Part time 360 driver jobs?

hoff135

Member
Location
scotland
Not really ag, but wondering if someone was to go do their cpcs and I think also cscs tickets would there be any firms looking for drivers for days here and there? Or maybe a week here and there?

I have done 1000s of hours in my own tractors and in diggers but mostly 6ton or under but I've no experience on sites really.

I know some do work through agencies and get paid good money buy get sent all over the country which I don't really want.

Is this possible?

Thanks
 

Romeogolf

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
You’re a different part of the country to me, but round here digger drivers are in high demand. I do a lot of business with plant and construction, and whilst drivers are sought after, there is a huge difference between digger drivers and good operators. Trying to gain experience on bigger stuff is hard, because someone has to let you work on your skills but no body wants to pay labour whilst you do it.
My advice is to knock a lot of doors in your desired area, be prepared to show you can drive well, and if need be offer yourself on trial to get in. If you can impress the right man, you’ll never be short of work.
 

hoff135

Member
Location
scotland
Thanks. Looks like I'm losing a part time tractor driving job in the near future through no fault of my own so would be nice to get something else to replace it and I'd like to gain experience in the construction industry.
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
It might have changed a bit now, but knowing how to drive a digger and knowing how to operate it on site are 2 different things. You probably need to start at the bottom and I'm not sure you can do that on a casual basis.
Then as you say the good 'temps' obviously have to travel to the job.
If you only have experience on the small stuff perhaps going labourer/operator for a ground work / drain laying company would be better. Its not really part time though.
You need your tickets to work on site too don't you?
Would you not be better sticking to the tractors and just find another customer.
 

hoff135

Member
Location
scotland
It might have changed a bit now, but knowing how to drive a digger and knowing how to operate it on site are 2 different things. You probably need to start at the bottom and I'm not sure you can do that on a casual basis.
Then as you say the good 'temps' obviously have to travel to the job.
If you only have experience on the small stuff perhaps going labourer/operator for a ground work / drain laying company would be better. Its not really part time though.
You need your tickets to work on site too don't you?
Would you not be better sticking to the tractors and just find another customer.
Well I'm going to do the cpcs ticket anyway if its not possible to get a start somewhere on a 360 then that's just too bad I guess.
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
Well I'm going to do the cpcs ticket anyway if its not possible to get a start somewhere on a 360 then that's just too bad I guess.
Not saying you can't do it, I'm sure you can, its just that its a whole new industry that you need to learn. It takes a bit of time to figure out how everything works.
 

hoff135

Member
Location
scotland
Not saying you can't do it, I'm sure you can, its just that its a whole new industry that you need to learn. It takes a bit of time to figure out how everything works.
Yes its all new, I'd like to learn about it but I can understand no one wants to train up someone just to cover days here and there.
 

Guiggs

Member
Location
Leicestershire
Problem when you get a start on a site is the firms on there seem to be very clique and a lot of the blokes don't want a new bloke/ someone they don't know to spoil there little number or possibly show them up and so will make the job as uncomfortable for you as they can and possibly actively try and get you gone!
 

Pan mixer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Near Colchester
Having looked at some building sites around the place it wouldn't be hard to show up some of the characters 'working' there at present.

Mate has to pay £300 a day per man to get a bricky gang to even show up, drivers the same he says.

Wondering about doing my tickets too, only problem is that I haven't got time to spare to do the actual work.
 
Not really ag, but wondering if someone was to go do their cpcs and I think also cscs tickets would there be any firms looking for drivers for days here and there? Or maybe a week here and there?

I have done 1000s of hours in my own tractors and in diggers but mostly 6ton or under but I've no experience on sites really.

I know some do work through agencies and get paid good money buy get sent all over the country which I don't really want.

Is this possible?

Thanks
Get tickets get registered with a few agencies you will have as much work as you want £25/hour
 
25 quid an hour, local, casual work with no site experience?
That's good work if you can get it, is that what you do?
No but I’ve a few friends in the plant job operators are like rocking horse sh!t
Hs2 £22/hour general labour
Good dozer driver £30/hr plus expenses
Big changes in plant hire fuel going white April
Machine prices going through the roof last 14 ton excavators I bought new in 2007 37k now 80 plus k
 

kiwi pom

Member
Location
canterbury NZ
No but I’ve a few friends in the plant job operators are like rocking horse sh!t
Hs2 £22/hour general labour
Good dozer driver £30/hr plus expenses
Big changes in plant hire fuel going white April
Machine prices going through the roof last 14 ton excavators I bought new in 2007 37k now 80 plus k
It's the same here, plenty of jobs going but there's definitely 2 sides to it.
All the employers saying they can't get staff and there's a fortune to be made but often a lot of potential employees saying there's no decent jobs, the big money talk often has a big catch.
 

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