Trucking general chat - was Forum/Sub-forum proposal

Del2005 · 16-01-2018 6:33pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Is level 4 possible in trucks at this point in time?

Human error does of course occur, but is a machine only as good as the person who programs it? i.e a Human in many cases?

I doubt anything is level 4 yet. That's the thing the autonomous vehicle unless it's level 4 will require a driver to intervene when the s#*t hits the fan. But with the driver not having to do anything until the last moment it's obvious that the driver won't be able to to react in time so the vehicle manufacturer can still blame the human for the incident, while the system is a design flaw.

Programming is going to take a long time to get right. Look at the incident in Vagas a few months ago. The autonomous vehicle wasn't programed to reverse when it saw the truck reversing into it so it crashed. Not to mention the fact that they have to tell the vehicle who to kill and the litigation that will follow the 1st fatality of an autonomous vehicle.

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 8:25pm

Aidan Doherty Transport are still on the lookout for drivers as well.

€31K a year servicing Aldi and Lidl.

https://ie.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=64b452c71a61c5b9&from=serp&prevUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fie.indeed.com%2Fm%2Fjobs%3Fq%3DHaulage

audiavantawx · 16-01-2018 8:54pm

Seems to be a lot of jobs for drivers at the moment,is there a lack of drivers or too many without the experience most companies are after?

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 9:04pm

audiavantawx wrote: »

Seems to be a lot of jobs for drivers at the moment,is there a lack of drivers or too many without the experience most companies are after?

Experience can be a sticking point with some companies for insurance reasons.

Others just want experienced drivers full stop as they don't want to be the ones to train a person up and then watch them flee the nest to bigger (and better?) things.

There is also a lack of drivers out there, the older established guys got sick of doing the long hours/low pay in many cases, combined with costs such as licences being halved to 5 years since 2013,CPC's,ADR,medicals,digi cards,manual handling,fork lift licences.

Now that's not in all cases,but in many,maybe half perhaps.

In the last 14 months i've had to renew my licence, my digi card just last week.

My costs are generally:

Licence €55 every 5 years
Digi card €45 every 5 years (online)
CPC's €300, modules 1-6 as i have the bus as well.
Medical €50 every 5 years
My ADR expired so i have to start from scratch again, €1000 for 5 years
Manual handling/fork truck course, €500 every 3 years.
Looking at the Air cargo course, €100 for 5 years.
I left my safepass expire and doubt i'll ever renew it, that was €100 for 5 years.
The CPC card itself was free thank god.

Rave.ef · 16-01-2018 9:08pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Aidan Doherty Transport are still on the lookout for drivers as well.

€31K a year servicing Aldi and Lidl.

https://ie.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=64b452c71a61c5b9&from=serp&prevUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fie.indeed.com%2Fm%2Fjobs%3Fq%3DHaulage

As far as I know if you are in a store outside of its hours youv to let yourself in and out. Bit of extra responsibility. I know you unload yourself at the warehouse anyway I do it all too often.

audiavantawx wrote: »

Seems to be a lot of jobs for drivers at the moment,is there a lack of drivers or too many without the experience most companies are after?

Serious shortage and its hard to get a start in the industry too so doesn't help the situation. Cost of the licence and maintaining it with the cpcs at 50 a pop

Was beaten too it and better explained:-)

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 9:15pm

Rave.ef wrote: »

As far as I know if you are in a store outside of its hours youv to let yourself in and out. Bit of extra responsibility. I know you unload yourself at the warehouse anyway I do it all too often.

Serious shortage and its hard to get a start in the industry too so doesn't help the situation. Cost of the licence and maintaining it with the cpcs at 50 a pop

Was beaten too it and better explained:-)

I was offered a job by Doherty's only last summer, i was up for it as the hours suited me better than where i am at the moment and the money also better,i was being allowed take the truck and trailer home with me as well.

I might make the approach again around easter to them.

