…and do something completely different to what you are currently do but still driving what would you choose ? I currently do fridge work but iv’e always fancied heavy cargo work as it seems very interesting and this stems back to my 17 yrs as a Docker whenever we had heavy cargo projects to do it was always good fun with plenty of time for tea breaks as things were always slow to happen but at the same time the day used to fly by.
If i could turn the clock back, Kwik Save would still be here and i’d still be doing rear of (sometimes front of) shop deliveries, with frozen chilled and ambient all on the one trailer.
Maybe Iceland Lidl Aldi shop dels would suit me in much the same way if i had to find other work.
Done most other things, so i’d only do what i enjoy, don’t get me wrong i’m in a very good job on tanks but i enjoyed Kwikkies more despite it being fairly hard work at times.
Couldn’t do a lorry chauffering job, sitting for hours waiting at RDCs, or containers, is my vision of hades.
I would be an ice cream man, your customers are usually happy and they pay you in cash and the weather is nice most of the time. 
Merchant seaman
Lily Thai’s Gyno.
mattecube:
Merchant seaman
British merchant seaman, just like the shipyards … a thing of the past 
raymundo:
mattecube:
Merchant seamanBritish merchant seaman, just like the shipyards … a thing of the past
Yep. Been there (1978 to 1982, fresh out of school), done it, loved it. But as you say, it’s a thing of the past. Anyway, modern day work at sea is nothing like it was. We used to have weeks in port waiting for dockers to load/unload the ship in between strikes/bad weather/meal breaks. These days it’s mostly containers; so three weeks at sea down to Aussie - work your ■■■■ off for 48 hours to get the ship unloaded and loaded again for the 3 week sail back to UK… Not much fun in that. Apparently ships are dry these days too; and crew numbers about a third of what they were in the 80’s.
Mechanic/Fitter
bald bloke:
If you had to change driving jobs and do something completely different to what you are currently do but still driving what would you choose ?
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Contraflow:
bald bloke:
If you had to change driving jobs and do something completely different to what you are currently do but still driving what would you choose ?Just leaving this here for those with eyesight problems.
OK then… Has to be an Aston Martin delivery driver. And I don’t mean on a transporter!!
After doing an all too short of a stint on lowloaders I’d love the opportunity to do it regularly, but then I remember how old and lazy I’m getting and think maybe a stint on the cans would be better 
But tbh at this point I just want to get back behind the wheel again, after all I’m now a fully paid up member of the DCPC crew now, I just haven’t found the right part time work yet.
Did a very similar job to this from 1995-2007 would go back tomorrow loved it 8 hour shifts and 3 miles from my house. youtu.be/snYu-6g-P90
Juddian:
If i could turn the clock back, Kwik Save would still be here and i’d still be doing rear of (sometimes front of) shop deliveries, with frozen chilled and ambient all on the one trailer.Maybe Iceland Lidl Aldi shop dels would suit me in much the same way if i had to find other work.
Done most other things, so i’d only do what i enjoy, don’t get me wrong i’m in a very good job on tanks but i enjoyed Kwikkies more despite it being fairly hard work at times.
Couldn’t do a lorry chauffering job, sitting for hours waiting at RDCs, or containers, is my vision of hades.
I remember vaugley a Kwiki place in the Warrinton area with a truck wash by the gate and then the Kwiki at Reginald Road, St Helens area. When I first went to Reginald Rd they just had the first delivery of a 52 plate silver Volvo. I think they were using the Renault with the Frigoblock connector that gave you a nasty shock in the rain. Maybe dreaming as it was so long ago when wages were good and transport managers were civil.
We did have a good spirit because the job was that bad you had to laugh or cry so we laughed and it was good. Some of the places we had to get in to were a joke but we managed and we laughed about it later.
Then we moved to Lea Green as Somerfield and for a while it was good. But the place was so big the spirit was lost.
Then Excel lost most of us. Then Wincanton made it worse and now its the Co Op.
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Juddian:
.I remember vaugley a Kwiki place in the Warrinton area with a truck wash by the gate and then the Kwiki at Reginald Road, St Helens area. When I first went to Reginald Rd they just had the first delivery of a 52 plate silver Volvo. I think they were using the Renault with the Frigoblock connector that gave you a nasty shock in the rain. Maybe dreaming as it was so long ago when wages were good and transport managers were civil.
