kr79:
Firm put us through cs cs card last week. Ive had mine since 2008 and never been asked for it.
Grab ticket is handy to have can be good money on grab work especaly on utilities if you are willing to do evening and weekends.
Is CSCS the construction equivalent to MPQC/EPIC?
Just a basic knowledge of health and safety really. Not done epic.
Yep I do muck away mainly London kent and essex 
Muckaway:
kr79:
Firm put us through cs cs card last week. Ive had mine since 2008 and never been asked for it.
Grab ticket is handy to have can be good money on grab work especaly on utilities if you are willing to do evening and weekends.Is CSCS the construction equivalent to MPQC/EPIC?
I’ve done both and I maintain although I passed the course I learnt ■■■■ all from them.
Content is different and they are delivered in very different ways ( or the two courses I did were) but basically they are a minimum requirement to get onto certain sites or should be don’t expect to learn very much at all from CSCS as it’s geared toward no brain health and safety oblivious idiots
What are BP Mitchell like? Not to work for, but the truck my new employer’s bought for me to drive was one of theirs. Just looking on the 'net, photos show them to be well looked after.
I knew a few people who have them my dads had one for about 3 years had no major problems with it.
They only keep them 2 or 3 years and always look smart. I think they are on r&m at scania and as soon as thats up they sell them.
Some kit like Crossrail TBM’s must keep digging a) because it costs so much sitting still, and b) it it stops too long in the clay, it is a pig to get started again. So demand is for continuous removal.
Then you get sites bang in the centre of London with tipping over 30 miles away (Pitsea), and during the peak hours there is a filled truck every 400-500m crawling through the traffic congestion. On one job they needed at least 50 trucks to deliver 150 trips/day, so most trucks got just 3 loads/day, which, unless payments compensate for the time taken to crawl across London, would I guess just about pay to take the truck out of the yard.
Shorter workings perhaps to load a barge or train might make for better use of fewer trucks more intensively, but there is only one freight wharf in central London, and it can only be used at high tide, and very few rail sidings but that might get an option to have dedicated haul-routes, exclusively to make the muck shift work efficiently, and safely. That would not be unlike the working in opencast sites, where a 100T dump truck can do pretty bad things to any car that gets in the way, so the dump trucks get their own private haul road to keep them apart from other traffic.
kr79:
I knew a few people who have them my dads had one for about 3 years had no major problems with it.
They only keep them 2 or 3 years and always look smart. I think they are on r&m at scania and as soon as thats up they sell them.
I think the illuminated headboard has been removed as the beacon lightbar is on the workbench in the workshop being cleaned up. Hoping they’ve left the air horns on as looking at photos, all Mitchells’ wagons have them. I was meant to be having a P420 but for some reason the sale fell through and they found this (better mechanically but a dirty inside). I’ve been mildly bitten by the bling bug as I’ve bought an Oxfordshire flag for it and they’re fitting my Canadian plate, my nameplate and my cb. May even look in the poundshop for some polish.
Going to try and keep this one looking nice, to make the job more appealing.
My dads one still has airhorns on it
kr79:
My dads one still has airhorns on it
Smiths never take them off either, I guess you’re asking for wet seats if you do. Heard that BP Mitchell were cutting the fleets’ size; Strange when eveyone else’s expanding (see a lot of theirs around Aylesbury).
To many idiots running round for buttons to run to many of there own
kr79:
To many idiots running round for buttons to run to many of there own
Funny you mention that, one subbie around here is said to’ve bought another truck “to stop some other barsteward from having all the work…”
Great business plan to go to Santander with.
Muckaway:
kr79:
To many idiots running round for buttons to run to many of there ownFunny you mention that, one subbie around here is said to’ve bought another truck “to stop some other barsteward from having all the work…”
Great business plan to go to Santander with.
I heard one idiot loudmouthing in the cafe a couple of years ago he had first dibs on one agencys work and was buying lorrys to cover it.
Now anytime hes in there he dont stop moaning how much hes spending on fuel a week.
I do muckaway but of the liquid type
Wow 13 loads a day that would be awesome, 13 a week would be nice.
Most I’ve done in a day is 3
Years ago when I was on the tippers I did a load of lime in a bulker stopped at the gate 5 hours later after I’d cleaned the mess up I reloaded, no one told me it moved.
The top soil in the winter thing is so it is ready for planting in the spring.
Anyone in the south Devon area we want a couple of loads of topsoil and we can take 150 cubes of subsoil
and 1 load of flint (or similar)
Good thing about this thread - it’s 90% [zb] with another 80% total Crap.!!!
Muckspreader:
The top soil in the winter thing is so it is ready for planting in the spring.
You mean stuff actually grows on topsoil from plant hire companies?
Where I used to work, we had one big topsoil heap yet we loaded “certified” and “uncertified” topsoil from the same one. I actually had on my worksheet one day to do a couple of uncertifieds with a certified last to go on top of the other. It came from the same pile yet the workmen were careful that the certified was cardfully graded over-I didn’t have the heart to tell them.
There also wasn’t 19.5t on each load-more like 17. 
Muckaway:
What are BP Mitchell like? Not to work for, but the truck my new employer’s bought for me to drive was one of theirs. Just looking on the 'net, photos show them to be well looked after.
They’re cutting their fleet down which is strange, seen them selling 11 plate P360s & 12 plate 360s, due to the lack of tippers in the used market they’ll sell for good money! Very tidy trucks but if our firm bought one I’d remove the name board.
We asked why they were selling & they said as soon as the R&M contract is finished they flog them & buy new. Madness! Why not renew the R&M contract?
Those nameboards must affect the mpg figures? Not many firms use them nowadays. Talking of selling after 3 years, someone around here contract lease for roughly that (knackered by then) whereas Smiths will buy outright and keep for 10 years. With Smiths’ reputation for maintenance they’ve got several people queuing for some 03 reg Foden Alphas.
The r&m figures to extend after two years are probaly fairly steep on a tipper.
What with buying a fair few on a regular basis they probally get a decent price on new and as they sell privately and with full service history etc get a decent price so it keeps the average age of the fleet down and keeps the costs down.
I do a lot of muck shifting in and around northants and cambs. Easy job good money you just have to ignore the orafice. I drive an 11 plate hino which ain’t too bad average 8.1 mpg.