Hi too all , Got and interview at aldi’s atherstone next week ,I’m a limited company I’ve put in for nights 22:30 start £14.04 ph 5 on 3 off , just what’d to see what it’s like to drive for them , as i see this place looking for drivers all the time is it busy or [zb] to have a great turn over of drivers, is that telling me something , i know it’s self load DC and off load at store , tell me it can’t be as bad as farmfoods 
cheers people any info will help… 
jason74:
Hi too all , Got and interview at aldi’s atherstone next week ,I’m a limited company I’ve put in for nights 22:30 start £14.04 ph 5 on 3 off , just what’d to see what it’s like to drive for them , as i see this place looking for drivers all the time is it busy or [zb] to have a great turn over of drivers, is that telling me something , i know it’s self load DC and off load at store , tell me it can’t be as bad as farmfoods
cheers people any info will help…
The demand for drivers will likely stem from the fact Aldi are booming and expanding rapidly opening new stores. Not worked for them but spoke to one of their drivers at a store once (he was from Neston RDC) and he said it’s hard graft, they expect a lot of you, but you get paid pretty well for your troubles.
Most of the stores follow the same format and have a sloped loading bay off the store car park, which at night will be empty making life easy, then you then have an electric pallet truck to offload the pallets into the shop then reload the empties. You sometimes get scissor lifts. Takes them about an hour or so to tip & fill a full load at a store. At night you will probably be letting yourself in unless it’s one of the few stores with a night team.
cheers for that rob22888 mate,
I’m looking forward to doing it if i pass the interview ,£14.04 I’d stack the shelves as well .
rob22888:
jason74:
Hi too all , Got and interview at aldi’s atherstone next week ,I’m a limited company I’ve put in for nights 22:30 start £14.04 ph 5 on 3 off , just what’d to see what it’s like to drive for them , as i see this place looking for drivers all the time is it busy or [zb] to have a great turn over of drivers, is that telling me something , i know it’s self load DC and off load at store , tell me it can’t be as bad as farmfoods
cheers people any info will help…The demand for drivers will likely stem from the fact Aldi are booming and expanding rapidly opening new stores. Not worked for them but spoke to one of their drivers at a store once (he was from Neston RDC) and he said it’s hard graft, they expect a lot of you, but you get paid pretty well for your troubles.
Most of the stores follow the same format and have a sloped loading bay off the store car park, which at night will be empty making life easy, then you then have an electric pallet truck to offload the pallets into the shop then reload the empties. You sometimes get scissor lifts. Takes them about an hour or so to tip & fill a full load at a store. At night you will probably be letting yourself in unless it’s one of the few stores with a night team.
Yeah a lot deliver through the night and let themselves into the stores. I arrived at one of my deliveries on a sunday morning before the staff arrived at 7am and wondered how the driver was unloading himself.
They do have a lot of sub contractors doing the store deliveries up north as all the trucks i see in Stoke are subbies but i think a different depot serves that area.
The fleet at Atherstone when i was last there we white Scania P Cab’s, they all have blue numbers on the cabs and thats it, recently seen a lot of nice new shiny trailers
Just out of interest, driver self tips into a store at night after letting himself in. Isnt that just waiting for an accident or to get robbed, or am I missing the point somehow?
topdog1606:
Just out of interest, driver self tips into a store at night after letting himself in. Isnt that just waiting for an accident or to get robbed, or am I missing the point somehow?
no mate, your not waiting to get robbed, your not waiting to have an accident, your doing what your paid to do, but your too frightened to do it. seek a job in child minding
green456:
topdog1606:
Just out of interest, driver self tips into a store at night after letting himself in. Isnt that just waiting for an accident or to get robbed, or am I missing the point somehow?no mate, your not waiting to get robbed, your not waiting to have an accident, your doing what your paid to do, but your too frightened to do it. seek a job in child minding
don’t think it’s a matter of being frightened…stores that i deliver to (not Aldi),insist the doors can’t open unless at least 2 members of staff are there,for insurance purposes
carryfast-yeti:
green456:
topdog1606:
Just out of interest, driver self tips into a store at night after letting himself in. Isnt that just waiting for an accident or to get robbed, or am I missing the point somehow?no mate, your not waiting to get robbed, your not waiting to have an accident, your doing what your paid to do, but your too frightened to do it. seek a job in child minding
don’t think it’s a matter of being frightened…stores that i deliver to (not Aldi),insist the doors can’t open unless at least 2 members of staff are there,for insurance purposes
It’s amazing though how many of the health & safety ideas Aldi disregard, like ‘untrained’ drivers been thrown the keys to an electric pallet truck at their RDCS, yet I’m not hearing of swathes of accidents happening.
Deliver to an Aldi - driver turns up, straight on the bay, operates the bay, cracks on & unloads everything himself and gets going. Meanwhile at Tesco’s next door their driver is still sat outside the gate waiting to get in, then a member of store staff who could otherwise be serving customers in the shop is required to assist with the unloading. Whats the better system, from a business point of view? No wonder Aldi are making the money.
Select the correct tacho mode switch while working in the back self loading or tipping.
Vosa have been known to target Lidl and Aldi depots,as they know you are not on rest or a break while working.
The offence is fraud and they take it seriosly.
