Whitey2104:
I am starting at 6.30am and finishing anytime around 9pm.
Sounds like OP is getting raped on hours every day…
Whitey2104:
I am self employed as a limited company so I don’t get holiday pay, as for busting my gut on multi drop last week I was driving a double decker and had to load 52 pallets on my self with a pallet trolley twice in the same day , jumping out f a van with a parcel is easier than that. You get given you round and that’s it they don’t drop you unless your crap my mate has hadthe same round for 6 mths and one of the other drivers has been doing it for 15 yearsIf I go on holiday I don’t pay someone else to do the shift the other drivers in the area cover the shift as a way of earning a bob or two extra. Yes the van is a depreciating asset but weigh up the fact your home most evenings earlyish you can nip home for a cuppa when you want. The tax mans cut is going to be less as there is more I can write off. Oh and the fact there is a lot less responsibility than drivng an artic not forgetting the lack of regulations and rules.
They dont go home for a brew because they have 100 plus drops. the chap who delivers to our house said they try getting you doing 200 drops, he said its mind boggling
The guys on DPD get 90 seconds to deliver a parcel. I’m only done the excess post run for City Link out of Lincoln which was 7 cages on a 7.5t and that was enough for me.
dieseldog999:
I just bought a stainless bulbar from fleabay and I used them to lift it from willenhall,and deliver it to me in northern Ireland for the princely sum of £10-00…who makes wages from that?
If they were just transporting it from door to door, nobody. But when you put it on a night trunk along with 1500 other parcels going from the hub to the depot, what I used to carry typically at Parceline, £10 per parcel becomes £15,000 income per trailer load which doesn’t cost them anything like £15,000 to move. All of a sudden its easy to see just how they manage to make wages from that.
If Hermes have the same set up as Parcelnet , which they used to be, then in January after the catalogues go out it becomes quiet. It continues that way until after the summer holidays.
In the run up to Xmas each depot will be getting 4-5 trunks per night, through the summer this drops to 2-3, so obviousley the vans will be less busy.
I never spoke to a courier who had good things to say.
Having said all that, there is nothing wrong with multi drop work , once you know the route/area and providing you can stay on that route as the delivery addresses tend to be the same ones over and over.
Maybe my math is wrong but op that’s 185 parcels he has to deliver to make £130. Ok ok I’m looking at small parcels but I bet the majority will be small. So that’s 185 say he don’t get 40 people in that’s 40 added to the morra 225 parcels!
I used to work for parcelnet delivering big giant sacks of parcels to peoples garages then they go and do the donkey work. No money in it at all, just pin money for bored housewives.
merc 0447, which depot you worked out of?
I’ve worked outta chapelhall some folk call it Newhouse, they still have the depot there buts it Hermes now. Was my first driving job talking about 7-8 year ago. I personally thought it was a good number job and finish and the sacks where not that heavy. Worst part eh the job was when the new catalogues came out! All the couriers I delivered to where mainly women that did it while their kids where at school never seen anyone make a proper living wage like the op suggests.
I’ve just seen a Yodel delivery driver in action, he come running out of the drive way of a house like Linford Christie and nearly killed himself trying to run across a busy main road to get to his van, doesn’t seem like the most relaxing of jobs 