I'm finishing up in my own job for a while at the end of next week for about 2 months, so if i get the time i might look around and speak to them again.

The FAS lads are finding it impossible to get their break with some of the companies, mainly because, and i got this first hand from a major company director, they cause damage in a matter of hours or days getting on the road with them.

The CPC's, jasus we won't go there. :rolleyes: :pac:

audiavantawx · 16-01-2018 9:20pm

I know all to well myself the cost of it all
Always seems something needs to be renewed
My adr is up next year,cost 750 and never saw any use,hard to justify that outlay unless your guaranteed something

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 9:24pm

audiavantawx wrote: »

I know all to well myself the cost of it all
Always seems something needs to be renewed
My adr is up next year,cost 750 and never saw any use,hard to justify that outlay unless your guaranteed something

Is that for the refresher?

I never got any use out of mine in the 5 years i had it.

The one company who offered me the opportunity in that work were paying €70 per day so i said fcuk that.

If i were a single man, for the experience of hauling the stuff i'd have done it, but with kids to feed i couldn't.

Are you driving away yourself?

audiavantawx · 16-01-2018 9:39pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Is that for the refresher?

I never got any use out of mine in the 5 years i had it.

The one company who offered me the opportunity in that work were paying €70 per day so i said fcuk that.

If i were a single man, for the experience of hauling the stuff i'd have done it, but with kids to feed i couldn't.

Are you driving away yourself?

That was for the full course,refresher is 300 odd I think
2 or 3 day
70 a day haha crazy for adr work
I was before Xmas there,only rigid multi drop,pure brain melt.Not enough hours in the day
Not driving at minute,will get back to it if something better comes up
Wouldn't mind nationwide work or set run

They rarely come up though,here's to wishful thinking ha

You doing nationwide or local runs

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 9:51pm

audiavantawx wrote: »

That was for the full course,refresher is 300 odd I think
2 or 3 day
70 a day haha crazy for adr work
I was before Xmas there,only rigid multi drop,pure brain melt.Not enough hours in the day
Not driving at minute,will get back to it if something better comes up
Wouldn't mind nationwide work or set run

They rarely come up though,here's to wishful thinking ha

You doing nationwide or local runs

I'll have to shop around so for cheaper quotes for the ADR.

Did your quote include the exam fee?

the 2 courses are over 5 days from what i remember, tankers 2 days,packages 3 days.

Multi drop is a curse, i did it for 5 years, i swore never again would i do it unless the money was something else which it won't be anytime soon :rolleyes:

I'm doing nationwide, it's grand and handy,if i'm going up East i bounce up the road and collect a trailer in Dublin to collect my load, then straight back to the depot.

If i'm going West i go up with the full unit collect and back down again, in both cases i just drop the trailer and go home.

The waiting before Christmas the biggest killer for me though, i was waiting 9 hours to be loaded as someone didn't do their paperwork properly and check me in, so it was hectic to get all of that sorted.

That day was a 15 hour shift when i thought it was going to be 8/9 which it usually is.

The doherty hours/money are that bit better than what i am on currently though, the main difference between what they do and what i do is they have to load the truck themselves,i don't.

I don't even have to actually get out of the cab unless i'm dropping/picking trailers or going home.

I'd rather do the extra bit of work though for the extra few bob and start/finish at respectable times.

Doherty's can start at about 4 in the morning and finish around 3/4/ that day, you'd still have some bit of time with the family, which at the moment is manageable but difficult.

s14driftking · 16-01-2018 10:33pm

neris wrote: »

I live on a main road with a 3.5t weight limit off the m50 and any truck delivering to the areas beyond me who has to go the "normal" route has an extra 20 minutes added into their journey. The weight limits not policed. 1 nimby (taxi driver) in the area tried to get an anti HGV Facebook group going last year which failed spectacularly. Personally it doesn't bother me and see some nice yokes passing the house. Though did come out of the house at 7am one morning few weeks back to find a wareberers parked up having a cuppa across a few of the neighbours driveways

How many houses did he knock leavingðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚

s14driftking · 16-01-2018 10:35pm

Rave.ef wrote: »

Dublin is hard going at times. I was going to a site in ballsbridge last year on a nearly daily biases 6x2 and 45 foot flat. Only way to get to the gate to back in was around a restricted (big wide) road or an illigel u turn at a junction just below the site. Sometimes you just can't win.

