BOC Gas Delivery Drivers?
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I work as a bar supervisor at a local golf club, had the gas delivery come yesterday and got talking to the delivery guy - turns out he's on just over £32k a year, I'm only on £14k so as you can imagine this sounds appealing to me.
Anyone do this job or have any insight of the licences required/how to get into it etc?
Cheers for any info in advance
Daggers
Anyone do this job or have any insight of the licences required/how to get into it etc?
Cheers for any info in advance
Daggers
Daggers89 said:
I work as a bar supervisor at a local golf club, had the gas delivery come yesterday and got talking to the delivery guy - turns out he's on just over £32k a year, I'm only on £14k so as you can imagine this sounds appealing to me.
Anyone do this job or have any insight of the licences required/how to get into it etc?
Cheers for any info in advance
Daggers
Don't think you need anything other than a clean driving licence and the necessary H&S training to do the job.Anyone do this job or have any insight of the licences required/how to get into it etc?
Cheers for any info in advance
Daggers
As for £32k salary, if your guy spouts the same volume of BS I used to hear from BOC drivers, who also had to act as payment collectors, I would not rely on that as a basic salary.
Work is almost as hard as a drayman, with the weather and graft to contend with, it is a hard job, and I doubt you get the perks of a free pint from every other pub too!
ADR is usually a requirement.
Check out current jobs on offer at
http://www.bocjobs.com/UK/Default.asp
PS BOC Drivers do get paid very well.
Check out current jobs on offer at
http://www.bocjobs.com/UK/Default.asp
PS BOC Drivers do get paid very well.
You will need the correct license category, 1 week course should do it.
Driver CPC
ADR for carrying potentially explosive/flammable cargo.
pay sounds fair enough, always more money for multidrop and ADR. Some of the drivers in our place are getting in the region of 40-45k.
ETA I doubt you would get taken on straight after your test doing ADR work, would think they prefer a couple of years experience first.
Driver CPC
ADR for carrying potentially explosive/flammable cargo.
pay sounds fair enough, always more money for multidrop and ADR. Some of the drivers in our place are getting in the region of 40-45k.
ETA I doubt you would get taken on straight after your test doing ADR work, would think they prefer a couple of years experience first.
Edited by soda on Thursday 17th March 00:30
I did it for BOC about 12 years ago, I got in because I was one of very few at that time with an ADR licence was driving a 7.5t.
This was delivering cellar gas and collecting empties and connecting, I had to do a driving test with a senior BOC Guy which involved a drive from London to Swindon and doing the drops paperwork and also giving a running commentary at all times back to London.
The cylinders for pub gas are fairly light some are aluminium but when swapping in/out approx 150~180 the weight is substantial the trolleys are not much use in London and is a pain when you can't park next to the pub/cellar not only that you had to where white shirt and tie and generally were told not to ask the pub staff to help sometimes hauling cylinders through busy pubs was a pain and at Christmas/st paddys day the running around was a killer, then back at the yard you had to unload your own load and reload, most blokes helped in this regard, but if you were last back it was all down to you.
Some of the guys were wearing a radioactive belt of some description to see how much strain their bodies were under.
My shoulders used to kill me after a day of delivery including lower back. I used to work in heavy steel industry before (RSJ's Ubeams)and found that work lighter. Seem to remember had to do one sat a month.
All in all, I hated it.
Oh and don't drag the cylinders on the ground BOC hated that as it wore the bottoms out to quickly.
This was delivering cellar gas and collecting empties and connecting, I had to do a driving test with a senior BOC Guy which involved a drive from London to Swindon and doing the drops paperwork and also giving a running commentary at all times back to London.
The cylinders for pub gas are fairly light some are aluminium but when swapping in/out approx 150~180 the weight is substantial the trolleys are not much use in London and is a pain when you can't park next to the pub/cellar not only that you had to where white shirt and tie and generally were told not to ask the pub staff to help sometimes hauling cylinders through busy pubs was a pain and at Christmas/st paddys day the running around was a killer, then back at the yard you had to unload your own load and reload, most blokes helped in this regard, but if you were last back it was all down to you.
Some of the guys were wearing a radioactive belt of some description to see how much strain their bodies were under.
My shoulders used to kill me after a day of delivery including lower back. I used to work in heavy steel industry before (RSJ's Ubeams)and found that work lighter. Seem to remember had to do one sat a month.
All in all, I hated it.
Oh and don't drag the cylinders on the ground BOC hated that as it wore the bottoms out to quickly.
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