love the bit WE HAVE HEARD 99P FULL ENGLISH jobs a good un then
V1/C+E/CLASS 1 Drivers -Dagenham
Job description
Full time HGV1/LGV1/C+E/Class 1 Driving jobs with trg at Tesco Dagenham. £26000-£32000 + Overtime
Exactly what job entails: Are you looking for a full time HGV1/ LGV1/ C+E /Class 1 driving job?
TRG urgently require HGV1/ LGV1/ C+E / Class 1 drivers for full time driving work at Tesco in Dagenham, to start immediately.
It’s a great time to join trg, as Tesco are demanding more and more World Class Drivers on a full time basis from us.
The Package:
Full time employment with trg
£26-32k salary
42.5hrs guaranteed weekly
Plenty of overtime available at £10.50-£13.50/ hr
Free Driver CPC training during your first week on the payroll
The Benefits:
The security of working for a blue chip company
Brand new depot (Tesco Distribution in Dagenham)
Brand new vehicles
Subsidised canteen
Shift rota with planned rest days up to 10 weeks in advance
Mapped-out routes
Free Uniform
Free hot drinks
You’ll need:
A full HGV1/ C+E/ Class 1 licence
A full understanding of WTD legislation
A digital tachograph
A good geographic knowledge of UK roads
Previous experience of retail deliveries (desired but not essential)
We need you to:
Be physically active due to the nature of the role
Communicate effectively with customers and colleagues alike
Have a flexible approach to working hours
Be professional and customer focused at all times
Have a positive, can do attitude and be of smart appearance
You’ll enjoy the perks of driving for a blue chip company. The Dagenham Tesco Distribution centre is brand new, as are the vehicles. There’s a subsidised canteen on site where drivers are welcome. We’ve heard that a full English breakfast is just 99p!
If you meet the criteria below, and you like the sound of all the benefits of this full time HGV1/ LGV1/ C+E/ Class 1 driving job, then please apply now!
Call our Recruitment team right away on 0208 971 1900
You can email your CV to or find out more about this role at trglogistics.co.uk
Or, tell us why you don’t wish to apply for this job.
It beats “XYZ Agency Parasites…Require 5xHGV/LGV C/C+E Drivers for non existant jobs…” Which is all we get around here. I’ve been googling companies and emailing my cv. Not even worth me doing Class 1 at the moment.
topmixer11:
love the bit WE HAVE HEARD 99P FULL ENGLISH jobs a good un then
V1/C+E/CLASS 1 Drivers -Dagenham
Job description
Full time HGV1/LGV1/C+E/Class 1 Driving jobs with trg at Tesco Dagenham. £26000-£32000 + Overtime
Bull. TRG is an agency, and you’ll be working for them - on umbrella at that. You’ll not be a full time exployee of Tesco, which is what full time job seekers are actually hoping for here.
Exactly what job entails: Are you looking for a full time HGV1/ LGV1/ C+E /Class 1 driving job?
Question clearly ducked here.
TRG urgently require HGV1/ LGV1/ C+E / Class 1 drivers for full time driving work at Tesco in Dagenham, to start immediately.
Mostly true this line, but no mention of what hours you’ll actually be working on what days. Expect stupid O’clock starts, and too long/too short shifts to make it comfortable for your personal circumstances.
It’s a great time to join trg, as Tesco are demanding more and more World Class Drivers on a full time basis from us.
So they’ve stopped using Mainstream then? You can get the same shifts at Tescos with Mainstream without joining Umbrella.
The Package:
Full time employment with trg
That’s true at least. Note though that it’s NOT with Tescos, so they’ll be no tescos perks like shopping discount, decent overtime rates, uniforms, holidays, etc.
£26-32k salary
Bull. If you are off sick or on holiday, you won’t be paid - at least out of TRG’s money.
42.5hrs guaranteed weekly
No say on what shifts though. Can I have 13:00-04:00 friday, saturday, sunday please? Nope. Not available. Perhaps monday-friday 6am starts for the bottom end of the hourly rates?
