Star Track Special Services

Over the seven and a half years that I have lived here, I've worked at, or for star track express. I've had quite a few different jobs and have slowly made my way to where I am now. I guess I've just fallen into the work here actually. I started with an outside hire company when i first arrived and they sent me to Discount freight express, where I had to sort out pallets and pallets of mattel toys. After a few months they had used us for what they wanted, and we were no longer needed, but I had struck up a friendship with the guy in charge and he goes to me, come over to us and work for me, so being comfy where I was I swapped on over. As this happened the company also changed names to Star Track Express and we moved premises. I was a casual, but they had me in charge of three of the accounts and sorting the freight for them, after awhile when it was slow, they didnt want to pay me for all the hours I was doing, so I got moved to freight handle for the drivers. Funny thing is though, I ended up doing more hours there, as they wanted me to go out driving and delivering freight. The first few times I went out I was very cautious as I wasn't used to driving more than a car, even though the truck I drove was on a car license. I remember driving down Parramatta road and getting squeezed by bigger trucks and thinking I would get hit and so I would move further over and there the fun started, I smashed a mirror on a pole on the side of a road. Have you ever tried to drive a truck with a missing mirror? Not alot of fun let me tell you.

After awhile of doing this one of the drivers left and his job was advertised, and no one wanted his run, so I talked to the manager and said, pay for my license, give me a brand new truck and let me take my holidays when I want and I will do it for you and he came to the party and gave me everything I asked for. I did this for a year, when my supervisor left and so I had to fill in and do his job for a few months until they advertised the job. I applied, but it was given to another guy and I had to work under him. I lasted about a month before I got sick of having to help him and one day I saw my old boss and walked into the office where he was and I knew a few of the guys there and go " have you got a job for me" Seems as though there was a job there, and so I had a look. A few days later while walking in, the guy in charge of the job, waves me into the office and goes to me " have you put in for the job yet" I said no, so he gets me a form and says fill this in and hand it in. I do this and a few days later I get a phone call from my old boss telling me I got the job. 11 other guys applied for the job as well, and they gave it to me without an interview, Sometimes you just fall into the job.

My new job is Special services, we get all the jobs the other guys can't handle. We do alot of computer deliveries, some including million dollar computer racks, that you have to be very careful of, or straight out the door. Some days are great and some aren't so crash hot.

Below is a few pics from this week.

Here we have one of our trucks filled up with chairs from our head office, we had to pick them up and bring them back to work, then the next morning a few of us had to turn up at 5am to unload them, put them on pallets and then wrap them. Much better to sit on I think.

The finished product, lets just hope I don't drop them.

Yes I do have a license. haha

I had to deliver a wine rack to this private address and when I arrived there wasn't anyone in sight, but there were about 50 ducks and various other birds. Boy did that place stink.

This day I had a pretty easy day and had three hours to kill, so seeing as though I was out the northern beaches way I thought I would pop up to palm beach and see what it was like. Home and Away is filmed in palm beach, but flaming Alf was out of the country. I actually went to whale beach for a look, but the beaches were closed for dangerous surf conditions. It's pretty tight to get there in a truck.

A load of postie bikes, got to love delivering these and especially the new CBR's. Was good to go out there and sometimes catch up with Steph or Eden if he was working in the area. Also in the picture are interactive white boards for the schools, seems lately its all we've been doing along with grays online. Probably been at school more lately, than when I was in college. I'm just kidding mum.