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Conor:
The night trunking is mind numbingly boring but you do get plenty of time to get a kip or watch a film every night.Not where I go you don’t. Queue to tip moves approx every 15 mins. Boring but so are many jobs!
That’s the same at most of them but you usually get an hour or two before reloading or at least the depots I’ve driven for have been ones where you get an hour or two.
I did pallex a couple of times. Start at half 6, there for 9, tipped by half past, asleep until 2, woke up by the shunter, loaded by 3 and finished by half 5. You could have a decent life around the hours, but the money was crap
OVLOV JAY:
Euro:
was it “Palletline” at Fradley Park, Staffs?. Very rapid FLTs but, in my opinion, rather frightening.Palletways. You’re not allowed out of the cab, you pull the curtains back as far as they go, they load [zb] on top of curtains, then you spend half an hour waiting for a fork lift to rectify the problem. Rather have a steady load done right than rapid done wrong tbh
My first (and hopefully last) time at Pallex involved pretty much this. Complete and utter disregard for anything sent through. The forkies seem to be mini-Michael Schumachers, the shutters are even worse flying about the place. When I first arrived I saw a forkie doing a ham-fisted job of trying to extract a pallet from the top of a decker only to knock the one on the other side off. 20 minutes later I saw another one drop a massive stack of beer kegs (full beer kegs mind) all over the floor.
The inmates really do run the asylum at those places.
Euro:
was it “Palletline” at Fradley Park, Staffs?. Very rapid FLTs but, in my opinion, rather frightening.
Nope it a small company at Burntwood - Partridge Transport Services. They run for the Fortec pallet network. At first I thought they were a big operator as always advertising for drivers, but looking at their website they only have a handful of trucks in their fleet.