Drift:
Dont know if things have changed but seems some of the wholesale Fruit markets have their own FLT’s now, at least in Liverpool Fruit/veg market as I was there the other day picking one up for repair from a trader.
Funny it was Liverpool fruit market I was in.
Think maybe I’m going to take a lead from them an ask for a fiver for delivery every drop I do you never no It might catch on an do us all a favour lmao
big boots:
paying to work my arse,why is it anything to do with london ends up with you getting screwed,whether its cyclists telling you the law,£200 for the priviledge of driving through the place,cant stop,no parking,whopping fines for taking a wrong turn,screw the place.
+1
I hope Boris Bans every artic from anywhere inside the M 25, then we can drop every thing off at South Mimms & all the Cockneys can queue up for it on a sunday morning. 
Nobody tips me for doing the job I’m being paid for so I’m buggered if I’ll be bribing someone to do their ■■■■■■ job.
Here again we have the problem of the few wrecking it for the many. Give one forkie a tip and he will expect it from every visiting driver.
andy1207:
Drift:
Dont know if things have changed but seems some of the wholesale Fruit markets have their own FLT’s now, at least in Liverpool Fruit/veg market as I was there the other day picking one up for repair from a trader.Funny it was Liverpool fruit market I was in.
Think maybe I’m going to take a lead from them an ask for a fiver for delivery every drop I do you never no It might catch on an do us all a favour lmao
I jokingly mentioned guinea pig food (daughters) and got two lettuce
It’s fairly common in markets. The chap in Smithfiled for instance is self employed and its his forklift. You are free to go from customer to customer tipping them yourself but it takes a long time. He’s not cheap but he saves you hours. Get on the right side of him and he remembers you and whenever I’m there he comes to find me, normally as early as 8pm, so by quarter past I’m on break. Do the drops yourself and you’d be looking at 1 or 2am finish as some customers don’t open till then. He gives a receipt and I claim it back from the company. Simple, they simply provide a service which you are free to use or not.
madiganzo:
Tarrman:
Bit of a scam isn’t it? Although I’ve never been to the markets as described I can kinda see the benefit of tipping the forkie, although if you go the same place and see the same forkie 5 days a week it would cost you a small fortune, £100 a month or £520 a year, that’s a fair chunk of money when you think about it out of your own wages.Steer well clear of accountancy mate
Ched:
gettin-on:
Have donein markets common thing but normally who ever tipping at paysHave bunged a few times last time was in italy few months ago help up delivering
Spoke to collection point agreed for someone to wait til 7pm fri night for me got there
You g kid waiting 15 mins was loaded and gave him 50 euro as was friday and saved me waiting to monday morningEverytime been there since no matter if 2 or 22 lorries waiting to load imthe next on
A bay everytimeThat’s right. They remember the generous ones just the same as we remember the nasty ones. Sometimes even a packet of cookies works as a bribe.
Some people must be getting paid too much, if I was an O/D then maybe, if it means getting an extra run in for the day, but I’m on day rate and I’d rather sit there and wait than pay some little gimp to take their stuff off my wagon.
If I was on curtains, just open her up and jack it round really fast the stuff will soon come out ha ha.
I’d reiterate what switch just said, guys at our place delivering to smithfield are paying £30 but getting it all tipped in one go.
madiganzo:
Tarrman:
Bit of a scam isn’t it? Although I’ve never been to the markets as described I can kinda see the benefit of tipping the forkie, although if you go the same place and see the same forkie 5 days a week it would cost you a small fortune, £100 a month or £520 a year, that’s a fair chunk of money when you think about it out of your own wages.Steer well clear of accountancy mate
Epic FAIL on my behalf. I’ll get me coat. Probably the reason why I’m a truck driver!
on muck away you had to drop the machine driver few bob or youed
end up loaded to ■■■■■■■■ ten the tip man had to get a drop so you get a good spot
to tip part of the muck away game oh happy days
Truckbling:
Nobody tips me for doing the job I’m being paid for so I’m buggered if I’ll be bribing someone to do their [zb] job.Here again we have the problem of the few wrecking it for the many. Give one forkie a tip and he will expect it from every visiting driver.
