Add in the local jobcentre for an experienced multidrop driver of a long wheel base van, must have experience £6.50 an hour… The add says must have experince as up to 80 drops a day, wholy crikey, 80 drops a day, that must be ■■■■ hard work, your ■■■ must never touch the drivers seat. 80 drops is this possible, never done multidrop before but i would imagine this is vey hard work…
plus you will have about 40-50 pickups as well
Chances are it will be in a condensed area , we used to do between 80 and 100 consignments a day which was anywhere from 60 - 80 drops , but could be finished by 2 ish as you will have collectins to do after that , most i ever did was 15.
Hi,
I was a multi drop parcel driver, and that was an average day, busy was 100+ drops, then you have timed drops to be done before 9am, 1030am and 12pm, and then collections in the afternoon, but its not as bad as it sounds. Its surprising how quickly you can get the drops off when you know the area.
Aaron
wizardofoz:
Add in the local jobcentre for an experienced multidrop driver of a long wheel base van, must have experience £6.50 an hour… The add says must have experince as up to 80 drops a day, wholy crikey, 80 drops a day, that must be ■■■■ hard work, your ■■■ must never touch the drivers seat. 80 drops is this possible, never done multidrop before but i would imagine this is vey hard work…
There’s always been jobs for local multi drop drivers in the jobcentres because no one wants them.It works out at around more than one drop every 10 minutes over a 10 hour day often plus collections.So were there also any class 1 long distance international jobs to choose from too in that jobcentre?.I’d bet there was’nt.
there was only a few class one jobs, but none were international…
I used to do about 100 a day max. Wasn’t to bad the first 60 would normally go to a small industrial estate could get rid of them 60 drops in a few hours. The maybe 20 shop deliveries and other businesses which could take a bit more time finding parkings etc…
Then maybe 20 residential ones which could be a complete nightmare, walk up to someones house no one in so go looking for a neighbour somtimes try three or four people, could easilly take 10mins. Slowed you right down, espec if the delivery was in the countryside and hard to find, could spend 20mins looking for an address.
wizardofoz:
there was only a few class one jobs, but none were international…
Nothing’s changed then in the 30 years since I started except that back then there were less than a few UK class 1 jobs.But even most of those which were going were usually relatively local work of one form or another and often involved multi drop/distribution work using rigids or artics instead of vans so they were the worst of all worlds.
Its the wrong time of year to start that job anyways, with doing 100+ drops a day you really need to know your area.
The biggest part of the job and the part that can take ages is loading your van correctly and know where 75% of the deliveries are going without a map. If you get the van loaded right its pretty easy, if you make an arse of it can spend 10mins in the back of a van searching for tiny parcels. I used to keep the small stuff in the front with me.
As well being able to quickly change the route, say you get hit with one large delivery say 10 big boxes you maybe want rid of that at the start to give you some room, so the ability to quickly change the way your going to do your run.
With alot of people doing that job they are rushed out the door, even if it takes an hour to load the van correctly it still saves alot of hassle espec if you are unsure where your going.
Think it was Bussiness Post or Bussiness Express they paid per hour plus a paid per parcel deliveried. Them guys used to be out delivering at 7am and still out at 9pm at night doing 7 days a week. They made a lot more than prob 99% of class 1 drivers.
If your overweight or thinking of joining a gym forget it wasted money become a multidrop van driver, rare to see a fat one, its great excercise 
Kenny1975:
Its the wrong time of year to start that job anyways, with doing 100+ drops a day you really need to know your area.The biggest part of the job and the part that can take ages is loading your van correctly and know where 75% of the deliveries are going without a map. If you get the van loaded right its pretty easy, if you make an arse of it can spend 10mins in the back of a van searching for tiny parcels. I used to keep the small stuff in the front with me.
As well being able to quickly change the route, say you get hit with one large delivery say 10 big boxes you maybe want rid of that at the start to give you some room, so the ability to quickly change the way your going to do your run.
With alot of people doing that job they are rushed out the door, even if it takes an hour to load the van correctly it still saves alot of hassle espec if you are unsure where your going.
