Thinking of a change, pros and cons please gents
Also anybody worked for Fly By Night in redditch
Pros…
Easy peasy work.
Hours and hours spent on the bunk asleep.
Occasionally going to some very unusual places.
Cons.
Driving up and down the same roads week in week out.
Ridiculous queues when ports are closed due to high winds/grumpy dockers.
Grumpy dockers.
As above.
Some get fat playing videos, watching TV.
Some get a bike and get fit.
Some read uplifting educational books.
Some post silliness on here…
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Many will be doing silly o’clock starts to get a box and be at delivery for booking time.
Sounds right up my street !!!
I would imagine Fly By Nite are only doing containers until the lockdown is lifted and then they will resume their more normal music tour work which is an entirely different animal altogether.
Positives are park up overnight wherever you want as you have no trailer curtains to be cut and cargo stolen .
When loaded insist on a rear back door lock , if the load inside is not worth nicking then don’t bother.
Watch out for high cube over height containers so not to join the BBC Bridge bashers club, no need to get your own bolt croppers as the customer will have some and if something is missing, who gets the blame, if you have bolt croppers .
It’s easy and clean work and drivers are not expected to touch the load , they arrange agency staff if it will be a long tip of hand ball.
Drivers generally do not know what is inside the container when collecting it from the ports so be careful of top heavy loads.
Allow time for decontamination and fumigation as insects, snakes , spiders, lizards get inside at the place of loading such as the Far East.
Goods in staff won’t touch the load until it’s free of whatever they use .
Harry Monk:
I would imagine Fly By Nite are only doing containers until the lockdown is lifted and then they will resume their more normal music tour work which is an entirely different animal altogether.
Depending on work visas, of course.
Yeah it sounds for me, I’m lazy I guess I don’t want to load/unload or do any strapping/chaining, fly by night are advertising for container drivers still but yea it maybe a prelude to doing the touring, there’s maritime local/ish to me but I don’t like working for big company’s, fussy and lazy.
Franglais:
Harry Monk:
I would imagine Fly By Nite are only doing containers until the lockdown is lifted and then they will resume their more normal music tour work which is an entirely different animal altogether.Depending on work visas, of course.
You just can’t get over it, can you?
Drivers may well need eu visas but then they already need visas for many of the places they go to so I don’t imagine this would be an insurmountable problem, do you?
Franglais:
Harry Monk:
I would imagine Fly By Nite are only doing containers until the lockdown is lifted and then they will resume their more normal music tour work which is an entirely different animal altogether.Depending on work visas, of course.
Yawn!
Harry Monk:
Franglais:
Harry Monk:
I would imagine Fly By Nite are only doing containers until the lockdown is lifted and then they will resume their more normal music tour work which is an entirely different animal altogether.Depending on work visas, of course.
You just can’t get over it, can you?
Drivers may well need eu visas but then they already need visas for many of the places they go to so I don’t imagine this would be an insurmountable problem, do you?
For gods sake Harry you can’t go around saying things like that … it goes against their narrative. 
Harry Monk:
Franglais:
Harry Monk:
I would imagine Fly By Nite are only doing containers until the lockdown is lifted and then they will resume their more normal music tour work which is an entirely different animal altogether.Depending on work visas, of course.
You just can’t get over it, can you?
Drivers may well need eu visas but then they already need visas for many of the places they go to so I don’t imagine this would be an insurmountable problem, do you?
Problems can often be overcome. That is true.
Problems introduced, for no good reason?
No, I can’t get over that.
Franglais:
Harry Monk:
Franglais:
Harry Monk:
I would imagine Fly By Nite are only doing containers until the lockdown is lifted and then they will resume their more normal music tour work which is an entirely different animal altogether.Depending on work visas, of course.
You just can’t get over it, can you?
Drivers may well need eu visas but then they already need visas for many of the places they go to so I don’t imagine this would be an insurmountable problem, do you?
Problems can often be overcome. That is true.
Problems introduced, for no good reason?
No, I can’t get over that.
Well you are going to have to get over it. We had a referendum, we voted to leave, end of.
Err ■■ Thanks lads ■■?
Redstar46:
Err ■■ Thanks lads ■■?
Apologies for posting non OP related posts above myself but this is the problem with this forum, you asked a perfectly normally and genuine question about container work and it gets hijacked by the usual suspects with their own agenda - Franglais and his constant ■■■■■■■■ about us leaving the EU. Or its Carryfast and his usual crap about … well, most things.
tmcassett:
Redstar46:
Err ■■ Thanks lads ■■?Apologies for posting non OP related posts above myself but this is the problem with this forum, you asked a perfectly normally and genuine question about container work and it gets hijacked by the usual suspects with their own agenda - Franglais and his constant ■■■■■■■■ about us leaving the EU. Or its Carryfast and his usual crap about … well, most things.
Yes, the OP will receive good advice in response to his query but as with any forum it’s down to him to sort the wheat from the chaff… and Franglais is definitely the chaff.
All 3 of you off to your Brexit thread please ------------------->
So, the OP asked about two things: containers and Fly by Night.
He received answers firstly about containers in general, and then Harry commented about FBN in particular.
I disagree with Harry’s imaging that FBN will revert to EU touring work after COVID, because of the visa issues.
With these differing points of view about containers in general, and whether FBN are or aren’t going to be involved in container work in the future, the OP can make a choice.
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Shouting “shut up” to those who hold different points of view is not as effective IMHO as pointing out any flaws in their arguments or errors in the facts they use.
Franglais:
So, the OP asked about two things: containers and Fly by Night.
He received answers firstly about containers in general, and then Harry commented about FBN in particular.
I disagree with Harry’s imaging that FBN will revert to EU touring work after COVID, because of the visa issues.
As I pointed out, Fly by Nite already tour in countries where visas are required. There are a lop of hoops to jump through to obtain a Russian visa for example and these cost in the region of £300, but that never stopped them doing tours in Russia. The other issue is that unless they replace virtually their entire fleet of 4x2 vehicles, then they are seriously restricted as to the containers they can carry and so their container work is obviously just a stop-gap measure to them.
Franglais:
I disagree with Harry’s imaging that FBN will revert to EU touring work after COVID, because of the visa issues.
I will just respond to this point. UK citizens do not require a visa to visit the eu. From 2022 they will require an ETIAS visa waiver. This can be applied for online, costs 7 euros and covers any number of visits for three years. To suggest that a company which has undertaken a highly specialised type of work for at least 20 years that I know of would replace their entire fleet and switch to a far less lucrative type of work when it would take maybe an afternoon and a couple of hundred quid to obtain a visa waiver for every single person in the company is fairly nonsensical.