Hi,
I’ve been offered an assessment by 24.7 recruitment at the nisa site in Livingston. Has anyone got information in assessment or companies. They said in advert must have 2 years experience but I have only qualified and very nervous.
Missy:
Hi,I’ve been offered an assessment by 24.7 recruitment at the nisa site in Livingston. Has anyone got information in assessment or companies. They said in advert must have 2 years experience but I have only qualified and very nervous.
i actually enjoyed the work there. Regular routes means regular customers who can get quite generous if you are helpful. It can be tricky and there is a lot of grafting, especially on ambient but it was an ok job
the office staff were the problem for me. They didn’t listen and even in a rigid, if you run out of time then tough. Night out whether you have a bunk or not. Don’t be early or late for a delivery assessments tend to be carried out at 7am which is before the shop opens. You can be getting there at 12pm and cant move for cars
there are easier ways of earning your pay, especially if you aren’t looking at max hours every day
Some of the Nisas and Co-ops can mean a very tight reverse through the car park with little brats and old women who think that you will get out of their way.
Missy:
Hi,I’ve been offered an assessment by 24.7 recruitment at the nisa site in Livingston. Has anyone got information in assessment or companies. They said in advert must have 2 years experience but I have only qualified and very nervous.
Know a few guys who worked in there, hard graft but they enjoyed it and the pay was good.
The Livingston driving assesment is okay. About an hour driving around locally plus a reverse onto the bay and a hitch up.
Didn’t do the paper test but think it is 30 or so multi choice questions.
NISA, big 45ft tri axle trailers that shouldn’t be used for shop multi drop as they are all tidly little places
flippermaj:
NISA, big 45ft tri axle trailers that shouldn’t be used for shop multi drop as they are all tidly little places
Yea, seen some of their wagons parked on housing estates near shops and thought “WTF!”. Driver parked away from the shop and pulling the pallets up the road with an electric truck.
Each to their own, if you like a challenge go for it but i’ve done my bit for society so far as convenience store deliveries go. Don’t mind the graft, do mind the parking difficulties. You get fed up of turning up to shops and not being able to park where you want & then getting in everyones way… & my experience was in rigids. Bollox to doing it in a 45 footer!
most of the roads we have to go down my mind tells me I shouldn’t be down here, but the shop is normally down them. great experience gained, lots of blindsiding with wide range of trailers inc urban rear stears and baby urbans with rear stear, only trailer I know where you can do a full 360 on a mini roundabout with out mounting the kerb or running over the white roundabout. not the job for someone who wants to sit on a bay all day. paid for 12 hours but normally only do 8 -9
rob22888:
flippermaj:
NISA, big 45ft tri axle trailers that shouldn’t be used for shop multi drop as they are all tidly little placesYea, seen some of their wagons parked on housing estates near shops and thought “WTF!”. Driver parked away from the shop and pulling the pallets up the road with an electric truck.
Each to their own, if you like a challenge go for it but i’ve done my bit for society so far as convenience store deliveries go. Don’t mind the graft, do mind the parking difficulties. You get fed up of turning up to shops and not being able to park where you want & then getting in everyones way… & my experience was in rigids. Bollox to doing it in a 45 footer!
electric pump truck? they didnt have them 2 years ago 
scanny77:
rob22888:
flippermaj:
NISA, big 45ft tri axle trailers that shouldn’t be used for shop multi drop as they are all tidly little placesYea, seen some of their wagons parked on housing estates near shops and thought “WTF!”. Driver parked away from the shop and pulling the pallets up the road with an electric truck.
Each to their own, if you like a challenge go for it but i’ve done my bit for society so far as convenience store deliveries go. Don’t mind the graft, do mind the parking difficulties. You get fed up of turning up to shops and not being able to park where you want & then getting in everyones way… & my experience was in rigids. Bollox to doing it in a 45 footer!
electric pump truck? they didnt have them 2 years ago
Dunno whether it was something to do with requirements for the the shop itself, it was a Costcutter in Bramhall near Stockport. It’s back door is down a back alley you can’t get a truck down, with a knackered surface you couldn’t get a heavy cage down either…the leccy pump truck is probably the only way of really getting the goods down there.
