I am returning to trucking and have been thinking about what type of work I wanted to get into.
When I was younger I did all kinds of work and some of it involved a bit of clambering about putting load straps on etc.
Even helping to hand ball a load off !! (I’m shuddering just thinking about it).
I did some tanker work that involved walking along the top of the tank to open and close and thread the customs seal line but other than that it was fairly pleasant, I did some container work with a side loader and that was pretty low pressure too.
Now in my mid fifties I am musing about the type of jobs I might go for that involve the least work (other than actual driving).
It’s got to be fridge work delivering to RDC’S, just open your back doors back onto a bay then wait 2 hours whilst spouting bollox to who ever is in earshot.
bald bloke:
It’s got to be fridge work delivering to RDC’S, just open your back doors back onto a bay then wait 2 hours whilst spouting bollox to who ever is in earshot.
Unless it’s Morrisons or Sainsburys, then you’ll be in the warehouse breaking all the pallets down.
Trikki is right for once you want to get yoursen on containers. Just make sure they’re deep sea and not short sea.
bald bloke:
It’s got to be fridge work delivering to RDC’S, just open your back doors back onto a bay then wait 2 hours whilst spouting bollox to who ever is in earshot.
Not sure what an RDC is but I can handle the rest of the job, in fact I am very skilled at that.
Did I ever mention the time I …
bald bloke:
It’s got to be fridge work delivering to RDC’S, just open your back doors back onto a bay then wait 2 hours whilst spouting bollox to who ever is in earshot.
Unless it’s Morrisons or Sainsburys, then you’ll be in the warehouse breaking all the pallets down.
Trikki is right for once you want to get yoursen on containers. Just make sure they’re deep sea and not short sea.
What is the difference between deep and short ?
Most of my work has been in Germany and the US so the terminology is a bit new to me.
bald bloke:
It’s got to be fridge work delivering to RDC’S, just open your back doors back onto a bay then wait 2 hours whilst spouting bollox to who ever is in earshot.
Unless it’s Morrisons or Sainsburys, then you’ll be in the warehouse breaking all the pallets down.
Trikki is right for once you want to get yoursen on containers. Just make sure they’re deep sea and not short sea.
What is the difference between deep and short ?
Most of my work has been in Germany and the US so the terminology is a bit new to me.
Deep sea = long distance, you don’t touch the load. Short sea = short distance (UK-Eire for example) and you’re often expected to get in the back.
bald bloke:
It’s got to be fridge work delivering to RDC’S, just open your back doors back onto a bay then wait 2 hours whilst spouting bollox to who ever is in earshot.
Unless it’s Morrisons or Sainsburys, then you’ll be in the warehouse breaking all the pallets down.
Trikki is right for once you want to get yoursen on containers. Just make sure they’re deep sea and not short sea.
It’s only Morrison’s where you have to help, in fact you don’t have to help but you’ll be there an age otherwise.
Check out the locals that do pallet system work. Trunking to the hub, the hardest part is opening and closing the curtains; even doing the delivery/collection part, you rarely have to climb on the trailer. It tends to be short days and home every night as well.
I am returning to trucking and have been thinking about what type of work I wanted to get into.
When I was younger I did all kinds of work and some of it involved a bit of clambering about putting load straps on etc.
Even helping to hand ball a load off !! (I’m shuddering just thinking about it).
I did some tanker work that involved walking along the top of the tank to open and close and thread the customs seal line but other than that it was fairly pleasant, I did some container work with a side loader and that was pretty low pressure too.
Now in my mid fifties I am musing about the type of jobs I might go for that involve the least work (other than actual driving).
What does the panel think ?
Thanks Chris
Mid fifties and you want to come back into the industryChris wish you all the best.Dont know how long you been out of it but wish you all the best been many many changes many are trying to get out.
I am returning to trucking and have been thinking about what type of work I wanted to get into.
When I was younger I did all kinds of work and some of it involved a bit of clambering about putting load straps on etc.
Even helping to hand ball a load off !! (I’m shuddering just thinking about it).
I did some tanker work that involved walking along the top of the tank to open and close and thread the customs seal line but other than that it was fairly pleasant, I did some container work with a side loader and that was pretty low pressure too.
Now in my mid fifties I am musing about the type of jobs I might go for that involve the least work (other than actual driving).
What does the panel think ?
Hiya at 52 i’d gone, that was 10 years ago, to much red tape and crap off kids routing me.
i did tesco shelf stacking on nights no vosa no rdc’s easy life and £9+ an hour. just get in the grove.
Mid fifties and you want to come back into the industryChris wish you all the best.Dont know how long you been out of it but wish you all the best been many many changes many are trying to get out.
knight:
Deffo containers. That’s why I’ve been doing them for seven years.
What’s the difference between deep sea and short sea ? , about a hundred fathoms
Chris-J:
Thanks for all the replies (inc the negative ones).
I agree that the money seems somewhat lacking given all the hoops you have to jump through, not forgetting the personal risks.
I just don’t think I could handle some 25 yr old manager (in white socks) telling me what to do in somewhere like Tescos.
All that said, picking something up here and delivering it to say Munich would suit me nicely. (might suit the wife too !!).
T
That could be your problem Chris because you will have some 25 year old planner/manager in white socks straight out of university with a degree no experience no man management skills which is the criteria for most hauliers telling you what to do where to deliver times setting routes times which frankly are not achieveable. ps on the phone to you every hour as well.
containers are a piece of ■■■■ mate. Turn up to deliver, put the kettle on and get a few hours kip, then back to the docks or a reload somewhere, either way you’ll have little to do except drive…Easy as…Depends who you pull for as to whether the planners are ok or not. This, of course, is based on my experience on boxes
Chris-J:
Thanks for all the replies (inc the negative ones).
I agree that the money seems somewhat lacking given all the hoops you have to jump through, not forgetting the personal risks.
I just don’t think I could handle some 25 yr old manager (in white socks) telling me what to do in somewhere like Tescos.
All that said, picking something up here and delivering it to say Munich would suit me nicely. (might suit the wife too !!).
T
That could be your problem Chris because you will have some 25 year old planner/manager in white socks straight out of university with a degree no experience no man management skills which is the criteria for most hauliers telling you what to do where to deliver times setting routes times which frankly are not achieveable. ps on the phone to you every hour as well.
Oh dear I do hope not, that said at least he will have been to Uni unlike the Tesco manager who was selling kitchens on commission in B&Q the week before !!
Seems containers are perhaps the way to go.
They were going to open the local port (Great Yarmout) as a container terminal but that got shelved Grrr.
The best/laziest job I ever had was driving tankers from Hamburg up to Travemunde for a ferry to Denmark or Sweden.
Pull under the silo, read the paper, walk around the back and check the customs seal that was threaded for you.
Off like yesterdays underpants for the ferry
As I am checking into things I’m getting more and more down about the whole thing.
Aside from the lack of responses to the CV’s I have sent out the wages are rubbish from what I can see.
I can probably earn the same money working in the library.
The world seems also full of agents who post interesting looking jobs.
All you get is a “come on in and register”
When you check there is no actual job anyway.
Is it worth the hassle for you.?You will need your digi card ,photo licence and DCPC. As you say a job in a library or in other places pays just as well.