You'd get the odd scania wit stacks or side pipes but our exhaust brakes are nothing compared to the jake brakes.

Dublin is a nightmare. In it all day everyday in an 8 wheeler.

s14driftking · 16-01-2018 10:37pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

2 of my relatives are taxi drivers, they hate truckers and on one occasion one of them tried to make my life hell on a narrow bridge trying to get me to reverse the Artic, cops called the works so I know how twisted some of them are.

What is the general opinion of residents to HGV’s passing through?

Coming out of the house and seeing the truck obscuring a persons property isn’t ideal.

I’d of stuck it on a 45 and gotbout and locked it.

s14driftking · 16-01-2018 10:49pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Little Island Transport 2001 DAF looking very tired in 2016.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/90331239@N02/24078714430/in/album-72157645202110204/

They just bought a few more lately in first choice vommerciLs.

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 10:59pm

s14driftking wrote: »

They just bought a few more lately in first choice vommerciLs.

They’ll go for DAF I’d say,again.

http://www.firstchoicecommercials.ie/search.php?ref=tractor-units&xstrt=8

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 10:59pm

s14driftking wrote: »

I’d of stuck it on a 45 and gotbout and locked it.

I’d have loved to :pac:

s14driftking · 16-01-2018 11:03pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Aidan Doherty Transport are still on the lookout for drivers as well.

€31K a year servicing Aldi and Lidl.

https://ie.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=64b452c71a61c5b9&from=serp&prevUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fie.indeed.com%2Fm%2Fjobs%3Fq%3DHaulage

There always looking with adds on donedeal.
Lidl work is also horrible work. It was my first job.

s14driftking · 16-01-2018 11:11pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

They’ll go for DAF I’d say,again.

http://www.firstchoicecommercials.ie/search.php?ref=tractor-units&xstrt=8

They did 3 or 4 of them. Horrible horrible trucks dafs are

s14driftking · 16-01-2018 11:13pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

I’d have loved to :pac:

Trust me I’d of had no problem doing it. Dunno if it’s just me or what lately but there is more and more car drivers getting aggressive and dangerous lately around lorries.

SEPT 23 1989 · 16-01-2018 11:15pm

It really annoys me that the jobs that actually matter and are very stressful are poorly paid

Fully support the sub forum

Are many lads still doing continental work or is the money gone out of that as well?

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 11:40pm

s14driftking wrote: »

Trust me I’d of had no problem doing it. Dunno if it’s just me or what lately but there is more and more car drivers getting aggressive and dangerous lately around lorries.

Yeah I’m seeing a massive spike in aggression lately or bullying,the N20 to Patrickswell from Cork city is my biggest problem with people doing all they can to get by and chopping in front of me if other vehicles are coming against them.

If they were in our shoes for a day they’d have a seriously different attitude.

SEPT 23 1989 · 16-01-2018 11:44pm

s14driftking wrote: »

Trust me I’d of had no problem doing it. Dunno if it’s just me or what lately but there is more and more car drivers getting aggressive and dangerous lately around lorries.

Surely the last vehicle on the road you get aggressive and dangerous around is a truck

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 11:44pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

It really annoys me that the jobs that actually matter and are very stressful are poorly paid

Fully support the sub forum

Are many lads still doing continental work or is the money gone out of that as well?

You’re right!

Major responsibility being a professional driver, be it a truck full of chemicals or a bus full of passengers, The money doesn’t match the responsibility.

