Can I Recommend Containers To New Pass Drivers? 

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Hi guys I have just passed my class 1 after doing class 2 work for the last five years. I've been looking where to start on class 1 ? And containers have been mentioned as one of the best ways to get experience & straight forward work while I'm getting used to a driving a truck & trailer. I'd like any opinions/suggestions or even your thoughts/ experience on container work plz 😃

@@leeberry1363 it's straight forward up to a point! No strapping or loading but there are some tight assed places to get into sometimes. Your reversing skills will certainly improve! Go for it!

i only started driving CE for the money coz i was desperate for cash, now im desperate to get out... irony...👀

Hi! Can you help me with ets2 man, I want to practice backing up. Please

Great tip!

He’s got an excellent audio book voice imo 👍. I’m not interested in lorries at all, unless I’m stuck behind one, So I can’t exactly recall the first vid I saw , and why… but as you know ,within a few minutes you can suss out the chaff, . Main thing is personality. ✅👌

@@billy4072 Same. Have no particular interest in lorries but like listening to him talk 👌

Sitting on a dock for upto 4 hours at a time.He's got plenty of time to add all the swank to his vids.

Head mounted Go Pro?

@@Retrogamer71 Nah mate youtubers ave a special jack that goes into the base of their skulls. And can record glorious 4k straight from their retinas.

good.. you will enjoy in cabs which look like garbage containers and all other amazing things which created the driver shortage.. and to be honest if drivers would get a truck as good as this guy has i am pretty sure we would not be talking about that big shortages of drivers..

Thank you!

A mine of information.

Nice

The delays are getting worse. And they're predicted to not get better.

Yep not bad 😁 thanks to you guys

Good stuff

Yep!!

Thanks pal

😄😄 thanks pal

tilts are the worst in high winds, you have the cutain flipped over to one side for loading the a sudden gust gets under it and the lot is on the floor , Lol ! happy days.

@@mishafrog8786 For sure! I used to get regular reloads in various steel works in South Wales. They made us push the Tilt cover all the way forward and knock out the roof bars before entering the sheds. After loading they forced us to reverse out and reconstruct trailers in the open which was usually in a windy and wet open yard! I also lost my complete cover over the front of my cab and spent an unpleasant/ exhausting 5 hours being drenched and still couldn’t fit the cover to the way it was previously! Never again thank God!

@@haggis087 Fully agree they were bastards to get on again , but when younger it was on the floor roll it up then over your sholders & up you go and lay it all out again , nowadays i doubt that i could even lift it now Lol ! the joys of trucking .

Nice one! see you around 😁

Usually they are easily accessible

Wooow sure they were loading and not cooking something back there? 😄😄 Thanks for sharing

😄😄 nice

What maritime pays for week tramping? I'm finking to go there?

Whats the wages in Sweden,mate?

You guys rock 🤘 i would love to try one of those link trucks someday

@@Raul689 you have email and i will send you some pictures 😄

@@jaroslawl8574 64ton for me. But 74 ton on some roads

@@jaroslawl8574 oh i understand NoW. Its between £2110 £ and £2340

Hi pal, yes you are getting paid for all hours worked. Waiting time or driving time

@@Raul689 thanks!

good points

Lol. Yeh add on puncture on the wrong side in foreign country traffic, in the rain or the winter with spray from the road and you're all alone in bandit alley between Naples and Reggio Calabria - it's 'fun central'

You can put a 40ft or a 20ft container on this trailers. The 20ft will stay in the middle while on tho road, for a better weight distribution. And when you want to unload it, just slide it to the back 👍

We are people of the sea 😄 yes definitely missing the flatbed but only at the right company

It's a FH460 i belive. great trucks

of course if you are very rare genius and you can drive class 1 without ever driving class 2 first.. insurance prices will go through the roof.

@@johnman8554 it seems that it will be like for every beginner ... Otherwise it would not be possible to start 😜

@@johnman8554 that only came in in '97.....all the older blokes driving went straight to class 1, it wont be a problem i dont think, when i passed my class 2 in 2001 the main thing that concerned me was the size of the thing, because i went straight to that from driving a car, but in 2004 when i passed my class 1 the only thing to bother me was the reversing cuz i was used to the size of the trucks already.......🤘🤘🤘😎😎😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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@@Raul689 many moons ago now 20 years watch 9/11 happen dwn there at 16 that was like wtf moment in life, i moved on to been an elechicken to get away from agencys but they followed and now i been layed off in that too what a world.

oh wow

😄😄😄 yes they can be sometimes. But around Liverpool they are pretty much ok

Oh yes, the favourite trick they all try to pull is putting the tank containers on backwards, ie with the outlet valve to the front. Every time I go to pick one up they try to pull this one.

yeah ok ,no food,no water , no toilet, great

Use ya loaf , go find some vitals... honestly are you married , married blokes can't wipe there ass without the woman to do it for them ffs

Just the same as driving 😁

Yes

Yes paid the regular rate

No pal i am agency

Right to go left & left to go right.....all you need to remember! lol

@@danosverige if only it was that easy

@@TheJadalee just go slow as fuck pal

don't be afraid to get out and have a look if you're blindsiding. Take a few shunts too. A 3 minute manoeuvre is miles better than whacking a building or vehicle.

