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Postby RoadRunner92 » Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:28 pm

On class2 food multidrop since summer. Can start anytime between 1am and 8am with no particular pattern and short notice. Got my class1 but ever worked it.
What time do you all start work? Is general haulage as early starts? Question for both class1+2 folk!
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Re: Start times

Postby yourhavingalarf » Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:48 pm

RoadRunner92 wrote:On class2 food multidrop since summer. Can start anytime between 1am and 8am with no particular pattern and short notice. Got my class1 but ever worked it.
What time do you all start work? Is general haulage as early starts? Question for both class1+2 folk!


Hauling spuds...

For Mason Bros, Boston, I had the most ridiculous start times. They'd want delivery in Northwich for 7am, I'd be getting up at half one, into the yard for half two, tyres kicked and out by 3. That gave me 45 minutes to play with for traffic or when I inevitably fell off my perch when the sun came up. FYI, when I got there at 7, they promptly all buggered off for breakfast anyway. Never got tipped till 8ish regardless.
If you want to get ahead of the game, you have to start at silly o'clock. Sadly, the drivers hours allows such stupidity to continue.
I'm 90% certain that my kids and my dog have a bet on who can be the most disgusting.
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Re: Start times

Postby edd1974 » Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:59 pm

Pallet line work usually start about 6 am finish about 18 00
Depends what sector you work in.
We do general stuff anything really one drop a 2 b .
Then either run back or collect something to deliver next day

Tend start anything from 5 to 7.
Tomorrow starting at 8 only because I'm parked up outside my collection tomorrow which doesn't open untill 8.
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Re: Start times

Postby Harry Monk » Thu Jan 20, 2022 9:19 pm

I normally start between 07:00 and 08:00, today was a late start at 10:15 as I had a Doc's appointment, and tomorrow will be an early start at 06:00. I won't start work before 06:00 or work after 18:00, my philosophy is that the daytime belongs to my employer but the evening and night belongs to me.
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Re: Start times

Postby drover » Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:29 pm

Find a job with a start time that suits you, they are out there & there are many options....
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Re: Start times

Postby driveress » Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:40 pm

I was just thinking of doing a post about start times RoadRunner92 ... I hope you don't mind if I leave my question here, instead of stating another thread.

I would like to ask: What's the earliest a "night" shift might start and finish?
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Re: Start times

Postby Swordsy » Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:59 pm

Same run every day.
I start in Leeds at 11am pick up load in Bradford, down to hub at Hinckley, with a 2-3 hr brk at hub before I set off back up to Leeds at around 2000. Finish 2230.
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Re: Start times

Postby peirre » Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:01 am

Start at 6am most weekdays
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Re: Start times

Postby stu675 » Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:26 am

Swordsy wrote:Same run every day.
I start in Leeds at 11am pick up load in Bradford, down to hub at Hinckley, with a 2-3 hr brk at hub before I set off back up to Leeds at around 2000. Finish 2230.
I'm not sure if that's a dream job or boring, how do you find it?
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Re: Start times

Postby commonrail » Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:26 am

Between 6 and 7
Never before 5,as that would put me on night rate...and there's no shortage of volunteers for those start times.
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Re: Start times

Postby JAKEY » Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:44 am

Back in my days on Brs Oxford ,we had a great tramper called Ron (Rocket )Wilmot , he was asked by transport office to run nights ! he bluntly refused saying if Humans were made to work at night ,god would have fitted headlights in our forehead !!! :roll: he never did do nights ,tramped in the day only . rip Ron , by the way mate i got your wee Scania dirty :lol:
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Re: Start times

Postby njl » Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:57 am

Last year was on nights 6 or 7pm start to 5 to 8am finish.

Now start at 4am, rarely get stuck in traffic on the outbound drive from base, might catch the tail end of a night closure if unlucky. Bed time is 6:30 - 7 though.
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Re: Start times

Postby Swordsy » Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:10 am

stu675 wrote:
Swordsy wrote:Same run every day.
I start in Leeds at 11am pick up load in Bradford, down to hub at Hinckley, with a 2-3 hr brk at hub before I set off back up to Leeds at around 2000. Finish 2230.
I'm not sure if that's a dream job or boring, how do you find it?


I prefer it. Some people like variety, I prefer knowing where Im going every day. Id quite happily do this run till I retire in 10 years or so :)

I used to do nights 5 or 6pm start with a 3-4am finish. Before that days with 5-6am starts 5-6pm finish. This pattern Im on now is giving me the best sleep Ive had for decades Im getting a good 8 hours every night. On night shift I used to get about 6, on days you have to be in bed for about 10 and you dont get to sleep straight away so 6-7 hours sleep. Now I get in, chill out for an hour, go to bed at 11-11.30 and get up around 8ish with no alarm. Still gives me 2.5 hours time to myself every morning before work.
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Re: Start times

Postby lolipop » Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:36 am

Start times depend who you work for and what the customer dictates
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Re: Start times

Postby the maoster » Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:21 am

I generally start one minute after blowing under the limit.
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Re: Start times

Postby robroy » Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:29 am

the maoster wrote:I generally start one minute after blowing under the limit.

Ooh don't start them off ffs man......
You know fine well you should be parking in a lay by miles from civilisation....like what I do.
You've let yourself down,.you've let your firm down..., and you've let the baby Jesus down. :roll:
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Re: Start times

Postby robroy » Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:32 am

Btw my start time is 6am, with a strong attitude of CBA......, or if a Saturday morning to get back home for the football, I'm suddenlly Mr Keen and enthusiastic. :D
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Re: Start times

Postby toonsy » Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:37 am

I dont think it matters so much when someone starts and is purely a matter of preference.

