Ha ha yes you see it all out there!
Decent rate of pay for the area I guess. It’s slightly lower than that here in the South Wales area on average.
Glad it’s all going well for you! I have my eye on working for Gregory in the future at a small place less than a mile from home so good to hear good things about them.
Gregory’s tend to leave you alone and let you simply get on with the job, and depending on each depot, there is not much contact with fleet planners, traffic planners, managers , HR department as you may have an app they gave you which is like having your own office to book and plan holidays, check the pay and other stuff that used to mean sticking your head in the transport office to be ignored by everyone where all of a sudden you have become invisible for asking a question.
All the administration should be done on the app.
Is the job multiple collections from farms ( Milk) or tanker work from large dairies to another dairy on long distance for milk or cream?
Never give up on getting the European driving job, as a point of information back in the 1990’s a Spanish driver could earn about 2200 to 2500 Euros per month but all that changed when the cheaper Eastern European drivers cut the job up for them as they could live on 600 to 800 Euros per month of which is a lot of money in Romania or Bulgaria.
A lot of European companies hire drivers from around the world depending on the criteria for work visas and residential status, as an example you will see drivers of Portuguese registered trucks with drivers from Mozambique, Angola and Brazil as they were former Portuguese colonies.
For the Spanish operators they may use drivers from South America.
I have no idea how it will all work out now so I can’t suggest jumping on a paraffin parrot ( Aeroplane) and go knocking on doors in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland or Poland to mislead you but it’s possible if you really want it.
Bear in mind some European drivers live in the cab all year to only come home at Christmas, or you could be away for a few weeks, or even longer on concert tours, sports events, conventions, or Formula 1 racing teams.
It is illegal to live in the cab on a 45 hour weekly rest period with big court deposits if they bang the cab door as the boss must put you in hotel.
That’s so true about the reversing on the bays that are too tight and narrow, you can smell the acrid clutch burning smell at most milk dairies as whoever designed the bays has never seen a lorry.
Arla at Hatfield has a right pig of a bay.
Were a small outbase, a new creamery been built. Needed drivers to deliver bottled and caged cow juice to rdc’s. But think were doin individual stores as well now. Your right bout work app. Its ok. Tells u the basics, but nothing beats face to face to find out and sort stuff 
If you get a lazy driver that has left behind the empty milk cages at a supermarket or RDC there can be 50 of the dam things to load up and down on the tail lift or use their scissor lift until another driver upsets the manager then we all get banned from using it, then all the obstacles in the delivery yard which impedes the turning circle to get out, if it’s too tight I remove the Suzies , bang on the trailer shunt button to avoid ripping out all the lines on the tractor unit.