Maritime/New passes info?

[benjie83]

Anyone currently, or have been a new pass and gone with them?

I’ve tried forum search but poxy sql error killed that.

Reason I ask is, I passed CE last week with the Green Army, but the job offer is basically slung in their agency pool and take whatever they got, trouble is day work in Manchester is a bit difficult when u live in Suffolk basically [emoji849][emoji38]

Now I know theres a good few firms round suffolk but many seem a bit reluctant… ([emoji1787])… to take a new pass, yet on MT website they say training on job so I’m assuming that means you get a mentor on the road for a bit??

Alot of you gents will have been new on road and although I’m confident, I’m new and it’d be nice to have an old guard for a bit to hopefully pass on the tips to actually drive well, you know like tips for reversing, those tight turns, trailer etiquette…

Just get you doing the job well and driving to a good standard so as not to ■■■■ others off [emoji38]

Yeah so if anyone got any info on them, or anyone else down here it be Massively appreciated as I just wanna drive, hence my other post asking for ideas, looking for a door I is… [emoji38]

As always, Big thanks fellas [emoji41]

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[mickey_mouse]

Never heard anything good about maritime. Your time and money would have been better spent training to be a plumber/sparky/any other trade apart from wagon driving!

[spinonit]

Yeah, I’m a new pass and had an assessment with Maritime a few weeks ago. They claim to send you out for 2 weeks with another driver to teach you the “maritime way”, then you get a mentor for up to 6 months - someone you can speak to if you have any problems and they say they ease you in to the work so you are not given the harder drops immediately.

They provide all clothing, including boots etc and they expect you to wear it. Trucks are limited to 52mph, but they prefer you to drive at 50mph for efficiency. Cabs have driver-facing cameras, telematics, it system/sat nav/daily checks recording.

I’m currently part time with agencies and I’m getting offered plenty of local work. Who are you signed up with?

If you want any more details, I’d prefer to chat by private message, or by phone.

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[benjie83]

Spinonit:
Yeah, I’m a new pass and had an assessment with Maritime a few weeks ago. They claim to send you out for 2 weeks with another driver to teach you the “maritime way”, then you get a mentor for up to 6 months - someone you can speak to if you have any problems and they say they ease you in to the work so you are not given the harder drops immediately.

They provide all clothing, including boots etc and they expect you to wear it. Trucks are limited to 52mph, but they prefer you to drive at 50mph for efficiency. Cabs have driver-facing cameras, telematics, it system/sat nav/daily checks recording.

I’m currently part time with agencies and I’m getting offered plenty of local work. Who are you signed up with?

If you want any more details, I’d prefer to chat by private message, or by phone.

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Cheers fella [emoji106]

Currently on logistics people as I done the c-ce with Stobarts…

I shall keep MT in mind then, I aint bothered about being a planners ■■■■ fodder.

As said I’d go with Stobarts but its looking increasingly doubtful I can get anything remotely local as I don’t fancy doing a 15 then 4 on top commuting, it’s the commute that’s putting me off going to their nearest to me depots, hence I’m looking at firms like MT…

Really appreciate the input though, and tbh they don’t sound too bad from what your saying [emoji106]

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[benjie83]

Mickey mouse:
Never heard anything good about maritime. Your time and money would have been better spent training to be a plumber/sparky/any other trade apart from wagon driving!

Sadly at 30+ I really couldn’t face formal education again bud, now I’m ticketed up I plan, ideally, to study in my own time for maybe a sparks ticket, or I’d like to do psychology.

For now I’d like to find a job with my licences that interests me, recovery, cranes, heavy haulage as they allow me to use previous mechanical/manual experience and hopefully keep my manual brain happy while I give the academic one some free will…

Appreciate your honesty though fella [emoji106]

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[spinonit]

Benjie83:
Cheers fella [emoji106]

Currently on logistics people as I done the c-ce with Stobarts…

I shall keep MT in mind then, I aint bothered about being a planners [zb] fodder.

