I wanted to be a driver like you but it didn't happen. I drove a lorry for a bit during my training and I must say it scared the shit out of me. Not for me. But you guys have my deepest respect for doing this job. Stay safe.

I ride a motorbike daily. One thing I always make sure to do is respect the truckers. Not only because a collision for me would be lethal, but because I can't image how difficult this job is when bikers try to tuck and sneak in and out. Nice work mate.

As a former forktruck driver & instructor who unloaded artics, I always greatly admired the skills of the drivers. But seeing videos of their daily driving skills takes my admiration to the highest level. You guys deserve every penny you earn! EVERY car driver should watch these videos, and learn to give HGV drivers MORE consideration than they usually do.

You sound so chilld bro x) This kind of work looks incredibly stressful to me, you guys are legends and - thanks to channels like yours - I treat HGVs differently now when I'm drving my wee car.

started store delivery in in march, straight after passing, and I love it. 5 drops a morning in a double decker, the challenge keeps it interesting for me and I'm lucky enough to have a job where the hours are very good. nice video as well, going through your other videos now!

Just finished after 50 years of HGV driver. Treat like a Dog and spoken to like an Animal. Best of luck its not the Job it use to be. 4 on 4 off, you only get a weekend off every 6 weeks. Your always at work when your family and friends are off. and your wrong Tanker Drivers earn a lot more than Delivery Drivers, And even that gone down by about £8 an Hour.

Nice video and well handled. I do store deliveries for Aldi on both single and double decker trailers and it can definitely be super stressful. Most of the time we have to manoeuvre in tight busy carparks, often having to jackknife the trailers round the building on the blindside. If you don't kill someone it's a bonus 😅.

Well done raul, you are a great hgv driver, I am a lorry driver as well and the general public have no idea how stressful it can be sometimes,thank you for showing us some of the challenges that we face on the daily basis

This driver is chilled….. The rules are to read your notes..HOWEVER….if he’d of got out and asked once on site,the job would of been easy. Sometimes we all mess up,the key is to keep calm and not spiral out of control. A Cup of Tea always resets your brain. Excellent Video 👏🏻

Great video mate and well done on being so relaxed in what can be stressful situations..

Fantastic Raul thank you for an insight into your life

Another awesome video. When I am going to places never went before, always check on google maps satellite and street view. This is our life :)

I did Aldi Coulsdon and the instruction was to call an hour before arrival. I did this but the girl I spoke to didnt pass the message on. It turns out that they need this time to put cones out in the carpark as you have to drive into the car park and screw right around to get onto the bay. So when I turned up there was a line of cars parked across the turning circle. Ended up waiting until each one had loaded their shopping then put a road cone in that space, then sit back in the cab until the next one came out and repeat for about 15 cars. Then get on the bay, tip yourself, put 33 pallets in a space big enough for 10 pallets and job done.

This probably gets easier with experience but as a normal car driver, this just looks so difficult. I always respect bus drivers for being able to navigate such a large box on narrow roads with all the parked cars. But HGVs are on another level with the joint and having to reverse with it. Even if i had the ability, this job would stress me out too much.

Great video again. It would be nice to see some outside loading and on loading as well if you can . Thanks love the videos

Not me thinking I could do this easily cause I play a lot of ETS 2 :D But you're a very relaxed driver and easy going content, thanks for your work

I work for Screwfix and I feel your pain. Some of the places they send us are so challenging but it makes you a better driver. Enjoy your videos and stay safe

Nice video Raul you seem a relaxed sort of guy who takes things in your stride wish I was like you when I’m driving trucks

Getting my license soon so it's cool to have some insight! Thanks man.

This guys funny. He's so chilled 😂

As a Sheffielder, Hillsborough is such a pain to drive in. So many bus gates and one way systems. I get annoying just driving in a standard car to hats off to you!

I drove an artic and I absolutely loved it. I would love to do it part time on the weekend or whenever I'm free. It's such a joy, and the size feels incredible. The only thing I don't like is when you drive in unfimiliar areas where the roads can get narrow or blocked completely by road works. Than can be stressful because you're constantly worried about getting stuck.

Food service was the worst work I've ever done. When you turn up to a pub in the middle of a small town, nowhere to park so you completely block the road, with a full cage of loose bottles of spirits that you can't push up to the door because there's no dropped kerb and they just sit there watching you make 20 trips cos you can only carry 4 bottles at a time. Sometimes 15 hour shifts. No help, just throw the keys at you with no idea where you'll be going. Fuck that shit.

I Always admire the HGV drivers who make our stock deliveries. Watching them drive such a large and sometimes long vehicle makes me nervous!. Thanks for this insightful video!

This is exactly the kind of content that i've been looking for. Keep going!

