Suggestions for class 2 driving jobs.

[gaz_moose]

he would get more money driving grocery delivery vans. im guessing he has a digi-tacho etc..

 

[ukracer]

^^ I had to Google SEPA [up here it means Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, and you do NOT want to fall foul of them.....]

https://www.danskebank.com/en-uk/fi/sepa/Pages/What_is_SEPA.aspx

I read that reply as them wanting to refund some money, which can only be good.



http://transblawg.eu/2004/06/23/translating-rechtspfleger-into-english/ is this of any help?

He received it back on Thursday.
Just in time for Xmas. .....

Still no communication about it though ...appalling if you ask me.

 

[ukracer]

he would get more money driving grocery delivery vans. im guessing he has a digi-tacho etc..

He is on tacho in recovery truck...I assume it's digital.

 

[mike os]

Sounds illegal. .. I would be speaking to hmrc

 

[Johnseat]

Recovery trucks are counted as emergency highway vehicles so they don't requires truck mot's and run without the tacho cards or charts inserted.

 

[Badger1bear]

Recovery trucks are counted as emergency highway vehicles so they don't requires truck mot's and run without the tacho cards or charts inserted.

That's true to an extent but that's only within a certain radius of where they are based, tacho rules come into effect outside of their radius.

Skip lorry drivers are always in demand especially from agencies. When they go and work for a customer (and do a good job) the skip company contacts the agency to see if they can buy the driver off of their books. Good skip drivers are hard to come by, you need to be a certain kind of animal because not everyone can do it BUT you have another advantage in your favour and that is you can repair breakdowns and in the skip game I don't think there is a lorry that is treated more harshly. Employers will want to save money where they can so if you can drive skips and repair you will be an asset to them.

 

[Johnseat]

@Badger1bear what do you mean a certain kind of animal, does that type of job come with certain difficulties?

 

[8ob]

That's true to an extent but that's only within a certain radius of where they are based, tacho rules come into effect outside of their radius.

Skip lorry drivers are always in demand especially from agencies. When they go and work for a customer (and do a good job) the skip company contacts the agency to see if they can buy the driver off of their books. Good skip drivers are hard to come by, you need to be a certain kind of animal because not everyone can do it BUT you have another advantage in your favour and that is you can repair breakdowns and in the skip game I don't think there is a lorry that is treated more harshly. Employers will want to save money where they can so if you can drive skips and repair you will be an asset to them.

I can appreciate what you are getting at Badger, skip lorries ,tippers and forestry wagons( us ) are expected to go off road and into the unknown , they are normally going into really tight spots which are probably made worse when people ( like me ) budge the empty skips about when trucks gone.They need to be prepared to get out of the truck and actually walk the route before poking a truck in the hole. Retrieving lorry's buried up their nuts is hard work and costly, drivers of these vehicles can normally change a wheel or repair a pipe if need be. Finding a truck driver that can reverse a truck is a challenge these days, so many of them just dont have a clue, we swing artics in and out of my yard all day and to my dismay I watched a 20` rigid delivering gear take my fence out backing into a 30` wide driveway A mate that does a bit of agency work for one of the food chains reckons they take the truck off you at the warehouse and back them into the bays because there have been that many accidents with bad reversing.

Bob

 

[Badger1bear]

@Badger1bear what do you mean a certain kind of animal, does that type of job come with certain difficulties?

It can be a dirty job, site agents and builders can take the proverbial and wreck your day, Skips are overloaded and the same old BS is rolled out " well your mate never had a problem with it" or the other good one is " we have had bigger lorries in here than yours mate " Skips get the crap knocked out of them and they can stick together causing you more grief to your day. The office put times on the tickets and its not possible at times to fulfill what the customer wants. Customers ask for skips but dont think that it has to turn up on a large truck nor do they think that it only offloads in one direction " cant you offload to the side mate " yet another BS statement. Builders have this ridiculous idea that when a skip is placed its ok for them to move them so when you turn up you cant reach it or their favorite is to build scaffold so close to it that you cant pick it up without hitting the scaffold. Another thing to screw your day up is turning up to site and having to get vehicles moved out to gain access, site agent will tell you "Two minutes mate" is that two minutes real world time or two minutes BS time which infact is 30minutes. All the time your have the office on your ass chasing for an update on the next job. Deliveries which are needed to go on the public highway, customer has not told the office of his needs so no permit has been applied for, customer gets the ass so say stand it on the grass verge outside of his boundary. You ask the customer if he owns that piece of land and when he says no you tell him it belongs to Highways and you need a permit. Customer then decides he does not want the skip, your problem now is you have a skip you need to get rid of so you can go onto your next job. Sometimes you can stand the next job inside your empty unwanted skip but thats not always practical. Add to this the school run traffic and the idiot women in their 4x4's that cant reverse. Add this to the Winter months where you are soaked from start of day till end of day, sitting on a wet seat, screen misting up dues to the warm air on the screen and your soaked body and seat in the cab.

