Hi all just looking for some advice. I’m sick tired of doing general haulage work strapping loads up and looking for different ■■■■ holes everyday. I’ve applied for a tipper job and just wondering is it a bit more reppetitive then other jobs as in going to the same addresses over and over again? Which I would quite like. Thanks for any replies
Depends what kind of tipper work you are doing?
If it’s muck shifting you’ll be running from the same project to disposal site all day that’s pretty repetitive.
If it’s general bulk haulage and you’re doing all sorts like feed, grain, aggregates, scrap, recycled materials, bulk waste etc then no there’s enough to see and do that it keeps it from getting boring.
If the company you work for has alloy and steel bodied trailers the different jobs and places you go are only restricted by you boss picking the loads to carry. If the company does aggregate from a local quarry you might be on turnaround all day between the same places.
It has its ups and downs…
… but if you think you go into some ■■■■ holes now, wait till you get on to tipper work.
Tango Boy is a tipper pilot, you only have to look on any “who’s seen who this week?” thread to see he gets spotted all over the country, so in his case at least I imagine it’s not repetitive at all.
Some tipper boys are regulars on the ferries. Agricultural product to/from UK to Belgium France etc. Regularly into spud processors, and food factories but irregular into different farms.
Franglais:
Some tipper boys are regulars on the ferries. Agricultural product to/from UK to Belgium France etc. Regularly into spud processors, and food factories but irregular into different farms.
Yes, it was a long time ago but I used to do continental work with a bulk tipper. A lot of potatoes out of Belgium and Holland to McCains at Easton, apples to Germany, scrap copper down to Italy and dolomite back… the firm I did it for went ■■■■-up years ago but I think BJ Waters might still do all that?
Harry Monk:
Franglais:
Some tipper boys are regulars on the ferries. Agricultural product to/from UK to Belgium France etc. Regularly into spud processors, and food factories but irregular into different farms.Yes, it was a long time ago but I used to do continental work with a bulk tipper. A lot of potatoes out of Belgium and Holland to McCains at Easton, apples to Germany, scrap copper down to Italy and dolomite back… the firm I did it for went ■■■■-up years ago but I think BJ Waters might still do all that?
I see Eurobulk around a lot. Saw a lot of Mike Beer Tspt too, but not so much recently. B.J. Waters I dunno about.
Romac…
Were the big tipper operators when I was doing bulk tippers.
Scrap frag to Belgium and return loads of mushroom compost from Holland back.
You can put pretty much anything in the back of a bulk tipper trailer so be prepared to go any place anywhere anytime (AKA Martini Haulage).
yourhavingalarf:
Romac…Were the big tipper operators when I was doing bulk tippers.
Yes, that’s who I worked for, Romac.
There was a lot of “running bent” but that was the norm back in the day. It was my first ever continental job, I was younger and keener and all in all it was a happy time. I had an FL10 first of all and then a rather gutless F10 Globetrotter, the cab more than made up for the engine though. My then girlfriend used to travel all over Europe with me, this was on the run up to Mont Blanc in about 1988 although I had a tilt on the back for this trip.
I see bj waters sometimes in belgium on tippers, no idea what they have onel though.
Pardon!