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This week's topics on TruckNet UK range from guaranteed pass/job training offers to memories of 'coffin cabs'. Rikki Chequer, community manager of the popular drivers' website, draws the threads together.
Training companies were the subject of a full and frank discussion in the New and Wannabe Drivers forum this week. A number of users warned that many of the 'guaranteed pass/job deals around are not that good; they advise lookIng at all the schools closely to compare what is offered.
Veterans in the Old Timers forum are swapping tales of 'coffin cabs' and Jennings sleepers; some of them actually seem to have enjoyed the experience.
Discussion of the week is in the Professional Drivers forum, based on one driver's tale of how his company's drivers are ignored by one of its subcontractor's employees to the point that other drivers are turning their backs on them as they walk pastbecause the company has dared to take more work in-house.
Comments such as 'sad", "pathetic" and "childish" abound on this thread.
One user says: "Thought you had to be 21 to drive LOVs -obviously not at To see who the comments are directed towards, and to have your say, join all the debates at www.TruckNetUK.com