Evil8Beezle:
Cosmic:
Been a while since Goldstar bought any new trucks and you don’t see them in any kind of numbers like you used to.Apparently desperate for drivers around my parts, I can’t imagine why from what I’ve heard about them!
Not that desperate as they won’t train anyone without container experience (which is why I didn’t even get an interview, and they didn’t even know where my application form was).
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IndigoJo:
Evil8Beezle:
Cosmic:
Been a while since Goldstar bought any new trucks and you don’t see them in any kind of numbers like you used to.Apparently desperate for drivers around my parts, I can’t imagine why from what I’ve heard about them!
Not that desperate as they won’t train anyone without container experience (which is why I didn’t even get an interview, and they didn’t even know where my application form was).
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What, pray, experience do they feel is so important that it makes those without it unworthy?
How to tailgate another truck at 56mph?
How to get a 9’6" box under a 14’ bridge?
How to pull out of laybys into 50+mph traffic from standstil?
How to operate a twist lock?
the nodding donkey:
IndigoJo:
Evil8Beezle:
Cosmic:
Been a while since Goldstar bought any new trucks and you don’t see them in any kind of numbers like you used to.Apparently desperate for drivers around my parts, I can’t imagine why from what I’ve heard about them!
Not that desperate as they won’t train anyone without container experience (which is why I didn’t even get an interview, and they didn’t even know where my application form was).
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What, pray, experience do they feel is so important that it makes those without it unworthy?
How to tailgate another truck at 56mph?
How to get a 9’6" box under a 14’ bridge?
How to pull out of laybys into 50+mph traffic from standstil?
How to operate a twist lock?
I"m a bit baffled as well. All you have to do with newbies into the container game is double them up for a few days or a week whilst they are shown the port/terminal procedures. Beyond that it’s literally just twistlocks, a button to release the locking pins on the trailer & ■■■■■■■■■■■ 4 hours on a bay. Total doddle!
rob22888:
I"m a bit baffled as well. All you have to do with newbies into the container game is double them up for a few days or a week whilst they are shown the port/terminal procedures. Beyond that it’s literally just twistlocks, a button to release the locking pins on the trailer & ■■■■■■■■■■■ 4 hours on a bay. Total doddle!
They all seem to demand 2 years experience as well! 
Probably as the margins are so tight, they try to save money on the insurance…
I really don’t get the whole “boxes is a doddle” theory. Curtainsiders are a far easier game. Turn up at a supplier, open sides, get loaded. Proceed to tesco rdc, any will do as they’re all the same, press buzzer, give LM number, proceed to bay number, head for the concentration camp sticking out from the building, rinse and repeat for 5 days etc.
Or take the “doddle” boxes. Spend half hour familiarising yourself with the locking pin locations, head to Felixstowe. Find the police station and sort your Rhides card out. Your boss told you to head for languard, but you’re at 8-9 berth, is that right 
You check your interchange, where’s tha? You suss that. Wait for a text, now the consoles out of paper, your job didn’t print, what now? A kind driver tells you any console reprints your job. Phew, but wait, what’s a 22G1? I’m picking up a 20ft. Where’s K821? Phew, found it. Why’s the crane not putting my box on? Why isn’t he moving? Do I move? Phew, box is on. Why does it feel like a sack of crap to pull? I wonder how it’s loaded. Oh well, off to the Asian cash and carry warehouse, you know, the one they’ve rented temporarily that hasn’t got a name up. That’s it, the derelict looking hole.
Off to London gateway now, should be the same as Felixstowe, oh it isn’t, totally different procedure. Well at least I haven’t got an m&g lock and go behind me, what a doddle of a day
Boxes sound like they’ve got a little bit harder in the last 14 years 
. When I did it only two positions to know. The one in the middle (it was obvious) for the 20 foot and the bits at either end for the 40. Drive to grain, swipe, box on, drive out and up the road somewhere far away and tip, sleep and repeat. I preferred general myself but boxes were an easy life.
Boxes are easy once you’re doing it. The point I was making is starting off isn’t a piece of cake. Curtains are a simpler starter for 10. I’ve been doing mostly boxes for 12 years, so the different procedures come in at different times. There’s less and less human interaction at the ports these days too, when I started you could ask someone and wing it. These days you’re relying on other drivers to point you in the right direction.
