Basically what type of work would you hate to do and why?
Just carrying on from the transporter thread with the damaged Jaguar,I don’t think I could do that work purely because of the value of the load and how easy it is to get it wrong if your not 100% on your game. I know carrying anything can go wrong but if you have 7 cars on there worth say min 30k each retail that’s a lot to lose,including your job if it goes belly up! That’s why it’s not for me.
Now before any keyboard warriors start posting please don’t say stobarts as this will probably get locked!
On the other hand, If it’s £900pw for a 48 hour week moving bodies between hospitals and funeral homes, then that would be OK.
I’m flexible with the work, just not so much with the pay.
Any very high value cargo, loaded on a curtainsider, involved in night work for a company i do not really know off (via agency) particularly round Heathrow airport.>especially if it involves been told to park up for long but unspecified time.
Annoying as round here it seems to be one of the most common ways into the heavys, but I just couldn’t hack trying to fight my way into town centres in rush hour to do 70+ deliveries.
I’d go with livestock too. I once took 3 sheep to another farm 4 hours away for my old man. Didn’t bother me what was to become of them but the smell of bodily fluids and ■■■■ when I opened that trailer door nearly knocked me over. God knows what wagon full would smell like, no thanks
Annoying as round here it seems to be one of the most common ways into the heavys, but I just couldn’t hack trying to fight my way into town centres in rush hour to do 70+ deliveries.
I wouldn’t exepct to do a 70+ drop in an artic anyway…
Perhaps I should add “Puddle Jumpers” to my own list, but if I get paid the same rate as artics, I’d drive a milk float, go kart, or pram when it comes down to it!
Winseer:
Working a 48 hour week for less than £500.
On the other hand, If it’s £900pw for a 48 hour week moving bodies between hospitals and funeral homes, then that would be OK.
I’m flexible with the work, just not so much with the pay.
this.
as for multidrop, been there. And if I could find a job where you took the van home like I had (TNT via subbie) for the same money i’m on now, i’d do it tomorrow. Loved it!!!
I am an agency driver and like to do any work that is thrown at me. I need physical exercise and am interested in seeing the variety of businesses which i visit. BUT, it must be understood that I am doing these jobs as a favour, as a hobby. I do not know how to operate tail lifts, pallet trucks, cages, dock levellers etc. I am willing to change light bulbs gear boxes or engine managements systems on a wagon. I am prepared to have a go! But I have never been trained to do these things. I do know how to drive a truck and have been trained accordingly. I do draw the line at anything which I regard as dangerous due to my ignorance, changing or inflating a wheel for example. Before I have a go at experiencing these novel and exciting activities, I always try to imagine myself, under oath in a courtroom being asked by a clever lawyer, “Were you trained or qualified or experienced in carrying out this operation?”
“…er, no. I was just trying to help the company make more money”
of any kind!