dieseldave:
It’s gone way off topic and Carryfast is involved in the thick of it, so it’s been moved to Bully’s.
To be fair it’s all connected with the OP’s topic.
Class 1 drivers being stitched up with the laughably crap work which increasingly infests the industry for obvious reasons and simple questions to ask to call the employers out on it.
You know like is it 6 drops/collections per shift or per hour is it driving an artic or a four wheeler.If it’s the latter why do you want class 1 drivers and to pay class 1 rate for the job.
Then the winners in that scam wanting to make sure they stay that way by kicking the losers down the ladder and telling them that taking it is good for them.
Carryfast:
As for collections simultaneous with deliveries what difference does it make whether it’s all loose loaded or all pallets or a mixture of both when you try to do collections with a truck that’s still loaded with drops.Or when customers are shouting for their deliveries in the morning while you run around trying to do the collections which aren’t ready until late afternoon.
But then you didn’t know what C and D meant which says it all about what you actually know.Which is the square root of zb all.
I would explain in detail how they go about it on vans but you aren’t a fan of being educated by those with more experience & I’ve a brick wall that is calling for my head.
Carryfast:
As for collections simultaneous with deliveries what difference does it make whether it’s all loose loaded or all pallets or a mixture of both when you try to do collections with a truck
Only pointed out I’m talking vans not trucks four times now, wonder if you’ll ever get it. Rest of comment again proving you know very little about parcel van work
Carryfast:
which says it all about what you actually know.Which is the square root of zb all.
Shame my brother can’t explain, it was his van I used to cover his holidays.
Carryfast:
Star down under.:
Carryfast:
So you also think that drops are combined with collections and are also called drops and you say I don’t know how the industry works.
So tell us how are you going to get most/all of the collections on a truck that’s still full of all/most of the bleedin drops.
How did I get through over 12 of my almost 15 years of night trunking with no interaction with loads only trailer and box swaps.
Hand balling loads and silly amounts of multi drop work you know like 6 drops per hour is for mugs who are thick in the arm and thick in the head you sound like a Yorkshireman in that regard. 
I rest my case, you’ve never done the job.
If you can’t work out how to do it, in your own backyard, why would you expect any employer to trust you going to a foreign country?
I don’t know how you aquired this hallucination that Lukes face fitted. I mean, look at the fellow, he fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down! 
You’re the one saying that’s how it is done not me.
So you tell us how you’re going to get all those collections on a truck that’s still loaded with all the drops.
Also why would you want to make the customers wait for their deliveries in the morning while you run around trying to collect stuff that isn’t ready for collection until later in the day.
You’re also the one who’s having a go at me for advocating rigid and trailer outfits, you know just like the ones that I drove but with a proper trailer allowed to be coupled to them, and which contrary to switch’s bs form the backbone of the Scandinavian and NZ transport industries.
The fact that switchlogic was given international line haul work on a plate while my back was wrecked by being used as a warehouse labourer had nothing to do with trusting someone who’s claim to fame is crashing things in a big way.
Ironically if he’d have actually worked for UPS he would have been sacked because putting a truck off the road didn’t count as three avoidables in a year and you’re out.The first would have been the last.
It’s an entry level role, route planning. You’re further demonstrating your total lack of experience of the transport task. How is it that you seem incapable of physical and mental undertakings that normal drivers like Luke, myself and all the other professionals here, perform as second nature?
Carryfast:
those collections on a truck
Not a truck
Carryfast:
why would you want to make the customers wait for their deliveries in the morning while you run around trying to collect stuff that isn’t ready for collection until later in the day.
Again, clear you have no experience of parcel van work
Carryfast:
Ironically if he’d have actually worked for UPS he would have been sacked because putting a truck off the road didn’t count as three avoidables in a year and you’re out.The first would have been the last.
Better that than destroying my health
Like shooting fish in a barrel
Star down under.:
I don’t know how you aquired this hallucination that Lukes face fitted. I mean, look at the fellow, he fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!
How DARE YOU! DONT YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!
Star down under.:
normal drivers like Luke
FFS as if saying I’m hideous isn’t enough now I’m being abused with name calling…normal…, give. me. strength.
Star down under.:
It’s an entry level role, route planning. You’re further demonstrating your total lack of experience of the transport task. How is it that you seem incapable of physical and mental undertakings that normal drivers like Luke, myself and all the other professionals here, perform as second nature?
