Juddian:
Carryfast:
The experience issue is a toxic requirement that isn’t consistent with claims of a ‘driver shortage’ and which can damage the career opportunities of decent prospective employees.The idea of a ‘CV’ is all about pandering to that situation.Everyone deserves a fair chance without bs pecking orders and the ‘experience’ issue standing in their way.
Applications should be viewed in good faith on the basis that it’s a decent driver until proven otherwise and no need for any bs CV in that process.Which is fine so long as you are the employer and prepared to hand your £100k to £200k outfit to some unknown with no previous, just cos its his turn? and won’t be worried when bod can’t be arsed to turn up several days every now or milks the sick pay and then and when he is there he wrecks the thing and ■■■■■■ the customers off, specialist bodies in particular a middling dent might cost £10k+ and 6 weeks off the roads to fix, not all damage is a £10 rubbolite fitting or a £80 curtain patch, you OK with footing such bills?
A mate some years ago had to show some half wit supposed to be replacing him the run he was doing, his night with the bod frightened the living daylights out of him, the proverbial never be a driver as long as has a hole in his arse.
Once out on his own said clown, who couldn’t cope with a manual box destroyed a clutch, replacement vehicle (possibly the next night) he burnt the clutch out too and when they eventually recovered the load, they found unrestrained undelivered cages strewn all over the floor and the fridge turned off and the product melted all over the deck, presumably still ok so long as its his turn for a job eh?Some outfits do become training grounds for the industry, entirely the fault of that operator no one else, usually headed by some twerp who will almost certainly have uttered the immortal phrase ‘‘i can get drivers ten a penny’’, heard those very words once at a so called drivers meeting he called from the then boss, that would been around '92 and have watched with satisfaction over the years how he’s had to eat those words time and again.
Let’s get this right history has seen instances of everything from drunk and incapable drivers to suicidally deranged drivers, to criminal drivers who’ll nick a truck and its load.
To drivers with bent licences which sounds like your example.
So do we close the whole industry down to all new unknown drivers on that basis.When the ‘experienced’ ‘trusted’ pool runs out that’s it no more ?.
Ironically a CV, like all of the ‘experience’ issue, is just an opportunity for the worst to get in based on bs and lies.
So a driver honestly says no experience, or long term unemployed/sick so no references, why should that automatically mean the premise of the worst.
Isn’t that exactly where we are now.
Employers whingeing about a driver shortage and not enough new drivers to replace those retiring and drivers rightly moaning about being denied opportunities based on the employers false premises and fears.