Bellydancer:
Got it through an agency, only one day. I’m only class 2 so I hope it’s a rigid! But that’s about all I know :S
Ahh I assumed you were class one, it’ll probably be multi drop then. Be prepared to be chasing your arse all day 
It won’t be that bad really, just take your time and ask if you aren’t sure. Don’t forget to check oil and water and tyres and you’ll be fine.
They look like they use Dafs. Ask someone how to use the tail lift because everyone is different and most are trashed. Keep an eye on your curtain straps if they come loose they will be flapping around in the wind, something Mr VOSA will not be happy to see if they are out and about. I had this happen on my first time using a curtain sider, I had one that had horrible beaten up old straps that kept coming loose.
Thanks everyone! Been told there will be two drops, maybe a dumbass question but do the trucks have satnav? Just beginning to realise, I know nothing! I’ve never even opened a curtainside! Don’t know how to use digital tachograph… AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
I always found a sat nav in their trucks of the usual driver left theirs in but I used my own. I’d take one if you need it, have a look on YouTube at digi card in tacho unit, I’ve not looked but I’m sure they’ll be some videos worth watching. You might get a shed anyway and use analogue
Try hanging on to a tonne of horse everyday!
i did blues and royals
you’ll not get on at taylors as the last women to work there took out 3 cars at kirkby,she parked the truck and didnt put the brakes on 
Bellydancer:
Thanks everyone! Been told there will be two drops, maybe a dumbass question but do the trucks have satnav? Just beginning to realise, I know nothing! I’ve never even opened a curtainside! Don’t know how to use digital tachograph… AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Take your own sat nav / map.
About the curtainsider / tail lift / digi tacho / anything you don’t know… ASK!! Don’t be afraid to ask, we’ve all started somewhere, if the 1st guy you ask is a ■■■■ (unlikely but possible) ask someone else. 99% of HGV drivers are very helpful, remember learning the hard way themselves etc, 1% are the complete arses you see on facebook videos.
If you are in a delivery and a driver tells you some ‘stories’, just smile and nod, but don’t believe anything you’re told 
Woohoo! Just got home, terrifying but loved every second! 
Everyone was so helpful!
Quick question, is there any way to know which services are hgv friendly from the signs on the motorway?
Bellydancer:
Quick question, is there any way to know which services are hgv friendly from the signs on the motorway?
All services except Knutsford - and even they cater for trucks, just don’t like them, but have a HGV fuel point and a few parking spots.
waynedl:
Bellydancer:
Quick question, is there any way to know which services are hgv friendly from the signs on the motorway?All services except Knutsford - and even they cater for trucks, just don’t like them, but have a HGV fuel point and a few parking spots.
Actually, on reflection, NO services are truck friendly, what I meant is they cater for them… They all hate us
Haha! I noticed some were green and some blue, wondered if that meant anything. Pulled into one at Scotch Corner and saw a sign at the entrance saying no hgvs 
Bellydancer:
Haha! I noticed some were green and some blue, wondered if that meant anything. Pulled into one at Scotch Corner and saw a sign at the entrance saying no hgvs
That’s unfortunate you could of used the big lay by the services it’s just the other side of the bridge.
Knowledge of services, toilet stops, truck stops comes with time. Not take you long to get your head around it.
So do you not want me to share my experanes with you about Taylors Transport then?
mc thackeray:
So do you not want me to share my experanes with you about Taylors Transport then?
Yeah let’s get back on track
The office Crew
Expect what you would find at an employment agency
A bunch of ego tripping back stabbing lying cheating plastic aristocrat’s
That see the driver as no more then scum
However there are rewards out there for a small elite of driver
There rewards are generally based upon where they send them
A driver dose not earn rewards through hard work and getting the job done right and working efficiently
A driver is rewarded for being a Browne boy standing on his head in the debriefing room whilst waving a leg and an arm and singing at the same time
One who works very hard is seen to be putting there jobs at depity as the office staff are quite disorganized and incompetent of running a ■■■■ up at the office Christmas party
Bad transport planning = bad management; late deliveries and a £1000 fine off DHL
Though the office worker might try and whine his excuses around the fact that it was the driver fault for being late when it was impossible for him to of made that delivery on time anyway
A sutle wink of is there any way you can get it there on time; well sir the only options I see is we do a trailer swap down the road with someone that has more time; ow no cant be bothered with that he said
or we run bent and notice how I say we not me meaning I need your express orders to do so not sutle nods and winks to get you out of the ■■■■
Then there is the happy customers
Are yes turned up on site again with there face bulging in red and smoke coming out of there ears coz it was supposed to be delivered last week
then to open the trailer doors for them and low and behold half the goods fall out of the trailer and break on the floor
All because the driver was to ideal to strap them or there where no trailer straps provided
There way of dealing with such a crisis is just smile very hard at the customer and wink everytime he tries to wrap his hands round your throat and everything will be alright
But the customer is not interested in bull ■■■■ like one of lord Taylors spit roast buffalo garden parties they are interested in having there goods delivered on time and in a safe well packed manor
And while we are on the subject of safety and vehicle maintenance
Lets talk about the defects try
Yes the wagon has developed a GV9 or not fit for purpose
A phone call to the office would you like me to take it up to our garage
No just fill a defect out like
Though a phone call to VOSA would be a better idea
All those defects in that defect try that seam to end up at one of Doctor Whos white dwarf supermass blackholes at the centre of the galactic galaxy
Coordinate SDSS J120136.02+300305.5
Yes speaking to the fitters about this magic defect tray
Again like the customers there face is bulging in red and smoke coming out of there ears about this little Monday morning meeting where the fitters receives a bollacing for not fixing the wagons all because they did not know anything about the magic defects
So to sum up the above, Lets have a scenario
The wagon brakes down and the driver is no longer able to carry on driving thus carry on with his deliveries
The driver calls the office numerous times but the office wont answer the phone to him because they don’t need to speak to this little low life of a person and there is no problem as far as they are concerned
2hrs later the customer ring the office screaming and shouting again! ‘wheres my goods’
The office rings the driver saying ‘what the hell do you think your playing at; why have you not done your job’
All the other tramper drivers just tell them to ■■■■ off! any wonder why
Any road lets talk about some famous faces and TT
We have the happy and humorous top manager chief transport planner Adrian
Even the top top man at TT says Adrian is not a very good transport planer
Then we have the new young Yuppie apprentices Dillon (der!)
Straight out of dippers into uni and straight into a job of authority yes an educated idiot with no brains just a mouth (the lights on but no ones in)
He actually had the audacity to call me thick as ■■■■ to his colleague, after I had asked him 3 times for the trailer height in feet and inches and his answer everytime was 4.55
But he dose not relies how stupid he actually is when I could over hear him on the phone talking to his colleague saying that that mc thack is as thick as ■■■■
Darb:
mc thackeray:
So do you not want me to share my experanes with you about Taylors Transport then?Yeah let’s get back on track
So what ells do you want to know
What else have you got?
Contraflow:
What else have you got?
mc thackeray:
So what ells do you want to know
Erm…do I apply online or just ring them for an application form ?
Darb:
mc thackeray:
So what ells do you want to knowErm…do I apply online or just ring them for an application form ?
I would put your application in writing coz hen I had my interview over the phone with mc gregory bell he said I was on 9 quid an hour
when i got my first pay slip it was 8 pound
and its not just me they have been ripping off
dose this sound like good cause for court action to any one?