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rigid and artic driving

  • 04-02-2014 10:55pm
    #1
    Man on Fire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭


    Looking into a new career.. seen rigid driving and artic driving is there much of a difference


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  • #2
    Motor-Ed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭Motor-Ed


    Man on Fire wrote: »
    Looking into a new career.. seen rigid driving and artic driving is there much of a difference

    Yes
    You'll have to do rigid Lic first
    The Artic driving because you're pulling a separate trailer is different especially reversing.


  • #3
    Faith+1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Faith+1


    Wouldn't bother OP. All that time and investment only to earn 9 quid an hour??? You'd earn the same money sweeping the floor without the stress of driving a truck.


  • #4
    Moomat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Moomat


    Man on Fire wrote: »
    Looking into a new career.. seen rigid driving and artic driving is there much of a difference

    If you can drive a large van you'll be able for a rigid pretty quickly. Same idea eg blindspots, tail swing etc.. Some rigids have standard gearboxes like cars, others have a split box where you have the same slots but the serve 2 or more gears and increasingly they are coming as autos.

    Artic driving will take much more practice. The way a trailer reacts, whether it's being pulled by a car or a truck takes getting used to.

    As another poster pointed out the wages for standard driving jobs don't currently reflect the effort and cost of obtaining a license or the repsonsibilities of driving a large vehicle. I would recommend that if you are serious about it then try to find an area where a truck license is only 1 of the criteria and other skills are required for example mobile crane operators, heavy haulage/abnormal loads, recovery truck operator, office and home moving, traffic management etc
    Most will require extra tickets but will greatly increase your earning potential.


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