Good grief you would rather loose a days money over a few poxy pence of phone calls which probably amount to a lot less than what you spent getting to the job and going home without pay . Ffs do the day’s work go home and refuse to return again . And you wonder why agency drivers get a poor rep .
chester1:
Good grief you would rather loose a days money over a few poxy pence of phone calls which probably amount to a lot less than what you spent getting to the job and going home without pay . Ffs do the day’s work go home and refuse to return again . And you wonder why agency drivers get a poor rep .
Unfortunately, some of us aren’t of the ‘part our bum cheeks and do with us what you will’ mentality. 
LIBERTY_GUY:
chester1:
Good grief you would rather loose a days money over a few poxy pence of phone calls which probably amount to a lot less than what you spent getting to the job and going home without pay . Ffs do the day’s work go home and refuse to return again . And you wonder why agency drivers get a poor rep .Unfortunately, some of us aren’t of the ‘part our bum cheeks and do with us what you will’ mentality.
Really a few pence of phone calls is being shafted . It’s plain and simple cutting of your nose to spite your face
chester1:
Really a few pence of phone calls is being shafted . It’s plain and simple cutting of your nose to spite your face
That’s one way of looking at it but it’s all about the principle and you have to admire LG for sticking to his guns. Give some people an inch etc…
maestegboy:
You need an effective means of communication.The agency and the company both have a legal duty to provide this…end of argumentWhat if an emergency occurred miles away from anywhere? Never agree to use your own mobile phone.
Most agency’s and company’s know this,but completly ignore it,bit like provide your own boots PPE etc.
When they know full well they should be providing it FREE OF CHARGE.
Total tosh. There is no “legal duty” for the company to provide any sort of phone for use in emergencies.
Do not give your number to clients I’ve had calls at 4 am asking me to come in and my number given to marketing agencies .
Yet desk jockeys have company mobiles and cars incase their quinoas delivered late .want one buy one want mine 1.00 a call
Plus vat
all our work are locked and can only call the office so if we need too contact a customer then we call the office and tell them too do it
The logic of having one man drive found with upto say a million pound load with no security or mobile typifies the complete incompetence of transport management .help usout we only clear a couple of mill a year …laughable
As an agency driver you are self employed. Its more and more common for regular contact with transport offices now. So having a mobile phone as a business accessory for self employed drivers sounds like a must. So many drivers look for any way to be as awkward and stupid as possible.
And who has PAYG these days? at 30p a min? A sim only package would be far cheaper and mean you dont to have to worry about the cost of individual calls. Why anyone with any sense at all would be on the road so much and have PAYG is baffling. What if you run out of credit and had an emergency?
mercury:
Do not give your number to clients.
Sometimes its the agency who has given the client your mobile phone number, after all you give the agency permission to do so when you sign up to them for work. or didn`t you read that bit of the contractual paperwork & untick the box when you signed up?
Phil1979:
What if you run out of credit and had an emergency?
Your still able to make calls to the emergency services with nil credit
mercury:
Do not give your number to clients I’ve had calls at 4 am .
What are you moaning for? You’re up at that time, on here posting drunken nonsense.
Yes I can get a phone for these tight fisted transport management bloodsucking Facebook reading liberty takers .nowhere in my contract does it say I must give my number to anyone .but I do as poorold transport companies can’t afford bonuses and essential items to do the job.your wrong .as is transport management but having paid 4000 for a shocking job breaking health and Safety .I must be stupid enough to give my personal number to ppl I don’t know .standard liberty of managrment
Pho ing through after each delivery is another liberty .it is purely to give desk jockeys something to do so they look like their earning their money .otherwise they’d have to work
Phil1979:
As an agency driver you are self employed. Its more and more common for regular contact with transport offices now. So having a mobile phone as a business accessory for self employed drivers sounds like a must. So many drivers look for any way to be as awkward and stupid as possible.And who has PAYG these days? at 30p a min? A sim only package would be far cheaper and mean you dont to have to worry about the cost of individual calls. Why anyone with any sense at all would be on the road so much and have PAYG is baffling. What if you run out of credit and had an emergency?
Errrrr no - as an agency driver I am NOT self employed, I am a temporary employee of the agency on PAYE. Not self employed in any way, shape or form, so not sure where you get that idea from?
My agency refused to reimburse my phone costs on a previous contract, so told them I wouldn’t be doing that again in the future as ended up significantly out of pocket. This company now wouldn’t supply a mobile phone for me to use, even though they admitted they had them available but only supplied them to their employed drivers, they wouldn’t agree to me adding a quarter of an hour onto my timesheet to cover the cost, nor make an ex gratia payment out the petty cash. Somewhere you have to say no to people constantly taking the pee like this. Truly not paying out my own money to subsidise someone else’s business. That not being awkward, it called drawing a line in the sand.
A phone contract is of no real benefit to me as don’t use the phone enough to justify one. In the winter months when agency work dries up, I would still be paying out monthly for it? It is only the odd ■■■■ end client that has unrealistic expectations.
Surely, as an agency driver, your phone is part of your essential equipment (along with boots hi-viz, work clothes etc)
If a company handed out phones to agency drivers how many would they still have at the end of the week ? 
Denis F. Surely you are not suggesting the cream of temporary transport operatives would not misappropriate company equipment?
Denis F:
Surely, as an agency driver, your phone is part of your essential equipment (along with boots hi-viz, work clothes etc)
Not quite sure where folks get that idea from? The PPE is my own personal equipment that I had to pay for, despite it legally being the ‘employers’ responsibility to provide this. Only reason I even carry a phone is in case the vehicle breaks down somewhere. If companies need to have communication channels open then they should fit cabphones, like most of the sensible companies out there do. Whatever next - use my own vehicle to make the deliveries?
Am not an agency driver as such,just doing it for a few weeks cash. Today’s truck drivers just seem to have turned into complete mugs over the years, putting up with all this sort of crud without question. They certainly don’t roll over like this in other industries.
LIBERTY_GUY:
Today’s truck drivers just seem to have turned into complete mugs over the years, putting up with all this sort of crud without question. They certainly don’t roll over like this in other industries.
Todays truck drivers are nowhere near the mugs they used to be running bent as a nine bob note, killing themselves to do the job, risking injury just to keep the boss happy. Tacho fiddling is nothing like it used to be for example. And yes they do roll over like this in other industries and even more so in some.