Im just wondering if it would put many off driving for a company where you drive a differently lorry everyday or even a company where you drive the same lorry everyday but shared with a night shift and weekend drivers. Currently working for a company which gives me my own lorry during the week but used by different drivers on the weekends. I have been offered a few jobs were i can bring home an extra £150 a week but need to share a lorry or drive different one everyday. I really want a job were im the only person who drives it but they seem hard to find. Where i work now seems to be the only place where i get my own lorry during the week. Would this put you off or should i take these jobs that pay more?
Completely up to you.
Personally I couldn’t care less what I’m driving. But then again I only ever do ad hoc shifts so aren’t in a position to quibble.
However, I can see benefits to having your own truck, especially if you’re out all week.
Depends what your priorities are.
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Ryan99:
Im just wondering if it would put many off driving for a company where you drive a differently lorry everyday or even a company where you drive the same lorry everyday but shared with a night shift and weekend drivers. Currently working for a company which gives me my own lorry during the week but used by different drivers on the weekends. I have been offered a few jobs were i can bring home an extra £150 a week but need to share a lorry or drive different one everyday. I really want a job were im the only person who drives it but they seem hard to find. Where i work now seems to be the only place where i get my own lorry during the week. Would this put you off or should i take these jobs that pay more?
Are you a day worker or do you do nights ?
If only a day worker go where the money is even if you’re cab hopping like the time
I do nights out so I have a dedicated truck
If you really can take home another £150 a week for similar hours and effort then for goodness sake jump ship, it wouldn’t put me off.
Using another lorry on day or night work isn’t the end of the world, you don’t have to drive it in the state its usually left, a quick sweep out, blast of cleaner and wipe down the steering wheel controls and dash, clean the windows inside and out and it’ll feel and smell like a different wagon to the one you received 15 minutes earlier…if questioned why you are 38 seconds late leaving by the jobsworth behind the desk who left school last week then just put it on your daily sheet as ‘clean lights windows mirrors etc’’ they won’t question because its a road safety issue, if they refuse you time for this and you do some damage there’s you get out of jail card just point at said jobsworth when some bugger higher up asks why.
Luckily where i am even though i’m a day driver i’m allocated the lorry as such as the main driver, so get the same truck and trailer almost every day, that’s preferable for both us as drivers and the company because at least some of the fleet look right (those who take a pride) and the company take this sort of thing seriously, but it can work just as well the other way just the vehicles get more battered and grungy because no one bothers to the same degree when they might not drive that vehicle again for months.
Meet up with trampers from one or two of the big logicstics.com mobs where i deliver, unlike Blue Estate often they’re in one vehicle for two or three days, spend a night at home and the next night out would be in yet another motor, cab hopping like that on nights away i’d be wanting serious money for, far more than the companies who operate like this pay.
The trick is to be paired up with another driver with the same mindset. If you like to look after it and keep it clean and tidy then you need someone who thinks the same. Likewise if you’re a mucky [zb], don’t care about the truck and regularly prang it into stuff then you need someone the same.
A decent gaffer running his trucks night and day (assuming no nights out) will try to accommodate this if he possibly can as it saves him hours of getting his ears chewed off by whining drivers. I even include myself in that as I was paired up with some thick [zb] agency driver on “my” truck who left footprints on the inside of the windscreen every shift, footwell full of mud, McDonalds packaging and energy drink cans down the back of the seat and door pockets, suzies in a massive greasy knot and chunks out of the mudguard tops 
. I’m now paired up with a young newish pass who is “living the dream” 
, polishing the tank and wheels every day and keeping it all looking smart so I don’t have to 
. He does have a sweaty arse though, which isn’t pleasant finding the seat damp when I start my night shift and he does keep changing my kms back to miles on the display , but I can deal with that as everything else gets left clean and tidy and he’s an all-round good egg 
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all great advice above, your must have tools are a brush,wet wipes and fabreeze fabric 
hth
I do Rdc work different lorry each day, I don’t have a problem with that. They supply the cleaning kit and I spend 20 mins at the start of the shift cleaning. If I did nights out it be a different story but day work no problem. I think I can only remember turning down one lorry when it stunk of ■■■■, so they gave me another. £150 extra? You wouldn’t see me for dust. You don’t suffer that badly with OCD do you? 
Places I’ve worked always had a dedicated truck.
Personally it wouldn’t bother me driving a different truck everyday. As long as no nights out involved.
Can’t see the problem.
Just give everything a quick wipe down at start of shift and.empty rubbish out when done.
elsa Lad:
I do Rdc work different lorry each day, I don’t have a problem with that. They supply the cleaning kit and I spend 20 mins at the start of the shift cleaning. If I did nights out it be a different story but day work no problem. I think I can only remember turning down one lorry when it stunk of ■■■■, so they gave me another. £150 extra? You wouldn’t see me for dust. You don’t suffer that badly with OCD do you? [emoji38]
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I dont mind but our lot try to keep drivers on on one truck.Cab hopper flexi trampers get 25 a day for cab hopping .
Wouldn’t mind if I was just on days, as long as each truck was clean inside.
As for cab hopping tramping?..It would do my head in big style.
I’ve always kept that owner driver mentality where I like ‘‘my own’’ truck.
Ryan99:
Im just wondering if it would put many off driving for a company where you drive a differently lorry everyday or even a company where you drive the same lorry everyday but shared with a night shift and weekend drivers.
Couldn’t give a toss. Not had my own wagon for most of the last 26 years, the times I have it’s made no difference. Drove four different ones this week.
I drove a different one every day this week.
If it’s got wheels in each corner, and it’s safe and legal to drive, crack on
A wagon belongs to the Company,and its down to them by who and when its driven. Agree if your n/outing its nice to keep the same vehicle or if the motor is shared preferred to be with the same partner. When comes to w/end its not in the Companies interest to have it parked up if it can be used. Your choice stay with the Company or move on for the extra cash
The only way the OP can guarantee that no one else drives “his” motor is to be an owner driver, even then its likely they`ll have someone they trust driving it to keep it earning when they head off to Benidorm for the summer jollies
All our early starters have an allocated vehicle,but as I’m one of a handful of p.m.starters…I get whatever is in the yard.
Don’t bother me…they’re all in good condition.
Down to good management(and t’s & c’s)at the end of the day.
Only 2 drivers have been sacked…whilst I’ve been there.
One for smoking…and one for persistent damage.
The only other driving job apart from tramping where I’ve had an allocated truck was when I worked for Worthing BC as a recycling driver and the round had it’s allocated truck ,
All other day work 7.5t and class 2 has been different trucks , at DCSG I drove 5 different trucks in a week which was a pain as some were Frisbee and some digi tacho