Still plenty of drivers going out on the continent, that’s mostly where the big money is nowadays.

Some guys who are home every night earn about €6/700 after tax but they put in the hours for it.

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 11:45pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Surely the last vehicle on the road you get aggressive and dangerous around is a truck

Before I ever drove trucks, I always had a saying, don’t fcuk with the truck.

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 11:48pm

s14driftking wrote: »

There always looking with adds on donedeal.
Lidl work is also horrible work. It was my first job.

Working in Lidl itself?

They offered me €11.50 an hour one year to come off the road, at the time that was more than I was getting for driving, the thoughts of being in a store all day didn’t appeal to me, had that in Dunnes.

The one job you don’t see advertised as often is one for drivers of petrol tankers, €19+ is the figure going around.

boardsuser1 · 16-01-2018 11:50pm

s14driftking wrote: »

They did 3 or 4 of them. Horrible horrible trucks dafs are

I like the power in the CF, that aside they have nothing going for them.

My most recent CF was a rigid, she had 700,000kms on her and was only used for 2 hours a day towards the end of its life in regular service, it now serves as a spare. She was a 07.

audiavantawx · 17-01-2018 1:33am

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

I'll have to shop around so for cheaper quotes for the ADR.

Did your quote include the exam fee?

the 2 courses are over 5 days from what i remember, tankers 2 days,packages 3 days.

Multi drop is a curse, i did it for 5 years, i swore never again would i do it unless the money was something else which it won't be anytime soon :rolleyes:

I'm doing nationwide, it's grand and handy,if i'm going up East i bounce up the road and collect a trailer in Dublin to collect my load, then straight back to the depot.

If i'm going West i go up with the full unit collect and back down again, in both cases i just drop the trailer and go home.

The waiting before Christmas the biggest killer for me though, i was waiting 9 hours to be loaded as someone didn't do their paperwork properly and check me in, so it was hectic to get all of that sorted.

That day was a 15 hour shift when i thought it was going to be 8/9 which it usually is.

The doherty hours/money are that bit better than what i am on currently though, the main difference between what they do and what i do is they have to load the truck themselves,i don't.

I don't even have to actually get out of the cab unless i'm dropping/picking trailers or going home.

I'd rather do the extra bit of work though for the extra few bob and start/finish at respectable times.

Doherty's can start at about 4 in the morning and finish around 3/4/ that day, you'd still have some bit of time with the family, which at the moment is manageable but difficult.

Didnt get a quote i am just working of memory with 300
Will see what the story is when it comes up if i am going to renew it

It is a curse ye and the traffic around the capital is a nightmare at the best of times and then you know the usual,always someone who doesn t want to play ball and get you tipped or is just taking the lunch break

Sounds handy enough alryt wouldnt mind something the likes of that myself,set run like i said would be the ideal,same thing day in day out or swap around between diferent run,ah i will keep an ear out for something that suits.

Dont mind the 12 to 15 hour shifts myself once i am getting payed by the hour,wouldnt do a day rate,you just get shafted.

audiavantawx · 17-01-2018 1:45am

Noticed the aggressive driving and no patience for lorries alot myself
I think most lads who drive or have drove them always will help a fellow driver out
Especially when your stuck on the limiter a few clicks more than the boy in front and cant get out
Junctions/Motorways/Sideroads you know the usual spots,always give a flash of lights and hold the traffic off,i know how much i appriciate it myself

neris · 17-01-2018 10:45am

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Working in Lidl itself?

They offered me €11.50 an hour one year to come off the road, at the time that was more than I was getting for driving, the thoughts of being in a store all day didn’t appeal to me, had that in Dunnes.

The one job you don’t see advertised as often is one for drivers of petrol tankers, €19+ is the figure going around.

very few companies doing it and its probably one of the most specialised areas in driving so the lads who do it stick with it. Also Reynolds lost the Topaz contracts that went to Stobart and Id say they tried to get their Tesco drivers onto the tankers to avoid redundancy payments.

