rambo19:
One of the problems when a company gets to big is that you become an ‘employee number’.
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Yes. Once they start up a H/R department staffed by chisel faced harridans with frizzy hair, long hairs on their chin and questionable personal hygiene habits then they are indeed too big.
muckles:
scotstrucker:
limeyphil:
I don’t believe Stobarts undercut the going rate. They are usually bang in the middle when they quote for work.
What they offer more than most is reliability, And reliability wins jobs more than price alone.stobarts will always be cheaper then the small too medium firms due too there size
It depends, Wincantons, DHL, Norbert all of which are bigger companies than Stobarts get jobs on a variety of reasons, they have a UK or in some cases European and worldwide distribution and warehouse network. Which means they can offer a complete service that you small and medium size hauliers cannot, some smaller hauliers have got together to gain a national network so they can also compete for those type of contracts. But an independent haulier operating from one or 2 places can offer a dedicated service to a smaller company that would become small fry for the big players.
Although as happened in a place I worked the company we were transporting for grew quickly and then the big boys were interested, they came in and offered a complete distribution and storage service, we were out, they weren’t Stobarts, but securicor, it was a few yeas back. It was Stobarts who got a big contract from another major haulier in the area and used many of the local hauliers as subbies.
Would that be Kettle Foods by any chance?