mrginge:
It does seem that they were less sensitive about it until you put the ‘L’ word in that topic you started.
Really? I had to scroll back to the top to make sure I didn’t put it on Mumsnet by mistake. 
Conor,you say I’m uneducated yet you revert to personal insults because you can’t take a bit of banter for what it is.
Maybe you should take up meditating and it may possibly rid you of your negative feelings towards us full-timers,you strike me as a very angry man and if all you have got to worry about in life is what others think about you believe me,your doing very well.
I’ve never worked for an agency,I’ve never claimed benefits and I am doing ok thanks for your concern…hell I could even fill in my own forms of called upon to do so,I’m no Einstein granted but I know all my own details.
If I wound you up I apologise,if you knew me personally you would know I ain’t a ■■■■■■■■ actually a good guy,you carry on with your angry little rants if you wish to do so,hell if it makes you feel better sling a few more insults my way I can take it I’m not that insecure to let someone on the internet get to me.
Kind Regards,
Your friend Chris.
Conor coming out with his “one trick donkey” line again when he himself does the same job night after night.
Conor, you commute 60 miles to do a night shift for £10 an hour. Who’s the donkey? 
xichrisxi:
…you strike me as a very angry man…
Doesn’t he just.
I suppose it’s understandable given his current situation though.
It sure does ■■■■ to be Conor.
I’m currently directly employed in a short term contract.
So do I limp every step, or every other step? 
Like I said on the other thread, if someone is seen to be rattled about something and bites, then the banter increases. The knock on effect can be that some times it gets a bit more bitter until it turns into abuse.
So let’s just admit it we are all in the same crap job, and we are all drivers together on here, whether agency or full time.
Even I as one of the main agency driver wind up culprits on here 
, am getting a bit bored ■■■■ less with all this, …4 threads on the same page, on the same subject ffs 
I blame Honked myself, first he has the cyclists upset now agency folk are limping round in circles after him. How about a group hug before the thread lock.
So if I sign up full-time my limp will magically disappear ?
Has no-one told the NHS, just think of the saving in knee and hip replacements, physios, orthopaedic surgeons…
Contraflow:
Conor coming out with his “one trick donkey” line again when he himself does the same job night after night.Conor, you commute 60 miles to do a night shift for £10 an hour. Who’s the donkey?
heehaw,heehaw,heehawwww…he is…sorry for the stutter… 
you can read its mind…I wish I had paid more attention at the agency induction,this is a doddle…
chicane:
Has no-one told the NHS
They tried but sadly most of the staff are now agency limpers themselves as they get paid more and can pick their shifts!
Contraflow:
Conor coming out with his “one trick donkey” line again when he himself does the same job night after night.Conor, you commute 60 miles to do a night shift for £10 an hour. Who’s the donkey?
I’m the donkey.
Contraflow:
Conor coming out with his “one trick donkey” line again when he himself does the same job night after night.
No I don’t because I don’t want to work 5 days a week so I don’t do it night after night. Next week I’ll be taking a couple of days off because I’ve got something I want to do on my car and because I don’t work in a permanent job I’ll just inform them this week I’m not available those two days and that’ll be that and I’ll be in Mon, Thu and Friday. And I choose to only work where I am out of personal choice and if I decide I want a change I just pick the phone up.
No permanent employee can do that. You’re working 5 days/6 days a week whether you want to or not and given your employer can even dictate when you take your holidays you can’t just decide to take a few days off with a few days notice, you have to lie and pull a sickie. And if you get sick of what you’re doing there is no changing to something else for a bit, you have to hand in your notice and quit your job when you find another and if that new job ends up being crap then you’re stuck with it or you’re on the dole whereas I just pick up the phone and go somewhere else.
As for commuting a 60 mile round trip every day, lots of people do in my area. Half those working in the town probably do, it is just one of the things you have to do living in a rural county.
Its only the biggest Richard Heads on here with the same old day in day anti agency rubbish, nothing new no originality ( would expect anything more from them)
Probably the only interaction with agency are the dirty limping carrier bag weilding bloke as they are the only person the agency can get to go to the companys they work for as most likley they are the ones with brain dead, one trick runs with wage packets padded out by 70 hour weeks and night out money. But hey you get a shiney truck.
But hey like Conor said above I prefer to pick when I work week by week. I only ever do 3 or 4 days as have a young family id rather spend the time with and i get paid enough to do that. 4 weekday shifts last week, no nights out £615 before tax. So why choose getting shafted week in week out on full time peanuts is beyond me.
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xichrisxi:
…you strike me as a very angry man…Doesn’t he just.
I suppose it’s understandable given his current situation though.
It sure does ■■■■ to be Conor.
