This morning I got a phone call from Millar international .
I went for an interview with them on Monday morning, over at their yard in Stirling. The phone call was to ask me when I would like to start .
The job is, Sunday start down to either Newcastle or Hull to catch the ferry. The port used depends on where my first drop is. Three to five drops round Holland or Germany, Austria or Swiss. The drops are grouped in the same area. Reload, again two or three collections in the same area (more or less ). Head for home, shipping in through Newcastle or Hull and home for Thursday or Friday. If there is a drop on-route from the port to the yard, and Iām passing at a suitable time, Iāll have to make the drop. If not, it goes back to the yard for the UK drivers to tip.
They havenāt gone bust, because they closed the doors, on the distance side, before that happened mate. We got laid off at the weekend.
They have kept about 8 trailers, to service a couple of contracts they want to keep going. There is still one unit as well, that one had a later contract than the others (which all went back to Scania on Monday).
The Palletline side of the business is still going strong, expanding even, but Iām not into local multi drops. Palletline have two hubs that I know of, one in Preston or Leyland (it was moved recently) and one in Birmingham. They have trunk motors running down to them 5 nights a week. They run double deckers down to them but there is often more than a full load at the hub. That entails a standard trailer going down to collect the āheld overā pallets, often delivering āheld oversā from our yard too. I expect that the last unit to go will be kept busy doing that and a bit of local shunting in between.
The money at Millars aināt bad for this neck of the woods. Iāll be getting about the same for a five day week there, as I was getting at Wisharts for five-n-a-half.
ah well good news that you find another distance job in such a short space of time .
atleast with you being away all week your only commuting to stirling and back the once which is good .
i have been offererd work with wisharts through the agency in the past but i wasnt very experienced so i decided to stick with doing shifts for wincanton in dunfermline . i am trying to get onto some diffirent and longer distance (maybe to england) work but not having much luck at the moment .
You should have gone for it mate. We donāt (well didnāt) bite, not that hard anyway
Which agency (ies?) are you with? Do you get many offers of distance work with them?
The best paper for driving jobs is the The Courier, on a Friday. Most of the adās are agencies, so you have to trawl through the whole section to find the proper jobs ( ).
Simon:
They run double deckers down to them but there is often more than a full load at the hub. That entails a standard trailer going down to collect the āheld overā pallets, often delivering āheld oversā from our yard too. .
The pallet place I started at had three double deckers going full there and back every nightā¦then i think most of half of one of them ended up getting double stacked on my rigid. Thatās what it seemed like anyway
Forgot to mention, the wagon is an XXL MAN, no idea what size of engine itāll have under the cab though.
Iāll do my poor best with some diary efforts. I plan to get a laptop very soon, which will be handy for typing up diaries. I also have a cheap digital camera, which only has internal memory. I have discovered the hard way that if you touch the battery cover, the circuit is broken, which wipes the memory. With a laptop I will just plug it in and download any photos before the memory gets wiped, which will make putting photos in easier .
At the moment I use a single use camera. I have to wait for the film to be developed, download the pics onto my computer, upload the pics to MSN, write up the diary and hopefully, remember what the pics were of. .
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). Head for home, shipping in through Newcastle or Hull and home for Thursday or Friday. If there is a drop on-route from the port to the yard, and Iām passing at a suitable time, Iāll have to make the drop. If not, it goes back to the yard for the UK drivers to tip.
