Alliepallie4:
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.
Would that be the company just outside Mappleborough Green, Wark’s?
Event work with loads of European work. Love it! 
bigvern1:
Event work with loads of European work. Love it!
The only thing that stops me trying for this is double manning … Sounds a great job other than that .
I don’t double man.
Class 2 for just over a year.
First job I have found was delivering to garden centres with a 7.5 - the boss had no knowledge of tacho rules and no idea how he was O’ License, anyway, decent job travelling up and down England, with 3-7 drops only. Unfortunately it was seasonal job so I had then found a job as proper class 2 driver for a marquee company, one of the biggest, but very bad organized. Indeed I end up being more a tent man then a driver. Salary is very good on late spring and summer (5 months of hard work to be honest but over £ 2k net a month) and decent all around the year but I am not happy and decided to give my notice period. I have found a job in a general haulage company and I will see how it is. I know other big marquee companies use the drivers only to deliver the [zb] and awkward loads around sites, but mine doesn’t and indeed in 8 months I have seen all class 1 and 2 drivers coming and leaving every 1-2 months.
Reading this thread I am having a nice idea what is around. Good idea to share infos.
Beetlejuice:
bigvern1:
Event work with loads of European work. Love it!The only thing that stops me trying for this is double manning … Sounds a great job other than that .
Its not what you think. The lot I’m joining double man but they fly the guys out and they stay in the hotels, you stay in the truck.
I was doing weekend work for my Father In Law, collecting fallen stock (Dead Farm Animals) from farms all around Argyll & Bute and taking them to a knackery in the Central Belt as well as collecting Animal By-Products from all around Argyll and outlying areas and taking it to a rendering plant on the East Coast.
We do Malaga to Calais return drop and swop in the main, own account aggregate/ polished stone and occasionally into the UK for Reef One (Oasi gmbh)/ Pets at Home.
General Haulage into Portugal doing garden centres sometimes (when the former long haul slog takes its toll) and its all handball, sometimes up to 12t a time in 25kg bags…
blueovalcraig:
I was doing weekend work for my Father In Law, collecting fallen stock (Dead Farm Animals) from farms all around Argyll & Bute and taking them to a knackery in the Central Belt as well as collecting Animal By-Products from all around Argyll and outlying areas and taking it to a rendering plant on the East Coast.
Do you get used to the smell? 
Anything, we have Euroliners, Boxes and skellies & flats. The work is pallets of plastic granules to manufacturing, stillages of fascia panels to building sites, Swiss and Italian groupage distribution, foodstuffs and are also long and short sea freight forwarders & freight collators and forwarding agents for The Falkland Islands. All in all, a bit of a mixed bag.
Sometimes home all week, sometimes away, depends on the work
truckertang:
All but 1 job has been in and around Southampton.Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
Dad?
Wheel Nut:
truckertang:
All but 1 job has been in and around Southampton.Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
Dad?
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truckertang:
Wheel Nut:
truckertang:
All but 1 job has been in and around Southampton.Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk
Dad?
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Bit baffling ain’t it!
Obviously loads of different companies of all shapes and sizes around Soton.
Not ALL owned by your or anyone else’s Dad presumably?
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Will_161:
blueovalcraig:
I was doing weekend work for my Father In Law, collecting fallen stock (Dead Farm Animals) from farms all around Argyll & Bute and taking them to a knackery in the Central Belt as well as collecting Animal By-Products from all around Argyll and outlying areas and taking it to a rendering plant on the East Coast.Do you get used to the smell?
Yeah you do after a few trips
Fridges…
One or two drops, no/one collection (ish), no tail lift, no cages and home every night.
blueovalcraig:
Will_161:
blueovalcraig:
I was doing weekend work for my Father In Law, collecting fallen stock (Dead Farm Animals) from farms all around Argyll & Bute and taking them to a knackery in the Central Belt as well as collecting Animal By-Products from all around Argyll and outlying areas and taking it to a rendering plant on the East Coast.Do you get used to the smell?
Yeah you do after a few trips
Aye ye get used to it until you take a holiday then come back and you’ve got to build up a tolerance again.
The sights you see are another thing. I still remember the first time I seen the guys in the knackery skin a cow using a front loader JCB. Now that was an eye opener 
Winseer:
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?
There’s a depot not far,over the M42 J10 2 miles towards Atherstone Holly Lane industrial estate next to Aldi
I battle nightly with the parcel boys (and occasionally the box jockeys on the a14) whilst I night trunk around the country.
Class 1 for 14 years, only ever worked nights in UK. Currently doing 4 on 4 off for a large transport firm moving soft drinks for a well known soft drink manufacturer to supermarket RDCs, or trunking trailer loads of crap between the sites of a very well known online retailer. It’s about as generic as lorry driving gets, but it suits me down to the ground in terms of work/life balance, and wage.
Bulkers, carrying scrap, aggregates, sort, pretty much anything but grain