Hi guys
Just after a bit of info from other drivers out there. I have an interview at coop birtley next week for class 1. The hourly rate looks decent enough and I know the work can be hard to earn that however it is advertised as a 40 hour contract.
What would be the expected or average hours the drivers do at coop?
Hourly rate might look good but if I was you keep well away. Working under the most evil managers and people who will crawl up any hole to get what they want. 40 hr contract drivers get pushed to the limit do all the crap the lazy gits wont do. Plenty of lazy drivers in there as well.
Nice one gazzad, appreciate the heads up
.
I really can’t see it been 40 hours per week in real world terms, it’s minimum 12 hour days in the Birtley RDC.
It’s very hard graft, 3-7 store deliveries with over loaded 300kg and 400kg cages, only one shop has a loading dock so it’s up and down the tail lift all day, you’ll be sent to some extremly tight locations to deliver to, all of which are down narrow back lanes with cars parked on corners and builders skips and wheelie bins evwrywhere.
The trailer will be already loaded for you every day no doubt about that but you will fully unload by yourself and take the cages fully into the shop where somebody will take it off you.
I must point out that the stores are all quite small shops, like corner shops really in busy streets so none of them where designed for an artic to deliver to them.
.
.
Think class 2 multi drop in an artic and you’ll be spot on.
No supermarkets with big private yards to swing round in a nice loading dock to back on to, all small little shops in busy city centre locations and extremly tight back lanes fit for a Nissan Micra.
.
Well-Jell:
.
Think class 2 multi drop in an artic and you’ll be spot on.No supermarkets with big private yards to swing round in a nice loading dock to back on to, all small little shops in busy city centre locations and extremly tight back lanes fit for a Nissan Micra.
.
Be a mixture of class 1 and class 2. 18/26 ton. 27ft 35ft rear steers 40ft and 45ft trailers for the artics.
So the guys at the interview reckon you average 40-44 hours a week. They said they had people on 48 hour contracts but new ones are on 40 hour contracts
So long as its hourly paid what the hell does it matter what the work is compared to others.
Kwik Save was probably a similar job, if you want to knock a bit of overtime up you are better off with the so called crap work, straight hit single deliveries might sound easy but there’s no scope for making the job pay, multi drop multi cages including returns take an awful lot longer, parking issues at stores, traffic between drops, a whole myriad of reasons for delays, and delays pay, can’t get in the car park? that clock’s still ticking whilst you drink tea and watch the totty glide past.
If you decide to go for it don’t judge the job too quickly, get your feet under the table take your time and wait and see, if anything like Kwikies after a few months everything will click nicely into place take your time and let the clock tick, the unhappy ones on these store delivery jobs are those who want to be going home 5 minutes after they clocked on, always looking at the clock rushing round like their arse is on fire, never satisfied, same bods if you paid 'em a £grand a week to lie in bed it would still be wrong 
Summers coming, It’ll be the perfect time for totty watching in town centres.
Well Juddian, when you put it like that. There’s no choice but to go for it haha
I worked for coop St Helens lasted half a day, wouldn’t do that job for 100 grand a year.
Sent from my LYA-L09 using Tapatalk
dean_whittlr:
I worked for coop St Helens lasted half a day, wouldn’t do that job for 100 grand a year.Sent from my LYA-L09 using Tapatalk
.
This.
It’s definitely not the job most people think it will be, expect to do 2 to 3 hours driving and 10 hours ■■■■■■■ around over loaded cages that most times you’ll need to break down in order for them to be moved.
Also expect to spend a few hours each day moving chilled and ambient cages away from the freezer compartment so you can get in to get the freezer cages out as in that sense, nothing is loaded in order.
Your first drop where you need to be in to the freezer should have the same shop’s chilled and ambient cages in front of the freezer however it doesn’t happen like this, instead you’ll have a shops chilled and ambient cages in front of the freezer compartment at a shop that is still a few drops away but you’ll need to be into the freezer before then meaning you’ll have to move over loaded cages on the back of your lorry before you can get in, the job doesn’t get much easier throughout the day as the amount of empties you get back can be very high.
Couple this with shops that have very tight access to get into with a lorry, cars parked all over and other things and the job is more hassle than it’s worth.
This job only just makes sense if you only have a calss 2 licence as most class 2 jobs are like this anyway, with a class 1 licence where there is much better jobs out there, then this job makes no sense.
If you like pushing over loaded cages about with only 2 to 3 hours driving per day go for a warehouse job one to one and a half hours drive away from home and one to one and a half hours drive back.
.
There doesn’t seem to be much else in the north east pying decent, not many of £11ph and most jobs advertised are all agency
I know it’s not the best time to be looking of course
Seriously look at the locations of co ops and then think would you like to deliver there.
■■■■ that they’re worse than tesco expresses.
Remember jobs like Co-op are a delivery job that requires an LGV licence, not a driving job.
Access/restrictions dictate size of delivery vehicle, from 14t rigid up-to 45 ft twin axle trailer.
As stated Co-op is normally within 2 hour radius off depot; up to 6 stores ( might only be 3/4 cages per store). Some larger stores might have 20 cages. Majority delivered via tail lift.
Drivers has to get cage into threshold off store. Return empties full of waste card etc, shuffling load as you go.
Everything planned to the minute and expect permanent weekends as they deliver 7 days a week 06:00 - 21:00.
Kieran1706:
So the guys at the interview reckon you average 40-44 hours a week. They said they had people on 48 hour contracts but new ones are on 40 hour contracts
If you take the job make sure you have skin thicker than a rhino a stab vest on and are able to put up with complete and utter evil ■■■■■