Is this britains answer to driver shortage [MERGED]

fuse:
lidle and aldi are not winning , I have shopped there , not good on the food side ,tools ect mmmmmm ? clothes who are they suppose to fit,…an alien no mate its all hype.

The figures prove you wrong. Sales increase over past 12 weeks, Aldi 16.8% Lidl 12.1%
Aldi has just overtaken Waitrose and is now 6th largest supermarket

Also, Teco have just published the second worst ever pre tax corporate losses! All together now… Ah bless.

wing-nut:

fuse:
lidle and aldi are not winning , I have shopped there , not good on the food side ,tools ect mmmmmm ? clothes who are they suppose to fit,…an alien no mate its all hype.

The figures prove you wrong. Sales increase over past 12 weeks, Aldi 16.8% Lidl 12.1%
Aldi has just overtaken Waitrose and is now 6th largest supermarket

The market share figures may prove that wrong but on the odd time I need to pop to a store for a few bits I prefer organised shelves etc. not something that resembles a jumble sale.

BillyHunt:

desypete:

wing-nut:

Blunder Man:
Aldi were looking for driver’s at Goldthorpe on nights £12.68 per hour, for that you had to load the truck, unload it and put in warehouse at the store, reload any rubbish cages etc, same at the next store, go back unload all the crap do the usual diesel up etc., just think of the wages they save in staff if the driver is doing three men’s jobs, never bothered applying, too late now mind you as I am knackered.

Lidl works the same way, probably why 75% of our drivers are east european. We do get UK drivers start but they don’t usually last long.

no surprise there any driver worth there salt wouldnt hang around working for that crap outfit, why should they when they can find nice easy work for the same sort of money or a lot more money, so they will only get monkeys working for them, b+m and also home and bargin tj morris are always looking for mugs as well sorry i mean drivers no one seems to last long with those outfits either one wonders why ?

So, in a nutshell, you want us all to vote ukip so they can abolish the dcpc, thereby letting you back into a job which, reading your posts, you don’t seem to like very much. Relax, ukip won’t be getting anywhere near enough seats to make a difference anywhere, thereby forcing you to carry on outside the industry or do the dcpc. Either way whatever happens at places like aldi or lidl won’t affect you, unless you get a job as a barrier tech there of course. No dcpc required.

enjoy your 7 quid an hour thats if you even drive yourself anymore or have you retired and just sit on this forum each day trying to pretend to be a driver ?

lets hope one day your kids will end up facing work in macdonalds earning 5 quid an hour while the polish get moved into better paying jobs en block its not just driving jobs that will feel the increase and take over its every sector no matter what your job is
but i guess your not bright enough to see it coming

ukip will do well this year and give both labour and the tories a bloody nose up north. it will make a huge difference in the hung parliment but then you know that as its clear people have had enough of all the bolox people like you try to put over billy

your not believed anymore mate

desypete:

enjoy your 7 quid an hour thats if you even drive yourself anymore or have you retired and just sit on this forum each day trying to pretend to be a driver ?

lets hope one day your kids will end up facing work in macdonalds earning 5 quid an hour while the polish get moved into better paying jobs en block its not just driving jobs that will feel the increase and take over its every sector no matter what your job is
but i guess your not bright enough to see it coming

ukip will do well this year and give both labour and the tories a bloody nose up north. it will make a huge difference in the hung parliment but then you know that as its clear people have had enough of all the bolox people like you try to put over billy

you not believed anymore mate
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Good to see your not still bitter & twisted, is that you you’re describing, early retired pretending to be a driver? How’s that anti dcpc stance working out for you?
I haven’t worked for £7 ph for about 15 years now, and yes I’m still driving daily and no I don’t come on here pretending, unlike some.
I would be disappointed if my kids ended up working in McDs, they are both in their 30s working in a solicitors office.
With regards to ukip now the microscope is on the during this election they are being shown up for what they are, a one trick pony with a one man band on its back. The public are not as dumb as you seem to think, and definitely not as dumb as some on here, even Lord Nigel isn’t a shoe in for his “safe” seat anymore, not surprising given his poor showing in the TV debates. they will pick up votes from the xenophobes like yourself but nowhere near enough to make any difference, I did hear one candidate say they expect to get lots of second places! Which is as much use as your stance against the dcpc, and we all know how that turned out.
You just keep on enjoying your early retirement & leave the worrying about transport to those still doing it, but do keep on posting, some of your stuff is hilarious & I don’t just mean the spelling.

