Roymondo:
Harry Monk:
Tipperdipper1:
free work uniform,
I have personally never understood why it would be considered to be a bonus to be dressed in an employer’s choice of clothing just to drive a truck. I generally prefer to choose my own clothes, rather than letting Mr Stobart dress me in his favourite colours.
It’s a (small) monetary bonus as far as I am concerned. My lot provide shirts, sweatshirts, trousers (or shorts in my case), waterproof jackets and trousers in company colours/with company logo, plus of course PPE in the form of boots, hi-viz, gloves etc. So that’s maybe a couple of hundred quid of my money I haven’t had to spend, plus the ongoing cost of replacements over the years (I also get another 60 quid on my tax code, which gives me a whole extra pound in my pay packet each month - Yay!!!). I couldn’t give a fig what colour clothes I wear at work TBH.
For sure, who cares? You pay me enough, I do the job, I get free clothes, no problem!
Harry Monk:
Tipperdipper1:
free work uniform,
I have personally never understood why it would be considered to be a bonus to be dressed in an employer’s choice of clothing just to drive a truck. I generally prefer to choose my own clothes, rather than letting Mr Stobart dress me in his favourite colours.
I prefer having a uniform, it saves you loads of money.
New shirts, trousers, boots, PPE, fleeces, coats on tap for free whenever you need them.
Drempels:
Roymondo:
Harry Monk:
Tipperdipper1:
free work uniform,
I have personally never understood why it would be considered to be a bonus to be dressed in an employer’s choice of clothing just to drive a truck. I generally prefer to choose my own clothes, rather than letting Mr Stobart dress me in his favourite colours.
It’s a (small) monetary bonus as far as I am concerned. My lot provide shirts, sweatshirts, trousers (or shorts in my case), waterproof jackets and trousers in company colours/with company logo, plus of course PPE in the form of boots, hi-viz, gloves etc. So that’s maybe a couple of hundred quid of my money I haven’t had to spend, plus the ongoing cost of replacements over the years (I also get another 60 quid on my tax code, which gives me a whole extra pound in my pay packet each month - Yay!!!). I couldn’t give a fig what colour clothes I wear at work TBH.
For sure, who cares? You pay me enough, I do the job, I get free clothes, no problem!
Exactly my opinion. And if something breaks, gets lost, too dirty etc. Eddie (or any other companie who hands them out can) order new free clothes for me, but as Sammyn earn soo much and puts it all against tax he is better off*.
(*In his world that is)
Beetlejuice:
So are these rates lies ?
Funnily enough they have now deleted these adverts .I would not trust the lying ■■■■■■■■ in any case
Harry Monk:
Tipperdipper1:
free work uniform,
I have personally never understood why it would be considered to be a bonus to be dressed in an employer’s choice of clothing just to drive a truck. I generally prefer to choose my own clothes, rather than letting Mr Stobart dress me in his favourite colours.
It’s only ’ free ’ if you have worked there for 12 months +.
Otherwise they want £100 from you. And they also want £200 for your CPC as the 2 day induction counts as such 
eagerbeaver:
Harry Monk:
Tipperdipper1:
free work uniform,
I have personally never understood why it would be considered to be a bonus to be dressed in an employer’s choice of clothing just to drive a truck. I generally prefer to choose my own clothes, rather than letting Mr Stobart dress me in his favourite colours.
It’s only ’ free ’ if you have worked there for 12 months +.
Otherwise they want £100 from you. And they also want £200 for your CPC as the 2 day induction counts as such
Wait, they charge you for doing their induction because it counts as 14 hours CPC? What are they teaching?
eagerbeaver:
Harry Monk:
Tipperdipper1:
free work uniform,
I have personally never understood why it would be considered to be a bonus to be dressed in an employer’s choice of clothing just to drive a truck. I generally prefer to choose my own clothes, rather than letting Mr Stobart dress me in his favourite colours.
It’s only ’ free ’ if you have worked there for 12 months +.
Otherwise they want £100 from you. And they also want £200 for your CPC as the 2 day induction counts as such
Beaver, do you have to pay the £200 for the induction anyway or is that free after a certain time of employment?
I always thought it would be kind of easy to gain free CPC Training with them
Apply for a job > if you have a pulse and no arms/legs are missing > you get the job > do you induction i.e. “free” CPC and after a few days on the road with your mentor, you “jack” the job and go elsewhere.
But obviously they knew people would abuse the system > so thats why you have to pay them back.
They have running costs (i.e. Trainers, HR Department, Accomendation, Food, Wages > 10 hrs day rate per induction day afaik) and it’s only fair to bill people if they don’t stay and make money by working for them. Of course after sometime employing the new driver they would regain these costs, but not in the first month or 2.
£200 seems a lot but when you see the costs above they have you basically paying only your own wage back for these 2 days. And that’s only if you’re not staying.
Other big and small companies give their people inductions too, but they don’t count as valid CPC hrs. in most cases.
So I can see where Stobarts is coming from but nobody gives out CPC hours to a guy what just started for them i.e. having his first employment day.
I think that Stobbies receive a lot of undeserved flak tbh. Just take a look at their groundbreaking young driver scheme that takes a non licence holder and trains him up to the dizzying heights of Stobart superstar. Below is another freshly trained operative.
Tipperdipper1:
eagerbeaver:
Harry Monk:
Tipperdipper1:
free work uniform,
I have personally never understood why it would be considered to be a bonus to be dressed in an employer’s choice of clothing just to drive a truck. I generally prefer to choose my own clothes, rather than letting Mr Stobart dress me in his favourite colours.
It’s only ’ free ’ if you have worked there for 12 months +.
Otherwise they want £100 from you. And they also want £200 for your CPC as the 2 day induction counts as such
Beaver, do you have to pay the £200 for the induction anyway or is that free after a certain time of employment?
I always thought it would be kind of easy to gain free CPC Training with them
Apply for a job > if you have a pulse and no arms/legs are missing > you get the job > do you induction i.e. “free” CPC and after a few days on the road with your mentor, you “jack” the job and go elsewhere.
But obviously they knew people would abuse the system > so thats why you have to pay them back.
They have running costs (i.e. Trainers, HR Department, Accomendation, Food, Wages > 10 hrs day rate per induction day afaik) and it’s only fair to bill people if they don’t stay and make money by working for them. Of course after sometime employing the new driver they would regain these costs, but not in the first month or 2.
£200 seems a lot but when you see the costs above they have you basically paying only your own wage back for these 2 days. And that’s only if you’re not staying.
Other big and small companies give their people inductions too, but they don’t count as valid CPC hrs. in most cases.
So I can see where Stobarts is coming from but nobody gives out CPC hours to a guy what just started for them i.e. having his first employment day.
It’s only if you leave before 12 months service mate.
But bear in mind that a year at Stobartski feels like a decade…
I’d say the “Headline Wages” should be an average between (1) What you get when you are on holiday and (2) what you get when you are off sick.
If either of these amounts is different to (3) What you get when you are working full time - then guess what?
The job is crap.
Salaried work comes with no overtime. Therefore you want that “Basic Pay” to be as bloody high as possible, so you know you can rely on that amount being the least you’ll get each payday.
Paid by the hour work is fine, providing that hourly rate is clearly competive with elsewhere in the industry.
These days, who would take a job involving a commute pretty much anywhere - for less than £10 per hour?
If the work is agency rather than full time - then £12ph+ seems appropriate too…
If the work is self-employed with no holidays - then better make it £15ph (plus expenses)…
