Category: Road Life

London driving

Insha Allah I’m about to start my fourth week of proper work, something I have not had certainly since the middle of last year. Insha Allah this means I should be able to do...

A trip to Ipswich

Yesterday I got the call from my agency that I was to take a truck from a certain truck hire firm with a base in north-west London up to Ipswich. My boarding school, of...

Another driving fiasco

I was going to call this a disaster, until I realised that disaster implies a lot more than the minor inconvenience I suffered today. You can call your wedding party a disaster if a...

My own driving peeves

I’m sure most of you reading this has read Saraji’s driving peeves on her blog – and yesterday on my first driving trip up town for a while I was reminded of a few...

Back on the wagons

I’ve just done two more days of driving trucks around – yesterday it was in a sort of anticlockwise circular tour of Surrey county, from Croydon to Weybridge, Egham, Woking, Guildford, then down to...