eggs boxes were the worst for me seemed endless tipping a 40foot one of them.
bazstan009:
midlifetrucker:
Never been involved with containers so excuse my ignorance. Are you expected to help unload or do you just sit and wait?Sleeeeeeep
So generally speaking you don’t help to unload?
I’ve never done container work but was considering a change.
gurj254:
bazstan009:
midlifetrucker:
Never been involved with containers so excuse my ignorance. Are you expected to help unload or do you just sit and wait?Sleeeeeeep
So generally speaking you don’t help to unload?
I’ve never done container work but was considering a change.
The container and it’s contents are the load, so your job is to get there, let them cut the seal then open doors. My next task would be to put the kettle on.
Only once have I ventured into the back of a container, when one guy was trying to handball a 40’ on his jack.
d4c24a:
many years ago i used to hand ball containers of cocoa butter , peanuts ,coconut slabs etc at Mars in slough ,was a good job for a school leaver and a good subsidised canteen too, i remember a volvo F89 6X2 in yellow was a regular bringing in containers
if it was a horrible yellowy green that may have been one of teamhauls out of Felixstowe
gurj254:
bazstan009:
midlifetrucker:
Never been involved with containers so excuse my ignorance. Are you expected to help unload or do you just sit and wait?Sleeeeeeep
So generally speaking you don’t help to unload?
I’ve never done container work but was considering a change.
only if there was drink involved. get the amount agreed and in your hand before you start tho 
550 bales of sawdust at some posh farm in Berkshire. 5hrs. Owner with 3 farm hands and myself. He kept wanting to stop for cups of T, right ball ache.
Next at Doncaster are slow. Been at one site for two hours for them to have emptied about a foot of the container before moving to their other site. Think sat there for about 5 hours. Just what you want on a Friday afternoon
So you do have to help now and again (if it’s favourable option for yourself)
The contents of the container are nothing to do with the driver. I was told I am not insured to unload it so if I damage anything I pay for it. The only time I have helped was loading one for a charity as some body else said it took all day.
What really gets my goat is like one place I went to about a month age and I asked how long they would be as I had a reload. they told me two and a half hours, seven and a half hours later they finished. One of the fork lift drivers warned me they would be a long time, missed the reload though they had locked up and gone home by the time I got there.
Where I used to work, they booked containers in at 3 hour intervals - four a day. Sometime two or three would turn up together which was daft as they knew we only did one at a time.
They were normally full of boxes, so there would be two FL drivers and four agency slaves - two in the box and two on the ground stacking the pallets. The first one would get done in a couple of hours, but it got slower as they got tired.
The drivers would sometimes help, wrapping the pallets, just to relieve the boredom. They might get a free coffee for it:)
madmackem:
Next at Doncaster are slow. Been at one site for two hours for them to have emptied about a foot of the container before moving to their other site. Think sat there for about 5 hours. Just what you want on a Friday afternoon
Next always have a CLEAN shower on site you can use,just ask the goods in staff for the key,no problem,drop the trl and donny is only 5 mins away if you fancy a walk about ,they will ring you when its tipped
seth 70:
madmackem:
Next at Doncaster are slow. Been at one site for two hours for them to have emptied about a foot of the container before moving to their other site. Think sat there for about 5 hours. Just what you want on a Friday afternoonNext always have a CLEAN shower on site you can use,just ask the goods in staff for the key,no problem,drop the trl and donny is only 5 mins away if you fancy a walk about ,they will ring you when its tipped
Quality
Do containers go in to lidil or aldi? If so are they self tip
kr79:
Do containers go in to lidil or aldi? If so are they self tip
Good question m8.
kr79:
Do containers go in to lidil or aldi? If so are they self tip
Yep thats a good one, I haven’t had the pleasure of delivering to them whilst on boxes but have delivered for them when doing a bit of agency work for Culina and quite enjoyed the self tip aspect, better than twiddling me thumbs in a waiting room anyway.
As far as I’m aware we would be unable to self tip unless some paperwork was avaialable that Lidl or Aldi’s insurance covered us to do it and approval was given by our company (in writing / email / text etc), even then a box jockey could still refuse on the grounds of ehhh well not wanting to. I would do it though.
With that in mind due to the length of time to sort the paperwork out Lidl or Aldi would get one of their own to do it.
What many don’t realise is how important box jockeys are and we are treated a such… we ain’t ten a penny trolley dolleys…
kr79:
Do containers go in to lidil or aldi? If so are they self tip
Yes and Yes, but it’s normally by agreement between Lidl / Aldi / Transport Company and Driver.
We used to get extra money if we did them, think it was about an extra tenner - no rush either since it was allocated approx 3hrs and it’s all on pallets
waynedl:
kr79:
Do containers go in to lidil or aldi? If so are they self tipYes and Yes, but it’s normally by agreement between Lidl / Aldi / Transport Company and Driver.
We used to get extra money if we did them, think it was about an extra tenner - no rush either since it was allocated approx 3hrs and it’s all on pallets
Last place I was at, driver assist was £25.
Longest I was at a tipping point was 27 hrs, which included an overnight stop when the staff went home, took them an hour to finish it the next morning, 40’ hand ball.
never self tipped a container for any supermarket yet.
We used to take containers to Aldi at South Elmsall, but they tipped them.