jrt:
Thanks for all the feed back so far. I have had all the same thoughts as what has been writen on here. It is just very ackard. I am abit ā ā ā ā ā ā of with the company that offerd the interview as thay only emailed me friday afternoon to see them tuseday !!
there is no other time or day offerd and no way of contacting them as its an automated email, no number to call or email to reply. really thay are simple expecting me and a good many others as its a group interview to drop every comitment we have to just go and see them for something we might not even get.
really its a single days notice. i wounder how thay would feel if one of there employees wanted a day off with a single days noticeā¦? for an interview somewhere elsā¦?
the thing is the job at this big place is paying min wage too. But its the future prospects that are hopfull better. if u get selected. I just think its off that thay expect people just to be able to get time off like that.
I have no lorry driving expirance, and was going to get that first expirance with temp job as thay drive 7.5 tonn and have a 18 tonn. thay usenthem to drive to and from building tempory struchars so its not on the road all day lonhg stuff. any was a good way of getting a start driving lorries. so this was the real value of going with them in the first place. long term after doing 6 months with them. i could say i have planty exprence and hopfully get into christmas work near the time i leave there.
But this other place is van driving droping off food to customers houses, for a very upmarket supa market. but that do run 7.5 tonnsout of bristol i think and run hgv out of bracknil I think. and from what i have heard some of the best payed work about. and best treated staff too.
I am emplyed dircty with the temp firm by the way. wrich i gess is better for them as there paying agency staff same as me but thay dont have to pay the agency bit on top. so I am cheaper then getting me throw agnecyā¦
Haha this further information has changed the situation completely - in fact Iād go as far as to say you totally misrepresented the truth about the big firmās offer first time around (before āgreat pay, benefits, etcā¦ā, now āminimum wageā).
If youāre just hoping that the large company will have opportunities to work your way up, but arenāt offering good terms at the outset, then I wouldnāt get your hopes up on that (and small established firms are more likely to do something special to keep and develop good staff these days, whereas larger firms just trawl the markets endlessly for ready-made candidates and offer exactly what they say on the tin and nothing more).
Iād now say the large firm isnāt offering you a good deal at all - the reason theyāre expecting you to be available at short notice is because theyāre trawling at the bottom and expect you to be unemployed (not to be leaving an existing role for them).
A turd in the hand is worth two turds in the bush.
If you have a Cat C licence, you want to be looking hard for Cat C work and nothing less - take anything, because as soon as you have a weekās experience, youāll have far more opportunities than when you had no experience at all. And especially donāt join a large firm on vans and expect to be given a go of the larger wagons - thatās very unlikely to happen indeed.
You can drive a Transit van for 30 years and wonāt learn a thing about the challenges unique to larger vehicles, and at the end firms recruiting for Cat C work will still say āyouāve got no experienceā. Most of the time, they are just trying to get candidates to do van work which nobody wants, for worse pay than youād expect for the HGV work which you are licenced to do.
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, Iām even more intolerant than usual. 
Life seems tough for a newbie driver, you can have this temporary low wage job where youāll at least drive a truck so get some experience or this full-time job on crap pay where youāll only drive a van. 
PS Sorry about the Ā£000ās youāve just paid for your Medical, DCPC, training,