hopefully got an interview soon at the Leicester depot.anyone got the usual info. on them please? money,conditions etc. class 1 job.
Just be careful what you say when on site, walls have ears!
dowahdiddyman:
Just be careful what you say when on site, walls have ears!
And ice cream!
When you wash the unit, make sure you mix soap and water with some Ariel to get it looking White again.
Crap place to tip at lol
Not sure about new starters but night trunkers who have been there a while and have their own run earn close to 40k and over 40k easily done with a few extra shifts thrown in.
Paid sick leave.
Final salary company pension.
Free private health care.
Life insurance that pays out 4 x salary.
Yearly profit share bonus of a few hundred quid.
Saturday x1.5,sunday x2 bank hols x3
Free turkey and hamper for all employees at xmas.
Jobs a doddle and you get no hassle or phone calls from the office.
juglugs:
Not sure about new starters but night trunkers who have been there a while and have their own run earn close to 40k and over 40k easily done with a few extra shifts thrown in.Paid sick leave.
Final salary company pension.
Free private health care.
Life insurance that pays out 4 x salary.
Yearly profit share bonus of a few hundred quid.
Free turkey and hamper for all employees at xmas.
Jobs a doddle and you get no hassle or phone calls from the office.
Are you one of the brothers?!! 
Sounds a great job, but very unlike an HGV employed driver position…
Not any more retired due to ill health.
I had a night trunk there paid as 11 hour run,used to do it in 9.5 hrs and still paid 11 if things went ■■■■ up anything over 11 used to be paid at time n half.
Was paid 37k,drive 4 hrs,sleep for an hour til changeover arrived,swap trailers and drive back.
Only downside to the job is not allowed time off over the 2wk xmas/new year period as its their busiest time.
I think a lot of new starters are started on an any 4 or 5 days from 7 but have no idea what the salary is.
They transpory their own chilled food pruducts and 3rd party stuff and is probably the closest thing you will get to a job for life in the transport industry.
well reading their web site I would say if you can get on there you would have a job for life, there ain’t many companies still offering final salary pensions and that’s across the board for all employee’s any more, still a family run business with many food brand names in their group. 
Samworths have been around a lot of years, as have I 
and I have never yet heard a bad word about them, getting a start there is probably one of the best breaks you can get in this day and age, they treat their employees right, run 100% legal and while your never going to retire to Monaco on a drivers wage they pay a fair rate. Not the most glamorous work out there, and if your expecting a blinged up 750 BHP mega globetrotter XXL Super space cab your going to be disappointed, but if your priority is to be treated as a human being not part of a machine, then they do have the right attitude to all their employees, Its not the job for everyone, but a lot better than most out there atm
Seeing as Samworth bros own Ginsters and that is what they mainly transport i couldn’t have a good word to say about someone who transports the most disgusting food i’ve ever tasted. Thats if you could call it food. Take your own packed lunch is my advice 
Mike-C:
Seeing as Samworth bros own Ginsters and that is what they mainly transport i couldn’t have a good word to say about someone who transports the most disgusting food i’ve ever tasted. Thats if you could call it food. Take your own packed lunch is my advice
not as good as a homemade Cornish pasty but I wouldn’t go that far
maga:
Mike-C:
Seeing as Samworth bros own Ginsters and that is what they mainly transport i couldn’t have a good word to say about someone who transports the most disgusting food i’ve ever tasted. Thats if you could call it food. Take your own packed lunch is my advice
I am Cornish and would rather eat my own arm than a Ginsters pasty.
maga:
Mike-C:
Seeing as Samworth bros own Ginsters and that is what they mainly transport i couldn’t have a good word to say about someone who transports the most disgusting food i’ve ever tasted. Thats if you could call it food. Take your own packed lunch is my advice
As a cornishman, I would!!!
Yet legally Ginsters is a “proper” cornish pasty by virtue of the fact they are made in Cornwall. (only just…the factory is about 1/2 mile from the devon border)
maga:
Mike-C:
Seeing as Samworth bros own Ginsters and that is what they mainly transport i couldn’t have a good word to say about someone who transports the most disgusting food i’ve ever tasted. Thats if you could call it food. Take your own packed lunch is my advice
Oh i’ve tried over the years. I love scotch eggs, and all the rest of the stuff and everytime i get hungry and i’m in a services i buy one, take a bite and then throw it away without fail. The wrapper picture looks lovley. Give me a Sayers/Greggs/Bakers Oven anyday. I’ll bet food aid wouldn’t take the stuff off them !!!
I’m sure its a great job delivering it though, especially knowing most people hate the stuff!!
Mike-C:
Seeing as Samworth bros own Ginsters and that is what they mainly transport i couldn’t have a good word to say about someone who transports the most disgusting food i’ve ever tasted. Thats if you could call it food. Take your own packed lunch is my advice
Ginsters is only a very small part of what they supply,most chilled product in supermarkets own brand stuff like sausages,cooked meats,sandwiches,cakes and pudding and pies etc is supplied by one of the many Samworth companies
thanks for the replies lads,sounds excellent if i get the job,i’ll take a packed lunch
They can change your runs which will affect your pay at short notice. I know a driver whose run changed slightly so they knocked an hour off his time which worked out at 5 hrs a week or 20 hrs a month this at £10 per hour cost him £200 a month so not to be sniffed at.
Sick pay after 1 year.
I was offered a job with them on 4 on 4 off and the week’s with 3 working days in were very poorly paid because i would only be doing about 33 hours in that week .
This was at Bristol about 3 yrs ago now.
That sounds no different to the “Sign into a 318 duty” system run at Royal Mail.
Some 318’s former duties (before the “duty pattern” system introduced) would have had you take home £2500 a month, and others only £1500 a month.
Hint: I left because the former plum jobs were scrapped in favour of more of the latter. I would never have left if I could have kept the duty I had the previous year beforehand, 2009. Daft thing is, the hourly rate didn’t change, just the shift patterns away from less longer shifts towards shorter shifts over more days.
4x12 hours was always best, especially if your “rest day” was Monday or Friday, since it was always dead easy to get overtime on those days. Once changed to 5x8 hours though, the monthly takehome collapsed. No overtime shift on your “spare day”, but you’re still going to work 5 days a week basic. There were a lot of other folk wanting voluntary redundancy but not getting it when I left. Without that overtime the job is no better than what one sees all around now.
I’d go back tomorrow if the work picked up enough to re-instate the old shift patterns that’s for sure!
Working at Samworth from what I’ve been reading on this thread seems very similar to the RM experience, and I’d seriously look at working for them should they open a VOC near me.
I see their vehicles coming and going through the meridian estate when I’m parked up their trailer swapping. They always seem pretty busy to me, so perhaps for them there hasn’t ever BEEN any downturn. 
I still keep in touch with a couple of drivers,they told me that despite buying several new tractor units and trailers including 25 double deckers they are still having to hire kit to keep up with demand.
I think the drivers based up at Penrith who do the night trunks on 4 on 4 off earn about 32k salary but easily have the option to earn more with extra shifts.
Bristol will be one of their main bases in years to come from what I have heard.