Theres a fair few companies round my area only running artic tippers, just wondering what the work is like doing this and how it compares to rigid 8 wheel tippers if it all. What’s a typical run or a typical day like? I assume it’s easier to say than what anything typical in general work would be. Ie is it mainly collecting from quarries or docks? You tend see 8 wheelers on construction sites but I don’t often see any artics on there. Don’t know anything about it at all so any input would be interesting.
There are a few artic tipper guys on here (Tango Boy to name but one) and I’m sure that they’ll be along to answer your questions shortly.
Soon as they’ve finished smashing other people’s mirrors, running over cyclists and scaring Micra drivers that is! 
I thought following the thread title it would have said “…are the best drivers”
I am one and even saw tangoboy on my travels today. I deal with scrap mainly and a few loads of skip waste every so often, it’s easy enough, max 3 loads a day really unless on local turnaround I think I managed 5 loads once ha.
Today was pretty typical, wake up in Cardiff at 4am to park outside customer who opens at 6am 10 minutes away so stopped at 4:20am to sleep till 5:55am to see a line of tippers behind me 
Tipped that, off to Glastonbury empty, load Glastonbury to Gloucester, then reload Gloucester and up to Sheffield for the night.
Some days are a race but others are easy enough. Also there are not that many places to remember as a lot of metal goes to the same recycle place or docks so you just have to look for new scrap yards or demolition sites occasionally.
Like the white van man it is our duty to keep up the stereotype by appearing to be racing everywhere.
Artic tippers seem to fall in one of either two corners. Knackered old trailers, held together by bailing twine and years of dirt, pulled by 07 or 58 plate units with mismatched panels held together with gaffer tape. Or, shiny trailers pulled by garishly airbrushed units that have been dipped in glue and driven through the Kelsa catalogue. …
THE companies I’ve got in mind seem to be all quarry type work and some animal feeds as well. Never seen em out and about with scrap metal poking out of the cover, but that doesn’t mean to say they don’t do that. Just never seen it. Also there are a few quarries near where I live.
Happy memories…
Of brown sugar going over the top of me wellies when I loaded out of Silvertown many years ago. Non of this easysheet girly stuff you have now.
I did it for a year and liked it. The only time I had any bother was a load of coal dust that had settled over the weekend and only half of it tipped out. Had to get in there with me shovel and dig Christ knows how many tons out before the rest would drop.
Rowley010:
Theres a fair few companies round my area only running artic tippers, just wondering what the work is like doing this and how it compares to rigid 8 wheel tippers if it all. What’s a typical run or a typical day like? I assume it’s easier to say than what anything typical in general work would be. Ie is it mainly collecting from quarries or docks? You tend see 8 wheelers on construction sites but I don’t often see any artics on there. Don’t know anything about it at all so any input would be interesting.
If your comparing muck away with eight wheelers type firms to say a firm running artics carrying grain or other bulk commodities etc, then yeah a massive difference in the job. See if you can speak to one of there drivers if you ever get the chance as obviously every firm is different.
A local company to me runs artic tippers and most of the guys are away Monday to Friday. Where as your eight wheeler muck away type job will be a more 6am-4pm days type thing. Every firm is different so hard to answer your question in detail regarding quarries and docks, generally yes but they can also collect from farms, feed mills, factories etc, storage sheds etc too and tip pretty much in all those places too.
When my Dad was on an artic tipper for a small company he could run hundreds of miles/all day with a load of grain for example to be tipped, then load another product nearby for somewhere several hours away again. As has been said in this thread it can be very long hours albeit relaxed (most of the time!) enough days. Obviously “easier” then general haulage in the sense that there is no load securing etc, most trailers have an electric sheet these days too.
You generally won’t get artic’s doing muck away on construction sites for a whole host of reasons such as, ground clearance, traction, manoeuvrability…99% of the time eight wheelers which are built for working on those sites and getting loaded/ tipping all day.
Yeah hatch makes bar for the construction muck away typ work. Pretty sure the main 2 companies near me do a lot of quarry collections and some grain, so if I did ever fancy it, then that is what I’d be looking at doing!
The companies are: carefoot plc based in longridge near Preston, T&J haulage based in clitheroe, and miles fox haulage also based in clitheroe. There is also P&S nelson or something like that who I think are part of T&J haulage also based in clitheroe, but reglardless all of them run fleets of artic tippers.
Rowley010:
Yeah hatch makes bar for the construction muck away typ work. Pretty sure the main 2 companies near me do a lot of quarry collections and some grain, so if I did ever fancy it, then that is what I’d be looking at doing!The companies are: carefoot plc based in longridge near Preston, T&J haulage based in clitheroe, and miles fox haulage also based in clitheroe. There is also P&S nelson or something like that who I think are part of T&J haulage also based in clitheroe, but reglardless all of them run fleets of artic tippers.
Carefoot (the g cabbed scania’s) get about the country too!
Rowley010:
Theres a fair few companies round my area only running artic tippers, just wondering what the work is like doing this and how it compares to rigid 8 wheel tippers if it all. What’s a typical run or a typical day like? I assume it’s easier to say than what anything typical in general work would be. Ie is it mainly collecting from quarries or docks? You tend see 8 wheelers on construction sites but I don’t often see any artics on there. Don’t know anything about it at all so any input would be interesting.
I had a job for a couple of weeks last year driving an artic tipper. It was collecting sand and other aggregates from a quarry in west London and delivering to a ready-mix place in north-west London – three or four runs to the same place every day. The best thing about it is it’s low height – don’t be deceived by the tipper body towering above you, it’s less than 10ft high. They’re quite manoevrable, although if you have a 6x2 (which I did), it might be difficult within the quarry as the roads are soft and often wet. The only gotcha is never tip with the truck bent; the tipper body is in danger of collapsing onto the cab (there is a YouTube video of this happening somewhere, and the driver was killed).
Rowley010:
Theres a fair few companies round my area only running artic tippers, just wondering what the work is like doing this and how it compares to rigid 8 wheel tippers if it all. What’s a typical run or a typical day like? I assume it’s easier to say than what anything typical in general work would be. Ie is it mainly collecting from quarries or docks? You tend see 8 wheelers on construction sites but I don’t often see any artics on there. Don’t know anything about it at all so any input would be interesting.[/qNot much difference between the artic and rigid.
Same ■■■■■■■ tipper driver behind the wheel bombing it all day.
Matford:
Rowley010:
Theres a fair few companies round my area only running artic tippers, just wondering what the work is like doing this and how it compares to rigid 8 wheel tippers if it all. What’s a typical run or a typical day like? I assume it’s easier to say than what anything typical in general work would be. Ie is it mainly collecting from quarries or docks? You tend see 8 wheelers on construction sites but I don’t often see any artics on there. Don’t know anything about it at all so any input would be interesting.[/qNot much difference between the artic and rigid.
Same [zb] tipper driver behind the wheel bombing it all day.
We are not all like that mate,I drive a artic tipper and I don’t rush around no need to 
there’s always a few that give us a bad reputation