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
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
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
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.
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.
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
You have never mentioned that before
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 & 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.
seth 70:
Theres no driver shortage,theres a good driver shortage though,the good drivers work for good firms who pay good money
100% this.
Plenty of steering wheel attendants and LGV licence holders out there, but very few good drivers . 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
& they’d get another driver to do the same-I could do both saving them £££:shock: