I’ve just spent over an hour reading the first four pages of the Suttons Tanker Dispute thread. It did little for my general health. Slight juddering from the exceptionally high levels of communism turned into a full blown frothing at the mouth attack when the ■■■■■■■ love-child of Karl Marx and Jeremy Corbyn chipped in with the official Unite pitch at the bottom of page 1.
I digress though, except to establish my bona-fides as a capitolist dreamer content to climb upon the backs of the little man in my quest for ever greater profits. (Phew, that should stop the usual suspects from attacking my character and ignoring the question!)
The question which is raised in my mind most is, when did Wincanton become the Anti-Christ?
Before anyone gets up on the whole, “Didn’t you ask if the strikers were right?” question, go back and read the admission of capitalist tendencies. I’ve never met a striker I agreed with, either in the terms of a labour dispute or that bloody stupid game that knocks motor racing off the telly, and have never been nor do I ever desire to be, a member of a union. Put all that to one side, or feel free to run off to the aforementioned strike thread and vilify me to your hearts content, I’m not going back in there anyway!
From my experience, as an employed driver of, an agency driver for and a sub-contractor to Wincanton, the work is doable and reasonably planned, the training is provided with a smile and full pay, the bloke on the end of the phone is both human, and familiar with what a lorry looks like. Add into that the fact that the money is reasonable, while not leaning towards decadent and is always there on time and correct and I cant understand why Wincanton have attracted the ire of the TNUK massive.
I share a yard with about 25 Wincanton wagons, over containers, tankers and construction, and I never hear a complaint against them. The only wagon in the yard newer than the bulk of the Wincanton fleet is mine, (won’t last, they have deeper pockets than me). In fact the only Wincanton driver in the yard I can see who has a reason to grumble is the poor sod in the low roofed 12 plate MAN TGX pulling a powder tanker. Its by far the oldest truck on the fleet and the only low cabbed unit there, including the two cement mixers which are based on site and have FM Globetrotter cabs for day work! He though, cant praise em enough.
Calling them Wincanski is a bit off too as its very rare you hear an eastern European accent issuing forth from a Wincanton polo shirt.
Please enlighten me as to how Wincanton came to have the apparent reputation it has gained on here. And please take note of the tone of the OP. Leave your communistical or caplitolist leanings in the topic list, unless it arrives in fistfuls of gleeful self mockery.