Think it was Bussiness Post or Bussiness Express they paid per hour plus a paid per parcel deliveried. Them guys used to be out delivering at 7am and still out at 9pm at night doing 7 days a week. They made a lot more than prob 99% of class 1 drivers.
If your overweight or thinking of joining a gym forget it wasted money become a multidrop van driver, rare to see a fat one, its great excercise
our lad is a driver for UK MAIL what used to be business post and at the moment they are doing about 100+ a day plus collections and it is true about knowing your area and loading the van correctly, i have been out with him loads of times and he can get in the back and lay his hand straight on the parcels as he knows exactly where he put every parcel on the morning when loading. he knows our town like the back of his hand and if there is a traffic jam or accident he knows all the shortcuts to save time. 
I used to work for fast trak in 1999 i think it was and i had a 7.5 tonne and used to do 70 to 100 drops and 30 collections in and around colchestor i used to do the delivery’s by midday which left me the afternoon to do collections unless a collection was on route but as its been said if you know a area its easy as you can park somewhere and walk with barrow through alleyways to shops or down 1 ways streets or pedestrian places no problem…I was even know to pull pallets through the walk way parks in colchestor town with a pallet truck loaded with parcels.
I wouldn’t even consider it until the clocks go forward in March,it’s much easier to learn your way around in the daylight.Starting six weeks before Christmas is certainly jumping in at the deep end.It’s been said that you don’t see any fat ones,I don’t recall seeing any old ones either,that must tell you something.
Few years back I worked for UPS through an agency, used to watch the vans being filled to the roof with hundreds of small parcels, mostly mobile phones, all those addresses, can’t believe how they get all those deliverered in a day, glad I only ever had 7 or 8 drops to do plus about 4 collections on my truck
I used to do trunking on the agency for White Arrow. Their local delivery guys used to do 100+ every day.
I was chatting to an old guy in Fareham one day at about 2:30 pm and his mates told me that he had done 120 that day - Back at 2:00 finished. They were an some complicated bonus for parcels after the first 80 I think and most of them to private houses. I asked how it was possible and they told me that a. they had their own run all the time. b. most deliveries were regular to agents and c. they could often do 3 or 4 without moving the van. The trick (apart from knowing the area) was to be regular so the agents were expecting you.
Santa:
I used to do trunking on the agency for White Arrow. Their local delivery guys used to do 100+ every day.I was chatting to an old guy in Fareham one day at about 2:30 pm and his mates told me that he had done 120 that day - Back at 2:00 finished. They were an some complicated bonus for parcels after the first 80 I think and most of them to private houses. I asked how it was possible and they told me that a. they had their own run all the time. b. most deliveries were regular to agents and c. they could often do 3 or 4 without moving the van. The trick (apart from knowing the area) was to be regular so the agents were expecting you.
yea i used to work for them aswell, well home delivery network as its now called, they went over the pay scheme for half an hour with me and still couldnt get it so in the end the boss said if you work hard youll get paid well ontop of your minimum weekly wage which was £321 a week when i was there but was common for drivers to easily earn 6-700 a week after tax on the run up to xmas, not bad for driving a van
basically they set a ten hour target for that route (which is easily done in half the time if not less) and then after that you get paid by the parcel. most i did was 213 or something silly on the run up to xmas but as i had been ont he route for 3 months i knew it well, and most of my drops were regulars so i know where i could leave parcels etc. then there was the catalouges to deliver on a saturday, again 400 catalouges gone in about 3 hours because the runs are small condensed areas that you could run along the street without moving the van same with the parcels, grab 3 and run.
only thing is you rarely stopped for your break or something to eat.
I was on White Arrow Morley for 4 years 1983-87.We had 200 parcels a day to clear.My run started 2miles from the yard.Start07.00 load van finish1.30.Pay was about £130 a week.I did a Cricklewood night trunk for a little agency 3 nights a week £27.50 a night 1700 -0200,cash in hand with an old unlimited flying BRS ERF.Probably get locked up by VOSA now.
Before that I had 10years with SPD multidrop.26-30drops round Sheffield or Hull start 630 back in yard 1400.We were on standard hours so if you did another run you were paid for that as well.I averaged 14hours pay a day,never home after 1700.The secret was knowing where every delivery point was and being pleasant to goods-in people(very hard sometimes)