It’s not unusual to start at 6am to be stood down at 2pm and told to have a 9.
I suggest that someone reminds them its the driver who decides to take a 9 not them.
Which Polestar plants have closed and when ■■ not heard this news
Nottingham has.
yourhavingalarf:
Part of the Leeds triangle…Drivers go from Walkers to Longs to Bedfords and…back to Walkers.
They all pay the same (crap) and you’ll end up with the same money whichever one you choose.
It’s not exclusive to Leeds. Hauliers in most areas all pay the same give or take a few notes a week, yet drivers persist on job hopping every 5 seconds searching for something that just isn’t there.
Harry Monk:
Jingle Jon:
It’s not unusual to start at 6am to be stood down at 2pm and told to have a 9.I wouldn’t be doing that. How can you go to sleep an two o’clock in the afternoon? Basically they’re expecting you to be awake for over 30 hours at a time. It might be legal but it isn’t safe.
Having spent 18 years with a very well known word wide logistics operator this type of culture was carried out on a daily basis , in saying that the money was very but very good , and they still cannot get drivers , all that glitters isn`t gold .!!!
Make that triangle a square and add Downtons to it
In my experience even the so called blue chip high end hauliers are going this way. They can all recruit but can’t retain drivers as they chase any job at any price and expect never ending flexibility from drivers who do it without question because they have to.
Jobs that once attracted proper haulage rates are now being done for ‘backhaul’ rates that are bolted onto the back of contracts that they undercut other outfits to get despite the fact that the job will probably not be as lucrative as they planned it to be.
Then begins the cost cutting which usually means attacking the wages of the workforce which in turn begins the cycle of constant recruiting which in turn causes standards of personnel and equipment to fall.
So the fact is that this is never going to change no matter what. I work for (can’t say for obvious reasons) a supposed ‘better’ company but see every day the cancer that is rampant in a money above all culture and have no sympathy for the companies that exist this way.
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SHYTOT:
Which Polestar plants have closed and when ■■ not heard this news
Pettys at Leeds,in fact part of that got burnt down the other week.
The big one at Sheffield also gone.
SHYTOT:
Make that triangle a square and add Downtons to it
Yes another so called professional outfit who want to control your life…
Some drivers can’t look past working for these big firms and won’t go looking for decent jobs,Iv no sympathy for them
the maoster:
Jingle Jon:
Apart from that, you’ll never get a worse job, so the only way is up.
Be my guest.
£8.50 per hour less 8% whats the 8% for
SHYTOT:
£8.50 per hour less 8% whats the 8% for
WTF ! So that’s £8.50 (1p less hour than me on cat c ) less 8% = £7.82
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yorkshire terrier:
SHYTOT:
Make that triangle a square and add Downtons to itYes another so called professional outfit who want to control your life…
Some drivers can’t look past working for these big firms and won’t go looking for decent jobs,Iv no sympathy for them
The drivers I really don’t have sympathy for, are the ones who don’t know what they want & thus have CV’s as long as their arm.
I’m loathed to in any way defend hauliers taking the ■■■■ out of drivers, but the totally casual approach towards employment from so many guys who jump ship the moment the firm down the road starts paying £1 an hour more or they start getting jobs they don’t like etc. can hardly inspire many to want to properly invest in driver retention. If drivers are going to ■■■■ off within a year or so anyway, you may as well rinse them for what you can whilst they stick about & offer up the cream to the ones who show some long term loyalty. You see drivers in decent gigs whinging, moaning and/or jumping ship to greener grass all the time. You also see guys in the ‘crap jobs’ for the big firms, who have been there years and are happy.
Just chucking another perspective into the ring.
Some truth spoken there.