peter cook placed an advert in thursday`s daily mirror wanting good quality class 1 continental drivers.no details just a name and number.if any body enquires please place details on here 
mr ian hall 0191 3746701 0191 3864323
good luck to any body who applies
jon
Are they still on the self employed crack? It always sounded a bit iffy to me.
Thought they were called something else now!
i always thought the self-employed bit sounded dodgy too wheel nut. hope someone enlightens us as to the conditions and general crack with the job?
i did my adr with a couple of their drivers and they are self employed they even pay for their own diesal and are paid per kilometre i asked if they ship out of hull and they said no always dover cos it further to drive so more k’s and they are always weekended.
I was loading wine near Toulouse, when one of their trucks pulled up to finish loading. He had already done 9 pickups. If you have tried to load wine in France you will understand it sounds a lot easier than it is.
Loading in village squares, or halfway up mud lanes with nowhere to turn round
Wheel Nut:
I was loading wine near Toulouse, when one of their trucks pulled up to finish loading. He had already done 9 pickups. If you have tried to load wine in France you will understand it sounds a lot easier than it is.Loading in village squares, or halfway up mud lanes with nowhere to turn round
Yes, Malc, I loaded at one of those places not all that far from here in the SW as it happens. Funny thing was it was a real amateurish chateau type place. Family in residence, small production, and anyway I was there to load scrap chocolate! One broken down shed was rented by some entrepreneur to store the stuff and his man arrived to load me with an old petrol fork truck. This wreck had trouble with the clutch so each time he got to the back of the trailer and hit the brakes it stalled. He then had to contort himself to restart (that was knackered too), crash it into gear and go through the whole performance at the other end. Took ages, but at least I had plenty of time to restack the wobbly boxes after each emergency stop.
Finally loaded and out of time so got permission from the aristos indoors to spend the night right there and then they treated me to some fine wine, homemade bread straight from the oven, and excellent conversation in flawless English.
Makes up for all the shunting about to get turned round.
Salut, David.
Yeah Malc…know what you mean…i did the wine run on a regular basis when i was subbing for Brinor out of Dover…some weeks it was easy …others a pain in the proverbial…always had about 7 pick ups…and loads of T forms to do at Beaune…seem to take forever.
Vineyards around south of France an also Spain… anything up to 15 pick ups… 
, not as easy as you would think if youve never done it, god, reading that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up not a nice job, mind you every pick up you went to would give you free wine 
little consolation as far as im concerned, as i cant stand the stuff, regardless of colour
send it to me kindle… i`ll be doing you a favour taking it out of your way
Was around 95 96 when i did it mate, working for a bod who had us on Frans Maas in case youre wondering, i never said “nah mate dont want that muck,” i allways said "we we monsuir merci "
then flogged it when i got home
Spardo:
Wheel Nut:
I was loading wine near Toulouse, when one of their trucks pulled up to finish loading. He had already done 9 pickups. If you have tried to load wine in France you will understand it sounds a lot easier than it is.Loading in village squares, or halfway up mud lanes with nowhere to turn round
Yes, Malc, I loaded at one of those places not all that far from here in the SW as it happens. Funny thing was it was a real amateurish chateau type place. Family in residence, small production, and anyway I was there to load scrap chocolate! One broken down shed was rented by some entrepreneur to store the stuff and his man arrived to load me with an old petrol fork truck. This wreck had trouble with the clutch so each time he got to the back of the trailer and hit the brakes it stalled. He then had to contort himself to restart (that was knackered too), crash it into gear and go through the whole performance at the other end. Took ages, but at least I had plenty of time to restack the wobbly boxes after each emergency stop.
Finally loaded and out of time so got permission from the aristos indoors to spend the night right there and then they treated me to some fine wine, homemade bread straight from the oven, and excellent conversation in flawless English.
Makes up for all the shunting about to get turned round.Salut, David.
david,i am curious what were you doing picking up scrap chocolate from a vinyard.
if anyone has scrap chocolate im your man … it wont be scrap for long 
peter cherry:
[
david,i am curious what were you doing picking up scrap chocolate from a vinyard.
[/quote]
Peter,
There was an old nissan hut, obviously unused by the vineyard, which this fellow had rented for storage. That is why I had to wait for someone to arrive in a car and drive the fork truck. The chocolate was obviously old in very poor condition cardboard boxes, which is why it didn’t take much to topple with the antics of the machine which was in a similar state.
Inside the boxes were cream egg type children’s stuff which I eventually delivered to a cold store, maybe for melting down and reclaiming later.
Tasted ok to me though 
Salut, David.
jessicas dad:
if anyone has scrap chocolate im your man …
I used to take scrap chocolate to Bromsgrove by the bulk tipper load. The vast majority was within its sell-by date, but had too short a life to be distributed. It used to go for pig feed.
Vince
kindle530:
Vineyards around south of France an also Spain… anything up to 15 pick ups…
I used to do an identical job around the Mosel Valley, usually with a dozen or so pick-ups, but I used to love it. It used to take a couple of days so there was no rush, the scenery was beautiful, and like you I used to get a bottle or two everywhere I loaded.
Vince