INSIGHT TRANS LOGISTICS LTD

Just to bring people up to date who may have formed opinions about this company from historical 2nd hand “truckstop whispers”. There are good opportunities with this company for drivers looking for varied, sometimes challenging work across Europe. We are gaining a growing reputation as low loader specialists and are investing heavily in trucks and specialist trailers. We will be adding more FH500s to our fleet through 2017, and phasing out the MAN tractor units that have given us huge problems with reliability - but everything takes a little time. Currently drivers on low loader work are earning £600-£700 a week gross. Interested? email address is info@itltransport.com

Take a look at the company Facebook page.

TOBY!!!.. :smiley:

Good to see a company acknowledge it had problems and go about improving itself. Similar happened in Ireland, a company that oncee had worst fleet on the road has in 10 years what many consider Irelands best now. Those Doll trailers are lovely. I might tap you up for some part time work :wink:

Insight was called Keys transport then Phoenix transport .

Not quite accurate, Both Key Transport and Pheonix Transport were Gibraltan companies, Key held the Gibraltan Operators Licence, while Pheonix were the company administrating the loads. Steve actually traded as Avon Commercials, before moving away from Bidford and re-starting the business as Insight - over 12 years ago, so all past history now.

64Andrewb:
…Currently drivers on low loader work are earning £600-£700 a week gross…

Out of interest, is this a good / bad / average wage nowadays for low loader work around Europe? I would imagine that there is night out money on top plus weekend rate etc. Im just curious to what others think as I have been out of driving for a while. No axe to grind, just a genuinely curious question. Cheers.

It’s a shockingly low wage for the type of work.

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With the Keys/Phoenix aspect of the business, drivers would walk down Main street to Solek shipping to collect the running money for fuel/tolls in cash .
It was normal to tip Gib then drive all day to Valencia/Alicante to get a load back to the UK.
Some work involved tilt trailers, it would take a few hours to strip it down and rebuild it, to load it.
It could be a crane job, out of the roof, or convert the tilt in to a flat bed, which was fun in 45 degree heat of a Spanish summer .

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64Andrewb:
…Currently drivers on low loader work are earning £600-£700 a week gross…

Out of interest, is this a good / bad / average wage nowadays for low loader work around Europe? I would imagine that there is night out money on top plus weekend rate etc. Im just curious to what others think as I have been out of driving for a while. No axe to grind, just a genuinely curious question. Cheers.

I wouldn’t say it’s great, I take home just shy of £600 a week with 2 nights out in UK doing own account deliveries.

GBPub:
It’s a shockingly low wage for the type of work.

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Really? I only “came out of the cab” 5 years ago, nobody around this area pays anything like the rates that get banded around on here, especially for week -in, week-out, Monday to Friday work. With a consistent wage in the bank every Friday.

There are a large number of drivers, having left us, ask for their jobs back, so perhaps the grass isn’t that much greener on the other side??

How many other companies offer this variety of regular international work nowadays? The lifestyle doesn’t suit everybody, but all of our “better” drivers have been here a good few years.

Ltd drivers welcomed?

If you have anything based on glasgow give me a shout

Carco:
Ltd drivers welcomed?

Yes, email us on info@itltransport.com

Colin_scottish:
If you have anything based on glasgow give me a shout

Will do, thanks for your interest.

Hello Andrew, do you have any minimum requirements for prospective drivers? Specifically European driving

Are there any ‘cards’ as in qualifications you need these days to do long/ wide loads?

Thanks for your enquiries. No, there is no “extra” qualification required for driving heavy or abnormal loads, just steadily learning on the job. We don’t have any particular requirements for drivers, a “can do” attitude, and willingness to listen and learn are the most important qualities. We’ve plenty of the “been there, done that” brigade through our door over the years, turns out most of them can’t even fill in a CMR properly!!

Looks a pretty interesting job, but I hate those MAN trucks. Will have to remember you guys for in the future maybe if I feel the need to try Euro work and you have more Volvo’s as I live near you guys (Gloucester).

How long do you expect your drivers to be out? Im guessing a lot depends on contract/job.

Do you do much convoy work for people new to Euro work to be shepherded around?