So I gave them a call monday and explained everything about just having passed my test, no experience etc. and was told to go in today for a chat. Half expected to be promised the world etc. as I know someone put up quite a good post about agencies in general.
Anyway, the woman was lovely and very honest about what I should expect which I respect to be honest. I made it clear that I’m willing to be as flexible as humanly possible - vans/7.5, weekends, earlies, lates, mulitdrop, foodservice etc. as I need the experience. She said she would struggle to get me much class 2 work as I’ve no experience and I’m under 23 but asked if I would be ‘confident’ with a class 2 wagon. I said I’d be 1000% confident. She also mentioned that a lot of the work at the moment is ad-hoc and so the may get me out of bed if a job comes in early - which is fine.
She did say that despite the situation I’m in, there was a lad a few months ago who was newly qualified. Had some potential class 2 work and explained to them that he was a newbie but they said it was no problem and he’s been on class 2 ever since. At least there’s some hope for me then!
So to summarise, I feel they’ve been pretty honest with me and now I know what to expect which I think’s good of them really. I assumed that trying to be as flexible as I was that it would perhaps put me in a good position to get work since the more seasoned drivers can afford to be more picky with their jobs. Saw something on here a bit ago about a bad experience with driverhire but as they’re a franchise the Notts one must be pretty decent.
(£5.80 p/h) Would’ve thought that 7.5t would at least be a little more…