so your one of the well off middle classes with kids in decent jobs themselves billy you have done well out of the system and your kids have to, sadly up here mate the jobs go to polish and others with only small jobs like madonalds left for the English kids but you wouldn’t have a clue how the other half live.

i have done ok out of things over the years but my kids certainly are not doing ok my Daughter is struggling with her partner trying to afford to pay there mortgage as there wages are held down for another year and they can not do anything about it as there is no work out there that pays them what they make as it is, she to works in the legal system as a secretary and her hubby works as a manager both struggling and both looking over there shoulder awaiting immigrants to come into there place of work and then start to take over just like has happened in the nhs and now the driving industry

i could afford to make a stand on the cpc card billy as i have had enough of drivers like you who only think about themselves. i said it before you will deserve to work for less if your not going to do anything about it.

the cpc card has been and gone the drivers missed there chance to make a stand for better pay better conditions etc they were just to scared of the immigrants or whoever that they believed would take there jobs but drivers have always been like that no dam back bone just like you billy your a real driver as you only think about number 1

you did ok your kids are doing ok what about your grandkids ? what is there future going to be ? the food banks are waiting for people who did ok and then end up losing billy, plenty of decent earners of the past who are now struggling to make ends meet

it honestly will only get worse and maybe thats what its going to take, maybe it has to impact on people like you billy before enough of us say enough is enough but for now your ok son

more immigrants = less jobs for our own, decrease in wages for all as why do they need to pay more if there are so many people willing to work for peanuts ?

do the maths any idiot can even you my old son

Oh my god, that was the longest sentence I’ve ever read.

I know most keypads have number and caps locks on them, didn’t know you could get punctuation locks as well :open_mouth:

I usually have a brief chuckle at desypete’s ‘me against the world’ babbling and then move on, but this one’s a corker. A bloke with two kids working in a solicitor’s office and presumably doing all right for themselves (and contributing income tax, seemingly unlike desypete in light of his one-man stand against DCPC) has ‘done alright out of the system’.

Ell Oh Ell.

desypete:
so your one of the well off middle classes with kids in decent jobs themselves billy you have done well out of the system and your kids have to, sadly up here mate the jobs go to polish and others with only small jobs like madonalds left for the English kids but you wouldn’t have a clue how the other half live.

i have done ok out of things over the years but my kids certainly are not doing ok my Daughter is struggling with her partner trying to afford to pay there mortgage as there wages are held down for another year and they can not do anything about it as there is no work out there that pays them what they make as it is, she to works in the legal system as a secretary and her hubby works as a manager both struggling and both looking over there shoulder awaiting immigrants to come into there place of work and then start to take over just like has happened in the nhs and now the driving industry

i could afford to make a stand on the cpc card billy as i have had enough of drivers like you who only think about themselves. i said it before you will deserve to work for less if your not going to do anything about it.

the cpc card has been and gone the drivers missed there chance to make a stand for better pay better conditions etc they were just to scared of the immigrants or whoever that they believed would take there jobs but drivers have always been like that no dam back bone just like you billy your a real driver as you only think about number 1

you did ok your kids are doing ok what about your grandkids ? what is there future going to be ? the food banks are waiting for people who did ok and then end up losing billy, plenty of decent earners of the past who are now struggling to make ends meet

it honestly will only get worse and maybe thats what its going to take, maybe it has to impact on people like you billy before enough of us say enough is enough but for now your ok son

more immigrants = less jobs for our own, decrease in wages for all as why do they need to pay more if there are so many people willing to work for peanuts ?

