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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

I hate it...

do you enjoy the time on the road or hate it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i don't mind it as i do 100 miles a day to earn me pennies.x

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"i don't mind it as i do 100 miles a day to earn me pennies.x"

when i did community care work i could cover 100miles but would be made up of smaller journeys.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's my job, I love it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i used to drive artics but found it really mind numbing. so got back into aircraft work. i enjoy my journey at the moment x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love a long drive...;-)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Love a long drive...;-)"

*Steps away from golfing puns...*

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

hate it,and come september im going to have to zip up and down to Hertfordshire every month

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love driving !!!!

Before I was made redundant in March, I drove 65000 miles a year o average.

My car was my whole world lol.....

Now I am doing about 100 miles a week !!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Driving is great you get to see all different parts of the country I drive 9 to 10hrs a day I'd rather sit behinde the wheel than sit at a desk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don't mind it ...... just wish all the other fekkrs would get off my road though.

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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago

In Your Bush

I do about 900 a week unfortunately the actual work hours go on top of that

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

As long as I have my music and R4 it's great - 1,000+ miles this weekend.

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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Love driving, hate traffic jams tho

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"As long as I have my music and R4 it's great - 1,000+ miles this weekend."

Absolutely, music LOUD! Phone off no-one can get to you and lose yourself in the moment, love a nice long drive.

I used to finish work about 6pm in Glasgow go eat dinner and then drive through the night home to Brighton with a couple of cans of red bull and Dire Straits on the CD player, one pee stop and about 8 hours later home to bed! Awesome

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I hate it...

do you enjoy the time on the road or hate it?"

Are you a lorry driver then? Never had you down as a bum hanging out the top of your trousers, muffin-bellied, greasy spoon cafe patron?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It's my job, I love it "

so where does your driving take you?

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By *r ManxMan
over a year ago

NeverWhere

I love it just back from a 1500 mile trip visiting mates but no meets

The longest was 6500 miles last year

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I should and do love it. My username says it all!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Driving used to be fun and enjoyable now its just an "occupational hazard"

Billy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I hate it...

do you enjoy the time on the road or hate it?"

No choice - clocked up nearly 40k miles last year - but have the joys of 'car-reoke' to keep me amused! Plus flirting with other drivers in traffic jams!

And travelling with work has allowed me to meet a lot of very nice people - for both fun and random coffee socials - so for me - the miles are well worth it!

Opens up all sorts of opportunities to meet people who live far away from home!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have done roughly 100k a year for the past 12 years, up & down to airports. Neither hate it or love it. When it all goes tits up, would be good to be a Buddhist, so you can get out of the car, sit on the roof, cross your legs and go..... OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM .......

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

well ive survived my 4 hour trip..

just lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love it so long as its only me in the car so I can play my kind of music full blast .

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By *ldestswingerintownMan
over a year ago

Lancaster

Actually thre's something rather romantic about driving on the Northern stretches of the M6 between about 1am and 5am (eg when I'm on my way home form a Manchester club). Watching the dawn come up over the Pennines is entrancing.

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By *ENDAROOSCouple
over a year ago

South West London / Surrey

I hate driving full stop.. ending up getting too stressed with other drivers

So gave it up - much happier now I have chauffeurs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


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Are you a lorry driver then? Never had you down as a bum hanging out the top of your trousers, muffin-bellied, greasy spoon cafe patron? "

As a long time truck driver I do hope that was an effort at humour Wishy....

I have been lucky enough to have driven trucks all over the Continent and even reached Asia (just) and still enjoy it. Done the high flying (literally) 'important' 'expense account' jobs and it nearly killed me but now I am back trucking I am a happy bunny. I do about 650Kms a shift and get all over the UK. There are some fabulous sites and lovely places here in the UK if you care to go and find them. As the lady above said...Have Music Will Travel....

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

lol no Wishy i'm not a lorry driver, was just a visit to my mum and brother in the midlands. Sadly the choice of music was nursery rhymes and audio kids stories to amuse little one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Long drives are fine if i'm looking forward to arriving and the clock isn't on the journey. Used to travel the length and breath of the country, not much fun when I had to do school runs as well, getting from a to b was a nightmare...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I normally do around 2500 miles a week or 130000 a year with my job. Think the record in one day probably stands at around 1300 miles on a 20 hour day, and even to do over 1000 a day is fairly regular as I drive all areas, from Wick to Truro.

