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Im just a bit confused with this advert.Surely theyre not asking two drivers to share the cab on nights out,that would be unbarrable
So they are looking for a Day driver and you start at 2130.
mmm,its a good rate ,£18 tbf
Sharing the cab is normal especially on international work, as an example it was two drivers on a run from the UK to Gibraltar to back when it was Safeways in Gib and now Morrrisons , a 21 hour shift is allowed.
The company was Continental Express.
If you didn’t get on with your fellow driver, then it was unbearable, and arguing did happen then it’s the smelly feet, snoring and ■■■■■■■ to deal with.
With different companies, they used married couples who quickly fell out with the cabin fever of sharing a small space for a few weeks at a time, if you saw the film The Shining, this was not far away from the truth.
fingermissing:
So they are looking for a Day driver and you start at 2130.
yea pretty much this I think.
The firm specializes in 2 man deliveries but you wont be doing that. this seems to be just trunking.
A night shift then if out of hours then a rest of 9 or 11 hours off but sleeping in the day time may put people off with another driver.
Makes me laugh when they say you have to be an excellent communicator.Wtf does that mean?
According to their website the two drivers unload furniture and mattresses, put together the furniture inside the house for the customers,as it may come as flat pack , take away used mattresses and remove and return the packaging.
It says experience of loading and unloading, are they referring to hand ball or using a fork lift and do it yourself?
Looks like its an advert for a straight trunk driver, single manned, depot to depot/manufacturer.
I guess you collect (flat pack) furniture from manufacturers, deliver to depots. Night out as required.
Wether you can be put ad hoc on a delivery shift with another driver, I don’t know. £18 p/h is not too bad, but £25 for a night out is bottom line.
Sploom:
Makes me laugh when they say you have to be an excellent communicator.Wtf does that mean?
It’s to make up for their own poor communication. Top line says they are looking for a day driver, but details give a start time of 9.30pm… 
The job says they want two drivers, double manning is probably not allowed to be said now in England.
Tom Wellington:
The company was Continental Express.
I did two…
Stints for them. First with Safeway’s all out of Kent and then Morrisons out of Kettering. I had a really good time with them. Yeh, you have to be fortunate with who you drive with but it was good money, good kit and once you knew where all the pick ups were it was a doddle. This was in the days of the tunnel offering drivers airline style meals with wine.
I think it’s all gone now.
And the back loads could be a days drive away as nothing much is produced or exported in the Gib and Malaga area, I got sent to Elche or Alicante for shoes or farm machinery, Barcelona for groupage, Onda and Catellon for tiles, La Pobla de Vallbona for onions , you got a ministry of agriculture permit to run on a Sunday as they were perishable, great for getting all the way out of France to the ferry.
Or Valencia reloads.
Sploom:
Makes me laugh when they say you have to be an excellent communicator.Wtf does that mean?
It means it excludes half the respondents on here that can’t understand the advert [emoji23]
Tom Wellington:
And the back loads could be a days drive away as nothing much is produced or exported in the Gib and Malaga area, I got sent to Elche or Alicante for shoes or farm machinery, Barcelona for groupage, Onda and Catellon for tiles, La Pobla de Vallbona for onions , you got a ministry of agriculture permit to run on a Sunday as they were perishable, great for getting all the way out of France to the ferry.
Or Valencia reloads.
The majority…
Of back-loads were out of El Ejido near Almeria and a few places dotted around there. We also collected peppers from Stubbins own farm further along the coast, I can’t remember where now. We loaded frozen out of France a few times and on one occasion, 4 teams drove empty from Gib to Holland to collect tomatoes.
Most trips were 4/5 days there and back.
I can’t comment on why we always overtook everything on the forest road. 
The pack houses around Almeria were numerous and the amount of land covered in plastic sheets to grow the stuff is very large.
I watched…
Some drivers diaries on YT about Spain and it appears that it’s almost all plastic from Murcia to Motril now.
The Spanish refuse to work in 45 degree heat under the plastic and it gives off carcinogenic properties so it’s migrants working there and live in dire accommodation and conditions.
Tom Wellington:
The Spanish refuse to work in 45 degree heat under the plastic and it gives off carcinogenic properties so it’s migrants working there and live in dire accommodation and conditions.
Sadly they’ve…
Always lived in appalling conditions. If people want cheap peppers, iceberg lettuce, cucumbers etc, this is the what the market does.
Speaking of cheap production costs, the shoe, clothing and textile factories in Portugal used girls that looked about 12 to 13 years old to me.
The lying freight forwarders that would say collect groupage and shoes an hour away from Porto, the loads are all ready waiting for me to get there, you must hurry and no breaks on the way.
The reality was a 3 hour drive away in the mountains with an address that is the head office hundreds of miles away and not for the factory to load out of.
The loads are not ready and the two collections have now transpired in to 12 , the factory boss says: Didn’t they tell you there’s more?
The shoes have not been made at all, they are making them while I am sat outside doing nothing, two days later I leave to the next collection, not ready, come back in the morning!