They may watch from outside the gates or come in and check the tacho.
rob22888:
carryfast-yeti:
green456:
topdog1606:
Just out of interest, driver self tips into a store at night after letting himself in. Isnt that just waiting for an accident or to get robbed, or am I missing the point somehow?no mate, your not waiting to get robbed, your not waiting to have an accident, your doing what your paid to do, but your too frightened to do it. seek a job in child minding
don’t think it’s a matter of being frightened…stores that i deliver to (not Aldi),insist the doors can’t open unless at least 2 members of staff are there,for insurance purposes
It’s amazing though how many of the health & safety ideas Aldi disregard, like ‘untrained’ drivers been thrown the keys to an electric pallet truck at their RDCS, yet I’m not hearing of swathes of accidents happening.
Deliver to an Aldi - driver turns up, straight on the bay, operates the bay, cracks on & unloads everything himself and gets going. Meanwhile at Tesco’s next door their driver is still sat outside the gate waiting to get in, then a member of store staff who could otherwise be serving customers in the shop is required to assist with the unloading. Whats the better system, from a business point of view? No wonder Aldi are making the money.
- 1 to that, inbounds at atherstone as far as i know are all unloaded by the drivers, whereas at other RDC’s you just wait to be tipped, suppose the plus side of doing this is you don’t sit there for ages waiting to be tipped.
Agree with the above of unloading your own vehicles, great idea, but suppose if drivers tipping it can be seen as a chance for robberies to take place, yet again Aldi’s have probably thought ahead by keeping all monies etc etc locked away so if in the event that the store gets robbed when drivers are unloading at night then alls they can take is pop and sweets 
Like rob22888, was chatting to a driver at the fairly new Norwich store a couple of days ago. Hed run from Cheltenham, 5am start, was pulling a tri-axle with tag lifted, 20 pallets at about 15 tonnes. Motorised pallet truck & said he expected to be about an hour before returning to depot. Seemed chilled out and happy enough with his lot so cant see why you won`t be too!
As said, bay here too was down a sloped slip at the far end of the car park, and once the numpty cagers got out of the way, straightforward enough to get in. Good luck, & enjoy!
Yeah it’s great being able to tip yourself and crack on, the downside is when you’ve tipped your 8 measly pallets at Lidl Runcorn, then stand at the desk for 4 hours waiting for it to be checked (I could understand if there were issues with the paperwork), or you go to Aldi Neston, not only do you have to tip it but you have to liable the ■■■■■■■ thing up for them too, or Chelmsford at night you have to put the ■■■■ in the racking for them.
There both a joke, Aldi is better time wise but if I wanted a warehouse job I’d have stayed at co-op thanks!
I do the day shift at Aldi. No complaints at all. Yeah it is self load and self tip but it is not hard at all. I’d rather do that than sit around in a waiting room for 3 hours.
jason74:
Hi too all , Got and interview at aldi’s atherstone next week ,I’m a limited company I’ve put in for nights 22:30 start £14.04 ph 5 on 3 off , just what’d to see what it’s like to drive for them , as i see this place looking for drivers all the time is it busy or [zb] to have a great turn over of drivers, is that telling me something , i know it’s self load DC and off load at store , tell me it can’t be as bad as farmfoods
cheers people any info will help…
Just wondering how this would work, being a limited company but being on a 5 on 3 off rota. Doesn’t it go against the rules of self employment if you have to turn up at a workplace on a set rota??
Sounds the same as Lidl. My last job in uk was for Davies out of Bridgend doing the store deliveries. Easy as pie drive once you get used to it. Load and unload yourself when you finish depends how quickly you get done. Job n knock
jason74:
Hi too all , Got and interview at aldi’s atherstone next week ,I’m a limited company I’ve put in for nights 22:30 start £14.04 ph 5 on 3 off , just what’d to see what it’s like to drive for them , as i see this place looking for drivers all the time is it busy or [zb] to have a great turn over of drivers, is that telling me something , i know it’s self load DC and off load at store , tell me it can’t be as bad as farmfoods
cheers people any info will help…
I don`t think its so much a turn over of Drivers as an increase in the need for more Drivers.
Atherstone is continually out growing its warehouse capacity despite having increased its floor space on several occasions.
carryfast-yeti:
green456:
topdog1606:
Just out of interest, driver self tips into a store at night after letting himself in. Isnt that just waiting for an accident or to get robbed, or am I missing the point somehow?no mate, your not waiting to get robbed, your not waiting to have an accident, your doing what your paid to do, but your too frightened to do it. seek a job in child minding
don’t think it’s a matter of being frightened…stores that i deliver to (not Aldi),insist the doors can’t open unless at least 2 members of staff are there,for insurance purposes
they tip themselves as far as childminding goes my friend you have obviously never did the job .I spent years at aldi on nights forget being robbed .if you have an accident in store you are in trouble lots of it .working electric trucks in a store jam packed with goods is an accident waiting to happen .and there have been many. no deaths YET but only through luck .also they couldn’t care a jot about you anyway its all about the money in the till .worst company I have ever worked for in 30 years good luck with that shower
I once watched 2 blokes rob an aldi shop, as I nighted out behind the shop.brazen as ■■■■, they were.
just pulled the van up and started knocking ■■■■ out the door…untill they were in.