ADR Network Agency

Hello

I had a meeting with ADR Network today in Newport about registering with them for class 1 work. They gave me these two paper test sheets which were really easy and I passed. They then went on to say they need drivers in Tesco Magor and that they could almost guarantee me hours on Saturday and Sundays which is what I want as I already work during the week. I asked them about experience and they said Tesco will take you on without the experience or age barriers. All I have to do is pass the assessment to get the work. I immediately thought great just what I wanted.

But then the bloke discussed how you got paid. He went on to tell me that an outside company deals with your pay. Anyway he gave me this number to call and basically I would need to register as self employed and this company would do all the tax and national insurance on my behalf. They say I can claim expenses.

I was just wondering if anyone else has done this before. The job sounds good and I really want to get in with tesco but I am a bit sceptical about this self employed business.

Regards
Dave

Sounds like it is an umbrella company option. There is plenty on here if you Google re umbrella companies.

01andr1d:
I was just wondering if anyone else has done this before. The job sounds good and I really want to get in with tesco but I am a bit sceptical about this self employed business.

Regards
Dave

Hi Dave,

I agree with stevo101 above.

You could try going into the main PDF froum and using the little search box at the top left of the list of posts.

Just type in “umbrella,” hit the search button, and you’ll magically find lots of interesting reading material. :wink: :smiley:

Good luck mate!! :smiley:

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If you work Monday to Friday (in a normal job) you may only be able to work one day every other weekend so you can get your required weekly rest.

Clever people than me will no doubt be along to advise you.

ADR turned me down because I didn’t have 2 years driving experience - it is a sign things are picking up if they have had to relax that rule.

Good luck

OnlyAlan:
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If you work Monday to Friday (in a normal job) you may only be able to work one day every other weekend so you can get your required weekly rest.

Clever people than me will no doubt be along to advise you.

ADR turned me down because I didn’t have 2 years driving experience - it is a sign things are picking up if they have had to relax that rule.

Good luck

I’m a bit confused by that. I thought the weekly rest period was for drivers who work full time. In my full time job I work 8-4 Monday to Thursday then 6-11 on a Friday. I plan to work on a Saturday doing driving for the agency which will be about 11 hours.

Does this mean I will be breaking the rules because I told the agency about my full time job during the week and they have said I could work both Saturdays and Sundays if I wanted.

Any week which you perform any driving duties in that come under tacho regs, i.e using your digi card, means that the whole week comes under WTD. Meaning that no, you can’t have a full time job Mon-Fri then work all weekend then back to work on Mon. You either misunderstood what the agency said or they misunderstood you or they give you duff info. Take your pick but basically, you can’t do that at all.

So basically then I couldn’t work for them every Saturday as I planned because I wouldn’t be having my regular weekly rest of 45 hours

But could I do a Saturday for them say every other week and then take a reduced weekly rest

01andr1d:
So basically then I couldn’t work for them every Saturday as I planned because I wouldn’t be having my regular weekly rest of 45 hours

But could I do a Saturday for them say every other week and then take a reduced weekly rest

Yup.

I understand that they only guarantee 6hrs pay so you only get what you work much like Sainsbury’s. and they’ll drop you quicker than a turd on a bun if you don’t carry vasaline

nick2008:
I understand that they only guarantee 6hrs pay so you only get what you work much like Sainsbury’s. and they’ll drop you quicker than a turd on a bun if you don’t carry vasaline

They can guarantee you 6 hours work per shift but from what I have been told by the agency the shifts you do with Tesco will be 10-11 hours per shift. They gave me these tests to complete and although I passed they went through some of the wrong answers with me. So I thought they knew their stuff. However after telling them I already have a full time job they tell me I could work every saturday with tesco. So are they bull s*****g me or do they not have a clue about the WTD?

The agency won’t give a stuff about your position regards to WTD- it is up to you as the driver to know and adhere to the regulations in the eyes of VOSA and know when you can and cannot drive- it’s also you that they’d fine. If they could also prove the operator knowingly sent you out illegal then they’d carry the can also but your agency would likely get away scott free. The agency I first worked for tried the same on me when I first started (same position full time mon-fri and driving weekend 1 day) wanting me to do every Saturday to the point i’d get phone calls from the client on my rest week asking where I was “your agency said you’d be in” and i’d have to explain to them the situation.

you sign a disclaimer stating YOU understand the wtd and tacho regs an that YOU have had the required rest and breaks.

The Agency and the company your driving for in this case have washed their hands of you if you have an accident and kill anyone ,it’ll be all on your head with no loo paper

Thankyou to everybody for their advice. Without it I would not of known any better. Anyway after doing a bit of research I am a bit more clued up about it now.

Hi mate, I’m not a driver myself yet but I work with a lot of agency drivers (ADR, amongst others) and have quizzed them many times on how this whole umbrella thing works because literally every single one of them are on it and have been for a long time. It seems to be legitimate and nothing to be really be sceptical of. once you get talking to agency drivers you’ll get to know who to go with.

You sign up with umbrella (accountants basically)
congrats your now your own LTD company
Agency send your weeks pay to umbrella
You send or email all your expense receipts to umbrella every week ( they will tell you what they need )
they do all your deductions and sort everything else relating to tax
then they send you your wages minus their fee
you end up earning more money per week than if you were PAYE

I cannot see anything wrong with it personally but I can guarantee someone will.

Like I said at the beginning though, i’m not a driver and I have no personal experience with this so I could have the wrong end of the stick somewhere in there. Just me telling you how I “think” it works.

hi ,just another little point i also work mon-fri like you ,and i drive every second weekend (sundays) what i do is keep a book with all my other work in and on the week i am going to be driving i cut up a digi roll into individual days and write on them(or a disk) what i have done that week ,you might say its a lot of messing but i have called vosa and that is what they told me legally i must do ?, you cant drive legally every weekend if working mon–fri none driving job,