Class 1 work on a refrigerated trailer delivering milk around the uk.
money is decent if you work weekends like i do, not so much (or atleast i dont think so) working mon-fri.
job is a doddle, either do a shop run delivering to stores i.e tesco,aldi,lidls etc
or you can do trunking 1-2 trunks a day.
Depot to Depot night trunking.
The hardest part for me is avoiding debris falling off the back of Storbart vehicles, avoiding being carved up on roundabouts by TNT vehicles, and avoiding waving back at Royal Mail vehicles. 
Winseer:
avoiding being carved up on roundabouts by TNT vehicles
Interesting, so mine wasn’t an isolated incident the other week then. 
I work on a farm, me and a mate do 2 weeks each on the artic, pulling a bulker bringing in raw materials to the mill and also a livestock trailer moving pigs from breeding units to fattening ones.
We don’t do much driving, furthest we go is 1.5 hours away! No nights outs but in the summer we do daft hours as everything that comes off the combines is transported by trucks.
When not on the artic we are the yard man normally, so on the flt and telehandler, booking in wagons etc, but also cover shifts on the 8 legger bulk blower or in the mill making the feed, we also do most of the maintenance in the mill that doesn’t require an outside company. Every now and then back on the tractors too!
The variety is the best bit!
Class 1 box jockey. Mon - fri home every night. 40k plus o/t if i want it. 55 hrs
Had to twice walk out of my job citing poor pay to get this.
Oh and its not London/south east money.
Reef:
Winseer:
avoiding being carved up on roundabouts by TNT vehiclesInteresting, so mine wasn’t an isolated incident the other week then.
Watched 2 TNT trucks carve each other up on a roundabout exit the other night 
Sawdust to farms, love it, good money and a Merc Giga Cab, retiring in 5 months though.
Some very interesting replies so far ,It shows how varied the job is .I never expected so many replies ,Keep them coming ? it builds a good picture of the tnuk members aswell …
Cheers
Beetlejuice:
Some very interesting replies so far ,It shows how varied the job is .I never expected so many replies ,Keep them coming ? it builds a good picture of the tnuk members aswell …
Cheers
A sort of “identikit” so we can all be rounded up later on? 
Franglais:
Beetlejuice:
Some very interesting replies so far ,It shows how varied the job is .I never expected so many replies ,Keep them coming ? it builds a good picture of the tnuk members aswell …
Cheers
A sort of “identikit” so we can all be rounded up later on?
Not at all ,I already said do not mention the firms 
5 on 3 off tramping for a well known food company, own account.
Reef:
Winseer:
avoiding being carved up on roundabouts by TNT vehiclesInteresting, so mine wasn’t an isolated incident the other week then.
a446/a5 roundabout near the end of the M6 toll…
Dunno what it is about this particular roundabout, but it’s happened to me several times where I’ve pulled out onto the thing, only to have one TNT artic pull around me in the middle lane, and then a third one trying to somehow race and overtake the first - on the inside lane!
I’m thinking there must be a TNT depot nearby, or something…
What’s the bloody hurry though, otherwise? 
The mind numbing, hamster wheel, groundhog day existence that is supermarket delivery
Chilled, fresh and frozen food to the UK’s largest retailer’s stores from the RDC
Not even cards in, I’m technically self employed (ha ha gig economy deregulation) driving for a sub contractor agency who are doing some of the work for the main transport contractor, on behalf of the supermarket chain, it doesn’t get more Mickey Mouse really.
It is however half decent money, I live five minutes away from the depot and it is steady five shifts a week, week in week out with extra shifts always available.
I don’t consider it proper trucking, more like van delivery work but with a much bigger van, I gotta say how you guys spend five nights a week out parked in lay-bys, Industrial estates and motorway services, I just do not know, I doff my cap to you, you are the real deal
proper truckers
day old poultry from the company hatchery to broiler farms across UK and also collect eggs to go back to the hatchery. £35 - 40k with an average of 1 night out a week.
Out all week.Monday to friday General haulage.Occasional saturday work.Mainly reels.But also building products/drinks.For one of the bigger hauliers.Decent kit.5yrs Euro work before we were taken over.Miss doing that.
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Winseer:
a446/a5 roundabout near the end of the M6 toll…
I’d come off J9 M40 Southbound somewhere around 03:30 - 04:00 and was going around to the 3rd exit A34 toward Oxford, I was unsure of the roundabout lanes layout as this wasn’t a usual run for me so played it safe in the middle of the three (all three were usable according to the arrows), Mr TNT came charging up the N/S of me on the roundabout undertook me shot straight across the front of me and very nearly into the central barrier of the A34 exit, if it had been two lanes on the A34 and not three lanes which then filtered down to two then he’d have been through the central barrier 100%.
I work nights class 1 trunking here in west yorkshire and surrounding area I work through different agencies. I have done nights for 15 years now and been driving hgv,s 19 years but prefer nights to days and do jobs from containers to fridge work
All the rubbish handball. Off the beatentrack or central London jobs that no one else will do.
In my 41st year as an o/d.
Based on one of the inner hebrides, working mainly to and from central Scotland. You need to be a universal soldier up this way and just do whatever comes along, nothing up here, apart from maybe logging is big enough to specialise in. Used to do a lot of ferm work at one time, hay, straw, bagged feed etc, nearly all hand ball then. Couldn’t do it now. Fish farm industry has been good for us up here, plenty mixed work from them. A lot of it is dirty smelly gear, but if you just get on with it and don’t completely take the rip with your charges, you can get very fair rates indeed.
It’s a kind of a “You call, We haul” gig up here.