Right…
so those crates of booze were just an illusion then, right?
having done the fruit markets myself I have to agree with switchlogic on this one. bunging the FLT drivers a few quid to get tipped straight away so that you can get finished/parked up earlier seems like common sense to me, especially as the gaffer is usually happy for you to claim it back at the end of the week (at least the ones ive worked for anyway).
here again we have the problem of the few militant do gooder drivers wrecking it for the many.
32 ton/metre crane behind the cab. Never have a problem. 
aye the best tip i got when doing markets from the old timers was pay the money !.. the day was long enough without spending hrs unloading by hand,bosses expect you to pay, and get your arse round to backload then into the bunk.forkies have good memories and if you ps them off other drivers from your firm will pay for your stuborness.
not saying its a good thing to pay BUT its the way its done.
switchlogic:
It’s fairly common in markets. The chap in Smithfiled for instance is self employed and its his forklift. You are free to go from customer to customer tipping them yourself but it takes a long time. He’s not cheap but he saves you hours. Get on the right side of him and he remembers you and whenever I’m there he comes to find me, normally as early as 8pm, so by quarter past I’m on break. Do the drops yourself and you’d be looking at 1 or 2am finish as some customers don’t open till then. He gives a receipt and I claim it back from the company. Simple, they simply provide a service which you are free to use or not.
Interested how this works. I have never done markets.
Do you just leave the back open and leave him to crack on, or does he tip everything then store them somewhere until the customers are open? Does he bring all your notes back to you signed?
rob22888:
switchlogic:
It’s fairly common in markets. The chap in Smithfiled for instance is self employed and its his forklift. You are free to go from customer to customer tipping them yourself but it takes a long time. He’s not cheap but he saves you hours. Get on the right side of him and he remembers you and whenever I’m there he comes to find me, normally as early as 8pm, so by quarter past I’m on break. Do the drops yourself and you’d be looking at 1 or 2am finish as some customers don’t open till then. He gives a receipt and I claim it back from the company. Simple, they simply provide a service which you are free to use or not.Interested how this works. I have never done markets.
Do you just leave the back open and leave him to crack on, or does he tip everything then store them somewhere until the customers are open? Does he bring all your notes back to you signed?
You pallet truck it to the back of the trailer then he drops it off at the relevant places and then signs all your notes only way to do Smithfield 4 or 5 drops done in 20 minutes on the other hand you could be a tight fisted bugger and spend half the night doing it yourself. our boss always gives it back as it is factored into the rate
Tipper Tom:
Only ever paid to tip once. Was out on a van for a day years ago. No taillift. I had a pallet of candles for a firm in Clarks Village.
Four candles by any chance?
How long before you nip down the local corner shop and gupta refuses to serve you until you furnish him with a fiver?
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I remember at the old London markets where you might have a wagon with around 48 tiny pallets of fruit & veg etc - one for each stall all the way around the building… I gather you were supposed to stop start do up, undo curtains at each and every “stall” drop around the building…
In practice, you slipped the forkie a pony for the week (so it would be the £5 a day spoken of in this thread!) and you could dump all 48 pallets at stall 2, if that was the big entrance where the forks go in and out to the arcade section, and you’d done your 48 multidrop in less than 20 minutes, and be home with your feet up at around 6 hours into your flat 8 hours guaranteed paid shift…
I reckon spending a pony to make over 10 hours a week on “job and knock” is worth it, because you know exactly where you stand if you don’t do it the way described here… imagine running around trying to find the gaffer for each individual drop, getting your drop note signed off (forkie works for all the stall holders, so he can sign for all of them!) so if some official stall holder has gone for a ■■■■, or is out for lunch - guess who’s climbing the walls waiting, and will end up spending about 3-4 hours dropping those 48 pallets… Not good. 
Those were the days… This was over a decade ago though, when spitalfields was still open for fruit rather than lovejoy’s pleasure like nowdays…
You had the old streetwalkers hanging around outside the church on the commercial road too, but the kiosk there at the steps was handy enough.
A brew is what you need to keep warm in the middle of these cold winter nights rather than some skanky hag. 
tippertom:
on muck away you had to drop the machine driver few bob or youed
end up loaded to ■■■■■■■■ ten the tip man had to get a drop so you get a good spot
to tip part of the muck away game oh happy days
You must be doing something wrong. Ive bunged machine drivers on sites and ones who work on tips lots of money over the years but not to not get a big load ot to get a devent spot on the tip.