What’s the point in worrying, I realised that after doing assessments straight after passing class 1 myself. First one I was worried for no apparent reason, and like expected it was a shocker, trailer going all over the place. The way I looked at it though, technically the assessment is like getting an 1hrs lesson for free, you do both drive, and reverse, things can only get better. I went to my second assessment with a blue chip company a month ago, absolutely smashed it, they offered me a full time contract after that. Main thing is be honest with them, even if you do manage to reverse it first time, tell them you just passed your test and ask if they are able to train you up, any reputable company would offer you at least a days training helping the shunters out or something along these lines. The company I got the contract with offered me 2 weeks training to get me up to speed after I have told them I’m a newly qualified driver, first 3 days helping the shunters which was a really good thing for reversing, the rest of the days going to stores with a trainer. Now I’m on my own and it’s going great. I can honestly say after a month, I’m much more confident reversing, don’t get me wrong I still require a shunt or two but I always manage to get it on the bay without smashing into anything which is all that matters, whenever you can avoid blind side reversing, that will come in time, don’t expect to do it straight away, it’s difficult. There is NOTHING wrong with going out and having a look, also don’t be afraid to shunt on your assessment, I believe they allow you around 5 or 6 shunts. I’d rather look an idiot running around and Having a look than go through all the hassle after smashing into something and turning out to be a bigger idiot than before just because I didn’t bother to go out and look.

Yes i believe that’s correct. I think you’ll find it’s the build quality that sets them apart.The Volvo and Scanias always keep their resale value much better.plus the ishift in the Volvo was a pleasure to drive.Talking about gear boxes the Mercedes used to be the worst of the lot,you would be waiting to pull up out at a roundabout,see your gap put your foot on the throttle and F-all would happen there was such a time delay it was unbelievable.Saying that they did have a great/large cab on them. I have just retired after 22 years on containers and don’t miss it in the slightest, i was fed up with being treated like dirt,especially through this pandemic.So stick at it lads and take them for every penny you can get

Yes they have volvo engine and gearbox i belive

Jesus! what part of the country are you seeing that wage at? I'm seeing £11 to £22 per hour for class 1 around my way in the north west

It's recent, filmed it last week. Depends on where you live

Thats for a Sundee nite shift

@@andybennett3736 even then I'm still not seeing that kinda money in my area lol, seen a tanker driver at £11 a hour around my way 😅

£50 per hour?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Craptos

I had one fully activated the emergency brake on an empty motorway. Not fun

yes many times

@REMF you're 'supposed' to do it. Put the 45 on the 3 but I just run it on 4. Similarly you're supposed to run a loaded 20 on 3 also because centre of gravity but 4 is used for everything really hah

