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theghostofcain:
Today was my easiset yet.Left yard at 8am with a reefer for Immingham (de-hire).
Arrive at Immingham, drop trailer, sign paperwork & arrive home at 11.45
If only it was like that every day
Nice easy one for you theghostofcain
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How you paid by the hour
Salaried, so on this occasion it worked out OK!
My job last Friday was pretty good. A chance to visit my place of birth and call in at my uncles for a cup of tea (Once they had got over the shock!)
I had a collection in Great Yarmouth to return to DHL in Birmingham for export, so I set off from Nuneaton at 0515 and was in Yarmouth at 0915. Got to the collection address and discovered that the export customer in Saudi was on credit stop so I could not get loaded.
Got in touch with DHL who told me to pull out., so I drove round the harbour (I remember pestering my parents when we lived there) and along the prom and got to my uncles house just in time for a tacho break.
Had a chat and brew for an hour or so, then drove back with a collection in Peterborough (Perkins) to break the journey.
Good day out that!!
Calv
My current job is easy-peasy 
Just drive from the yard at Swan Valley, to whichever Morrisons store, wait for the kids and oaps to unload it, then either go to the next store (rare maybe 1 a fortnight is a double drop), then back to the Valley. There is then either a second run, or home. No unloading or loading, only downside is I’'ve put on a bit of weight since being there.
TheBear:
I SHALL POST THE ANSWER BEFORE LEAVING TOMORROW
Promises, promises… 
Other than cutting the shrink wrap, I’d suggest someone pulling the pallet load away from the adjacent pallets (to break the shrink wrap glue) while you pull with the truck, so that the pallet doesn’t fall over.
el gordo 78:
Working for Bibby Distribution for Nisa Today’s, delivering to places like select n save, nisa, cost cutter and other syndicated/franchised independent local stores.There’s over 4000 stores so I’m yet to anywhere more than once (apart from a store in barnstaple I’ve been to 3 times because I enjoy the 2 day job and others dont).
Considering many Scunthorpe jobs pay less than £7.50 an hour, the money is definitely worth it. around £9.50 an hour for the first 8 hours, time and a half after that. Sundays about £12 an hour flat rate and Sundays £16 an hour flat rate. Thats agency rates btw. Their main driver base is salaried and pretty well paid too by all accounts.
Yep, done that too, albeit out of Avonmouth. Although IIRC I got £8.50/hr basic, but proper time and a half on Saturday and double time on Sunday. Since I only ever drive on weekends, it works out better. 
The unloading of the pallets is a bit of a PITA, as they’re always loaded right up to the roof (often so high that they won’t fit out the back doors of the truck), and they’re sometimes so heavy that I can’t move them at all. There’s one customer who has to take his delivery about 75m up a lane between two shops which is too narrow for the truck, so you have to push the pallet all the way along the lane, round the corner, and up a slope to the store. They always send two drivers to do the job - one carrying the load, and one having finished his/her delivery somewhere else arrives to help - and one of the regulars there just takes his car and uses it to push the pallets while the other driver steers the pump truck - great fun and much easier 
Anyway, my easiest job:
Start in Bristol. Ride as passenger with regular driver up to Tesco Crick. Pick up solo unit, drive back to Bristol, leave unit in yard. Following weekend, do the same journey in reverse. Both journeys on Bank Holidays, so both at triple time agency rate.
Containers
Need I say more
kindle530:
Driving to Hertfordshire, undoing doors on box van, 2 hrs later closing doors on box van, 2hr wait for paperwork, drive to Ancona Italy, get on boat, get pleasently drunk etc on the 22hr crossing, arrive in Patras, Greece, drive to factory near Athens, arrive usually around 4-5pm in the evening, next morning undo doors on trailer, 2-3 hour tip, while i sit in the sun, get tipped, close back doors, back to Patras(3.5 hr drive) back on the evening ferry after having a walk around the town, arrive in Ancona the next afternoon, 4hr drive to Prato, park up at warehouse around 6pm, get up in the morning to undo back doors, then either back to bed or sit in the sun, close back doors usually aroun 4pm, drive up to Northumberland, undo back doors, get tipped, close back doors and home.
11 days of doing nowt apart from driving really
Now that sounds like my ideal job
How come you left Kindle?
