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Good evening all,

Does anyone know what routes come out of freightliner Birmingham which I believe is intermodal?

I have read Leeds and Southampton. Also does anyone know what sort of shift times are in operation and how much weekend there is, I have been told there is very little roughly 1 in 6 weekends?

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There aren't any services from Birmingham flt to Leeds flt, just the Leeds -Southampton pass the terminal.
 
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Thanks for the replies.

So how would a route to Southampton work for a driver? For example looking at the departure today at 1548 arriving at Southampton 2054, that's over 5 hours in itself, would the driver then drive a train back too?
 
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bwlv9336 said:
Thanks for the replies.

So how would a route to Southampton work for a driver? For example looking at the departure today at 1548 arriving at Southampton 2054, that's over 5 hours in itself, would the driver then drive a train back too?
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On that particular one a Birmingham Driver takes it as far as Nuneaton and is relieved by an Eastleigh Driver who takes it to Eastleigh and is then relieved by another Eastleigh Driver who takes it to Southampton Maritime.
 
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Thank you Dieseldriver,

I'm just trying to build a picture of a typical shift. Birmingham to Nuneaton doesn't seem very far, what would the Birmingham driver do then?
 
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bwlv9336 said:
Thank you Dieseldriver,

I'm just trying to build a picture of a typical shift. Birmingham to Nuneaton doesn't seem very far, what would the Birmingham driver do then?
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No idea what the Birmingham Driver does before or after the trip to Nuneaton. There's not really a typical shift as such, at Freightliner Intermodal their turns range from 5 hours 30 to 11 hours and can contain any kind of work content booking on at any point in the day/night.
Some turns are easy going, some are packed full of intensive driving.
 
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Know a couple of the Birmingham jobs

One is

Birmingham - Leeds, taxi to Leeds Station the pass back. Think that is an 8 hour ?? Minutes job

Second one is

Taxi to Nuneaton (on at 04:00) then take the train to Wembley. PNB at Wembley then work one back to Lawley Street. Think that one is 10 hours 47 mins
 
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Know a couple of the Birmingham jobs

One is

Birmingham - Leeds, taxi to Leeds Station the pass back. Think that is an 8 hour ?? Minutes job

Second one is

Taxi to Nuneaton (on at 04:00) then take the train to Wembley. PNB at Wembley then work one back to Lawley Street. Think that one is 10 hours 47 mins
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Perfect, thank you.

All sounds very interesting. Would a driver learn and be assigned to one route repeatedly, or would you learn a couple? As the Wembley job could only be done 3 times per week by the same driver I presume to meet the 35 hour week?
 
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bwlv9336 said:
Perfect, thank you.

All sounds very interesting. Would a driver learn and be assigned to one route repeatedly, or would you learn a couple? As the Wembley job could only be done 3 times per week by the same driver I presume to meet the 35 hour week?
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It is unusual on either Pass or Freight to do an exact 35 hour week.

Some weeks you may do 50 hours, some weeks 20 or less.

Passenger work is supposed to even itself out over the roster (though it always seemed to be that the hours changed just after a run of long shifts) whereas Freight can be annualised hours. You are supposed to do a certain number of hours in a certain period - be it 3 months or 12 months.

On the above Wembley scenario I think that is a six day week with that job twice, the Leeds job, a slightly different Wembley job and two 5 and half hour jobs
 
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