So Yes it does take a certain kind of animal to put up with all the BS that goes with it BUT................. You can put a good skip driver in any driving job and he will excel......... you cant put just any driver into a skip lorry and expect them to be good

 

[octo0072000]

Tell him to get onto the agency's as you choose when to work and it pays well.
The bug money earners in driving are the car transporters and cross continental guys but they tend to go for very experienced drivers who don't mind a week out in the the bunk bed.
Most hgv driving schools allow the cost of the course to be paid over a year or so once you've past, surely he can afford circa £150 a month once he's got a class 1.

big money on car transporters went years ago also it's go to work monday live in cab all week come home saturday same with tankers

 

[octo0072000]

Recovery trucks are counted as emergency highway vehicles so they don't requires truck mot's and run without the tacho cards or charts inserted.

that is if only used for recovery a lot of tilt and slide are used to deliver so comes under tackos etc

 

[octo0072000]

It can be a dirty job, site agents and builders can take the proverbial and wreck your day, Skips are overloaded and the same old BS is rolled out " well your mate never had a problem with it" or the other good one is " we have had bigger lorries in here than yours mate " Skips get the crap knocked out of them and they can stick together causing you more grief to your day. The office put times on the tickets and its not possible at times to fulfill what the customer wants. Customers ask for skips but dont think that it has to turn up on a large truck nor do they think that it only offloads in one direction " cant you offload to the side mate " yet another BS statement. Builders have this ridiculous idea that when a skip is placed its ok for them to move them so when you turn up you cant reach it or their favorite is to build scaffold so close to it that you cant pick it up without hitting the scaffold. Another thing to screw your day up is turning up to site and having to get vehicles moved out to gain access, site agent will tell you "Two minutes mate" is that two minutes real world time or two minutes BS time which infact is 30minutes. All the time your have the office on your ass chasing for an update on the next job. Deliveries which are needed to go on the public highway, customer has not told the office of his needs so no permit has been applied for, customer gets the ass so say stand it on the grass verge outside of his boundary. You ask the customer if he owns that piece of land and when he says no you tell him it belongs to Highways and you need a permit. Customer then decides he does not want the skip, your problem now is you have a skip you need to get rid of so you can go onto your next job. Sometimes you can stand the next job inside your empty unwanted skip but thats not always practical. Add to this the school run traffic and the idiot women in their 4x4's that cant reverse. Add this to the Winter months where you are soaked from start of day till end of day, sitting on a wet seat, screen misting up dues to the warm air on the screen and your soaked body and seat in the cab.

So Yes it does take a certain kind of animal to put up with all the BS that goes with it BUT................. You can put a good skip driver in any driving job and he will excel......... you cant put just any driver into a skip lorry and expect them to be good

well said Badger

 

[Mikey D]

I've been working for an access hire company (Mewp's. cherry pickers/scissor lifts etc )been there 3 weeks so far , good money. has its challenges but at least I can usually move the machines to the truck unlike skips . Done skip work too in the past and enjoyed it mostly .
Most driving jobs that are" own account " or the transport is not the main source of profit are worth getting into .
I drive a unit and low loader but the class 2 drivers get the same rate as me with there rigid trucks
Has to be said tho most decent driving jobs are not advertised ,its word of mouth recommendations or you need to go knocking on doors .

 

[octo0072000]

Bus driving pays ok, and usually guys either get bored or get sacked (no wonder..most of them drive like nascar)

Worth phoning first or stagecoach, both are usually chasing drivers.

bus and coach come under PSV not LGV he would need to take another test for the licence

 

[8ob]

I've been working for an access hire company (Mewp's. cherry pickers/scissor lifts etc )been there 3 weeks so far , good money. has its challenges but at least I can usually move the machines to the truck unlike skips . Done skip work too in the past and enjoyed it mostly .
Most driving jobs that are" own account " or the transport is not the main source of profit are worth getting into .
I drive a unit and low loader but the class 2 drivers get the same rate as me with there rigid trucks
Has to be said tho most decent driving jobs are not advertised ,its word of mouth recommendations or you need to go knocking on doors .

Guys like you are in very short supply down here, I cant find drivers that can load machines or poke up with my double drive Foden artic with road ranger gearbox .They all want the cushy numbers trundling up and down motorways in trucks with semi auto boxes, air con, cruise control and all the other frills. Most of the old boys around here gave up driving when they introduced that farcical drivers card, a step too far for them and a loss to the industry.

Bob

 

[Robotstar5]

Stagecoach will pay your test if they take you in exchange for agreeing to work for them for x years

West Mids travel are the same, if you leave after 12 months you have to pay back half of the costs, after 2 years you can go elsewhere. Mrs Robo has been bus driving about 15 years and considering the aggro/hassle she gets the male drivers have to have the patience of a saint.

 

[ukracer]

Well the poo hit the fan an hour ago.......he walked out of a night shift after being paid just £1090 for 4 weeks work.

He already had an interview lined up for Thursday but could not concentrate on driving for the parasites anymore after having his £450 bonus stolen again. ( there must be a law against this type of thing)

 

[Johnseat]

Jesus Christ what driving was he doing for that?

 

[ukracer]

Jesus Christ what driving was he doing for that?

60 hours a week flat bed recovery shift on nights from 4pm till 4 am 4 nights on.
2 days off.
Then days 6 am till 6pm. 4 days on 2 days off With overtime expected. If you turn down overtime they take the £1 per hour Bonus.

 

[ukracer]

Good on him, too many get walked all over these days sadly...

It hard though as his girlfriend who lives with him had a job as a manager of a store. ...the boss closed it new years eve. Offered a job 40 miles away saying he would pay her fuel.

Now says he can't afford to pay her fuel money.....I hate this country....I hate the EU even more....