ContainerBoy:
Sorry mate I wasn’t sure what the terminology was. I’ve been using loading to mean when the container is put on trailer. What should the process be called to avoid me confusing everyone in the future?
Picking up the box
ContainerBoy:
Sorry mate I wasn’t sure what the terminology was. I’ve been using loading to mean when the container is put on trailer. What should the process be called to avoid me confusing everyone in the future?
No worries chief! Picking up a box, or collecting a box. I suppose in some port manual it will say “loading of a container onto lorries” or some such crap, but I wouldn’t get worried. These kind of things never cause confusion in real life as this is one of those things where you need to see it.
Try YouTube again, there’s bound to be more videos showing skeles in use if you’re really interested. You’ll be disappointed when you do it now as you’ll have built it into being more interesting than it is 
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Don’t be put off asking questions. We don’t admit it but most of us like a brief break from the normal guff that goes on in this forum
OVLOV JAY:
TiredAndEmotional:
OVLOV JAY:
An ADR in packages gives you a huge advantage on containersCan you expand on that J?
It’ll give you an advantage and practically guarantee you a job at a large company with direct work to the lines. Smaller companies tend to sub their work so have little use for it. On our firm, only 9 of us have an adr, of which 1 is on contact to a line, 2 have splitting trailers and 1 is on a specialist job. It leaves 5 of us in the mix, out of 50 drivers and 50 subbies, hence it earns me about an extra £40-£70 a week. If you had an adr my company would give you a job tomorrow
Thanks for the explanation!
I normally work out of Teesport only card you need is there’s sit & watch video then answer some questions don’t take long last for a year
Yep easy work although some of the door on the containers are a lot to be desired
Make use of the 3 hour rule in the drivers hours you may need it
Don’t believe all that say you sit for ages fro them to tip as I have been into both Aldi & Lidl which as we know are self tip
animal:
I normally work out of Teesport only card you need is there’s sit & watch video then answer some questions don’t take long last for a yearYep easy work although some of the door on the containers are a lot to be desired
Make use of the 3 hour rule in the drivers hours you may need it
Don’t believe all that say you sit for ages fro them to tip as I have been into both Aldi & Lidl which as we know are self tip
Don’t believe it? You saying we made that up? That’s what it was. I did sit for ages, sometimes not. Used to sit for so long wasn’t that uncommon to qualify for a split daily rest (as it was back then) and do a 16.
I did say the job might have change since I did it (doubt it much) or you just might be getting stiffed with naff self tip container work
ContainerBoy:
Thanks for all the tips guys. Nothing is going to stop me from moving to the coast but out of curiosity is it just as easy to find work in the middle of the country a it is by the coast (i’m assuming it’s easy by the coast)?I need to research the ports in England and take a look at accommodation costs to find the best place. Quite like the idea of Suffolk. Would that open up plenty of opportunities? I’m also guessing that there is a difference between a container port and somewhere like Dover?
I think Suffolks a great place to live. Lots of driving opportunities in the area. always driving jobs advertised for container work in Felixstowe. If i can help in anyway just message me.
Thanks again fellas. Pulled me back out now so I think I’ve chosen right with containers.
When the container has been tipped do you always take it back to the port and go through the whole process again? Does the company you work for take it off with a forklift and someone else (yard person for example) return them “at leisure” to avoid holding the drivers up?
If you do return them yourself while you are in the port do you pick another container up?
Cheers.
i havent work on container but i’d like to get into it myself
but from what i have seen, 99% of the time the container stays on your trailer during delivery and you have to wait with it while its being unloaded and then take it back to the port when its empty. or maybe take it somewhere else to reload it for export.
sometimes the customer wants a container to keep on site, so in those cases there are specialist container lift trailers that have a crane built in, so you can take off the box and leave it there. but that doesnt happen usually
It depends on what type of work your on deep sea is usually sit for hrs and short sea is usually a 45 Ft box its all palletized so comes off fairly quick most delays are caused by factory delays usually turn around times are about an hr max