Has it become the norm for factory workers and the like to sleep in cars ?
My mate who I do the odd day for, tried 3 lay-bys on the A180 last night and couldn’t get parked for cars, he said initially he thought it was the dodgy dog walking brigade, he said he’d eventually got parked behind 2 cars, but needed them to move forward so he could get in, but both cars were empty, he sat for an hour or so when a mini bus turned up and several blokes got out each of them making their way to the abandoned cars, he waited for them to move but they sat there, eventually he knocked on the nearest car to ask them to move forward only to find the guy in the car had all his gear spread out, a duvet on the back seat and few sandwiches on the passenger side, he asked them to pull forward a little and asked the same to the driver infront finding a similar set up.
Are workers travelling distance for a pitiful minimum wage and to save on fuel and b&b expenses sleeping in cars, I know it’s part and parcel for truckers and we are compensated for the inconvenience.
Most of them the UK is not even their home country [emoji49]
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Possibly don’t have homes as such and live in their cars. I read a while ago that lots of people live in tents round the back of some Amazon warehouse.
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contractors often get good overnight money for hotel room and dinner and still choose to pocket the money and doss in the back of the works van, I’ve done it myself. would rather knock £75 off the mortgage than have some crappy B&B. happier by myself in the van anyway.
Bluey Circles:
contractors often get good overnight money for hotel room and dinner and still choose to pocket the money and doss in the back of the works van, I’ve done it myself. would rather knock £75 off the mortgage than have some crappy B&B. happier by myself in the van anyway.
Funny old world innit…
You find contractors from Manchester working in Lincoln for two weeks whilst in Manchester, there are contractors from Lincoln working for two weeks. I never understood why no one appears to work locally?
Grumpy Dad:
Has it become the norm for factory workers and the like to sleep in cars ?
My mate who I do the odd day for, tried 3 lay-bys on the A180 last night and couldn’t get parked for cars, he said initially he thought it was the dodgy dog walking brigade, he said he’d eventually got parked behind 2 cars, but needed them to move forward so he could get in, but both cars were empty, he sat for an hour or so when a mini bus turned up and several blokes got out each of them making their way to the abandoned cars, he waited for them to move but they sat there, eventually he knocked on the nearest car to ask them to move forward only to find the guy in the car had all his gear spread out, a duvet on the back seat and few sandwiches on the passenger side, he asked them to pull forward a little and asked the same to the driver infront finding a similar set up.
Are workers travelling distance for a pitiful minimum wage and to save on fuel and b&b expenses sleeping in cars, I know it’s part and parcel for truckers and we are compensated for the inconvenience.
Jesus iv heard it all now
Truckers are Compensated for sleeping in the truck
25 quid your having a laugh right you should have posted it in bullys
It’s why the M1 and A14 are jammed with traffic on Monday morning and Friday afternoon with subbies heading too/from Lundinium
yourhavingalarf:
Bluey Circles:
contractors often get good overnight money for hotel room and dinner and still choose to pocket the money and doss in the back of the works van, I’ve done it myself. would rather knock £75 off the mortgage than have some crappy B&B. happier by myself in the van anyway.
Funny old world innit…
You find contractors from Manchester working in Lincoln for two weeks whilst in Manchester, there are contractors from Lincoln working for two weeks. I never understood why no one appears to work locally?
I work for the railway and it’s awful for this. Get sent everywhere, I live in the midlands - Furthest North I have worked it Dumfries and the furthest south is Plymouth. Don’t get paid for travel but they do pay for hotels if we want them, I sleep in the van sometimes if I’m struggling on the way home.
That’s why I did my CE so I at least get payed to drive
We regularly load out of a place in Peterborough and there’s a Scouse lad who works there, cracking fella but daft as a brush. I know for a fact that he only earns a few pennies more per hour than NMW yet he travels down from Liverpool at stupid o’clock on a Monday morning and works there until Friday when he travels home.
Problem is he drives a Corsa and sleeps upright in the drivers seat in a car park all week. I find it quite sad tbh.
yourhavingalarf:
Funny old world innit…
You find contractors from Manchester working in Lincoln for two weeks whilst in Manchester, there are contractors from Lincoln working for two weeks. I never understood why no one appears to work locally?
I used to work for G.E.C. Energy Systems, refurbing power stations. Did stints at Torness, Dungeoness, Berkeley.
I lived in Morecambe at the time, a 5 minute drive from Heysham 1 and 2, where they ALSO had contracts. In fact, that’s where I started for them then got shifted off around the country.
Anyways, I asked an office wallah about this and he said that if you were already away from home it was easier to shift you to another contract without any tears or tantrums than if you had to move away from home for the new contract.
Makes sense, I suppose.