Just looking for any info on this company ?
From the outside it looks ok a good well maintained fleet but as any body got info on pay, management, working conditions etc etc cheers.
4aaaa4dd:
Just looking for any info on this company ?
From the outside it looks ok a good well maintained fleet but as any body got info on pay, management, working conditions etc etc cheers.
Don’t know but everytime I drive by there’s a board out asking for drivers,that might tell you something?
Only experience has been a few years ago as agency driver for a day at a time on a few occasions . Overall impression was that they owned you and for however long they felt like. By that I mean unrealistc assignments for a day driver. One example only out of several, squeeze in tipping a trailer first fairly locally and then return for the actual load they want delivered to the Birmingham area, which they know will involve a queue to unload. Then ring personal mobile, when told “I don’t have one”, to send you off out into the sticks to find a collection for which they haven’t got the proper address and which is further away from home in a completely different direction. Found out later they knew all along about the collection.
Now I realise that this is not experience from last week, but attitudes to people working for you don’t change much. A company that has been around for even a few years gets to know not just their deliveries and collections, but what their radius is for a one day job, a borderline job and a probable run into day two, they will even know how that alters throughout the week.
I asked a Nicholls driver what they were like once and he said “they want their pound of flesh”.
Harry Monk:
I asked a Nicholls driver what they were like once and he said “they want their pound of flesh”.
Was this him??
peirre:
Harry Monk:
I asked a Nicholls driver what they were like once and he said “they want their pound of flesh”.Was this him??
Excellent! !
peirre:
Harry Monk:
I asked a Nicholls driver what they were like once and he said “they want their pound of flesh”.Was this him??
No, he looked more sleep-deprived than that. 
That was me yesterday going to collect my notes after tipping at Morrisons Gadbrook.
Why not try fowler welch just along the road in Teynham
Harry Monk:
I asked a Nicholls driver what they were like once and he said “they want their pound of flesh”.
At eight pound something per hour - they’d get that just giving you a 48 hour week. 
If they don’t take agency - they are not paying enough. The best way to find all the better payers out there - is to join an agency that’ll cater for your demands for “I won’t work for less than a tenner per hour” as I did.
Other places I “never got to work at” include Polypipe, DPD, St Regis, Maritime, and Nobbies. (Note: No Supermarkets there)
Steve-o:
Why not try fowler welch just along the road in Teynham
It depends what you want from the job. I did a lot of agency work for Coolchain (Fowler Welch) at Teynham and even considered applying some years ago, but the shift patterns did not suit me. However I always thought that it was a good place to work and I would turn down most other jobs offered if there was no Coolchain going. The office staff are friendly and treat you with courtesy and respect. You can certainly have a laugh and a joke with them even when it is clear that things are not going according to plan for them. The work is obviously mainly supermarket RDCs but not quite exclusively, if that does not bother you then consider going for it. I don’t know what the money is like currently, other posts about FW seem to indicate that it is not at all brilliant, but there is more to life and work than just £ notes. Obviously others will have a totally different opinion on this last point.
Yes things can and do go wrong when it is really busy: the load isn’t ready, it is still on the collecting lorry which isn’t even back yet, they have run out of trailers, there are no units until someone gets back and what should have been a doddle from booking on time at Teynham to booking in time at Tesco, now leaves you with a 3 and a half to 4hr drive non-stop to get there, when you should have had time for a 45min break on the way. It can be hassle as far as that sort of thing goes, but you are being paid and you aren’t expected to do the impossible, they are used to planning around things happening.
You may find yourself doing eg. a delivery: Didcot, Hinckley, Avonmouth or Southampton, a collection: Park Royal, Sandy, Chichester or Stevenage and its delivery: Snodland, in the shift but it can be done legally and they do realise that Friday is different and it may go wrong.
A trip to their Spalding depot is an eye opener for a different world altogether.
eagerbeaver:
That was me yesterday going to collect my notes after tipping at Morrisons Gadbrook.
What,this Morrisons at Gadbrook?
Yes Harry. That is indeed the moron factory at Gadbrook.
I was clean shaven when I arrived there. Looked like Brian Blessed when I left.
FowlerWelch@ Spalding:
“MANIC” would be a fair description!!![emoji6]
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