Subject to references could depend a lot on what type of work your new job entails and you would be doing ie delivering into peoples houses, or carrying valuable goods to stores or anything that is customer related.
My last job (I was there for 11 years) was subject to references and they were taken up.
dieseldog999:
Conor:
dieseldog999:
leeyarnold:
Thanks guys. I am good time keeper very honest and don’t have bumps. My last employer was asking me to cut and tie up airlines to my trailer as airbags had blown and wanted me to drive it back. I refused and resigned instantlyno loss to your employer then if that’s your attitude…unless its a Tosco/agency/beancounter job,surely you would just come and go to help out for the sake of a poxy airbag.run back empty with a sob story in the event of a dig.
No. You as the driver would have the living hell fined out of you if you were stopped.
Seriously “dog”, you’re a right mug. Your employers really take the ■■■■ out of you and you’re too stupid to work it out. They’ve got you taking all the risks and thinking you’re a top driver for doing it. You’re not a top driver, you’re just the biggest mug in the yard.
ho hum…thankfully I don’t live in your world…
I’m with dog on this one kinking the pipe for a blown air bag is quite normal thing most fitters will do this to either get you home or to there workshops rather than do an airbag at the side of the road . Have even strapped an axle up just to get home .It’s not going to fall of its not ideal but get on with it . I had one go in the summer and it took 3 weeks to get the bag ( old nootboom trailer ) I’d understand your point if sending you out with it or expecting you to run all week with it . But a get you home job no problem
Had an airbag go on the trailer the other week, got it back the yard no problem, no call out, no stress, no resignation, no mega fines Conor lol Just swapped trailers and cracked on with it 
Plambert:
What’s wrong with being asked to cable tie airlines to get home for a proper fix ? Was it worth walking out?
+1…if you cant help out by doing something simple like that when asked,then you saved them the trouble of getting rid of you by walking out. few cable ties,or even going to a shop and buying mole grips would save the day.
Yeah, I agree.
Get a grip.
That’s why he was getting the mole grips for 
2ND WOOOSH OF THE NIGHT. I am on a roll.
eagerbeaver:
2ND WOOOSH OF THE NIGHT. I am on a roll.
Like Jam n Butter
eagerbeaver:
2ND WOOOSH OF THE NIGHT. I am on a roll.
Talking of a Roll…have you found a new role in the driving world or are you still cuddling up to your P45 ?
3 wheeler:
eagerbeaver:
2ND WOOOSH OF THE NIGHT. I am on a roll.Talking of a Roll…have you found a new role in the driving world or are you still cuddling up to your P45 ?
Can’t even get agency work at Christmas I heard. 
Contraflow:
3 wheeler:
eagerbeaver:
2ND WOOOSH OF THE NIGHT. I am on a roll.Talking of a Roll…have you found a new role in the driving world or are you still cuddling up to your P45 ?
Can’t even get agency work at Christmas I heard.
He’s clearly too embarrassed to say, but how could it be worse?
The reality is references are just a medieval obsolete idea that can be abused along the lines of the old fashioned blacklist.At most a prospective employer should only be allowed to ask about criminal/traffic convictions or previous ( successful ) disciplinary actions.
…and that’s the end of this thread.
Reference from Trucknetuk may help?
I have secured a most lucrative wagon pointing role 3 wheeler. I cannot risk revealing this situation at present, as it erm…involves manual labour (which I have sneered at on previous occasions ).
However, I am confident that I will shortly be able to embrace my new found hypocrisy, and reveal all.
Agency work suits my lifestyle. OH CRAP IVE SAID TOO MUCH, HOW THE HELL DO YOU DELETE…
eagerbeaver:
I have secured a most lucrative wagon pointing role 3 wheeler. I cannot risk revealing this situation at present, as it erm…involves manual labour (which I have sneered at on previous occasions ).However, I am confident that I will shortly be able to embrace my new found hypocrisy, and reveal all.
Agency work suits my lifestyle. OH CRAP IVE SAID TOO MUCH, HOW THE HELL DO YOU DELETE…
Are you driving a tractor on a carrot farm with PimpDaddy? 
Nope. Got a job with Desypete.
No CPC required and his old boss has took us on. ( 1986 rates, so only £28 per hour ).
Carryfast:
The reality is references are just a medieval obsolete idea that can be abused along the lines of the old fashioned blacklist.At most a prospective employer should only be allowed to ask about criminal/traffic convictions or previous ( successful ) disciplinary actions.
aye I remember the blacklist days …was banned for life ,not even allowed to get a lift back to home in friends motors/pull any o their trailers for a well known Scottish company…was annoyed at first but ended up laughing at them my mates who drove for them thought it was funny!.(early mid 80s wks pay 80pound inc 5 nights out and 6 payslips,one for each day with tax ni etc taken off each slip they didn’t care when I complained But paid attention when tax centre one jumped all over them)
found a good job after a while and stuck it for 20+ yrs ,they asked for references at the start and were going to phone them then and there I told them what they would be told by the conpany ,and they did tell them I was a trouble maker but the guy that interviewed me burst out laughing at them on the phone.
Conor:
dieseldog999:
leeyarnold:
Thanks guys. I am good time keeper very honest and don’t have bumps. My last employer was asking me to cut and tie up airlines to my trailer as airbags had blown and wanted me to drive it back. I refused and resigned instantlyno loss to your employer then if that’s your attitude…unless its a Tosco/agency/beancounter job,surely you would just come and go to help out for the sake of a poxy airbag.run back empty with a sob story in the event of a dig.
No. You as the driver would have the living hell fined out of you if you were stopped.
Seriously “dog”, you’re a right mug. Your employers really take the ■■■■ out of you and you’re too stupid to work it out. They’ve got you taking all the risks and thinking you’re a top driver for doing it. You’re not a top driver, you’re just the biggest mug in the yard.
I think the driver was mistaken, the company asked him to cut the pipe to the airbag, bend it over and put a tie wrap around it. They weren’t asking him to cut Suzies or interfere with brakes