I would call you chilled too. Excellent job matem❤

Nicely done bro ! Calm & level headed wins the day.. 👌👌👌👌

Class driving and reversing Raul

You make it look so easy, I love watching these! I'm sure it's not easy though, you just have the skill :)

love this man

Thankyou....Allways good.

I did some shifts for poundland. Never again! Those pallets full of drinks are a killer to pull with the pump truck, and some of the staff won't help, they just watch you. To be honest I'll probably go back to using my PCV licence now, as I'm sick of being lied to and messed around by agencies.

You randomly popped up into my recommended and you are in MOLD, my childhood town I grew up in. I’m so shocked

I'm a store driver. £49,700 for a 40 hour week. Handling 200+ kg roll cages on and off a tail lift. Reversing into busy car parks. We had a new starter recently, 1st day totalled 2 cars. It was also his last day. That's life. Survival of the fittest.

Really good reversing x

Awesome vlog, Man. I would lose my mind doing store deliveries.

I wish I was you, you're so good, so calm. You make it look easy

Really enjoying your videos.

Ive had to call ahead a few times, usually in greater london when security have to lift a gate for you to drive under a store, a real pain in the arse when they dont answer! Great to see your channel growing so fast! Im hoping my channel blows up soon too! All the best 👍

I unload these things quite often at my store and every time I'm stood there thinking I wish I was driving it.. We are lucky our yard has had three wagons innit before, brilliant access.. I cant imagine the others are as easy as ours. Tipped a whole trailer of cages and pallets in 23minutes the other day. New record

Thanks raul .. allways enjoy your videos

You are an excellent driver.

Job well done. I don't miss multi-dropping or doing store deliveries. Got it easy now on nights just going to the hub in the midlands then back to South Wales

My favourite was a reverse across six lanes of traffic in the rush hour, in the dark and usually raining, on Golders Green Road.

My absolute nightmare job haha - I can barely parallel park. Respect to you guys.

superb!!!! champion!!! you are fantastic.

Enjoyed the video chap..Excellent

That impressed me.... I was nervous for you.

Nice video. I did almost 4 years milk deliveries in and around London. Mainly Asda and Morrisons. Good experience because i use to start afternoon and didn’t get so much traffic. I didn’t get any assistance from staff but can’t complain to much.

Great video mate. Keep up the good work 👍

Great vid! Some brilliant reversing skills too lol

Take my hat off to you. You've just gained a subscriber!

I always go onto Google maps, find where the best way is, then put the exact spot on my satnav. Never fails!

Amazing vid as always. I will however stick up for not answering the phone, gone are the days when managers/supervisors are 100% in the office, they are shelf stacking, on the tills etc. Used to work for Spar a long time ago as an assistant manager and there would be only 3 of us in store majority of the time, if the floor was busy there was no-one out back. Then again shite managers and supervisors at other stores probably were which clouded your expectations of an answer. But drivers would always get a cuppa and something from the food to go section at my store.

This is incredibly relaxing

Great video mate 👍🏽

Excellent video, respect!

I've always been impressed by how truckies can reverse a trailer into those spots. I can't even reverse a small box trailer with my car. I thought our Aussie streets were narrow in cities, but boy those streets look barely wide enough for your truck.

i was just thinking as you reversed out the gate to turn "well that's how the gate got damaged " 😂😂😆 then you said it

wow the city is spotless very clean

Take my hat off to you guys, i couldn't do it. I'm not a professional driver but i do a lot of miles and hate every single one of them. On another note, saw an artic reverse into a really tight gap the other day, super tight, driver done it in one with cars and obstacles all around him and he done it in seconds. He got out and looked about 14 years old! Well done mate, be a tough world without you guys.

Used to do the iceland store on the right handside as you reversed in at night and tight as hell. On the first drop as lock and drop

I have a class 1 license, passed in 1997. Boy these trucks are so quiet and easy with automatic now! I had a spl;itter and a range change to contend with and sometimes double de-clutching too, it's a different world, would love to drive a modern truck now, tempting.. I have no CPC though, I passed before that was a thing.

big up sheffield!

Worst store deliveries I’ve ever done are the express/smaller stores in towns. Got told to get there at 6am as the car park will be empty at that time. Backed it onto the bay, they were short staffed so one guy on his own unloading and me, took over 2 hours to tip. By the time I got back into the cab, car park was full, barely any room to get out and lots of SUVs.

Good work bro, keep health bro

Couldn't handle this at all personally, I got my class 1 but ended up ditching it within months. Got my PSV license instead and ow with less than 2 years experience I am already doing international coach holidays all summer, double manned and staying in hotels every night with full breakfast and meal paid for. Personally I like interacting with all the passengers, know some would rather work alone with their own space which is the only benefit I can see for HGV driving nowadays (with even this compromised with full time trampers having their cabs given to agency drivers on days off.)

