Excluding trunking jobs, what’s the easiest regular run you’ve had?
I’m covering holiday at the moment for a guy who’s every day run is 30 miles down the motorway to a RDC, instant load on the same bay, back on the motorway, 5 junctions down tip at the first customer, back on the motorway and 7 junctions down to the next customer, then to an RDC another 4 junctions away to tip the remaining load then back to the yard.
Starts at lunchtime and finished when the jobs done. Never more than 2 minutes from the motorway and it’s a nice truck, changed every 3 years with decent employers. Seems to be a brilliant job, if a little monotonous.
for 53 weeks, load Hemel Hemstead, (max weight of load 4 ton), tip Athens, reload Prato Italy (6tons maximum load, mostly 3 tons), tip Blyth nr Newcastle. Brand new XF 480, brand new Montracon boxvan trailer.
I used to empty skips at Symphony Furniture in Leeds. I used to run 3 skips round to Mone Bros tip on Whitehall Road and bring the 4th one home, sometimes I had a hard day and had a drop in Morley first
In 3 years with the agency I’ve probably accumulated 2 years doing the one I’m on now (or the even easier night trunk before it was binned).
2 or 3 drops within an hour of leaving the yard then head home (before some do-gooder thinks of telling the boss, don’t bother, he knows). Leave home at 1410 for my first collection at 1415, second collection at 1500, then back to the yard to empty off. The 1500 collection (up to 14 pallets) is the only thing keeping the run going, otherwise it could be done with a van.
If I do have to venture further for a drop or 2, it means I struggle to get the grass cut or the decorating done.
So, keep that internet shopping up folks or I’ll be out the door!
Probably doing a mixture of shunting new trailers between Crane Fruehauf’s Factorys in North Walsham and Dereham and delivering new trailers to customers who would take them at night.
Used to turn up for work at about 5pm, boss gave me a list of trailers that needed moving that night and he went home and I got on with it. No unloading, just unhook and go, No delivery times, No phone calls.
Travis Perkins, Aylesford, four drops in the morning, four in the afternoon on hiab work, used to get em done in about an hour and sleep for most of the day, or go shopping if it was near a town. Pity the money was poor.
Holme on Spalding Moor to Rogerstone. Fridge run with cream in pallecons. Tip at one place then a mile up the road to the next, collect empties and back home.
Holme On Spalding Moor to Tunnocks at Uddingstone. Offload 13 tonnes of condensed milk from the tanker, get given a massive paper bag full of their very very nice caramel wafers and then back home. A bit of a toss up between that and Thorntons chocolate factory at Alfreton where the woman in the lab who sampled the condensed milk would bring out a bag of sweets…
For a small haulage firm based in Bow. Every Friday start at 0700, trot round to a customer’s warehouse in Silvertown to load up with nice neat wrapped pallets of old computer parts. Usually no more than two thirds full run up to Corby to tip and reload with empty pallets, straight back to Silvertown to tip. Job and knock I was usually on my way home for 1400. Happy days.
muckles:
Probably doing a mixture of shunting new trailers between Crane Fruehauf’s Factorys in North Walsham and Dereham and delivering new trailers to customers who would take them at night.
Used to turn up for work at about 5pm, boss gave me a list of trailers that needed moving that night and he went home and I got on with it. No unloading, just unhook and go, No delivery times, No phone calls.
sounds like a nice job mate! i quite fancy delivering new trailers for a living.
Chadderton to Salford, drop an envelope, round to Y club in Manchester, drop a parcel, use their gym, 3 hours later back to Salford to collect envelope and back to Chadderton. 3 times a week for 8 weeks of pure ease.
Chadderton to Blackpool biscuit place on Devonshire road, open vans doors, pallet forked off, collect 10bags of freebies, each bag sold for £2 on return to depot. twice a week for 10 weeks.
its a toss up between when i was working for an agency on a network rail contract, spent most of the day, sleeping or my current job working nights on call delivering generators where most night’s if i havent watched 2 dvd’s drunk copius amounts of tea and had a snooze then its been a busy night
Holme on Spalding Moor to Rogerstone. Fridge run with cream in pallecons. Tip at one place then a mile up the road to the next, collect empties and back home.
Holme On Spalding Moor to Tunnocks at Uddingstone. Offload 13 tonnes of condensed milk from the tanker, get given a massive paper bag full of their very very nice caramel wafers and then back home. A bit of a toss up between that and Thorntons chocolate factory at Alfreton where the woman in the lab who sampled the condensed milk would bring out a bag of sweets…
I did some night work out of your place for the agency earlier this year. Start at 4 pm, take a trailer to Whittlesey, put it on a bay, shunt some empties about then back to HOSM and done just after midnight. Easy job that should have been for six-ish weeks, think regular driver had a dodgy leg??, but Dennis’s apparently sent one of their York drivers to cover it.
One drawback: I live out near Spurn Point so it was a good trek to work
eurocentral run to billingham and back. check unit, pick up trailer and do checks, drive to KP billingham and put my trailer on the bay. they wake me up when i am loaded which took 5 hours last time. the hardest part of that job is strapping the load across the back (they insist on 1 strap each side but i insist on 2 each side) although sometimes it is a direct delivery to tesco livingston which can make it tight on 15 hours
B1 GGK:
Chadderton to Salford, drop an envelope, round to Y club in Manchester, drop a parcel, use their gym, 3 hours later back to Salford to collect envelope and back to Chadderton. 3 times a week for 8 weeks of pure ease.
Wasn’t in a Range Rover with blacked out windows was it?
Chauffeur in Dublin. Used to spend most of my time working in the movie industry.
Hanging around all day on location, getting fed for free, driving the stars to and fro to the hotels.
Going on the ■■■■ with Ray Winstone (Not a good idea, when you end up on a bed with Andrea Corr and you are too ■■■■■■ to notice!)
Getting into corporate dinners and events for free. Best 3 years of my life. And having an S class for your personal run around too. Oh the good times…
for me it has to be milk liners ,
leave yard in somerset 1700, up to palmers green (ARLA oakthorpe) for 2100 vent tank , get into bunk ,fall sleep , wake up 2300, get back home for 0430 change trailers finish 0500 did that for 3-4 years , then transfered to another depot
leave yard at 0400 >portsmouth dairy 0600 get in bunk ,fall asleep ,wake up 0800 > henstridge re-load site 1030 fall asleep for wait for farm tankers for 3-4 hours, then make way back to yard ,change trailers & finish at 1630 !
