montytom:
Im not none of the above yet so many will not take my opinion.
Someone asks about agency drivers driving round “steaming piles of excrement”
At the end of the day what does it matter what you drive?
My old boss was on over £100,000 per year and still chose to drive a battered old G reg cavalier.
Have we seriously got to the age where we start judging peoples wealth on what car they own?
I know people with so called Premium German brands that are financed upto the hilt.
Im finding this quite amusing to read as once I have passed my tests I will probably be looking at Agency work to get the experience needed.
I am really envious of you guys at the moment, while I am still driving my DOT COM van but some of the things being said are more suited to a middle school playground.
Sorry for the long reply and I hope that I have not offended anyone.
Thomas
Ok, we’ll let you keep your old car but, you’re going to need a carrier bag from somewhere more expensive than Lidl if you want to hang around with us cool kids.
Mike-C:
Jesus !!! You’d be hard pushed to find another six page thread full of utter [zb] !!! And people are giving long drawn out considered opinions !! Ha ha ha !!!
A moderator on a truck forum, who doesn’t even drive trucks, a bit like a minister for transport who doesn’t have a driving license, you must be real proud to host a site that allows posters with impunity to ridicule those with a disability or injury created defect.
Don’t pick on me, you know nothing about me. And anyway even if you did…your long diatribe is right up there with the immature postings in this thread of agency or regular, thats the level of your intellect. Having done both its not something i’m going to lower my intelligence to enter into discussion over You carry on and argue with people on your own level, like you’re doing, and leave me out of it…Cheers!!!
If I wanted to argue with people on my own level i would be on a professional transport forum, and not where the vehicles remain on the ground, you’re right I know nothing of you that I can remember and having wiped out most of my posts I can’t really check, part of a now unkept resolution not to visit trucknet again, jesus wept have you read the dead-from-the-neck-up threads over the last year?, how these neanderthals work out in sufficient time the need to visit the toilet amazes me let alone knowing they’re out there on the roads with a truck, of any size, so my sincere apologizes , I now realize I had you mixed up with someone else, jet lag and boredom can do more than alcohol, ah well back to trolling.
Jesus. You’re not on about pprune.com are you? A horrible vicious argumentative forum. More arguing than on here and none of the banter. That website does my nut.
F-reds:
Nah its just procrastination, keeps you from doing that comprehensive list of DIY given to you buy your other halves…
Ouch! …as an occasional agency driver, that hurt my feelings, because it had a little to much truth in it!
I have to say though - sweeping generalisations don’t do anybody any good, whether aimed at agency or ‘regulars’.
Of course there are going to be more agency drivers who have other irons in the fire, whether through choice or accident. So what?
There are also bound to be agency guys who wish they are full-timers, and feel the need to bullshiv in order to save face - if you are the full-timer who is getting the story from him, why not just nod politely?
For the record - I am agency plus!
I am signed up with two driving agencies and one supply teaching agency - I love driving, but the pay (and hours!) can’t compete yet.
So I guess I am an agency “wannabe”, in that I wish I could go full-time driver, because I love it, but would you walk away from a much higher wage and more family-friendly hours, in my shoes? (compare anywhere from [net] £70 - £90 for a shift driving, to a guaranteed [net] £122 for a day’s supply, 8:30 til 4:00). So - when I have an offer of supply teaching, I take it. The driving tides me over at quiet times.
so…maybe I am one of those agency drivers that irritate full-timers? I don’t know - I do have an orange hi-vis bomber jacket and a yellow hi-viz vest, which I tend to put on when walking around delivery/pick-up sites etc… …is that so bad? I don’t drive in it though, cos the reflection is annoying.
I use a little camouflage ‘man-bag’ to transport my flask, butties and satnav - is that better or worse than a Lidl bag?
I drive a 1999 Rover 400 lol, but it is in nice nick - was gonna lease a smaller car for £125pcm, but got this for £580, 49k on the clock, full leather interior, etc… does that mean it is a ‘banger’. Seemed like good economic sense to me?
Shandy123 be careful. Your comments and thoughts in your post is in danger of proving that not all agency drivers are limping, perma-hi-viz, morons, unable to drive a nail into a block wood.
I got rid of an old mountain bike the other day. It had a bit of an odd problem.
After each rotation of the main sprocket,it was as if the chain ’ jumped '.
If any of the agency on here have a limp ratio of 2 .1154 seconds per stumble,it should even the pedalling out.
I CAN get it back for the right temp. I also have a rusty bike bracket off a 1994 cavalier which I will throw in for free. Contact me at the following address;
FREE GARBAGE
Temporary house
12-14 Perhour way
Limpsville
Jackanory City
2 forms of I.D. will be required. The following are acceptable; Hi Viz
Budget branded carrier bag(bio degradable)
Bluetooth earpiece(not a current model)
Plaster(for glasses)
Stobarts rejection letter
Copy of CCJ’s
Comb with missing teeth
Brut and/or Old Spice fragrance
montytom:
Im not none of the above yet so many will not take my opinion.
Someone asks about agency drivers driving round “steaming piles of excrement”
At the end of the day what does it matter what you drive?
My old boss was on over £100,000 per year and still chose to drive a battered old G reg cavalier.
Have we seriously got to the age where we start judging peoples wealth on what car they own?
