Mick Bracewell:
Carryfast:
Everyone deserves a fair chance without bs pecking orders and the ‘experience’ issue standing in their way.Easy to say when you have no dog in the fight. I highly doubt you’d be saying that as the owner of quarter of millions pounds worth of kit that you’re looking for someone to drive. You have two applications on your desk, one from a newbie with no experience and one with 10 years experience doing the same type of work backed up with checkable references from former employers. You would take the experienced guy every time and I would call you a liar if you said otherwise.
How did the one with the 10 years experience get a start to gain his experience by your logic.
There’s a shortage why isn’t there enough work for both drivers experienced and new.
Also the experience issue doesn’t just apply to new drivers it applies when trying to move on to different types of work.
To the point where a driver with less than 5 years or even no experience gets the job over the driver with 10 years or more ‘experience’ just because the former was in the right place at the right time to be given the right start.
A new Hiab truck can be worth a lot more than a few years old unit on international traction in that regard.No surprise which job the ‘newbie’ or even not so newbie mug is expected to take.