When putting your sheet on in high winds make sure the wind is blowing the same way as the sheet is rolling, I didn’t do this one day at croft and was pulled off my feet and slammed into the side of the trailer and i’m not exactly a small bloke, took three of us ages to get the bloody thing back on. If you ever do coal, give it a couple of shunt back and forth before sheeting up or the sheet will catch the top of the load. You don’t have to go mad i’ve seen drivers that look like they are trying to remove their cabs at immingham just a light touch on the brakes will do.
Been to put my gear in the truck this morning ready for Monday morning. How refreshing to have a truck and trailer nobody else will use and I can take my lad with me as long as where I’m delivering is ok with it after working for communists [emoji41]
Have a goodun mate
Tipper tips.
If your on combineables mostly then get used to never having a spotless cab, doesn’t matter how much you clean the dust always finds a way!
And when your sock or hatch tipping always undo the 2 bottom locks before you tip leave the sides and the bar still tight obviously to keep the door secure, as a few drivers have died when the doors/locks have gave way being behind the door with 30ton of whatever against it.
You also don’t have to sweep out after every load, you can tell when its clean enough not to bother, the loads that cause me a pain in the arse mostly are coal/draff/fishmeal you usually have to clean out after those as they leave a sticky mess behind.
If its a dry day just drive with the sheet off if you want to give it a bit of a blow out if you’ve had dusty maize on etc. But some big companies won’t accept you if you arrive on there site with sheet off so watch what your doing
Thanks for that. They’re flat out with grain at the moment so I guess that’s pretty clean if a little dusty?
Aye generally alright if you can keep moisture out the trailer, which can sometimes be impossible if its raining and your being loaded in a farm without a shed big enough for the truck
Another tip to get along with farmers is don’t be shy with helping them out, sweeping up a bit if say they don’t have much left and are struggling to get it in the bucket. Except one guy up my way who is an arrogant prick and I’ll happily sit in my cab while he sweeps and loads, but nearly all the farmers I’ve met have been decent enough and a good crack
I am pretty used to getting covered in ■■■■ and/or getting stuck!
Been doing it for years [emoji23]
Haha I don’t mind getting covered in mud/soil etc but when you’ve got your riggers and bottoms covered in silage etc and then it ends up in drivers foot well or steps & drivers interior door card…
smells good 
I have absolutely no sense of smell so I don’t care what anything smells like but I do like to keep my cab fairly clean, not immaculate but just clean. The truck I have been given is reasonable but will be getting a once over when I get a minute.
Good luck on your new job mate, I done farm work back in the nineties, around sussex kent hampshire, i used go to the grain store in Tilbury, the only reason i left was because i didnt like the rural pick ups, i did one pick up and run out of time, the farmer fed me some bubble and squeak, which was a tasty meal. Just one tip for you, if it rains at the weekend and your sheet is over tip up the body to get shot of the water.
Good luck.
Well, that’s day one out the way and I really enjoyed learning something completely new. This was my first ever bulk delivery, a load of wheat. Went on there weigh bridge just slightly naughty of 44 tons [emoji11]
That ABN at flixborough mate? I’m based in Driffield do a lot around our area. Looks out for me in this
^^^^yes it was. I’ll look out for you.
Never be shy in asking, no point in tipping 29t of soya in a dark grains bay etc
I too was brand new that type of work 2 years ago and everyone I have met has helped me out of needed. Don’t be afraid to ask
I used to work on tippers for a firm in the next village to Coopers Paul Cooper is a good outfit like anywhere they all want there pound of flesh but get on with it you’ll be ok they’ve been in the game a long time Don’t like liars if u mess up hold your hands be honest don’t ■■■■■■■■ them. If you get stuck ask little Dave he drives the FM he put you right good lad just be carefull what u say he is related to Paul if I can help out anymore feel free to pm me
Well, that’s my first week out the way… Really steep learning curve [emoji51]
nomiS36:
Well, that’s day one out the way and I really enjoyed learning something completely new. This was my first ever bulk delivery, a load of wheat. Went on there weigh bridge just slightly naughty of 44 tons
That’s one thing to watch for when being loaded…
Wheat is a ‘heavy’ crop…
Out of all the cereals, let’s say out of a cubic metre of wheat, oats, OSR or barley. Wheat will be heaviest.
So next time you just ‘look’ loaded, you maybe over your limit…
One last thing…
You can sometimes stand in / on your load to level it out before sheeting, you may just sink to your shins.
NEVER EVER stand on linseed if you need to level that.
You WILL sink and ‘drown’ in it! Boss’ dad knows someone that had this ‘close call’ many years ago. 
I’d always fancied having a go at tipper work so back in the winter of 2010/11 when I spent a few months back in England I went round all the local firms in northern Lincolnshire but having no experience on tippers, all basically fobbed me off, apart from Alford Traffic that is. I found it a very mixed experience.
I loved the job when tramping but absolutely detested doing their shunting work between Goole, Hull or Immingham Dock and Drax power station with biomass. What a soul destroying job having to go to the communist utopia of Drax. I’ve never come across a more jobsworth infested hell hole in my entire life, well not until I later went in to West Burton power station and had to spend over an hour being inducted and having drug and alcohol tests, only to drive 2 minutes in to the gate, 5 minutes to load at most and 2 minutes back out.
I thoroughly enjoyed the physical aspect, operating the tipper and the like but I couldn’t hack the repetitive work in the end. They’d send me out on some tramping trips if I moaned enough, but then it was right back to Drax a few days later for 6-8 a day from Goole, 4 from Hull or 3 from Immingham, followed by parking in a layby covered in dust and crap and feeling like a tramp. It might have been better had I being running in to a spot with decent people who you could get on with but Drax just left me feeling like the ■■■■’s had won the war.
robinhood_1984:
I’d always fancied having a go at tipper work so back in the winter of 2010/11 when I spent a few months back in England I went round all the local firms in northern Lincolnshire but having no experience on tippers, all basically fobbed me off, apart from Alford Traffic that is. I found it a very mixed experience.I loved the job when tramping but absolutely detested doing their shunting work between Goole, Hull or Immingham Dock and Drax power station with biomass. What a soul destroying job having to go to the communist utopia of Drax. I’ve never come across a more jobsworth infested hell hole in my entire life, well not until I later went in to West Burton power station and had to spend over an hour being inducted and having drug and alcohol tests, only to drive 2 minutes in to the gate, 5 minutes to load at most and 2 minutes back out.
I thoroughly enjoyed the physical aspect, operating the tipper and the like but I couldn’t hack the repetitive work in the end. They’d send me out on some tramping trips if I moaned enough, but then it was right back to Drax a few days later for 6-8 a day from Goole, 4 from Hull or 3 from Immingham, followed by parking in a layby covered in dust and crap and feeling like a tramp. It might have been better had I being running in to a spot with decent people who you could get on with but Drax just left me feeling like the ■■■■’s had won the war.
I’ve been running wheat into vivergo in a hull power station from a farm at burton pidsea. I’ve quite enjoyed it because it’s given me loads of experience with the bulker. Feels like I’ve been doing it for ages now. That power station is fairly easy going. Yes you have to do a 30 minute induction but once done they pretty much let you come and go with minimal fuss.