It's perfectly fine to have both 40 and 45 on position 3

Yes pal

@@Raul689 greetings from blackpool bro

No, i use the company's trucks

Sydney to Melbourne would definitely be economically viable. I don't know who did that assessment, but considering the amount of air travellers between both cities, and their sheer size, a decent high speed rail line makes sense. You could have a single stop in Canberra on the way and still connect both cities in under 4 hours. Sure, it will cost a few billion to set up, but Qantas alone makes over 1,2 billion per year from flights between Sydney and Melbourne. Let's break down the cost: Spain built the High speed line between Barcelona and Madrid for around 2 billion euros, and that line does 621 km in 2,5 hours. (a similar distance to Melbourne-Canberra) Sure that was back in 2008, so add in inflation and the fact that this would be Australia's first high speed rail project, and you might get to pay almost double, or something like 5-6 bn Australian dollars for that big stretch, and probably about half that to plonk in some high speed rail between Canberra and Sydney. The most expensive bit will probably be around the cities. Canberra doesn't have a through station, so you would probably need to tunnel underneath, or viaduct over parts of it, so add a billion or two for a few tunnels. In Sydney and Melbourne, existing tracks can be used, or tracks can be added to existing railway corridors to get the high speed trains to the city centre, at least initially. You can start by building Sydney to Canberra, by spending about 2-3 bn Australian $ on that, the train will easily be faster than the plane on such a short route (if you add time to/from the airport, security checks, check-in, taxiing etc), even if you 'only' build a 250 km/h line. You can build Canberra-Melbourne a few years later, with higher design speeds (300-350 km/h). If we look at comparable lines in Europe and Asia, there is no way Sydney-Canberra-Melbourne does not run a healthy profit, paying for it's own build cost in a decade or so. If you think my build price estimates are low, I would advise the Australian government to ask the Spanish how they build their high speed railways. Now, maybe the trains are too expensive. Not really. Trains, even high speed ones, are cheaper to buy and maintain than aeroplanes. 1 tgv duplex (500 seats) = less than 30 million euros list price, 1 Airbus A330-300 (440 seats) = over 230 million euros list price. (and that's not even the neo version) But the train takes longer, so you need to pay the same amount of crew for longer. Well, the turn-around time for an aeroplane is longer than that of a train, and you really only need two people, three tops, to run a high speed train, while even a Boeing 737 will have 5-6 (2 pilots & 3-4 cabin crew), but even if you have 5-6 crew members, they're likely going to be paid a bit less, and also electricity is likely to be cheaper than jet fuel. (as long as your government doesn't subsidise jet fuel to an outrageous degree, and you don't produce your electricity by burning said jet fuel) Maintenance on the high speed tracks should be around 240 million euros / year based on french data, if you build about 800 kms of high speed line, which is optimistic, this is quite manageable. It's not much higher than the running cost of sydney airport which costs about 200 million euros to run. (based on global average running cost per passenger) Long story short, you don't even need freight traffic to make a new Sydney-Melbourne railway line viable, and if you're smart about it, like the Spanish, you can probably build it for under 10 billion AUS. Building the high speed line to be able to handle freight by night will actually be significantly more expensive and/or come with a lower top speed. (closer to 200 than 300 km/h) This is partly because high speed trains can handle steeper hills than slower, heavier, freight trains, and partly because the banking of the track in curves is speed-dependent for a given radius. You could always plan ahead for a freight line to be added in parallel to the high speed line later on, with some detours to deal with hills etc, and some shortcuts as well.

@@mariusdufour9186 While I agree that it would be economically viable I disagree about high maintenance HSR and believe we need no maintenance 700 km/h Japanese maglev to beat trucks by 8 hours. Stage one Parrahub to Canberra could be done in a single 14m,11 psi tunnel in five years using 20 Chinese hard rock TBM for $20b

@@edwardbarnett6571 And here I was demonstrating how hsr is actually affordable to build... and you're proposing a plan for maglev trains that involves building a 14 mile long tunnel for twice what it would cost to build an entire Melbourne-Sydney HSR (ca. 550-560 miles). Sure, it would be nice to have, but considering every Australian government thus far has found that building regular HSR was going to be too expensive, I doubt you'll find much political support for maglevs. Japan is building maglev between Tokyo and Osaka, and it can justify this by the simple fact that it's HSR between those two cities is running at max capacity and it is still not meeting demand. All Australia has is a train that does Melbourne-Sydney once or twice a day, in about 11 hours. 10-15 bn $ will cut the travel time by at least 70%, a 100-200 bn $ maglev will cut the travel time by about 90%. I would also like to note that while Maglev track itself is indeed very low maintenance, the many tunnels and viaducts (even more of them than with HSR) do need to be maintained to a very high standard. (probably even higher than with HSR) So the savings on maintenance are likely smaller than one would imagine.

@@mariusdufour9186 The 14 meter diameter tunnel would be 200 kilometres long at $20b for five years mate.

​@@edwardbarnett6571 Why would you need 14m diameter for maglev? Your train is about 3m wide, so 6 m + 1m in the middle and 1m on each side: 9m diameter. Hard rock is the cheapest material to dig tunnels through, if you have to dig through limestone, let alone even more problematic substrates, your tunneling costs skyrocket because you have to pump out water and shore up the sides and top of the tunnel while you're digging it lest it all just collapses on top of you. (If you want examples look at the new rail tunnel in Stuttgart, or parts of the new Gotthard base tunnel). Gotthard base tunnel cost about 15 bn AUD for 57km of single-track tunnel. So how much of that hypothetical 200km tunnel will be dug through hard rock? The tunnel has to be arrow-straight so you can't have it wiggle it's way through more favourable geological layers like you would for a conventional road or rail tunnel. Japan's 500km maglev line will cost at least 80bn, and Sydney and Melbourne are further apart than Tokyo and Osaka. So yes, I highly doubt your 200km tunnel can be built for 20bn (which is why I assumed you meant 14 miles of tunnel not 200km, which would make your estimate on the high side but not outrageously so), and I highly doubt a Sydney-Melbourne maglev line can be built for under 100 bn, though I would love to be proven wrong, as that would mean we could start building many more maglev lines across the world.

I never done umbrella. I'm still ltd

@@Raul689 . And do you contribute to a pension, how do you claim tax relief or does the pension provider do that for you?

Ya, on a set wage container work turns into "boys money" with these 15 hour days . These Traffic planners than run you don't give a shit they'll say ,talk to your boss. You're just a green line on their flickering screen..nothing more.

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That's true. Having to take a 9h breah after a 15h shift is stupid

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