Saratoga:
Harry Monk:
…just loading at Fyffes then a run to Aldi at Blackburn or Bolton or Oldham or somewhere like that and then back empty.
Used to be, a backload for Dairy Crest. Running back empty was reserved for agency drivers. Quite a few agency drivers would drop the trailer in at Dairy Crest or Fyffes and leave the fridge set to the previous operating temperature.
Dairy Crest operated +2, Fyffes at +14
I spent some time there as well. I tried a variety of routes, shifts and vehicles.
Anybody loading a fridge should check the correct temperature has been set, it’s not bloody difficult! Still, it lets sad sacks with little in the way of grey matter have a pop at the limper…stops them beating the wife!
The problem was to DC sites not checking as they said it wasn’t their job. But they still wanted the trl taking even if it had been loaded with butter for hours at +14c
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Franglais:
Twenty years ago, they were a decent enough company. I worked with their guys a bit around Portugal and Spain. They were happy enough then. No flash trucks, but up together, no excessive hours, and wages in bank.
Management change in 2006/7 it seems?
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/comp … ng-history
Click onto Administrators Statement for an overview of company, problems and situation.
If you cant be arsed with reading 81 pages..... Company runs a large heat treatment and cold store plant. 13 drivers and 8 other employees. Trucks on finance (so it aint a cheap way to buy a Scannie Beav 
).
They had all their transport eggs in one basket it seems: working closely with a continental haulier on pence per mile rate with a guaranteed minimum, but in 2015 the minimum was withdrawn…
Ten plus million receipts in 2015, then 2.6m in 2017.
A pity for all employed there. Hope the new owners make a fair fist of it.
EDIT new owners? C-4 Safety Ltd, Rugby based. A director has links to “Reward Hauliers Ltd”?
They were known as Bedtime Haulage at that time on the boat… Shipped out a few times with some of theirs, and also BKG Transport, who were known as Better Keep Going.
Darkside:
Franglais:
Twenty years ago, they were a decent enough company. I worked with their guys a bit around Portugal and Spain. They were happy enough then. No flash trucks, but up together, no excessive hours, and wages in bank.
Management change in 2006/7 it seems?
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/comp … ng-history
Click onto Administrators Statement for an overview of company, problems and situation.
If you cant be arsed with reading 81 pages..... Company runs a large heat treatment and cold store plant. 13 drivers and 8 other employees. Trucks on finance (so it aint a cheap way to buy a Scannie Beav ).
They had all their transport eggs in one basket it seems: working closely with a continental haulier on pence per mile rate with a guaranteed minimum, but in 2015 the minimum was withdrawn…
Ten plus million receipts in 2015, then 2.6m in 2017.
A pity for all employed there. Hope the new owners make a fair fist of it.
EDIT new owners? C-4 Safety Ltd, Rugby based. A director has links to “Reward Hauliers Ltd”?
They were known as Bedtime Haulage at that time on the boat… Shipped out a few times with some of theirs, and also BKG Transport, who were known as Better Keep Going.
Lots of work out of Porto on Friday nights. And lots of shoes from Elche near Alicante too.
Had a good laugh in those times but wouldn’t necessarily want to do it again.
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