do you need a lot of training ,keep seeing job advertised and it would save me 200 miles a week traveling plusno 1.00 sun morn starts. but ive not applied as ive no experiance,is it worth it or do you need to know a lot ta
Collecting or delivering?
Delivering is just like trunk work.
Collecting is easy enough its just a pain in the ■■■ if it goes wrong. I spent day on a tanker run (was inducted into a company) and I’d gained most of what I needed to know to do the job.
Then again I wasnt trying to learn the job so didnt listen that much.
Mostly its rock up, take same of milk - put into contrainer.
Attach hose
■■■■ up milk
put away hose
give guy printout
repeat… when full head to dairy where they unload for you.
Pretty steady job on a regular daily run, mostly rigids. They tend to work you four days on, four off. Driving down narrow country lanes 
and dodgy 
farm tracks can be a bit daunting, especially if the weathers a bit iffy. Country folk are mostly all right, you’ll get offered a brew at most places 
as well as a good natter as you’ll be the only other human being a lot of them will see from day to day.
And if you are collecting from farms no tacho to worry about. 
Only downside is that the tankers aren’t baffled so they wallow and lurch all over the place. You need a smooth driving style otherwise you do what a bloke driving a Langley Farms tanker did this week and pop it on its side on a roundabout.
Remember when you did your lessons and they told you about keeping your foot on the brake at junctions when driving a tanker? Well it was the milk ones they were talking about.
Setting off is a matter of timing. Get it wrong and you either:
Take off the brake and lurch forward rapidly with the acceleration of a F1 car.
Take off the brake and actually go backwards.
Drop the clutch and go nowhere at all.
As for no 1am starts, well no, 3-4am isn’t 1am I grant you but it’s not 6am either which would be far more preferable.
It’s not bad but there’s a lot of hanging around at the dairies. Work on around 1.5 - 2hrs to unload and clean out.