Is Warburtons in your neck of the woods? You could be toasted beaver instead.
eagerbeaver:
No, not some weird Canadian recipe. The Beaver has been relieved of his green status lol.It would appear that I have upset a few office bods!!
Best of luck mate , hope you get sorted , jobs gone right down hill, in the past all the crap work , trucks, shifts were given to agency , now they expect us to do it 
, can’t blame you
Not enough Dough Goldilox.
James the cat:
Dozy is still there with his illustrious service record.What on earth did you do?? Urinate in the chocolate fountain? Punch one of the oompahloompahs?
I’m still there because non of the accidents or incidents were my fault, if you’d of read my posts / threads properly you’d realise that 
How about doing ADR?
Thought about it a few times Radar, seems a tough gig to get into though? Loads of newish drivers have ADR and seem to be struggling to get a start.
I’d have thought that for a Stobart employee some Tesco delivery work would be accepted as normal practice, no matter which depot/department.
Even the automotive chaps were offered some of that work at Christmas (though as its unionised it could be declined).
eagerbeaver:
Thought about it a few times Radar, seems a tough gig to get into though? Loads of newish drivers have ADR and seem to be struggling to get a start.
I’m doing it at the moment, the guy whos teaching it is great. Bloody scary though, look up Oleum. Its nuts what they transport under ADR.
Judehamish. You are correct mate about having to do the odd Tesco store delivery.
But there is more chance of seeing me in a Bond movie, than doing Tesco after 11 hours of general already in a day.
Sad to see they have decided to let you go beaver, but I feel you stood your ground and as a massive corporate company you was only a number to them, and they just crossed you off their list. In my eyes ■■■■■■■■ but now sir I welcome you to the hi-vis, dodgy looking limper club you are welcomed with open arms. We will try and forget you ever worked for stobarts.
dozy:
James the cat:
Dozy is still there with his illustrious service record.What on earth did you do?? Urinate in the chocolate fountain? Punch one of the oompahloompahs?
I’m still there because non of the accidents or incidents were my fault, if you’d of read my posts / threads properly you’d realise that
Dozy, if you hit a stationary object, be it a van or a building, it’s your fault.
You’re still there because you’re a yes man, simple as that.
dozy:
James the cat:
Dozy is still there with his illustrious service record.What on earth did you do?? Urinate in the chocolate fountain? Punch one of the oompahloompahs?
I’m still there because non of the accidents or incidents were my fault, if you’d of read my posts / threads properly you’d realise that
What would you call them? Acts of God?
Didn’t you once drive your lorry into a building to avoid a wildly dangerous and unpredictable stationary parked van or something?
muckles:
But agree about he childish planners, there are ways of getting people to do a job and ways to run them up the wrong way.
The place I worked where I had to do shunting every so often was a small family run haulage company, no more than 20 trucks, the boss used to ask if you could do a job not tell you and he done it himself and would get out and do it himself if he had to.
Then He employed the Monkey to be the transport manager, and all off a sudden you got told what to do and not asked, because the Monkey had his area of responsibility, and he protected it to the very end, in which I might add, he was partly responsible.
No longer did Eddie do beet weeding, turfing, painting windows or any other manner of work when it was quiet, Eddie said if you have no driving work, don’t expect Me to turn up, you ring Me when you have driving work, And it came to pass that Eddie [zb] off to work else where.
Well done Beaver, and a merry Christmas 
eddie snax:
muckles:
But agree about he childish planners, there are ways of getting people to do a job and ways to run them up the wrong way.
The place I worked where I had to do shunting every so often was a small family run haulage company, no more than 20 trucks, the boss used to ask if you could do a job not tell you and he done it himself and would get out and do it himself if he had to.Then He employed the Monkey to be the transport manager, and all off a sudden you got told what to do and not asked, because the Monkey had his area of responsibility, and he protected it to the very end, in which I might add, he was partly responsible.
No longer did Eddie do beet weeding, turfing, painting windows or any other manner of work when it was quiet, Eddie said if you have no driving work, don’t expect Me to turn up, you ring Me when you have driving work, And it came to pass that Eddie [zb] off to work else where.
Well done Beaver, and a merry Christmas
Like I said there are ways of getting people do to a job and ways to rub them up the wrong way, one did it one way and in fact pretty much left the drivers he trusted to get on with a job, the other wanted total control over the drivers and that’s why the good ones left leaving them with the ones that couldn’t go anywhere else.
And I believe at least one of the days you did Beet Weeding you ended up in the pub, with the bosses brother buying the drinks, which considering he was a legendary skinflint must of been a once in a lifetime experience. 