‘Luke’ didn’t even know what C and D work means and that’s about how much you also obviously know about it.
So no answer to the question how did I manage to do almost all of the 15 years I did night trunking without ‘interacting’ with any load only trailer and box swaps.
It’s not my fault that they changed the operation from mixed pallets and loose to all loose load handball and the warehouse labourer staff then predictably ran for the hills and the stupid/dodgy TGWU decided to allow drivers to replace them.
All the ‘route planning’ in the world isn’t going to allow you to get a load of collections on a truck that’s already loaded with a load of drops.
Or ensure that every size of collection will match every size of drop.
Especially when the customers waiting for their deliveries generally want them delivered before the customers waiting for their collections want them collected.
6 drops per hour yeah right good luck with that.
Carryfast:
who’s claim to fame is crashing things in a big way.
Parking a tad too far left, you call that a crash? Pffft, this is a crash.
perthnow.com.au/news/wa/wil … 881860546z
switchlogic:
Carryfast:
who’s claim to fame is crashing things in a big way.
Is it?
You did say that it was you who was responsible for the ditched truck which you seem to take great pride in by freely admitting it was followed by promotion to a better wagon.
While if I’ve read it right you’re off work now because of what exactly or have I missed something ?.
As for your ‘knowledge’ of C and D work and what it entails that was self evident in you thinking it’s a class of licence. 
Google the radio talk show host who prank calls an Australian trucker using his engine breaking and complaints about the excessive noise, it is hilarious.
Star down under.:
Carryfast:
who’s claim to fame is crashing things in a big way.
Parking a tad too far left, you call that a crash?
It’s the type of ‘parking too far to the left’ that would have got a UPS driver sacked with extreme prejudice.
As opposed to ‘others’ in more ‘privileged’ positions in the industry.
You know those like switchlogic
Tarmaceater:
Google the radio talk show host who prank calls an Australian trucker using his engine breaking and complaints about the excessive noise, it is hilarious.
If only they’d have broadcast the ‘discussions’ which took place between me and the managers and union reps regarding handballing trailer loads.
Or with the Independent Express manager after being told I’m doing 7.5t multi drop on arrival to do a class 1 trunk.Some yes man. 
The same would apply to being told that I’m doing 6 drops per hour.
Tarmaceater:
Google the radio talk show host who prank calls an Australian trucker using his engine breaking and complaints about the excessive noise, it is hilarious.
Are we allowed to post the link? It’s been around for ages, funny but plenty of earthy language.
Carryfast:
Ironically if he’d have actually worked for UPS he would have been sacked because putting a truck off the road didn’t count as three avoidables in a year and you’re out.The first would have been the last.
Ironically if you had crashed badly and been sacked your back and your health might have survived and you might have had a career longer than 5 minutes. That way crashes could have ultimately been good for us both. In theory, like others I’m rapidly coming to conclusion you’re just a bit work shy and got out at the first excuse.
Funny old life isn’t it.
Peace be with you my geriatric friend x
switchlogic:
Carryfast:
Ironically if he’d have actually worked for UPS he would have been sacked because putting a truck off the road didn’t count as three avoidables in a year and you’re out.The first would have been the last.
Ironically if you had crashed badly and been sacked your back and your health might have survived and you might have had a career longer than 5 minutes. That way crashes could have ultimately been good for us both. In theory, like others I’m rapidly coming to conclusion you’re just a bit work shy and got out at the first excuse.
Funny old life isn’t it.
Peace be with you my geriatric friend x
Think of the entertainment of which we would have been deprived.
He is actually the stereotypical gob[zb]e agency driver.
“I don’t do handball”
“I don’t do multidrop”
“I don’t do London”
“I don’t do distance”
“I don’t do nights out”
“I don’t drive Mercs or Stralis’s”
“I only drive autos”
“That truck is defective. The radio doesn’t work”
Then gets in his car and goes home.
He already admitted in another thread that he doesn’t use the air suspension when hitching or dropping a trailer, instead preferring to use the plastic mudguards on the drive axle. The guy is a total liability in about 101 different ways. No transport company in their right mind would employ him based on his rambling nonsense he spouts on here.
Star down under, please post up the link for the outrageously funny Australian radio talk show host prank calling Mr Very Angry Indeed and his excessive engine braking .It is allowed.
WARNING: OBSCENE LANGUAGE.
youtu.be/agYkqhDL8Gw
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