Are there any lads doing decent videos on youtube anymore? I use to follow few guys doing good vids but they all seem to have stopped posting anything

boardsuser1 · 17-01-2018 12:47pm

audiavantawx wrote: »

Didnt get a quote i am just working of memory with 300
Will see what the story is when it comes up if i am going to renew it

It is a curse ye and the traffic around the capital is a nightmare at the best of times and then you know the usual,always someone who doesn t want to play ball and get you tipped or is just taking the lunch break

Sounds handy enough alryt wouldnt mind something the likes of that myself,set run like i said would be the ideal,same thing day in day out or swap around between diferent run,ah i will keep an ear out for something that suits.

Dont mind the 12 to 15 hour shifts myself once i am getting payed by the hour,wouldnt do a day rate,you just get shafted.

300 is very respectable to be fair for the refresher.

I have my quote here in front of me, it states as follows:

Initial Basic Core & Package €400
Initial Basic Core & Package & Tanker specialisation €600
Initial Basic Tanker specialisation €200

2 separate exam fees,

Packages €125
Tankers & packages €200

Deposit of €300 required.

Took me 90 minutes in November to get from Blanchardstown to Newlands Cross, The M50 was a car park, Dublin traffic is without doubt the worst in the country and that's not even in the city centre.

It is handy, i'm on a daily rate though which is the biggest killer.

An hourly rate is hard to come by.

If i was paid by the hour i'd be loaded :pac:

boardsuser1 · 17-01-2018 12:51pm

audiavantawx wrote: »

Noticed the aggressive driving and no patience for lorries alot myself
I think most lads who drive or have drove them always will help a fellow driver out
Especially when your stuck on the limiter a few clicks more than the boy in front and cant get out
Junctions/Motorways/Sideroads you know the usual spots,always give a flash of lights and hold the traffic off,i know how much i appriciate it myself

The majority of the impatient drivers thing that trucks can take off at and do similar speeds to cars, not knowing they are limited.

I had a conversation with an oul fella one day in the truck stop in Fermoy, twas hilarious.

He said 'why do you lads go so slow when you can do the likes of 120 on the motorway'

Very innocent question from a man who admitted he had no knowledge of it whatsoever, when i told him they were all(or at least should be) restricted he laughed saying 'i don't know how you do it'

As mentioned in my last post, the 90 minutes getting through Dublin traffic was the worst i have seen so far, people were pulling out and back in from all angles to get in front of trucks, these people need serious education lessons.

Some of them would brake test you as well however looking for a quick buck.

boardsuser1 · 17-01-2018 1:07pm

A day in the life of a trucker, compliments of DG McArdle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbfcSPDU64o

boardsuser1 · 17-01-2018 1:09pm

An old video on the story of Eddie Stobart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_p5LbXY02I

Some lovely machinery there

neris · 17-01-2018 1:21pm

Ned used to put out good videos of his trips out but hes not doing continental stuff anymore

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

A day in the life of a trucker, compliments of DG McArdle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbfcSPDU64o

boardsuser1 · 17-01-2018 5:12pm

neris wrote: »

Ned used to put out good videos of his trips out but hes not doing continental stuff anymore

It gives a good insight to aspiring truckers.

I’m sitting here now waiting to be loaded for the return journey.

boardsuser1 · 17-01-2018 7:45pm

Any Cork based lads looking in, JD Recovery are looking for operators.

