Would you help unload/load a truck/container?
Would you do residential deliveries?
Would you do pallet deliveries without a tail-lift and forklift? (splitting pallets down)
Would you do Multidrop?
Personally, I’m getting a little ■■■■■ with having to split pallets down due to lacking a tail lift but its got me thinking what do you guys draw the line at.
I used to work at a place that had a Day trunker and he walked out because they asked him to deliver 3/4 pallets to a local business before he headed off to Birmingham.
The other day I had two pallets @ 500kg to go to a school which obviously didn’t have a forklift and made me think wtf am I doing here.
TLDR; What would you guys refuse to do?
Yes if it gets the job done
Do them occasionally, no big issue
Again yes if it gets the job done
Multidrop for me is nine drops at most
This is in a rigid though
Yes I do it at least once a week
No residents don’t like artics in their drives
No , the customers responsibility to arrange needed equipment ie fork truck and special requirements should be arranged when booking delivery.
No, I have done but won’t again
Grumpy Dad:
No residents don’t like artics in their drives
You don’t park it in the drive you just block the entire road.
You do when you have to screw it round in a cul d sac
Could always just block the entrance to the cul d sac and run / walk it the rest of the way. No job is impossible!
I get stressed out with the delivery game in the rigid but I kinda want them to give me a van run but put it in a artic just to see how I would get along with it. 60+ drops in a artic bring it on!
peirre:
Probably done most of those jobs in some form or other
Same here,
What I would and wouldn’t do really depends on the job I’ve taken on and the attitude of the company I’m working for and the attitude of the people I’m delivering to.
peirre:
Probably done most of those jobs in some form or other
Same here,
What I would and wouldn’t do really depends on the job I’ve taken on and the attitude of the company I’m working for and the attitude of the people I’m delivering to.
I’ve helped other firms wagons tip so that I could tip, it was job and knock though. Now paid by the hour, I’ll sit and wait.
Would you do residential deliveries?
Did that for 10 years, did very well out of tips (and other bits and pieces) thank you very much. Not the line I’m in now but if I were to go back to it then it would depend on the likelihood of other benefits.
Would you do pallet deliveries without a tail-lift and forklift? (splitting pallets down)
Simply - NO!
Would you do Multidrop?
10 years in one job, 7 in another, couldn’t physically do either now, so NO!
I wouldn’t listen to half the rubbish spouted on here for a start , at times it’s more like Jimmy smarts circus than a professionals drivers forum
As for what I’d do just depends how the mood takes me on the particular day
I’ve done all of those at one time or another.
It depends on the company, if they take it for granted that i’ll do unreasonable stuff then I wont.
My last job wanted me to unload 4 pallets of bin bags 500 yards to a blokes garden shed with no tail lift and a sack trolley.
They came flying back with a parking ticket for good measure.
I’ll always try my best to get the job done, but sometimes youve got to make a stand
I’ve always seen a drivers job to be delivering goods to a customer, having the unloading all done for us whilst we kip is merely a perk we are lucky to be regularly afforded. I mostly welcome the opportunity to get on the back of the trailer and do a bit, but I must say i’d draw the line at handballing shipping containers just because it’d be so soul destroying. Wouldn’t break down pallets for anybody either & that falls outside the remit of delivering, unless they had the kettle on of course and helped.
Multidrop is no big deal so long as you don’t allow yourself to be run ragged.
