Hello Mike, is the DPD position a multi drop for small to large parcels or is it for larger and bulkier items that will need a tail lift and pump truck to unload the goods to private addresses and businesses?
Note for farm deliveries, narrow rural lanes and tight access to the farm.
The delivery address won’t be where he wants his stuff dropped at, he may own other farms and want it there.
When you arrive the farmer will have a bad back and can’t assist in the unloading or loading process or very conveniently has gone to the market, he knew full well I was coming.
Top tip to make life easier to unload a heavy pallet, if the vehicle comes equipped with adjustable front or rear suspension via a control button inside the cab, raise the front end then lower the rear end, let gravity do all the hard work to get a heavy pallet off that can weigh half a ton to a ton, a bulk bag to an independent brewer, I nearly had that fall off the tail lift, that weighed a ton.
Compost, turf, patio slabs, garden stone, shingle, Aga ovens, cookers, used car engines, horse pellets, haylage, paving stones,fertiliser bags, sowing machine( She asked me to drag that up four floors), an old fashioned one with the foot pedals and the desk,and tree bark, are all the delights of being a multi drop driver to deliver to people who will say :” Well, the last or regular driver always does this and does that !”
It’s a kerb side delivery only, not hand ball it up the garden path to the garage or out house, or 12 pallets of compost over a garden fence, this customer complained when I refused to do this, by me not breaking down the pallets.
When buying online she was told it would be the case, so she moans at the garden centre.
Customers pay a low price for delivery via a pallet network but expect a first class personal service.
A customer who lives in Truro can order by 17.00 and by 08.00 am the next day the goods that originally came from Scotland arrives via the overnight hub to hub process.
Bearing in mind as an example the van drivers for any parcel courier company can expect 120 to 150 drops or more per day over the Christmas festive period, for a lorry I’m not sure how many drops it would be per day at peak times.
For the Wetherspoon position, some of the pubs can be quite tricky for access to unload, the cages will be heavy for crates and bottles of alcohol and frozen food, some premises may have steep and uneven floors to access the rear of the delivery sites.
When I did pallet deliveries to pubs, hotels and restaurants, some of the chefs and managers expected me to strip down the pallet on the pavement outside to then break the pallet down by a hand ball delivery in to the premises or up and down the stairs to a basement or cellar, they then may say take away several pallets and packaging from the previous deliveries.
For me personally in your position, the Wetherspoon job would be the one to go for.
I’ve seen the DPD, Evri, FedEx drivers of all types of vehicles and they seem to be running around like a headless chicken and look stressed and exhausted.
I witnessed a road rage incident with what Evri used to called for a Hermes driver dishing out racial abuse to a bus driver over a parking space at a bus stop, this was in a busy street with families walking past to hear verbal abuse and threats of violence to the bus driver.
work imo 