Possible Clues:

• Sat in traffic, e.g
• Seems one claims to have been in no hurry to be in the van
• I had been in charge but had done little about it (5)
• I'd acted as a guide, yet didn't do much work
• Now unemployed
• Paused in a car
• I had shown the way? That's not worked
• Didn't work
• Lazed on the grid?
• I had taken first place and relaxed