boardsuser1 · 17-01-2018 8:08pm

1995 Volvo FL10

Copyright Jason Begley.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallwarrior/4521172693/in/photolist-6GrRGV-63VtNA-6k5HaB-7MpTA1-obwFCN-7Twc8k-7TPveN-7T5sDW-6kargu-7NXSVZ-7PDpGh-7TXq5f-63Rkvv-6k9T7o-6katNw-6Y8dWu-8zJCnX-7TztWf-8m3Fmu-7PYaGg-7TwrxK-8vbU9S-8uQqxx-6k9Wcj-7TXDvW-7rHW8S-6QfGpf-8WoKP1-7MYoQh-7TU7br-7rjy6H-6k5HSg-7TUfMF-7PYa2g-7N91PB-7TTQCc-7RJVeL-7TPsso-7TX7iU-7TUrpB-7TUmyD-7TXgDJ-4ymTmF-7x22kJ-dhXXZB-7vddZu-75nkNa-7zH3cz-7MwT1R-6MYArL/

Odelay · 17-01-2018 8:23pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

1995 Volvo FL10

Copyright Jason Begley.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallwarrior/4521172693/in/photolist-6GrRGV-63VtNA-6k5HaB-7MpTA1-obwFCN-7Twc8k-7TPveN-7T5sDW-6kargu-7NXSVZ-7PDpGh-7TXq5f-63Rkvv-6k9T7o-6katNw-6Y8dWu-8zJCnX-7TztWf-8m3Fmu-7PYaGg-7TwrxK-8vbU9S-8uQqxx-6k9Wcj-7TXDvW-7rHW8S-6QfGpf-8WoKP1-7MYoQh-7TU7br-7rjy6H-6k5HSg-7TUfMF-7PYa2g-7N91PB-7TTQCc-7RJVeL-7TPsso-7TX7iU-7TUrpB-7TUmyD-7TXgDJ-4ymTmF-7x22kJ-dhXXZB-7vddZu-75nkNa-7zH3cz-7MwT1R-6MYArL/

Didn't think brewery's ran 6x2? Thought they were all small yokes with 20 or 30 foot trailers?

Rave.ef · 17-01-2018 8:27pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

1995 Volvo FL10

Copyright Jason Begley.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallwarrior/4521172693/in/photolist-6GrRGV-63VtNA-6k5HaB-7MpTA1-obwFCN-7Twc8k-7TPveN-7T5sDW-6kargu-7NXSVZ-7PDpGh-7TXq5f-63Rkvv-6k9T7o-6katNw-6Y8dWu-8zJCnX-7TztWf-8m3Fmu-7PYaGg-7TwrxK-8vbU9S-8uQqxx-6k9Wcj-7TXDvW-7rHW8S-6QfGpf-8WoKP1-7MYoQh-7TU7br-7rjy6H-6k5HSg-7TUfMF-7PYa2g-7N91PB-7TTQCc-7RJVeL-7TPsso-7TX7iU-7TUrpB-7TUmyD-7TXgDJ-4ymTmF-7x22kJ-dhXXZB-7vddZu-75nkNa-7zH3cz-7MwT1R-6MYArL/

That's a beauty. Can't beat the older Volvo. Wev a few early fhs as back ups with well over a million on em and they pull like a new yoke.
Have any of ye seen o Flynns f12 around the port of cork. Some bark off it.
All there fleet is unreal tho

boardsuser1 · 18-01-2018 12:00am

Odelay wrote: »

Didn't think brewery's ran 6x2? Thought they were all small yokes with 20 or 30 foot trailers?

The odd full length trailer wasn't uncommon, but what you describe was more common,especially in 1995.

Rave.ef wrote: »

That's a beauty. Can't beat the older Volvo. Wev a few early fhs as back ups with well over a million on em and they pull like a new yoke.
Have any of ye seen o Flynns f12 around the port of cork. Some bark off it.
All there fleet is unreal tho

She's a great looking truck, i'll have to look out for a few Hino's and ERF's as well.

The O'Flynn's one i haven't seen.

