Holy moly I can’t believe I bothered to read this whole thread. Mind I’m sat at home off sick twiddling my thumbs tonight.
PSTT has a great school and vehicles and staff and ethics. He also has a lot of pride in what he has built up.
He pays to be forum sponsor and offers a forum discount, ways does his best to price match, offers some good deals from time to time and even the odd competition to win something.
I trained there and would heartily recommend them to anyone as I have done before, where someone chooses to train is their choice.
ESL may have started at humble beginnings but they are a machine that churns out bull in such mass qty they don’t have even trucks to shift it all.
They probably make more money out of the spotters and paraphernalia than they do on the haulage side, as for trucks and trailers absolute tosh again trying to make them sound different or better than everyone else.
They are a faceless corporate organisation that only cares about money and profits.
Anyone who buys the ESL bull is brain washed by all the bull that is spouted and is no more than a cult like status, and as such anyone who is a ESL fanboi cannot be impartial, it’s is an impossibility.
I could not give two hoots about ESL other than to know I would rather stick a rusty spoon in my eye than work for them, let alone have them train me to drive a truck and pay for the privilege.
I only went to PSTT after recommendations on here, I was impressed with what I saw and the price and it was local so booked, if I lived further away maybe I would have gone elsewhere local, but Pete does have accomodation deal for people if they are travelling.
Pete’s is a local smaller business and I fully believe in backing smaller local business than a large corporate faceless business.
And I know all about Stobrat fanbois we have one works at our place, he sings there praises all the time, talking about what a fantastic company they are, how they are better than our place or others etc he truly has green tinted spectacles on.
It’s just like the Apple vs Android arguments every side has fanbois to a degree, just some people buy into the ethos of the bull ■■■■ they create.