Into my 12th year at my current employer.
Previous was just shy of 7 years.(with a few scumbags( inbetween)
Would be interested to know of any long term drivers working for the same company since they started.
Suedehead:
Into my 12th year at my current employer.
Previous was just shy of 7 years.(with a few scumbags( inbetween)
Would be interested to know of any long term drivers working for the same company since they started.
I’ve worked for same bloke 20 yrs since he started ,a right zb slave driver 
but your sleeping with his misses so the jokes on him. 
dieseldog999:
but your sleeping with his misses so the jokes on him.
Longest I worked for a firm was just over 10 years, I would most probably still be there today if the owner had not sold up and moved abroad, so we were all paid off.
I was home based (oop north) for an Essex firm, and the only Northern driver there.
I was well paid and very well looked after.
So I reciprocated by my approach to the job, ie… nothing was a problem and I would go that extra mile in return.
I still miss that firm and job today.
robroy:
Longest I worked for a firm was just over 10 years, I would most probably still be there today if the owner had not sold up and moved abroad, so we were all paid off.
I was home based (oop north) for an Essex firm, and the only Northern driver there.
I was well paid and very well looked after.
So I reciprocated by my approach to the job, ie… nothing was a problem and I would go that extra mile in return.
I still miss that firm and job today.
Can’t do enough for a good boss. Hard to find nowadays and even harder to work for. I wouldn’t give most firms my loyalty or my expertise for the money they pay or the way they treat you. My current firm pays me well and the work is ok, but they treat you like a naughty child in respect my phone doesn’t stop ringing. I don’t answer it untill I have reached my first destination, get my second and same again. I think they realise they cannot micro manage me but they still keep trying.
I’m not sure driving is the sort of job where people accumulate many years service with the same mob
maga:
I’m not sure driving is the sort of job where people accumulate many years service with the same mob
Not now it isn’t
16 years this year for me,currently on a years leave but expect to return at some point…maybe not as a driver though.
UKtramp:
maga:
I’m not sure driving is the sort of job where people accumulate many years service with the same mobNot now it isn’t
No because a lot of guys are usually looking for something that isn’t there.
If they are a day/night driver, they want short hours for big money & the hours they are doing are never sociable enough.
If they are a tramper they want the same + nights out, or max hours for even bigger money + nights out but never on a Friday, you have to be done at 2pm on Friday.
etc. etc.
Perfect jobs don’t exist, every driving job out there comes with a compromise & you can’t put a ■■■ paper between most anyway.
I’m not crazy about my current job but i’m fairy happy with the pay & hours. I reckon your generally better off with your feet under the table at a firm riding the rough & smooth, rather than job hopping all the time and forever being the new guy.
16 years for me too. Will prob be here til I either die, retire or become disabled.
The latter being the most likely to happen first.
maga:
I’m not sure driving is the sort of job where people accumulate many years service with the same mob
Left school September '83…job centre on Friday morning, interview for Friday afternoon, started on the Monday… still there! On the 7.5’s at 17 and still on multidrop up until 10 years ago, transferred to current depot 10 years ago on nights…Maybe why they let me get away with 30hrs a week these days!!
I did 10 years at my first job after passing my class 1. I sudder now when I think of the long hours for bad pay, and in hindsight, I wish I’d left sooner. But I felt at home there, and was really settled until the last 6 months.
Since getting my license I’ve had 4 employers. Three of them for over ten years. The other one I left on good terms.
I agree dome drivers are chasing non existent perfect jobs, but there are other reasons for change. Tramping may suit a younger driver, but they may change if marrying and having kids? Starting on local multi drops seems to be a stepping stone into the driving world for some, and may not be taken on as a permanent job.
I guess I was lucky at my first job, as they were good employers, but since I didn’t have a clue about anything it wasn’t my good judgement at applying there.
The modern media world makes a difference, but in past times the nature of the job meant drivers from different companies could socialise and interact in ways other employees couldn’t. Line workers from Ford Dagenham wouldn’t have much to do with a Leyland Oxford worker. But drivers from both areas may both be loading at Bristol docks and talk there, or at a cafe somewhere. Alwsys gotta be careful not to believe all you hear of course as we’ve all experienced the guy in a bar who has got a lovely truck, brilliant pay, and hardly does any graft. . . And his boss is always looking for drivers. It’s been the nature of the job that we learn about other jobs.
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A few weeks for me so far 
.Seems like every firm takes the absolute micky out of recent passes and old hands alike .They think you should be grateful for shelling out a couple of grand ,to drive the old truck’s they rent .So in 12 months i have had 7 of the worst Managers/bosses in 32 years of working for decent people…Haulage firms are they’re own worst enemy .rude, arrogant ,Pushy cheapskates .
I have had strong pay but no way am I excepting that kind of treatment for it ,Phone calls every ten minutes chase chase! Even though they can see where you are on the tracker ffs .I think I wandered into this right when it’s nearing the very bottom .Unless I have just been really unlucky
Worked at my current job 4 and a half years which is the longest I’ve worked anywhere.
It’s a place where people seem to with leave after a few months or stay years.
Out of about 20 drivers about 10 are well over 20 year men and ones done 35 years.
My wife works in the office and has been there 17 years.
I did 20 years (give or take) with a North East tanker Co, 10 years as an employee followed by 10 years self employed. I then did 2 years at an infamous Lincolnshire recovery Co that felt like 22 years!
maga:
I’m not sure driving is the sort of job where people accumulate many years service with the same mob
My Dad did 36 years with Smiths, ill health meaning his last few months were driving a dump truck.
the maoster:
I did 20 years (give or take) with a North East tanker Co, 10 years as an employee followed by 10 years self employed. I then did 2 years at an infamous Lincolnshire recovery Co that felt like 22 years!
as an owner driver Moaster?
17yrs for me next month.Although the original firm has been taken over twice in that time.Current mob are ok to work for.So won’t be leaving anytime soon.Although long service and loyalty don’t count for much nowadays.Works pretty much stayed the same as what i’ve always done with them.And i’m left alone to get on with it.
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