As said I’d go with Stobarts but its looking increasingly doubtful I can get anything remotely local as I don’t fancy doing a 15 then 4 on top commuting, it’s the commute that’s putting me off going to their nearest to me depots, hence I’m looking at firms like MT…

Really appreciate the input though, and tbh they don’t sound too bad from what your saying [emoji106]

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Where about in Suffolk are you located?

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[benjie83]

Spinonit:

Benjie83:
Cheers fella [emoji106]

Currently on logistics people as I done the c-ce with Stobarts…

I shall keep MT in mind then, I aint bothered about being a planners [zb] fodder.

As said I’d go with Stobarts but its looking increasingly doubtful I can get anything remotely local as I don’t fancy doing a 15 then 4 on top commuting, it’s the commute that’s putting me off going to their nearest to me depots, hence I’m looking at firms like MT…

Really appreciate the input though, and tbh they don’t sound too bad from what your saying [emoji106]

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Where about in Suffolk are you located?

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Well technically I’m on the southern border lol…

Half hour to Felixstowe [emoji106]

Just looked at MT as their local, should be full time, and hopefully I’d get some mentoring, sadly agency works not really an option due to commitments.

Plenty of haulage round here it’s just the experience part…

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[whitetruckman]

It’s been my experience over the years that when a firm says training on the job what they mean is they want someone who is already basically competent to move a vehicle from A to B legally and without demolishing anything, and they will train you in any specialised skills, like chaining down a forklift, or operating a sliding length trailer.

[spinonit]

Benjie83, I’ve messaged you mate

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[benjie83]

Spinonit:
Benjie83, I’ve messaged you mate

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[andy7777]

Stobarts maybe bad but if ur new an want experience then wat choice u got an if ur Bere felix then get on containers to funnily enough Manchester which nice an easy a14m6. U may get, 2in a day an plan ur own time finishing near home

[benjie83]

Andy7777:
Stobarts maybe bad but if ur new an want experience then wat choice u got an if ur Bere felix then get on containers to funnily enough Manchester which nice an easy a14m6. U may get, 2in a day an plan ur own time finishing near home

Fully hear you chap [emoji106]

As said its simply the fact their nearest hubs to me are a 2hr each way a day on top of the work.

I just don’t wanna be driving knackered out is all, jobs gonna be hard enough lol

They advertise for Ipswich, yet there no hub here??

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[djc]

I was with Maritime for 5 years, no complaints. Good kit all round. They want the job done their way, so if you want to go off book you could run into problems, so long as you’re constructive you should have no problem. No longer with them but my reasons for leaving weren’t anything to do with the company.

[robroy]

Has the mention of DRIVER FACING CAMERAS (constant surveillance type) not put you off yet??
That would be enough for me to tell me what kind of firm they are and to avoid them like haemmeroids

[benjie83]

robroy:
Has the mention of DRIVER FACING CAMERAS (constant surveillance type) not put you off yet??
That would be enough for me to tell me what kind of firm they are and to avoid them like haemmeroids

Long as I get a % of the ■■■■ hub income I’d generate, I’m down with it…

Beggers and choosers sadly ain’t it fella, got a few smaller independent hauliers round me but I can’t see them letting a noob out, in a top line, with a 30k wage[emoji17]

Hence its either find a way into a specialist niche like heavy haulage, move my whole family lock stock, or go with a corporate firm locally.

Toooo many rocks and hard places sadly [emoji849]

I’d love to tramp but I can’t see me getting 2weeks on 2 off as an example as it would then be worth letting Stobarts break me in [emoji38] as It would save me a fortune in fuel, and would atleast allow my kids a regular pattern of access to me…

Appreciate the heads up though bud [emoji41][emoji41]

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[benjie83]

DJC:
I was with Maritime for 5 years, no complaints. Good kit all round. They want the job done their way, so if you want to go off book you could run into problems, so long as you’re constructive you should have no problem. No longer with them but my reasons for leaving weren’t anything to do with the company.

