Ched:
gettin-on:
Have donein markets common thing but normally who ever tipping at pays
Have 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 morning
Everytime been there since no matter if 2 or 22 lorries waiting to load imthe next on
A bay everytime
That’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.
Things must have changed from when I did the fruit markets in the 70s, if I got there early or on-time they always bunged me!! Although i’ve never tipped at the old Spitalfield Market I often loaded there but I never paid for the pleasure. Regards Kevmac47.
you mean fiddle loads I take it. done that as well fiddle was the name of the game in the
muck away life in the 70 80s
scotstrucker:
Fallmonk:
Was a common thing when I worked in the Glasgow fruit mkt (88-99) not a £5 though was usually a few quid, and it was usually the driver that said to me, done it many a time free of charge!
The weetagrove boys (London) used to tip big lol
we just got tam do ours lol
You pay him in cash or lager? 
Who you drive for at the time?
Fallmonk:
scotstrucker:
Fallmonk:
Was a common thing when I worked in the Glasgow fruit mkt (88-99) not a £5 though was usually a few quid, and it was usually the driver that said to me, done it many a time free of charge!
The weetagrove boys (London) used to tip big lol
we just got tam do ours lol
You pay him in cash or lager?
Who you drive for at the time?
Drove for bill hosie at the time so he got neither of me lol
He could shift some amount of lager at 6am lol, good lad tam n a bet he still there
martinviking:
Never have done, never will do !
That’s what they all said about paying to park as a truck driver!
mickfly:
martinviking:
Never have done, never will do !
That’s what they all said about paying to park as a truck driver!
Never paid for parking (yet) though I’ve never tramped, just nighted out once or twice a week & then most of the time I use secure TA company sites with free showers or lay-bys & industrial estates if I’m empty.
Well the opposite happened to me at Spitalfield, load of Apples from Holland, pulled in there about 7.00pm, Forkie comes over after I’ve pulled the side up on the tilt, ‘now there’s 2 ways we can do this driver, you stay in your cab and WE, yes WE, give you a fiver, or you can do it yourself’, needless to say I stayed in the cab, did this happen to anyone else?, I assumed there was some fiddle with the hired help?
Dieseldog66:
Well the opposite happened to me at Spitalfield, load of Apples from Holland, pulled in there about 7.00pm, Forkie comes over after I’ve pulled the side up on the tilt, ‘now there’s 2 ways we can do this driver, you stay in your cab and WE, yes WE, give you a fiver, or you can do it yourself’, needless to say I stayed in the cab, did this happen to anyone else?, I assumed there was some fiddle with the hired help?
that usally means the customers gonna be short of a few boxes of apples when he comes in lol
scotstrucker:
Dieseldog66:
Well the opposite happened to me at Spitalfield, load of Apples from Holland, pulled in there about 7.00pm, Forkie comes over after I’ve pulled the side up on the tilt, ‘now there’s 2 ways we can do this driver, you stay in your cab and WE, yes WE, give you a fiver, or you can do it yourself’, needless to say I stayed in the cab, did this happen to anyone else?, I assumed there was some fiddle with the hired help?
that usally means the customers gonna be short of a few boxes of apples when he comes in lol
reminds me of boys from the blackstuff with the security job at the docks when he got a free pair of boots and a bung to stay out of the way.
martinviking:
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. 
Where you’ll be waiting to take the stuff tup north
chester1:
martinviking:
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.
Where you’ll be waiting to take the stuff tup north
Don’t mind waiting, just as long as I don’t have to go into that Sewer anymore !