 45 foot trailer behind it. It has lights and even flashing things called "indicators" to let other road users know what it wants to do, so I think you will agree its a bit hard to miss when its out on the road.

A cyclist is what, between 4 and 6 feet high ? maybe a couple of feet wide, sometimes has lights on it and requires you to be a mind reader most of the time to stand any chance of knowing what they will do next !!

So who do you think is easier to see ?? the trucks on the roads or the cyclists ?? and who is the easier to avoid ??? Enough said I think .. if you can clearly see something that can easily kill you why would you want to mess with it by riding up its blind side or trying to "slip" past it as it tries to turn left ??

I am not sorry to be back to ranting about poor driving etc on our roads !!

I want to talk about those paining the ass rent-a-cops we now have sleeping on our motorways !!

For those unsure about what I am going on about, a while back our wonderful government, once again after spending millions on "research ", came up with a replacement for the great job the motorway police where doing here in Britain by introducing their own version without using policemen. These guys ride around in big "look alike" police type 4x4's and can be found sleeping along side most motorways these day's. The idea was to free up the Police to do other things and we were told that these guys main job was to keep our the traffic moving on our roads.

Well if any government people are reading this YOU HAVE FAILED !!! these giys are a pain in the ass and do a crap job and cause more problems than they solve. Examples !! where as we truck drivers used to get our tyres changed on the side of the road if we got a flat without too much of a fuss, these days the rent-a-cops turn up and all but close the motorway to do the same job !!causing delays and the hold ups they promised us these guys would stop !! Yesterday on the M25 there was a smash with everything on the hard shoulder. The rent-a-cops turned up and instead of keeping the traffic flowing on a Friday afternoon rush hour they ignored all but the filling in of their forms and building their little cone empire on the hard shoulder allowing traffic to back up for approx 6 miles for over 3 hours due to rubber neckers slowing down to see what was going on !!!great job boys !!!

You know if he government concentrated on sorting rubber neckers out as they do people having to speed to make up time due to " rent-a-cop " delays or rubber neckers trying to see if there is any blood etc the roads would flow much easier than they do.

As you might guess for yourself I did not have a great day on the roads yesterday, what with rent-a-cops and poeple trying to kill themselves by cutting up a 44 ton truck doing 56 miles an hour or the moron doing 50 mph on the motorway and still slammed his brakes on when he saw a police car on the hard shoulder !!

why oh why do people go on motorways if they are unable to do a minimum of 60 mph ?? you know you are safer driving on a motorway if you maintain at least 60mph where possible ..

Here are a couple of tips from a truck driver on how to be safer on the roads..

Trucks are restricted to 56 mph. So if you being passed by lots of trucks you are driving too slowly for your own safety.

When a truck is catching up quickly with a truck infront of him and has the indicators on it means he needs to overtake !! not that he needs you to slowly try to overtake him making him brake so he does not run in to the back of the truck infront !!!

And for the last time poeple !!! when you come down the on ramp to a motorway it does not mean that everyone has to move out of your way to allow you on the motorway .. it is up to you to alter your speed to get on to the motorway without causing others to alter their speed or direction !!! and you have to be prepared to continue along the hard shoulder if your run out of on ramp before you can safely join the motorway !!

OK !! Not written much for a while, then again no one seems that interested in what I write good job its all about saying what you want to say on here and not so much about what others think and say about it

So whats rolling around in my brain today ??

I think there is slight confusion with whats going on with the weather for this time of year .. I get up in the morning and have to scrap ice from the car windscreen so I can put my sunglasses on to drive to work in the sunshine

Thats not the only thing that seems to be going mad in this world of ours !! I think it might be for the best if we continue to invest in space travel so we can find another planet to send all these morons too now Australia is full and sending their mad ones here !! lol..lol

Political Correctness is running wild and is almost neck and neck with Health and Safety in the worlds gone mad stakes .. When did life become so difficult ?? I do not remember any of this "PC" or "H&S" rubbish when I was a kid and the world seemed a much safer and nicer place to be and a dam sight simpler to boot. There are so many people telling us whats good and whats not and how we should and should not lead our lives that there is no time to have a life by the time you have checked out everything to make sure you are not breaking some law or rule in trying to have some fun. Then again just think how high the unemployment level would be if all these PC and H&S people were not working so hard "helping " us have "better" lives ??

Morning all !!

So the England Rugby team can play in the first half of a match at last !!! shame they forgot there was a second half and where soundly beating by a welsh club team yesterday. Hey !! we are used to such things here in England as we invented most of the worlds team sports, taught everyone how to play and the rules and now let them beat us at the games as its the English way it would seem lol..