Have a heart. He’s still in councilling after Ronnie threatened to bare knuckle him off his moped.
Conor:
Juddian:
Its because they’re so easy to fish, straight on the defensive or offended
The amusing thing is that most of us full timers have done at least some agency or temping in our driving lives, even if only as a stop gap so know exactly what the score is, but maybe we didn’t take ourselves quite so seriously.
When you have someone telling you you’re [zb] a several times a week for years on end and tell me how funny you find it then because thats how much and how long agency drivers have been getting crap on this forum.
xichrisxi:
Should Limpers be allowed to post in “The proffesional drivers forum” section of this site?,maybe we should have a Limpers area for their drivel.Exactly what I mean. STFU you [zb] one trick donkey. A thick ■■■■■■ like you wouldn’t last long as an agency driver because you don’t possess the intelligence to be able to figure out how to do different paperwork at different places and would probably be shafted if you had to drive a different truck to the one you’ve been driving. A “herp derp where’s reverse” dumbass, that’s what you’d be. I find it incredulous that retarded halfwits like yourself who are incapable of punctuating a sentence to the level of a 5 year old in the first year of primary school and can’t even spell simple words like professional seem to think that they’re above agency drivers.
I think you’ve just blown your new years resolution with royal regalia and stars.
Fair play, you’ve come out with some decent comments in 2016. I recognise you in this post though . Just don’t flounce off this time. We can’t banter if the other pub quizz team sods off when it suits them.
Evil8Beezle:
I’m currently directly employed in a short term contract.
So do I limp every step, or every other step?
you could try a - hop * and a skip * ,
but i just noticed your from Shton , so best keep your arm movements military style and dont hug your hips *
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*this is a public service announcement
I am an agency driver and this forum shamed me to upgrade from my asda bag to a proper work bag. But I did line it with an asda bag
rangechange59:
iv’e never done agency work in 30yrs of having a class 1.what iv’e found in the past is that some agency drivers do the work because it suits them,the company i work for has an agency driver almost permanent and have offered him a job but he has turned it down because his pay rate is better than the pay rate that the employed day drivers are on,but if the company had any brains they would put the rates up so they wouldn’t have to employ agency in the first place!
some agency drivers are clueless that is a fact because in this game if you have no experiance,no job and the only place that most new drivers can get it is by working for an agency
when i first started driving it was a different culture,drivers helped other drivers,iv’e heard of tales long before mobile tyre fitters were invented that a driver was expected to change his wheel if he got a puncture and if you saw a driver changing a wheel you stopped and helped him,that was how it was in those days,i know that now life has got a lot faster and desk jockeys are running the job and if you stop for any length of time they will be on the phone whilst looking at the tracker wanting to know why you are stopped and the desk jockey giving you grief but at the end of the day we are all doing the same job,so the next time that you see an agency driver making mistakes don’t take the micky,ask him/her if they need a hand
now i know that there are some agency drivers out there that just don’t give a damm just like there are some employed drivers that have the same attitude,i know that iv’e worked with plenty in the past (and i bet most of you have as well) and its this type of driver who are giving this industry a bad name
anyway rant over,all i can say is lets try to get on with each other a bit better…employed and agency alike
+1 and as has been said, I know agency blokes who want to clear off to Goa or somewhere in the middle of winter for a month or like Conor fix his car or whatever.
It’s just different strokes for different blokes.
This limper thing - past it’s sell by date now?
I agree. What’s most important is we are all drivers, who care what happens in our industry.
The agency/zero hours contract issue is a sign of the times. It is an economy wide problem and not specific to haulage.
Like any company an agency staff has good and bad drivers, workers and shirkers. Yes the desperate agency will have it’s fair share of the un-employable on it’s books that will be dragged out at times of high demand, but to tar all agency drivers with that brush would be unfair.
Surely judging drivers by their skills and knowledge is the fair approach, not judging them by their type of employment contract.
If the forum wants to poke fun at someone why not direct it’s attention to those who constantly post absolute drivel.
The problem is those who post drivel don’t bite with the same default defensive reaction.
The young poke fun at the old the old poke fun at the young, those with hair poke fun at the bald or vice versa, those in some industries poke fun at those in others, crying out loud we poke fun at each all the time, it’s the British way its always been the same whether in peace or at war, its healthy and normal and injects some amusement into life and long may it continue to be allowed.
In most cases we’re laughing at ourselves and our own faults because that’s what genuine Brits do, you have to put some humour into the ludicrous situations we find ourselves, whether its job family country or world wise the whole thing is ludicrous beyond belief and getting worse year on year and if you didn’t laugh your own place in the whole bloody mess you’d end up…er probably taking yourself as seriously as politicians, and some agency lads do too and start believing your own propaganda… 