We always double up for a couple of days before sending them out on their own, but, how many actually listen or watch…not many, far too much ■■■■■■■■■■■■ about their previous “work” I`m afraid.
There is far more to the job than people realise, especially on the railhead work, each RH wants a different approach from the driver, and god forbid if you don`t play by their rules 
And, where are these 4 hour tips everyone seems to think is the norm ?, most RH work is drop & swop, and if its planned well, you don`t stop, which actually scares off the chancers who fancy a change 
All our work is direct line work, so the operators sit and cherry pick the work. I get maybe one 3 hour tip a week, the odd 2 hour groupage load, but the majority is quick tips, like timber and bricks. Door to door in 30-40 mins and all inside tilbury. Some days I do 5 jobs without leaving the dock, then run one to Felixstowe in the afternoon.
And then you have the handiest of them all:
Fridges!!![emoji41]
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My firm just do locals infact all subbies I know just do locals as the distance work on boxs just don’t seem to pay.
From what I have seen I wouldn’t want to work for any of the big boys in the container game,
Stanley Mitchell:
And, where are these 4 hour tips everyone seems to think is the norm ?, most RH work is drop & swop, and if its planned well, you don`t stop, which actually scares off the chancers who fancy a change
I get 2-4 hour tips regularly, even some longer & thats doing local RH work. Just my experience!
Most likely bought for the msc work like macintyers was
Big players buy and buy another big players.
Maritime buy Road…
Culina buy Great bear.
Nft buy NR EVans.
Turners buy Goldstar.
Who will be next■■?
Who stands to be hit hardest by Hanjin going belly up?
There’s your next acquisition or truck firm in administration right there.
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claretmatt:
Who stands to be hit hardest by Hanjin going belly up?There’s your next acquisition or truck firm in administration right there.
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Maritime did the lions share of their work after the old RD/Securicor/DHL days. Another nail in the container division coffin. I think maritime will eventually be a small fish in the container game, much like Stobart. They are concentrating on building the curtainsider side up. Wincanton did a fair bit of hanjin too, so they might hit a blip
Andrejs:
Big players buy and buy another big players.
Maritime buy Road…
Culina buy Great bear.
Nft buy NR EVans.
Turners buy Goldstar.
Who will be next■■?
The industry has been contracting for years. It’s bigger than ever truck wise, just the companies are shrinking.
Wincanton took Hanbury Davies and Carters.
Securicor took Russel Davies.
DHL took Securicor.
Maritime took DHL containers and RCL.
Turners took Walkers, Macintyre and Goldstar.
Same as curtains really.
DHL took Exel and Tibbetts.
Culina took Bayliss and Gloystarne.
TDG took loads, including Salversons.
ND took TDG.
XPO took ND.
And it carries on and on…
rob22888:
Stanley Mitchell:
And, where are these 4 hour tips everyone seems to think is the norm ?, most RH work is drop & swop, and if its planned well, you don`t stop, which actually scares off the chancers who fancy a changeI get 2-4 hour tips regularly, even some longer & thats doing local RH work. Just my experience!
Must be just us then, although last Friday saw us loading a few export loads, and the worst of those was only a two hour job 
OVLOV JAY:
All our work is direct line work, so the operators sit and cherry pick the work. I get maybe one 3 hour tip a week, the odd 2 hour groupage load, but the majority is quick tips, like timber and bricks. Door to door in 30-40 mins and all inside tilbury. Some days I do 5 jobs without leaving the dock, then run one to Felixstowe in the afternoon.
You must be Geting all the cream most of your firm have been in our yard last two weeks loading recycling shot.
kr79:
OVLOV JAY:
All our work is direct line work, so the operators sit and cherry pick the work. I get maybe one 3 hour tip a week, the odd 2 hour groupage load, but the majority is quick tips, like timber and bricks. Door to door in 30-40 mins and all inside tilbury. Some days I do 5 jobs without leaving the dock, then run one to Felixstowe in the afternoon.You must be Geting all the cream most of your firm have been in our yard last two weeks loading recycling shot.
They’re the maersk contract motors. Our side doesn’t do that any more