Fortunately I tend to drive fast cars so I can hammer the time down by massive amounts most days, especially on nice roads such as the m74, m62 (Leeds to Hull, the other half is dogshit and always will be), m6 north of blackpool, m5 into the southwest, etc.

I do have phone calls flooding in while on the road, but other than that I hop between mp3 and radio 2. Radio 1 on the evenings when the cheese goes off and the decent basslines come on. It seems to cut the hours on the road psychologically in half.

And I find my job extremely advantageous for fab as the distance I can travel for a meet is around 500 miles...

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"lol no Wishy i'm not a lorry driver, was just a visit to my mum and brother in the midlands. Sadly the choice of music was nursery rhymes and audio kids stories to amuse little one.

"

where did you end up taking her while yo where there

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"lol no Wishy i'm not a lorry driver, was just a visit to my mum and brother in the midlands. Sadly the choice of music was nursery rhymes and audio kids stories to amuse little one.

where did you end up taking her while yo where there"

West Mids Safari, Warwick (not the castle) spent the day around the town, St Nicholas's park feeding ducks, swans etc, went to Saxon Mills (water mill) and various play parks around Rugby which she was amused with for hours at a time. They were so much bigger than our towns tiny ones

Warwick is a gorgeous town btw,, love all the Tudor buildings

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire


"lol no Wishy i'm not a lorry driver, was just a visit to my mum and brother in the midlands. Sadly the choice of music was nursery rhymes and audio kids stories to amuse little one.

where did you end up taking her while yo where there

West Mids Safari, Warwick (not the castle) spent the day around the town, St Nicholas's park feeding ducks, swans etc, went to Saxon Mills (water mill) and various play parks around Rugby which she was amused with for hours at a time. They were so much bigger than our towns tiny ones

Warwick is a gorgeous town btw,, love all the Tudor buildings "
warwick is lovly jay lives 6 miles from it

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

theres a massive roundabout just outside it that ive nicnamed 'Kammakazi Island'

5 lanes entering it at one point

im a country girl and not used to such big roundabouts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I love it just back from a 1500 mile trip visiting mates but no meets

The longest was 6500 miles last year "

u did 6500 miles for a meet - WOW

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I normally do around 2500 miles a week or 130000 a year with my job. Think the record in one day probably stands at around 1300 miles on a 20 hour day, and even to do over 1000 a day is fairly regular as I drive all areas, from Wick to Truro.

Fortunately I tend to drive fast cars so I can hammer the time down by massive amounts most days, especially on nice roads such as the m74, m62 (Leeds to Hull, the other half is dogshit and always will be), m6 north of blackpool, m5 into the southwest, etc.

I do have phone calls flooding in while on the road, but other than that I hop between mp3 and radio 2. Radio 1 on the evenings when the cheese goes off and the decent basslines come on. It seems to cut the hours on the road psychologically in half.

And I find my job extremely advantageous for fab as the distance I can travel for a meet is around 500 miles..."

I am quite amazed you felt it was OK to put that in writing.

Remind me to be somewhere else when you are endangering other road users like me when you are:

Hammering down public roads in fast cars.

Overtired because you have had no sleep for 20 hours.

And answering all your very important phone calls.

It is bad enough that you do this but just unbelievable that you think it is perfectly OK to brag about it on a public forum.

Sorry if this a tad blunt but I daily see idiots like you making our roads more dangerous for people like me.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I love it just back from a 1500 mile trip visiting mates but no meets

The longest was 6500 miles last year "

I have flown to USA twice now to meet Swing friends over there. Driving was not an option ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I normally do around 2500 miles a week or 130000 a year with my job. Think the record in one day probably stands at around 1300 miles on a 20 hour day, and even to do over 1000 a day is fairly regular as I drive all areas, from Wick to Truro.

