I saw the following on LinkedIn, what do you all think?:
Permanent Full-time contracts available!
£14 per hour
42 hours per week, overtime available
5 on 3 off shift pattern
Full training provided
Full uniform provided
Company benefits including holiday pay and much more
Driving with us means delivering a range of products to our customers, ensuring the right products get to the right places at the right time. We train all our drivers to provide amazing service while delivering and installing.
You’ll take a smile with you wherever you go and treat everyone you meet like an old friend. You’ll do your very best to see the positive in everything and do whatever it takes to deliver the goods.
With impressive vehicles and helpful training, we offer what you need to be the best of the best.
A Few Things About You: You’ll Have
No more than 6 points on your license
No criminal convictions
A passion for driving and customer service
A positive attitude and an infectious smile
Our Benefits
We’ve designed our benefits to cover everything from big moments to little helps. As well all as the essentials, like pensions and holidays, we’ve got our own “Perks” to help you with the little things that matter.
Including
25 days holiday (Excluding Bank Holidays)
At least 5% contribution pension scheme
Dedicated wellness initiatives that support your wellbeing, ranging from our 24hr employee assistance programme to subsidised gym membership.
Company discount
Attendance bonus
Share save scheme- If you fancy an easy way to save money, our Share-save Scheme might be just the thing!
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A STANDARD valid UK/EU photo-card license!!!
ie, no LGV required. Probably a 3.5t Luton or similar? Not so long ago £14.00ph was not bad for C+E? The Job is with AO.COM btw.
A passion for heaving and ‘installing’ the ‘products’ obviously as an installer and probably multiple ‘products’ to be delivered and installed in a shift.
Definitely earning your £14/hr on that one given the vast majority of what they’re selling are white goods and big TVs and it involves delivering to where the thing is going to live in the house so not only could you be ■■■■■■■ it up flights of stairs you’ve also got to get it through how ever many rooms to where it’s going to be used.
I’ve been offered van , class 2 work of late , every time on arrival & lisense check I’ve ended up in a artic , if you’ve got class 1 I doubt very much theyl send you out in a van , they can nigh on get anyone to do that
Rates I’m being offered though are apx £5 less for driving a van than a artic , class 2 being paid the same as class 1 , but never actually took a rigid out yet thank god
That’s good money for driving a van, but that is the easy bit.
Trying to get massive American fridge freezers in and out is going to make you earn it. They are so big they will only just fit through a door and really awkward to manouevre as are just a large slippery box. Other white goods also equally difficult
dozy:
I’ve been offered van , class 2 work of late , every time on arrival & lisense check I’ve ended up in a artic , if you’ve got class 1 I doubt very much theyl send you out in a van , they can nigh on get anyone to do that
Rates I’m being offered though are apx £5 less for driving a van than a artic , class 2 being paid the same as class 1 , but never actually took a rigid out yet thank god
Probably best you take the van work Ady. At least then you won’t be able to drive over them.
I am a skinny, (9 ½ Stone), not very fit, sixty-year-old. The job is based in Basildon, Essex.
Basildon was “designed” in the 1960’s by lunatics/sadists, off of their ■■■■ on acid. The actual job would not entail much “driving”, but would need a lot of logistical working out. “How the bloody hell am I to get this American-style cooker to the 8th floor of that block, where the nearest place I can park is a quarter of a mile away?”
I used to work for ParcelForce and DREADED being sent to Basildon!
I once actually ‘lost’ my van! Parked up, got parcel out, locked up and went off to find the address in the maze/labyrinth. Could not find my way back! Should have taken a ball of string or some breadcrumbs!
Would imagine it would be double-manned with a driver and a ‘mate’, unless they have those powered sack barrows that can climb steps. It would be okay if you were partnered up with someone decent, but to be honest what are the chances? While you drive they sleep sort of thing. Nah, not for me.
He he! Or could be the other way round.
“I’ve done my bit, driving here. Now it’s your turn, son. Off you trot, with that industrial washing machine, look sharp!”
I am a skinny, (9 ½ Stone), not very fit, sixty-year-old. The job is based in Basildon, Essex.
Basildon was “designed” in the 1960’s by lunatics/sadists, off of their ■■■■ on acid. The actual job would not entail much “driving”, but would need a lot of logistical working out. “How the bloody hell am I to get this American-style cooker to the 8th floor of that block, where the nearest place I can park is a quarter of a mile away?”
I used to work for ParcelForce and DREADED being sent to Basildon!
I once actually ‘lost’ my van! Parked up, got parcel out, locked up and went off to find the address in the maze/labyrinth. Could not find my way back! Shoiuld have taken a ball of string or some breadcrumbs!
I once had a shift at Farmfoods and delivering to Basildon was a pain.It was a night job.I hated it
and got the F’d right knee to prove it 
