Hi, there was a kuwait job on here a few weeks ago but i cant find it now ,does anyone have a link for it?
Thanks
Neil Yardley
Recruitment Manager,
M&E Group Ltd,
Wolverhampton Airport,
Stourbridge,
West Midlands,
DY7 5DY
E: neil@labourdesk.com
T: 01384 221133
Thanks
I applied for this sent me all the forms filled them out sent them back Got phone call just to verify some thing Every thing in order. So today after 2 months Gave them a call and they said waiting for positions to come available from the U.S people or if one of the 40 people already there left. Just the same as any agency Get people on the books to cover their arses for the big booking. 
Not to bothered it would been a bit different from RDC’s all the time
I have just returned to the uk from this job in Kuwait!!!
Please tell us more. What were the conditions like? What were you doing? Got any pics or a diary? Not interested in doing the job just interested to hear about it.
Right where do i start?
i left the Uk on the 8th july after accepting the position as a convoy driver in Kuwait contracting for the Us Military along with 35 other guys.
When we landed in Kuwait we where taken to the sponsors office to complete paperwork and had it explained that the contract was not due to start til the 15th and we not be paid until then.
And also we would have to wait for our passes for the miltiary base to go through which is the norm with contracting work and if anyone has contracted before you will now they do not rush!!
We were then taken to our accomodation in Al Fintas which was really nice and left there!!!
Half of the guys where lucky and got badged wthin the first few days of arriving enabling them to start work unfortunately i wasnt and ended up waiting 15 days!!
We were told upon arrival we would be on full pay from the 15th regardless if we were badged and working or not.
Then to be told before pay day that we had been misinformed and would only recieve half pay for the period we had waited to be badged 
Now on to the work we where sold the job through the advert that we would be collecting loaded trailers and taking them to the port dropping the trailers collecting another and delievering them back to the base.
In the time i was there i never done this once the main thing all the brits were doing was working on base as vehicle movements and loading vehicles on trailers for another contracting company to deliver.
We worked 12 hours a day most of the guys are on 6am 6pm with half hour for lunch,We normally left at 4.45am and arrived back around 19.30 to the apartments so all in all a very long day and stupidly stupidly hot.
I dont want to come across negative just give a clear picture of what i experienced.
I Met some brilliant guys while i was there who i am still in contact with and will remain to do so.
I have some pictures that i will try post when i have a few minutes spare and if anyone has any questions i will try answering them for you.
Hi Griff82, Do you mind me asking how much they were paying?
it worked out at $21.25 an hour on a 72 hour week they will not pay anymore then this if you work over they will give you it as time off
At the current exchange rate it was working out at around 1400pounds a fortnight.
Personally i found the cost of food shopping very expensive in Kuwait!!
Thanks for info. So why did you come back? Sounds like you were messed around quite alot. Also the money doesn’t sound that good but I guess the experience made up for that
Hi Daleyboy i came back because i was fed up with the messing around and when you worked out the wage to the cost of living you can earn roughly the same in the uk.
The main reason i went for the job was an adventure and to travel somewhere i would never have gone otherwise.
Thanks griff. If I was single I would probably go just for the experience, but these days the wife moans If I’m away for more than 2-3 weeks. 
Griff82:
The main reason i went for the job was an adventure and to travel somewhere i would never have gone otherwise.
Fair enough!
Hi Griff82, I’ve just returned from that Kuwait job too… Are you one of the blokes in this photo?
I came back due to all the messing around too. I was told that I would be collecting equipment from Camp Arifjan and delivering it to the Military Naval Port. However, we were expected to sit in the transportation compound from 0600 to 1830 in this absolutely brutal heat. There would be a couple of hours of marshalling and loading equipment, again in this absolutely brutal heat but no actual driving. The facilities, to get out of the heat, were insufficient - a 40ft steel container lined with plywood and two air-conditioning units fitted to it (one didn’t work and the other was inadequate).
I would find a HUMMV on the sterile compound and sit in it with the AC on full, balls to the marshalling! We were only supposed to take 30 minutes lunch during a 12.5 hour day but most of us would take anything up to 2 hours. We’d go to the DFAC (Dining Facility) and then wander around the PX because it was cool.
The heat outside was just stupid. Forget the heat when you do your two weeks in Benidorm, this heat is nothing like it. You spend all day drinking, sweating and watching the colour of your urine. It isn’t very pleasant…
Bob
I am indeed one of the guys in the photo
Griff82:
I am indeed one of the guys in the photo
I reckon you’re the guy with the gigs. 
Hi Chris! How’s it going? How’s your throat? Anybody else leave? When did you get back? PM your email address…
Bob
Griff82:
Right where do i start?i left the Uk on the 8th july after accepting the position as a convoy driver in Kuwait contracting for the Us Military along with 35 other guys.
When we landed in Kuwait we where taken to the sponsors office to complete paperwork and had it explained that the contract was not due to start til the 15th and we not be paid until then.
At which point I’d have been on the next plane to Thailand. Here’s my number, text me when you’ve got your act together.
Half of the guys where lucky and got badged wthin the first few days of arriving enabling them to start work unfortunately i wasnt and ended up waiting 15 days!!
We were told upon arrival we would be on full pay from the 15th regardless if we were badged and working or not.
Then to be told before pay day that we had been misinformed and would only recieve half pay for the period we had waited to be badged
Small claims court!
Now on to the work we where sold the job through the advert that we would be collecting loaded trailers and taking them to the port dropping the trailers collecting another and delievering them back to the base.
In the time i was there i never done this once the main thing all the brits were doing was working on base as vehicle movements and loading vehicles on trailers for another contracting company to deliver.
I believe the employer is a British co. (which meant being paid here & paying income tax here whilst earning abroad… crap!)
Sounds like a serious case of misdescribing the job. A case for Consumer Direct perhaps?
Driveroneuk:
I believe the employer is a British co. (which meant being paid here & paying income tax here whilst earning abroad… crap!)
Sounds like a serious case of misdescribing the job. A case for Consumer Direct perhaps?
Is it? Thought it was Halliburton of the US. 
They and KBR do all the contracting out there afaik.