I’ve done some work fitting/nstalling structual glass helping out a mate who does it for a living, and it’s more resilient than you think. But it’s Achilles heel, or weakness, is that just a tiniest tap on the edge will make it shatter in your hands. So it’ll be the loading/unloading where your most likely to have an accident. So make sure you don’t bang a ratchet strap against an edge! 
Best of luck mate! 
I turned up at 5am the next day looking forward to a new job. Guess what no induction just given the keys to a truck and sent off to Central London, not allowed to look in the truck so no idea what it contains its all sealed. Arrive at the drop opened the back and there were the 600 boxes all scattered and lobbed in the back.
Surely the driver has the right / (duty even) to demand to look in back before taking vehicle out on to road?
But when you are a newbie do you actually ask these questions? You just want to do everything right and don’t really say anything until you are like a week in.
Two years experience is so you have an idea how bad transport management is and no longer expect a job .u should be lean single and ready to break health and Safety for pensions…there’s the other half of Europe if you wont
The company is good, they always have the curtens open when I arrive and I’ve tightened the straps a few times too. Don’t trust anyone since having a ratchet swinging happily next to my back wheel after my numbnuts caulige completely failed to strap up the load with even an ounce of common sense.
As for the glass I’ve had 2 damaged so far but I’m confident they weren’t my falt. I’m pretty sure it happened when the monkeys where putting them on the pallet 
TheTrogFather:
The company is good, they always have the curtens open when I arrive and I’ve tightened the straps a few times too. Don’t trust anyone since having a ratchet swinging happily next to my back wheel after my numbnuts caulige completely failed to strap up the load with even an ounce of common sense.As for the glass I’ve had 2 damaged so far but I’m confident they weren’t my falt. I’m pretty sure it happened when the monkeys where putting them on the pallet
That’s what they all say mate blame the person that loaded it .
Or the councils for not fixing the pot holes 
TheTrogFather:
Or the councils for not fixing the pot holes
Our roads are in perfect condition, I don’t know what you are on about , this is what we pay our tax for! haha
petrozthegoatslayer:
Hello to everyone this is my first post I have lingered in the background stalking this for some for some time and have used it to train myself so thank you all for thatUp until 3 years ago I was happily bobbing about as a motorbike courier, unfortunately Mr Magoo’s grandson T boned me at a junction and put me in hospital for three months. Anyway 8 operations later I invested in passing my class 2 licence. I stayed awake for the CPC course obtained my tacho card. Put my CV online and was contacted almost imediately by an agency. We can fix you up with a job local to you they said, don’t worry they know you are new the job is just a little bit of light handballing to the back of the truck. Oh they wont send you any where near London. You will be shown the ropes for a couple of days.
I turned up at 5am the next day looking forward to a new job. Guess what no induction just given the keys to a truck and sent off to Central London, not allowed to look in the truck so no idea what it contains its all sealed. Arrive at the drop opened the back and there were the 600 boxes all scattered and lobbed in the back.
Any way the driving is not the problem I’m very happy and confident in what I’m doing driving wise, the big question I have is, Is it normal to be treated like a ghost when you are doing agency work the management in the hub just look straight through the drivers I have heard the manager shouting and swearing at a driver on the phone because he had been grid locked on the M5 and had run out of hours on the services.
The other big question is why don’t the agency actually pay when they say they will I am now owed 2 weeks pay and the cheeky buggers cancel my shift then call at 4am in the morning to see if I am available?
The really frustrating thing is the News going on about a shortage of HGV drivers but most of the jobs require 2 years driving experience to actually secure a full time job with a reputable company is it expected that I will have to work for nothing and let companies and agencies take the ■■■■? Perhaps I have made a mistake in expecting a career as a HGV driver, my injuries and a worried family mean I can not return to being a self employed bike courier I can’t bear the thought of being a van courier just too many people under cutting each other for that.
Im starting to waffle now got time on my hands had another shift cancelled and still not paid.
If you work for an agency, then, NO!
It’s as when required. No guarantee of anything at all. Especially, the first 3 months of the year.
HGV licences are as good as used toilet paper.
ash 001:
TheTrogFather:
Or the councils for not fixing the pot holesOur roads are in perfect condition, I don’t know what you are on about
You’ve clearly never drove on any of the main roads in and around Manchester… You bounce around even with the 3 layers of suspension between the road and your bottom.
Well here I am a few weeks further along the line from my original post. I no longer work for the original company I was convinced it was only a matter of time before I fell fowl of VOSA. What am I doing now then (you are probably not wondering)? Another agency approached me and invited me for an assessment drive with a Supermarket who have a big RDC near me. The practice in the first job put me in good stead, I passed the assessment and I am now getting up in the middle of the night and going to 3-4 small high street supermarkets a day. I am looking on this as a good way to keep practicing and building the CV. What a difference the supermarket transport people are, they are very professional and on it and the managers could not be friendlier or more helpful, I’m glad I didn’t let the first job put me off.
The thing now is I want a big truck should I save up and take the plunge and do my class 1 test? The thing I don’t like about the sort of deliveries I’m doing is the total lack of self preservation some pedestrians have around lorries the way people wander around the truck when I try to move off gives me the jitters.
Still looking for a full time none agency job though its the same old catch 22 ie have the licence for 2 years blah blah
Sounds like you have found a much better job, as for class one mate if you get a taste for it you will never go back . If you stick agency long enough and work hard for the company you are at you might get taken on perm, you can only hope 
Always check the load. If vosa pull you, they`ll be checking the load for you. Which scenario suits you better ?
Agency not paying - drop agency. Put it down to exp, even try small claims, and move on. Burn them from your memory files.