Thanks for that im going to do my artic licence anyways but doing flowers would be something i would be interested because they do alot of international and this is the area i would like to get into for the time been as im a young single male and heard its ment to be alot of fun ig you have no family to worry about
Flowers are not fun. F.L.O.W.E.R.S = W.O.R.K. ( & LOTS OF IT ) Its lots of things but it aint fun. Money,stress& silly schedules…ect. Its not a walk in the park. Sorry.Neext!
Pulling flowers would be fun actually apart from 2 axle trailers 
- you get to go to towns, villages 99% of time instead of industrial estates. Well with you being on removals you proberly visited alot of towns aswell 
…and i hope you dont get hayfever 
Tom_DAF Yes I agree. Much more fun than shuffling around dusty old houses & doing yer back in. Normally ,better trucks too.
Ye we do alot fo silly towns and silly houses so tight work all the time but getting great experiance out of it. Dont suffer from hayfever so its all good. Ye the lorrys we run arnt the best as firm is only firm and i seen the flower lorrys are real nice compare to ours. Wont want to do removals to long as can feel the strain on my back
Heres the flower power that comes round my town , he leaves his town in Holland which i heard is only a couple of hours from ferry , gets on ferry spends a night on ferry gets of at newcastle drives round all the flower shops for the day gets back on the ferry that night has another night on ferry then a couple of hours driving home.
2axle trailer 2axle trailer not good though 
A lot of the Dutch lads are O/Ds and actually sell the flowers to the shops.Thats why they have such fancy rigs. They have been to business school & hold diplomas before they even start truck driving. So don`t think that you will slip saddle into one of those… You gotta have a brain. & thats something I have never been accused of. 
If thats the case you want to be at Gekatrans in Belgium , that have a fair size fleet and all flower work across europe , the fleet is all drawbars except 1 Volvo fh unit. I have a mate who works for them and he loves it he has a Scania R500 topline drawbar and had Volvo Fh12 drawbar before that . Will try and hunt down some pics.
Hey, I would interesting to work with flowers and plants transport because i got horticulture diploma! 
already but i am too young to drive the truck.
I think name of companies - dutch they regular delivery to UK, i have seen lots of dutch drawbar flowers transport truck around the my local,
Visbeen
Boekestijn
Van Dongen Westland BV & Espana
Impulse Plants etc…
Thunderman
I think they have to driving running throu sunday night because most of garden centre & florist want the orders item ready by monday morning
Ben
All those co.s are transport outfits & a strong back +HGV will do. If you looked at the rig in the photo it has a short twin axle mega-cube body. Thats dedicated to retail flowers. Those guys buy the flowers ,sell `em ,have to work out prices, haggle & get the dosh. They are first & foremost merchants. The trucking is incidental. I have seen these guys selling plants in Sicily…(Snow to the Eskimos )
Ball Colgrave do this sort of thing. Both myself and a friend have done it before. They use everything from 3.5T vans (with sleepers - you DO NOT WANT THIS!!!) to HGV Rigid’s. UK National, Ireland etc. Expect to be away for the week etc on those.
They’re in Stratford upon Avon. Good Luck
unloading/loading simple really park along side shop/garden centre press butoon steps fold out carry flowers into shop…job done
Tom_DAF:
unloading/loading simple really park along side shop/garden centre press butoon steps fold out carry flowers into shop…job done
Ha! When I worked for them it wasn’t that easy, but hey, you seem to know more about it than I do
unloading/loading simple really park along side shop/garden centre press butoon steps fold out carry flowers into shop…job done
getting it near the shop garden centre is the hard bit ,not forgetting loading and unloading empty plant trays and sorting them so you can get to your next drop,
not for me give me curtains and a rdc anyday
Thats the best bit. Wrestling with the empty trollies at every drop.
Sorting them out
i got a quick look inside one of those trailers and there all in order alright in little pigeon holes with shops names underneath.
Hey thanks for the replys everyone that artic looks pretty sweet gonna stick out the ol removals till for over the summer anyways. Yeh everything in the back of the ol flower trucks are sorted so wont be to bad just hope can get a job with one of the many companys dont mind relocating for it either
are you a driver or porter on the removals , and what truck you go about in
Tom_DAF:
Heres the flower power that comes round my town , he leaves his town in Holland which i heard is only a couple of hours from ferry , gets on ferry spends a night on ferry gets of at newcastle drives round all the flower shops for the day gets back on the ferry that night has another night on ferry then a couple of hours driving home.
2axle trailer 2axle trailer not good though
ive seen that motor parked up for the night in riegate main drag a few times. suprised he doesnt get knicked
Foreign plates= Untouchable !
suprised he doesnt get knicked… ( Do you mean kicked…? )