Category Winner
Photo: John Miller
As truckers, we go through many cities, towns & villages. We also go through some of the most scenic routes our lands have to offer. Here is a pic a took when I parked up going through the Breckon Beacons national park. Parked up in time for sunset, and there and ready for sunrise the next morning.
Judges' remarks - Besides a beautiful view of Wales’s Breckon Beacon, the photo and text show life on the road, sleeping in laybys – often without services – but sometimes offering sunrise vistas.
A view from a layby on the A890 in the Highlands of Scotland, on my way cutting across from East to West to deliver post and parcels. Stopped to pour myself a coffee after a 3:30am alarm to wake up to go to work. 5am start. Snapped this shot to show the view from the cab. The views are amazing but don't often have time to take it all in, as some of the route is single track road and you have to have your wits about you, especially during tourist season. Having breaks in scenic places is a great perk of the job. View of Loch Gowan.
Photo: James Gregory
This was in the middle of no where in Scotland between Achnasheen and Oban, a place with roads barely as wide as a truck that are single tracks for about 30 miles, a place most people would never see with any job even most driving trucks. 40 miles from the nearest civilisation.
Photo: Hayden Weastell
This was one of my preferred routes that I was assigned to fairly infrequently. Delivering from our depot in Kent to supermarkets on the Isle of Wight. Most of our deliveries tended to be to supermarkets in London or at least within the M25. Rather less scenic and certainly more stressful than the Isle of Wight. Understandably there was usually some competition for these jobs. Not so many people wanted to do them when there was strong winds or when the Isle of Wight festival was taking place. I did not decline the offer in any circumstances but as a result sometimes had to sleep in the lorry on the return leg of the journey, where ferry crossings were overbooked or delayed, sometimes cancelled. All part of the dubious delights of driving a lorry. It was not often that I was first onto the ferry and I have always enjoyed watching the bow doors opening prior to disembarkation. They tend to be quite jerky in operation and do not move in tandem. I had regularly driven to continental Europe with previous employers but that was years before the invention of smart phones with decent photographical abilities. That meant that my photos from those days are blurred, out of focus and faded snapshots, digital cameras incorporated in your phones are such a boon.
Photo: Tom Clother
Summer 1981. Weekended in BUDAPEST, HUNGARY. Sunday lunchtime ,enjoying a pint, after cooking a nice meal for myself in the cab of my MERCEDES 1632 . Outside HOTEL WEIN. Later joining my other UK drivers for more cheap ( 10 Forints) beer. Now retired since 2003. I have many interesting photos, storys and cine film of my days as an HGV 1 driver.
Photo: Stuart Sugden
This photo was taken on the first day of my first driving job. Having taken my C+E test two months previously in an automatic artic, my first day of work was in a manual rigid HIAB lorry with rear steering. Whilst my boss took a turn driving, I looked in the mirror, saw a tall ship and I realised that the world of lorry driving was much more diverse than I had anticipated. @Sharpness Docks
Photo: Chloë Brooks
I work nights, this give me the privilege of seeing magnificent sunrises and sunsets. On this occasion, I'd taken a 15 minute break on my way to the next job. I just happened to look out of the window and see I'd parked up next to one of the lakes in Cumbria without realising it and was lucky enough to see the sun setting behind it. This was a photo opportunity I'd never normally get in a 9 to 5 office job!
Photo: John Harvey