Refuse - did that and hated it (not for long admittedly).
General Haulage - done that, actually quite enjoy it - annoying in some ways but feels like real driving.
But how can you have a list and not include the worst job in driving by a country mile… Tesco agency supermarket driver! Spoken to like dirt, driving dilapidated vehicles, unhelpful store staff, shifts changed constantly, forces to do weekends or no work, shift start times wildly different each day, driver gets the blame no matter what, ■■■■ harassment by office staff for the most trivial of perceived indiscresions, microlise that uses car mapping but they demand reasoning why you didn’t go that way and hit the bridge, no sat nav policy, no training or advice for double deckers (unlike decent supermarkets)… I could go on.
You also need to add driving for a cash and carry to the list. Here is a 15 year old rigid. Take it to the most inapropriate place and handball tons off - the staff at the shops will watch and never offer to help, they will enjoy seeing the white man suffer. Never again.
For me it would be and in no particular order:
1/ pallet network type (pallet line pallet force etc) multidrops up some residential street to someone’s house and they want to unpack it and send the pallet and packaging back with you.
2/ parcel deliveries in a 7.5t or larger so the likes of Tufnells
3/ convenience store multidrops.
However, I understand some like the above 3 types of work. So I’m not saying it’s bad work. Just not for me.
As previously stated one mans meat, etc
If you like your own bed, regular hours and enjoy having a good craick with colleagues, then household bin work has to be No1 best job. Early starts, early finishes and mainly driving but jump out to help get the job done but only if its not raining!
Second easiest job has to be tippers either bulk or say rigids on aggregates or black stuff. again fairly regular hours, home every night if you are on rigids (with some exceptions I know!).
Stuff pallet companies, they always want their pound, heavy pallets, inaccessible delivery and collection points, always under pressure with timed deliveries out of sequence and must get back in time for trunker!
Also out are any food delivery companies. Good experince for new passes but ask yourself why they are willing to take on new passes.
I dunno what people have got against “Agency work” and “Supermarkets”. You might not know what you’re doing from one day to the next, but it’ll definately be driving content rather than shunting/office duties/yard sweeping/toilet cleaning/trailer inventorying etc etc.
I took at look at a job at Aldis - but it turned out that by their own admission only 20% of the job is “driving” WTF? They essentially want Warehouse staff that hold a C+E licence!!!
My votes for “crappiest driving jobs” are
(1) Euro Tramping for less than what one can get for working domestic nights
(2) Domestic Tramping for less than what one can get for working domestic nights
(3) Night work that pays less than what one can get working Days for an agency
A special mention I’d have to make for those firms who “put you in harms way” - risking your licence every day for “no extra money”.
“Multi dropping around London when you don’t know where your next job is until you do one, and then phone in…” You’re expected to have “The Knowledge”, but also NOT fall foul of the LBTS, LEZ, Missing 7.5t signs, Low Bridges that you don’t know about until committing to a road with no turnaround points, and of course London Cyclists, who continue to ride about in a suicidal manner."
The worst job I ever had was with Jayne Mansfield involving lobsters.
She had a lot of trouble with them.
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- Stobarts
- Eddie Stobarts
- Stobarts Group
Stobart group don t have any truck and not do any truck operation.All truck under Eddie Stobart.
ETS:
- Multidrop (6+ /day)
- Refuse collection
- Dunno…tippers/skips? Or maybe sewage pumping?
I do food multidrop between 6 and 10 a dayand love it. Just had a new truck and it’s the best paying job I’ve had.
Tippers I’m happily retired from, never done skips per se, but I did drive a roro for a skip firm…that was the worst job I’ve had.
All a matter of personal taste, somebody may like driving a s*** sucker and be happy doing it, somebody may be perfectly happy working for Stobarts or Downhill, Owens even.
I avoid the below like the black death
- Anything run for profit
- Drawbars
- Shunting
- more than 4 drops per day
Own account or specialised, and I am observant of the Spanish tradition of siesta.
In 47 years of driving I’ve never done anything I didn’t like - why would you? So I can’t answer the op.
Winseer:
I dunno what people have got against “Agency work” and “Supermarkets”. You might not know what you’re doing from one day to the next, but it’ll definately be driving content rather than shunting/office duties/yard sweeping/toilet cleaning/trailer inventorying etc etc.