We did have a good spirit because the job was that bad you had to laugh or cry so we laughed and it was good. Some of the places we had to get in to were a joke but we managed and we laughed about it later.
Then we moved to Lea Green as Somerfield and for a while it was good. But the place was so big the spirit was lost.
Then Excel lost most of us. Then Wincanton made it worse and now its the Co Op.
I worked out of Wellingborough, which whilst being a Wincanski site was IIRC the only Winc contract that paid proper rates for shifts dark money weekend rates etc in the country, even when rota’d weekends.
We had about a dozen of the Renault G Frigoblock artics there, i liked 'em.
Our bread and butter motors were 3 series day cab Scanias with windows all round, short wheelbase too, they had the typical Scania appalling ride quality and useless seats but for an urban RDC motor for getting in and out of tight places were the best motor you could get.
Somerfield take over bolloxed that job up, the Welly site once a Kwikies flagship now looks like a semi derilict site, its barely used by some logistics outfit.
Pity, i and many of my old oppos would have dearly liked to have seen our time out there, crackin job.
Lucky for me where i currently work they have all sorts of trailers (bulk tipper, walking floor, ejector, low loader, flat bed, curtainsider) so it means some of us get to work different jobs fairly often. I have never used a low loader though as the guys that do that do it full time.
Bulk tippers do nights out fairly often but the other stuff is day work so you do what ever suits you as the boss doesn’t force you to night out.
So more then likely i will stick where i am for a while as it shouldn’t get repetitive.
alcraw62:
raymundo:
mattecube:
Merchant seamanBritish merchant seaman, just like the shipyards … a thing of the past
Yep. Been there (1978 to 1982, fresh out of school), done it, loved it. But as you say, it’s a thing of the past. Anyway, modern day work at sea is nothing like it was. We used to have weeks in port waiting for dockers to load/unload the ship in between strikes/bad weather/meal breaks. These days it’s mostly containers; so three weeks at sea down to Aussie - work your ■■■■ off for 48 hours to get the ship unloaded and loaded again for the 3 week sail back to UK… Not much fun in that. Apparently ships are dry these days too; and crew numbers about a third of what they were in the 80’s.
Bollux to the dry ship rules, mine aint and never will be as long as it’s in moderation, providing the native tongue is English but as it’s more by the day east european I may have to change the rules …
If I had to stop doing what I’m doing now I would like to go back to road testing and writing full time. It was the most enjoyable job I’ve ever had.
shake:
Juddian:
If i could turn the clock back, Kwik Save would still be here and i’d still be doing rear of (sometimes front of) shop deliveries, with frozen chilled and ambient all on the one trailer.Maybe Iceland Lidl Aldi shop dels would suit me in much the same way if i had to find other work.
Done most other things, so i’d only do what i enjoy, don’t get me wrong i’m in a very good job on tanks but i enjoyed Kwikkies more despite it being fairly hard work at times.
Couldn’t do a lorry chauffering job, sitting for hours waiting at RDCs, or containers, is my vision of hades.
I remember vaugley a Kwiki place in the Warrinton area with a truck wash by the gate and then the Kwiki at Reginald Road, St Helens area. When I first went to Reginald Rd they just had the first delivery of a 52 plate silver Volvo. I think they were using the Renault with the Frigoblock connector that gave you a nasty shock in the rain. Maybe dreaming as it was so long ago when wages were good and transport managers were civil.
We did have a good spirit because the job was that bad you had to laugh or cry so we laughed and it was good. Some of the places we had to get in to were a joke but we managed and we laughed about it later.
Then we moved to Lea Green as Somerfield and for a while it was good. But the place was so big the spirit was lost.
Then Excel lost most of us. Then Wincanton made it worse and now its the Co Op.
Co-op=plop 
I’d love a go at heavy recovery
As i am old [64] and have no interest more in driving long distance what with all the rules and regs then i consider i now have the perfect alternative.I drive a 60t tipper in a mine.10hrs work 7 Days then 7 Days free.No tachos no WTD no stress.I work 6 months [3 months in reality]during the summer and odd days through the winter.