sco:
Heard a rumour that Stobart taking over most Tesco deliveries in the new year, anyone else heard this?
I heard they’d resigned for 3 years too do the existing work only 
,I really couldn’t see anyway they could do more as they haven’t got enough drivers too cover existing work,begging ,bonuses to work extra shifts doesn’t seem too be rectifying the situation .
So no,I don’t think they’ll,do more ,more likely tesco will take more in house ,or give it too other hauliers .
Spence:
I just can’t help but grin when I hear stories of Tesco and the likes hitting hard times. Their rdc’s are run by half whit ignorant pigs who treat drivers like doggy-doo. Tis a small world and what goes around… Etc… Treat a few hundred drivers like they do and as a company you just p’d off them, all their families / relatives and friends too. I tell everyone I know about the condition of the loos at the Tesco rdc’s and remind them that’s where Tesco dispatch fresh food. Oh and I’m parked up at Thurrock tonight - back in blighty for a couple o weeks or so… Hardly a Brit truck here. Bogs are filthy disgrace… Next the parent co will be announcing profit losses and will wonder why… Clean the bogs FFS !I needed that rant
+1 Uve always known & said on here that tesco is a zb company, got ripped to zb on here by those loyal to the brand, nice to just sit back & watch it go to zb:lol:
Left hand down!:
Spence:
I know tis a bit off subject, but I just can’t help but grin when I hear stories of Tesco and the likes hitting hard times.Me too. They treated me like [zb] at one of their RDCs once when I was stuck between a rock and a hard place and asked for a bit of help and ever since that day I haven’t set foot in a Tesco store and haven’t spent a single penny with them. Unlikely as it is, I hope they go to the wall.
+1:)
karl67:
seth 70:
there all unwashed and very very shabbyThat’s just the drivers, We had a few at our dc on short term, what a useless bunch of t*ssers.
That’s not how I remember the ones at Thurrock ?
I do remember whiney Tesco drivers hand picking their own work though, and walking off with the hump when they couldn’t.
Wagman:
karl67:
I do remember whiney Tesco drivers hand picking their own work though, and walking off with the hump when they couldn’t.
Hand picking their work over who other Tesco drivers or stobarts ?
Aren’t Tesco being investigated for fudging their profit numbers?
There’s a £250m black hole in their accounts.
I started boycotting them years ago and for some years, refused to work for them. They were offering stupidly high rates to cross the picket lines and I still wouldn’t touch them. I hate everything they stand for, especially when they introduced recycling facilities at their stores ‘to help their customers do their bit for the environment’. Codswallop! they take those tin cans and sell them so it still comes down to money for them. I know business is about profit margins but at least most businesses don’t area up new ideas to con their customers into increasing company profits with deliberate deceit
Radar19:
Aren’t Tesco being investigated for fudging their profit numbers?
"Tesco Profit Shortfall ‘Better Than Feared’
Mark Kleinman, City Editor
A shortfall in half-year profits at Tesco which plunged Britain’s biggest retailer into crisis is next week expected to be disclosed to have been smaller than initially feared.
Sky News understands that the supermarket chain plans to announce alongside its first-half results on Thursday that it had previously overstated earnings by between £200m and £250m.
The final figure was likely to be somewhere close to the middle of that range, a banking source said.
The numbers are still being prepared by Tesco’s auditors this weekend and a final figure for the mis-statement will not be identified until the middle of the week, according to the source.
If the accounting error is below the £250m figure indicated last month, however, the news will be greeted with relief by the City following speculation that it could have to inflate that number substantially.
Dave Lewis, Tesco’s chief executive, told staff yesterday that he expected to be able to give a “clear and accurate indication” of the company’s performance during the first half of the year.
An investigation being undertaken by Deloitte and Freshfields will not be completed in time for the results announcement but is understood to point towards there being no requirement at this stage for previous years’ profits to be restated.
Eight executives have been asked to stand aside to facilitate the probe, which is focused on payments from Tesco’s suppliers.
Sky News also understands that Tesco has asked Greenhill, the investment bank, to field offers from bidders for assets such as Dunnhumby, the marketing services group behind the grocer’s Clubcard loyalty scheme.
Sources said that Advent International, TPG and at least one other firm had enquired about Dunnhumby’s availability but were being told that Mr Lewis was not keen to hold talks about a deal at this time.
Tesco owns a number of businesses - including an Asian retail empire valued by some analysts at up to £10bn - which could be sold if its board decides it needs to raise capital.
The accounting crisis has triggered investigations by the Financial Conduct Authority and Financial Reporting Council, and raised questions about the future of chairman Sir Richard Broadbent.
Tesco declined to comment."
karl67:
Hand picking their work over who other Tesco drivers or stobarts ?
Whoever was next in line. I’ve sat in the waiting room while they hand out work only for it to be handed back because of various reasons, only then to be given to the next guy they call up to the counter.
