ive been seeing subbies that have been on maritime for years now pulling ferry trailers out of immingham.
jessicas dad:
ive been seeing subbies that have been on maritime for years now pulling ferry trailers out of immingham.
Thats because m/time has opened a depot out in immingham and are doing ferry trls as well…, I.E cobi~fret trls etc… so they prob still on for marmite 
but taking a even less rate than cobelfreight pay to start with
sayerstransporthrw:
didnt mean to sound arsey,lol,but a lot of the air cargo handlers are crying out for sensible subbies,you earn your money but you would have to anyway whatever you did!happy to correspond with any one who fancies it. can give you numbers etc so you can make your own minds up
Not sure who your on for but I worked for JDR for 9 years and I have a Daf 105 on for Fed Ex. The biggest problem I always have found is the sheds not the roads. I’ve waited a whole shift for 4 PME’s to turn up ! and it’s not like you can do anything else.
Having said that Martin Carrol of Saints once said to me that Airfreight is always the first to pick up in a recession … your right it is ok out there at present but I wouldn’t go out and by a new “Mega” at the mo. By the way the truck for sale looks to me like a Mick Kelly wagon so it must have done more than 800k !
pavaroti:
Kinda funny, taking on board everything on here said about maritime. But last night parked up next to a maritime subbie, an old boy with 6 wagons and 35 years experience running his haulage firm.Anyway he was saying his normal bulker work had died last year so he had took his wagons over to maritime. Rates and work was ok he said, no complaints.
He did say though it would’nt make sense if you had large finance on a fancy wagon brought off maritime say for 40+k.
The missing link in this post, man has 6 wagons on for maritime and has 35 yrs experiance, and the man parked up next to hiim on a night out, now call me gready but after 35 yrs and 6 wagons running, if i was the boss i would want to be at home, not still haveing to drive…you might aswell go and get a job, no in fact you would be way better off…
richmond:
pavaroti:
Kinda funny, taking on board everything on here said about maritime. But last night parked up next to a maritime subbie, an old boy with 6 wagons and 35 years experience running his haulage firm.Anyway he was saying his normal bulker work had died last year so he had took his wagons over to maritime. Rates and work was ok he said, no complaints.
He did say though it would’nt make sense if you had large finance on a fancy wagon brought off maritime say for 40+k.
The missing link in this post, man has 6 wagons on for maritime and has 35 yrs experiance, and the man parked up next to hiim on a night out, now call me gready but after 35 yrs and 6 wagons running, if i was the boss i would want to be at home, not still haveing to drive…you might aswell go and get a job, no in fact you would be way better off…
not always the reality of been an od though richmond i know a guy that runs 13 trucks and still drives once a week atleast
shuttlespanker:
darrennils:
Don’t even think about it, you can’t even earn £100 wage on top of fuel, nevermind running costs.
Days work, Leeds to Peterlee back to Leeds, 12hrs shift, 300 kms = £223 paid . Say no moreTry taking your handbrake off, I can comfortably do Tamworth to Peterlee and back to Tamworth, with a 3 hour tip in Peterlee, in very little over 10 hours
mainly waiting/ unloading time, long wait to get your box on (Freightliner), long tip, wait to get rid of empty box and go wait in Maritime’s yard for a couple of hours till they decide theirs no more work to cover!!
Could earn more money with a ■■■■■■ van then work for them tossers, (hence, no longer their) let some other mug pay towards their brand new trucks and trailers!!! 