I do store deliveries too and I felt your pain on the second drop. Risk assessment says reverse in, but you could have easily drove in and turned inside haha. But no where to stop and go in and check first. All my drops are pains in the arse like this 🤣

How the hell did I get here? One minute I was watching Osprey chicks on Loch Garten and the next minute I'm here. Well, after watching this fantastic, super interesting video I'm well and truly down another rabbit hole. You've clearly got the perfect temperament for this fascinating job, nice an calm with a touch of humour. Fantastic upload and fantastic commentary, cheers Raul, subbed.

Superb driving hats off to you sir 👍👍😃😃

Im going to school soon for this work, gonna be fun.

8:11 With a 4 On 4 Off rotation you get 3 Weekends On, 3 Weekends Off and 2 Weekends with a split On/Off Off/On.

The stressful bit is when other cars don’t want to wait and let you turn…..they try to get in between you or come in behind you when you are reversing….so you have to constantly look and wait and stop for them which takes longer and eventually holds up more traffic

I do store deliveries for Aldi. Day work. Its an easy job, 1 run with 1 store in the Moring and one run with 1 or 2 stores on the same trailer in the late morning/early afternoon. Self tip at store which is easy enough and load any empties on. Hardest part but you get use to it and becomes normal is some of the bays, a lot in small tight car parks and blind sides. Some cant handle the reversing and have wrecked cars but it is what it is, if your not comfortable with tight reverses its not for you. im doing about 40k-45k a year with minimal hours compared to the typical "HGV Driver hours" and I work 5 on 3 off.

Liked this. Subbed 😊

Used to deliver to that part of Sheffield for Warburtons in a class 2, wish they gave us delivery instructions like you, we just had to figure it out for ourselves, horrendous.

Skills!!

great video and worth a sub!

So funny hearing your accent mixed with Welsh 😂

I work at that same poundland depot in Ashton-in-Makerfield as forklift driver😂 it's a small world lol

Nice to have proper mirrors a lot of our wagons have the digital mirrors they are very bad

Raul great content.If you don't mind, please share the consequences of having a small touch or a dent to a some ones car? how the company will handle it? any consequesnces for the driver? (of course consider no one is hurt!, just the damage to property) and what are the learnings if you have any, would greatly help. I am nearly an year old now into this. Lots of respect from Leicester.

That second drop was tight with those traffic lights, but textbook manoeuvres.

We, didn't have instructions, mate, we did by instinct, but your a good driver! .

Best deliveries are always the ones where they stand and watch you spend 10 minutes reversing in to a tight yard, then they tell you they want it on the other bay right on the other side of the store.

I haven't done store deliveries since I started driving trucks for a fish factory. And that was only in a rigid. It didn't pay well so I went on to HGV for a mining company and after 5 years to DG long haul work. The mines and DG pay really well but you have too learn too live in the truck for weeks at a time.

Used to do High Street deliveries on contract to Spring Ram delivering bathroom suites to all the diy stores....and no we never got paid more..limited hours to deliver to stores..9-5...some even closed at 3.30..job was crap..all hand ball..used to do London west side no place to park

Gives me PTSD ! Had 1 place i had to go to fairly regular and i never knew how many cars would be in the car park i had to reverse trhrough, really tight entrance with old buildings where the second floor was wider than the first, the overhang was invisible in the mirrors and my left leg was shaking coz of the long slow reverse. My heart was racing before i even got there with the stress and anticipation. Then when tipped the exit would be blocked as someone "just nipped into the shop" for 20 mins !!"

I was like “I recognise that street” then I heard you say Mold and I was like “holy shit that’s where I used to live”

I work for Aldi. Some of our stores are a challenge because we go in through the car park

When did Arnold schwarzenegger do class one driving lol love the video dude

Love my 4 on 4 off. Morrisons used to work me to the bone 60 hour weeks, 4 on 4 off now doing milk tankers and it's so much better, I can do 4, 5 or 6 days if I wish. Book 4 days holiday get 12 days off. Best shift in the world

I just watch for the journey 🙂

Hillsborough Barracks, you probably could have span round in there if there been no other trucks in there. I deliver to the door in the corner for the fireplace shop

Good driveing as a driver myself this can be so stressfull not knowing where the store entrance is.

Passed my Cat C theory(s) the other day and hazard perception, just got to get me the practical training now but until then I'm stuck with driving a van although I am looking forward to upgrading it. These videos are encouraging! :)

It's not just haulage industry, the jobs that are hard to fill are generally payed better than other just to try & fill the roles

I seen this thumbnail and I was thinking that's the road into my hometown... And it was! I've never watched any hgv videos before and KZfaq recommends one that was filmed in my small hometown. Very odd

I did stobart tesco just after I passed my class 1. I can drive a rigid anywhere but sadly I don't think I'll ever drive an artic again. Oh, and that looks like sheff- I binned there for 12 months.

Nice driving. I thought it is only me sweating when reversing in tight spaces 😅