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Juddian:
robroy:
lolipop:
Companies that used to be “in house” where nearly always the best,until the likes of DHL Stobarts Wincanton came along cutting each others throats to take over on contractAnd absorbing the loss in the lower rate by paying their drivers crap money.
The irony being that these logistics mobs can’t ■■■■ the clients money up the wall fast enough.
4 pallets of deck chairs weighing the square root of bugger all…we’ll send a 6 axle artic 200 miles and bring it back empty…when i asked/suggested at the depot the other end if they had a load to return with (they always do) or could swap trailers and take a trunk back the look of astonishment was something to behold, it just didn’t compute.
Just one of many thousands of instances we all see day in day out of money time mileage people wasted.I have no sympathy whatsoever with the client companies who allow incompetents to take unchecked control of their transport systems, they deserve to get shafted.
I too have yet to work out the efficiency, or rather inefficiencies of out sourcing, I find it bewildering…
Well oiled machine my arse, the objective of satisfying the customer is always going to be compromised! 
And ironically paying a margin to someone else for the privilege of it! 
Pcl-Transport
we have 12 Driver Trainer and a Restaurant. Indoor CPC Course,Workshop and Shop for Milk and Milk Products.
Immigrant:
Pcl-Transportwe have 12 Driver Trainer and a Restaurant. Indoor CPC Course,Workshop and Shop for Milk and Milk Products.
You were lucky. We dreamed of an indoor CPC course… trainer wI’ll cook slower when tsunami washes the dishes.
Thank you Please.
Juddian:
robroy:
lolipop:
Companies that used to be “in house” where nearly always the best,until the likes of DHL Stobarts Wincanton came along cutting each others throats to take over on contractAnd absorbing the loss in the lower rate by paying their drivers crap money.
The irony being that these logistics mobs can’t ■■■■ the clients money up the wall fast enough.
4 pallets of deck chairs weighing the square root of bugger all…we’ll send a 6 axle artic 200 miles and bring it back empty…when i asked/suggested at the depot the other end if they had a load to return with (they always do) or could swap trailers and take a trunk back the look of astonishment was something to behold, it just didn’t compute.
Just one of many thousands of instances we all see day in day out of money time mileage people wasted.I have no sympathy whatsoever with the client companies who allow incompetents to take unchecked control of their transport systems, they deserve to get shafted.
its not a new concept though juddian - we subbied for fergusons and the amount of time I would be say in Oldham my old man Liverpool way and they would try to run him to Oldham and me to Liverpool to collect a backhaul was unreal - god they even got into a hissy fit when we changed it as they had wrote the trailer numbers down!
too many office boys have no idea of how to use a map or its scale or have any idea of the cost involved in running empty for nothing.
war1974:
its not a new concept though juddian - we subbied for fergusons and the amount of time I would be say in Oldham my old man Liverpool way and they would try to run him to Oldham and me to Liverpool to collect a backhaul was unreal - god they even got into a hissy fit when we changed it as they had wrote the trailer numbers down!
Why didn’t you just tell the office you were proposing to swap the work amongst yourselves, so that the records could be changed to reflect it? I suspect it was this failure to communicate, and not your money-saving idea, that annoyed them the most.
After all, in an operation where somebody other than yourself is clearly planning your work (since the apparent poor quality of that plan is what you took umbridge to), and in which there will be a standing assumption that you are following any plan which you have received and haven’t disputed, you can’t seriously think that the rest of the organisation has no stake in knowing that you’ve decided to change the plan?
For you to change the plan and not tell anybody, is as ludicrous as the planner changing the plan and not telling anybody!
too many office boys have no idea of how to use a map or its scale or have any idea of the cost involved in running empty for nothing.
I’d say if there’s one thing that office boys know the cost of, it’s wasting money! If they’re spending money apparently needlessly, it’s either because there is a reason (about which you may not have been given enough information to think), or else they’ve exceeded the limits of their own competence (probably not because they don’t know how to use a map, but because they’re trying to keep track of too many vehicles).
rjan the last part of my post where they got into a hissy fit when we told them we were not running across each other - that was the part where we told them.
they then because they had wrote trailer numbers in or whatever got upset.
as others have said any form of general haulage whilst the variety may be enjoyable ( I used to hate the same run day in day out ) the wages etc. tend not to be so good.
war1974:
rjan the last part of my post where they got into a hissy fit when we told them we were not running across each other - that was the part where we told them.they then because they had wrote trailer numbers in or whatever got upset.
Ah that’s put a different slant on it. Even so, did he really expect you to run across each other for the sake of rubbing out a trailer number? It doesn’t sound like something they could throw a hissy fit about, unless there was some knock-on effect.
I’ve come across plenty of tossers for planners, but those ones usually know what they are doing all too well.
as others have said any form of general haulage whilst the variety may be enjoyable ( I used to hate the same run day in day out ) the wages etc. tend not to be so good.
I’d give my back teeth to go the same place every day in haulage.
it bores me to tears - I worked at royal mail for a while and I think I got the same run for 6 weeks solid one summer, by the end of it I was bored to death of the same time slot the same bay the same roads.
having said that and going back to the original thread - Royal mail in my experience was great - good pay well organised work and decent blokes you work alongside in the main.