This is on offer in my area , anybody on for them in other parts ?
I worked for 3663 when I first passed my test, it’s practically the same job.
30 to 40 drops a day almost all is handball. You would deliver to pubs, schools, hospitals, hotels etc and the customers are all over the place. City centres, high streets, retail parks, up mountains and down country lanes.
It wasn’t a nice job to be honest with you but it did get me started from a driving experience perspective.
Running out if the new Warrington depot I believe. Job and finish according to my ex who works for them. Short days long days depending how quick you are but no weekends (or very very rare) and you’ll either be on independents (pubs/restaurants etc) or contracts (schools/hospitals) depends where the need is. No overtime paid and salaried so its in your interest to get it done quick. Not bad to work for apparently but they like their pound of flesh!! Allegedly 
Ok if your after a manual handling job with a little bit of driving
Don’t work for them but brakes an 3663 seem to all over the place they deliver to my mrs work I imagine a fairly stable job to be in there will always be schools pubs and restaurants. The salary doesn’t look great tho is the £1552 quid a month take home or before tax because that works out £76 a day if its not take home. If its job and knock and it takes you a long day to get 40 drops done that could equate to not alot at all. Don’t get in the habit off thrashing it around to get finished either there was a mention off a bonus that’ll soon be lost 
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My neighbour did a week at Kinsley, worst job ever. All handball delivering to places with nowhere to park and carrying delivers up 3 flights of stairs. He’s cetainly no stranger to hard work either.
Final straw was when he found that they’d loaded everything on his van in no particular order right up yo the back doors meaning his first drop could have been against the headboard.
My 1st driving job was for brakes.
I had an inner city round with some outlying areas, with 24-32 drops a day. And it wasn’t just hop out for couple of boxes of frozen bread. Some customers had very little but it was mostly high volume.
Their fleet is quite old, and some of the wagons struggle up hills. The work is backbreaking, all handball. The customers don’t help and expect you to put the stuff in the fridge for them. Whatever time you arrive at they will expect you to come at a time which is more convenient to them even if that doesn’t fit in my your round.
The goods are not placed in any particular order in the wagon and you will have to route around for it in dimly lit conditions, with the freezer motor running in your face.
I lasted a year and made the move into class 1 agency work when it became apparent there was to be no forthcoming recruitment for the easy life trunking jobs.
Job and knock so it’s in your interest to go fast but if you go too fast they start piling more on your wagon. You will crash into lots of things because of the tiny access to stores and restaurants, and because you are stressed.
The management were very nice but the job is hard, and really is a stepping stone. Although I know some guys had a cushy round and loved it. Bit like a postal round, when you get to know the clients and where you can park. You may get fed and free drinks at places.
You won’t work weekends, but there is Saturday work if you request it. I was on just over £18k gross for them in 2007.
I have been working for Brakes since May 2012. It’s definately marmite work but i would rather multi drop than be sitting on a bay waiting to get tipped. Looks like the job advertised is for what brakes call Broadline work. Basically the load is bulk picked and each item will have a location in the back (i.e all the ice cream you need for the day will be in one location). The loaders use a bit of artistic licence when loading! You would be delivering to all manner of places from pubs to schools and convenience stores. The work can be hard. I started at 04:30 today and had 28 drops round Cambridgeshire. Had them all off by 14:00. On Broadline work you get a basic of around 22k and there is a bonus payment on top of that which varies with your workload. Some drivers at my place get anything up to £200 a week on top of their basic. Hope this info helps
mattyboy:
I have been working for Brakes since May 2012. It’s definately marmite work but i would rather multi drop than be sitting on a bay waiting to get tipped. Looks like the job advertised is for what brakes call Broadline work. Basically the load is bulk picked and each item will have a location in the back (i.e all the ice cream you need for the day will be in one location). The loaders use a bit of artistic licence when loading! You would be delivering to all manner of places from pubs to schools and convenience stores. The work can be hard. I started at 04:30 today and had 28 drops round Cambridgeshire. Had them all off by 14:00. On Broadline work you get a basic of around 22k and there is a bonus payment on top of that which varies with your workload. Some drivers at my place get anything up to £200 a week on top of their basic. Hope this info helps
Cheers that helps a lot , gives an idea of what’s involved , how is the bonus earned ? Does it just depend on how busy the week is ?
Sorry I haven’t got back sooner, not been on here for a bit. The bonus is made up of variables i.e the mileage you do, how many items on load, number of cash collections and the weight of the load. Basically, each has a value and when the total of these goes over you basic wage the difference is your bonus. It is best to have a round that has a good mix of mileage and weight.
Having done foodstuffs (flour, bread and produce) I’ve always wondered why is it accepted that drivers must act as an unpaid storeman? After 7 months on flour, knee buckling under me for no reason, carrying flour pointlessly upstairs for no extra money, being looked down on because I’d dared to turn up and deliver flour to a bakery (how silly), and the final straw, being told to handball 1t of flour off the pallet I’d just pumptrucked, onto racking.
As far as I’m concerned, when ASDA deliver to my house, they drop it at the door. What would they think if I said “Take it upstairs, take it out of the bags, put it in the bags up there in the wardrobe.”?
Muckaway:
Having done foodstuffs (flour, bread and produce) I’ve always wondered why is it accepted that drivers must act as an unpaid storeman? After 7 months on flour, knee buckling under me for no reason, carrying flour pointlessly upstairs for no extra money, being looked down on because I’d dared to turn up and deliver flour to a bakery (how silly), and the final straw, being told to handball 1t of flour off the pallet I’d just pumptrucked, onto racking.
As far as I’m concerned, when ASDA deliver to my house, they drop it at the door. What would they think if I said “Take it upstairs, take it out of the bags, put it in the bags up there in the wardrobe.”?
To be fair , if you want your food shop put in the wardrobe they’d probably think you were mad & just do it to get away , but I know what you mean , I drop stuff with the hiab , blocks , plaster board , fencing etc , people look at me & say your leaving it there ? I say yes , that’s as close as I can get with lorry & crane . F,me 20 mins down the road I get a call to say I got to go back & move it , I might aswell put the stuff up for some people , I thought whole idea of hiab was to make light work of large loads so I can get more done ( wait , I’m still supposed to do all other drops in that time too ) …
Cheers mattyboy , info is great , im gona go for it coz can’t work much longer under the knobber I have in charge here …, check out the " walking out of a job " thread on here …
LR18-8:
I worked for 3663 when I first passed my test, it’s practically the same job.30 to 40 drops a day almost all is handball. You would deliver to pubs, schools, hospitals, hotels etc and the customers are all over the place. City centres, high streets, retail parks, up mountains and down country lanes.
It wasn’t a nice job to be honest with you but it did get me started from a driving experience perspective.
I was with you until you said 30-40 drops a day.
I also did 3663 after passing my class 2. It was never more than 10 drops. Usually 1 frozen and one chilled. All handballed and often access areas were tight.
But as said, it’s a good way to break you into driving for a living.
At our place when I was there most the city center runs were 35 drops (average)
There were some runs that involved more driving than the rest and probably 10 to 15 drops.