Today was a bad day for me chaps...I failed (quite spectacularly I may add) a DVLA ordered treadmill test at my local hospital. A complete failure, I was told by the doctor who carried out the test...and so that means only one thing. The loss of my HGV1 licence and the end to a nigh on forty year trucking career. I have but a few days to go whilst the DVLA process the hospital report and withdraw my licence, and then it's all over. No more persecuting the motorists on the highways of East Sussex, no more enjoying the views in my mirrors and monitors of queues of traffic crawling along behind me, no more driving up and down one way streets the wrong way and going around roundabouts the wrong way....I am doomed to life behind the wheel of puddle jumpers from now on.
So guys..if I've held you up in any way as you've passed through my patch, if you've been delayed because of me, if you've cursed that big orange mobile traffic calming device in front of the queue of traffic you are in, then I would like to take this opportunity to say to you all....tough!!! And I mean that from the heart of my bottom...
May you all drive in peace from now on...
Rich