snowchain:
LisasGuy:
Nah would rather let the kids eat grass than work for Stobartski they are everything that is wrong with transportObviously Never Been Hungry Enough Mate…! Either That Or You Think Nothing Of Your Kids.!!
Yep, gotta feel sorry for Lisa.
Good job I don’t go out each day looking to right the wrongs of the transport world.
The thing with stobarts is you have to remember you are just a number, literally.
The transport offices are staffed generally by ignorants and incompetents, so you must try to limit your contact with the transport offices wherever possible, direct all questions to remote planners and yard shunters.
Arrive at base for start of shift. Phone planner to obtain fleet number and run details. Enter transport office, state fleet number, take key that is flung at you, leave.
Ensure microlise is not connected.
Get on with your day/night in peace.
If visiting other ES depots, state fleet number, take your notes and leave.
On return to base, drop timesheet and keys in a box, go home.
If a planner tries to take the ■■■■, just tell them and they back down.
Very easy 2 shifts so far, in a half decent next gen, not hassled by anyone.
No complaints from me
idrive:
The thing with stobarts is you have to remember you are just a number, literally.
The transport offices are staffed generally by ignorants and incompetents, so you must try to limit your contact with the transport offices wherever possible, direct all questions to remote planners and yard shunters.
Arrive at base for start of shift. Phone planner to obtain fleet number and run details. Enter transport office, state fleet number, take key that is flung at you, leave.
Ensure microlise is not connected.
Get on with your day/night in peace.
If visiting other ES depots, state fleet number, take your notes and leave.
On return to base, drop timesheet and keys in a box, go home.
If a planner tries to take the ■■■■, just tell them and they back down.
Very easy 2 shifts so far, in a half decent next gen, not hassled by anyone.
No complaints from me
Do us a favour bud…have a quiet word with dozy. 
Quinny:
robroy:
I would even walk around in a [zb] Sunderland shirt mate[zb] me. Even my standards are not that low.
Ken.
Aye ok,.maybe I went a bit far with that one when I think about it. :
Maybe a Man Utd shirt would be my limit. 
robroy:
idrive:
The thing with stobarts is you have to remember you are just a number, literally.
The transport offices are staffed generally by ignorants and incompetents, so you must try to limit your contact with the transport offices wherever possible, direct all questions to remote planners and yard shunters.
Arrive at base for start of shift. Phone planner to obtain fleet number and run details. Enter transport office, state fleet number, take key that is flung at you, leave.
Ensure microlise is not connected.
Get on with your day/night in peace.
If visiting other ES depots, state fleet number, take your notes and leave.
On return to base, drop timesheet and keys in a box, go home.
If a planner tries to take the ■■■■■ just tell them and they back down.
Very easy 2 shifts so far, in a half decent next gen, not hassled by anyone.
No complaints from meDo us a favour bud…have a quiet word with dozy.
I hope not , I get paid for my shifts / nights out from what I input onto the microlise , hows he inputting trailers , start job , finish job , he’s days but without a microlise how would I input night out
If he’s not using a microlise & having any contact with the planners in a shift how would he know if a collection / drop had changed ( my work can change 5/6 times a day )
How’s he contacting fleet , driver line ( you have to inform d/l after every britvic load ) , you have to contact d/l with eta if late for drop , returns , damages , hows he doing that without a microlise ■■?
Why would you disconnect a microlise when you get in the cab , every time I go in t/o there issuing the day / night driver with the keys / microlise , so surely you’d just not put it in cradle , what is he disconnecting , it’s just in like a phone cradle , just don’t put it in
I’ve heard this hundreds of times over the years , how they all do 8 hrs a day , if that was the case why was the o/ lisense curtailed at tee sport when the day drivers were pulling there cards to get back to teesport !!!
Difference with me is I say how the job is actually for me , not some Alice in wonderland far fetched story ,
Let’s hope he doesn’t go tramping as I’ll be hearing how they put him up at the ritz on a night not a ZB industrial est
With large firms stepping up to the mark like the Royal Mail, and Stobart should receive the same accolade as the NHS and become a national; treasure as they have shown how important it is in this crises that we do need large logistic companies to supply our food chain, they have the warehousing facilities and the muscle to keep Britains supermarket Tesco supplied. Other large haulage firms are also to be commended. They certainly are essential to us.
UKtramp:
With large firms stepping up to the mark like the Royal Mail, and Stobart should receive the same accolade as the NHS and become a national; treasure as they have shown how important it is in this crises that we do need large logistic companies to supply our food chain, they have the warehousing facilities and the muscle to keep Britains supermarket Tesco supplied. Other large haulage firms are also to be commended. They certainly are essential to us.
If they were doing it for the good of the country, they wouldn’t be making a profit out of it. Oh, hang on a minute…
dozy:
robroy:
idrive:
The thing with stobarts is you have to remember you are just a number, literally.
The transport offices are staffed generally by ignorants and incompetents, so you must try to limit your contact with the transport offices wherever possible, direct all questions to remote planners and yard shunters.
Arrive at base for start of shift. Phone planner to obtain fleet number and run details. Enter transport office, state fleet number, take key that is flung at you, leave.
Ensure microlise is not connected.
Get on with your day/night in peace.
If visiting other ES depots, state fleet number, take your notes and leave.
