I do buses, Recently had a school trip to Stirling Castle spoke to a lady coach driver who was trying to clean a side window. I asked what happened , she said someone threw a used sanitary towel at it.ZB lovely.
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Bus driving is utter ■■■■■■■■■ long enough on service work then did coaching…thats even worse!
Id rather be a bin man lol
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Mid-UK, Biffa, Viola take your pick but Biffa work less weekendsMost do walking floor artics? Not the most complicated job in the world and without the need to complete rounds. Pay is moderate/ [zb] but absolutely no stress!
They do a lot of bin wagons as well collecting commercial bins outside shops, offices, small businesses, on holiday camps and the like. Most of them also have contracts with the local authorities moving the skips in the household waste sites to the recycling centres and landfill. That looks like a bit of a good gig to me.
veolia in stoke take home £590 a week on trade bins
the company I’m at in stoke on bins still gets me 450 a week take home, it’s hard work dozy but it’s nice to be a bin attendant as well as a steering wheel attendant 
GasGas:
Buses and dustcarts do tend to share quite a lot of common chassis/driveline components.TBH, most of the big bus companies don’t look to recruit professional drivers…they recruit people who can put up with people, then teach them to drive buses.
Most truck drivers became truck drivers at least in part because they didn’t want to have to deal with people all the time, so they don’t necessarily make good bus drivers.
Drive a bin lorry…you need to be able to work with a crew who get increasingly hot and smelly as the day goes on. You will be driving a large vehicle with a bin-lift hanging off the back down narrow streets lined with parked cars, and making sure you don’t hit anything/run anyone over.
So if the two jobs have anything in common (apart from fully-automatic transmissions) it is that you have to love traffic and built-up areas, and relish meeting your fellow man/woman.
Even if they stink to high heaven because either they don’t wash very often or they’ve just had a three-litre container of sour milk explode over them.
Your choice!
you forgot to say quite a lot like smoking pot,a few lads on sita did anyway,one wanted to spark up in my cab,the supervisor said ‘‘you are not smoking that in the cab,if you want it smoke it outside’’
stick with being kebab meat in a stobart truck and enjoy being paid from the neck down.
you dont want a career in the bins as there all going to be autonomous within the next 370 years or thereabouts.
why have to change jobs just because of robots…cue drdozyjoetrampdamon and whoever else he/they has made up this week in 5.4.3…or possibly not if their all working the same shift again…
I picked a roll of carpet up to put in the back on a contamination run,as I lifted it near my face a small rat jumped out and legged it down the carpet,never see me move so fast while calling it all the names under the sun,can have it’s good points,i found a military holdall [brand new] 5 brand new map books[can only assume the owner bought a sat nav and didn’t need them anymore]nearly new DVDs in a plastic bag[not a mark on them]I was on recycling,cardboard most of the week from wheelie bins,then Thursday was cans,glass,and paper/cardboard,one thing about collecting glass I allways had a smashing time on the job,[well I thought it was funny] but it was an 06 30 start,finish 14 30/1500
Tuckert92:
veolia in stoke take home £590 a week on trade bins
the company I’m at in stoke on bins still gets me 450 a week take home, it’s hard work dozy but it’s nice to be a bin attendant as well as a steering wheel attendant
Yes, talking to a few people, trade do appear to get significantly more than those doing RoRo/ hook loader covering community tips for Veolia. Straightforward enough job as long as you have the right attitude/mentality - same with every job really.
If you are doing trade bins, you will be on tacho and 99% of the time you will be on you’re own. Doing door to door collections, no tacho, just log book. Trade side you do get more money but saturdays are frequent and rare chance of overtime. That’s how it is at my place anyway, and depending on how you’re rota falls, Christmas day is also worked.
Like I have said before, it is an ok job if your’e fed up with being away from home for ages at a time or a newbie trying to get experience. But after a little while, it gets really boring really quickly, Same rounds every week.
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Tuckert92:
veolia in stoke take home £590 a week on trade bins
the company I’m at in stoke on bins still gets me 450 a week take home, it’s hard work dozy but it’s nice to be a bin attendant as well as a steering wheel attendantYes, talking to a few people, trade do appear to get significantly more than those doing RoRo/ hook loader covering community tips for Veolia. Straightforward enough job as long as you have the right attitude/mentality - same with every job really.
At some companies you get a ■■■■■■■■■■ bonus for trade bins which is ok if you are doing a army camp or such like with 300 plus bins which can be done in less than a couple of hours or you could have a round of 75 bins spread out over Norfolk that takes all days. Them is the brakes but try it please try it so we can get tales of a dustman Robin Askwith stylie! Confessions of a dustman with Dipper Dave ably assisted by Dozy. Ooh er misses
bus driving then bin driver, is this a re incarnation of an old post,