Swampey:
HANDBALL / HANDBALLING
It means that you will come home filthy dirty & completely knackered, it’ll be a culture shock if you’ve just come off of containers too!
It’s not for everybody but it’ll keep you fit & you get to interact with the customers rather than just sitting in the cab reading the paper.
Wheel Nut:
I wanted to ask that. I have heard of the Tray Wash at Enfield Lock. I thought it was a pub
PMSL 
i dont think anyone wants to enlighten us just yet!
stag10:
book drivers should never sweat
EH 
Handballin 900 bales of hay is handballin!
450 on truck, 450 on trailer…i was much fitter then! 
Koop:
Handballin 900 bales of hay is handballin!450 on truck, 450 on trailer…i was much fitter then!
They definately come off easier than they went on 
part of the tool kit, 
If you have to ask. Your in the wrong job.
A few years ago ( when i were a lad ) worked for a firm driving a 26t 6w rigid delivering fertilizer / animal feed. My “record” … 3 x 15t loads to same farm in the one day of 50kg Nitram on pallets … but i had to “stand-up” every bag, for the 6 guys, who were carrying / stacking. Like Wildgoose said - cheap gym membership. LOL
Its when Liverpool dockers get paid for you doing the unloading !!!
My record is a 40’ container full of bags of garden peat. The people who were supposed to be helping me tip “went sick” that day That’s quite a lot of walking, if you think about it - especially from down at the front.
It took all day but I did get a fiver for my trouble 
. I think the old lady who ran the garden centre still thought it was the 1950’s when a fiver was probably worth something
limeyphil:
If you have to ask. Your in the wrong job.
why?
my god youre helpful!
Giblsa:
Chiz:
I was tray washing the other night.what does that mean then?
Probably washing out meat trays with a steam cleaner, at processing plant.
Used to porter hanging meat, certainly got the blood pumping. Would steam clean dowlabs out if there werent enough done. dirty stinking smelly and thats just me 
cheers eddie. i didnt know what meant, and i never would if i didnt ask
obviously limeyphil was born with all his knowledge of trucking!
Swampey:
HANDBALL / HANDBALLING
I THOUGHT BAD LANGUAGE WAS BANNED FROM THIS SITE!!!
If mentioned at your drop, your reply should be “sign here mate and I’ll take it back” , you’d be surprised how that changes the receivers attitude 
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Just spotted these replys…
The traywashing in question involved collecting trolleystacks of ‘dirty’ pasty trays from the back of the wagons, unstacking them, putting them on a conveyer to get steam washed, walking to the other end of the conveyer, restacking them, putting them back onto wheels and pushing them into the bakery.
Pretty much non-stop from 7:30pm until 4:30am.
Rivetting stuff, if it wasn’t for the £14.90 an hour I’d have walked out.
If the office ever dare say to me “it’s a handball when you get there”, they’ll get told to ZZBB OFF! lol. I’ve had my fill of that crap, I carried carpet on my shoulder into customers stores all day every day when on the class II and when one shoulder eventually zb’ed up you’d have to switch to the other weaker one till the other got better again lol
handball ? what si this you speak of. does that mean you jump on a forklift and pull them levers up and down.
i did my fair share of it when i first started out , 50 k bags of peanuts up stairs and down cellars. thats when i was 10 stone wet through. balloon to 15 stone now remember those days paul@midway.
jon
a while ago it was the norm, lots of places never had forklift trucks, just had to break the pallets down and unload,( then you had the bother of trying to find a place to sell the empty pallets) oh well such is life as a trucker …
steviebyday:
,( then you had the bother of trying to find a place to sell the empty pallets) oh well such is life as a trucker …
And breakfast was never as cheap as when it came from pallett sales
Danm them computorised pallet records
Swampey.
I appologise for my earlier quote.
I honestly thought that everyone knew what handball was.
So i looked at it and thought you was on some sort of wind up and looking to see what sort of crazy comments people would come up with.
It appears that i was wrong and hope you can accept my appology.
limeyphil:
If you have to ask. Your in the wrong job.
We’re all in the wrong job but what does tray wash mean?