Delivery Driving At Christmas 

Aw damn, that’s a shame! I just have a Class 2 at the moment.. I am very tempted to make it a Class 1 though some point in the new year and seeing if I can possibly move up to the trucks within the Green van company hah.. but that’s something I’ll have to see about. :)

Pay isn’t bad, nothing special but enough to get by. Better than some jobs out there for the work you do. :)

It changes and is worked out by management around the time but we don’t work Christmas day is all I can tell you. Last year I worked my usual days, covered some peoples shifts and they covered mine. It is decided at the end of November management ask availability usually.

Aha, we occasionally pickup a spare van with 67 or 70 plates when ours break down, they are alright and have less milage than ours! That may be why, maybe because our store covers more milage compared to some others we get newer vans more often. Unsure really. Also management are aware of the videos and so far happy with the way I am doing them, not getting any lates doing them either so everyone is happy. :)

We’re supposed to fill up ever late shift as you finish but I guess sometimes people forget..

​@@JackDelivers Or can't be bothered

I don’t think I did no but of course you drive for the first time with your ‘buddy’ on your last training run so if it was that bad I’m sure they’d raise the problem aha.

How was your driving assessment? What was u made to do ?

National living wage.

Not difficult no but yes you need a CV and of course a driving license for 1+ year.

@@JackDeliversno problem… I applied and it didn’t ask for a cv tbh, not sure why but thank you for your reply anyway

I would love to say we are but people don’t actually consider how heavy an EV van is due to the battery and they get in the category of being a C1 class vehicle that you cannot use on a normal license, additionally you’d need a driver CPC and tacograph to drive it commercially… if they are still 3.5t or less, the carry capacity greatly reduces because if the extra weight.

@@JackDelivers we’ve done a training course it’s called AFV training it’s a 5 hour thing you have to sit through which allows us all to drive them at my store we’ve now got Ford E Transits converted exactly the same as our old diesels got to drive one for the first time today

That’s something I’ve never heard of, I just read it and you’ve just taught me something thank you. I’m glad that piece of legislation exists, that makes a lot of sense. I mean regardless personally I could still drive it either way with my entitlements. But I assume that training as it is still a B license removes the requirement for a tacograph aswell? That’s great news. In that case, I’d like to hope we get EVs some point. It makes sense for store deliveries, I do around 80-100miles per shift so per day the van does no more than 200 miles.

@@JackDelivers I’ve got the standard car license & the training has allowed me to drive them it goes onto your license that you’ve completed the course it’s the worst thing you’ll ever do you just sit for 5 hours of someone talking 😂

@@JackDelivers ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yhCxPWztRYQ.htmlsi=fOqFoG5g8v08BM5x these are the vans we have accept converted to suit