jonnytruckfest:
. But having dropped 5 stone since starting driving cant complain too much!Cheers
Jonny
You must be the only person ever to lose weight since becoming a driver! Seriously though Jonny, 5 stones is very, very impressive. You must feel loads better now?
630, thirty kg sacks, all handballed, because iâm not just some soft steering wheel attendant in a shirt and pressed trousers.
daf1691:
Just wondering how many still handball in 2015?
Maradona, Henry, Suarez and Messi 
Used to handball two deckers every night loaded with yankee fridges, washing machines and TVâs, then a handball reload of stuff to go back to get fixed. Thankfully not any more, itâs a mugs game. But DHL Newark, still expect drivers to handball 2 deckers every night, even though itâs 2015.
Muckaway:
I did it for a while on flour, didnât mind some of it but so much was so unnecessary. I could never understand why bakers had flour carried upstairs, when they used it downstairs.
I gave it up as apart from a nagging back injury I can earn as much on tippers doing less work, and less hours. Fifteen hour days didnât appeal either with a new baby in the house.
they want it upstairs so the idle staff can just tip it down a chat into the mixer . i did a few years on the flour job and it went on the floor , or their staff carried it upstairs , or it went back . the sales manager backed us up every time . i fetched 8 tons back from glasgow on those terms and the bakery got a bill for back haulage . dave
nurglets:
630, thirty kg sacks, all handballed, because iâm not just some soft steering wheel attendant in a shirt and pressed trousers.
Looks like what I see when opening the back of a container at some places.
âŠBefore retreating to my cab to get paid to watch telly & sleep whilst the minions unload it 
Last time I checked handballers arenât often on more money.
nurglets:
630, thirty kg sacks, all handballed, because iâm not just some soft steering wheel attendant in a shirt and pressed trousers.
Nicely stacked. Bet you canât get many sacks on the old pump truck though. 
Muckaway:
I did it for a while on flour, didnât mind some of it but so much was so unnecessary. I could never understand why bakers had flour carried upstairs, when they used it downstairs.
I gave it up as apart from a nagging back injury I can earn as much on tippers doing less work, and less hours. Fifteen hour days didnât appeal either with a new baby in the house.
Really?
Why didnât you mention it at the time?
I had a job on petrol tankers that was handball. You needed good gloves. Very dangerous job.
nurglets:
630, thirty kg sacks, all handballed, because iâm not just some soft steering wheel attendant in a shirt and pressed trousers.
Why on earth would it ever make sense to load a wagon like that?
Even if it did, for loading, a walking floor would have had, what probably took 5 hours, out in 5 mins.
Own Account Driver:
nurglets:
630, thirty kg sacks, all handballed, because iâm not just some soft steering wheel attendant in a shirt and pressed trousers.
Why on earth would it ever make sense to load a wagon like that?
Even if it did, for loading, a walking floor would have had, what probably took 5 hours, out in 5 mins.
Maybe he had 630 drops.
Our lads still do it but they have crewmen to help. Class 1 and Class 2. Keep hold of our drivers pretty well to be fair.
we do play areaâs and there all hand ball can be up to 10 ton of scaffolding + loads of other stuff normal 6 of us to do it
Whingecanton drivers are allergic to handball.
Muckaway:
I did it for a while on flour, didnât mind some of it but so much was so unnecessary. I could never understand why bakers had flour carried upstairs, when they used it downstairs.
+1
The flour used to be my main customer, 16kg or 25kg bags, 2-3 at a time on the shoulder into the shop/bakery. Upstairs downstairs and oddball locations in between, &rain, sun, snow & ice to deal with while carrying them. With 65 x 16kg bags to a tonne, we wasnât given a drivers mate unless there was a drop with 3 tonne+ on the truck. But regularly got 1-2 tonne+ drops solo
peirre:
The flour used to be my main customer, 16kg or 25kg bags, 2-3 at a time on the shoulder into the shop/bakery. Upstairs downstairs and oddball locations in between, &rain, sun, snow & ice to deal with while carrying them. With 65 x 16kg bags to a tonne, we wasnât given a drivers mate unless there was a drop with 3 tonne+ on the truck. But regularly got 1-2 tonne+ drops solo
âArtisanâ bakeries usually meant pig ignorant staff listening to an âeclectic mixâ of music, usually classical mixed with Clean Bandit (particularly in London and Bristol) and whilst they WATCH YOU try and push 65 bags on a pallet across a floor covered in more flour dust than Shipton Mill. If they were feeling generous they might grunt âmorningâ and hold open (and let it go as you pass) a door for you. Oh they also like to leave bread trays, bins and other junk in your way to make the day more interesting.
Matthews have a 5t handball limit, so on a night out you could have 10t handball in one day if the drops were close enough. Very rare but I have done just under 8t in one day after agency mate failed to limp into work with his Lidl carrier bag and then had 7.5t on my own at the end of the week because I was given same mate again and he pulled a no show again. Completed my DCPC and jacked a short time later.
I handballed my coffee cup (full) to the coffee table this morning - does this count?
Whilst being a hard worker, Iâve never been that endeared with handballing, as it frequently an employers term for mauling, or struggling with heavy items on a daily basis. I frequently see drivers struggling with what look like extremely overladen cages, across rough ground, or trying to get them up kerbs, see the colour drained out their faces and think youâre bordering on heart attack country buddy. 
I regularly do furniture and ventilation ducts (weighs around 1500kg for the whole trailer) and am happy to handball them on and off. have a quick shower afterwards and all is well 
this I used to do regularly as well, break down the pallets of wine/cognac/champagne from spain/france and load the boxes up to the roof in order to gain space on the floor. 6-8 pallets pretty often.
Used to do 20 ton loads of bricks, kerbstones, bagged salt, bagged grain, all handball 40 years ago and I was as fit as a butcherâs dog then.
Mind you, I think Iâm paying for it now!
My knees are shot, arthritis in my hands and itâs taken this long to find an easy job.
Muckaway:
âArtisanâ bakeries usually meant pig ignorant staff listening to an âeclectic mixâ of music, usually classical mixed with Clean Bandit (particularly in London and Bristol) and whilst they WATCH YOU try and push 65 bags on a pallet across a floor covered in more flour dust.
You mean you actually had a pallet truck!