Welcome to AOTP

Welcome to All Over the Place. If you were looking for a high-gloss travel influencer drinking a lukewarm latte in a Bali infinity pool, you’ve taken a very wrong turn. This is me talking about life from the cab of a lorry.

I’m Shane. I’m 52, and I spend most of my life tramping across the UK and beyond while my wife, Yolanda, and our 16 year old triplets—Daniela, Liam, and Sara—keep things moving back in Nottinghamshire. Why “All Over the Place”? Because that’s where I am, and frankly, that’s usually the state of my brain!!

What you’re getting into

I’m not here to sell you a dream; I’m here to show you the reality of living in a metal box. Here’s the roadmap for AOTP:

• Haulage Logs: Where I’ve been, where I’ve got stuck, and which motorways to avoid like the plague.

• The Trucker’s Field Guide: Hard-won advice for the amateurs and the curious. Basically, how to do the job without losing your mind. A handbook of sorts, a constant WIP!

• Recipes from the Cab: Cooking on a single-ring burner that doesn’t taste like despair.

• Living in a Box: The glamour of sleeping on industrial estates and finding a shower that doesn’t require a tetanus shot.

• Free Downloads: Useful bits and bobs I’ve put together to make the life a bit easier.

• Tangents: I have interests I may occasionaly talk about like Timber, Aviation and Personal Travel stories.

There’ll be videos, photos of places that look better through a windscreen, and a healthy dose of cynicism. Stick around if you want the truth about the road. Or don’t. I’ll be driving anyway.

Also, this site is entirely built by me from scratch, it’s not perfect and it’s a work in progress, a digital building site so to speak.

Shane