do the maths any idiot can even you my old son

Where is “up here” exactly? I live in Newcastle, apart from time in the Army I always have. Well off middle class! You have zero idea about my circumstances but feel free to take some more wild assed guesses. You come across as a full time “glass half empty” type of person, always looking over your shoulder for the bogey man. I’ve never bothered worrying about any foreign people coming & taking my job because I do it well, it’s as simple as that really. The immigrants are here & they aren’t going to go away so you might as well get used to it, if one can do your job better than you then you should be looking at yourself I think.
As for the dcpc costing me money you’re wrong, again, my pay has gone up because of it, good firms want to keep good staff & are willing to pay extra for them. You wouldn’t know this as you’re busy wallowing in your own misery. Did all the drivers at your former workplace pack in to back you up? Look after myself, of course I do, we all do. Who were you looking after when you were making enough to put yourself on the dole, while making a futile stand against the dcpc?
As for my grand kids, they will do fine, they’re being taught a good work ethic & not to fear people just because they come from somewhere different. Who knows, by the time they are grown up ukip might have three MPs!

BillyHunt:

desypete:
so your one of the well off middle classes with kids in decent jobs themselves billy you have done well out of the system and your kids have to, sadly up here mate the jobs go to polish and others with only small jobs like madonalds left for the English kids but you wouldn’t have a clue how the other half live.

i have done ok out of things over the years but my kids certainly are not doing ok my Daughter is struggling with her partner trying to afford to pay there mortgage as there wages are held down for another year and they can not do anything about it as there is no work out there that pays them what they make as it is, she to works in the legal system as a secretary and her hubby works as a manager both struggling and both looking over there shoulder awaiting immigrants to come into there place of work and then start to take over just like has happened in the nhs and now the driving industry

i could afford to make a stand on the cpc card billy as i have had enough of drivers like you who only think about themselves. i said it before you will deserve to work for less if your not going to do anything about it.

the cpc card has been and gone the drivers missed there chance to make a stand for better pay better conditions etc they were just to scared of the immigrants or whoever that they believed would take there jobs but drivers have always been like that no dam back bone just like you billy your a real driver as you only think about number 1

you did ok your kids are doing ok what about your grandkids ? what is there future going to be ? the food banks are waiting for people who did ok and then end up losing billy, plenty of decent earners of the past who are now struggling to make ends meet

it honestly will only get worse and maybe thats what its going to take, maybe it has to impact on people like you billy before enough of us say enough is enough but for now your ok son

more immigrants = less jobs for our own, decrease in wages for all as why do they need to pay more if there are so many people willing to work for peanuts ?

do the maths any idiot can even you my old son

Where is “up here” exactly? I live in Newcastle, apart from time in the Army I always have. Well off middle class! You have zero idea about my circumstances but feel free to take some more wild assed guesses. You come across as a full time “glass half empty” type of person, always looking over your shoulder for the bogey man. I’ve never bothered worrying about any foreign people coming & taking my job because I do it well, it’s as simple as that really. The immigrants are here & they aren’t going to go away so you might as well get used to it, if one can do your job better than you then you should be looking at yourself I think.
As for the dcpc costing me money you’re wrong, again, my pay has gone up because of it, good firms want to keep good staff & are willing to pay extra for them. You wouldn’t know this as you’re busy wallowing in your own misery. Did all the drivers at your former workplace pack in to back you up? Look after myself, of course I do, we all do. Who were you looking after when you were making enough to put yourself on the dole, while making a futile stand against the dcpc?
As for my grand kids, they will do fine, they’re being taught a good work ethic & not to fear people just because they come from somewhere different. Who knows, by the time they are grown up ukip might have three MPs!

billy billy billy

have a look at the poll on here 74 votes for ukip compared to 47 for tory

i think it says it all my friend people are getting fed up with bolox and are now ready to call a spade a spade

if we have an austriain style policy and close our doors we might get back to earning decent money again