OK I know its only a game but when you look at it do you not think something is going wrong here that we want the Olympic's and the football World Cup etc to be played here but we really do not take our sports that serious and are content to import most of the top players and managers for our top flight sporting teams and will search through the centries to find some sort of birth connection to claim oversea's players as our own ?? and we wonder why our national teams find it increasingly hard to find world class home grown players.

So what else is going on in Madtrucker land ? Not a great deal at the moment as I am by nature some what of a lazy git when it comes to weekends Come to think about it I am a lazy git for most of the week too !!! but there is as always the laundry to do and as I am no longer in the flush of my youth I can not claim to believe that the laundry does itself (as I am sure all of you out there with teenagers know all about ) or that there is a washing up and cleaning the bathroom fairy !! mores the pity and as I have no wife or girlfriend for such things !! ( only kidding readers of the female kind ) and you know they say that "if you want a job doing right, get someone else in to do it" !! ( can't afford a cleaner ) so I am left with the mark one slave !! ME!! Then again I did spend the first 6 years or so of my working life in the Army and the saying there was that " God built the world in 6 days and on the 7th the Army cleaned it " but in my defence I left the Army in 1982.

Well a single mans work is never done !!! so I had best get on.

Well if I had a wife she would be a Rugby widow this weekend and for the next 7 ish !!

So whats got me thinking again this saturday ??

Well I still can not get past this obsession with fat and thin people .. How many times will we have to see fat people making excuses and wanting everyone to do everything for them so they can be thin without putting any effort in themselves.. and super thin people that are fashion vitims mainly reading all the crap they put in the mags about this or that is bad for you or you are unable to eat wheat or dairy. The Super fat super thin show proved all you have to do is change your diet and you will gain or loose weight. The woman that was supr thin and thought she was allergic to everything and anything was proved that she could eat almost anything and suprise suprise eating nomally she gain weight slowly and looked and felt a lot better.. the super fat person changed his diet and if by magic he lost 4.5 stone in 12 weeks and without an operation in sight. Maybe the 34 stone woman in her own show should maybe stop making excuses and look at what others do for themselves instead of demanding an operation to do what she could do herself if she was not so lazy.

Before anyone gets on a higher horse than me .. I have lost 5kgs in just over 2 weeks by cutting out comfort eating and sweets and dessert during the week and giving myself a treat at weekends.. no exercise, no expensive gym and no operations or pills, just simple diet changes.

I think that TV and diet shows in general are making the simple things in weight loss so much harder and giving so many people an avenue to some sort of quick fix via an operation instead of working for what they want.

Well I guess they blame fast food for the problem and now expect us via the NHS to give them the fast fix.

This week has been very thought prevoking going through some of the blogs posted recently.

So what have I been reading .. Well the subjects have been very varied ranging from globel warming to sign language and from views on the way women are looked at by both sex's and the simple everyday things we go through in our lives and want to share with others.

Opening windows into other people's lives can sometimes make us look at our own lives and also look inwards at our own thoughts and reaction to others opinions and wehther we agree or totally disagree with what is written the result is the same, it makes you think!

I have often been accused of not being able to compromise on other's opinions etc .. But could that just be that I am very happy to listen to others opinions but not always willing to agree with them ?? Two different views on the same subject seen from two different sides, who is to say who is right ?? but wars have been fought over less.

Is it right that we treat deaf people as weird if they talk to eachother with their hands or is it that we just do not know what they are saying and not knowing is the fear factor that makes us want to laugh our fear away by making fun of people doing with their hands and eyes what we all take for granted by using our mouths and ears?? Where is it written that a woman with a smaller breast is less attractive or less of a woman than those with large breasts ? We all want to do things our own way but everyone else has to follow the crowd and conform to what " is the norm " or " how it should be " Why is it OK for a woman to have a career, vote, get drunk and have a great time and make a life for herself but she is a "slag" or "easy" or less of a female if she not a virgin for her wedding or enjoys sex just for the fun of it when a man is told its manly to go out and sow his wild oats and is a "good old boy" if he scores every night etc ..

Well I am rambling here and perhaps not making any sense or is that what blogs are all about ?? you get to air your views with no arguements coming back unless you wish to read them lol..lol

I once told a very good friend going through the worse time in their life after trying to kill themself that life is like a number of building blocks. We all build them up in different ways and sometimes those blocks fall down so we get pissed off but then we have to start and build them up again. We all have different ideas in the way we build our life blocks and have to do the best we can with the choices we make and the order we build the blocks. So be proud of your construction and never be afraid of standing by it, just feel sorry for those that store buy their blocks already built up in the order someone generations past designed for the sheep to follow.

Thinking is free ! thought cost nothing ! so before they find a way to tax it have a go !!! but keep the thinking about yourself and leave others to do their own thinking so that you have thoughts to share with them.