kb33

Nah ..... Life wouldn't be the same without BT




















Once you learn to ignore him....

Big Truck

1.You don't need telling how crap they are yet your still going to travel half way around the world to give it a try?!!!!!!!
2. I have REPEATEDLY said bad things about OTR trucking (NOT the whole Canadian trucking experience) because I know them to be TRUE!!!!!!!
3.In my spare time? I take it you can't get internet access at work then?!!!!
4.Since "coming back" I went back to my £38k/year full time job and started a trucking business in 2004 which turned over a £24k profit last year with one truck!!!!

Lorna_D

Then you are very lucky! My OH did not earn £24k and he used to leave the house on a Sunday to be in NI by Monday morning as well as the other runs he had all over England and Wales throughout the week, his working hours and driving hours we always to the limit.

I don't want to enter into a banter about wages but am just stating from my experience as the wife of a lorry driver that he doesn't earn good money. he earns regular money and gives his all in the job. he was lucky to work for the same company for 14 years which was a safe job, only england and wales, factory was just up the road so didn't need transport. he has been with his current company 2 years, he likes it, its local - but, we have grown up children, no mortgage and a thirst to try pastures new. We own our own house next to rented property that are filled with drug addicts by the landlord. he can sleep at night he doesn't live close....

to be honest I don't want to finish this post as it means it may be consrued as moaning and that's not what its about. The world is a big place, there are places to see and people to meet, we have buried a few friends in the last 3 years all younger than us - this changes your outlook on life......... well in our case anyway. Please please keep the posts constructive.

andy_sheila

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4.Since "coming back" I went back to my £38k/year full time job and started a trucking business in 2004 which turned over a £24k profit last year with one truck!!!![/quote]

Would you care to break down the figures for us (as i did) so we can try and pick holes in them (as you did with mine) or is it just "internet bs boasting" ?
Just the basics will do, ie. miles covered, cost of fuel, fuel used, maintainance costs, insurance etc etc

kb33

< Pulls up chair , Opens popcorn and waits for show to begin >

Lorna_D

room for a little one, I've got my own whiskey

Big Truck

The basic's:
Truck payment £465/month (over 3 years)
All insurances £400/month
Fuel approx £1600/£1800 month (currently 62ppl in Eire)
Servicing/tyres etc £400/month
Truck gross approx £1800/£2200 a week
You do the math!!!

P.S. For that I'm on the weighbridge at 5.30am and "pull the plug" 3.30/4.30pm 5 days/week and maybe the odd Sat morning and you all wonder why I'm so negative about going OTR (long haul) in Canada!!!!!!

kb33

NO... I wonder why you come on here at all !!!!!!!!!

Big Truck

Do me a favour,
Stop following me around like a bad smell!!!!!!!:curse:

I think the score is:
Soothsayers 1
Rose tinted glasses brigade 0

kb33

Erm ... I come on here to find all about Trucking /Living in Canada , And because I am flying out there Sunday. What your excuse ??

Plus this is by far the best entertainment I've had in months


Sad I know ..

Gremmie

A fox smells his own hole !!!!!!!

andy_sheila

My 3 yr old daughter could have come up with those figures, they mean nothing without basic details like where you haul to and from, weekly mileage, what truck (must be a toyota pick-up for 465 p/m) etc

p.s. soothsayer means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soothsayer not bullshi##ing, depressive doom merchant, the words i think you mean't to insert there was lieing idiot, even then you got the score wrong.

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Gremmie

I think the score is:
Soothsayers 1
Rose tinted glasses brigade 10

Game set and match to thee Rose tinted glasses brigade

CHRISRICHES

Er, I did the math - £465 a month Truck payment, total of £16,740 total payment for 3 years. I'll have a few of those please - my FH's depreciate more than that - unless Big Truck is actually a van????? and fuel average of £1700 a month :

£1700 divided by 62ppl = 2742 ltrs a month
2742 x 12 (months) = 32904 divided by 52 (weeks) as you have quoted monthly against weekly prices = 633 ltrs a week
633 ltrs / 139 gal x 8 (mpg approx?) = 1112 miles a week /1779 kms

So unless your vehicle is REALLY fuel efficient, or you dont cover many miles a week?

Liked this too:
costs 465+400+1700+400 = 2965 a month x 12 divide by 52 = £621 a week
£2000 (average gross income) - £621 = £1379 profit a week x 52 = £71708 profit a year.

£71708 a year profit based on your cost's, but you said £24000 profit - so only about £47,000 out somewhere................

Big Truck

If you really are that interested go to the O/D's forum at www.trucknetuk.com and look for my posts!!!!!!!!
It is a 2003 6x2 truck "chipped" to 475hp and I'm paying £465/month and at the end of the 3 years its mine,not like your $2350/month one where after fives years of paying that you hand it back!!!!!!!!
That Peterbilt 359 of yours that does 7/8mpg and uses $2000 fuel/month hauling tyres,I've a few O/O friends of mine in the lower 48 who need to know your truck spec's as they want to order 10 new ones each!!!!!!!

Score now 2-0