On return to base, drop timesheet and keys in a box, go home.
If a planner tries to take the ■■■■, just tell them and they back down.
Very easy 2 shifts so far, in a half decent next gen, not hassled by anyone.
No complaints from meDo us a favour bud…have a quiet word with dozy.
I hope not , I get paid for my shifts / nights out from what I input onto the microlise , hows he inputting trailers , start job , finish job , he’s days but without a microlise how would I input night out
If he’s not using a microlise & having any contact with the planners in a shift how would he know if a collection / drop had changed ( my work can change 5/6 times a day )
How’s he contacting fleet , driver line ( you have to inform d/l after every britvic load ) , you have to contact d/l with eta if late for drop , returns , damages , hows he doing that without a microlise ■■?
Why would you disconnect a microlise when you get in the cab , every time I go in t/o there issuing the day / night driver with the keys / microlise , so surely you’d just not put it in cradle , what is he disconnecting , it’s just in like a phone cradle , just don’t put it in
I’ve heard this hundreds of times over the years , how they all do 8 hrs a day , if that was the case why was the o/ lisense curtailed at tee sport when the day drivers were pulling there cards to get back to teesport !!!
Difference with me is I say how the job is actually for me , not some Alice in wonderland far fetched story ,
Let’s hope he doesn’t go tramping as I’ll be hearing how they put him up at the ritz on a night not a ZB industrial est
It’s very easy dozy.
Phone up for your run.
Get on with it.
Don’t tramp or night out.
If they need me or anything changes, they call on the phone.
Half the tablets do not work anyway as you well know (yesterday’s had a crashed screen with a timebar saying "downloading message 1 out of 799), and I simply take it out the cradle regardless. This also removes the camera that is pointed at your face.
You have only yourself to blame for lying down and taking it, and you are the reason that invasive and unnecessary systems like these have crept in, to keep track of and spoon feed imbeciles that possess no initiative or logic, and work them beyond any reasonable limits.
If they are changing your run 5 or 6 times a night does that not tell you something?
You need to grow a pair lad, or shut up and accept your fate.
My mates biggest gripe with Stobbies is having to mostly do London Essex and Kent areas, mostly because of the chronic overnight parking problem, having to pay for parking (but getting re.imbursed) in this area because of the ridiculous rip off prices.
So technically not entirely Stobbie’s fault on that score.
Ok, he does mention the crap planning from time to time, and chopping and changing plans, but he paints an entirely different picture of Stobbie tramping to what dozy does in terms of getting pushed to the absolute limits and being hassled to run to last minute and beyond…(AND he’s told his planners the extended hours are not for him, the normal limits are enough.)
He also tells me I would stick it for all of 1 day.
So I can only draw my own conclusions to dozy’s regular plight and struggles on his weekly endurance tests…(while I’m ‘‘sitting at home on my arse drinking beer’’ as he likes to keep telling me. )
your mates say it’s a easy job , no rushing around , nice & easy , they tell the planners what there going to do & planners comply , sounds like a nice steady number
but then they say you wouldn’t last a day !!! Seriously , it sounds like Eutopia, something we’d all love , but no you’d not last a day !!!
I think your not getting the full story rob , if you were I don’t think they’d be saying you wouldn’t last a day ,
dozy:
your mates say it’s a easy job , no rushing around , nice & easy , they tell the planners what there going to do & planners comply , sounds like a nice steady number
but then they say you wouldn’t last a day !!! Seriously , it sounds like Eutopia, something we’d all love , but no you’d not last a day !!!
I think your not getting the full story rob , if you were I don’t think they’d be saying you wouldn’t last a day ,
No I think Rob does have the full story even though I’ve not driven for the ES I have driven for Reed Boardall and I believe it’s how you speak to your planner… 
dozy:
your mates say it’s a easy job , no rushing around , nice & easy , they tell the planners what there going to do & planners comply , sounds like a nice steady number
but then they say you wouldn’t last a day !!! Seriously , it sounds like Eutopia, something we’d all love , but no you’d not last a day !!!
I think your not getting the full story rob , if you were I don’t think they’d be saying you wouldn’t last a day ,
Nah I think you’ve been reading summet else doze, cos I never said that I was told it was 'nice and easy" , if it was it wouldn’t be a usual UK tramping job now would it mate?
Rather than being easy, it’s just that my mate does his job to his full potential,… but in a safe legal and professional manner (a bit like myself in fact)
What he does not do is run around like his arse hole is on fire, trying and succeeding to achieve ridiculous near hand impossible schedules, nor let himself be taken for a ■■■■ and ran ragged to last second and beyond, before he parks up in some crap hole at the side of a main road overnight.
Like most of us who know the job, he can decide if his workload is arse tight or impossible, as soon as it’s allocated, so he’ll no doubt inform them of his doubts in plenty of time.,… it’s called being a ‘Professional’’ doze, as opposed to being a ‘‘Downtrodden ■■■■ clown’’ who can’t/won’t say ‘‘no’’.
As for him saying I would not last 5 minutes, that is because he knows me only too well that I don’t react to d/heads too well, and seeing that your offices are full of them, he knows it would not suit me.
So nothing to do with ‘Eutopia’ (or even Utopia) doze, but hope that explains it for you.