Well once again our friends from across the water have forced a familiar english outfit on the continent for over 30 years. Gilberts is no more.
Wow long lasting company with smart trucks gone under - what a shame
Its all getting a bit much really isn’t it, and I’ve always thought of myself as one of the positive ones!
Won’t be long before all the drivers are either foreign or driving for Stobarts!
Alex
Scarab:
Won’t be long before all the drivers are either foreign or driving for Stobarts!Alex
aint that a fact. 
And what does our unelected leader say…They are good for the economy, and for the future of Britain…yeah right…
im not sure how there going to name it yet, Eddie Betz or Willi Stobart! Best of it is there was polish lithuanian and hungarian drivers made redundant there!
Yet more bad news
Hope everyone involved gets sorted
TC
Unbelieveable really
http://www.malcolmharrison.co.uk/auctions/auction_details.cfm?ID=1164
scaniav8power:
Best of it is there was polish lithuanian and hungarian drivers made redundant there!
im not sure how that is good news? i expect they have families too and are probably more hard working than a lot of the british
shame they have gone down, nice fleet, from another trucknet post they lost a big contract i think
euromat:
scaniav8power:
Best of it is there was polish lithuanian and hungarian drivers made redundant there!im not sure how that is good news? i expect they have families too and are probably more hard working than a lot of the british
shame they have gone down, nice fleet, from another trucknet post they lost a big contract i think
I didnt mean it was good news they lost there jobs at all. I meant how ironic it is that there fellow countrymen are pinching the work and have ended costing them there jobs over here.
scaniav8power:
euromat:
scaniav8power:
Best of it is there was polish lithuanian and hungarian drivers made redundant there!im not sure how that is good news? i expect they have families too and are probably more hard working than a lot of the british
shame they have gone down, nice fleet, from another trucknet post they lost a big contract i think
I didnt mean it was good news they lost there jobs at all. I meant how ironic it is that there fellow countrymen are pinching the work and have ended costing them there jobs over here.
ah i see! apologies 
i thought it was another dig at all the eastern europeans over here earning a crust
no mate i knew some of them polish guys on there and they were good blokes. they now find themselves unemployed and are saying no-one really wants to take them on so are thinking of going home now there wages are improving over there
Apparently theres another big firm about to pop up that way, with the loss of around 200 jobs, including lots of Eastern European drivers. Source; a Gilberts driver on his last trip abroad.
kindle530:
Apparently theres another big firm about to pop up that way, with the loss of around 200 jobs, including lots of Eastern European drivers. Source; a Gilberts driver on his last trip abroad.
many a true word…
i was going to start a new thread called… " who thinks their job is safe ".
if i was a haulier i think i would be looking at my business and weighing how much money i would have left after paying everybody off. 
I worked for Geoff for a while both as an ownerdriver and as a driver the best bloke i ever worked for both here and abroad a shame that this industry has come to this . one of the best firms ever.What hope for some of the muppets out there today ?
LB76:
I worked for Geoff for a while both as an ownerdriver and as a driver the best bloke i ever worked for both here and abroad a shame that this industry has come to this . one of the best firms ever.What hope for some of the muppets out there today ?
when did you work for geoff LB76?
i first met geoff in 1975 at clic where we were both getting our papers after loading , i went on to work for geoff both as a subbie and a driver over several periods and had to pack up due to ill health, been friends ever since a great bloke and a great boss
There is very little chance for any company running abroad to make it pay with all the controls and taxes that are being levied at the moment.
Norbert Stobetz are the only ones with a chance, because they so many trailers they only have to make a couple of £ profit on each one.
blimey the way its going it will be stobarts and norby drentsangel only soon a real shame never nice to see a firm go under you got feel for the folks that have lost their jobs
kindle530:
Apparently theres another big firm about to pop up that way, with the loss of around 200 jobs, including lots of Eastern European drivers. Source; a Gilberts driver on his last trip abroad.
I was in Holland last week and was told that a guy called Harry was in the ■■■.
and that was from a Cloggie.