peirre:
working successive 7 week block bookings since the summer, this 7 week block is due to end at the end of the year. I see no reason why it wont continue beyond Xmas. The customer is flexible enough to allow me to take the last 4-5 Thursdays off to **attend a carers (CRisP) course** in the mornings, and get various utility companies, and cram various courier deliveries the same day. In return Im prepared to work the occasional Sat/Sun for the customer
Dan Punchard:
Do agency pay well for nighting out ?
Figures of around £18 - £27 per night are usually quoted by the agy`s, depending upon your geographical area
peirre:
working successive 7 week block bookings since the summer, this 7 week block is due to end at the end of the year. I see no reason why it wont continue beyond Xmas. The customer is flexible enough to allow me to take the last 4-5 Thursdays off to attend a carers (CRisP) course in the mornings, and get various utility companies, and cram various courier deliveries the same day. In return Im prepared to work the occasional Sat/Sun for the customer
Dan Punchard:
Do agency pay well for nighting out ?
Figures of around £18 - £27 per night are usually quoted by the agy`s, depending upon your geographical area
I’ve been kept busy by Best Connection, although there’s only three days this week. Today an agency I signed with in May called (for the first time…) asking when I was free as they’re looking for Van drivers for a client who’s desparate for anyone with a driving licence. Sounded like Yodel and as I don’t much fancy being given frosty receptions by customers I gave it a miss. Perhaps I should have said yes if they’re paying £big an hour.
have to admit i have every driver available out now until the new year, doubt it will go flat like normal but not counting on it.
having said that it seems to me and no disrespect meant to the OP here but the ‘regular’ i aint got work etc on here dont seem like drivers you would want to employ.
only last week i got rid of a class 1 guy for being a total let down!
jameskent:
most agencys are desperate for drivers there is [zb] loads of work at the moment
I figured they must be busy right now as I’m getting phone calls all the time but I’m in a full time job. Still its nice to know they have me on their good list ha.
if your wanting the cream of the crop,then for the entire country of northern Irelands jobcentre choice,then its 3 dung agency jobs at £8-50 per hour…1 employer job ad £7-50 per hour…3 offerings for n.i.uk work which will be trip money,1 of them morgans,so anyone over here will know what tht means,plus 1 offering from a advert for class 1 uk/ni work with every single detail withheld apart from the employers mobile phone,though it says £10 p.h…rich pickings,or what??
Im getting shifts thrown at me and offered all the time. Could do my full 5/6 fortnight if I wanted. And that’s at £10-12 per hour. But I know this will probably slow in January.
Im surprised many of you are saying there is no agency work. Maybe I just got lucky
The-Snowman:
I. But I know this will probably slow in January.
I’ll still be earning the same in January, able to pay bills & feed family, joys of not working for agencies hey-aaaah:grin:
I have an online business that brings me in enough to see me through the quiet times. I only need to get up at 5am to work all day if I feel like it! The joy of agency work! lol
Dan Punchard:
Not that I need agency or driving work but what type of companies are looking to use agency drivers is it all boxes and curtain siders or do low loader ,crane ,and tipper firms use agency ? Do agency pay well for nighting out ?
Dan, Live and work near you so can provide the real answer for yor area.
99% Curtains and boxes out of alfreton/derby/burton. Bit of (straightforward) milk bulk work ashbourne and ashby. Only lowloader work is Brits out of JCB rocester. Longcliffe started using agency earlier in the year and training agency drivers and stopped it so guess it wasn’t working, although did hear there own drivers were kicking against it…Heard that lafarge/wincanton were doing the same at cauldon low but not come across anyone who’s been in there.
There are some local guys with experience of tippers and powder tankers who do direct work, been driving ages and just seem to know people. No need for the agency.
Nights out generally £25, if you can get anyone to do them. Most agency drivers fit work around life so when there is work options avoid sleeping in the tin can if they don’t have to. I do it but only when the company is desperate and i can negotiate a deal !! and the right to walk away if unit is a tip, as the agency scum you tend to always get the pride of the fleet … not.
Rates C+E £10-12 weekdays, some offer less but tend to only be able to supply ski’s and idiots. C £8-9. Hiab work is about but is 99% builders merchants in summer months not the type of stuff you do.
Hope that gives you the info you need, if not fire the questions and will answer if i can.
Pimpdaddy:
There’s zb’all real ‘work’, just agency bs which clearly seems to suit some
By know i think we have all worked out you have had a bad agency experience, as we have seen all your informative posts which seem to have started when the last t-rex was still roaming the land…
The-Snowman:
Im surprised many of you are saying there is no agency work. Maybe I just got lucky
You did:!:
The-Snowman:
I. But I know this will probably slow in January.
I’ll still be earning the same in January, able to pay bills & feed family, joys of not working for agencies hey-aaaah:grin:
And i’ve just booked two weeks in Lanzarotte in Jan wih all the money i have earned in Nov/Dec will be taking the month off as don’t need to work. It’s picked up enough into xmas to allow me to do so. So when you are scraping the ice and shoveling the snow for your weekly wage i’ll be doing nothing with the money in the bank. Kids fed and clothed, bills paid sun on me back.
It’s horses for courses… If you accept this it will save you from spending your time on your informative anti agency posts.
Pimpdaddy:
There’s zb’all real ‘work’, just agency bs which clearly seems to suit some
By know i think we have all worked out you have had a bad agency experience, as we have seen all your informative posts which seem to have started when the last t-rex was still roaming the land…
haha i was surprised to hear pimpdaddy has a job!
wonder how long before it becomes another ■■■■ company on his evergrowing list.
like i say any decent agency driver (including ski’s) i have are out working full time/as many shifts as they want, i dont think it will die down so much in Jan as people think but i have for the last 3 years managed to give all my guys enough to keep them able to pay bills and live a bit.
any chance of handbags at dawn coming out for this one??..popcorn at the ready just in case… 