Plenty of overtime available at £10.50-£13.50/ hr
Is it really overtime, or working overnight/across weekend rates being shown here? £13.50 is CRAP for an overtime rate inside the M25, especially across nights and weekends, and even more so if it’s including the “extra £1ph umbrella” bump-up.
Free Driver CPC training during your first week on the payroll
Don’t believe it. Perhaps you’ll be “confirmed” as being booked into a course some weeks/months away, but you won’t be getting your 35 hours credit by the end of month one - I guarantee it!
The Benefits:
The security of working for a blue chip company
Which?
Brand new depot (Tesco Distribution in Dagenham)
So not TRG owned then?
Brand new vehicles
Subsidised canteen
Shift rota with planned rest days up to 10 weeks in advance
Mapped-out routes
Free Uniform
Free hot drinks
You’ll need:
A full HGV1/ C+E/ Class 1 licence
A full understanding of WTD legislation
A digital tachograph
A good geographic knowledge of UK roads
Previous experience of retail deliveries (desired but not essential)
We need you to:
Be physically active due to the nature of the role
Communicate effectively with customers and colleagues alike
Have a flexible approach to working hours
I guess I won’t be getting those shifts I’d like then…
Be professional and customer focused at all times
If only the umbrella accountants could focus positively upon me as their customer…
Have a positive, can do attitude and be of smart appearance
Well, if uniform is uniform, we’d all look equally smart? - Or are we talking civvies here with only a TRG high vis thrown over them?
…and yet after all this, a Tesco full timer’s basic hourly rate will be more than overnight overtime hourly rate via TRG essentially doing the same job, but with no safety net. If it’s just agency hours wanted working out of this depot, then one might as well stick to my own side of the river, and work there for the same or better money. I don’t think it can get much lower than the rates on offer, considering you’ll be flat out hours wise for a takehome of less than £500pw for it.
You’ll enjoy the perks of driving for a blue chip company. The Dagenham Tesco Distribution centre is brand new, as are the vehicles. There’s a subsidised canteen on site where drivers are welcome. We’ve heard that a full English breakfast is just 99p! If I have to pay £3 elsewhere for a breakfast, but get £3ph more on my pay, I think I’ll lump for the more expensive breakfast…
The best perk of all I’d like is being paid the same as the tesco full timers.
If you meet the criteria below, and you like the sound of all the benefits of this full time HGV1/ LGV1/ C+E/ Class 1 driving job, then please apply now!
Call our Recruitment team right away on 0208 971 1900
You can email your CV to or find out more about this role at trglogistics.co.uk
Or, tell us why you don’t wish to apply for this job.
Well, I’ve done that at least.
So, you’re turning your nose up at a reasonably well-paid job just 'cos the regulars get more . You want to cherry-pick the shifts, you’re moaning about an overtime rate that a good few would kill for (and don’t give me that M25 bulldust it’s Dagenham not bloody Monaco) and despite being the new kid on the block you’d really like the big money job.
No bloody wonder every other driver’s surname ends in “-----ski” with an attitude like that.
Winseer, to be honest fella, I would have done the interviews/assessments first and had a good old chat with them before killing the idea stone dead - then when you’ve done all that and had time to think about it, then stick the boot in if necessary
I done all assessments etc got job meant to start in june but i agree with winseer the overtime and pay is poor.
So i wont be taking the job.
The rosta is
5 on 1 off
5 on 2 off
5 on 2 off
across w/e and unsociable hours and some weeks youre work 10 days with only 1 day off in the middle.
The basic is 23600 the rest is made up by bonus for good driving etc so cannot be relied upon.
Youre take home about 440.00 aweek if you hit every bonus and work 60 hrs every week.
Some drivers only cleared £1000-£1200 in their first month at reading.
Ok job if you dont have many outgoing and live close otherwise not worth doing in my opinion.
Socketset:
Winseer, to be honest fella, I would have done the interviews/assessments first and had a good old chat with them before killing the idea stone dead - then when you’ve done all that and had time to think about it, then stick the boot in if necessary
It maybe have worked for you.
