I have fond memories of fridges , , 6/7 hrs on the bunk waiting to load , but seems a distant memory , but today & tomorrow I have a fridge job , seems it’s even easier than I remember , a day to load& a day to tip !!!
all thats missing now is…im parked up out of time with nothing to eat…how do you switch it on…how do you set the temp…i cant sleep because of the noise…load rejected as too hot or cold…out of time with nothing to eat…
that should take us up till wed at least,then only 1 more big sleep till the friday lead in. 
So that’s how easy it is on fridges?
Don’t think a could it to be honest. Sat around all day waiting and waiting. Be ok once in a while I guess.
But I’d get bored n restless prefer to keep busy really
This might be why Sobbies are having financial problems. Instead of paying drivers to drop fridge and get someone else to pickup, they have a driver locked up all day in one place. Nuts.
Did them a few years back for various and although not tramping, there was never more than an hour tipping or loading. Oh except Iceland but they are as bright as their shoppers.
trevHCS:
This might be why Sobbies are having financial problems. Instead of paying drivers to drop fridge and get someone else to pickup, they have a driver locked up all day in one place. Nuts.Did them a few years back for various and although not tramping, there was never more than an hour tipping or loading. Oh except Iceland but they are as bright as their shoppers.
Yup absolutely ridiculous. Surely there’s something else they could get him on after dropping the fridge. It’s 2 whole days paid for doing nothing when a drop and swap would work.
It is great being paid by the hour whilst parked up on a bay, but not so great being parked up “off duty” having run out of time.
Trampers are always getting the arse end of it compared to home-every-night fridge drivers, I think you’ll find…
Has the Tramper’s job got any better this past year in particular?
I reckon the daytime fridge driver’s lot has improved greatly though - “no more sitting in the cooler”, meaning you no longer have to lock yourself out of your cab for the OP mentioned 6-7 hours whilst being tipped…
6-7 hours goes a lot quicker on your own cab’s bunk than it does trying to trestle across two chairs in the official driver’s rest room…
Winseer:
Trampers are always getting the arse end of it compared to home-every-night fridge drivers, I think you’ll find…Has the Tramper’s job got any better this past year in particular?
And I ‘‘Think you’ll find’’ you’re talking out of your arse (as usual). 
Some of us don’t mind and/or even like tramping believe it or not…yeh seriously. 
I’d hazard a guess that the limited experience you’ve had of nights out in a truck, that you would think is ‘tramping’ , (but is in fact the classic day man’s own version of it) has consisted of parking in some ■■■■ lay by or another, with a left over sandwich and a Mars bar for your evening meal, then all night spent lying there getting rocked to death,.crying and pining for …‘‘me own bed’’.
To answer your loaded biased question …
The trampers job has always been the same mate, as excellent, as good, as bad, or as totally mind numbingly crap as YOU make it. 
I’m parked up, fridge roaring away nicely, dropped it, moved forward, time for a film n beer in a while, be a quite night again, no floppy side drivers be any were near me moaning happy days.
robroy:
Winseer:
Trampers are always getting the arse end of it compared to home-every-night fridge drivers, I think you’ll find…Has the Tramper’s job got any better this past year in particular?
And I ‘‘Think you’ll find’’ you’re talking out of your arse (as usual).
Some of us don’t mind and/or even like tramping believe it or not…yeh seriously.
I’d hazard a guess that the limited experience you’ve had of nights out in a truck, that you would think is ‘tramping’ , (but is in fact the classic day man’s own version of it) has consisted of parking in some [zb] lay by or another, with a left over sandwich and a Mars bar for your evening meal, then all night spent lying there getting rocked to death,.crying and pining for …‘‘me own bed’’.
To answer your loaded biased question …
The trampers job has always been the same mate, as excellent, as good, as bad, or as totally mind numbingly crap as YOU make it.
Yes, I’m sure if everyone envied you for your full time tramper’s job where you are away from home anywhere from 4 to 12 nights on the spin - must leave you feeling very gifted indeed that you’re able to keep such an illustrious job that so many others envy you for having.
