First of all, hello everyone and congrats for the community in here. After been depressed for a while and regret spending bit over £ 2k in my CAT C licence and CPC, reading some posts here cheer me up a bit. Passed my exam around 7 months ago and still no job due to the usual 2 years experience syndrome… Oh well, understandable but we all need to start a some point right?? Even for multi drop jobs around London witch I been doing for the last 5 years in the same very reputable company without any accidents or even incidents [emoji19] but driving a Van [emoji21]. The further I could reach was a day out with someone else that he sayed I was brilliant but insurance would be expensive!! I’m 31 with loads of driving claim free! And doing around 800 miles a week. Anyone have any idea of company’s to look for in South east London or Kent areas that would accept newbies?
PS: my C licence it’s new, but I came from a industrial machinerie background since child. ( Excavators, bumper trucks, bulldozers, alot more, till learn the motorgrader business [emoji4] my favourite piano as my dad always say [emoji1])
How many company TMs have you spoken to face to face especially first thing on a Monday morning with all your kit in the boot of your car 
Agencies too. I’m 19 with a fresh licence and they found me some work. You’re at least over the insurance hurdle! And they won’t be lying when they say you’re experienced at multi-drop!
Just walk in, sign they’re myriad of forms, and tell them you’re willing to do 7.5t work too. It’s not as well paid, but it’s a foot in the door.
I haven’t spoke face to face to anyone as I was not sure if was the right thing to do, before my fair read around this forum then I realise it’s a good option 
PRT RaCeR:
I haven’t spoke face to face to anyone as I was not sure if was the right thing to do, before my fair read around this forum then I realise it’s a good option
CVs go in the bin in many cases
Phone calls get forgotten
Face to face tends to be remembered
I’ve signed up for an agency to work on my free days, but it’s going 3 months and I only had a couple of text at 5am to cover someone and unfortunately I couldn’t :-/
And I’m very confused if I would do an HIAB or jump into C+E and look for class 1, I can get the funds but my question would be, would I stand a better chance? Driving anything it’s not a problem, it’s actually my strongest point! Oh and excuse my grammar sometimes, . English is not my maiden language, so feel free to correct me and make fun hehehe 
ok, seeing as you gave me the invite… was there any black cats involved when you worked for the London witch? sounds like a magic job as far as multidrop goes
all in good fun but seriously, face to face is by far and away the best way to find a job. I used to take a pad and pen to keep a list of where I’d been, names of tms and whatever else. I used to do an industrial estate a day, just drive round looking for trucks. I’ve never managed to cover all the estates in my area, always got a job offer before I ran out of places. its just a numbers game
Hahah, I knew I didn’t spell it the way it should baz! Forgot how to write it properly haha, pen and pad sounds a good organized way! Its the way I am, I’m a kind of person that always keep car keys left pocket, mobile on the right and if I sawp them around don’t feel the same hehe
CV’s are important, but don’t send them out to all and sundry, keep them with you at all times in case you get to meet ‘‘the man’’ who asks for one, you’re already half way in at that point.
You won’t get a look in where i work without them receiving a CV, but the polite cold call approach with CV in hand makes a rock solid first impression to build on.
Things seem to have gone full circle, years ago you knocked on doors to get a job, then we went through the last 30 years of umpteen layers of admin and personell depts and then came professional CV writers and recruiters (glorified agencies) got involved and unsurprisingly all the CV’s (just like all modern cars) look and sound like they came off a production line, they did.
I wonder how many applicants turned out to be half literate unemployables in the flesh when according to their mass produced CV’s they were all between brain surgery and nuclear engineering careers.
Go knock on doors mate, look for companies that carry their own goods, they nearly always pay for better than hire and reward haulage for less hours.
You say you are driving a van? This is a very good thing.
Because when you become a truck driver,you will be ready to anticipate all the bellendish manouveres that you are probably utilising.
Thanks alot for the info juddian
Beaver, believe or not, RaCeR it’s a nick name since childhood, my dad teached me how to drive when I was around 10, when I reach 18 years old I already done many rally cross stages I’m my home country, and won a few , my old man showed me the handlind and gravity force, understeer, oversteer when behind a wheel! But then PUBLIC ROAD COMMON SENCE came along the years, and yes I’m proud to say, driving a Van so many miles on UK roads been the key factor to achieve that!! As most foreigners I came from a cowboy country that we think we know how to drive!! I was wrong!!! Today is tell everyone, we may know how to handle a vehicle BUT knowing how drive it’s a diference story and the old timers here can confirm I’m sure 
it’s just the fact when u tell most agencies that you been driving a Van, they always come up with the story of " we have bigger willy’s and bla Bla Bla " it’s like a van it’s a toy for kids in the commercial industry :-/
My daily drive to commute it’s an old banger with a V8 petrol engine and I’m not making fun of ppl who have less!!
Sounds like you will manage ok.
i also kept the dates I went to the places too. that way you can revisit about a month later if necessary. sometimes you have to annoy people to get your point across.
odd that you would mention about your pockets. im really ocd about having my keys in my left pocket and phone in the right. If I change it for any reason I just end up losing things and having a really bad day :-/