Do you find the firm you work for only really pay attention to the new blood and ignore the older more experienced drivers?, is it the same in every industry as I’ve always thought road haulage preferred the experience over the wide eyed optimism of youth 
I keep wondering if I’m just too thin skinned or if you just get lost the bigger a firm gets, I get that I’m just a number on a payroll but the firm I work for seem to sing from the rooftops how much they value their experienced staff but don’t seem to echo that in practice.
What are your experiences?
Personally the company ignoring me is what I ultimately want at work. Give me my work and let me get on with it! I don’t call them, they don’t call me, everyone is happy
you can probably get a good take on how they veiw you by looking at the company website if all the faces are young thrusting & diversified with not a stressed and haggered face to be seen ( probably in the style of a soviet properganda poster with a corperate tag line of FORWARD TOGETHER TO THE SHINING FUTURE ) you can make a good guess where you stand
Notimetoulouse:
you can probably get a good take on how they veiw you by looking at the company website if all the faces are young thrusting & diversified with not a stressed and haggered face to be seen ( probably in the style of a soviet properganda poster with a corperate tag line of FORWARD TOGETHER TO THE SHINING FUTURE ) you can make a good guess where you stand
Pretty accurate
switchlogic:
Personally the company ignoring me is what I ultimately want at work. Give me my work and let me get on with it! I don’t call them, they don’t call me, everyone is happy
That’s what I have at the moment, text message with work about half an hour before I start and keys hung up on a hook just inside the front door.
Get keys, get unit, hook up trailer and go. No phone calls or human contact unless absolutely necessary. Finish work and park unit, hang keys up and go home. The only way they actually know we are in work is when the tracker tells them the unit is moving. Best job I’ve ever had.
Notimetoulouse:
you can probably get a good take on how they veiw you by looking at the company website if all the faces are young thrusting & diversified with not a stressed and haggered face to be seen ( probably in the style of a soviet properganda poster with a corperate tag line of FORWARD TOGETHER TO THE SHINING FUTURE ) you can make a good guess where you stand
Example pic of typical trucker [emoji1787]
I get the impression my company values my experince,not being big headed,once youve done this job for 30 years,you know the common pitfalls.
Having said that,its not an issue to me if they value me or not.All I care about is,are you happy with what you get for the hours you put in?
Is there someone else who will pay you more money for the same effort?
I think ,once you answered those questions,you reasonably covered it.There is no such thing as loyalty to any company,in my opinion.You take the best deal you can get,business is business,look after number one!
the fub:
switchlogic:
Personally the company ignoring me is what I ultimately want at work. Give me my work and let me get on with it! I don’t call them, they don’t call me, everyone is happyThat’s what I have at the moment, text message with work about half an hour before I start and keys hung up on a hook just inside the front door.
Get keys, get unit, hook up trailer and go. No phone calls or human contact unless absolutely necessary. Finish work and park unit, hang keys up and go home. The only way they actually know we are in work is when the tracker tells them the unit is moving. Best job I’ve ever had.
You would be surprised how many drivers would not hack this regime and need their hand holding, and I`m not talking kids fresh out of training, but experienced guys who seem to be scared of their own shadow and need constant guidance
Ive got some on the same work, and certain ones are on the phone constantly querying anything & everything, and others that you never hear from, its the same bloody job FFS 
It’s fairly obvious there going to spend more time with kids / new drivers as they need baby sitting / nappy changing for them every 2 mins , that’s what the mentoring rubbish is about , them in the t/o want to dump the baby sitting duties onto us
Many of the big corporate companies tend to portray the company image as someone reasonably young + a politically correct gender/race person
Stanley Mitchell:
the fub:
switchlogic:
Personally the company ignoring me is what I ultimately want at work. Give me my work and let me get on with it! I don’t call them, they don’t call me, everyone is happyThat’s what I have at the moment, text message with work about half an hour before I start and keys hung up on a hook just inside the front door.
Get keys, get unit, hook up trailer and go. No phone calls or human contact unless absolutely necessary. Finish work and park unit, hang keys up and go home. The only way they actually know we are in work is when the tracker tells them the unit is moving. Best job I’ve ever had.You would be surprised how many drivers would not hack this regime and need their hand holding, and I`m not talking kids fresh out of training, but experienced guys who seem to be scared of their own shadow and need constant guidance
I
ve got some on the same work, and certain ones are on the phone constantly querying anything & everything, and others that you never hear from, its the same bloody job FFS
Exactly same as When I did the van job I often sat in office for a chat after I finished shift depending on who was working and a couple of times she put phone down moaning that ‘some drivers never stop calling’! I asked about this and it seems there were two extremes, likes of me that see the phone as the absolute last resort and others, experienced men who seem to want their hand held all day!
Because of the length of my run I was often last back and I often told office staff to not wait for me I’ll just go straight home. Took a while before they actually did though, their reasoning was ‘it’s not fair on you being out without anyone in the office’! I had to point out that as a lorry driver a large part of my working life I’ve been out on road without anyone in office. All I need is a phone number I know will be answered in the very rare event that the ■■■■ hits the van, where the person who answers it actually is is irrelevant!
switchlogic:
it seems there were two extremes, likes of me that see the phone as the absolute last resort and others, experienced men who seem to want their hand held all day!
This has been my experience too. The TM at my last employer showed me their detailed phone bill once. Other drivers had calls lasting many minutes, while most calls to me rarely went over a minute. A regular call we all got was when someone had phoned to ask when their delivery would arrive. When my phone rang I would not wait for the question but just say “Five minutes”, or whatever (hand-free of course) and cut the call.