Are drivers are getting harder to come by?

this is a extract from a full time job i seen advertised…

You will hold a HGV/LGV 1 licence, have 2 years class 1 driving experience. We can not accept drivers with DD, DR, IN10 showing on your licence unless spent and no more then 9 point

9 POINTs on your license? times must be getting hard, I`ve never even seen an agency offer that!

This week Ive had 6 texts messages from agencies (4 of which ive never worked for with or signed onto) offering very good rates ( £14ph PAYE mon=fri days was best offer) and had 2 phone calls off previous agencies i have worked for. The last 1 Adam at an unnammed agency was a suprising call considering we parted company on bad terms (they screwed me over regarding my p45 and was on emergency tax for 27 weeks lol) practically begging me to go back on his books, even after telling him i was doing full time euro driving…

So anyone who says drivers ain`t in demand is in cloud cuckoo land and wish all the agency drivers the best screwing as much cash outta the leeches as you can while it lasts (probably around january 3rd going on previous experiance lol)

It’s only agencies lining up,their drivers for the Xmas rush, they’ll drop the new drivers to keep their regular drivers going in jan-Feb, same story every year

https://jobsearch.direct.gov.uk/GetJob.aspx?JobID=10257821&JobTitle=HGV+Driver&jt=2&tm=7&q=hgv+driver&sort=rv.dt.di&pp=25&re=4&rad_units=miles&setype=1&pg=5&cy=UK&AVSDM=2014-09-19+10%3A59%3A00

NorbDess offering 12.30 per hour… could be of use to someone maybe

In my place, I’ve heard quite a few agency boys saying the agency are paying them nightshift rates during the day to come in here!!!

Also for a good while, even last Xmas, it was only one agency we used, now there is 3 or 4 on the go.

:smiley:

transline.co.uk/job/2905/hgv … manchester

Am I being negative but I even think that agency drivers on the same contract are being paid individual rates.

You can blame driver shortage on that stupid CPC rubbish, drivers shouldn’t have to take that exam or get that qualification, it was only transport managers who needed it in the past, it’s yet another way to get money from the workforce. Older drivers are thinking ‘Too old to bother with this, might as well get a job doing something else’
Younger guys just look for another way of life. Look at me for instance, if I came back to the UK I would look at another way of life, there’s no way I would even bother thinking about taking a CPC exam, I have actually been asked to go back to work for my mates company back there, he say’s he can’t get drivers for the reasons I have just mentioned, I would only go back under different circumstances.

LOL, a bloke in America stating there’s a shortage of drivers in UK :smiley:
There is no shortage of drivers here mr blinko, however if you read on tinterweb or in a USA rdc you may be daft enough to believe it :smiley:

Pat Hasler, there is no exam to sit, it is 7 hours per module to a total of 35 hours of usually mind numbing drivel by people who know ■■■■■■, with the exception of Diesel Dave and any other genuine trainers on here

Pat Hasler:
You can blame driver shortage on that stupid CPC rubbish,

If the DCPC has caused a driver shortage, as drivers we shouldn’t blame it, we should thank it.
However any drivers shortage has been coming for a long time, lack of investment in training, and poor pay and conditions for existing drivers are probably the main reason. We saw a bit of it about 10 years ago, but the influx of East European drivers and a dramatic downtown in the economy staved it off. It might now be coming back to haunt the haulage industry. This time the East European drivers have more options as to where they work, last last time it was only the UK, Ireland and Sweden that didn’t place restrictions on them.

Pat Hasler:
drivers shouldn’t have to take that exam or get that qualification, it was only transport managers who needed it in the past,

It’s a different qualification from the transport manager, nowhere near as properly structured and no exam. And a complete waste of time.

Pat Hasler:
You can blame driver shortage on that stupid CPC rubbish, drivers shouldn’t have to take that exam or get that qualification, it was only transport managers who needed it in the past, it’s yet another way to get money from the workforce…

Just to clear things up Pat, CPC is the name of the qualification like GCSE for instance, so a CPC in Transport management is different to a driver’s CPC, a bit like having an O level in Maths, and one in Needlework.
I had the TM type CPC, but still need the DCPC.
The bit that you ARE correct about is the ‘rubbish and money’ bit.

Edit… Muckles beat me to it.

duh,no

Well if companies are struggling for drivers & having to pay better rates because of the DCPC then they have nobody to blame but themselves. Loads on here blame drivers for leaving it to the last minute but the companies have known it was coming and have been too tight to do anything, now they are paying for it, and long may it last. Lack of investment in the type of apprenticeships that stobarts provide will cost some firms plenty & will send some over the edge.

firm i sub for have lost 6 drivers just this week as they where offered more money elsewhere doing the same type of work

DCPC, cost to driver, £300 but with the amount rates have gone up you’d recoup that in 6 or 7 weeks max if you are full-time. For the remaining 4 years and 46 weeks you’re quids in.

Conor:
DCPC, cost to driver, £300 but with the amount rates have gone up you’d recoup that in 6 or 7 weeks max if you are full-time. For the remaining 4 years and 46 weeks you’re quids in.

Conor, do you mean that you are in favour of the dcpc :open_mouth:
You have never mentioned that before :unamused:

Sounds like a party political broadcast on behalf of the Con-self-serve-ative party.

I’d vote Conservative too - if someone gave me a £100k job I’d want to pay a whole lot less tax on! :smiley:

stupidn00b:
So anyone who says drivers ain`t in demand is in cloud cuckoo land and wish all the agency drivers the best screwing as much cash outta the leeches as you can while it lasts (probably around january 3rd going on previous experiance lol)

Call me cuckoo but they’re not in demand from where I’m standing, example the agency I’m with upped their rates but cut the hours & in some cases I could do 1 run in 5-6hours (paid :sunglasses: & they’d get another driver to do the same-I could do both saving them £££:shock:
I struggle to get a full week & haven’t worked for them for over 3 weeks now, not even a call offering any work.

green456:
There is no shortage of drivers here

+1

Theres no driver shortage,theres a good driver shortage though,the good drivers work for good firms who pay good money :neutral_face:

seth 70:
Theres no driver shortage,theres a good driver shortage though,the good drivers work for good firms who pay good money :neutral_face:

100% this.

Plenty of steering wheel attendants and LGV licence holders out there, but very few good drivers :unamused:. It’s long been said that good jobs don’t need advertising. That makes me wonder why the likes of Reed Bored-all have a dedicated recruitment phone line…

Remember most other EU countries have something similar to the DCPC

Some of the older drivers not doing the attendance course some natural wastage younger people not wanting to come into the job

In the last 3 weeks I have been offered 3 jobs all full time 1 of them I applied for back in march

The other day had a call from an agency I am registered with although never worked for called me up to see if I was working then asked if I knew any drivers who wanted work to let them know bout him dont think so as when I needed wanted work you wouldnt give me any even though I called most days cheeky man