Any one do this type of work ?
Is it cleaner and easier than normal general haulage as I’m getting fed up of getting muddy or covered in wet cardboard slurry and being an unpaid security guard
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All the best getting a reply to an application. I’ve applied 5 times to the same depot not one reply to say successful or unsuccessful. Emailed recruitment manager to note my displeasure at lack of professionalism, funnily enough still waiting on a reply to the e mail. 
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Agency that provides drivers for them, do a few shifts there and then once your at the hub ask for a drivers application form. I knew two drivers who got onto full-time nights that way from the Leeds area.
blue estate:
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I had the interview and they seem like they are micromanaged to death.It is parcels though and cleaner than most types of general work.My mates bored there but says it is easy work.
Going direct is the best route for an interview.
I tried that route as well handed cv in personally still no reply. I’ve no issue with not being best candidate for any position & being unsuccessful. I can’t stand no reply when you’ve made an effort to apply for a position.
I did the job for a few months a few years back.
1 weeks training in one of the hubs, I believe the new hub 4 at Hinckley is the destination. All expenses paid in a hotel etc. while you are there.
Full uniform given.
Yes you are micro managed.
You are expected to drive from the depot where you are based to the hub non stop. If you need to stop for the call of nature, then you have to ring up and get permission to stop. They will give you a route and unless the road is closed, you are expected to follow that route. Bear in mind, all those double deck trailers are marked at 16ft.
Up to date lorries and trailers that are looked after, having said that, found a few defects where other drivers hadn’t checked things properly including bald tyres. You get time to do a walk round the trailer and then if needed go to the garage to get repairs done before leaving the hub. Once back at your local depot, that lorry most likely won’t be used during the day. Mostly night work
I was Monday to Friday but I believe there is a move to including working weekend days as part of your normal shift.
No idea of current pay rates as this has changed since I left.
Hope this gives you an idea, PM me if you want to know anything else and I will try and answer it.
I really wanted this thread to be about this rail accident.
the new ‘Super Hub’,on the A5 Hinckley area has an open day for LGV drivers this Saturday.
blue estate:
Any one do this type of work ?
Is it cleaner and easier than normal general haulage as I’m getting fed up of getting muddy or covered in wet cardboard slurry and being an unpaid security guard
If it’s depot to hub work then it ain’t line haul, it’s what UPS at least call Feeder work.It’s only a matter of time until they decide that all that wasted time sitting around waiting for trans shipping should be spent helping in the warehouse operation.
Direct depot to depot or hub to hub pre loaded trailer or box swaps is generally linehaul.
Although the blanking could be because you’ve actually found the real thing among the other 10,000 hopefuls. 
Look on the bright side I’m still waiting for my call back on the IPEC waiting list since the early 1980’s. 
carryfast-yeti:
the new ‘Super Hub’,on the A5 Hinckley area has an open day for LGV drivers this Saturday.
That sounds scary.Probably 3 hours in a shift driving and the rest spent working in the warehouse.
einstein:
I did the job for a few months a few years back.1 weeks training in one of the hubs, I believe the new hub 4 at Hinckley is the destination. All expenses paid in a hotel etc. while you are there.
Full uniform given.
Yes you are micro managed.
You are expected to drive from the depot where you are based to the hub non stop. If you need to stop for the call of nature, then you have to ring up and get permission to stop. They will give you a route and unless the road is closed, you are expected to follow that route. Bear in mind, all those double deck trailers are marked at 16ft.
Up to date lorries and trailers that are looked after, having said that, found a few defects where other drivers hadn’t checked things properly including bald tyres. You get time to do a walk round the trailer and then if needed go to the garage to get repairs done before leaving the hub. Once back at your local depot, that lorry most likely won’t be used during the day. Mostly night work
I was Monday to Friday but I believe there is a move to including working weekend days as part of your normal shift.
No idea of current pay rates as this has changed since I left.Hope this gives you an idea, PM me if you want to know anything else and I will try and answer it.
Thanks , it’s out of the new Portsmouth depot
Just getting fed up of potluck general haulage
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carryfast-yeti:
the new ‘Super Hub’,on the A5 Hinckley area has an open day for LGV drivers this Saturday.
I did the job from Reading, Newbury and Southampton. It’s probably the easiest of the driving jobs I’ve had
The agency for DPD around here is TSS
The HR driving woman is called Stacey, expects you to go to Hinkley for the interview and they give you no information regarding days, hours etc before you actually turn up and see her
Would I work for them again? Yes but they won’t consider me due to all the other stuff I do. They want perm full-time drivers
but in the adverts they always say they are flexible, they aren’t
They’re advertising locally to me in Poole on Indeed and have done for a couple of weeks - looks cushy.
blue estate:
Thanks , it’s out of the new Portsmouth depot
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If it’s evening/afternoon starts it could be a local collections, or a DD to Hinckley,Smethwick or Oldbury. Once there drop trailer then sit/sleep/eat until return load ready later.
Carryfast:
If it’s depot to hub work then it ain’t line haul,
It was when I worked as a linehaul driver for them.
Conor:
Carryfast:
If it’s depot to hub work then it ain’t line haul,It was when I worked as a linehaul driver for them.
I remember an argument when absolutely no-one on this forum, except me, could correctly define what a “tramper” was.
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I ain’t got a clue what “linehaul” is.
Franglais:
Conor:
Carryfast:
If it’s depot to hub work then it ain’t line haul,It was when I worked as a linehaul driver for them.
I remember an argument when absolutely no-one on this forum, except me, could correctly define what a “tramper” was.
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I ain’t got a clue what “linehaul” is.
Nor me, sounds like another bloody unwanted unwarranted Americanism.
Night parcel trunker cover it? 
mjallby:
I tried that route as well handed cv in personally still no reply. I’ve no issue with not being best candidate for any position & being unsuccessful. I can’t stand no reply when you’ve made an effort to apply for a position.
Our lot are the same. We get drivers trying to get in, they apply for the job on the website, nothing more heard. Job disappears for a couple of weeks, assuming that it’s been taken, but actually just expired from the website so they put it up again when they realise. Rinse and repeat! Drivers wanting the job but no-one will reply to them. If you ring for it or call in they tell you to apply online 
. HR won’t take calls. Then they complain that they can’t get drivers and it’s costing them a fortune using useless EE carrot pickers.
Like someone said up thread, your chances of getting in at these bigger places go up significantly if you’re already a known entity as an agency bod. Chances are you’ve spoken to the TM at some point about something and you’ll be known by the other transport office bods as well so you can usually skip past all the red tape and fast-track the process to get in direct.
Required for interstate commercial trucking by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Line-haul Driver –Truck driver who travels a set route from city to city and typically returns home after each shift.
Yep, as American as apple pie.