Casedriver
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Hi Guy's a few of you will know me as Casedriver on the old forum did a bit of this and that ran a Menzi for a bit great machine but am not convinced the UK plant industry is ready for it or ever will be they just can't put it in a nice box like a conventional machine and try getting a risk assessment to dangle on a wire rope past a major civils contractor more chance of platting piss
Anyway as many will know life as an owner operator isn't a smooth and easy path all day in machine all night on quotes RAMS Safety and Environmental policies VAT accounts the list goes on so when the opportunity came to go operating a Menzi for someone else came up with van pension phone laptop expenses I took it and sold up . As it turned out it was a massive mistake I didn't fit it the company and despite supposedly being there to bring experience it was a very closed shop and their ways and mine are very different. Things couldn't go on as they were and I moved on to join the Team at WM plant and its chalk and cheese great team and am back to enjoying work, Will I ever stop missing having my name on the side of the machine? Probably not ! Do I switch of as soon as I get in the van and go home ? No still think about the job 24/7 I think its called giving a sh@
Would I go back to paddling my own boat? I honestly think it would take a miracle I take my hat of to any owner operator out there but in my opinion your days in lots of cases are numbered the hoops many have to jump through are just so big and so many you cant compete with the mass fleets ?
I will probably look in now and again and pop up an odd picture but not my place or platform to go into any great details of what we do and the finer points on the machines.
Anyway as many will know life as an owner operator isn't a smooth and easy path all day in machine all night on quotes RAMS Safety and Environmental policies VAT accounts the list goes on so when the opportunity came to go operating a Menzi for someone else came up with van pension phone laptop expenses I took it and sold up . As it turned out it was a massive mistake I didn't fit it the company and despite supposedly being there to bring experience it was a very closed shop and their ways and mine are very different. Things couldn't go on as they were and I moved on to join the Team at WM plant and its chalk and cheese great team and am back to enjoying work, Will I ever stop missing having my name on the side of the machine? Probably not ! Do I switch of as soon as I get in the van and go home ? No still think about the job 24/7 I think its called giving a sh@
Would I go back to paddling my own boat? I honestly think it would take a miracle I take my hat of to any owner operator out there but in my opinion your days in lots of cases are numbered the hoops many have to jump through are just so big and so many you cant compete with the mass fleets ?
I will probably look in now and again and pop up an odd picture but not my place or platform to go into any great details of what we do and the finer points on the machines.
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