having done warehouse work for a parcel company i know with 5 people it takes at least an hour to handball parcels out the trailer so being generous lets say 3 hours to tip 3 hours to load that leaves 11 hours a day less breaks to get from uk to italy or italy to uk sounds do able
^This^ it worked for me back in the day, the ad was for experienced HGV drivers only, but I called at the Inter-City transport depot in Lowton a few days after passing my class 1 test & got a start the following week.
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As did any of us who got to where we wanted to be, in this industry.
To succeed you need to be proactive, hardworking, cooperative and determined.
Youâll end up like our moaning friend if you believe in the face that fits or the job will come to you, guff.
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In addition to SDUâs very sound advice above, Iâd also suggest being able to clearly display basic common sense is a massive advantage to any anyone these days (yes, I know, common sense was outlawed years ago), it will set you apart from about 90% of the pack at a single stroke.
Typical example of what not to do is where someone posts an advert looking for a driver, lists the basic info (class 1, class 2, tipper, walking floor etc), then states (very clearly) âContact us on phone number/ email address to discuss further details such as pay, bonuses etcâ
Then typical bozo asks âhow much?â , instantly demonstrating either, (i) an inability to read and/or understand simple written instructions, or (ii), theyâre too lazy to make an effort to pick up the phone.
Whereas the guy with the common sense will actually phone or email as requested.
EDIT ten minutes later after looking at todayâs posts on local HGV FB group: A well known local company posts full details (including pay), complete with pictures of their trucks (which, incidentally, always look very tidy indeed when I see them out and about). Ends advert with âSo if you think you have the right work ethic and outlook please send a covering letter and CV to our Transport Manager Bob.Bobbison@our-company.co.uk at your earliest convenience.â
First respondent posts with a single word, âInterestedâ, and not âIâve sent you my CV right nowâ 
I imagine he must think the company are going to chase him to find out more.
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i doubt most youngsters (under the age of 40) know what a cv is let alone how to write one and a covering letter. I know when i was at 6th form they were bringing in the ânational record of achievementâ
Iâm sure anyone in that category already gets all their âknowledgeâ from Google, so not knowing it would be rectified in seconds.
A cv is what chatgpt generates for you, no?
Nah itâs a Citroen car.
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Or over the age of 60? 70? Definitely 80.
All I ever see from you are excuses, excuses, excuses. The tedious pecking order, face fits bullcrap that you always come out with. Maybe for once you should take some personal responsibility for what you have or have not achieved.
If youâd have spent half as much time as you do moaning and blaming everyone else and actually been pro-active to achieve your goal then you may have got there or somewhere close.
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How did you fit 5 working on a trailer wall ?.
The reality was one. Me.Package Handlers no problem donât need em in England the driver can and will do it all because Danny zb Bryan and SDU says so itâs just like handling a tilt frame and cover once or twice a week.
When youâve tipped the one youâve brought in you can then load the one youâre taking back.
At least that will help the OP to ask the right questions regarding duties if heâs ever offered night trunking, loose loaded, hub system work.
Letâs get this this right you think that a tilt frame and cover weighs/ed as much as a bleedin trailer load and youâll need to break it down and put it back together every day 5 days per week during a return run to Italy.
You think the job of a driver is 4 hours driving and the rest of the shift as a warehouse labourer.Your talents are wasted you would have got to TGWU leadership level or UPS CEO.
OP this is the type of â â â â â that youâre up against.
Your own evidence proves that a human forklift can unload a trailer in under three quarters of an hour. The evidential trailer was afull thirteen foot longer than anything youâve ever loaded, unloaded or towed. The human forklift didnât even raise a sweat or have to work at silly speeds. Youâve shot yourself in the foot with that evidence, sunshine.
As for tilts, we donât have them here so I have no personal experience, but it seems they weere the default European or further, trailer so a lot of drivers were constructing and deconstructing them regularly, simply as part of the drivers role.
Seriously, who did you expecct to do it for you? Elephants? Not everywhere has a circus in town.
Many a time Iâve spent a couple of days loading, three days driving, and a couple more unloading.
You were quite obviously too feeble or concieted and lazy to succeed in the industry.
How many times did you do an Italian run (not in your car) that doesnât count.
Iâll take a wild arsed guess, zero, plus or minus zero. 
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The fact that I did UK general haulage using a tilt as both a curtainsider and a flat is more relevant to this argument.Ironically also no loads involved handball.
Let alone handballing two trailer loads 5 days per week.
Iâm sure that SDU could find a way to combine all that in a running a full load from UK to Italy and back though.
apparently it was 5 days a week 
Nah, I didnât have time for Italy, I was too busy running east-west here.
For almost 2 years I did a 2,200km each way run with two and three trailers, generally alternate weeks, pallet-jacking each pallet to the end of the trailer for unloading. The return load was âhandballedâ by me.
To rinse and repeat on a seven day cycle took some creative accounting in the log book.
Might explain why I never got a gold star.
There are workers and others with safe driving awards.
So why did you feel the need to shoehorn the Italian shizzle in? Obviously it was a deliberate attempt to persuade anyone who isnât aware f you to believe that it was you doing Italian trunks, whereas us that know you are fully aware that youâd struggle to do swimming trunks!
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