For myself I reckon its a matter of degree. If a customer hires a tipper and expects the driver to do all the loading/tipping thats unreasonable.
If Im tipping or loading somewhere and it involves handball then Ill help out. Wont do it all, but just muck in with it. Bit of exercise is good, and lets not get too precious about demarcation and H&S regs after all.
Muckaway:
Rang a customer this afternoon regarding tomorrow; Basically I’ve got to drive our puddle jumper tipper and quote him “move some stuff” from one building site to another. I asked was it muck/sand etc and after a bit of umming and ahhing he asked “have you got a sheet and some ropes?” I rather promptly and politely told him it’s a (dropside) tipper not a flatbed and thus I don’t do general haulage especially rope and sheet.
His response was “what if it rains?” to which I replied “then it gets wet” also pointing out that perhaps a curtainsider would be a better choice.
I also asked was the stuff on pallets and was told “there SHOULD be someone to help YOU load it.” I concluded the phone call by saying aslong as there’s a forklift or digger to load it as I don’t do handball.
Boss has told me I’m paid to drive and not to “[zb] about handballing.”
You don`t do sheeting on a tipper, so what happens when you get sand/muck on a dry windy day,do you let it blow all over the place so you have less to tip 
old 67:
It doesn’t have to be " either /or " you know Nathan. It’s just possible you could be both !!
Regards. John.
I’m with John. You’re entitled to be, imho.
peterm:
. When I lived in hole in’t road…
luxury - we couldn’d afford a hole in the road . lol
Muckaway:
Rang a customer this afternoon regarding tomorrow; Basically I’ve got to drive our puddle jumper tipper and quote him “move some stuff” from one building site to another. I asked was it muck/sand etc and after a bit of umming and ahhing he asked “have you got a sheet and some ropes?” I rather promptly and politely told him it’s a (dropside) tipper not a flatbed and thus I don’t do general haulage especially rope and sheet.
His response was “what if it rains?” to which I replied “then it gets wet” also pointing out that perhaps a curtainsider would be a better choice.
I also asked was the stuff on pallets and was told “there SHOULD be someone to help YOU load it.” I concluded the phone call by saying aslong as there’s a forklift or digger to load it as I don’t do handball.
Boss has told me I’m paid to drive and not to “[zb] about handballing.”
Out of curiosity why are you doing the"quoting" if your Boss says your a "Driver" surely he is the one to determine the cost of a job or tell the Client what his Drivers do and dont do,or to tell them its a job for general haulage not tipper work.
Many Drivers will tell you,Boss`s will tell you your only a Driver when you question their orders or instructions,and a “Professional Driver” who should have known better when things do wrong.
He’d taken the booking as “moving materials” I rang the customer for more information. When I told him what was said he then replied “you’re a driver” meaning not my job to handball or act as free labour. We don’t even sweep up on grab work if the site is unattended we load what we can and go.
I remember turning up at a house with 6 metres of concrete to be greeted by 3 middle aged (not very fit looking) guys with wheelbarrows.
I reversed into position & set the chute up & said “right, who’s first?” All three looked at me as if I’d got three heads then one said “where’s your barrow? You’re supposed to help us” to which I replied “no mate, I bring it. what happens then is up to you”.
They even phoned the plant to complain!
It took 'em two hours to move it & I’ve never seen three more knackered guys in all my life, I thought one was a certain heart attack… he was purple 
Melchett:
I remember turning up at a house with 6 metres of concrete to be greeted by 3 middle aged (not very fit looking) guys with wheelbarrows.I reversed into position & set the chute up & said “right, who’s first?” All three looked at me as if I’d got three heads then one said “where’s your barrow? You’re supposed to help us” to which I replied “no mate, I bring it. what happens then is up to you”.
They even phoned the plant to complain!It took 'em two hours to move it & I’ve never seen three more knackered guys in all my life, I thought one was a certain heart attack… he was purple
I’ve had similar, I was first to turn up of the 3 8 metre loads to find 2 very tired looking blokes with 3 wheelbarrows, filled the 2 they were holding and then asked when their mate was turning up. To which they replied that ones for you. They went mental when I strapped it to the wheel arch
no your not being awkward,i would say the same as I have done in the past,i do not do handball,in the past [in my younger days ]I may have done,now 53 and don’t need that kind of crap,done 30 years of hard work,now doing easy work which I like
I had quite a few blaggers when I was on the pallets, and my answer was always the same.
It’s a kerbside delivery mate!
The best was a posh lady who call the firm when she expected me to handball a massive Cast Iron bath into her house on my own…
I struggled just to get it off the tail lift with the pallet truck, so no way was it getting through her front door with me alone!
All she kept going on about was: “What does the company expect me to do?”
I kept my thoughts to myself, as I was thinking: “You should have thought of that you silly stuck up ■■■■■!”
And why are you complaining to my firm and not the firm that sent it? 