I just heard today that my mate has had a chat with an old face in there. 2 1/2 years ago we were always booked as a double man team to do a north east (Aberdeenshire) run and we set the standard. We were hitting every time window, never had a single customer complaint and got back in around 15 hours. That was us stopping at stracathro to drag it out a bit. Apparently we were doing the run quicker than the guys who lived in Aberdeen who had the stock brought up for them to deliver in rigids. We worked together as a team so everything was automatic with no need to discuss who was doing what and that was what made us so good.
the guy who was on charge moved into the warehouse and we both got offered ambient runs which was single manned. Seemingly he is now back in the transport office and dressed smarter (promoted?) and he wants us back. Apparently his current drivers are taking 20 hours to do our old run.
the problem is that they use NAS and as we heard recently, our departure from them is still a sore point 4+ years on which is fine with us. We would both go back to NISA though providing we only do our run as a team again. Apparently we were both offered full time jobs on the spot
obviously we both have our own personal things going on which isn’t much of an issue for my mate but my life is about to completely change. Tomorrow i am seeing an ex PTI about a personal fitness regime so i can pass the tests to get into the TA which will tie up a lot of my time, particularly if the online form is right and i am eligible for sandhurst
darkseeker:
tofer:
To be honest everytime I see one of the 3663 or brakes boys out and about handballing stuff up and down stairs I thank god for roll cages and our policy of drop and run.You’re right there - Most of my work (agency) recently has been for brakes and I hate it with a passion, how on earth it ended up like it is is beond me - most places I’ve been have stock people or warehouse people and somehow the driver’s still expected to do their job. I delivered to John lewis today and had to drag 5 pallets off the truck, through their warehouse into a lift and up three floors then down a coridor to their kitchen
Saying that though, I still think it’s marginally better than being watched and mumbled about - heckled at etc by the old witches in the co-op’s
I’m hoping like hell getting my class 1 (soon with a bit of luck) will help to get me away from multi-drop but by the sounds of things it wont
Getting your class one won’t help that mate, you’ll just do more drops to the same tight places and be expected to put a bigger vehicle in the same space you used to put a rigid, trust me our place is exactly the same.
Square peg round hole.
I need to have a winge about working for Nisa, some of you might say “well your lucky to be working” but i have other work its just the agency put me into Nisa because they can’t get enough people to do it.
The work is Class 1 multi drop between 7 and 14 drops to little shops including Nisa and costcutters. You have to take the lorry down places you wouldn’t even take a van. You can never park anywhere easily. You have to pick up empty cages from the stores which means you spend the rest of the day throwing them around in the back of the trailer to get to your next deliveries stock. The cages of stock are alot of the time over weighted with sacks of potatoes etc.
Thank god im back in Sainsburys today I dont even break into a sweat in there 
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winge over!!!
Find a reason and ask the agency not to send you there anymore, I’ve done the same with currys and it didn’t cause any lasting problems. Life’s too short to be miserable doing a job you don’t want to do.
A good example could be; I really don’t want to go back in there because it’s causing me to have a really bad back, when I’m not there I’m fine - it’s dragging them cages all over the place, I don’t have that problem anywhere else 
Then stick to your guns; NO, I’ve told you I dont want to go there because it’s buggering my back. no messing about, you dont want to do it and you have a good reason 
If work drops off because the agency want to start messing you about fine, sign up with one or two more. They do it with drivers (lots more on their books than they need) so why shouldn’t you do it with agencies (more work, hopefuly, than you can do)
Just Trucker:
‘…You have to take the lorry down places you wouldn’t even take a van…’
For fear of sounding like an old woman in this (often over-macho?) industry, I’ve found under such circumstances that to ask the desk for a look at the risk assessment sounds like you know your onions and are prepared to swing em around too.
No risk assessment for a dodgy yard? Oh dear - I couldn’t possibly go there without contravening legislation. I call it fighting fire with fire.
Bring a load back cos you’ve run out of time that should see you Not Wanted Back!
It’s better than ■■■■■■■■ to the agency less chance of comebacks from them.
tell the agency the truth that is you dont like doing that particular job…agency will understand…
but if yer back on sains52mphburies thats a cages job aswell isnt it…go on tell em
diggertony:
tell the agency the truth that is you dont like doing that particular job…agency will understand…
but if yer back on sains52mphburies thats a cages job aswell isnt it…go on tell em
Lot of difference between going to a supermarket that’s been built with having delivieries by HGV in mind to delivering to shops all over the place on housing estates and other places and having to get cages up kerbs and over paths and rough car parks.
tofer:
diggertony:
tell the agency the truth that is you dont like doing that particular job…agency will understand…
but if yer back on sains52mphburies thats a cages job aswell isnt it…go on tell emLot of difference between going to a supermarket that’s been built with having delivieries by HGV in mind to delivering to shops all over the place on housing estates and other places and having to get cages up kerbs and over paths and rough car parks.
your absolutely right Tofer, all you have to do at sainsbury’s is push them to the back of the trailer.
Happy Keith:
Just Trucker:
‘…You have to take the lorry down places you wouldn’t even take a van…’For fear of sounding like an old woman in this (often over-macho?) industry, I’ve found under such circumstances that to ask the desk for a look at the risk assessment sounds like you know your onions and are prepared to swing em around too.
No risk assessment for a dodgy yard? Oh dear - I couldn’t possibly go there without contravening legislation. I call it fighting fire with fire.
What a great idea… (I’m a bit slow when it comes to these things!) I’ll keep that thought tucked away for a rainy day!
Nisa is great fun!! Wait till they ask you to do 3663 thats even better 