AaronR:
Yeah, it will probably be tues-sat with one 6 day week a month as overtime. You get time and a 5th for the saturday even though its the 5th day of your week, and generally saturdays are easier than the rest of the week, the last few ive been back by 12!
pm me if you need to know anything else!
Aaron
Nice one, Thanks.
I’ll ‘tweak’ my CV a bit and if I get an interview I’ll be in touch.
BTW, Weekly or Monthly pay?
Monthly, paid around the 15th of each month (its the last 2 weeks of previous month and first 2 weeks of current month)
Plus, you get 25 days hol. Double time if rota’d to work a bank hol, pension, healthcare plan for you and family etc etc
Plus really good discounts on all the food and drink
Nothing about Stow on there. It’s only hard work if your a lazy effer that can’t do a bit of hard graft!!! And those that can’t do a bit of graft are the one’s that say their [zb]! It keeps you fit, all the handballing up/down stairs etc but more importantly, 25k or so keeps the wolves from the door if agency are only giving you £100/week or so!
AaronR:
Yeah, it will probably be tues-sat with one 6 day week a month as overtime. You get time and a 5th for the saturday even though its the 5th day of your week, and generally saturdays are easier than the rest of the week, the last few ive been back by 12!
pm me if you need to know anything else!
Aaron
Nice one, Thanks.
I’ll ‘tweak’ my CV a bit and if I get an interview I’ll be in touch.
BTW, Weekly or Monthly pay?
Monthly, paid around the 15th of each month (its the last 2 weeks of previous month and first 2 weeks of current month)
Plus, you get 25 days hol. Double time if rota’d to work a bank hol, pension, healthcare plan for you and family etc etc
Plus really good discounts on all the food and drink
AaronR
They couldn’t afford my Families Healthcare bill, it’d bankrupted the Company.
Thanks again.
AaronR:
Again can only quote for Stowmarket but we do start at 0630, theres a few drivers who come in earlier but as long as you are leaving the yard by 0645 then its fine.
I can honestly say that 95% of drivers are back and finished by 3pm, we are NOT expected to work through breaks, our day is up to us how we plan it, as long as you stick to WTD and drivers hours. We dont have a planner as such, everybody gets told what route you are on the day before and its up to us to tell THEM what order we want the drops in. Also, we can say if we think a drop is better off on another route for whatever reason, and most of the time its moved.We do anything from 3-20 drops a day, but it probably averages 15, if you have a busy day or 2, you will normally get given an easier day the next to balance it out. Its rediculously hard work like all the lazy gits on here make out, i mean whats hard about offloading a roll cage on a tail lift, wheeling it into a kitchen and taking the stuff out?? we dont put stuff away for anyone as its not our job, plus customers want to check off the stuff to make sure its all there!
AaronR
Its seems that the reputation of 3663 varies from depot to depot.
The time I spent there is was always on pallets and only 30% of the time I was able to get a pump truck as there was only 4 or 5 in the depot. So I’d have to handball the stock from the pallet to the doors, then from the doors into where ever it had to go.
We didn’t get any input on our routes. when we spotted something off with the route plan we just had to deal with it, i.e. go 10 miles out or way then back to where we were or struggle to dig the stock out from behind 3 or 4 pallets.
Whats with the drivers having a different route everyday? No wonder some of the blokes are out all day, they don’t know where their going! We had the same routes day in, day out. And they ‘make’ you work through your breaks do they? Only one person can make you do that, and that’s the driver!! And so what if you have drops on at the end of the day…if I had drops on after 10 hours, it went back! There was a very good chance it would be my first drop the following day but hey ho. Wages do vary between the depots but not as much as they used to. Some depots have B/H’s paid @ double time. Some get double time & a day in lieu So if you work 5 B/H’s, you get double bubble + an extra weeks holiday! Some ‘have to’ work 4 out of the 8 but still get double time. If you don’t mind hard work, 10 hours/day and don’t mind jumping in/out of a multi temp wagon all day when it’s lashing down and your soaking wet ( ) give it a go! Like i say, £1500+ in the bank every month comes in very handy. You never know, you might make a career out of it!
Actrosman:
Whats with the drivers having a different route everyday? No wonder some of the blokes are out all day, they don’t know where their going! We had the same routes day in, day out. And they ‘make’ you work through your breaks do they? Only one person can make you do that, and that’s the driver!! And so what if you have drops on at the end of the day…if I had drops on after 10 hours, it went back! There was a very good chance it would be my first drop the following day but hey ho. Wages do vary between the depots but not as much as they used to. Some depots have B/H’s paid @ double time. Some get double time & a day in lieu So if you work 5 B/H’s, you get double bubble + an extra weeks holiday! Some ‘have to’ work 4 out of the 8 but still get double time. If you don’t mind hard work, 10 hours/day and don’t mind jumping in/out of a multi temp wagon all day when it’s lashing down and your soaking wet ( ) give it a go! Like i say, £1500+ in the bank every month comes in very handy. You never know, you might make a career out of it!
I guess that’s the difference between being full time and going in on agency when you just get given keys and the paperwork and kicked out on the road. Personally I couldn’t hack it but conversely working for primark where the wagon was full to the roof with boxes and none of it on pallets I quite enjoyed but that was normally 2-3 drops and shop staff helped. When full time, you do pick up the knowledge of where your drops are and subsequently the run time drops by quite a margin making life far easier…
Thats very true about being agency…my old gaff used to send out agency lads with a drivers mate because they knew the goods and normally knew the routes, so there was at least half a chance the wagon would return empty. If some of 'em were struggling, those nearby got the call to go and bail 'em out! All in all it wasn’t a bad job, as said above, with a regular run you never went hungry or thirsty and ‘some’ places did give you a hand and ‘some’ places you just left full cages and picked up empties. I stuck it from '83 - '07 then saw the error off my ways! Taking it easy on the trunk runs now!
Cheers for the information. That will be to far from where I live.
So has anyone had any experience with Palmer and Harvey in Bristol? I do understand that there will be a lot of hand balling involved, and that should not be a problem for me. Maybe there is something else that I should know about the company? What are the wages like?
Theres one just over the bridge, Caldicott (severnbridge depot) Think the other one mentioned is a logistics depot (BigVest!) but same company. P&H is a bit different, mainly do garages i think
There is one in Caldicot and their advertising for a driver on JCP. They have another one in avonmouth, they only hire about 4 or 5 drivers from there though it mainly just holds all the frozen goods.
waynedl:
Basically, if you know what you’re getting into, and are happy with that, then you’ll be ok, there’s people there who’ve been there years.
It’s multi drop, chilled and frozen, to shops, pubs, and restaurants.
Hope it’s easier than Bookers, that was a real [zb] job.
How many years ago was that mate? Bookers is the same company, just had many name changes over the years. Think ‘Bookers’ (blue & white rigids) name went 92ish although the artics that are around do the C&C’s.
P and H In Bristol aint too bad, i worked there for a bit.
All in cages, wheel the cages to the door and handball in. The drops have to be done in their order as the trucks are usually full to the doors with cages.
a couple of the boys got robbed though, as you carry all the ■■■■ for the tesco garages.
i only jacked because i was travelling from cardiff each morning, and it was busting my balls!
) give it a go! Like i say, £1500+ in the bank every month comes in very handy. You never know, you might make a career out of it!