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Nothing against agency - tried full time and binned it. And nothing against supermarkets. Sainsburys in Hams Hall was the best driving job (agency) I ever had. And I’d love to go back. I’m banned by that agency now - but I still think it was spot on in every way.
My problem was with tesco. And only tesco. I’ve done Lidl (not my cup of tea but nowhere near as bad) and co-op (shocking in a different way). But tesco took the biscuit for being shocking. Sainsburys are a decent firm imo whilst still not being my dream job.
I drove a fridge for all of them. But had to occasionally take out a curtainsider from another depot for tesco. And that was even worst. Only time I’ve been physically hurt doing the job! So badly stacked I had a crate of pink gin fall on my head causing a fair amount of blood. Along with cases of wine falling out. Before folk accuse me of crap driving! That was when I insisted on checking the load before going out. When I tried to complain whilst having blood pouring from my head I was told if they had to fill in the accident book I’d be banned from site.
That was one of the better shifts. They have no respect for anyone or anything. That’s before I talk about the shunter who threatened to knock me out because I didn’t know where to park the 10m trailers on my second shift… Or the office staff. The wages were not even decent to compensate for it.
robroy:
The worst job I ever had was with Jayne Mansfield involving lobsters.
She had a lot of trouble with them.
Jayne Mansfield ■■ christ you must be older than me and are you sure they weren’t crabs and not lobsters … ■■? 
sammym:
You also need to add driving for a cash and carry to the list. Here is a 15 year old rigid. Take it to the most inapropriate place and handball tons off - the staff at the shops will watch and never offer to help, they will enjoy seeing the white man suffer. Never again.
I would add Asian cash and carry to that list, never driven for one but delivered to many. I have never heard anyone been spoken to like that in my whole life, drivers getting a rollicking in front of the whole office. Racism works both ways!
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raymundo:
robroy:
The worst job I ever had was with Jayne Mansfield involving lobsters.
She had a lot of trouble with them.
Jayne Mansfield ■■ christ you must be older than me and are you sure they weren’t crabs and not lobsters … ■■?
Nah definitely lobsters, when she used to go out bathing in Malibu…am I flogging a dead horse here btw? 
My idea of worst 3 jobs would be doing …
Permanent supermarket rdc day work, especially on a ■■■■ agency…seriously mind numbing.
The idea makes me shudder.
Followed by tipper work which I used to do as holiday relief in the 80s, Teararser’s heaven…not for me.
Then working for a modern Logistical Solutions ‘‘up their own arse’’ type firm ran by knobs and circus clowns full of their own importance, which would bring back on my old violent tendencies . 
Winseer:
I dunno what people have got against “Agency work” and “Supermarkets”. You might not know what you’re doing from one day to the next, but it’ll definately be driving content rather than shunting/office duties/yard sweeping/toilet cleaning/trailer inventorying etc etc.
I took at look at a job at Aldis - but it turned out that by their own admission only 20% of the job is “driving” WTF? They essentially want Warehouse staff that hold a C+E licence!!!
My votes for “crappiest driving jobs” are
(1) Euro Tramping for less than what one can get for working domestic nights
(2) Domestic Tramping for less than what one can get for working domestic nights
(3) Night work that pays less than what one can get working Days for an agency
A special mention I’d have to make for those firms who “put you in harms way” - risking your licence every day for “no extra money”.
“Multi dropping around London when you don’t know where your next job is until you do one, and then phone in…” You’re expected to have “The Knowledge”, but also NOT fall foul of the LBTS, LEZ, Missing 7.5t signs, Low Bridges that you don’t know about until committing to a road with no turnaround points, and of course London Cyclists, who continue to ride about in a suicidal manner."
Nights have the advantage of clear roads buts that’s the only advantage.Depending on distances between drops and preferably full loads I’d have happily taken Euro work for less money than uk night trunking.None of which could be described as the worst jobs.Also don’t get the comments concerning bulk refuse with roll on/off/Multilift when that was one of my favourite jobs on the council.
But I’d agree that jobs which try to dress up,what is in large part office/yard/labouring/warehouse/mobile plant operative etc type work,as ‘driving’,are some of the worst and the employers obviously know it.
As for London multi drop that’s a seperate sub division itself.
Which for me left scaffolding/shuttering delivery/collection as the worst of all worlds in that regard.
