A CON??????????

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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This agency advertised PERMAMENT jobs on job centre website yesterday at £550 per week plus o/t, n/o, so I e-mailed and got this back :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:

Alert Professionals

Thank you for your enquiry regarding LGV driving work.

I would be grateful if you could please complete the attached forms, and either email them back to myself or, send them by post. If you haven’t already done so could you also please send me copies of your driving license, digi tacho card, ADR (if you have one) and your passport or, proof of address and national insurance.

I would also ask if you could please ring DVLA on 09061 393 837 and leave permission for Alert Professional to carry out a license check.

Alert Professional is a professional recruitment department run by drivers who all have over 10 years experience on the road. You will have support from our experienced team leaders 24/7 to help you with any problems you may encounter.

At Alert you will never be asked to do anything illegal and in return we ask you to do the same.

All loads must be secure.

We also ask you to never speed or do more than 50mph on the motorway.

For anyone who goes tramping or has the odd night out we also require you to park in a secure location and not lay-bys as your safety is of the utmost importance to us.

All our drivers’ are OCRS (operators risk score complaint) and as such we run regular Driver CPC course on OCRS which counts as 14 hours towards your Driver CPC which we will require you to attend if you decide you wish to work with us. This is a 2 day course which is run at a total cost of £77.50 including VAT and upload fee’s. :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

The next course is being run on the 22nd and 23rd at our office in Leicester the address is below. Priority for work will be given to those who have completed their OCRS training. :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue:

If you have any further questions please feel free to contact any of the team here at Alert Professional.

Why do I smell a con■■?

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I smell a big turd!!!

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Smell a con? It’s like running on the spot in a wheel-barrow full of pig-[zb]!

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I thought OCRS was to do with company’s o licence not drivers.

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The way I read that is they expect you to have done 14 hours already?

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WONDER is ths the SAME peeps

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I saw it in my area yesterday.

Job No:

PEJ/29404
SOC Code:

8211
Wage

£550 Per Week
Hours

5 over 7 / 6 over 7
Location

KIRKBY STEPHEN, ■■■■■■■ CA17
Duration

Permanent
Date posted

06 March 2012
Pension details

No details held
Description

Professional LGV class CE and C required for depots throughout the United kingdom. Bulk Tanker Drivers, International Drivers, Container Drivers, Taut liners, Flat beds, and ADR. Must have no ore than 6 points on license. Nights, days, UK tramping and EU tramping 550 per week Monday to Friday. Saturday and Sunday overtime.
How to apply

You can apply for this job by telephoning 0116 2795116 and asking for James Cross.
Employer

Alert Professional LGV Training Ltd

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kr79:
I thought OCRS was to do with company’s o licence not drivers.

I was offered the same course - it’s definitely accredited as part of the drivers CPC & the prices were very good - this was quoted in the email I got back from them:

Cost of course:
£25 per day plus vat
Vat £5
£8.75 per day upload fee to the JAUPT

Total per day: £38.75
Total for the 2 days: £77.50

but having sent & returned a few emails it was obvious they were just getting bums on seats & I didn’t fancy the idea of going through two days of largely irrelevant stuff. Definitely no job at the end of it when I enquired (in February), they are just a training company as far as I can see. alertlgvtraining.co.uk/

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Almost exactly as the one I got from my alert by Job Center

LGV Driver

Job No:CAV/56407SOC
Wage£550 Per Week
Hours5 over 7 / 6 over 7
Location CASTLEFORD, West Yorkshire WF10
Duration Permanent
Date posted06 March 2012
Pension detailsNo details held
Description
Professional LGV class CE and C required for depots throughout the United kingdom. Bulk Tanker Drivers, International Drivers, Container Drivers, Taut liners, Flat beds, and ADR. Must have no ore than 6 points on license. Nights, days, UK tramping and EU tramping 550 per week Monday to Friday. Saturday and Sunday overtime.
How to apply
You can apply for this job by telephoning 0116 2795116 and asking for James Cross.
Employer
Alert Professional LGV Training Ltd

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I went down and registered last year with the promise of euro tramping. The firm was supposed to have been well known and it was paying £550 per week. I had regular texts from them offering the odd days work but the euro traming never came off. To had insult to injury, burst water pipe on the car on the way home from their place. Seemed nice people but don’t know if they can deliver on promises.

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> Blunder Man:
> Priority for work will be given to those who have completed their OCRS training. :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue:

Man it stinks in here for some reason :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Where are all the television documentary producers when you need 'em?

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If any of you want to complain to the Advertising Standards Authority.

Phone
Tel: 020 7492 2222

Post
Advertising Standards Authority Limited
Mid City Place
71 High Holborn
London
WC1V 6QT

On-line
ASA on-line complaints

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tachograph:
If any of you want to complain to the Advertising Standards Authority.

Phone
Tel: 020 7492 2222

Post
Advertising Standards Authority Limited
Mid City Place
71 High Holborn
London
WC1V 6QT

On-line
ASA on-line complaints

The job centre would be your first approach as they are advertising a position not a product.

