i’ll be honest, if i had the chance to do roro/skip’s i’d do it
grumbo:
I used to do skips a while back and found it a very thankless task…My hat goes off to any of you boys…I found you were more loading , unloading or having a tear up with the site manager than driving…
The best comrade I had on the skips was a tower crane driver , I never met , but was spot on with unloading the lorry and could nearon plant a loaded skip on the back of the lorry…
Any skip drivers had a builder build a wall where you dropped the skip ?
Or better still had a trench dug between you and the skip your picking up ?
The best one is can you drop it over the wall. Yeah no problem empty but it will probally take the wall down picking it up.
Mind you telescopic arms help as long as it ain’t full of muck.
Another example of greedy loading
Makes me laugh the amount of proper truckers who look down there nose at this work unless your doing factory’s etc it’s very rare it’s drop the empty pick the full one up and go most jobs are a nightmare.
kr79:
Makes me laugh the amount of proper truckers who look down there nose at this work unless your doing factory’s etc it’s very rare it’s drop the empty pick the full one up and go most jobs are a nightmare.
+1 Whenever I someone says “that’s ok mate I’ll push the empty bin in with the machine” I want to kiss them!
It’s only when someone else moves them after you’ve left, the fun begins… 
Skippy70:
greedy loading is a pita-but actually getting to the skips can be a pain too.
True,why is it when ever people se a skip they feel the need to lean the world up against the side of it.
Although that being said,i’m happy to stick it on break and watch them faffing around trying to make the bin accessible.
I’ve been doing this for nearly 14 years and love it. The truck in the picture has been “mine” since new.
Some of the planks at jobs have got to be heard to be believed,dropped 1 the other day next to a fence-site agent says–I’ll just get the crane over to lift it over the fence. No you ■■■■■■■ wont–how would i get it back over with 9 tonnes in it??
Who needs a sheet, a car will do
Another heavy one
skips can be almost a constant challenge, all the examples given above validate this fact. Lots of people do look down their noses at you while you’re doing it. When doing residential skips no 2 drops are the same. I used to treat it like I was playing a game in a giant playground. Then I got put in an artic with a walking floor trailer doing 2 landfill runs per day… Easystreet by comparison
kr79:
Makes me laugh the amount of proper truckers who look down there nose at this work unless your doing factory’s etc it’s very rare it’s drop the empty pick the full one up and go most jobs are a nightmare.
I used to look down my nose at skip/ro-ro drivers . . . until I did it 
A real eye-opener. Never two drops the same. The problem always seemed to be the attitude of the people you were dealing with.
Now, when I cover it for holidays etc, I enjoy the change. It’s a completely different job from the run of the mill I usually do and on the weeks I cover it I love it, but I’m always grateful to get back to being a proper trucker(?).
The problem I find with factory drops isn’t the positioning or access to the skip it’s the different procedures that I have to go through in order to connect up. Different methods of getting the ram to work after I’ve actually got to the ■■■■ thing through all the safety guards and H&S bull which is different at every site.
Stan
I’d agree with that . Its a real eye opener , no two jobs the same, a real bonus is finding the skip where you dropped it and with a level load … sorry the last bit is not true…but good fun and it sure keeps you fit…