That’s just it - I did. How do you think I found out the hard way that it ‘wasn’t for me’'?
Wasting a whole day on the other side of the river was entirely my fault for not reading the small print, and listening to any advice before setting out.
If I’d known beforehand what I know now about TRG I would have dropped the whole idea as soon as I found I wasn’t actually applying for a tesco full time job.
hook:
I done all assessments etc got job meant to start in june but i agree with winseer the overtime and pay is poor.
So i wont be taking the job.
The rosta is
5 on 1 off
5 on 2 off
5 on 2 off
across w/e and unsociable hours and some weeks youre work 10 days with only 1 day off in the middle.
The basic is 23600 the rest is made up by bonus for good driving etc so cannot be relied upon.
Youre take home about 440.00 aweek if you hit every bonus and work 60 hrs every week.
Some drivers only cleared £1000-£1200 in their first month at reading.
Ok job if you dont have many outgoing and live close otherwise not worth doing in my opinion.
Here here!
So… the rest of you… What towns “oop narth” consider this to be a job worth one’s right arm then?
60 hours for a takehome wage that doesn’t even pay a mortgage down south, let alone inside the M25, or having to commute across that damned bridge every day at times when most likely it ain’t free because you’ve got no say on what shifts you work.
Roll on the future when employers start realising that applying for an actual shift pattern at the start is the more popular option!
I had passed the tests etc, but pulled out before being actually offered a job, after an hour was spent trying to “sell me” Unmbrella and a self-employed contract working out of Thurrock.
The silly thing is, I carried on listening to the spiel because I was thinking there would be some lucractive contract deal at the end of it…
You know, one of those £18ph paid gross type jobs I’ve spoken of in the past. “If the carrot is big enough, no ■■■■ is too big to lick” you might say.
That’s my embarrsement in all this.
Applications are invited, but there’s no information. The wording is such that I thought that this was the ad’s way of effectively deferring you to the TRG block recruitment thing.?
Everything that Winseer said is 100% correct, i did the same for Southampton branch. Fed a story of this that and the other, and its all as Winseer said.
I gave it up after a while and got a proper job with a proper boss and haven’t looked back since.
TRG are hard work, no matter what your attitude to work is.
Glad i did it, but won’t be going back anytime soon.
Muckaway:
How many of you would do a 60 mile round trip to work? Thought I’d ask as I’ve had a tip off about a possible job.
I do it all the time. I have to in order to get the £10ph I chase filled. There’s only two agency assignments local to me, which don’t provide enough shifts per year that would let me be so fussy as to not commute out of my home town…
The furthest commutes I’ve had so far have been Dover (2 yards in the neighbourhood I’ve been to) and Croydon (3 yards there I’ve been to). My closest, Medway City Estate. (only one punter so far here)
Commuting to Dagenham (only done one assignment there before - Hovis) isn’t so bad IF you are either paid a good full time wage OR a decent agency rate with expenses added.
TRG offer neither, even after you’ve signed up for umbrella. 40 hours sounds good and all, but if the rate is too low, it won’t work for pretty much anyone crossing the river to get there.
The Hovis assignment was £16ph on sundays/bh, and that was some time ago as well. Plenty of handball, but I didnt mind it 'cos the money was right.
My average commutes however are probably Crossways, Aylesford & Eurolink estates, which are all about the same time to reach from where I live.
Muckaway:
How many of you would do a 60 mile round trip to work? Thought I’d ask as I’ve had a tip off about a possible job.
Mate was doing ollerton- Lutterworth,think he said it was 58 miles,jacked the job after 2 weeks,fuel(£100 in a week,that was including private mileage),mileage on the car would of been about 30 k in a year so he said,
Know another one who did horn castle -nwk,not sure of exact miles but I’d guess a fair run,again jacked it.
To do that miles I’d want to be tramping,do it once a week.
N.b both have now got local jobs with the same money as they were getting for 50 miles a day
TRG is an agency, and you’ll be working for them - on umbrella at that. You’ll not be a full time exployee of Tesco, which is what full time job seekers are actually hoping for here.