The older trucks are far better sounding without doubt.

boardsuser1 · 18-01-2018 12:24am

3 Magnum's side by side at the 1995 Truckfest

Copyright again belongs to JB

https://www.flickr.com/photos/smallwarrior/4102008323/in/photolist-7ftSar-c5pdh9-c6tn79-63VADJ-b6KVvP-d2dknQ-8121MR-84V4ow-7LHFm9-7LDJjz-e6CvcU-c5pgkU-63VxCN-dbGzQF-feM8FB-81Gom1-9VBFgN-apaH3C-fdUw8R-nEDfMr-8NvgBD-exXBoU-eUJHJ7-93Cdpt-fdRNtV-aDkfXN-82APs3-fdUAkn-ahNKbg-dasF9f-ff2qey-7TzDbQ-c5pfXj-dXFK1H-bbo1Mz-bo8stz-cdX4hq-nCSyz1-9qDY94-goWnn5-FJ2Ebg-86wJPH-8JKVrR-9qVYUw-9RUxdR-8dUANh-a3Y5db-c6tuoN-chcmoE-9RXtfA

maxflinn · 18-01-2018 9:42am

Hi folks, I recently passed my class C test and got my CPC on the same day. I have the license and tacho card and am just waiting on the CPC card to arrive and I'll be banging down the doors of hauliers etc looking for work!

I'm hoping the money has improved a bit since 2013 - 2016 when many 'depressing' posts were made on another thread on this site discussing truckers wages, given the apparent (?) shortage of drivers.

I'm hoping too that zero experience won't be a major problem!

Can anyone comment on the wages - are they now better? And potential lack of experience situation in today's market?

I'm based in Waterford.

Thanks in advance.

neris · 18-01-2018 12:23pm

A few foreigners Ive spotted on the roads over a while

Lithuanian heading for Dublin port last night

Hungarian having a cuppa before Xmas. Nice new XF cab on it

Rave.ef · 18-01-2018 2:39pm

maxflinn wrote: »

Hi folks, I recently passed my class C test and got my CPC on the same day. I have the license and tacho card and am just waiting on the CPC card to arrive and I'll be banging down the doors of hauliers etc looking for work!

I'm hoping the money has improved a bit since 2013 - 2016 when many 'depressing' posts were made on another thread on this site discussing truckers wages, given the apparent (?) shortage of drivers.

I'm hoping too that zero experience won't be a major problem!

Can anyone comment on the wages - are they now better? And potential lack of experience situation in today's market?

I'm based in Waterford.

Thanks in advance.

Money's still poor enough. Not sure what it's like for a rigid because to be totally honest never drove one full time always been artic. It is tough to get a start with no experience but if I were you I'd start with store all they have a lot of warehouses in Waterford and a few rigids on the road too. What part of Waterford are you in. You could try breens I'm newross seem to have lot of rigids on the road too.

audiavantawx · 18-01-2018 3:20pm

Just from personal experience and not to turn you off
9 to 14 hour days for a rate of 100
Minus your tax then
And you will earn every penny of it,Most likely stressed to the eye balls
Dont forget taking abuse all day from the public because you have no place to park
Keep your options open for other work is my opinion

On the plus side you might get a scanny with side pipes and enough lights to be seen from the moon
Best of luck with it

boardsuser1 · 18-01-2018 4:32pm

neris wrote: »

A few foreigners Ive spotted on the roads over a while

Lithuanian heading for Dublin port last night

Hungarian having a cuppa before Xmas. Nice new XF cab on it

never drove a new XF, the newest DAF i drove was a 161 LF. it was ok, the lane sensors beeping being the most annoying bit even if i was overtaking,

I like the power of DAF's but that's about it, now if i drive the new XF that could well change, but not any time soon i reckon, my daily driver is a Scania.

Long journey from Lithuania though, but if you are single or have grown up kids it can be a nice life seeing the world a bit.

boardsuser1 · 18-01-2018 4:40pm

maxflinn wrote: »

Hi folks, I recently passed my class C test and got my CPC on the same day. I have the license and tacho card and am just waiting on the CPC card to arrive and I'll be banging down the doors of hauliers etc looking for work!

