3663…if you’ve done it you know what i mean!!
Done 3663 Northampton a few years ago, 6 pallets took almost 24hrs to sort just because I got there 10min before cut off time… What’s the story with Sainsbury stoke, I thought it was a non food slow moving goods place-slow tipping too by the sounds of it…
washy jnr:
jrl driver:
worst 1 i had was loading cages of chickens to go to the slaughter houses…it was an artic trailer full,slinging it down with rain,probably 300+ cages all to be handballed off & then restacked with chickens in them…■■■■■■ wet through with rain & sweat,chicken [zb] & feathers everywhere…lovely job…NOT!!! was funny stopping in harrogate on way back for some fish n chips for tea…got some right looks & comments…lolWelcome to my world…
+1 Happy Days!!
i found delivering thru agency to some of the new ASDA supermarkets (old netto’s) a right bugger gettin round back of these poxy precents and thru car parks to the delivery doors!!!
Re: Worst jobs in haulage. Haulage 
Used to deliver crated motorbikes with a moffet. Had some great tips, out in the middle of no where, but trying to tip 30 odd bikes, on a high street, in the rain and snow was never much fun.
Had to do a shop on the oxford road in Reading on xmas eve one time. took bloody hours and caused some serious queues and some very unhappy car drivers. 
10 hours in tesco fenny lock. 2007, when i drove for kts logistics.
tango boy:
10 hours in tesco fenny lock. 2007, when i drove for kts logistics.
Cant beat that, but did 9 hours at the old woolies in Swindon. in november, in a 7.5t, no bunk, no night heater. joy. 
lilysgranpa:
tango boy:
10 hours in tesco fenny lock. 2007, when i drove for kts logistics.Cant beat that, but did 9 hours at the old woolies in Swindon. in november, in a 7.5t, no bunk, no night heater. joy.
it was hell. tipped, rejected on morning shift. made 2 wait there tipped again on the afternoon shift. the drivers room was pokey. there was some coffee drunk that day.
about 15 years ago i did a stint for carpet express on a four wheeler, around 25/30 drops a day to shops and carpet warehouses. all shop deliveries were handball, some of the carpets weighed an absolute ton, when you opened the back doors they would be loaded to the roof and you had to climb up the carpets and drag the carpets first of the truck on to the road and then climb back down and pick it up and carry it to the shop where 99 out of a 100 were only staffed by women and the ones that had a bloke always could’nt give a hand cos of his bad back, now if you had a full load as you pulled the carpet towards the back and it started to drop it nearly always wedged between the edge of the heap and the roof which meant a lot more effort to drag them out. the motor i was on was an ex-dukes of northern ireland F6 and once you had tipped your first pile of carpets there was a cage on rollers inside the body you had to drag to the back and start the whole process over again, it was not unusual to fasten the cage to a lamp post with a rope and ease slowly forward to pull the cage to the back, fortunatly for me the locks always worked or there would have been quite q bit of best wilton on the tarmac 
. i stuck the job for about 3 months and moved on. i mainly do fridge work to italy and spain now, easy life, however i now look like a walrus, but when on the carpets i was like a racing snake.
dont suppose with all the H&S bull you would be able to do the job like that now.
Did an agency job for carpets to London,with an Eaton twin splitter gear box,got 6 miles down the road and broke the gear box.
Some places ive tipped at have asked for the keys… gave them the car keys ! so i could still listen to radio and make a brew… and also ask that you take red airline off, worst job i think is fitting bulbs and lenses to a tilt on the docks in winter in driving rain and one side isnt playing fair , ■■■■ wet through and cold great job innit?.. but change of clothes and night heater on full soon warmed you up. 
A lot of drivers have a spare set to hand in,at Argos in Bridgewater,there is a warning to say you have handed in the truck keys and not the spare set,so they are cottoning on to this now.
lilysgranpa:
tango boy:
10 hours in tesco fenny lock. 2007, when i drove for kts logistics.Cant beat that, but did 9 hours at the old woolies in Swindon. in november, in a 7.5t, no bunk, no night heater. joy.
Goin back to the 90’s when I dove for Fed Ex on the Matchbox contract Woolies in Swidon was a regular drop for us, I got on very well with the supervisor in ‘goods in’ his name was Mick Strange. No matter how long the queue I could get unloaded as soon as I arrived just by calling him first. One morning I was running 2 hours late due to getting very drunk the previous night, I called him at 09.30 when I was about 20 minutes away, (the appointment was 08.00), he told me to ignore the queues and drive in and tell security to call him, I did so and when I got there he had coned off bay 10 for me, he ran out and removed the cone for me to back in and another driver came over to complain as he had been there 4 hours, Mick told him to shut up or wait another 24 hours.
I loved that place 
I have been to that same Wollies,it was common to be stuck there for 8 to 9 hours.
Builders merchants. The Home of Handball.
I had a curtainsider. Pallet truck, tail lift? Doesn’t help.
Upstairs flat, round the back, down the ruddy garden. Long drives you can just get a Mondeo down, narrow gateposts…
Silly addresses, one was a PO box number, I kid you not.
Oh Christ, its all flooding back and it was 14 years ago. Must get in touch with my therapist again.
Third party aggregate deliveries for Jewsons. Crap addresses, no contact number and when you get there they’ve promised their customer the earth (“yes the lorry will fit” etc)
Farm deliveries
Muckaway:
Third party aggregate deliveries for Jewsons. Crap addresses, no contact number and when you get there they’ve promised their customer the earth (“yes the lorry will fit” etc)
I’ll second that, bulk bags from merchants sent via a pallet network, only we do them in artic curtain-siders hence no moffet/hiab/request for tail-lift (extra ££).
MADBAZ:
Muckaway:
Third party aggregate deliveries for Jewsons. Crap addresses, no contact number and when you get there they’ve promised their customer the earth (“yes the lorry will fit” etc)I’ll second that, bulk bags from merchants sent via a pallet network, only we do them in artic curtain-siders hence no moffet/hiab/request for tail-lift (extra ££).
we used to get used welsh states being send tho UPN… often to heavy to lug about with a pallet truck… and drivers were told buy the boss ahh dont worry just hand ball them off… but any damage to them will come from your pocket…