The realistic choice to meet that criterea would be between a local multi drop job in which you tell the guvnor the more drops he can put on your wagon the better so long as he pays you a good rate for the job.
Or working as an owner driver on sub contract long distance,but full loads only,european general haulage with a tilt in which case you’d have to compromise on the money.
No guess which of those two that I’d choose.
Is this talking through experiance or something you have seen online??
The realistic choice to meet that criterea would be between a local multi drop job in which you tell the guvnor the more drops he can put on your wagon the better so long as he pays you a good rate for the job.
Or working as an owner driver on sub contract long distance,but full loads only,european general haulage with a tilt in which case you’d have to compromise on the money.
No guess which of those two that I’d choose.
Is this talking through experiance or something you have seen online??
Experience enough as an employed driver doing similar types of work in UK to know the difference between which one of those two choices I’d prefer.
The realistic choice to meet that criterea would be between a local multi drop job in which you tell the guvnor the more drops he can put on your wagon the better so long as he pays you a good rate for the job.
Or working as an owner driver on sub contract long distance,but full loads only,european general haulage with a tilt in which case you’d have to compromise on the money.
No guess which of those two that I’d choose.
Is this talking through experiance or something you have seen online??
Experience enough to know the difference between which one of those two choices I’d prefer.
Nice to see you got experinace in something rather then spouting BS you have seen somewhere. Although that no matter the amount of drops you got on you still get paid by the hour not the drops you do!!! most of the long distance is done by the taliban who can still do it for half the price. Most of the UK companies sort the cheap way and that is take it over to euprope and ship it by rail
Pat Hasler:
This is the reason I resigned from Tesco, much to the disbelief of everyone there ! I was told I was the first driver to quit Tesco’s, and I don’t mean a contractor like Wincanton or Stobbies, I was a full time Tesco employed driver on very good pay with the best benefits etc that anyone in the UK could imagine.
Yes that definitely is to my disbelief, tesco drivers make out like the job is the dogs ■■■■■■■■. About 7 years ago I eavesdropped on 1 of them opening their payslip & he was only on around £320 a week take home via wincanton. Considering that they were on a 'bus drivers shift ’ I.e any 5 out of 7 & mostly weekends It looked crap. The only upside to it i think was you did 1 store & it took you 6 hours, sit about in the drivers room talking ■■■■ for another 2 hours & go home. 10% off discount on stuff etc. so please tell me what is so great about tesco that nobody ever packs it in for a better job?
If that’s how you feel about general in and out of RDCs and you’ve said before about the crazy times you start and finish then it’s time to make your exit from elfdom.
On the odd days I have to go from my regular gig onto G/H artics in and out of RDCs with some grade A nimrod of a “planner” on the other end of a cab phone it does my bonce in, how some of you put up with it day in day out baffles me. I’d be in the insane asylum by now.
If you want to graft and don’t mind getting grubby then go for skip/tipper work or building site deliveries. If you’ve got a HIAB then pester every Buildbase, Gibbs and Dandy, Travis Perkins for work. If they use agency find out which one and pester them.
I spend most of my working life these days in this (or one of the other 2 rigids at this firm)
I get sweaty, muddy, and ont the odd occasion bruised. If it’s not a site with a crane + lifting supervisor (the one above was) then I’m jumping on and off the back undoing the straps and helping the forkies. Got to my second drop in North London yesterday in the pouring rain to be told there was no forklift so me and 2 labourers handballed 2 tonnes of timber off.
I come home knackered, filthy, and aching but I love it to be honest. 99% of the lads on the sites are sound, there is the odd bad tempered forkie but I just shrug that off.
These pay more, I did a day in this a couple of weeks back
Air conditioned, automatic, and spotlessly clean. Good day’s work but I was glad to get back on the trusses.
Hope it works out for you and you find a job that fits you and your family.
The realistic choice to meet that criterea would be between a local multi drop job in which you tell the guvnor the more drops he can put on your wagon the better so long as he pays you a good rate for the job.
Or working as an owner driver on sub contract long distance,but full loads only,european general haulage with a tilt in which case you’d have to compromise on the money.
No guess which of those two that I’d choose.
Is this talking through experiance or something you have seen online??
Experience enough to know the difference between which one of those two choices I’d prefer.
Nice to see you got experinace in something rather then spouting BS you have seen somewhere. Although that no matter the amount of drops you got on you still get paid by the hour not the drops you do!!! most of the long distance is done by the taliban who can still do it for half the price. Most of the UK companies sort the cheap way and that is take it over to euprope and ship it by rail
I know all that which is one of the reasons why I’m happy enough to be out of it all with no plans to return.
As for getting paid by the hour on multi drop he did say he’s looking for hard graft and ‘varied destinations’.In which case as I said some of the agency jobs which I did doing local London building materials deleiveries would have suited him perfectly in which case I’m sure the agency would have increased the hourly rate if I’d have been mad enough to say that I wanted a lot more of it and more drops instead of walking away as fast as possible.
Give some guys a big flash v8 scania or fh16 with lots of lights and a coffee maker and they will work for a pittance.
There is a balance though if there was a job that gave me enough to have a decent living and I enjoyed it I would choose that over earning a bit more but hating every second of it.
When I was doing ferry trailers I enjoyed the driving side of it but the mentality of RDCs drove me mental I’m normally pretty laid back but these places drive me round the twist. As you say I love tipper work having the crack with the guys on site the obstacle course manoeuvres especially as most of our work is small sites with a few blokes so the health and saftey nazis haven’t got a grip in them. But do miss the having a few 100 miles to do on the open road.
kr79:
There is a balance though if there was a job that gave me enough to have a decent living and I enjoyed it I would choose that over earning a bit more but hating every second of it.
That pretty much sums up my gig on the trusses.
No RDC bullshine
No Planners
No cabphones
Manual boxes
Mon-Fri no nights (start times are anything from 0500 to 0700 depending on where first drop is)
Restricted O licence so no backhauls.
Go in, do the drops safely, get back mid afternoon, diesel up, and get the next day’s loads on then head home for a shower and dinner. Suits me fine.
Rdc’s are my daily grind.
I don’t mind getting filthy, I worked in highway construction for last 12 year. I do need the money though.
For a comfortable life, when I say comfortable I mean all bills paid and 1 family holiday a year, I need to take home 2k a month. That’s where I struggle.
Why is it that clean, sat on arse jobs pay more than dirty, grafting jobs.
Makes no sense to me.
Juddian:
Yes they do, but vacancies are never advertised, you won’t usually find them in general haulage or logistics mobs, often specialists carriers eg tanks, cars, often own product, increasingly rare so jealously guarded by those lucky enough.
Jobs are usually filled by recommendation or by calling cold and selling yourself to the man, the second route is still surpisingly effective.
Some here don’t like the idea of recommendations and refer to it as elitist, assuming that the old pals act comes into play…true in that you are hardly likely to recommend a sworn enemy, but similarly no one with an ounce of sense would recommend someone useless however good a friend they were.
This recommendation system works for the staff and the company, both parties want to see the operation profitable and ongoing.
Totally agree about the getting in the car and asking always best at small firms.
Same as the recommendations process like you say if you work somewhere you aint going to vouch for an idiot even if it is a mate.
You only get recommended if you have proved your self to others.
