Does anyone on here know anything about them , gunna give em a phone Monday see if anything going, wouldn’t mind knowing what they get paid etc , cheers
HGV Class 1 Driver (C+ E Licence) Retail Distribution
Heron Foods are a family owned food retailer based in the East Riding of Yorkshire dedicated to bringing their customers the very best value in frozen chilled and grocery products. There first store opened in Hull in 1979 and they now operate from 235 stores, trading throughout the North of England and the Midlands.
Position: Class 1 Driver
Location: Melton, East Yorkshire
Salary: £25,710 per annum, plus bonus
Hours: 4.5 days
ROLE:
Heron Foods are now looking to hire Class 1 Drivers to distribute products promptly and effectively to over 230 of their stores throughout the North and Midlands, in a professional, safe and friendly manner.
Cheers mate , me being lazy didn’t think to look online lol
Very hard work that nobody will do, I know one driver who lasted 4 days and spoke to someone from there who said they had 6 drivers start one Monday but only one left at end of week
I guess it would be mainly handball stuff , cages or some sort
all handball to town centre shops,all hard to find and even harder to get a truck too.
mac12:
Very hard work that nobody will do, I know one driver who lasted 4 days and spoke to someone from there who said they had 6 drivers start one Monday but only one left at end of week
Well fair enough, but surely if they have gone for a job with a small frozen food chain delivering to high street shops it should be quite obvious that it’s not going to be an open the doors and back onto a bay job?
If I was going for a job like that I’d expect a bit of graft to be involved.
I lasted a fortnight. 
Was supposed to get shown the ropes/drops etc by another driver for at least a week. After 2 days was on my own. Most drops are a ball ache down back alleys etc. Have to move cages all over the place to get waste back on. I’m not frightened at getting a sweat on, but it was a frigging nightmare job. You’ll enjoy delivering to the shop at Stockton. 
Final straw for me. Good luck.
A mate is on for them,
‘Its a job, its pays and I am home every night’.
My neighbour works for them and sees it as a job where he’s home every night rather than not knowing when he’ll be back.
Had a vosa restriction on recently for drivers tipping on breaks. Your schedules are heavy and timed deliveries.
I did a run once on agency starting in Thorne and finishing with 5/6 drops around Notts. It was a hard days graft dragging cages down alleys, up and down shopping centres in lifts, and reloading the waste which is just thrown onto two sided cages ( and falls out at the slightest movement). Not easy fitting back onto the truck when the cage is doubled in width with flat cardboard boxes and bags of trash.
Was scheduled to be a 10 hour day but I was out 15 hours, but that did include losing 2 hours awaiting the repair of a defective trailer on site before departure.
There was talk of sending the standby guy (one of their own) out with me to help get around faster but they decided to sit him in the canteen for 4 hours then sent him home. Thanks for that heron!
I take it the rigids do the tight places and artics do “easier” and picking up some stock for the self ?
Smoggie89:
I take it the rigids do the tight places and artics do “easier” and picking up some stock for the self ?
No only difference is artics may do 6 drops against 3 for the rigids but the staff who have worked there longest get rigids so get done in half the time for the same pay. They are continually looking for drivers which shows how bad the job is.
They’re always in a rush!
Don’t think I’ve ever seen one doing the speed limit.
And swerveee lol