Casual Car Driver
Immingham Docks
As a casual car driver, my duties were to discharge and backload brand new vehicles from Manufacturers such as BMW, Mini, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia, Toyota, Volvo, and Opel Astra cars/Vivaro Vans onto RO/RO ships for export and import. I also discharged Volvo/Scania tractor units, Rigid trucks and bus/fire engine rolling chassis and on a monthly basis, I would voluntarily backload end-of-life fleet HGV’s/Buses for export to Namibia. During my time at DFDS Seaways, I gained more in-depth knowledge of terminal operations on Immingham Docks and the logistics sector in general. On some shifts, I would be selected to drive the crew minibuses and I would ensure the minibuses were safe and roadworthy by completing pre-shift checks and submitting them to the Team leader. Sometimes whilst on shift, I also would be required to cover gate duties to ensure security was maintained on the docks at all time whilst the vehicles would be taken over to the other areas of the docks from the compound. Before DFDS terminated the Deep-Sea Kia vessel contract, I would undertake rigging duties on the ships to ensure all lashings were un-done ready to discharge the vehicles.