A short shift - ASDA Delivery Driving

Van driving - Delivery driver - ASDA home delivery

**THIS VIDEO IS NOT ENDORSED BY ASDA IN ANY WAY**

First video on this channel, welcome! Join me as I work my multi-drop delivery driver job in the company van delivering food to customers. This is what a typical half a shift looks like as due to low demand there was only enough for half a run! If you like POV driving, this is the place to be!

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[paulwaters]

Hey, so I’m an Ocado Driver and have been for almost 3 years, our delivery radius is MASSIVE! But this is because we don’t have stores and deliver from depots and obviously have far less depots that other supermarkets have stores, so I can do anything up to 250 miles on my route, I do ten hour days 4 days a week, driving the whole time, the major difference and I would say advantage to Ocado drivers over other supermarkets is that we don’t load our vans, we arrive, get told what van reg we are in and the departure time and then find our van, do our van checks and then leave, I do Am’s start at 5.30 and finish at 3.30

[Leehuss]

Full respect too ALL the delivery drivers out there. Yes if you see scenery its beautiful but like someone mentioned climbing up flats with loads is very hard.

With the COVID19 pandemic it showed how important and VITAL you are to elderly and disabled people..

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[OSGARIA]

Hey, cool video! I'm also an Asda driver haha. I've only been doing it for 3 months so far, but it's the best job I've had, far less stress than my previous jobs! At our store, we go out really far, delivering to mid Wales all the way out to the coast. Will probably keep doing this job for quite a while I think, driving is a lot more chill than working in store imo :)

[raymondhunt]

We have had Asda deliveries for a few years now and the driver's are always pleasant and in the time frame.
We live in rural North Wales and the vans have to travel 40 miles from the nearest delivery store.
I did van sales for 10 years and loved it in the days you weren't tracked like today's drivers are.
Good luck.

[DezireSnipess]

I’ve not long done my class 1, been driving since April, best thing I’ve done I love it, have bad days and good days, just have to have a lot more thought before going down roads you think are tight etc…best thing I’ve been taught from my dad since he’s done it all his life, is make sure you can get out before you go in good luck mate

[olliegreaves]

Well done for actually taking the labels of the totes hahaha

[tonyjoe]

I used to asda driving, but we used mainly back loaders then. Much better when it rained and you didn't lose any labels. We were also allowed to ring the customer and deliver early if customer was OK with it.

[martinw]

I'm an Iceland delivery driver. I've only been doing the job for 2 months but it's so much better than working in any shop. I say that with 8 years of retail experience under my belt. Personally, I find the customers so much nicer, and easier to talk to and I never do the same route twice. Yes, I deal with the same areas, but I'm very lucky as I don't have to deal with flats.

As for the delivery aspect, all the information I need is either on the gun or on a sheet of paper that gives me the names and addresses of the customers. although we have a new system coming in this week which doesn't show the customer name and only shows it as the order number, making it easier for the drivers to short deliveries and easier to load and unload them.

[AdeleWildrose]

Got an interview for this tomorrow…am a teacher looking for new ways to make a living! Great video, thanks 😊

[christopherharris]

I’m working there in Asda and totally love it have nice customers and some not so nice great management and awesome company to drive for

[KrazyMudkip]

I worked for ASDA as a delivery driver up in the Scottish Highlands, I no longer work there, as I left to go work on lorries (as you mentioned you hope to do potentially!) The job itself was alright, one of the major drawbacks though was the unpredictable pattern of hours, I was using it as my full time job, and once we've completed our runs for the day, we're expected to help in store, however it's more like being told to go home early as they don't train us on in-store procedures.
What ends up happening is you'll have two choices, Go back to the store hours early and get told to go home and finish, or sit in a layby until 10pm comes around, both of which were never ideal.

Benefits of it? Being in the Scottish highlands, Our first delivery could be more than 2 and a half hours away, in a day, doing 250-350 miles daily is not out of the norm. So if you enjoy driving, it was a good gig.
Overall we cover the entirety of the North East & General north area of the Scottish Highlands so its a very VAST area.

But for all it is, I did it during COVID as was made redundant at the beginning of the pandemic, it bid me over until I could obtain my Class 1 and obtained a role in the industry.

[memerion]

Former Ocado driver here. Funnily enough this video popped up for me the day after I left. Think my spoke had a radius of at least 80 miles and on average I'd be doing like 60 miles in a day, but the most I did in a day was maybe like 140 miles, excluding the days where I got sent to other spokes that were in other parts of the country.
It's definitely not a job for everyone and it has it's pros and cons. I personally enjoyed the driving and exploring as before I hadn't really gotten out of London much but the actual delivering part takes a toll on you, any fellow CSTMs can probably relate to driver notes being like "dani off, terrible parking, 3rd floor no lift" and it's like 4 heavy totes you have to take up.

[peaches]

Interviewing for this role in a different country and tips love the videos

[The_Alchemist__]

•taken away driver monthly incentives for excellent driving
•taken away bags making the deliveries longer and harder
•taken away the yearly bonus
•the vans used to be loaded by the service crew before start of shift now the drivers load the vans themselves.
•7 deliveries an hour sometimes
•accept orders for addresses regardless of weather the van can access the address or not.

[evilbobukk]

Tesco driver hear.
Day shift for us is 9h, 4h run 1h break and 5h run.
Van is loaded in morning for us but we load it our self at launch time and at end of shift for the next evening drivers run.
On average 9h shift it's about 30 drops.

[hayleyb]

Oh wow your from my town i recognise that home bargains / aldi! Im gonna watch this channel loads now

[PeterDunford-iv]

From asda Grimsby we travel as far as 30 to 40 miles From store around an hours journey.

[stevieg]

Great video buddy. Always wondered, do the delivery totes/boxes get washed often?

[konemseries]

We have Asda each week. They drive around 30-40 miles to us round the coast. I suspect Norfolk is one place the drivers will like due to the nice countryside. Always have had friendly drivers deliver to us and the mid week delivery pass is a bargain for us as we couldn’t drive to the nearest supermarket and back in fuel for that.

[Hunterhunter]

I had my interview today for asda delivery driver. I thought id come on youtube to see what its like and this is the first video that came up. I was surprised to see you here because you’re in my civil engineering class at trent 🤣. Ive never spoken to you tho