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Delivery Driver Job

  • 01-12-2015 02:06AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭


    Hi all, I was always interested in becoming a delivery driver, I was thinking of getting my full licence and seeing if someplaces like fruit and veg suppliers or couriers would take me on delivering in a Van, I'm just wondering does anyone know if it's hard to get a job as a delivery driver, Any help much appreciated


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,253 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Aaron97 wrote: »
    Hi all, I was always interested in becoming a delivery driver, I was thinking of getting my full licence and seeing if someplaces like fruit and veg suppliers or couriers would take me on delivering in a Van, I'm just wondering does anyone know if it's hard to get a job as a delivery driver, Any help much appreciated

    Its tough and in winter, cold and wet with long days and undoable targets.
    You may also need your own van , insurance, tax etc.
    After 25 years in transport I got out and that was as office admin and eventually transport manager.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭Aaron97


    It's always something I wanted to look into I work in a warehouse now for a large retail supplier and I want to move on in a few years to a fruit and veg company and maybe start off there delivering to local restaurants and pubs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,253 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Aaron97 wrote: »
    It's always something I wanted to look into I work in a warehouse now for a large retail supplier and I want to move on in a few years to a fruit and veg company and maybe start off there delivering to local restaurants and pubs

    Talk to the delivery planners or transport manager were you are.
    Alternatively talk to the sub contractors.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,253 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Aaron Look out your window today and decide if you want to be a delivery driver. Hopping in and out of a van all day in this kind of weather.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,342 ✭✭✭Bandana boy


    Check if your current place of work does a warehouse to wheels program ? I know several of the big warehouses do.
    You will need to invest in your self , which means more than a Full licence but getting several levels of truck licence too. While you may prefer to work in a van , you will always lose out to somebody who can operate several vehicles as the need arises.

    Also get these as soon as possible , somebody looking for a placment as a diver with a full license < 3 years would be immeaditely discounted in most places


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