robroy:
dozy:
old 67:
Strap your own load ? no wonder you’re starting to go off the job. It’s the thin end of the wedge mate, before long they will want you to take the straps off at the other end as well.
Walk away mate, too many employers taking the ■■■■ and expecting drivers to work for a living.
Regards. John.I’m going off it as I didn’t do the traing the others did on strapping as I was on holiday ,it now concerns me and puts me off as I’m now going to be hauling loads of concrete / steel and God knows what else around hoping on a wim and a prayer it doesn’t fall off ,as Santa says your not dealing with pallets of beans
Ffs dozy it’s chucking straps over concrete, it aint nuclear physics or brain surgery. Why are you getting in such a flap man.
Just because Stobarts do 6 wk [zb] training course for every aspect of the job from removing your flask top to dropping a trailer does not mean in reality it’s necessary.
I ain’t going down the boring road of how we were just left to learn stuff ourselves in the old days, but we DID manage, but with your lot it has gone from one extreme to the other.
Job training is unarguably a good thing these days compared to years ago, but you can be shown by another driver all the aspects of how to strap up concrete /required tension and tightness/protectors/where to put straps on trombones/strap position where the beams are not going to flex,and shear the strap, and all the rest of it in about an hour, by listening, taking it in and using good old fashioned common sense, without being a bloody ‘Academy of Stobart Excellence Student’ it’s just an arse covering excercise.
I thought you had done the job a long time, or are you a member of the Green Brainwashed, swallowed the hype and Bull sh, and lost sense of reality.
I know rob but after years of doing a-b-a with a map to tell you how to get there I’ve lost that confidence I had before there employment ( to be honest I’ve never been that confident person in any aspects of life) and that’s why I’ve not jumped years ago.
But by caving in and agreeing to work elsewhere on what should of been a short term basis and is now going on and on I’ve backed myself into a corner where I can’t continue to keep traveling hours ,100,s of miles to work and back
So I’m going to either have to bite the bullet and go for this or take job offers ,maybe that’s what I need to get out of my comfort zone.
But yea your right mate ,had it to easy for to long .