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i had this prob when i was signing on, they used to ask me did you apply for this job and this one, eventually i lost my rag and said no i bloody didnt as there is no point, it might look like there are 40 lgv jobs as there on your site, but when you ring them it turns our there just agencies wanting to recruit but when you ask about the job advertised on job centre website they say oh that one has been filled. there all a con :imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :imp:

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This agency advertised PERMAMENT jobs on job centre website yesterday at £550 per week plus o/t, n/o, so I e-mailed and got this back :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:

Alert Professionals

Thank you for your enquiry regarding LGV driving work.

I would be grateful if you could please complete the attached forms, and either email them back to myself or, send them by post. If you haven’t already done so could you also please send me copies of your driving license, digi tacho card, ADR (if you have one) and your passport or, proof of address and national insurance.
What? So I can have my ID stolen? Where’s the address of your firm? The directors? Their landline geographic phone number?

I would also ask if you could please ring DVLA on 09061 393 837 and leave permission for Alert Professional to carry out a license check.
This costs £1.50 a minute! Even basic agencies make that call themselves when you turn up to sign up. DON’T pay their overheads for them! If you leave “power of attourney” type permission (not even sure if you can do this?!) then you are wide open to everyone and his dog being able to poll your DVLA details without further ado.

Alert Professional is a professional recruitment department run by drivers who all have over 10 years experience on the road. You will have support from our experienced team leaders 24/7 to help you with any problems you may encounter.
Are they? Let’s have some names of these 20+ years experience paragons of the highway then… Or are they actually drivers that failed some test along the way, lost their licences, or perhaps non-existant in the first place?
At Alert you will never be asked to do anything illegal and in return we ask you to do the same.
You’ll be expected to act illegal on your own initiative, but we’ll drop you if you don’t take the hints!

All loads must be secure.
All your wages are secure in our bank accounts. We might pay you the promised rates & hours one day, we might not.
We also ask you to never speed or do more than 50mph on the motorway.
Either we’ve only got supermarket work, or another haulier being limited & isotracked @ 56mph will have you shown the door if you start ■■■■■■■ around doing 50 all the time!
For anyone who goes tramping or has the odd night out we also require you to park in a secure location and not lay-bys as your safety is of the utmost importance to us.
We won’t be paying for your overnight fees though.

All our drivers’ are OCRS (operators risk score complaint) and as such we run regular Driver CPC course on OCRS which counts as 14 hours towards your Driver CPC which we will require you to attend if you decide you wish to work with us. This is a 2 day course which is run at a total cost of £77.50 including VAT and upload fee’s. :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:
Dangle dangle (but not dingledangle!) all carrot and it might as well be pie in the sky on the far side of the moon. My ■■■■■ are worth £77.50 plus vat but you’d be mugs to pay to sniff at it!

The next course is being run on the 22nd and 23rd at our office in Leicester the address is below. Priority for work will be given to those who have completed their OCRS training. :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue:
meaning you’ll be one of those that didn’t commit enough money to be passed.
If you have any further questions please feel free to contact any of the team here at Alert Professional.
Names? Addresses? Phone numbers?
“Bob” at “the depot” at 07785 xxxxxx just jolly well won’t do!

Why do I smell a con■■?
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kr79:
I thought OCRS was to do with company’s o licence not drivers.

It most definitly is but drivers have a huge influence on the OCRS scores and it is in all drivers interests to help make sure a company has a good OCRS

However - I can’t see how they manage to get 14 hours out of OCRS. I can cover what a driver needs to know in about 3 1/2 hours.

Does all seem to be a scam to me …

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Winseer:
This agency advertised PERMAMENT jobs on job centre website yesterday at £550 per week plus o/t, n/o, so I e-mailed and got this back :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:

Alert Professionals

Thank you for your enquiry regarding LGV driving work.

I would be grateful if you could please complete the attached forms, and either email them back to myself or, send them by post. If you haven’t already done so could you also please send me copies of your driving license, digi tacho card, ADR (if you have one) and your passport or, proof of address and national insurance.
What? So I can have my ID stolen? Where’s the address of your firm? The directors? Their landline geographic phone number?

According to their website their contact details are as follows:

Alert Professional LGV Training Ltd.
The Business Box
2 Oswin Road
Brailsford Industrial Estate
Leicester
LE3 1HR

Tel: 01162 795 023
Fax: 01162 795 022
E-mail: info@alertlgvtraining.com

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I checked and apparently their OCRS course is approved and they are an Approved Periodic Training Centre for driver CPC.
drivercpc.org/en/approved-ce … +Midlands~

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I mean the registered home addresses & home phone numbers of the directors as held by companies house…

If the firm packs up and disappears overnight, who do you call? It’s as wide-open as “nigerian arrangements” without it, since Leicester is not a town I know well enough otherwise. :frowning: