Hmmmm, could be a popcorn evening…
Blunder Man:
Honked is now trying to make light of his comments, but I spent years dealing with toss pots like him, contemptuous and arrogant, half a dozen old sheds and they think they are the Bees Knees, and I treated their rotten little trucks with the same contempt I was treated, never checked the oil, kerbed the tyres and screwed them round etc, if I was treated fair I ALWAYS did my best for the truck and the company and I worked for years for some, but the Honkeds of this world stuff them.
Blunder by name … you know the rest.
As I said before, oldest truck is 4 years old so there is your first dribble of ■■■■■■. I make light of most things as it’s easier to be happy than a miserable ■■■■■■■ but that seems to suit you, each to their own eh.
Most of our fleet is owned rather than leased. We have money.
You actually are a superb advert for why this industry is bolaxed, no one will invest in you because you are worth less than a remould tyre with 3mm of tread.
Any spare popcorn ?
Retired last year old boy dont have to deal with arrogant turds like you anymore, I hope you get the drivers you deserve, crap ones, anyway what is your company called you think you are so good tell us who you are…but you wont will you because somebody on here will have worked for you and give us the truth about your shabby company.
Honked:
Rjan:
Honked:
Only an hour and a quarter late today. I wonder if he forgot to put his clock back in October?Not exactly a difficult job either. Drive for an hour, open curtain while someone loads it And drive back. Rinse and repeat.
On a tough day you might have to do it three times (just like on your wedding night).Think it may be prudent to get a migrant and put a caravan in the yard
Almost any job which has a settled science to it, can be described as bish, bash, bosh.
The nub of your problem is the contempt with which you view other’s work, and their contribution to your operation. It’s so thinly veiled that many have already remarked on it.
You’d do better to acknowledge firstly that you are asking people to do work. Then, when you wonder why on Earth people are so loath to do any but a small dose of it, you’ll understand why: it is work.
The fact that it’s routine, repetitive work isn’t something that makes it easier or more attractive. I’d be surprised even if any schoolchild says “when I grow up, I want to sit on my own turning a wheel back and forth for 60 hours a week”.
Sometimes to make the day interesting, I pull the curtains from the back to the front.
Beats sitting in a box with a [zb] at an rdc.
Strange considering most (not all) limpers ask us to keep their number on file
I only dislike the lazy ones. A job is actually about doing work and doing it well, not milking it at every opportunity.
A job is most fundamentally about money. Money is what makes up the balance (or should do) between the aspects of work which are intrinsically motivating and satisfying, and the aspects of work which are not (and which prevent the work getting done for free by hobbyists).
Like the serving hatch, the high counter, or the post office glass, I always know there’s trouble ahead when bosses think that money is not the main consideration, or when they think that my rate of pay is already so generous as to cover any possible demand they may make.
Understanding that money is actually at the crux of the bargain, and understanding that the work/wage bargain you’ve struck actually exists somewhere around the line separating barely acceptable and barely (if not grossly) unacceptable, will give you a better insight into the situation.
I can certainly understand, for example, that the average agency worker hired for a day on something like the same hourly rate as the full-timers (but without the regularity and other benefits which the full-timers get at the same hourly rate), is not going to be remotely as willing or flexible as the full-timers (because overall the bargain offered is not as good).
At the selection stage, you’re also going to have less choice over whom you attract, because relatively few people will want to take that bargain. If your pay and conditions are sufficiently bad and set only just above the threshold where you’d attract nobody, you’ll end up with an endless stream of poor workers, because the takers know that what they have to give in labour is barely worth what they are going to get in wages.
Frankly, those you do get are probably just taking a punt that they’ll like you in the flesh, only to then be disabused of that notion on arrival.
Blunder Man:
Retired last year old boy dont have to deal with arrogant turds like you anymore, I hope you get the drivers you deserve, crap ones, anyway what is your company called you think you are so good tell us who you are…but you wont will you because somebody on here will have worked for you and give us the truth about your shabby company.
Ah so you have limped out of gainful existence, well I hope you enjoy your retirement.
We have the (full time) drivers we deserve, they turn up on time, do a days graft, go home. We haven’t had to recruit new blood for two years and most have been there over 10 years.
It wouldn’t make any difference if I told you who we are, we are like marmite. But feel free to expand on why you think we are shabby?
Long serving drivers - tick
Up to date fleet - tick
Green light on DVSA - tick
Reasonable pay - tick
If we look at the nub of my post, I am complaining about lazy drivers, I have done 11 hours today, a grand total of 280km and it was my choice to go home or do a bit extra. Hardly back breaking work is it?
eagerbeaver:
What is the problem here? Honked is simply saying that he requires a useless flap of skin for a few hours. All he requires is that the chosen limper turns up on time.
The reason that the majority of limpers are held in low esteem is because they are crap.Some cant get out of bed. Some/most are unreliable. Some/most damage the truck. Some/most have a bad attitude.
And the majority are seeking full time permanent work. But pretend that they quite like 2 days a week and hanging around the phone. It ’ suits their lifestyle '.
Admit the truth people. For the truth shall set you free.
But useless flaps of skin don’t turn up on time - that’s the nature of being a useless flap of skin.
