Is class 1 really any better

NEW AND WANNABE DRIVERS (INTERACTIVE)
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this morning I went to Asda to get myself something for lunch. when I got back to the car I was blocked in by an artic, so I sat watching for a while. there was another artic unloading that we had to wait for. I watched him struggle and swear backing into the yard and I sat watching as he had to handball the load off by himself.

then a rigid turned up and the whole pantomime started over.

so much for artic work being easier and no handball, I would say the artic driver had it worse than the rigid.

I was watching this for over an hour, when I got back to work, nobody had even noticed I was gone!..

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So your saying he was manually unloading each item off pallets or cages ?

or are you saying that the driver was unloading using a pump truck / trolley or moving wheeled cages ?..

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some dragging cages off. some carrying boxes. didn’t have the best view, but I could see them handballing the stuff off by themselves while a girl was checking stuff off the paperwork.

I guess you get good jobs and crap ones no matter what class you drive :-/

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jbaz73:
some dragging cages off. some carrying boxes. didn’t have the best view, but I could see them handballing the stuff off by themselves while a girl was checking stuff off the paperwork.

Pretty much the norm with supermarket deliveries from my experience working for one of the big four. Where I was, e cages, pallets came off the trailer into the loading dock / holding area…then its the responsibility of the store, you’ll find very little handballing unless a pallet has collapsed in transit or its just a simple case as the driver needs the pallet…

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as you will read from the other class 1 drivers being ultimately superior to compared to class 2 drivers,then it goes without saying that if an artic driver had to handball off a full load out of a septic tanker,then it would obviously still be a better job than the respective rigid drivers job.if your not in the 1 o clock big wheel gang,then your just not up there with the rest of us,hence the higher suicide rate amongst non class1 drivers due to abuse of prescribed anti depressants for not being in the club… :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

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I couldn’t give a monkeys, either way the job gets done when it gets done as I don’t rush for anyone anymore and as long as I get paid what I want fine ,

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I also work for one of the big four unloading and reloading the wagons. At this particular chain they have a VERY easy job. The most physical aspect of it is removing the loading bars and rolling off cages. if there are pallets unliaded/loaded they stand around playing games on their phone or chatting/watching etc.

Not to mention well paid.

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I often chuckle to myself when delivering to on of the ‘big four’. Supermarkets.

Loading bays are coned off a banks man waits diligently for the impending arrival of their ambient delivery.

Once in place the driver settles down for a well earned 45 minute break prior to unloading.

45 minutes later two eager apprentices will emerge to assist the driver unload his vehicle in compliance with the well thought out risk assessment.

Meanwhile across the road, parked halfway across a zebra crossing a bread lorry, milk delivery and p&h are dragging the respective cages across a busy A road in order to satisfy the supermarkets need for replenishment.

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In answer to your question my old china,Yes. Class 1 work is a lot better.

Disturbing news that a superior driver is removing products utilising manual labour.

Normally the correct method of rectifying this shocking behaviour is to record ones displeasure.

A quill and some papyrus should suffice. Once said literature is completed,it should be rolled into a tube and jammed vigorously up the TM’s ar*e.

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i’m a superior driver :wink: but i unload/load collections everyday…don’t bother me.after being on tippers for years this job keeps me fit :slight_smile:

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so a class 1 driver is a bronzed Adonis god, looking down on the world from the dizzying heights of their golden Renault magnum… we have established that :slight_smile:

but handball does exist in the mighty articulated utopia, although rare, when it does happen, an artic holds nearly twice the physical volume of a rigid, so therefore it must be worse :-/ lucky that it is that all the drivers are built like the hulk so there is no problem.

I guess the guy I saw today being very unfit, fat, bald and short, sweating like a polar bear on a subbed, must have been a new class 1 pass because he had not yet become a god :slight_smile:

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jbaz73:
so a class 1 driver is a bronzed Adonis god, looking down on the world from the dizzying heights of their golden Renault magnum… we have established that :slight_smile:

but handball does exist in the mighty articulated utopia, although rare, when it does happen, an artic holds nearly twice the physical volume of a rigid, so therefore it must be worse :-/ lucky that it is that all the drivers are built like the hulk so there is no problem.

I guess the guy I saw today being very unfit, fat, bald and short, sweating like a polar bear on a subbed, must have been a new class 1 pass because he had not yet become a god :slight_smile:

:laughing: that wasn’t me!..i’m built like a yeti :slight_smile:

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eagerbeaver:
In answer to your question my old china,Yes. Class 1 work is a lot better.

Disturbing news that a superior driver is removing products utilising manual labour.

Normally the correct method of rectifying this shocking behaviour is to record ones displeasure.

A quill and some papyrus should suffice. Once said literature is completed,it should be rolled into a tube and jammed vigorously up the TM’s ar*e.

This is one of the funniest things i have read online. brilliant. :smiley:

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Tanks are the Utopia, arrive, attach pipe, sleep for 2hrs, disconnect pipe, leave, collect pay, go to pub, good night

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I’ve opened up some can of worms here :smiley:

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I had a job on petrol tankers that was handball. It’s was a right pain in the arse.

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Where would British truckers be of they didn’t break health and safety every single day .the laughing stock of Europe.and when you fall off you get fired for being on the back .