Read a lot of posts saying when you first start out you’ll more than likely get crap jobs to start with so you can gain experience. I was just wondering what is considered a crap job to you lads and lasses that are already there.
I can’t wait to get going To be honest and I think I’d deliver anything anywhere…other than London 
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I do biomass as my first job. The work is good if not a bit dusty. What makes its crap work is the pay, crap lorry, crap attitude within the company, and the general cowboy approach to things. But this same approach is why they were willing to take on a guy with one month agency experience I guess!
Dan my old china. My job for the last 12 months was with P&H. It was crap because I had usually 18 drops with cages/pallets,and all the stock had to be handballed into the customers premises. Usually some acne ridden bellend who stood and watched me and then says ’ That looks hard work '.
But now I have been saved. I am among the elite lol.
Delivery in London. That will be my burden to carry One day.
You wanna try skip work or tarmac tippers 
eagerbeaver:
Dan my old china. My job for the last 12 months was with P&H. It was crap because I had usually 18 drops with cages/pallets,and all the stock had to be handballed into the customers premises. Usually some acne ridden bellend who stood and watched me and then says ’ That looks hard work '.But now I have been saved. I am among the elite lol.
Your living the dream…even with that turtle
Different for everyone. But for me anything multidrop with handball is [zb]. Got loads of demands to do P/H brakes etc but outright refused. Slowly but surely class 1 jobs filtering my way. Same agencies told me I ‘have to start with multidrop’ now offering nice trunk runs.
Moonpigdan:
Read a lot of posts saying when you first start out you’ll more than likely get crap jobs to start with so you can gain experience. I was just wondering what is considered a crap job to you lads and lasses that are already there.I can’t wait to get going To be honest and I think I’d deliver anything anywhere…other than London
Just curious.
I wouldn’t say all first jobs are crap mate.
I just started today on container work. I passed my class 1 three weeks ago and got offered the job the same afternoon that I passed, with a good 100% legal company. It wasn’t advertised I just went in and asked the question.
I came in this morning and got handed the keys to an immaculate Volvo fh13 500 globetrotter xl. The basic rate is ok, with a higher rate after the first 40 hours and good above average night out money. There’s no physical work involved in it, the hardest thing I need to do is drop a trailer or turn twist locks or open the back doors. I am out this week double manning it on local work to get used to the paperwork and procedures at different docks and rail terminals ect, Then I’m on my own
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Moonpigdan:
Read a lot of posts saying when you first start out you’ll more than likely get crap jobs to start with so you can gain experience. I was just wondering what is considered a crap job to you lads and lasses that are already there.I can’t wait to get going To be honest and I think I’d deliver anything anywhere…other than London
Just curious.
I wouldn’t say all first jobs are crap mate.
I just started today on container work. I passed my class 1 three weeks ago and got offered the job the same afternoon that I passed, with a good 100% legal company. It wasn’t advertised I just went in and asked the question.
I came in this morning and got handed the keys to an immaculate Volvo fh13 500 globetrotter xl. The basic rate is ok, with a higher rate after the first 40 hours and good above average night out money. There’s no physical work involved in it, the hardest thing I need to do is drop a trailer or turn twist locks or open the back doors. I am out this week double manning it on local work to get used to the paperwork and procedures at different docks and rail terminals ect, Then I’m on my own
Well done. Good to read stuff like this.
My first job i am still doing started may last year. Im doing multi drop for a general haulage pallet delivery firm in 18t man. Tbh i would avoid those types of places… Im waiting for a retest for my c+e. Then i want out…
My day can consist 15-20 deliverys/collections… But you can be thrown on routes you dont know… some drops are tail lift…
Some of the places i have delivered are stupid… Farms, houses, 10 stories up in flats… aswell as doing that i some times have time slots to meet… And have to negoiate pallet colletions wile not blocking in tail lift drops. And im doing 55 - 60 hours.
Hope my experiance helps you.
scottl5690:
My first job i am still doing started may last year. Im doing multi drop for a general haulage pallet delivery firm in 18t man. Tbh i would avoid those types of places… Im waiting for a retest for my c+e. Then i want out…
My day can consist 15-20 deliverys/collections… But you can be thrown on routes you dont know… some drops are tail lift…
Some of the places i have delivered are stupid… Farms, houses, 10 stories up in flats… aswell as doing that i some times have time slots to meet… And have to negoiate pallet colletions wile not blocking in tail lift drops. And im doing 55 - 60 hours.
Hope my experiance helps you.
Certainly does mate. Most replies so far point to getting onto c+e asap.
I wouldnt say its a bad thing getting class 2 experiance under you belts a bad thing in my opinion… cause what i have learned helps me on the road to c+e. tbh i cant wait to get my c+e… Sick of mulidrop… Good look in getting your c+e 
I would say any local multi drop. I’ve had 90 drops on 5 streets in Leicester, bin lorries are also my idea of hell. my heaven is long haul, don’t care how dirty, multidrop or not and the more nights out the better.
someone else would probably view things from the exact opposite viewpoint. tramping would be my ideal, not too much of it on class 2 though 
Do 12 months on the class 2’s. Ive been driving 7.5T for years which helped me with my class 2 job. But the experience ive gained over the last year has really helped with class 1.
I can fiddle with my sat-nav,sort my notes,eat a sausage roll and roll a cig all at the same time now.
Where there’s muck (hard work) there’s usually brass.
I started out on the oldest tackle in the area, day cabs, no power steering, ropes and sheets and hard blooming work including handballing 21 ton loads regularly on and off again, but the company paid around £20 a week better than the all flash no cash mobs in the district…to put that in context £93 a week average in 1976 in an old Foden was a ■■■■ sight better than £70 and a Scania 110.
Look around, there is something that suits everyone out there, equally there are those that if you paid 'em a grand a week to lie in bed they’d still find something to moan about.
The way to make money in this game is to specialise, and to get your self a good reputation, no sickies, punctual, reliable, polite, presentable, look after your motor, accident and damage free, but the main one is to look after the companies customer…if you do the job right your name gets known and the better jobs have a way of finding you.
excellent advice there Juddian