What does matter is "start windows" where your time is say 5am but the firm has a two hour window either way or something like that. That is when the body doesn't know what's going on.

I start at 1am. I love it. And it's 1am on all my working days, never changes. Not everyone's cup of tea sure but having that fixed start time I know when to go to bed, how much kip I need etc etc etc
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Re: Start times

Postby driveress » Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:45 am

So toonsy, if you start at 1am, what time do you get up/finish/go to bed? Have you already been up for ages when you start at 1am? Just trying to get an idea of how people on nights organise their 24h, and do you change your routine on your days off or stick to it?
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Postby toonsy » Fri Jan 21, 2022 12:34 pm

driveress wrote:So toonsy, if you start at 1am, what time do you get up/finish/go to bed? Have you already been up for ages when you start at 1am? Just trying to get an idea of how people on nights organise their 24h, and do you change your routine on your days off or stick to it?


I'm normally done by 11ish. I live ten mins away from work so I'm home by 11.15ish, shower then go straight to bed, wake up at around 4pm, get the kid, sort tea and that then I normally go back to bed about 8pm, up at midnight, shower and away I go.

Because of that I don't need to flip my weekend. I finish 11ish Thursday, have a kip (or stay up, no work next day so doesn't matter) then I go to bed "normal" time and wake up Friday at a more normal time. To get back into it I go to bed around 6ish on a Saturday evening.

Others who do my shift stay up until around 5ish then go to bed.

But its what works for you. I've never needed loads of sleep and I've always been able to drop off on demand but also drop off immediately :lol:
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Re: Start times

Postby Bin Man » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:09 pm

7 a.m - we are not allowed to go out any earlier due to the noise.
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Re: Start times

Postby peirre » Fri Jan 21, 2022 7:08 pm

I’ve been asked today to give a 4hr time window for my start times, so I told them “anytime between 5-6am” :D
Bin Man wrote:7 a.m - we are not allowed to go out any earlier due to the noise.

I wish someone would tell that to the Biffa guys who turn up at 04:45 to empty the bins at the nursing home next door
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I always say that I’m like Cinderella, and that if I’m in my carriage at midnight I swear it will turn into a pumpkin, and that in the interest of health and safety that should never be allowed to happen
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Re: Start times

Postby ETS » Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:54 pm

I was talking to a guy today, he was saying I start work 2am. immediately I thought to myself he must be a lorry driver, no one else would have a job starting 2a.m. Few minutes later what do you know - he turns out to be a lorry driver :D :D :D
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Re: Start times

Postby Bin Man » Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:04 pm

7 a.m - we are not allowed to go out any earlier due to the noise.


I wish someone would tell that to the Biffa guys who turn up at 04:45 to empty the bins at the nursing home next door


Put a complaint in we asked if we could start earlier and were told no.

Councils can investigate complaints of statutory nuisance to tackle noise produced at any time of day or night. They may also issue warning notices in response to complaints about noise above permitted levels from 11pm to 7am. ... that the noise is coming from the premises between 11pm and 7am.
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Re: Start times

Postby stu675 » Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:18 pm

Bin Man wrote:7 a.m - we are not allowed to go out any earlier due to the noise.
I see them traveling all over the place from 6:30am
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Re: Start times

Postby andi_cardiff » Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:21 pm

I’m on a 0915-1715 set run at my place, joys of supermarket work.

Quite a decent time, though it’s taken me a few years to get this job.
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Re: Start times

Postby Roymondo » Fri Jan 21, 2022 11:09 pm

I'm on "own account" Class 1 work (although the transport function is outsourced to a "Logistics" company who actually employ me). 99% of the time my planned start is either 0500 or 0600, although I regard it as being a rough target rather than set in stone (I'll adjust it to suit my own requirements). Finish time is generally 8.5 -9.5 hours after the start time (although often quite a bit earlier).
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Re: Start times

Postby Bin Man » Sat Jan 22, 2022 2:26 pm

stu675 wrote:
Bin Man wrote:7 a.m - we are not allowed to go out any earlier due to the noise.
I see them traveling all over the place from 6:30am


Some of our rounds are in fairly rural areas so i suppose if we pushed it we would be allowed to drive to the first collection point but not start until 7 a.m the ones you see may have different rules to us but they shouldn't be starting until 7 a.m.


Noise at night: warning notices
Councils can investigate complaints of statutory nuisance to tackle noise produced at any time of day or night.

They may also issue warning notices in response to complaints about noise above permitted levels from 11pm to 7am. These warning notices can be used by councils for noise that’s not a statutory nuisance.

The warning notice must tell the recipient:

that the noise is coming from the premises between 11pm and 7am
that the noise exceeds, or may exceed permitted levels as measured from within the complainant’s dwelling
that the noise must be reduced to below the permitted level in a specified period (this must be at least 10 minutes after the notice is served and must end by 7am)
what time the notice is issued
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Re: Start times

Postby blue estate » Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:47 pm

If in the yard then no earlier than 5 am due to O licence restriction on the site , but most mornings between 6/7
If out on the road 4am earliest but mostly 5/6 am
The only 1/2/3 o’clock I see are in the afternoon :mrgreen:
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Re: Start times

Postby Stephenjp » Sun Jan 23, 2022 5:08 pm

My last three tansport jobs were 7am starts until finish usually between 5 & 7pm, these were pallet deliveries, my current job delivering chemicals, is a 6am start and finishing between 4 & 7pm depending on work load!
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