I do alot of work for D.H.L. and they are always coming up with schemes like this which usually end up being ignored,taking longer to do or pushed to one side
one of the favorites is when the christmas peak is on … can we book you for a solid week to make sure we have enough drivers.?
it has never worked because the first time there is no work im onto the agency to say wheres my gaurenteed work…!!
i think the best and only way D.h.l. can save costs is to get rid of whoever comes up with this rubbish to justify their own existance.
as i always do manual entries from booking time to when i leave ive not had a problem
its not my problem to sort out if there are no units /trailers etc etc
At the one depot I worked, a lot of the problem was caused by agency drivers having a mountain of paperwork to fill in and licence/card checks etc. half hour or more may have passed before they put their card in and suprisingly quite a few just simply had no idea on doing manual entries.
Of course they would book (quite rightly) the amount of time they had done before and after inserting there card.
Office staff would then check claimed hours against what was on the tacho download and I assume that is where a lot of the problems stem from.
Faults on both sides I guess but huge amounts of paperwork was ONE of the reasons I walked away from them !
Paying off tacho data isn’t an issue for me, I know how to do manual entries, not just press OK OK OK OK as some of the old timers seem to think it is done.
The problem arises if you are ■■■■■■ about for 30 mins, do your manual entry the next day at another company then not go back to DHL for the rest of the week, they have no record of the 30 minutes recorded on your card.
Any discrepancy would be an issue for driver and agency to sort out, they pay you. They then have to argue the toss to DHL. Invoice on hours worked.simples.
Fatboy slimslow:
There’s me thinking de- brief was in ashford, Kent at the green slime ( intelligence corp ) and then chinook back to Bradbury lines for a rollicking off DLB! ( sir peter, head shed ) then back to norn iron in 24 hours! jeez
Haha,yeah it sounds like the drivers just came back from a bomber mission over Germany instead of delivering 26 pallets of widgets to the Acme Widget Co in ■■■■■■■■■■ UK
GOG47:
Whats all this de-brief malarkey, don’t you just hang up keys,hand over any pod’s,find out whats on tomorrow and head home.Never worked for a big firm,thank god
With big firms, what you have just described is called a debrief. It just takes longer cos they haven’t known you for twenty years like they would in a small firm.
I worked for a firm that paid by the time on the printout and as long as you wrote the manual entries on it with an explanation, i.e. awaiting vehicle, strapping load or whatever, then you were paid for the hours from start to finish, less 45 mins for first break. Second break was paid as drivers didn’t like working through and losing 45 mins.
jeez 
