theres no such scheme on chilled/frozen. Night time is tip money but the day rates are as stated. Thats at the Donington branch (Fruitex) The Spalding branch may be different as it used to be Hargreaves.
im looking forward to the chance to build experience got to start somewhere i guess! im doing days wed to sun. sat and sun all time is paid at 10.50ph.
i agree with most, i will be there to work thats for sure. Stobies arent recruiting at newark currently 
the trainingg to be fair seems well planned and structure which is good without having the experience. dont mind trailer swaps etc all adds to the fun! asessment drive was awesome ill be driving from spalding (fruitex). im not 100% sure wether its fridges or curtain siders there only see tractors parked near cabins when i have been. Choice of volvos or dafs in the fleet! 
sane-scotty:
theres no such scheme on chilled/frozen. Night time is tip money but the day rates are as stated. Thats at the Donington branch (Fruitex) The Spalding branch may be different as it used to be Hargreaves.
bit tight going over the railway lol wouldnt like to meet another lorry coming opposite way! 
It’ll be fridges, they have hardly any curtainsiders. Fridge work is an excellent way to get started until you’re ready to move on to something more taxing. It should sort your reversing out within six months, particularly some of the farms they have to go to.
Good luck, I’ve found them to be a decent firm to work for so far.
claretmatt:
I’ve been here a month now and, yes on the face of it, the wages seem quite poor. The basic rates are very low. I’m on bulk liquids myself and my basic rate is £5.91 per hour. Discounting the first two weeks which were spent being thoroughly trained, I’ve earned £450 and £500 take home the last two weeks and we’re quiet right now. You’re paid a series of bonuses which make your money up, plus Turners is one of the few firms which still pays time and a half and double time. Basically, the pay is structured so that if you’re productive, you will earn. If all you want to do is arse around in laybys wasting time, you won’t… seemples.I don’t know how it works on chilled, but if it’s anything like bulk liquids, you earn productivity bonus by notching up kilometres, and performing certain stationary functions like Tip, Load, Trailer swaps, Tank wash, Truck wash etc.
I trained with a guy who’s been here 23 years, and he says on a good week he takes home £650. All the drivers on bulk liquids have been here years. If the pay was so terrible, you think they’d stay?
If you’re prepared to work and not waste time, you’ll earn the cash.
How many hours is he working to take that home and is that with night out money?
claretmatt:
It’ll be fridges, they have hardly any curtainsiders. Fridge work is an excellent way to get started until you’re ready to move on to something more taxing. It should sort your reversing out within six months, particularly some of the farms they have to go to.
Good luck, I’ve found them to be a decent firm to work for so far.
ahem, what now lol, not liking the sound of this ha ha. Is it much handball or all handball? plus do you drop trailers off and take full one back?
There’s a bit of handball, but most of it’s on wheels. Most of the farms you’ll go to are massive commercial operations with loading bays, staff etc
ah ok thats cool. i didnt much fancy handballing x amount of plastic crates to fill a 40ft trailer every drop muhaha. is there much trailer dropping etc? i could wait and see lol but too excited at the opportunity.
Theres a mixture of freezer work and curtainsiders. A typical day shift could be get ur unit at 8am ish then pick up an empty fridge from down the yard. Take fridge to spalding woodheads and swap it for a full one of frozen meats. Take that frozen to the turners soham depot and drop it off. Then pick up an empty fridge and park on the chilled bay and wait to be loaded for a return trip to donington with fruit for the markets. Pull into yard. Refuell unit and fridge then wait in line to be emptied. Then go home. They WILL try to get your max driving hours out of you.
I do nights and we get paid trip money so if the trip takes 15hrs or 10yrs you still get the same money. However. Lately they have been wanting it both ways. One shift i did 15hrs and the next shift i did the job in 10. On they way back they tried to get me to do more work as they wanted more driving out of me. I refused so today i lost my shift and had to go to a meeting with the boss to explain. I put my side. He put his but i think it shud be swings and roundabouts. You get paid for the trip not the hours you do so if sonetimes it takes you 14 or 15 hours then its bad luck but at the same time if it takes me 9 or 10 hours then i believe they shudnt then try and make me work fir another couple of hours without pay.
The boss seemed reasonable so we will see how i get on next week! I hope its better cos this week has been literally, a nightmare and one more like it then thats it for me.
surely max driving hrs etc is good as it means you get more pay. on days do you not get paid for every hour worked then? if not that cant be right?
On days u get paid by the hour.
ah OK, so how the guys at night like you earn good money then? extra collections and stuff 
you earn good money by doing the good runs. the lowest paid run is around £80 for local frozen stuff, and the best runs get paid £140 ish, then if, on the way back you do an extra pickup then you get £15 each one.
If you`re on days then Mick, the day supervisor, is really good with new drivers. I did a week of days when i 1st started, to get into the Turners way of things, it was easy work but the pay, like I said, is crap and I couldnt live that.