They are advertising aqgain for drivers at £26.500 per anum for four days a week.
Has anybody on here done this job, and is it as bad as the rumour mill say’s it is?
Its only down the road for me but I have been put of by the horror stories.
Don’t bother - its agency advert and they just want to get you onto their books to make their numbers look good…
4 on 3 off system (£125 a shift) however, they make you work for the full shift of 13 hours IIRC
Its multidrop work to corner shops on housing estates that you shouldn’t be going to in a artic. Tail Lift and Pump truck - so be expected to shift a full pallet load of booze uphill to some shops with no help! One bump and your fired.
I know this as family member who used to work there (its crap he says…) That site have a bad name and maybe for the same what you have heard.
Your Choice
Exactly what xtlhunter says. I did a few shifts for them a couple of years ago and it was flippin’ hard graft. I got boxed in at one shop and was there for 3 hours before I got a few blokes together to “bump” the car out of the way.
I do a 4 on 4 off rota with DFDS in Killingholme for similar money. Why don’t you give them a call.Easy work and no rush whatsoever. 
Nisa contract? Ewwww! Nasty!
3/4 tonne pallets that have only vaguely been introduced to shrink wrap? Off a tail lift? On your own? Up and down slopes into shops?
Hahahaha!!!
Don’t do it! If everyone refuses they may decide to improve life there!
That confirms the horror stories then, it’s been said that even East Europeans cant hack it there.
Edward Teller:
That confirms the horror stories then, it’s been said that even East Europeans cant hack it there.
Nope, the horror stories are probably, if anything, milder than the actual experience…
Allikat - Ex Bibby Avonmouth
Just let me point one thing out tho, if you get on any other contract Bibby run, and I do mean ANY other contract, they’re great, wonderful people to work for, good conditions, well maintained motors, decent office people, everything you could hope for. It’s just that NISA contract that is hell incarnate, and only actually on the rigids doing stores, for the trunkers, it’s fine, you pull the pallets up your own trailer (all boxes), but that’s it.
I was unfortunate enough to do the Lake District Run. Trying to negociate an artic down poxy roads in Kendal to a corner shop in the middle of summer isn’t fun in any way. Worst part was that it was supposed to be a day job with no night out. You’re really really having to go all hell out to get back.
Bibby have just opened a new depot in Rushden, their trucks are older than me 
shall we give this one a miss as well eddie 
I think i’ll stay semi retired JD,
so yes i will pass on bibby’s
Their planning is always based on things going 100% perfect on the road and with no hold-ups at a drop. Doesn’t allow for the conditions - so for example you get a gbit of old manchester, delivering a pallet 7’ high with beer (usually over the tsail-lift weight limits) that the pump truck can barely handle, and a hill you’re parked on so it’s pump, ruin it for 2 feet and drop so it doesn’t run away… then the back alley is cobbled, and the only help the shop owner offers is their brother’s wife’s brother’s 13yr old kids best mate…
Quite why they can’t make 3 pallets 2’ of the booze and the rest in bog rolls and crisps instead of one pallet exclusively of each is beyond me.
The tramping work is always a doddle but that’s dead-mens-shoes from what I understand, and they re-jigged it so us agency drivers weren’t taking half the shifts, and their own got it instead - apparently the reduction in shifts of hard work kept the less happy permanent drivers quiet for a bit. They made it so there’s ALWAYS a back-load and double-manned as a result.
They farm out the portsmouth run to local hauliers because it can’t be done in a shift, especially when they tack 2 or 3 stores around Reading onto it too.
Shame, I used to like going to Avonmouth and so on, and if they gave me a britvic backload it usually meant having to stop 40 miles shy, getting a night out, and minimum 8 hours for the hours drive back in.
Shunting is crap as well if you get in the wrong shift - thahnks to one of the shift leaders who is an arse. So up himself he can inspect the backs of his own teeth.
The yard always annoys me too, why they couldn’t have built it as a mirror image or as a 2-way, so you can reverse into spaces on the good side, since bay reverses on the blind side are a doddle but angled bays less so.