15 years ago i was on £7.25 per hour, i got time and half after 8 hours, time and half saturday and double bubble sundays i used to earn £ 700 plus a week

compare that to todays money ? most guys end up on salary pay these days or get a single rate for weekend work or how ever else companys find ways to pay the driver the fact is the money just hasnt gone up in all those years

if anything some drivers earn less

i did well years ago because i did the hours mate i worked the weekends and made sure i got 15 hours a day in over the weekends it all adds up and the job was a much better job were drivers were real drivers, they got around the country without sat navs and had a much harder job back then

but anyway it was a much better job back then either that or i am just an old dinosaur living in history rather than todays world

you can not even smoke in the cabs anymore let alone ■■■■ in one without some snot nosed driver running in the office to report on you

i believe drivers are a good example of ordaniary commmon sense in the world they are a fair bunch expect for those like you that is who dont give a flying f for anyone else, but thats ok you are free to do that as you will be the first to moan should you or your kids fall on hard times

no one is going to keep you in work if they can find another idiot to do you job for a cheaper price your only a driver who drives trucks its not rocket science in this world today you are 2 a penny in todays market but if we close the door then you might get some value for what you do

not many operate out of the north east so you will not have the problem other areas have with mirgrants so your head is stuck up your arse on that subject and being a good european is your aim lol

anyway at least i can look at the poll and laugh my ■■■■ off at you

Olog Hai:
I usually have a brief chuckle at desypete’s ‘me against the world’ babbling and then move on, but this one’s a corker. A bloke with two kids working in a solicitor’s office and presumably doing all right for themselves (and contributing income tax, seemingly unlike desypete in light of his one-man stand against DCPC) has ‘done alright out of the system’.

Ell Oh Ell.

the difference is my friend i do want to give something back to make sure there is something left for the others like our kids,

the fact you went off to get your card is down to you but please dont moan like a girl if someone tells you that you at least had a chance to put 2 fingers up to the card and you choose not to, its not my fault you had no back bone :smiley:

dont tell me your a class 2 driver ?

desypete:

BillyHunt:

desypete:

billy billy billy

have a look at the poll on here 74 votes for ukip compared to 47 for tory

i think it says it all my friend people are getting fed up with bolox and are now ready to call a spade a spade

if we have an austriain style policy and close our doors we might get back to earning decent money again

15 years ago i was on £7.25 per hour, i got time and half after 8 hours, time and half saturday and double bubble sundays i used to earn £ 700 plus a week

compare that to todays money ? most guys end up on salary pay these days or get a single rate for weekend work or how ever else companys find ways to pay the driver the fact is the money just hasnt gone up in all those years

if anything some drivers earn less

i did well years ago because i did the hours mate i worked the weekends and made sure i got 15 hours a day in over the weekends it all adds up and the job was a much better job were drivers were real drivers, they got around the country without sat navs and had a much harder job back then

but anyway it was a much better job back then either that or i am just an old dinosaur living in history rather than todays world

you can not even smoke in the cabs anymore let alone ■■■■ in one without some snot nosed driver running in the office to report on you

i believe drivers are a good example of ordaniary commmon sense in the world they are a fair bunch expect for those like you that is who dont give a flying f for anyone else, but thats ok you are free to do that as you will be the first to moan should you or your kids fall on hard times

no one is going to keep you in work if they can find another idiot to do you job for a cheaper price your only a driver who drives trucks its not rocket science in this world today you are 2 a penny in todays market but if we close the door then you might get some value for what you do

not many operate out of the north east so you will not have the problem other areas have with mirgrants so your head is stuck up your arse on that subject and being a good european is your aim lol

anyway at least i can look at the poll and laugh my ■■■■ off at you

Haw haw, you actually think that a poll on here will transfer into real life and affect the election, thats brilliant! I’d best get over there and cast my vote before all hell breaks loose.
Right, assume ukip get in, massive assumption I know but still, tell me what will happen to all the immigrants that are here now? When will this, I think you mean Australian system come in? How do you propose to stop the illegal entrants? I may surprise you to know that the majority are here legally, and Lord farage do bugger all about it, even if he ended up in No10.
I think you need to go back & read some of your stuff before posting, your memory is obviously failing. One minute you say drivers have never had a backbone & the next you’re saying it was great in your day because you all helped each other. I can see why your bitter & twisted though, having to work every possible hour to make some cash, theres no way I’d be working that many hours, I don’t even bother with weekends & still make plenty. I have to thank you for that btw, if it wasn’t for muppets like you not being able to pass the dcpc I’d be on less cash & might have to put a Saturday morning in.
I think you are correct though, you are a dinosaur, the type you don’t want to end up next to anywhere as you’d get an earful of “the good old days” tripe. In fact it’s as good a reason to keep the dcpc as I’ve heard so I’m sorry but I think I’ll give ukip a miss.

