Couldn't be bothered to wade through all the crap the authors of the linked site wrote, but the following suggestions stood out for me:

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o Novice drivers should not drive on motorways [because as soon as the "novice" title is removed after an arbitrary amount of time, one suddenly gains the ability to drive on motorways as if by magic]
• Novice drivers should be restricted in the size of engine they can drive [because nobody has EVER binned a 1.2 Clio]

• Brake should STFU.

There, fixed that for you.

Has this Camping guy commented on his epic fail yet or is he too busy crying into his cornflakes?

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if you like diesel locomotives then there's only one

Balls. It's this one (from 40secs):
High Speed Train

Is it the 70s Lotus F1 car with that JPS livery?

This happens just as the US election campaigning is starting to ramp up...? Hmm, alright...

Expensive? Maybe too high for your budget, but can you find another similarly specced machine for the same money?

http://www.medion.com/gb/elect ... s&utm_term=30011839A1

Bargain. Probably what I'd buy to replace my 3 year old Dell XPS. Battery life is probably around 3hr, but buy another battery!

EDIT: Holy crap, that Asus looks good. Is it available over here?

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You had me thinking "not another red Miata". This was .. a suprise.

Oi, what's wrong with red Miatas?? (Apart from having to get the sill rust fixed and it eating headlight/sidelight/indicator bulbs every five minutes)

Are the physics still different for drifting than they are in normal races? I found the "arcadey/simple" drift physics in Shift harder than "proper" physics because they didn't make sense.

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Here insurance coverage for any harm causes to your self or another person in an accident is included in the yearly car registration fee..

If you want insurance for property damage you go through a private insurance company.

That sounds far too sensible to be true! How is the yearly fee decided though?

I have the HPI RS4 Micro Drift, the only "proper" 1:18 RC drift car at the time I bought it. They come prebuilt, don't know if they're still on sale though...

Not so my friend:

Intensive Flyingz

Remember you can get a pilot's licence in 3 weeks as well

The IAM box is ticked so that's one problem out of the way But yeah, not diminishing the extra effort it takes to learn blue light stuff.

Took a look on Enterprise Rental's site earlier - it doesn't list a salary for their driver jobs. How the **** is someone meant to make a decision about whether they want a job if the pay isn't listed? I'll never understand that...

Don't know if it's that hard in terms of driving ability if you've passed the IAM test - I think paramedics are trained to IAM standard + an additional "blue light" course?

Cheers for the replies, car moving/rental looks quite promising if the pay is alright.

Madcat: Over here we have a blood delivery service, the "Urgent" service involves a hot hatch and blue lights. Again tough to find openings.

Coleus: What job do you have, some kind of sales/account management? What you described (travelling, meeting clients etc) also seems intriguing but it seems difficult to find a job which involves driving simply because one wouldn't know where to start looking.

Easy fella...

It's more a design degree and job than an office job, it just happens to be in an office and the current job/environment/pay isn't as stimulating as he expected... Hence the "soul searching". I'm sure if it paid enough or was challenging enough he'd put the thinking aside and happily take the money doing what he's good at, mind...

I'm sure he's not the only one who's had a "oh ****, what do I actually want to do" moment after finishing university.

Falling into and living off 32k sounds alright!

That sounds pretty ideal in theory, long hours aren't a problem for him, 4 on 4 off would be perfect as weekends are busy and suck as days off anyway... What's the "starting" wage say for someone who's just done their HGV/would any company hire a "newbie"?

Okie, I have a question this wonderful forum may be able to help with...

A friend of mine finished uni in the last year and currently works in a not-too-bad, comfortable job related to his degree in an office but is a bit tired of spending most of his life cooped up in a room for 8 hours a day, cos there's a world out there...

He's thinking about some kind of job involving driving/being outdoors a fair bit that pays a similar wage (it's the typical just-out-of-uni wage outside London) with a clear progression path but doesn't really know where to look... The options he's looked at are:

- Delivery (courier etc): Not paid much more than retail jobs from what we heard?
- Black Taxi: Worth a look, a lot of commitment - do you still need to do The Knowledge to drive a black cab outside London (most towns have a black cab service)?
- Highways Agency Traffic Officer: The most tempting but sadly not recruiting...
- HGV: A lot of commitment for fairly poor pay unless you're fairly experienced in a major haulage company (again, from what we heard)?
- Driver training (on or off road): Seems you need some kind of race/ADI experience, there's no "entry level"?

All your advice and opinions on careers which involve driving will be hugely appreciated

Bit OT but have some headphone porn - Sennheiser 598. The best headphones in their range which don't require an amp:



Hopefully Birthday Santa will bring me some to replace my 595s...

Earphones that are lacking in sound are never good

Sennheiser is the way to go usually, my CX500s don't fall out on the treadmill though... Sure you're using the right size earbud things?

So essentially... you're in a business where half the other companies you deal with don't know what the **** they're doing? It's quite common.

Of all the publishers to choose... With their recent decisions, they seem to be on a mission to self-destruct IMO. I thought Eutechnyx were published by System3?

Imagedoll.com works fine for me