Hi All, does anyone or has anyone drove for Trans alliance from Hilton or RH freight out of Nottingham, sent applications to them both and not heard a micky.
I know RH freight was advertising for drivers but never heard from them again.
A friend of mine has a friend who works for Trans Alliance on the continent and loves it.
You need to speak to JB and Wheelnut for the best knoiwlege of them two.
I know RH freight was advertising for drivers but never heard from them again.
Appears to be par for the course with that outfit. They seem to be averse to experienced drivers.
Salut, David
Spardo:
I know RH freight was advertising for drivers but never heard from them again.
Appears to be par for the course with that outfit. They seem to be averse to experienced drivers.
Salut, David
from what i here your not from the right side of te berlin wall 
see malc (wheelnut) about trans alliance but he did leave
jon
Don’t bother with RH if you want continental work, all their British drivers were kicked off continental and replaced with cheaper drivers, from Estonia I believe.
Transalliance is ok, home every weekend and not really rushed. I only got fed up of doing the same thing each week, The furthest I got was Western France, but the money is fair for the hours you put in.
The drivers are all sound to a man, the French guys make you welcome wherever you are 
We have just had a driver start with my new company from RH but he is on training at the moment so I havent met him.
So you don’t drive for RH then Wheelnut?
Do you drive for a local company pulling on the continent
uktruckie:
So you don’t drive for RH then Wheelnut?Do you drive for a local company pulling on the continent
No, never worked for RH to my knowledge
I have left Transalliance to work for a continental company doing locals 
I think I know who you work for then!!!
I did around 5 years for RH in nottingham. It was a good job when i started (as johhny and rumpo will testify). 3 or 4 weeks away(longer if you wanted). All over europe (Italy,spain,swiss,germany, benelux)…
Then thompson jewitts were bought out… 1st by nyk who own uci, then the international side was acquired by ontime logistics in bradford… Around six months later they went bang…
The result being RH got some of tom and jerrys work… one contract being a nightly express run to Spedition Kayser in Mainz… This had been running for around ten years with double-man teamed uk drivers(me being one for a good few years). Rh in there wisdom decided it couldnt be run profitably with uk labour so through there Finnish subsiduary OY RH FREIGHT AB, they subbed the work out to an Estonian outfit PARMETRANS.
This was the start of the end for the uk driven european fleet at rh… which had at its peak numbered around 30 double-man teams and 100+ solo uk drivers.
The top men saw how profitable it was exploiting our baltic and eastern european neighbours…
Slowly but surely we lost the other work to the estonian teams… first the spanish… then the italian uk teams were dwindling and the estonians were rapidly multiplying… then the swiss work went… then the benelux… all to other nationalities who could do the job cheaper.
The result being… Rh do very little uk driven european work now. You may get either a transmarck/sommesous or habay trl change if your lucky. There are still a few running to italy and switzerland… but not many 
I enjoyed working there, it kept me fit stripping tilts and working hard. But i wouldnt go expecting to be running european anymore.
Rgds jon
p.s. all the time this was happening we were promised “there will always be a core of uk drivers doing european work at RH”
Do i sound bitter? ■■■■ right i am
Spardo:
I know RH freight was advertising for drivers but never heard from them again.
Appears to be par for the course with that outfit. They seem to be averse to experienced drivers.
Salut, David
Not strictly true david in my experience, Jim Hill had been to afghanistan and the Middle east, Baz Noton had done all the scandinavian countries with tom and jerry, Barry swarbruck was rumoured to have been overland to pakistan. Just a few of the many who`d been far afield
JB, your story could be mistaken for the story of western European merchant navies too. First western ships got a few third world seamen to fill surpluss jobs, it was then realised how they could be exploited and payed much less, then companies adopted policies of employing now new western seaman and as one left, he would be replaced with a third world seamen, then some companies just flagged out and got rid of the entire crew and now in Britain there aren’t even any training establishments for seamen anymore, only a few for officer cadets, most of who’s students come largely from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as was the case with the maritime college in Blackpool where I attended in 2002 to get my fire fighting tickets and all the other STCW98 regulation nonsense, I then ofcourse got employment on German coasters as no British company would give me the time of day. This is the reason why I am so passionately against this sort of thing, I’ve seen where it leads, as obviously have you, it only takes a small change one year and 5 years down the line, whole companies have got rid of their British drivers. One only has to look at RH or Norbert Dentressangle and his British drivers to see evidence of it, then you’ve got the Harry Vos’s, Willi Betz and Nolan Betz who all opperate in our market but with cheap drivers, making the situation that others who compete with them have to, or think they have to adopt the same line and bang goes the employment oppertunities for anyone with the wrong passport.
uktruckie.
you may not hear from rh if you applied for a position expecting to do european work.
they don’t send too many drivers over the water these days and so international drivers tend not to remain with them very long.
i’ve recently heard that they have purchased 2 houses in the lenton area of nottingham with the intention of housing fitters and drivers from abroad, i hasten to add that you may not see the adverts in papers in france or holland, you may need to travel further afield to where the streets are cobbled and the street lights are few and far between, perhaps the newspaper carrying the adverts for drivers will end in nak or ski
johnny:
i hasten to add that you may not see the adverts in papers in france or holland, you may need to travel further afield to where the streets are cobbled and the street lights are few and far between, perhaps the newspaper carrying the adverts for drivers will end in nak or ski
Hmmm…Bradford?
Never did hear from RH
i was chatting to an rh driver last week and he drove a magnum he said… they have 10 magnums left and the only drivers to do euro work apart from transmarck changeovers are the magnum drivers and they have a mixture of work sometimes uk some weeks euro but they are the blue eyed boys no one else will get any. he goes to italy but thats as far as he goes and they are always back in the week no weekending.
cant remember his name he had an 03 reg magnum tarted up a bit with wheeltrims and spotlights and his name on the front dont know if anybody on here knows him.
jessicas dad:
cant remember his name he had an 03 reg magnum tarted up a bit with wheeltrims and spotlights and his name on the front dont know if anybody on here knows him.
Would his name happen to be Mick JD, and is this the Magnum you saw??
Found this photo
http://groups.msn.com/lorryphotos/renault.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=3268
Also seen this one at Truckfest, but cant remember the site i saw it on now.
Another ■■■■ with a frigde.
yep thats him seems a nice bloke.
that’s Magnum NICK… another one of us doing uk work… while our eastern block comrades price us out of euro work… nice