now now billy dont be so bitter my friend

just because ukip polls show what most people think and they dont think like you there is no need to get all arsey my freind

you can ignore what happend in the euro elections and what happend in the 2 parilment results that seen ukip win all you want, as its clear you can not believe in results.

you have no aruement just guessing that ukip will not do anything or hoping they wont, but the fact is billy you have no proof that they will not do well in the elections as i know they will as people are fed up and ready for a real change

dont worry billy you are safe to stay here and earn your corn and possibly end up in a better postion again thanks to people who have guts to make a stand compared to people like you who will do nothing but talk hot air

ukip will cause a huge pain in the ■■■■ and thats just what is needed now, political correctness is out of fashion as more and more people get affected by it.

ukip will get 3 seats,im more worried about the scots numptie party the only commie party left in this country

desypete:
now now billy dont be so bitter my friend

just because ukip polls show what most people think and they dont think like you there is no need to get all arsey my freind

you can ignore what happend in the euro elections and what happend in the 2 parilment results that seen ukip win all you want, as its clear you can not believe in results.

you have no aruement just guessing that ukip will not do anything or hoping they wont, but the fact is billy you have no proof that they will not do well in the elections as i know they will as people are fed up and ready for a real change

dont worry billy you are safe to stay here and earn your corn and possibly end up in a better postion again thanks to people who have guts to make a stand compared to people like you who will do nothing but talk hot air

ukip will cause a huge pain in the ■■■■ and thats just what is needed now, political correctness is out of fashion as more and more people get affected by it.

I’m not the one being all arsey, and I’m not your freind! Whatever that is. I’m just able to see a little clearer than some. People like you have been banging on about how immigration is going to put all us poor Brits on the dole for years, Asians, West Indians, Africans, all have come here and yet we still manage to get on.
Your obviously the gullible type, taken in by any loony ideas that come along regardless of there being zero chance of them coming true, didn’t you think we would all band together to refuse to do the dcpc? That worked out well for you, sat at home sucking up my taxes. You taking the current results of the poll on this forum is just one more example of how deluded you are. If they transfer into seats on polling day I’ll show my bell end in fenwicks window.
You’ve taken the figures from a poll held on a trucking site and seem to think the same will happen nationwide, it’s just not going to happen. If you think they will do as well as you predict then give us the benefit of your expertise & let us know how many seats they will win, not do well in but win. You should manage this quite well as, I seem to be just hoping they do poorly whereas you know for certain they will do well. I won’t hold my breath waiting for an answer given your failure to answer any other questions I’ve posed.
I think the best thing for you is keep quiet about their chances of gaining power so that when, like your driving career, it comes to a shuddering stop, you can move on to the next bandwagon. Good job they don’t need a licence.

desypete:

Olog Hai:
I usually have a brief chuckle at desypete’s ‘me against the world’ babbling and then move on, but this one’s a corker. A bloke with two kids working in a solicitor’s office and presumably doing all right for themselves (and contributing income tax, seemingly unlike desypete in light of his one-man stand against DCPC) has ‘done alright out of the system’.

Ell Oh Ell.

the difference is my friend i do want to give something back to make sure there is something left for the others like our kids,

the fact you went off to get your card is down to you but please dont moan like a girl if someone tells you that you at least had a chance to put 2 fingers up to the card and you choose not to, its not my fault you had no back bone :smiley:

dont tell me your a class 2 driver ?

OK Pete, read the following carefully.

  1. ‘Friend’? Um, no.
  2. I have a DCPC card that I didn’t have to pay for, did on the firm’s time but have never had cause to ‘use’, because…
  3. I am not a class 2 driver, nor a class 1 driver, and haven’t been for some time. In fact I have nothing to do with trucks (except posting on here, before the monkey gets in first… :wink: ), and given half of the absolute garbage I read on Trucknet I am glad of that to say the least.

Nowt wrong with talking garbage.

Ive been doing it for 42 years.

Talking it is one thing, believing it is something else entirely.

Lol!! Cant argue with that.