All the stock is hi value m8…
Kenny1975:
Worst i had was working for a small company, told them i was leaving they were panicking we need a driver for next weeks run i said don’t worry i’ll do two weeks notice if need be give you plenty of time to get a new driver. No problems cause never saw them anyways was always down the road all week.Last shift, getting my stuff out the truck owners son appears, having a go. “Can’t handle a proper job” etc… tell him where to go money is crap got much better offer. Then starts saying yeah we are taking £300 off your last wages for damage to a trailer, i said what trailer he showed me it. I got out my notebook said not been near that trailer in 2months and last time i left it was in yard in Glasgow to be loaded to go down south and your telling me someone picked it up drove it all over the country with smashed lights and now your blaming me 2 months later when its my last shift. Told him if he took any money off my wages i’d go get a lawyer.
Paid me in full, was stupid on their part cause i had agreed at times if it was quieter with my new job and i had the hours would help out do occasional saturday shift for them but after that carry on wouldn’t go back near them
Doesn’t matter if you damaged it or not. Not your problem.
I recently left my employers - the kind of guy I am I thought That 6 weeks would be a fair notice period given that my contract stated 2. The silence began, not a word from anyone - I wasn’t even going to a new employer! As my role incorporated Driver training and Inductions, I found it comical, when my equally experienced colleagues started leaving in droves to be replaced by un-employables and eastern europeans. The last inductions I carried out were to the main fleet a Pole - whose english was sparse, as was his ability to get round a corner with space to spare. A traffic light in Leominster was his first target - with attached barrier, followed by a house at the Cellarhead crossroads near stoke. I am not lying when I say he only had avoided both by an inch! I waited till we got to Stafford services heading home. Rang the office to highlight my concerns - to be told by the TM that he would let the boss know and that I was to drive back from there. 5 mins later the phone rang - to be told that the boss is “prepared to take the risk”. He has subsequently ripped the front bumper and n/s step off on another drivers truck 
The second was at the other depot, and that he just was not either listening or very good. 3 weeks have passed and last week there was a rumour going round that a certain cement factory had had their power wiped out by a tipper with a raised body driving through some overhanging cables! Now I know it was one of THEIR trucks but I dont know the identity of the driver. All I do say is that it was class2 lorry and he was a class 2 driver…
Needless to say they havent settled my final wages - I think because they are waiting for me to download my card. But since they clearly dont communicate they would have known that it was downloaded on my last day at the second depot. Another week or two and they will be hearing from my solicitor. Cant wait 
Don’t know why some employers get stroppy if someone decides to leave? Most have little hesitation of getting rid of staff when it suits there own agenda?
LIBERTY_GUY:
Don’t know why some employers get stroppy if someone decides to leave? Most have little hesitation of getting rid of staff when it suits there own agenda?
Spot on that liberty guy,we are just bums on seats .
seth 70:
LIBERTY_GUY:
Don’t know why some employers get stroppy if someone decides to leave? Most have little hesitation of getting rid of staff when it suits there own agenda?Spot on that liberty guy,we are just bums on seats .
Thing is though, my ex employers have that very sentiment. Thing is though and looking at my example above, - look what its getting them?
My last job I knew I’d get back when most of the others did, so I parked up for a bit, came back to a practically empty yard, parked up (cleared cab in the days before) and timed it so I saw nobody. There were people around but I couldn’t be arsed with goodbyes and all that crap.
Last time I left a firm I was offered 2 pay rise’s followed by the md offering to pay me a fuel allowance for commuting to the yard.
Still left on good terms thou.
Had 2 weeks hols due. He said take them as things are slow. Paid me all I was due. And kept offering me work for a year afterwards…
Working my final week this week, and I’ve been taken off the road and shoved on yard duties
One nameless Hull firm I worked for were like the mafia - wouldn’t give a reference to anyone else until you’d actually gone…They used to say you could put your notice in but never actually leave… 
Lucy:
One nameless Hull firm I worked for were like the mafia - wouldn’t give a reference to anyone else until you’d actually gone…They used to say you could put your notice in but never actually leave…
That is scary!
C-Kay:
Working my final week this week, and I’ve been taken off the road and shoved on yard duties
■■■ that.
You’re a driver, working your notice whilst they find another driver, if they don’t want you to drive then they don’t need you to work your notice
I’ll bet that his contract stipulates “other duties as required” somewhere.
if so, perfectley within their rights.
C-Kay:
Working my final week this week, and I’ve been taken off the road and shoved on yard duties
That’s OK. Just be the worst ■■■■■■■■ yard worker the world has ever seen 
Or go to the docs and get a sick note for stress. I know several people who have done this and they can’t do jack about it.
Best I had…Standing next to a fellow driver in Calais port, he’s on the phone to our boss on speaker phone in his van. The boss is slagging me off rotten. I had my phone on record the whole time and hit him with the bad news that night. Pratt!
Terry T:
C-Kay:
Working my final week this week, and I’ve been taken off the road and shoved on yard dutiesThat’s OK. Just be the worst ■■■■■■■■ yard worker the world has ever seen
Or go to the docs and get a sick note for stress. I know several people who have done this and they can’t do jack about it.
Don’t need a sick note under a week, self cert 
(not sure if it’s 3 days?)
I recently left a job along with another driver. Depot manager refused to speak to me for the whole of my 2 weeks notice which was quite funny I thought and no surprise. It was rather satisfying to hear he was being made redundant before I went, I don’t think he has long left. It was a bit of a battle for my wages and they still owe me about £120 but I cannot be bothered with the fight any more, after 2 1/2 years of grief I’m just glad to be out of it.
When I gave my notice at my last job, the manager had told all and sundry in the two hours it took between giving notice and getting back to the yard. I told nobody else yet I had on return to the yard, three drivers all desperate to open my cab door and ask where I was going, why and what the wages were.
I’d locked the door and it was amuzing watching one struggle with it. Nosy ■■■■■ I never asked him why he cheated on his nice other half with the fat frumpy middle aged woman from accounts. 