Me? The last time I did a “forced night out” was in the 1990’s “snowed out night” where I had to go on daily rest from running out of hours, stuck in a traffic jam trying to get through gridlocked traffic in the middle of Hertford. Even there I fared better than those car drivers in front and behind - trying to keep warm by keeping their engines running all night long… Cab, Bunk, and Night Heater - No problems, packed lunch or no.
It isn’t the work I dislike about “Tramping Driver’s Duties” - it is the fact you don’t get net paid by the hour on such duties.
I’ve often offered a boss to “overnight if required”, knowing that as I’m paid by the hour, a 15 hour shift, night out 9 hours on break “minimum daily rest”, and 15 hour shift the following day, would make a nice 39 hour working week right there with only one round commute trip to work and back - worth driving an hour each way to get to eh?
Ffs Winseer, how many more times are you gonna come out with that ■■■■■■■■
1.Why tf would you (or expect to) get paid an hourly rate for having time off.
2.How many industries pay their employees, reps, contractors, or employees away on courses an hourly rate for being away from home.
No me either.
Ok the night out money/subsistence should be more, granted, but that is a different argument.
I don’t give a flying ■■■■ whether or not anybody ‘envys me’ but I’d sooner do what I do than work for some 2 bit parasitic unscrupulous ■■■■ agency.
At least over here unlike what you here from the North American users on this site, when im parked up for days im getting paid, not that “wheels ain’t turning im not earning” rubbish.
robroy:
Ffs Winseer, how many more times are you gonna come out with that ■■■■■■■■
1.Why tf would you (or expect to) get paid an hourly rate for having time off.2.How many industries pay their employees, reps, contractors, or employees away on courses an hourly rate for being away from home.
No me either.Ok the night out money/subsistence should be more, granted, but that is a different argument.
I don’t give a flying [zb] whether or not anybody ‘envys me’
I think a certain Windbag is jealous of your Trampers lifestyle, being able to dine in different hostelrys on a daily basis, seeing our lovely countryside… I think he sees Dopey as the benchmark for Tramping,. I know which school I go to…
It’s his pet hobby horse mate. It hasn’t quite sunk in that all the plasterers, brickies, road gangs, construction workers, airline pilots, cabin crew etc etc etc ad infinitum do not get paid an hourly rate when they are err not working! The clue is in there somewhere.
the maoster:
It’s his pet hobby horse mate. It hasn’t quite sunk in that all the plasterers, brickies, road gangs, construction workers, airline pilots, cabin crew etc etc etc ad infinitum do not get paid an hourly rate when they are err not working! The clue is in there somewhere.
It should have sunk in you would think, by the amount of times he’s been told,… on every time he comes out with that dog ■■■■.
And he ain’t exactly a good ambassador for agency drivers or agency work either, by the amount of crying and belly aching he’s done about his work the last few months.
biggriffin:
… I think he sees Dopey as the benchmark for Tramping,. …
As do a lot of em on here, they do it once or twice, put themselves under endurance test dozy style hardship,.find they don’t like it (can’t think why) and tell us they’ve ‘done tramping’. 
dieseldog999:
all thats missing now is…im parked up out of time with nothing to eat…how do you switch it on…how do you set the temp…i cant sleep because of the noise…load rejected as too hot or cold…out of time with nothing to eat…that should take us up till wed at least,then only 1 more big sleep till the friday lead in.
Still here not left , dear me
Different when you work for a fridge company that actually knows what they are doing to be fair
Winseer:
Trampers are always getting the arse end of it compared to home-every-night fridge drivers, I think you’ll find…
Says the man who’s never trampled, you’re rivalling Carryfast for commenting on things you have no idea of. Some of us like to tramp as we like to go places, rather than just around the corner. You don’t get to every corner of Europe and 20 countries on day work old chap
Loaded , parked up here , I won’t sleep tonight as slept all day
dozy:
I have fond memories of fridges , , 6/7 hrs on the bunk waiting to load , but seems a distant memory , but today & tomorrow I have a fridge job , seems it’s even easier than I remember , a day to load& a day to tip !!!
No wonder they’re paying you £9 p.h