Got to go to Tilbury first thing Monday, to a company called DJV Forwarding.
I haven’t been there before, was wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to anything I might need to know about procedures at the docks there, or if anyone knows where the place is within the docks. I’ve got the address etc but if I could save having to hold people up by going wrong and rubber necking for the place, then that is always good news for me.
Thanks 
Their offices are on the left as you get to the roundabout immediately after entering the docks, there’s a layby right outside 
You’re a star, thank you. 
Bet I can still make a mess of it, you watch
Its that small building in the bottom left corner of the map, the main gate is at the top middle of the map maps.google.co.uk/maps?client=fi … 04823&z=18
Just park outside in the marked lane and take your paperwork in to the miserable ■■■■ in the office. What are you collecting?
No idea, I just found the paperwork this morning coming off nights, it was just an address. I assumed timber or something? Could be anything I guess.
Will contact the boss before Monday to find out, as come to think of it I don’t even know which trailer he wants me to take.
Cheers for the map link
take your paperwork in to the miserable [zb] in the office
Not another one 
I’ve just finished two weeks of a right one at TNT
if it’s timber you’ll be sent on a jolly to a wee quiet bit of the dock with loads of old scrapper trucks bound of kenya and places like that
Wild goose, Did I miss the post where you told your last gaffer where to stick the worst job in the world? Sounds like your doing agency work now how’s that working for you?
Wild goose, Did I miss the post where you told your last gaffer where to stick the worst job in the world? Sounds like your doing agency work now how’s that working for you?
You must have missed it sir . I did, in the end (should have gone sooner) viewtopic.php?f=2&t=55004&p=705500#p705489
Took a week or so of messing about to get something else sorted. It’s not agency, I wanted to avoid that to be honest, but i’m doing relief driving for one particular firm based in Didcot who said they could keep me busy for the next six months or so with a view to becoming permanent after that. Good to their word so far, been busy for 3 weeks, and starting a fourth on Monday
I won’t give the name just yet, dependant on me making a massive ■■■■ up or something (i’m finding the learning curve steep, and may have already managed some points on the licence 
but that’s another story that isn’t finished yet), though two weeks pulling trailers for TNT has improved my reversing a whole lot!
All good fun so far. I’ll keep you posted.
Glad to hear it mate, I think they’ve got a good bloke going by some of your previous posts.
Make sure you’ve got loads of straps. When I’ve loaded there it’s always been packs of plywood and they have to be strapped.
There’s a 99% chance it’ll be wood of some description, highly likely plywood, so strap it lots and very very tight and stop after about 20miles or so to retighten the straps!
You’ll get your loading notes from DJV, they’ll then send you to a berth(usually 4) to load, 4 berth is just round the corner! Join the queue, when you load they’ll take you wherever the stuff is, strap it whilst loading, pull your curtains but don’t clip them up as the office will come out and check you got the right stuff on, ( I say pull your curtains as I was talking to someone there a few weeks ago and the dock police nicked em for having an insecure load, it was strapped but curtains were open!!! 
as normal highway law applies to the dock)
When you leave the dock, take it very steady as the slip road getting on to the A13 west bound still catches people out!
GOOD LUCK
Robsta:
There’s a 99% chance it’ll be wood of some description, highly likely plywood, so strap it lots and very very tight and stop after about 20miles or so to retighten the straps!You’ll get your loading notes from DJV, they’ll then send you to a berth(usually 4) to load, 4 berth is just round the corner! Join the queue, when you load they’ll take you wherever the stuff is, strap it whilst loading, pull your curtains but don’t clip them up as the office will come out and check you got the right stuff on, ( I say pull your curtains as I was talking to someone there a few weeks ago and the dock police nicked em for having an insecure load, it was strapped but curtains were open!!!
When you leave the dock, take it very steady as the slip road getting on to the A13 west bound still catches people out!GOOD LUCK
Curtains are weather protection, not a method of load securing
I have seen trailers leaving their with no staps on, double stacked plywood and the checkers say nowt!
Thanks a lot for the tips.
Will make sure I round up plenty of straps before I leave the yard. That can be a job in itself.
Robsta:
When you leave the dock, take it very steady as the slip road getting on to the A13 west bound still catches people out!
How does it catch people out exactly? Please tell me that you’re not scared by a bend in the road.
It’s just a bend, a nice steady one at that, it doesn’t suddenly get tighter or anything, if you secure the load properly, it’s not a problem, it can easily be taken in a lorry at the speed limit of 50mph, in a car it’s possible to go around it twice as fast (so I’m told ) all day, every day, container lorries with their high center of gravity go around that bend on the limiter without falling off the road, or even coming close to it, going east on the A13 is another matter, that tightens up half way around & could catch you out, you really need to take notice of the speed warnings on that one