But back on subject, it would take more than the thicko’s at Stobart to screw Tescos up, the majority of their own staff are doing a perfectly good job on their own
If they do I sure as hell hope they speak polish and have a good insurance policy.
Wagman:
karl67:
Hand picking their work over who other Tesco drivers or stobarts ?Whoever was next in line. I’ve sat in the waiting room while they hand out work only for it to be handed back because of various reasons, only then to be given to the next guy they call up to the counter.
Depending on what the reason is you can refuse a job and then it can be given to the next person.
truckyboy:
According to some money expert in the red tabloid today, he pulled out £250 million worth of shares in Tesco, along with another big name who also withdrew his shares, and reckons Tesco will be going to the wall soon, their shares today were only worth £2.72.
It was Warren Buffet “The Sage of Omaha”,
when he sells out of your shares its not normally good news 
Oh, no, they’re only
Making x billion rather than y billion. What a downer.
Tesco have a higher income than many countries.
Nellie:
There’s a £250m black hole in their accounts.
No there isn’t. Half baked responses like that don’t help situations. Their execs are under investigation for overestimating profits to keep share prices higher. There are no irregularities with the books.
Phil1979:
No there isn’t. Half baked responses like that don’t help situations.
What■■?
Do you somehow think that would be city investors read truck forums inbetween organising hostile takeovers?
Also, do you really think that any financial bad news for Tescos would be met with anything but a resounding “fantastic” from lorry drivers who’ve had their fill of bully boy tactics employed by Tesco and their ilk?
the maoster:
Phil1979:
No there isn’t. Half baked responses like that don’t help situations.What■■?
Do you somehow think that would be city investors read truck forums inbetween organising hostile takeovers?
Also, do you really think that any financial bad news for Tescos would be met with anything but a resounding “fantastic” from lorry drivers who’ve had their fill of bully boy tactics employed by Tesco and their ilk?
No. But incorrect insinuations like that won’t help people’s perceptions and opinions of a situation. Tesco may be bad to work for. They may have done everything people say on here. But surely you are not encouraging incorrect negative statements simply so you can revel in discontent?
You sound like a tabloids dream…
Phil1979:
the maoster:
Phil1979:
No there isn’t. Half baked responses like that don’t help situations.What■■?
Do you somehow think that would be city investors read truck forums inbetween organising hostile takeovers?
Also, do you really think that any financial bad news for Tescos would be met with anything but a resounding “fantastic” from lorry drivers who’ve had their fill of bully boy tactics employed by Tesco and their ilk?
No. But incorrect insinuations like that won’t help people’s perceptions and opinions of a situation. Tesco may be bad to work for. They may have done everything people say on here. But surely you are not encouraging incorrect negative statements simply so you can revel in discontent?
You sound like a tabloids dream…
Tesco aint bad to work for imo, ive come across drivers that have been at tesco for 20+ years, thats gotta tell its own story. There are people who dont/wont like working for them but its the same in every job. If people say tesco are bad to work for then there must be some seriously cushy jobs about coz tesco aint the best job in the world but its by far not the worst.
Phil1979:
No. But incorrect insinuations like that won’t help people’s perceptions and opinions of a situation. Tesco may be bad to work for. They may have done everything people say on here. But surely you are not encouraging incorrect negative statements simply so you can revel in discontent?You sound like a tabloids dream…
Ok, let’s take your second sentence first; do you for one minute think that peoples perceptions and opinions of A situation will matter one iota to Tescos management? They’ve demonstrated admirably over the years that in their endless pursuit of profit by ANY means that they don’t give a ■■■■ for anyones perceptions or opinions, or livelihoods come to that.
Secondly, I neither encourage nor discourage negative statements, I merely commented on said statements. Actually after much thought I can say that any statement that caused discontent to Tesco hierarchy would actually be revelled in by me. Hth.
Lastly, please expand on “you sound like a tabloids dream”. Did you think that up all by yourself or did some grown up help?
It all seems a bit strange too me,as when we started to do these after chill only we were told it was the best paying work they’d ever had( that was when we were doing 1 run per shift) now you can do 3 runs / back hauls etc and there now taking trucks/drivers off of that work as they say they can’t make any money( have tesco cut there rates 
) ,apparently containers is the way too go ,and every man/ and truck is being chucked at that as it’s that good paying ,another 20 driv/trucks off t/del and onto containers by end of month .
Phil1979:
the maoster:
Phil1979:
No there isn’t. Half baked responses like that don’t help situations.What■■?
Do you somehow think that would be city investors read truck forums inbetween organising hostile takeovers?
Also, do you really think that any financial bad news for Tescos would be met with anything but a resounding “fantastic” from lorry drivers who’ve had their fill of bully boy tactics employed by Tesco and their ilk?
No. But incorrect insinuations like that won’t help people’s perceptions and opinions of a situation. Tesco may be bad to work for. They may have done everything people say on here. But surely you are not encouraging incorrect negative statements simply so you can revel in discontent?
You sound like a tabloids dream…
Obvious tesco shareholder is obvious.
