Scrap metal driving … What do you think?
Possibility of a permanent job coming my way, long term company ( won’t say where so don’t ask!!! ) wondered if any of you guys had experience and what do you think?
Monies good for day rates, currently into my twelfth year of permanent nights & had enough, need some day light especially with the summer on its way!
Anyone ■■?
Use to do it as an owner driver subbing for Newlands. Use to enjoy the work easy loading and tipping, you need to be very careful with your tyres, they can make or break the job. Every town has scrapyards or waste to be transported so didn’t run empty very far.
I did scrap metal briefly a few years back, not a bad job and we’d travel from Chelmsford to the South Coast or Basingstoke / Reading areas for a 12yd skip so it wasn’t all local work. A word of warning though, car insurers have added scrap metal dealers and their employees to their undesirables list.
I worked for one of CF Booths subbies. Steady enough. Varied between tipper work, roping an sheeting and the occasional curtainsider.
I drive scrap metal and an looking to get out of it, I hate dafs you see!
8wheels:
A word of warning though, car insurers have added scrap metal dealers and their employees to their undesirables list.
I would have thought the OP would tell them he’s a HGV driver though, as the actual trading is done by the company. He’s not the trader.
I collected aluminium out of Jaguar Land Rover in a bulk tipper last year. If it’s light stuff make sure it is netted and if its an autosheeter, don’t let it catch the metal as it burns out the motor 
cieranc:
8wheels:
A word of warning though, car insurers have added scrap metal dealers and their employees to their undesirables list.I would have thought the OP would tell them he’s a HGV driver though, as the actual trading is done by the company. He’s not the trader.
I think the wording is something like any connection with the scrap metal industry, knowing how tricky insurance companies can be they’d no doubt claim you were insured if they found out as you’d not told them.
8wheels:
cieranc:
8wheels:
A word of warning though, car insurers have added scrap metal dealers and their employees to their undesirables list.I would have thought the OP would tell them he’s a HGV driver though, as the actual trading is done by the company. He’s not the trader.
I think the wording is something like any connection with the scrap metal industry, knowing how tricky insurance companies can be they’d no doubt claim you were insured if they found out as you’d not told them.
I think you will find that it is referring to the actual vehicles involved in the movement of scrap, and NOT the drivers personally.
I have never been asked by an insurer what I carry as a HGV driver, it’s non of there business IMHO.
Not bad work at all. Not usually too good for those on hourly pay, A lot of places start at 0700 and finish around 1600.
I don’t know how much tipper experience you’ve got, The following may or may not be obvious to you.
Take a good look at the load before setting off, You don’t want anything falling off, Or looking like it might, The police take a good look at them.
Don’t put your ram straight up when tipping, make sure you know the loads moving first, If not then get the man on the grab to loosen it a bit. (when the bodies down).
8wheels:
cieranc:
8wheels:
A word of warning though, car insurers have added scrap metal dealers and their employees to their undesirables list.I would have thought the OP would tell them he’s a HGV driver though, as the actual trading is done by the company. He’s not the trader.
I think the wording is something like any connection with the scrap metal industry, knowing how tricky insurance companies can be they’d no doubt claim you were insured if they found out as you’d not told them.
Your occupation is truck driver. What you carry or who you work for is nothing to do with it.
I’ve been playing on a few comparison sites & working for a scrap metal merchants does seem to load the premiums by 20%-30% against an alternative of health care products distribution.
Some brokers gave an almost exact same quote regardless of which of the two industries, but there were always cheaper options available when using the alternative industry.
It has ALWAYS mattered to the insurance co’s which industry you work in regardless of the actual job that you do.
I don’t recommend that you try playing around on the comparison sites unless you are at least vaguely aware of their powers to link everything back to your IP. If you must, use an anonymous browser like Tor.
good advice from miketdt…every tip,every load and every break check your tyres,the one time i never checked i had a o/s front blowout on the a19 caused by a small piece of scrap…it upset a lot of people 
and another lesson learnt. good luck.