It has everything to do with the choice of looking for a job driving a truck at Tesco.They prefer to give the work to train drivers who are not employed by them at all.
How many Tesco stores have a rail goods depot in their back yard 
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Yeah but it makes him feel better that no-one would employ him to drive their Lorry. 
Has it, Really?
I worked for Tesco for 11 years, never heard nor saw anything of the crap you continuously post on this subject matter about “road v rail”
Or are you speaking from your first hand expertise of both the haulage industry or Tesco (in this case) from your relevant experience in the last 20-30 years?
Cheers for the insight and feedback guys. It is as someone rightly pointed out - they have DEI targets to hit so futile to resist. It is ironic to me though that literally all of the people in the office who are pushing this, that i can see anyway, are all Caucasian. It really is the absolute height of hypocrisy.
I just joined Reform anyway - paid the £25. They have pledged to scale this ■■■■■ back so that seems to be the best way forward in terms of doing something about it.
Cheers again guys and mind how you go
I’m obviously speaking from an outside and better informed view than yours.
But the train drivers have taken/been given the largest share of the work for political reasons and ‘special’ recruitment policies apply for the truck driving work left for similar political reasons.It is what it is if that’s where anyone still chooses to work
I’ve no idea these days , but I do remember a lot of the tesco loads for tesco livingstone were sent by rail upto Scotland rather than we trunked them up , we’d pick them up from Lutterworth & drop them at Malcom’s yard at crick , my memory is not the best but I think Malcom’s tipped us ( taut ) then tran - shipped the loads into boxes .
Obviously you can’t do shops by rail , but I’m sure they put loads of trunk loads onto rail , but maybe now different as fair few years ago .
Isn’t there a rail head at the back of tesco dav grocery ? , there used to be .
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Not really. Tesco use the rail ports to send goods where distance might be involved e.g The South or Midlands up to Scotland (or back) and that makes geographical and financial sense.
The vast majority of their depot to depot work and 100% of the store work is still done by trucks. As someone else pointed out, how many railheads have you seen at your local Tesco Express or town center superstore. 
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You still haven’t answered the question put to your by others - what does your usual waffle have to do with the original question about being discriminated against because of skin colour?
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You blokes have let our resident tin foil hat man derail the thread, by feeding the troll.
Forget trains and rerail (apologies for the pun) the thread by addressing th original question.
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I do remember a lot of the larger tesco stores were having there docks converted to take d/d trailers , so again your going to need less deliveries , drivers
As for the original question just look around you , more & more Indian / African etc drivers , I said a while ago you’ve just replaced the poles with drivers from elsewhere , but if we hadn’t had brexit , we’d not of had the last 6/7 yrs or whatever it happens to be with good pay rises / retention bonuses
I was reading a piece about I believe usa , or part of USA where Sikhs are a fair % of drivers now , I’ve no doubt that won’t eventually be the case .
It may be just our place , but I heard that since this new lot took over we’d lost 42% of driver , and it’s rising , the ones who’ve left have all got jobs , apparently better paid
So I get op frustration , but there does seem to be jobs out there .
Tesco’s had a tie up with Stobart rail-45’ containers in Stobart or Tesco colours-pulled them in and out of Barking, Crick and Motherwell and others. Think Stobart used to bring reefer boxes by train from Spain with Tesco’s fruit and veg.
Are stobarts ( culina ) still in with tesco , a big majority of culina Lorrie’s I see these days are pulling Morrisons trailers , my mate who still works for them spends ( or did last time I spoke to him ) most of his days trunking Asda d/d
I thought maratime were flavour of the month with tesco these days ?
I had a sabbatical from work. After a few months, feeling like I didn’t really want to drive HGVs again, I applied to Sainsbury’s for a home delivery role.
Well, it took about an hour to get through all the online “personality” tests etc. Not once was I asked about my experience, nor asked to upload a CV. It all seemed a bit woke and DEI laden. All the imagery of fake employees smiling and the obligatory videos were disproportionately skewing the actual demographic make-up of the UK in favour of ‘minority’ groups. I filled in the demographic information, which they seemed keen on, and duly said I was a white straight male aged 46.
Next day I got a “sorry you have failed the application” email - using those very words.
Two days later the advert was back up on Indeed.
I always suspected I was the wrong everything.
You won’t address the question without ‘addressing’ the issue of Tesco truck driving jobs being given to train drivers.For the same political reasons as the truck driving jobs that are left are being subject to politically motivated recruitment targets.
If anyone chooses to jack in a job to join that circus good luck but don’t selectively then whinge about it.