As a semi experienced Newbie, I thought I would add on to the theme f-reds kicked off with his great post/diary about oversized VAN driving here: 
It shows that not all oversized VAN work is a desperately hard slog that you will hate. Yes there are the shop, catering, residential and other high volume multi-drop jobs that are a real hard balls ache, but there are other oversized van driver jobs about that a Newbie may not consider, or even know aboutā¦ The most obvious is tippers, as that requires no additional licences. But as you can see with f-reds post and his moffitt forklift, there are gigs that you donāt have to break your balls doingā¦
Even though Iām a class 1 god (as Beaver calls himself, the deluded nut! 
) Iām currently driving an oversized van 
delivering and collecting modular scaffolding. I say modular as in laymanās terms itās a preset and sized framework that builds/interlocks together in sectional blocks, and consists of a set uniform and predefined list of components. As such, everything fits on a stillage or in a basket, which are either fork-lifted or hiabāed, on and off the truck. Letās make this easier, hereās a pic!
The job basically consists of making a MAXIMUM of a couple of drops a day, especially if you are loading to the gunnels, as I have in this pic. Hope Iām not overweight! 
And yes, Iāll get it out of the way now, I would have liked a couple more straps over the front section to be 100% confident in debating my position with VOSA, whether that section is secured as well as it could be. But iād used all the straps I had, and will be in the office Monday morning asking for a couple moreā¦ But back to the job, as the other thing thatās different, or good about this job, is that people generally donāt run away from me when I turn up, & when I do, I can normally park! And while a building site is dusty and rough terrain, you get āthe crackā, and there is generally a good atmosphere and a bit of banterā¦
There is physicality to the job, as you have to band up (put plastic banding around) scaffold boards and a few other things, you have to muck about sliding strops under or around things, you have strap up your load securely as itās heavy and on show, and you have to re-stack some stuff (which depends on how thoughtful the scaffolder has been! 
) But thatās not all a bad thing; itās a bit of exercise/fitness, as well as dead easy when it comes to securing the load, as itās all accessible!
Now youāre not going to earn the big bucks on this gig, as the hours are fairly short. (7:30am to 4pm for me). But for me at the moment while Iām waiting on something else going on, itās a sweet little low stress number, and I donāt even have a Hiab ticket! 
So all my loads are forked off or taken off by tower craneā¦
So if there are any Newbieās looking at what they can do when they enter the industry, I hope this helps!
Your turn Radar!
Iām down to 35 on steep hills fully loaded. 
. But on a serious note great post it shows newbies there is a different side to class 2 work that isnāt just multi drop and working your ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā off!