JeffA:
Is Tossco all 1ton cages up the 45degree cobbled street with a missing wheel then? After reversing down the 300 yard long dog leg dead end street all double parked? And dont forget the doorstep so you have to do a twenty foot run at it to try and get it up - while screaming like William Wallace in Braveheart…Do they do any reversing onto a bay and reading the kindle for an hour?
No of course not. There’s plenty of back-on-a-bay store deliveries but the point about 1 tonne cages with broken wheels is still true having worked for them out of Goole via a subbie. The bay work is actually the better work 
. The Tesco Local stores/One-Stops (and most deliveries to those kind of shops) tend to be a ball-ache for a whole bunch of different reasons. It’s why the likes of Brakes/Bidvest pay a bit higher than other work driving the same class because they know it’s not desirable work and given the choice, most drivers would choose to work elsewhere. Nobody except the masochists are going to choose doing an artic load of One-Stop shops (or Nisa shops from the recent DHL thread) when they could be dragging 26 pallets of baked beans to an RDC in a curtain-sider for the same money. If the latter pays £15/hr then the likes of Tesco/DHL need to be offering minimum 1/3 more (ie. £20/hr) to stand any real chance of getting bums on seats for more than a single shift.
The One-Stop RDC here at Cas has had a permanent ad on Indeed for as long as I can remember. Unsurprising when there’s RM, Asda CDC and K&N all within a stone’s throw where the most effort you’ll do is open the back doors/curtains for the same or better money.