Seems that most of the road planners are on the drivers case 24/7 nowadays.
Which companies are the most relaxed and leave you alone to get on with your graft? 
goodenough:
Seems that most of the road planners are on the drivers case 24/7 nowadays.
Which companies are the most relaxed and leave you alone to get on with your graft?
I don’t talk to the travel desk untill I’m tipped and ready for my next job. They let me get on with it. Not rushed either. "If you can’t do it today, do it first thing tomorrow "… 
Got to be the smaller operators i would of thought…But having said that…I work for a large haulier.And pretty much left to get on with it…
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Work for Wincanton given run sheet at start of shift don’t hear from them again 99% of the time till I walke back in at end of shift
Never hear from them unless there’s a problem, is to let me know where I’m collecting from. Even if you are running late they don’t make a fuss over it, it’s just “ok I’ll phone them”.
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goodenough:
Seems that most of the road planners are on the drivers case 24/7 nowadays.
Which companies are the most relaxed and leave you alone to get on with your graft?
Would (or could) never work for these type of firms.
Thing is drivers can not see that the only reason they get pushed to the limit is because they allow themselves to be. 
…for whatever reason.
A pushed hassled driver is a dangerous driver imo,.
Firms ALL try you out when you first start your employment with them, to see how far you will or will not be pushed, those who go with it have a much harder and stressed time to those that politely (but not militantly) tell them to leave them alone and allow them to carry out their job until they ring in when empty.
An employer has NO respect for Yes men…fact , …trust me, and treats them (although not outwardly) with the contempt they deserve.
I have heard conversations in ■■■■ taking traffic offices, and the yes man is in blissful ignorance thinking he’s the no.1 driver. 
However if you show them you are a pro who is more than capable of doing the job without being constantly monitored and watched, and tell them so…and prove it, you have a much better quality of life than most of the others.
This is probably harder for new drivers I admit, but you can still make a good impression without being a doormat.
As for me I am basically left alone, and I just laugh at the one or two of the others as they RUN around their trailer changing over, and teararsing out of the yard like Lewis Hamilton. 
+1
We’ve got no trackers, get given fuel card and ‘float’ when we start to pay tolls/parking, get told where we are collecting (collect insurance write off cars), and thats that off we go, only time we get a call is if something isn’t quite organised when we set off, we collect in the order we want too, start and finish when we want (aslong as the job gets done), can always pop and do private errands in the truck if needs be without being questioned…what more does a guy need.
I think any firm will leave the best drivers alone. No need to keep chasing them.
near all companies not push if drivers do delivery ontime.Never had problem with planners .Most drivers who hate planner and traffic first lost time everywhere (coffee at services,check truck 1 hours,can t found digi card and…) but after hate to anythink planners.
I work for the same haulier as Daftvader, and I get left alone too.
Darkside:
I think any firm will leave the best drivers alone. No need to keep chasing them.
+1
With me they know i’ll ring them if there is anything they need to know. A lot of others won’t feed them back any information then wonder why they keep getting called.
goodenough:
Seems that most of the road planners are on the drivers case 24/7 nowadays.
Which companies are the most relaxed and leave you alone to get on with your graft?
Where I’m at, Howdens Joinery. You’re given a run sheet, you’re left to get on with it. A lot of H&S bollox as you’d expect with any blue chip company but there is no taking out broken wagons, no being expected to sweat your nads off unloading, nobody is on the phone chasing you, the time you’re planned for for a run is usually far more than you need and even if you go over you just put the reason why, usually road delays from accidents etc, and nobody ever asks you why.
Only time you ever need to phone transport is if you have a break down, if a delay on the road is going to mean you miss a FOUR HOUR delivery window or if you’re doing a trailer swap that wasn’t loaded when they did the run sheet and you need to get the trailer number from them.
Why don’t you go full time permanent with them Conor? Will they not let you?
senior50:
Work for Wincanton given run sheet at start of shift don’t hear from them again 99% of the time till I walke back in at end of shift
+1
Usually get a call on wednesday,to ask if i’m "home or away"on Friday.
Obviously i’m home.
eagerbeaver:
Why don’t you go full time permanent with them Conor? Will they not let you?
Bit of a bone of contention at the moment with agency drivers at the moment. Only route into the place since I first went in there in 1994 was through agency so you’d do a few years on agency there and be offered a job when one came up but it seems they’re no longer doing that and are just taking on drivers through their driver apprenticeship scheme as well as a couple of external drivers although nobody seems to recall seeing any job adverts. It has also been noted what the age is of those being taken on as well. Suffice to say grey hairs won’t do you any favours.
Other than the large pay discrepancy as this must be one of the few firms that pay more than agency and not by a small amount, I and the other long term drivers have got effectively full time hours if we want them and its one of the better jobs so from my point of view I’m happy especially as unlike the fulltimers I’ve still got the flexibility of taking time off when I want to at short notice and at the agency I’m at those of us on HJ not only get paid one of the best rates for Hull but get 33 days holiday pay instead of 28.
GreenCarrier are very relaxed.
I really enjoy working for them and have no issues at all. Good fleet, good pay, good jobs. The TM very rarely calls me. The only time will be if there’s a change to the day or to ask for a favour, but it rarely happens.
UK bases in Immingham and Ipswich.
goodenough:
Seems that most of the road planners are on the drivers case 24/7 nowadays.
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I notice that nobody yet has came on and admitted that they work for one of these ■■■■ taking companies.
Too embarrased or is it a ligtbulb moment after my last post on this thread.
The way I see it is if some little ■■■■ in an office is spending all day watching drivers on a tracker, then ringing and saying …‘’ Why did you stop at…‘’ ‘‘What are you going that way for’’ and all the rest of it, (which would do my nut in big style btw) they themselves are in a non job, their wages could be part saved and other part given to the driver.
I used to work for a tipper firm that put on the daily worksheet, how many loads they expected done. It was always one or more loads than I’d say was do able, and you could only do the number specified on a good day, school holidays and no hold ups on site.
They pay a day rate but I’ve been told that they dock drivers’ an hours’ pay if the driver finishes at “normal time” but fails to do the number of loads required.
I never had time docked, but had a snotty phone call once because I’d done what they asked and was parked up by 3pm, but hadn’t rung for other work.
Rednecked bunch of carrot crunching Wiltshire based cowboys. 