You can become a “professional driver” within 4 days at some training places. People on here think they should be earning doctors wages because they sit on their backside all day.
Those are the best crane trailers for sites, rear steer helps with manovurebility, you can offload from the rear and side without having to reposition the trailer like on a fixed one.
Once you get the hang of them they can be pretty fast for offloading too, no knuckling in just get the crane straight and roll up and down the bed. They are a little unstable but you’ll soon get used to it leaning over, dropping the suspension of the unit before you start unloading will help with stability.
ItsJoe:
Les Shoes:
bobbya:
Les Shoes:
I’ve been dragging one of them around for the last 4 months, I’ve done some house deliveries down some silly little roads I’d never have managed without the rear steer. As far as sites go, you can’t stick the blocks a long way from the trailer but I’ve not had any complaints yet, a lot of firms run similar trailers so sites know what to expect.
I’ve not been here for a while, who’s that silly [zb] that thinks Stobarts haven’t screwed the rates for everyone?Don’t they screw the rates for everyone??
Not according to Joe
Did your boss tell you big bad Stobart is in town and has to cut your wage? Aww, bless.
Are you one of them trolls I keep hearing about? Or just one of those obnoxious little ■■■■■ who thinks the world didn’t really exist until they were in it?
While a lot of drivers may look at 'the good old days’with rose tinted spectacles on, the decrease in driver’s wages in real terms is easily seen. This is directly attributable to both the influx of Eastern European outfits working for peanuts and the race to the bottom perpetuated by The Big Green Undercutting Machine and their Ilk.
In short, shut up you clueless ■■■■■■■■.
^^ This ^^
But not put quite so bluntly.
Its the same in the car sales world. There is one big boy who bludgeons the little guys to death. In car sales it was Pendragon, who will happily take a loss in three dealers in an area to price a rival out of business and take over the customers.
Its just that in transport everyone is so tight lipped about pricing that its hard to know whats happening. ESL don’t want people to know that they are going in so low no one can compete, clients don’t want their customers to know that they have just made an x million a year saving on the transport costs because the customer will be demanding money off too. But when you are working for one of the organisations that gets bludgeoned and you are on good terms with the bosses, you soon find out that Hauiler X went in at 1% over cost and Haulier E went in 3% lower. Not long after, the prices get slowly raised in line with terms until Haulier E is making a profit, but by then either the competition’s staff and assets have been transferred to Haulier E so Hauiler X can’t go back and fight it, or Haulier X has gone pop, because Hauiler E took on a little client, that was everything to Haulier X.
Always at least half a dozen of these Stobart block haulers of an evening at Carnforth Truckstop, I assume they’re based there
Who was your mate? Couple of us are still there!!
Ken
Bryan Wallace…his Mrs (Marie) worked in the canteen for a while…he was at M&T (had a 142 with the bars on the front) before that but I first met him at UYC back in the mid ‘80s
I remember Bryan and Marie. I worked in the Transport Office, off-and-on, with him, when his health was playing up and he’d come off the road for a while. I only did it as holiday relief - couldn’t wait to get back on the road. I’ve been driving Marley products around for 38 yrs, although now employed by Wincanton, who have the Marley contract.
If you still see Bryan, say hello from Kenny Ball and Stevie Wonder; he’ll know who we are!! 
Who was your mate? Couple of us are still there!!
Ken
Bryan Wallace…his Mrs (Marie) worked in the canteen for a while…he was at M&T (had a 142 with the bars on the front) before that but I first met him at UYC back in the mid ‘80s
I remember Bryan and Marie. I worked in the Transport Office, off-and-on, with him, when his health was playing up and he’d come off the road for a while. I only did it as holiday relief - couldn’t wait to get back on the road. I’ve been driving Marley products around for 38 yrs, although now employed by Wincanton, who have the Marley contract.
If you still see Bryan, say hello from Kenny Ball and Stevie Wonder; he’ll know who we are!!