Cheers bud, much appreciated [emoji106][emoji106]

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[conor]

Benjie83:
Sadly at 30+ I really couldn’t face formal education again bud

I wouldn’t say rule it out completely.

If your experience of education is limited to school I can understand why. However you’ll find that further education such as college, university, trade training is completely different. You’re treated as an adult, you don’t have to put your hand up to go to the toilet, no detentions, if you don’t hand in work you had to do at home nobody is going to punish you or chase you, you’ll just fail the course if it warrants it. It’s a completely different environment and you tend to find that because it is that those who struggled at school do infinitely better at college etc even if they’re studying the same GCSEs that they did badly in at school.

[benjie83]

Conor:

Benjie83:
Sadly at 30+ I really couldn’t face formal education again bud

I wouldn’t say rule it out completely.

If your experience of education is limited to school I can understand why. However you’ll find that further education such as college, university, trade training is completely different. You’re treated as an adult, you don’t have to put your hand up to go to the toilet, no detentions, if you don’t hand in work you had to do at home nobody is going to punish you or chase you, you’ll just fail the course if it warrants it. It’s a completely different environment and you tend to find that because it is that those who struggled at school do infinitely better at college etc even if they’re studying the same GCSEs that they did badly in at school.

Cheers bud, nah it’s more I really can’t be surrounded by the floppy fringe gangstas from down the endz of the local million pound mansion estate, and their status on snap chat, ya get me fam [emoji849]

Online, no worries, I’d study away happily whilst on poa… [emoji38][emoji38]

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[terry_t]

Benjie83:
driving to a good standard so as not to ■■■■ others off

I’d sack that dream off straight away. You’ll be (hopefully) driving a huge thundering slow and ■■■■■■■■■■ killer juggernaut and as such will be hated and reviled by anything with 4 wheels or less.

If you ■■■■ off a car driver just consider it a bonus, they deserve it for not caring about our plight

[benjie83]

Terry T:

Benjie83:
driving to a good standard so as not to ■■■■ others off

I’d sack that dream off straight away. You’ll be (hopefully) driving a huge thundering slow and ■■■■■■■■■■ killer juggernaut and as such will be hated and reviled by anything with 4 wheels or less.

If you ■■■■ off a car driver just consider it a bonus, they deserve it for not caring about our plight

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I was talking from an employee to employer point of view there… [emoji38] [emoji38]

When I were learning ce, I had a ■■■■■■■ left turn to take in strange enemy waters, it were a proper straddle of both lanes and then some, and I’d gotta go in proper deep with unit or railings are getting kissed…
Mrs Bs never experienced the kind of depth in penetrative proceedings I’d got to pull off with this manoeuvre…

Trailers emblazened with LEARNER all over the back and as good measure i left it fully diagonal across both lanes of the approach so as to say stay behind me, which everyone thankfully did.

Got me signal on, its rush hour standstill so no one’s gonna gain by being ignorant yet after all my prep I then had some utter ■■■■ cross the stop lines in front, to my left forcing me to get stuck between light changes, with my only way out being to gently push headboard over her bonnet to wake her up…

Once she realised it had gone dark rather quick on her Facebook page, She swiftly ■■■■ her wax, reversed back the 20ft she’d misplaced…and pulled over to her nearside kirb and with that I could get round in a safe manner, if not slower than I’d have liked.

I could have just parked up, got out and shattered the ■■■■ as there was no need at all, made what is a very very difficult turn near impossible, and caused everyone else to have to sit so as I could get out the way.

I was brought up in trucks, and taught to drive a car as I would a truck, with regard.

I genuinely believe any new car driver should be forced to pay for a day’s passenger ride in an hgv to give them a real idea of what it’s like, then given a pack o Tissues and told to go stand at gate and be spat at for an hour to be sure their aware of what it’s like to pilot a truck around a mill town made for pit ponys to navigate.

As for being spat at, meh, Mrs does it me every other night so I’m immune [emoji38][emoji38]

But I digress…

I will be a dillagent employee on interview days govnor, a night of the road I shall be… [emoji106][emoji38]

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