I found if you were cleaning your truck and not hanging around the workshops you rarely got dragged into other jobs.
Thanks for the support on here folks. I suppose it came down to my own pride and belief’s really. I honestly believe that truck driving is a responsible and important job. It does not take ’ Mensa style ’ individuals to pass a LGV test or two. But in my opinion, we have too many frightened YES men doing the job.
I do not advocate being reckless, and belligerent, and being a militant prick. Most of us have responsibilities and families to take care of. However, if we do not take more of a stand, we will continue to be viewed as merely people who did not listen at school.
There are unfortunately, far too many wagon drivers who ’ taint ’ any professional image we might strive for. But if some of us continue to be afraid of not paying the mortgage, and in doing so, accept the ’ bent over ’ position, we simply allow the job to deteriorate for both ourselves, and our colleagues.
Time more of us grew a pair IMO.
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James the cat:
dozy:
James the cat:
Dozy is still there with his illustrious service record.What on earth did you do?? Urinate in the chocolate fountain? Punch one of the oompahloompahs?
I’m still there because non of the accidents or incidents were my fault, if you’d of read my posts / threads properly you’d realise that
What would you call them? Acts of God?
Didn’t you once drive your lorry into a building to avoid a wildly dangerous and unpredictable stationary parked van or something?
I’d call it the vans fault , thery have designated parking areas for the dot com vans, he chose not to use one even though there were spare parking bays avaliable to him, he chose to park within my designated turning circle in the yard( pure laziness), meaning I did not have the full turning circle my risk assessment said I should of had, and you try to suggest it was my fault the overhang on building got hit if he wasn’t where he shouldn’t of been then there would of been no accident
Contraflow:
dozy:
James the cat:
Dozy is still there with his illustrious service record.What on earth did you do?? Urinate in the chocolate fountain? Punch one of the oompahloompahs?
I’m still there because non of the accidents or incidents were my fault, if you’d of read my posts / threads properly you’d realise that
Dozy, if you hit a stationary object, be it a van or a building, it’s your fault.
You’re still there because you’re a yes man, simple as that.
I’ve loads of mates who are still here and say no
I’m not doing that, this or anything to be honest , so your reasoning that I’m here because I supposedly say yes to every request doesn’t stand up does it.
If I get the job on fridges ( checking references) then I’m off ,but where ever I go I’m at a stage where I’d like a peaceful life ,go to work,do my job, go home with the least amount of bother,if you deem that a yes man then I’m one
muckles:
eddie snax:
muckles:
But agree about he childish planners, there are ways of getting people to do a job and ways to run them up the wrong way.
The place I worked where I had to do shunting every so often was a small family run haulage company, no more than 20 trucks, the boss used to ask if you could do a job not tell you and he done it himself and would get out and do it himself if he had to.Then He employed the Monkey to be the transport manager, and all off a sudden you got told what to do and not asked, because the Monkey had his area of responsibility, and he protected it to the very end, in which I might add, he was partly responsible.
No longer did Eddie do beet weeding, turfing, painting windows or any other manner of work when it was quiet, Eddie said if you have no driving work, don’t expect Me to turn up, you ring Me when you have driving work, And it came to pass that Eddie [zb] off to work else where.
Well done Beaver, and a merry Christmas
Like I said there are ways of getting people do to a job and ways to rub them up the wrong way, one did it one way and in fact pretty much left the drivers he trusted to get on with a job, the other wanted total control over the drivers and that’s why the good ones left leaving them with the ones that couldn’t go anywhere else.
And I believe at least one of the days you did Beet Weeding you ended up in the pub, with the bosses brother buying the drinks, which considering he was a legendary skinflint must of been a once in a lifetime experience.
I found if you were cleaning your truck and not hanging around the workshops you rarely got dragged into other jobs.
Ha ha ha, Yeah I suppose I did end up in the Pub, with the Guvnors brother 
, but it was dinner time and many beets had been weeded first, honest 
I found that if you got in the teleporter and re-arranged the blue pallets, endlessly, you got left out off the way, if the old man came round you could moan at the state of the pallet yard, to which he’d agree, and comment on what a good job was being done to straighten it up, bingo 
never failed. Though the “Farhguar” really did pull the best stunt, he decided to polish the tank on his truck, and got the old man to go and get all the gear needed and parked it in the workshop in front of a space heater, then settled down to a restful days polishing, respect
The fact was, that whilst it was a business run by the family members, those drivers that worked with them and were flexible, were treated well, and it was refreshing to do something different to driving from time to time.