Hi all
i think im posting in the right section
id love to either get into low loader or continental work but im struggling figuring out the best way to get into this line of work is… I want guaranteed permanent work…
Im wondering what’s the best way to end up doing this kinda work. i know living in the northwest isn’t ideal as not many ports but the must be a way in
cheers for any help
Dave
Don’t want to ■■■■ on your chips mate, but I reckon you are at the back of a very long queue, you don’t say how much experience you have, I suspect maybe wrongly, you are a newbie?.. but experienced Euro drivers,( self included 
) are finding difficulty in getting back into Euro work in a decent job, although I reckon there may be a lot of jobs about which only the operator and not the driver will make money out of 
, but that maybe aint a good idea. As for low loader work I reckon that is even more specialised, but hey, good luck anyway, you may find yourself in the right place at the right time.
Low loader/STGO work? get yourself onto a steel haulier. keep your nose clean for a year or two and get onto the extender work doing longer loads, do that for a few more years and get onto the notifiable loads, a couple years on those then apply to some heavy haulage outfits and start at the very bottom carting kit about, make your self useful and they may start giving you the odd load to see if your any good.
There is no easy way into the decent firms, its a very small world and your reputation is everything… if your not known you have very little chance of getting onto the good stuff, everyone doing the top end now started by making the tea and running errands- if you want to get there thats where you have to go.
As for international work, theres a few companies that will give you a start even as a euro virgin, but the wages will be poor , the decent well paying companies at the moement have their pick of well experienced drivers - a new starter will struggle to even get through the door.
sorry to be harsh but at this time thats the facts of life
To be honest i expected that sort of answers all i wanna do is work an earn a decent wage… The is a little low loader work at my current company an I’ve done the odd bit plus the recovery but i wanna learn expand an do more but i don’t see that happening… although it is a very secure job…
Experience wise I’ve done 3 years at current delivering trucks threwout the UK + recovery of said trucks, 2 months general haulage, an 6 years doing van work threw out the UK again… id like to expand abroad or something more challenging in the UK…
but just don’t wanna be leaving a secure job for something less secure…
Dave
How far away are you from Bennetts ? You want serious low loader work they are your men .
Send them a happy new year card with all your details on the back, cheeky but it gets you noticed ,good luck
Jim
JAX906:
Hi alli think im posting in the right section
id love to either get into low loader or continental work but im struggling figuring out the best way to get into this line of work is… I want guaranteed permanent work…Im wondering what’s the best way to end up doing this kinda work. i know living in the northwest isn’t ideal as not many ports but the must be a way in
cheers for any help
Dave
try applying to the right companies 
Robroy PM sent
If your near Bennetts tell them what you want
and offer to do Sat /Sun jobs for them.
you may only get run outs with another driver but it all
helps the learning curve
try richard long thay do both and thay are advertising at mo
chester1:
try richard long thay do both and thay are advertising at mo
Just don’t apply if your fat or wear jogging bottoms!
brit european are advertising for low loader drivers on the j.c.b job four on four off
There’s a whisper on here that S&K are putting 10 more on the road, don’t know how true this is but a few drivers have posted on here about getting into europe and S&K are always willing to give them a start, but the wages, aren’t the best, but it’s a foot in the euro door.
Cheers for the pointers an company’s was going to send a cv etc in to Chris bennet’s now its the new year… an will fire some into a few other company’s mentioned…
An unfortunately extra work at weekends isn’t too easy as im fairly close to WTD and driving hours most weeks, an not sure if it’d be better to be letting people down more than helping out.
Dave
JAX906:
Cheers for the pointers an company’s was going to send a cv etc in to Chris bennet’s now its the new year… an will fire some into a few other company’s mentioned…
An unfortunately extra work at weekends isn’t too easy as im fairly close to WTD and driving hours most weeks, an not sure if it’d be better to be letting people down more than helping out.Dave
Do they have a place near you? I know they’re on Bredbury Industrial Estate, but do they have another place or is that commuting distance?
Yer id commute to the right job… im in northwich so its only 25miles away so not too bad 
…
Dave
BuzzardBoy:
chester1:
try richard long thay do both and thay are advertising at moJust don’t apply if your fat or wear jogging bottoms!
just don’t apply 
chester1:
try richard long thay do both and thay are advertising at mo
This is the blatently obvious route of attack if you want to do European low loader work. I’ve never worked there personally but know a few who have so I wont say anything apart from that if they did take you on, it’d be a hell of a learning curve to say the least and a somewhat different way of working/living than you may actually want.
beany:
brit european are advertising for low loader drivers on the j.c.b job four on four off
I would advise not to even glance at it, I will give you a cpl of reasons why, the choice of course is upto you. they operate with a must do as we say policy, you cannot do anything wrong, or you’re are reported by the “grass” a ex driver for them and god he loves his job, and from what I can see that his job role is, to train you loading and unloading jcbs, vans lorries etc onto the trailers and driving assessments, and the biggest bit he enjoys, and yes I did say enjoys doing, is to see you doing anything wrong and immediately report it to the office and more than likely suspend you for what you did wrong. he has followed a lorry driver home to prove that he was going home and booking a night out money, hey we’ve all done this, the driver in question was suspended until his disciplinary hearing, and sacked. Another driver was loading up and measured his height at 16’ 2" the driver even got the grass to check the height as brit european policy was not to run over 16’, the grass said that was ok, the driver drove to his destination and caught low trees hanging because of all the rain and damaged one of the lorries loaded on the trailer, guess what happened to him? he had a final written warning for that, although he said that the grass had checked it and said that it was fine!!!
the 4 on 4 of shift, I know from 1st hand as I work there and I have seen the rota which consists of alot of 5 on 3 off and 4 out of 7 weeks you are working the weekends, and the money is crap, I’m on 5 on 2 off taking home approx £1800 which consists of am shifts staring from 2am finishing around 1pm. Pm shifts starting around 12 or even 2pm depending who you follow on the shift beforehand and finishing at about midnight or 1am, this consists of driving to the docks etc southampton, felixtowe or harwich tipping and piggyback back to rocester or reload vans back, you can have a break if you want but that will mean 11 to 12 hour shifts. the 4 on 4 off shifts that they say well as I said before there are alot of 5 on 3 off and the money is a lot lower than I’m taking home now, yes you do less days but that should be counteracted when you work through the weekends.
did both early and late shifts for four months then got laid off which did me a favour.
did not get on well with the trainers at all. if i left of my own accord they wanted £1700 pounds back for the training.