The easiest life?
New truck, legal running, slararied, pension, uniform, vosa green?
mrx:
The easiest life?
New truck, legal running, slararied, pension, uniform, vosa green?
Bored rigid doing the same runs for a week, basic fleet truck with no extras, banked hours so little or no overtime, no variety of work, no nights away for peace and quiet.
Might be easy but boring as hell.
Not for me unless I had to !
+1
I’ll do it, only work for the pocket the difference mob though.
shade:
+1
Sainsburys basic day rate over £13ph? And you guys are knocking it back? 
For what? 
You must be bankers who just drive wagons as a hobbie. 
Years ago I was working for City Trucks and was doing some traction work out of Morrisons at Wakefield. When I got to the stores I was told to back onto the dock and then go and wait in the staff canteen while the store warehouse staff tipped the trailer. I don’t think it gets any easier than that.
I also did some driving work for Asda. That was pretty easy, but you had to actually unload the trailer yourself, so not quite as easy as Morrisons.
I got plenty of overtime at tesco
mrx:
The easiest life?
New truck, legal running, slararied, pension, uniform, vosa green?
Take 80 cages on a curtainsider with a tail lift to local tesco. Spend 2hrs unloading them four at a time on the lift they have because they don’t have a dock. Spend another 2hrs reloading 300 empty cages…
No dangers of ever getting stuck in a queue, you will be THE QUEUE 
Done it. 4 full weekends on, straight after I left became a tramper which I’ve been for 6 years.
Conor, was that 80 empty cages? Because I work out of Tesco Goole and you can only get about 45 ish full cages on. As for empties I think most I have got on is 90.
You must have had a frigging big trailer
I find most to be ignorant ■■■■■ who think they’re the dogs ■■■■■■■■ and take great pleasure in holding everyone up at 35mph on a single carriageway then floor it on a dual rather than letting people past who have been stuck behind them for the past 20 miles. By time you get to end of the dual it’s too late to pass and you’re stuck for another 20miles. Irritating.
sometimes get sent to tesco livingstone to help the special ones out at christmas. my god its easy!! usually get the runs their drivers struggle with, ie if its more than 2 hours drive away. poor little poppets might struggle getting back in their time.
best part is sitting in goods out listening to the bs, it is actually worse than in the goods in side of a RDC!
forgot to add it is ok for a few days, any more and id be even more deranged
happysack:
sometimes get sent to tesco livingstone to help the special ones out at christmas. my god its easy!! usually get the runs their drivers struggle with, ie if its more than 2 hours drive away. poor little poppets might struggle getting back in their time.
best part is sitting in goods out listening to the bs, it is actually worse than in the goods in side of a RDC!forgot to add it is ok for a few days, any more and id be even more deranged
haha it is true, their own guys struggled with glasgow. i was also told i couldnt do a delivery to perth and back in 3 hours via kincardine bridge. donkeys.
you should try working with the shunters at livi LOL.
one or maybe at a push two of the shunter drivers are ok, the rest are complete and utter wallopers. i tried to flag one down and nearly lost my right arm and drivers mirror.
last year i did a run upto fraserborough, because it was snowing and the precious ones refused it, as it wasnt possible without double manning!
How much are Asda drivers on ■■?
happysack:
one or maybe at a push two of the shunter drivers are ok, the rest are complete and utter wallopers. i tried to flag one down and nearly lost my right arm and drivers mirror.
last year i did a run upto fraserborough, because it was snowing and the precious ones refused it, as it wasnt possible without double manning!
its the fresh shunters that are a nightmare. ambient and goods in are fine.
i got put onto shunting for a while their, fresh used to moan that the trailer was 1mm out of line and couldnt get the ramp down…i used to end up switching my radio on and off and only used it when i needed to talk to somebody.
most of the time i was on fresh i used to sit parked next to the washer witha trailer on my back or facing the fuel pumps telling the drivers what bay to go on. had one of tescos own tell me it was my job to put a trailer on a bay and went and parked his up. in the end he still had to put it on the bay
A guy I worked with was on asda for a while and recons the run times are way longer than what you need he said he liked the job it was just the shifts that didn’t suit him as he had a young family
I did a shift on the agency last night out of Doncaster on chilled. Nice easy work but god, is it boring! What makes it worse, their trucks are limited to 50MPH. So you sit in the inside lane being overtaken all night, other drivers must think that I was tossing the job off. It was ok for the odd shift, couldn’t see myself doing it full time though! I was told at induction that the top earner last year, before you start slating me I am only repeating what I was told…the top paid driver did £54k last year!
I did 5 & a half years at Saino’s Hams Hall when it first opened ( I was driver number 24 that’s how many were there when I started).
It was easy enough,but nowhere as easy as the 2 years i did prior to that tramping containers for Carters (that was a good easy & well paid job,only left because of family commitments).
At JS you had to put up with the usual B/S & the lightweights who thought 3 or 4 Norwich’s a week was too much work 
but if you got stuck in & fitted in the odd cheeky extra run here & there then it wasn’t a bad job. The majority of the back door crews were good lads & lasses but conversely the majority of the store managers were knobs ( they didn’t like it because most of us drivers were earning more than them 
)
Biggest problem was working 7 weekends out of ten,that’s why I went shunting (4 on 4 off) long weekends off & then when your 4 off were in the week you’d work a couple of rest days either in the yard or on the longer store runs (Gt Yarmouth,North Walsham etc) that way with your O/T & shift premiums etc you could easy make 36k without trying
Basically if you could get your head round their way of working it was okay.
Although I was at the end of my tether with a few of the shiny arses somedays (always looked after the moaning minnies & tried to weild the stick of power at the grafters) I’d probably still be there if I hadn’t met the present Mrs Flip & moved away to Stamford to live with her.
In saying that though there were about 25 or 30 of the 280 odd drivers they had in the end,that were ex International trampers & there are only about 4 or 5 of them left there now,although that probably says more about the mindset of the lads rather than the job!