Beau Nydel:
In 47 years of driving I’ve never done anything I didn’t like - why would you? So I can’t answer the op.
One of my regrets was not taking that advice on board from day 1.I could never understand how drivers with loads of family and financial commitments,while I had none,could still pick and choose and walk away from anything that didn’t suit them.While I,like the biggest mug ever,didn’t.Partly naively believing all the start at the bottom bs.
ETS:
dozy:
I once had a Monday morning job of Birmingham , tip 200 lorry tyres , and reload 200 including super singles , all you got was a plank to roll the top row up !! It’s the dirtiest & most back breaking job I’ve had , when you were tipping the top row you got tired and they come over and pin you to side of tri or knock you over & when loading , you got tired and then they go anywhere when trying to roll them up plank .
2 lads there said they’d injuries to shoulder / back so no help !!! H&s !!’
Dunlop? 
Well, it definitely doesn’t sound like a Goodyear.
sammym:
When I tried to complain whilst having blood pouring from my head I was told if they had to fill in the accident book I’d be banned from site.
I noticed on today’s trip to the ■■■■■■■■■■■ that is stobarts sherburn the last accident on site took place in 2017.
Having been a Warehouse Manager for quite a while I couldn’t help but smile at such blatant lies.
Was almost tempted to have a little slip and get it reported. As I was in there best part of 5 hours it would have filled the time
sammym:
Winseer:
I dunno what people have got against “Agency work” and “Supermarkets”. You might not know what you’re doing from one day to the next, but it’ll definately be driving content rather than shunting/office duties/yard sweeping/toilet cleaning/trailer inventorying etc etc.
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Nothing against agency - tried full time and binned it. And nothing against supermarkets. Sainsburys in Hams Hall was the best driving job (agency) I ever had. And I’d love to go back. I’m banned by that agency now - but I still think it was spot on in every way. Pray do tell what got you banned… 
Something similar to what happened to me at Manpower perhaps? 
My problem was with tesco. And only tesco. I’ve done Lidl (not my cup of tea but nowhere near as bad) and co-op (shocking in a different way). But tesco took the biscuit for being shocking. Sainsburys are a decent firm imo whilst still not being my dream job. The only beef I had with Tesco was all about the contractor the agency put you into, in my case WIncanton. Miserable buch, treating drivers like dirt, and routinely planning drivers for 15 hour shifts, which you were “no good” if you couldn’t do one on request… Now I don’t mind doing 15 hour shifts - BUT not back-to-back shifts I bloody well don’t!!
I drove a fridge for all of them. But had to occasionally take out a curtainsider from another depot for tesco. And that was even worst. Only time I’ve been physically hurt doing the job! So badly stacked I had a crate of pink gin fall on my head causing a fair amount of blood. Along with cases of wine falling out. Before folk accuse me of crap driving! That was when I insisted on checking the load before going out. When I tried to complain whilst having blood pouring from my head I was told if they had to fill in the accident book I’d be banned from site. I hear you. Got put into hospital by a curtainsider’s ladder falling on my head. Chipped off one of the little wing bones on my neck vertebrae it did… “Hangman’s Fracture” they called it. If it hadn’t been for the “vertical” strike to my head/neck, I would have ended up dead or paralyzed… (It takes some lateral movement to damage the spinal chord, apparently)… In any case, I was off work for 10 months and only paid a retainer out of my own pension pot. That’s worse than “zero pay” of course, as the money has to be put back upon return to work AND it disqualified me from SSP and Means-tested benefits. I sued. I won. Now the firm hates me at an institutional level, if my “unpopularity” is anything to go by. Managers have been sacked, some drivers too…
That was one of the better shifts. They have no respect for anyone or anything. That’s before I talk about the shunter who threatened to knock me out because I didn’t know where to park the 10m trailers on my second shift… Or the office staff. The wages were not even decent to compensate for it.
Snodland had their trailers parked so you’d struggle to get a ■■■ paper between them… I’m glad I don’t have to work there any more, but it was once a “bread and butter” place for me, where I could always pick up a long shift on demand, should work dry up elsewhere… I worked there during the Olympic build-up months…
“RIDDOR” - Real Information Dutily Done on Record"
Yes, there’s been a few places I’ve worked that will “let you go” if you make noises about “Accident Book”…