RoRo Driver Or Tipper Driver

Lol no worries Rob

The Tipper work will be distance so no chasing your arse,I was leaning towards the RoRos but now Im leaning towards the tipper work

windrush:

Carryfast:

windrush:
With me (ex tipper pilot!) it would depend if the tipper work was distance or just local, never done Ro Ro (like skip work I suppose?) but I’m guessing that would be mostly short journeys and many of them?

Pete.

Ironically in this area at least tipper work will mostly mean running around more in town and more like skip work in that regard.While bulk waste transfer is a County run operation and therefore County wide and sometimes even inter county regarding running to the respective landfill sites.With even London Boroughs often using land fill sites which are well out of town from memory including Bedfordshire in the case of Kingston at least.

That might be different in more rural parts of the country where the differences might be less or possibly even reversed.

Ah, right. I didn’t know where the op was based. Our class two work years ago involved variety such as (from Derbyshire) tarmac to South Wales, stone into Kent, Essex, London or further afield. Plenty of local stuff as well of course, West Midlands, Staffs, Yorkshire, Lincoln etc. No chasing your tail all day and no way would we get involved with [zb] shifting (muckaway) work!! :open_mouth:

Pete.

Blimey if Carlsberg did tippers that would be it. :open_mouth: :smiley: It seems like our preconceptions are often based on which part of the country we’re lucky,or unlucky,enough be in.Around here tippers are usually associated with loads of London muckaway site type dross.Or at best the local aggregate work out of the Thames valley area gravel pits which ironically now seem to be nothing like the amounts they were if any in recent years.The roads around Molesey for example used to be a bit like a scene from hell drivers but using 8 wheelers in the day. :smiling_imp: :laughing:

RoRo is OK until you get to compactors and are expected to shovel up what falls out the back when you pull it off the compactor. Autosheeters make it a doddle nowadays and like said, less rushing around than tippers.

I well remember my first day on a roro. Tuesday after Easter bank holiday and I set off, with the foreman as a trainer, to B&Q. When we get there, you can’t see the skip for empty boxes (not flat) and pallets etc. Foreman gets on the phone and we go off to fetch a spare skip. When we get back, we sit and watch a dozen “Trainee Managers” grafting in the hot sun to clear the skip and flatten the boxes.

As long as the tipper firm isn’t one of the typical teararse outfits I’d go with them, the jobs a doddle just load at point A and tip at point B. Roro work is more involved dropping swapping boxes on tricky sites and making sure load is secure/level etc, probably doing more work than you would in a tipper.

Hi McGurke

Its a company called Kane Haulage based in St Albans Hertfordshire

They have an impressive fleet of vehciles all less that 3 yrs old,Automatic Gearbox,and a special lining in the tipper for clay/mud wont get stuck,so for me they are not one of these ‘‘dodgy companies’’

I have decided to go with the Tippers,Just something I think I’d enjoy!