The overseers of the poor were always having the same problem. Bad attitudes, poor work, an endless supply of the same, and the dirty beggars were always causing damage and burning down the darn workhouse!
What’s more remarkable is that bosses keep returning to this kind of thinking, and keep returning to the mongers of useless flaps of skin. Like Kipling said, the dog returns to his vomit, the sow returns to her mire, and the old fool’s bandaged finger, goes wabbling back to the fire.
But I am a useless flap of skin. (Well, ■■■■■■■■ to be precise), and I manage to get to work on time.
And I even leave derv in for the next Brother. And I even take all my [zb] out of the cab.
Christ, I even manage not to wreck the [zb]ing truck. So if I can do it, anyone else can. And yes…I am agency currently. You can spot me a mile away, I am the bellend limping around with my greasy hair, and wearing my Bluetooth earpiece everywhere.
I do take my hi viz off in the cab though.
Honked:
Only an hour and a quarter late today. I wonder if he forgot to put his clock back in October?Not exactly a difficult job either. Drive for an hour, open curtain while someone loads it And drive back. Rinse and repeat.
On a tough day you might have to do it three times (just like on your wedding night).Think it may be prudent to get a migrant and put a caravan in the yard
And this is why the transport industry is ■■■■■■… why not employ an extra driver■■?
CHAINSAW:
Honked:
Only an hour and a quarter late today. I wonder if he forgot to put his clock back in October?Not exactly a difficult job either. Drive for an hour, open curtain while someone loads it And drive back. Rinse and repeat.
On a tough day you might have to do it three times (just like on your wedding night).Think it may be prudent to get a migrant and put a caravan in the yard
And this is why the transport industry is [zb]… why not employ an extra driver■■?
Only needed for holiday cover and not many companies can afford to pay to have someone stood on standby, that’s why the agencies flourish 
Conor:
CHAINSAW:
I have worked agency for 15 years now and in all that time there is only one person that I would have taken a full time job from, the majority of the people that we work for are ok but the industry is full of back stabbing, money grabbing liars.I’m doing better than you, my list has two on it but then again I’ve been doing agency a few years more.
Well Conor one a decade must be the going rate 
Conor:
tango boy:
Yeah nights for £10 an hour
Not everyone is fortunate enough to live in a distribution hotspot like you. Some of us live in very nice rural areas and lower pay is a price we have to pay not to have to put up with having to live somewhere like you do. Still if I ever do get a job there no doubt the £41,500 for 56hrs and home every night will compare to what you claim to earn.
Conor I refer the above quote back to my original post and the industry being full of money grabbers and most of the ■■■■■ in it acting like pubescent ■■■■■■■, ■■■■ them mate, I don’t work for peanuts but I know places where they are on minimum wage class1 because that is the only work around, most of the guys who tell you how much they are earning are bullshitters
eagerbeaver:
I do take my hi viz off in the cab though.
And you call yourself an agency driver? 
You should be ashamed of yourself. 
Go to the back of the rdc waiting room and think about what you have done!!
Btw I think the o/p is on one big wind up/fishing trip just waiting for bites, and by Christ you’ve all bitten.
4 pages!
Yes, it limped along at a fair old pace, didn’t it.
I just like to take his mind off battering cyclist’s Rob.
eagerbeaver:
I just like to take his mind off battering cyclist’s Rob.
You seem to be getting a fan club on here with him and boredwivboring and Albion 123, you can have a couple of my ‘best mates’ on here as well if you like to make the numbers up. 
[zb] it. Go on then. In for a penny, in for a pound.
Don’t want your ’ very best mate ’ though, lol. I am sure you know who I mean.
To paraphrase Mandy Rice Davies “you would say that wouldn’t you” any way im bored with this, I HAVE limped of into the sunset, so when Im sitting in the pub tomorrow afternoon and your being king turd of ■■■■ mountain, i will drink to the ill health I do hope comes to you.
Honked:
Blunder Man:
Retired last year old boy dont have to deal with arrogant turds like you anymore, I hope you get the drivers you deserve, crap ones, anyway what is your company called you think you are so good tell us who you are…but you wont will you because somebody on here will have worked for you and give us the truth about your shabby company.Ah so you have limped out of gainful existence, well I hope you enjoy your retirement.
We have the (full time) drivers we deserve, they turn up on time, do a days graft, go home. We haven’t had to recruit new blood for two years and most have been there over 10 years.
It wouldn’t make any difference if I told you who we are, we are like marmite. But feel free to expand on why you think we are shabby?
Long serving drivers - tick
Up to date fleet - tick
Green light on DVSA - tick
Reasonable pay - tickIf we look at the nub of my post, I am complaining about lazy drivers, I have done 11 hours today, a grand total of 280km and it was my choice to go home or do a bit extra. Hardly back breaking work is it?
eagerbeaver:
[zb] it. Go on then. In for a penny, in for a pound.Don’t want your ’ very best mate ’ though, lol. I am sure you know who I mean.
Is that him that earns a grand a week for, quote… ‘‘lying in bed all day’’
Christ man. You hit the bullseye.
Jeepers Robroy, no wind up here fella. Just got a bit miffed at yet another limper adding to the cast of wasters.
Blunder boy, can’t fault you for drinking in the day, the nursing home probably have a booze ban while you are having a bed bath.