Fortunately I tend to drive fast cars so I can hammer the time down by massive amounts most days, especially on nice roads such as the m74, m62 (Leeds to Hull, the other half is dogshit and always will be), m6 north of blackpool, m5 into the southwest, etc.

I do have phone calls flooding in while on the road, but other than that I hop between mp3 and radio 2. Radio 1 on the evenings when the cheese goes off and the decent basslines come on. It seems to cut the hours on the road psychologically in half.

And I find my job extremely advantageous for fab as the distance I can travel for a meet is around 500 miles...

I am quite amazed you felt it was OK to put that in writing.

Remind me to be somewhere else when you are endangering other road users like me when you are:

Hammering down public roads in fast cars.

Overtired because you have had no sleep for 20 hours.

And answering all your very important phone calls.

It is bad enough that you do this but just unbelievable that you think it is perfectly OK to brag about it on a public forum.

Sorry if this a tad blunt but I daily see idiots like you making our roads more dangerous for people like me.

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I do believe in some respects I've been misunderstood. For one, regarding phone calls, which are part and parcel of my job (if I was uncontactable I would not be performing said job role efficiently at all)I take all calls using bluetooth, which is quite legal and indeed acceptable. I have a mortgage to pay so to be fair when weighing up whether someone gets offended like you clearly do at my quite legally using a bluetooth device whilst driving I couldn't give two shits if I'm honest.

I also don't constantly hammer cars for all they are worth and take other road users into account when considering my speed. On the m74 at half four in the morning for example I am often the only car within sight, meaning within a couple of miles. I can understand completely however if you wish to do the entire journey at 65 mph in a car and don't begrudge you that.

As for my being tired, this is often true, however I am quite often working in tandem with other drivers where we can split the driving between us. I didn't mention this in my previous post so with respect to this post at least you can be forgiven for a good rant.

Finally, at no stage did I brag about anything. The circumstances of my job are what they are, as is my musical taste. The fact I can meet in wider areas is a bonus, but again down to my job, not any trait I possess positive or otherwise.

Just thought I'd clear that lot up as I know all to well how easy it can be at times to jump to conclusions and fire off accordingly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I hate it...

do you enjoy the time on the road or hate it?"

Depends what you call long distance. I love to drive.. I do a lot of miles a year and think nothing of visiting master for just lunch when we are apart and that's nearly 450mile round trip for lunch lol

Cali

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By *irtydanMan
over a year ago

Blackpool

great photo sassy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Always let hubby drive so i don't have to put up with him telling me how to drive.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"great photo sassy "

lol felt the need to show my toofy pegs after the minging teeth thread lol

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

A couple of years ago I was driving 60-80 miles a day as well as field work. Not much by normal standards I`ll agree but bear in mind this was in a tractor travelling at 20 mph through seaside towns and fast A roads during the hight of summer plus all of the added pressures of driving in schools and playing fields with all the dangers that entails. Not doing the distance so much now but I have an increasing urban workload which I find quite taxing. "Slightly" bumpy roads around housing estates are a nightmare when all the suspension you have is in the seat, parked cars outside of schools mean if you`re as much as five minutes late getting to a site, lengthy waits for access become the norm. If I have to go back to cover my old 80 mile hikes it seems like I`m on holiday!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Love it......

Cover around 75k per year in and around Europe, love to drive and listen to the music as scenery goes past....

Lol abliet sometimes have a driver laid on dependent on contract at the time, sit in back and relax.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love driving, gives me time alone, unless I'm on the phone.

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By *ovedupstillCouple
over a year ago

mullinwire


"I hate it...

do you enjoy the time on the road or hate it?

Are you a lorry driver then? Never had you down as a bum hanging out the top of your trousers, muffin-bellied, greasy spoon cafe patron? "

how very dare you throw us all into a small stereotype.

i NEVER go into a cafe!!!!

absolutely LOVE driving and am glad i have a job in which i get to do loads of it (average 400miles a day, between 12 an 15hours a shift) then a further 40 miles round trip to work.

love it.

radio 5 all night, with random skips to local radio, dependant on the area (kerrang in the midlands, jack fm around bristol and real xs around manchester)

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