Anyone on here drive a truck for a living?

**Stylo** · 23rd January 2014, 17:30

Often wonder , looking at the number of trucks on the road , there's a lot of them

And, how many of the drivers ride a bike as well ?

Throwing it out there .. what are you driving and, what are you riding ?

**unstuck** · 23rd January 2014, 17:37

Do drive trucks, but is only one small part of my "living" now. Heaps of the truckies down here belong to the mates motorcycle club, and they mainly ride harleys. On the weekends if it is nice, of course.

**hayd3n** · 23rd January 2014, 18:24

m8s a truck driver and has a 04 cbr1000rr

**tri boy** · 23rd January 2014, 18:37

Used to be in the industry delivering sand/soil/rock etc.
Heaps of drivers ride. They are the ones who wave to you on sunny days as you approach them.

**tigertim20** · 23rd January 2014, 19:59

I drive trucks off and on, depending on the job Ive had at the time.
Anything from little chiller trucks to class 4 curtain siders and flatdecks / container trucks. depends what job needed doing on that particular day.
I ride an R1

**Scuba_Steve** · 23rd January 2014, 20:56

Used to drive a small truck, still rides the motorbikes

**fridayflash** · 23rd January 2014, 21:10

im class 5 and wanna drive a truck for a living.....anybody got a new or near new b-train i can paractise in

**dogsnbikes** · 23rd January 2014, 21:20

I feed alot truck drivers and alot of them ride
As for bikes its spread over a wide range of of makes but Japanese cruisers seem to be the most popular.

**rebel** · 23rd January 2014, 22:32

Had this Volvo. 460hp, slow as fuck. The only thing I passed were Jap shit. Had a gixxer thou at the time, now a Ducati 1098.
Not in the game now but will go back to it eventually. I either like being one of the quicker ones on the road (bike), or slower (40+ tonne). In saying that if I had a dollar for every fucking useless car driver that would hold me up - Northern end 65/75k corners of Desert Rd, Kaikoura Coast, SH2 South of Bombays, SH1 Plimmerton to Foxton, I'd be a rich man, so not always the slowest on the road.

Used to drive this around the Coromandel. Call me fucked but I found it just as enjoying as riding a sports bike around it. Best drive I've had. At times I used to take an 22m H permit quad axle semi there too, not ideal for Tairua Hill.

**Headbanger** · 24th January 2014, 00:44

Best cunts on the fucking road when your needing a bit of help.

**Grubber** · 24th January 2014, 07:02

Originally Posted by Headbanger

Best cunts on the fucking road when your needing a bit of help.

Been driving trucks or managing them for 30 plus years and have ridden bikes all that time.
Currently Transport Manager for a medium sized produce carrying company and i have 5 out of 15 permanent drivers all ride bikes and 4 of those all ride Triumphs, 1 Aprillia and 1 Honda VTR. Ok thats 6. Forgot about the Honda. Prolly a reason for that.

**Grubber** · 24th January 2014, 07:03

Originally Posted by Headbanger

Best cunts on the fucking road when your needing a bit of help.

Thanks! I'd like to think we aren't too bad.

**Scuba_Steve** · 24th January 2014, 07:31

Originally Posted by rebel

In saying that if I had a dollar for every fucking useless car driver that would hold me up - Northern end 65/75k corners of Desert Rd, Kaikoura Coast, SH2 South of Bombays, SH1 Plimmerton to Foxton, I'd be a rich man, so not always the slowest on the road.

Ah I remember the days when trucks were the slowest vehicles on the roads... Nowadays 95% of the time I'll get up past a truck just to find some idiot in a car holding everyone up

**Hitcher** · 24th January 2014, 10:00

Originally Posted by Stylo

Often wonder looking at the number of trucks on the road , there's a lot of them

And, how many of the drivers ride bike's as well ?

Throwing it out there .. what are you driving and what are you riding ?

I don't drive trucks for a living, but I use punctuation for a living. Gahh! Thud.