I was wondering if Anyone is doing fallen stock driving?
A job has come up and wondered if anyone here does it and how they get a long?
Not done it, but have been on the farmer side.
Not a simple job, need a strong stomach and no feelings as you will be expected to dispatch some of the animals your going to collect. Some may have been dead a while so will stink, and may need some man handling to get onto the truck, not all farmers get them to a place where its easy to load. Not a clean job at all, also know our local one doesn’t pay the best, but allows the lads to work it around their own farms
Good grief that sounds really tempting 
Fallen Stock, not heard that expression before, thought it was something to do with shot/refused loads of soft drinks/bottled water, you know the kind of thing.
Turns out it’s wounded/injured or even dead livestock.
Some even have to be despatched before loading.
Bit too rugged for me lads, any supermarket delivery work going instead?
bigdave789:
Fallen Stock, not heard that expression before, thought it was something to do with shot/refused loads of soft drinks/bottled water, you know the kind of thing.
Turns out it’s wounded/injured or even dead livestock.
Some even have to be despatched before loading.
Bit too rugged for me lads, any supermarket delivery work going instead?
Don’t leave your handbag unattended BIG dave 
Doesn’t sound like the type of job for anybody who thinks meat is grown in polystyrene trays and then wrap in cling film. Probably best to have been a livestock farmer or round livestock farming for a few years.
Done it years ago.
Easy, but can be heavy at times… Climbing over already dead loaded stock for the winch cable etc.
I found it’s the type of job where you’re left to get on with it, wonder why… 
If you can handle the smell, it’s a doddle - I thought anyway.
Is this the same carryon as the demulders sealed tippers that stink terrible 
you would need to be able to obtain a fire arms licence as well, and be trained the correct area to shot the animal before loading, the last thing you want to do is mess up and have it coming round in the back of the truck because you have messed up, a big bullock with a severe head ache can really get mad. 
Having done some work around abbatoirs I would give this branch of driving a body swerve.The firm in my area that does it is caled Douglasbrae,their motors really stink.You would have to be careful of your personal hygiene all of the time,I had a dose of the trots after being in the slaughter house,not for me.
It doesn’t sound like a job I fancy giving a go.
did a stint at pdm wasnt the smells why i jibd it, is an ok job, you do have to have plenty of hand gel though as it can cause the ■■■■■ etc, also done abbatoirs a real eye opener as no packed meat running round for sure, opened a bin once it was full of cow skinned heads
Not a bad job while its cold, bit rank in the summer though maggots etc. Don’t necessarily need a fire arm cert. Some firms use captive bolt guns, no tickets and rules for them. I’d be wary of your weight though, you could be only running a 7.5ton to actually fit in to the smaller farms. And it goes without saying local knowledge helps. Satnav ain’t a lot of use in the sticks!
you dont get stopped often for inspection by vosa or whatever they call thereseves now. as said usualy 7.5 t.
winch on /lifted on by tractor…unloading is the fun part after bouncing about on a truck for an hr or so its 
amazing what that does. bowk. bowk.
tango boy:
bigdave789:
Fallen Stock, not heard that expression before, thought it was something to do with shot/refused loads of soft drinks/bottled water, you know the kind of thing.
Turns out it’s wounded/injured or even dead livestock.
Some even have to be despatched before loading.
Bit too rugged for me lads, any supermarket delivery work going instead?Don’t leave your handbag unattended BIG dave
I need my handbag to carry all my professional credentials like my DCPC
Firearms certificate? Jeez I’m a wagon driver not the Waffen SS, I feel like Billy Crystal in City Slickers, the part were Jack Palance looks skywards and says “city folks” whilst shaking his head
I was co pilot with a guy to the chicken factory, first day on the job, after filling the blood tank, being splashed with fork knows what I’d already decided this wasn’t something I cud do. When we got to emptying the back , I looked in the hopper and fallen stock must’ve been just before us, staring straight up at me was a forking lion. I genuinely cudnt eat meat for a few days, and I think I chucked my boots rather than pick the claws, feathers out my tread. Rank.
A long time ago, I worked in the office for a company who did a bit of this (alongside livestock haulage, which was the main part of the business). Generally the driving was done by part-timers who’s main job was farm work. The idea was that it was a lot easier to train a farmhand to drive a truck, than it would be to train a truck driver to be a farmhand. It was nothing out of the ordinary for those guys. The worst thing was the smell of the trailers, but we used to make sure they were washed out straight after a job.
sod that have done deliveries to abbetiors and it was horrible (also done a bit as a butcher which i didnt like either because of the training at the abbetior). the only other job i have walked away from was landfill same thing stinky horrible smell job that paid not much more than normal work.
pigs scream like mad and anyone who says the animals dont know where they are at are lying too.
It’s not the most pleasant of jobs, even less so when you collect ‘stinkers’ of two weeks dead or longer, coat balding body well bloated, green & smelling putrid in the heat of the summer & running with maggots, & could be across a field or two ! . Cutting them up for the incinerator , open the belly & the the gases are highly evil, you’ll feel the colour drain out of you & probably start wretching!
Even if you don’t have to skin or incinerate, you will enevitably get stinkers to move.
Some will put them tidy for collection, others will have you go across fields for them , in all weathers, wet & howling gales, mud nearly up to your knees , ice snow etc, dragging them out of ditches or mud, & the opposite red hot summer days, sweating rolling off you. There are regulations to follow & your wagon must comply with current legislation.
You’ll need a good pair of leggings and waterproof jacket, hat , gloves , wellies & a strong stomach and preferably no or little sense of smell !!! You may need a gun licence if you are likely to be putting down an animal prior to removal. Dont forget your flask & butties, & a good sense of direction, & humour!!
One thing for sure , its not very often you’ll be waiting in a queue anywhere, two wiffs & people disperse rapidly. You will meet some interesting people along the way, go to all sorts of places , take the rough with the smooth, don’t forget to wash out your wagon & a can of air freshener is always handy, so is some hand cleaner before you eat your butties.
Try and leave the stench at work , your family and friends may not appreciate the new aroma !
We used to drive through Newcastle city centre years ago with loaders when the BSE ‘farce’ was on from Gateshead’s Coast & County slaughter house to Wideopen. 
Well, you couldn’t go on the central motorway with a farm loader could you? !
We were there to load the carcasses into sealed tippers to go for incineration.
It was a case of spot the office worker turning green as we passed through…
Ah, memories… 