Contraflow:
Wow, I’ve really rustled your jimmies haven’t I. 
I wonder why? Could it be that you perfectly fit the agency stereotype that myself and others on this site like to poke fun at? I think so.
Like the Earth on which you limp, TruckNet is a cyclical beast; it has seasons. The current season is agency bashing season. Let’s call it winter as winter (or more specifically just before Christmas) is the only time you’ve got half a chance of any decent work.
It’s been a long winter this time, I’ll give you that, but don’t give up hope. The cycle will continue and a new season will come. Maybe it’ll be Stobart bashing season or foreigner bashing season. Who knows.
Stay strong and you’ll make it through.
The smoking Monkey should run for PM. Just for the Craic !
I find most people that knock agency are ex agency drivers have come across this quite a lot.
Ive been temping 14 years now and its done me no harm 
Drivers are drivers regardless of agency or company, some are true professionals and others are dangerous morons I wouldn’t put in charge of a pram.
Did one shift double manned with another agency driver in his 70’s this week, cracking driver (smooth, effortless everything done in plenty of time) and a lovely bloke, he’d retired but had started to seize up so doc suggested trying to do some work again, it’s given him a new lease of life.
No wonder the job is the way it is, if our life depended on it we could never stick together and make it a better job.
Agency=Driver.
Company=Driver.
conclusion=Driver
The biggest difference I find is that agency drivers make a big deal about doing standard practice on their shifts.
Not to mention the sheer willy tugging moment they fall upon what they believe is a regular drivers truck in poor upkeap, shock horror guys your agency and not trusted with the cream motors of regular drivers.
Theres also the small matter of hi viz wearing, limping numpties who provide regular drivers with a proper job lots of humour on a daily basis.
That said I have done agency in my time but bugger me expectations where low. Just returning with an undamaged truck lead to a job offer on more than one occasion.
Sure we have the cream of the crop agency folk on this forum who delusionally believe they can cut the mustard full time but untill they get a proper job to me they are just pretenders living phone to mouth in the faint hope of being offered a full time job that suits their weird requirements and belief of being anything more than an average driver. 
That said I did earn some good money on agency and found regular drivers or regular moaners as I preffered to call em a bit up themselves.
Trucker56:
I find most people that knock agency are ex agency drivers have come across this quite a lot.
Ive been temping 14 years now and its done me no harm
14 years and no proper job your driving must be hilarious, let me guess you have other irons in the fire etc…
Dipper_Dave:
That said I have done agency in my time but bugger me expectations where low. Just returning with an undamaged truck lead to a job offer on more than one occasion.
Says a lot for you full timers then!
I find it funny when a agency man refers to himself as a freelance driver who works for himself 
This thread has gone from amusing to silly so for a serious POV from me
There are many reasons why people don’t want a full time driver job, maybe health or because they have to care for kids or a loved one, or they may genuinely be keeping their bank account ticking over between jobs, building a business in their chosen industry, maybe their main job is seasonal, lots of folk round here drive tractors through the summer and lorries in winter the two jobs complement each other nicely. Driving got me out of a big hole following my divorce while I got back on my feet and while setting my business set up. Recently I ended up having to put the deposit down on a couple of machines 2 months before I’d budgeted and already had committed to putting my son and his pal through their class 2. I could have got by without driving but a couple of weeks driving has given me a bit of lea-way, quarterly VAT comes back in the next couple of weeks and our seasonal work starts to build from mid May so this is our ‘hungry time’. I shouldn’t need to drive again but I’ve started to enjoy the odd run, especially now both lads are through their class2, one with 3 minors and 1 with 5 minors. I did drive pretty much full time for around 8 months and was asked on a few occasions why I hadn’t applied for one of the positions when they were posted up, must admit there were a couple of runs I was seriously tempted by but I couldn’t have committed to it long term.
I really take my hat off to you full timers whether company or agency, there are times when I really never want to see the inside of a cab ever again. Driving is something I look to dip in and out of although my ‘retirements’ are regarded as something of a joke, I can’t sit in the house and do nothing so if the weather is crap so I can’t work on my garden and if I’m not needed for contracting then I get really twitchy. I’m a part timer or ‘amateur’ if you like and am the first to admit I can’t do YOUR run as well as you, but it doesn’t mean my attitude is any less professional and your motor will be left at least clean as you left it.
my cabs spotless inside, full of fuel and smelling fresh, agency instant driver arrives and does a 4 hour shift in it, no fuel in wagon, indicator lense from the side missing and a scrape along the passenger side by the step not reported, 1/4 of a tank used and he only done 100 clicks, snot everywhere, stinks like fish soup, and the lock on my bunk locker looks like a screw drivers been in it, all strap tangled beyond unravelling and suzies in a mess, most are on agency because they cant hold a regular job, and cant afford 23p for a bar of soap
Plugster:
my cabs spotless inside, full of fuel and smelling fresh, agency instant driver arrives and does a 4 hour shift in it, no fuel in wagon, indicator lense from the side missing and a scrape along the passenger side by the step not reported, 1/4 of a tank used and he only done 100 clicks, snot everywhere, stinks like fish soup, and the lock on my bunk locker looks like a screw drivers been in it, all strap tangled beyond unravelling and suzies in a mess, most are on agency because they cant hold a regular job, and cant afford 23p for a bar of soap
a minority,dont put us all in the same boat,even though you said most
winseer well said, although being agency myself i do have to be impish sometimes against the full timers, ie alter the seat every way and leave the wheel down, i also write on the comments sheet that it will be as i found it so if theres crap everywhere it stays with a photo to prove,hee, im on all this weekend and heard a full timer saying he would do it but only wants 8hrs moved in for the kill and said i will do what needs doing so got the hours and him being furious but outside different matter told him to ■■■■ of or i"d dig him end of, agency hands down for me dont care what these fools say i drve an array of things something that these fools have lost living on easy street in my opinion have a nice night
Last agency guy to use my truck left it spotless!
Lucky for me our place never use agency drivers, so i can only blame myself for the condition of the unit.
The only job they get is sorting through skip waste picking out the stuff not to go to landfill.
I always left a skin mag and a packet of HobNobs on the passenger seat for the agency driver doing my holiday cover at my previous employment.
My rationale was, if he was hanging the job out in a lay by, pulling one off, and having a biscuit, they weren’t smashing the wagon all to he’ll while I was gone.
Plugster:
my cabs spotless inside, full of fuel and smelling fresh, agency instant driver arrives and does a 4 hour shift in it, no fuel in wagon, indicator lense from the side missing and a scrape along the passenger side by the step not reported, 1/4 of a tank used and he only done 100 clicks, snot everywhere, stinks like fish soup, and the lock on my bunk locker looks like a screw drivers been in it, all strap tangled beyond unravelling and suzies in a mess, most are on agency because they cant hold a regular job, and cant afford 23p for a bar of soap
I’d have to leave it in crawler running along Newmarket High Street to get anywhere near that… Dunno about the snot though. I don’t have a cold at present, so can’t put my hand up for making that bit “achievable”. 
As I was part-timing as Mr McKay’s chauffeur at the time, I did manage to get the locker open with his help though.
Radar19:
Last agency guy to use my truck left it spotless!
Wot? - He was transporting zits to the measles clinic, and nicked them all?
Some people will nick anything these days… I’m surprised at all the wagons parked in laybys I see with one back door open, exposing plasterboard or planks - all perfectly nickable, or get rained on if left. Dumbarse idea that - “nick my load, and don’t gas me please!” eh?
Regular driver: same place to come to work, people to work with, kit to pick up, routes to drive at - is not it boring? In addition, less experience.