I'm hoping the money has improved a bit since 2013 - 2016 when many 'depressing' posts were made on another thread on this site discussing truckers wages, given the apparent (?) shortage of drivers.

I'm hoping too that zero experience won't be a major problem!

Can anyone comment on the wages - are they now better? And potential lack of experience situation in today's market?

I'm based in Waterford.

Thanks in advance.

audiavantawx wrote: »

Just from personal experience and not to turn you off
9 to 14 hour days for a rate of 100
Minus your tax then
And you will earn every penny of it,Most likely stressed to the eye balls
Dont forget taking abuse all day from the public because you have no place to park
Keep your options open for other work is my opinion

On the plus side you might get a scanny with side pipes and enough lights to be seen from the moon
Best of luck with it

When i started out in a rigid i was being €10 an hour with no expenses, i was doing nothing but Dunnes Stores, you had to unload the truck, break down the pallets for them to inspect it and put them where they tell you, then you must wait for a manager to check off every single item on the dockets.

Not a hope in hell would i ever get involved with a company servicing them or Musgraves/Super Valu/Centra for the same reasons.

If i were you, apply to Tesco for a job.

35 hour a week contracts being paid over €14 an hour, i left there before they changed the contracts.

If you got an artic licence give Dungarvan Transport a shout, they have a nice fleet of Merc's and are naturally Waterford Based.

Cappoquin Transport is another.

Are you based in the city?

Starting out is the biggest part though and most need you to be over 25.

I'm getting about 600 a week after tax driving an artic, i'd only leave where i am for the likes of An Post though as i have it very cushy bar the hours on occasion.

neris · 18-01-2018 4:44pm

Cork Truck Driver wrote: »

Long journey from Lithuania though, but if you are single or have grown up kids it can be a nice life seeing the world a bit.

My brother in law drives continental. Hes back and forward from Lithuania to the UK regularly on a car transporter. He was in the UK last week and got sent down to Barcelona and back to UK. The crowd he works for treat like him filth. He used to do runs for them from Holland to Moscow, 2 years ago we were over at xmas and he was only coming back into Lithuania from Moscow in the early hours of xmas day after been out for 2 weeks. He got a call from his boss on 29th asking him to take a load to moscow to be dropped by new years eve. Boss was politely told to F off and get someone else.

boardsuser1 · 18-01-2018 4:49pm

neris wrote: »

My brother in law drives continental. Hes back and forward from Lithuania to the UK regularly on a car transporter. He was in the UK last week and got sent down to Barcelona and back to UK. The crowd he works for treat like him filth. He used to do runs for them from Holland to Moscow, 2 years ago we were over at xmas and he was only coming back into Lithuania from Moscow in the early hours of xmas day after been out for 2 weeks. He got a call from his boss on 29th asking him to take a load to moscow to be dropped by new years eve. Boss was politely told to F off and get someone else.

It's the one thing i vowed i will never do, is continental work.

Are the car transportation company Irish based?

I can think of 2 or 3 who go out foreign.

He was a slave to them effectively, he was right to tell them f. off, i would have as well.

Driving to Moscow is something else, how long would that take?

boardsuser1 · 18-01-2018 5:00pm

maxflinn wrote: »

Hi folks, I recently passed my class C test and got my CPC on the same day. I have the license and tacho card and am just waiting on the CPC card to arrive and I'll be banging down the doors of hauliers etc looking for work!

I'm hoping the money has improved a bit since 2013 - 2016 when many 'depressing' posts were made on another thread on this site discussing truckers wages, given the apparent (?) shortage of drivers.

I'm hoping too that zero experience won't be a major problem!

Can anyone comment on the wages - are they now better? And potential lack of experience situation in today's market?

I'm based in Waterford.

Thanks in advance.

I know it's artics, but this is just an example of what O'Toole Transport want, and they have a Waterford depot.

http://otooletransport.ie/careers/

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