I’m lucky enough in my job to get tips on a regular basis , its mainly the older generation that give a tip , especially when I put it all away for them nice & tidy , I don’t do the extra in order to get a tip just as part of my job on builders merchants work , do any others get tips in their jobs & how do you feel about taking them ? I always say there’s no need for that I’m just doing my job but I do always take it, sometimes I can get upto £50 a week , it all helps in these hard times …
Imo it really depends on the type of work you undertake as to whether or not you receive tips. I regularly received tips whilst on recovery because I dealt with the public, at the moment I deal mainly with RDC’s and am more likely to knit fog than get a tip from the frosty faced harridan at goods in. 
HMRC’ll be on your case in about 30 seconds flat… 
Had a couple myself.
Delivering laminate flooring to a posh London address, had to handball 6 pallets up to the
2nd floor. Bosses knew it would be a long day,warned me as well…fifty smackers later, not bad.
Got 20 for another handball,can’t recall the details.
Got £20 to wait an extra 15 mins from a dodgy Asian warehouse in Holford, when I had been waiting for a couple of hours and the boss had finally told them to stick it and for me to pull out.
Bought the office a tin of sweets and pocketed the rest (told em about the bung).
when i was on general work on a rigid i had to take a very exespensive antique table down to london, it was only the size of a card table and was on loan to this person in london. anyway got there and put it in the hall, maid then gave me a £50 tip off the owners 
was also given a bottle of whiskey every year off a customer whom i delivered super hero comics for
even on tanks ive had a £20 tip while picking up used cokking oil from a farm in essex
When doing containers I was often asked to help out for a small tip. Sometimes it was so small it wasn’t worth the effort but sometimes it was. If I fancied a kip and knew it was a long tip I would quote a £1 a foot. Was surprised how often I was taken up on my rates.
In my last job on low loaders we used to supply machines to a groundwork company who specialised in the kind of job where one large house and grounds would be transformed into 2 or 3 smaller plots. These were usually in established areas and the boss would often be on site when you first bought the machine in. His standard line was " there’s £20 in it for you driver if you don’t mark the road/kerb/grass etc". It was often a challenge but it’s surprising what you can achieve if you put your mind to it. The same firm would often “off hire” it’s machines last thing Friday and if you arrived while the boss was there with the wages he would always give you a £10 and tell you to “have a few pints on me”. Sadly as the building work declined the tips got fewer and fewer.
Cheers
Neilf
Also not a tip but more of a benefit given as a thank you - used to be able to buy ■■■■ at cost price from the rather large firm we had a contract with. Worked out about £2-£3 a pack but only allowed so many packs a month.
My first truck driving job was in London, way back in the 60s. The firm did general haulage with a fleet of clapped-out lorries around London. One of the jobs was to deliver second-hand cardboard boxes to small factories.
One of these factories had a side entrance about 30 yards up an alleyway, and I had to carry up to 20 bundles of boxes up there. Inside the door there was an old boy who sat in his office which was so tiny there was barely room for a table and a chair. After he’d counted the boxes he signed my paperwork and then produced a small tobacco tin. He carefully opened it up and produced one of the old 12 sided threepenny bits. "a little over 1p in today’s money) and gave it to me.
About 15 years ago I used to deliver and install washing machines and cookers and other white goods for hotpoint, the tip money we used to make was unbelievable, sometimes we used to get up to a £100 a day between 2 of us, £100 was rare but it used to happen a couple of times a month, I used to live of my tip money and not touch my wages for alot of the time. We’d have residential deliveries for 2-3 days a week and then the other days would be shop deliveries which people used to hate doing even though it was easy, we’d hate it as we’d be missing out on tip money.
I was always told never turn down a tip as you don’t know when the next one will come. But most of the time it was the people who you least expected to give a tip who’d give £20.
