Have been offered a job on containers and have never had anything to do with them before. Any advice would be welcome. Going to work for Unitruc, had enough of HBC and no nights out!
when you get to the container lifting area, make sure your twist locks are undone 
Get your Rhides card sorted asap
Cold Up North:
Get your Rhides card sorted asap
the company he is working for will have to sort that for him
when you first get the container lifted on to the trailer, drive carefully, you do not know how it is loaded, if they are top heavy, they can easily fall over
also, be careful when opening the doors, there are many times when the goods can fall out as you open the doors
When you get the pleasure of visiting ~TIlbury stop on the stop line at the out gates to the dock not over it as the security fella doesnt like it when you stop half way over it 
Have a good look around your trailer before kick off, so as to understand how to set it up for 20 - 40 - 45 foot containers, saves a panick later.
Nearly always some one about to put you right.
Where you going to run from?
bazstan009:
Have a good look around your trailer before kick off, so as to understand how to set it up for 20 - 40 - 45 foot containers, saves a panick later.
Nearly always some one about to put you right.
Where you going to run from?
Think it’s mainly Tilbury but have been told will be out of any container terminal they get the work. Its MacIntyres work so I have been told.
Not done tilbury for eons but sure some obe on here will put you right,
Good luck with the job, just take it easy, jobs easy you will soon pick it up.
container work is a doddle, the hardest part, and its not that hard really is getting the hang of each port and depots way of doing things, just dont go round corners too fast - pay attention to the weight of the box, as said already their centre of gravity can be high up - especially with heavy 20 footers. you’ll be fine 
Make sure you get your numbers at Felixstowe and don’t go charging off before you know where you’re going as its a tad sizeable. You have to stop precisely in your allocated white box else the crane won’t load you and he’ll just stare at you for a while. Ahem.
watch out for liquid loads. you dont know what you are carrying and the first few roundabouts can be confusing when you stop then think someone has just rammed you up the arse
watch out when picking up an empty skellie. you dont have the nice straight lines to line up with like you do on a box or curtainsider and dont forget to extend the rear bumper if you are carrying a 45 foot container
When they tell you to take a box to ‘Stratford’ don’t go to Shakespeare’s birthplace
GasGas:
When they tell you to take a box to ‘Stratford’ don’t go to Shakespeare’s birthplace
Seriously? That’s the first place I’d have thought of rather than E15. :-/
when loading two 20ft containers make sure you load the back one first
goonerewill:
when loading two 20ft containers make sure you load the back one first
why?
if you load front box first it is a lot harder to line the pins up with the crane driver when loading 2nd box as you can,t see past the front box
that depends on where you are loading, Felixstowe, yes, you have a valid point, but, everywhere else, they move to you
the difference is, Felixstowe dockers are the laziest bunch of retards that you will have the displeasure to meet 
Take plenty of reading matter, can take while to offload any handball load.
Just a little tip to start, if you have a 20 box on, when backing onto a bay back on the bay or lined up for the bay before shrinking the skelly as you will look a tool not being use to how a shorter trailer acts. Some skellys you have a shunt like button to unlock the pins to shrink others it’s a swap of the red airline to release the pins.
Don’t try driving around with a heavy 20’ box with your skelly still squashed up, doesn’t handle very well