scanny77:
I am on the same page as the OP. Sounds easy sitting around doing nothing except watch the pennies rolling in but it gets monotonous very quickly. I am supposed to be on Lidl every day this week but I have only done it once in 4 shifts although I have still somehow racked up over 50 hours with 2 shifts to go. The time passes quicker when you are actually working
I don’t mind a long RDC delay if it’s my first job of the day, as that normally results in my next job being taken off me or made easier. If it’s my last job though, i’ll be bouncing off the walls wanting to get out of there and home.
Finish at 4pm, or do 4 hours OT sat at some incompetent RDC and finish at 8pm? No contest - get me home!
Euro:
it doesn’t matter if a driver is left hanging around. He is CHEAP. If there was a £100 ph demurrage charge kicking in after one hour, I think things would speed up
On tippers we used to get (13 years ago now!) £15 per hour after one hour, if you were also hourly paid (I wasn’t) it was a nice little earner and sometimes better than doing another load! I guess the rate has improved somewhat since those days, I admit that it could get boring if you were on your own though.
Euro:
it doesn’t matter if a driver is left hanging around. He is CHEAP. If there was a £100 ph demurrage charge kicking in after one hour, I think things would speed up
On tippers we used to get (13 years ago now!) £15 per hour after one hour, if you were also hourly paid (I wasn’t) it was a nice little earner and sometimes better than doing another load! I guess the rate has improved somewhat since those days, I admit that it could get boring if you were on your own though.
windrush:
On tippers we used to get (13 years ago now!) £15 per hour after one hour, if you were also hourly paid (I wasn’t) it was a nice little earner and sometimes better than doing another load! I guess the rate has improved somewhat since those days, I admit that it could get boring if you were on your own though.
Pete.
£40 an hour in the 90’s pete. [/quote]
Aye, I’m not surprised really. We worked very cheap on tippers compared to other haulage and probably they do still!
scanny77:
I am on the same page as the OP. Sounds easy sitting around doing nothing except watch the pennies rolling in but it gets monotonous very quickly. I am supposed to be on Lidl every day this week but I have only done it once in 4 shifts although I have still somehow racked up over 50 hours with 2 shifts to go. The time passes quicker when you are actually working
I don’t mind a long RDC delay if it’s my first job of the day, as that normally results in my next job being taken off me or made easier. If it’s my last job though, i’ll be bouncing off the walls wanting to get out of there and home.
Finish at 4pm, or do 4 hours OT sat at some incompetent RDC and finish at 8pm? No contest - get me home!
I know what you mean but I spend a lot of hours waiting for trailers in the RDC that I am delivering FROM, not TO! Stuck with sub-standard drivers who hang the job out and think they know it all. I had one the other day going on about my hours (I do a lot of hours to help the client) and the WTD. Since is only doing one job and its RDC work and he is concerned about WTD hours, he must be leaving it on crossed hammers deliberately. I dont and therefore do that run several hours quicker then get more work from the client and therefore EARN substantially more than him. Then he has a go at me about my max working time of 62 hours per week (if you are going to nip my head then at least be accurate ) even though my average WTD hours are around 40 just now due to a lot of waiting around (on POA) having to listen to insufferable oafs like him
The irony is that some guys are there to make money and I am there to do a job. I make more money because I am trusted by the client and therefore get more work from them
5 hours to tip 26 pallets today at Iceland Swindon! Goods in clerk was sulking 'cos he screwed up and tried to put me on an ambient bay. When I pointed out his mistake he got a lip on and decided to punish me by keeping me waiting. Not bothered tbh, on a night out anyway so all he did was put extra money in my pocket.
scanny77:
I am on the same page as the OP. Sounds easy sitting around doing nothing except watch the pennies rolling in but it gets monotonous very quickly. I am supposed to be on Lidl every day this week but I have only done it once in 4 shifts although I have still somehow racked up over 50 hours with 2 shifts to go. The time passes quicker when you are actually working
I don’t mind a long RDC delay if it’s my first job of the day, as that normally results in my next job being taken off me or made easier. If it’s my last job though, i’ll be bouncing off the walls wanting to get out of there and home.
Finish at 4pm, or do 4 hours OT sat at some incompetent RDC and finish at 8pm? No contest - get me home!
I know what you mean but I spend a lot of hours waiting for trailers in the RDC that I am delivering FROM, not TO! Stuck with sub-standard drivers who hang the job out and think they know it all. I had one the other day going on about my hours (I do a lot of hours to help the client) and the WTD. Since is only doing one job and its RDC work and he is concerned about WTD hours, he must be leaving it on crossed hammers deliberately. I dont and therefore do that run several hours quicker then get more work from the client and therefore EARN substantially more than him. Then he has a go at me about my max working time of 62 hours per week (if you are going to nip my head then at least be accurate ) even though my average WTD hours are around 40 just now due to a lot of waiting around (on POA) having to listen to insufferable oafs like him
The irony is that some guys are there to make money and I am there to do a job. I make more money because I am trusted by the client and therefore get more work from them
I feel your pain.
One of the downsides of supermarket work is the sitting about in the drivers room/transport office waiting for a load, listening to interfering shop steward-type know it all bellends telling you how to do this and that and “the time I refused” this and that. Just give a start time when a load will be ready so I can rock up and get the hell out of there ASAP
Longest I had was 9 hours at Tesco Fenny Lock Milton Keynes for 26 pallets They said it was because the supplier they order off would send stuff on pallets in say in packs of 4 or 5 etc when Tescos would only order say 1 or 2 so they would have to strip the pallets down. I had a great kip on my bed and read plenty of my book.
However could I ■■■■ as like sleep that night when I got parked up
I guess the rate has improved somewhat since those days, I admit that it could get boring if you were on your own though.
) even though my average WTD hours are around 40 just now due to a lot of waiting around (on POA) having to listen to insufferable oafs like him 
Reminds us old fogies of dock work in the 60’s.
They said it was because the supplier they order off would send stuff on pallets in say in packs of 4 or 5 etc when Tescos would only order say 1 or 2 so they would have to strip the pallets down. I had a great kip on my bed and read plenty of my book.