Not cash tips, but usually not short of a cup or tea or a biscuit during the night shift 
I’m the same on 3663 I get more food and tea than I can eat/drink,never turn it down though as probably won’t get offered again.
I get well looked after at Xmas bottles of wine,a few of my customers gave me money this year and even one have me selection boxes for my kids!
We are not even allowed to accept christmas gifts ie bottles, boxes of chocolates etc. Some pish about a bribery act! Tell your company ■■■■ all and tell your fellow drivers even less if you’re getting something they aren’t, that’s what ive learnt!
merc0447:
We are not even allowed to accept christmas gifts ie bottles, boxes of chocolates etc. Some pish about a bribery act! Tell your company [zb] all and tell your fellow drivers even less if you’re getting something they aren’t, that’s what ive learnt!
Really? I never said about the money,but the drink and food I did so they didn’t think I had nicked it from my load.
Always pays to be honest.
Bits n bats, food, drink, beer, the odd ones dish a couple of notes out.
Its a shame some folk expect it rather than see it as a bonus.
merc0447:
We are not even allowed to accept christmas gifts ie bottles, boxes of chocolates etc. Some pish about a bribery act! Tell your company [zb] all and tell your fellow drivers even less if you’re getting something they aren’t, that’s what ive learnt!
My mum works with home care and they are supposed to declare everything, it’s stupid.
In removals you normally get something from a job. One of my guys kept a tally of all the tips he got over a 1 year period and he got given well over £1600 quid 
Working for a DIY home delivery company we do get opportunities for tips.
I only work weekends and get tips then, but I’ve noticed its either the “working class” someone similar to my “class” with not a lot of money but understands the effort you put in to get the job done. They actually pay quite a lot like £10 between two. They always insist we take it even though we say we are just doing our job.
Other than that the extremely rich/well off who tip even for silly little jobs. By quite a lot of money at times, it’s silly but again check with customer and don’t refuse if offered once again!
NEVER the middle class, but they are the “hardest squeezed” poor loves, sometimes I feel like I should donate to them when I turn up on their door, to help cover the extremely large mortgage payments or the HPI cars
Do every job, polite, helpful and put things in a clean orderly fashion, where they are required. Don’t treat anyone any different, I’m quite suprised how often it comes off. Never expected tips though, so it is a great bonus to the hard work we put in!
So are the driver’s mates I work with…Usual on average about £10 each, however has been known to go up to £25 in one day each. However last week first time in 13 weeks, nothing… 
I’ve done well so I won’t complain about last week…may be next week I’ll start complaining
Let the good times roll!!!
C
They are a bit few and far between these days, although recently I’ve pocketed a few quid.
Got given a £50 last year when a job dragged on a bit and unloading was a bit tricky.
Did a job before Christmas for a bloke shifting containers he’d bought at an auction, back recently to move one out and he said if he knew I was coming he’d have given me a drink. Yeah right. Back the next day for another and given a 50
Delivered a trailer load of 20x10ft triple glazzed ,gas filled windows to a guy that lived in the back of nowhere …had to stop at road and speak intae a intercom thing …ok come on in driver .Well across a gravel road /field down into river valley (middle o a canadian winter …snow etc and welll into the neg temps)
so got to a couple o containers and i was there!
Looking over to the cliff was a building being dug out o the cliff and an elevator type o thing for cars.
I was expecting a forklift or Manitou to be there to help unload… no fng luck …an old tractor an 2 old guys wi forks an a rope!!!
well me an the 2old guys got the load off eventually. 
and then out o one o the container type office comes jack the lad dripping in gold chains etc coffee in his hands OOOHH your unloaded already was going to give a hand … see you again driver …and dont spin the road up on the way out of the valley.
One o the old guys wanted a lift into town so no prob…Then on way the old boy tells me jack the lad just won $50million on the lottery so hes building the house his self (the 2old boys helping out) and hes so tight the old boys had to bring in there own coffee machine as he wont let the guys use his one!
Tight Bd.