I know people with so called Premium German brands that are financed upto the hilt.
Im finding this quite amusing to read as once I have passed my tests I will probably be looking at Agency work to get the experience needed.
I am really envious of you guys at the moment, while I am still driving my DOT COM van but some of the things being said are more suited to a middle school playground.
Sorry for the long reply and I hope that I have not offended anyone.
Thomas
Ok, we’ll let you keep your old car but, you’re going to need a carrier bag from somewhere more expensive than Lidl if you want to hang around with us cool kids.
Ok which bag do I need to hang around with the cool kids
eagerbeaver:
" that’s where the bitterness comes from " PMSL!!
I think you are mixing up gratefulness with bitterness mate. For example; 6.30 am. I arrive in the Beavermobile and greet fellow superior full timers. 6.38 am. 52 plate mondeo comes into the carpark. Man with limp hobbles over to us. Hair full of grease and clutching a Lidl carrier bag.
Its not a good look! I know you choose to look and drive crap,and its your choice at the end of the day,but don’t talk to full-timers unless invited to do so.
Its rude.
I ignore everybody unless they talk to me,respect goes both ways,and besides I am superior to regulars anyway
ckm1981:
Shouldn’t the title of this thread be changed to…
Agency v Real drivers
Or
Agency v The employable
face it though, the reason agencies are used is because there are not enough drivers at these companies and if it were not for agency drivers you regulars would never cope and half the work would not be done
Lorn trakta:
Should I be amazed that Trucknet’s so called professional full-time drivers are happy to portray themselves as losers-in-life, you’re effectively confirming on a public forum you cannot make your own way in life or stand on your own two feet without a paternalist employer or a contract of employment to keep you propped up lifelong, so your servile dependence upon another is something to boast about is it?, along with portraying yourselves as such dullards you cannot grasp the concept of people acquiring incomes simultaneously through more than one source, do what?, in upwardly mobile Britain 2015?, just how deep is that rut of unenterprising uninspiring predictability that your lives are stuck in, you do realize that you are a LONG TIME DEAD.
Your employers know they’re going to be a long time dead, that’s why they live their lives with the most resolute of plans never to be amongst the ranks of the losers-in-life, that’s you their servile full-time employees, things in life like a seven figure sum primary residence, a six figure sum secondary residence, bespoke holidays, bespoke automobiles; I’m sure you get the picture, are the things in life that are of far greater importance to them than signing a contract of lifelong low waged servitude, to spend their ONE-AND-ONLY life repeatedly for days/weeks-on-end in a tiny tin box.
For many to be cooped-up overnight in ‘sleeper cabs’ of such laughable dimensions their EU masters who dictate the size of them wouldn’t accept them as a toilet cubicle, I doubt your employers would laugh off having to crap at the roadside here in the ‘first world’ with the indignity of refugees in the ‘third world’ to satisfy the fanatical enforcement of their EU masters tachograph regulations, so the things in life that aren’t remotely good enough for your employers are plenty good enough for you, that I can truly believe, but if you believe I’ve got it wrong tell me why your employers wouldn’t be seen dead in your shoes, if I had ever existed as you do I would have done my level best to conceal that even from my children, some of you full-time drivers are some right chimps, the more you say the more you qualify for the Foot in Mouth award.
And before anyone tells me to get off my ‘high horse’ by claiming this thread is mere banter or togue-in-cheek, the Trucknet neanderthals contributing to agency-slating; when and wherever possible, might care to proffer an explanation to the more advanced in society how any person with any degree of bodily infirmity is at all an acceptable subject for public ridicule, based upon their bodily ailment?, what next a thread that overlooks the ridiculing of those with only one eye, or judging by your entourages desperation for cheap laughs someone totally blind, they would be easy pushover, right up Trucknet’s ethical back alley, having had at one time five pins in a leg and three till I die if you Trucknet dumbasses attempted to ridicule me face-to-face for my limp you would pay a price such that the devil would weep for you, oh and congratulations trucknet neanderthals on maintaining your standard of threads and posts that ensure Trucknet remains to the world of professional drivers what a Star-trek convention is to the world of professional astronauts.
so your an agency driver know it all who walks with a limp… what brand carrier bag do you carry??.. could this be conors second account
i get near 11 an hour working full time, suits me and my bank manger and the tax man, maybe one day when my wife leaves me and i lose the will to bath or shave and cheap steel top caps force me walk a wobble, i might join the ranks of agency, i ■■■■ well near did once, until i was told how much they were taking from me and id have to be ready at thedrop of a hat for shifts, wasnt for me, parasites the lot of them
face it ,you could not handle agency work anyway you muppet
eagerbeaver:
Crikey-I thought agency baiting was sport.
It looks like its causing havoc lol! I would like the lifestyle choicers to explain something to me.
If you are all so well off,why do the majority of you work crap shifts,wear tatty clothes,drive steaming piles of [zb], and generally resemble people who have been sleeping rough at Chernobyl?
It seems very odd. Is it a ploy to keep the taxman away from your off-shore accounts? OR…is it more like John(old67) says…
And your overview of the UK road transport world; giving rise to your assertions, comes from what lofty position.
I start at 7am ,go smartly dressed and drive top motors and usually at home by 5 or 6 in the evening relaxing with a beer,next
