MO(Topgun):
Thats the way Ady1,keep these(i hope stobarts go bust fans) in the true picture,a new super chilled depot is opening to cover the Corby and Alcester closing depots,cant expand at either of those and they are rented depots so time for Stobarts to bin um,yep stoke want 35 trampers back owing to work already getting busy and also the chilled side as just started doing Arla milk so mr Bewick and others you will have to wait a lot longer before you see Eddie trip over,oh and i almost forgot…Southend airport made £800.000 profit this year and with the olympics they are on course to make £8 million profit at Southend this year and next…Oh dear,its not looking good for your supporters mr Bewick but i think your alright,when we having a cuppa together,im looking foward to that…■■…love ya
yea also talking to lad at morr shop,said contract was up too xmas,but theyve renewed it as very happy with job were doing,now if i could just get some hours in the job would be all hunky -doory ,dont think bewick +mates will be back to be honest,thought the end was nigh,but thoughts of our super depot have really taken the wind out of there sails,THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING ,see you round brother mo
No point in throwing the hook back in after a big catch
So does this mean that this thread will be closed down forthwith Mo & Ady ? Go on make our day and say “YES”,whoopee I do hope so.By the way Mo what are the landing charges for a private jet at Southend ? Any chance you could get me a discount from the “chuckle brothers”,you seem to have the ear of the boardroom mate,and know whats occurring !! Cheers Bewick.
The Sarge:
I’m sure the drivers that have been laid off are really pleased with this SUPER DOOPER new depot
how many more times,its been on the cards for years,its not a suprise to them[well the ones ive spoke too anyway],yes there not happy,who would be ,but its a fact of life,theres no such thing as a JOB FOR LIFE these days,or are you saying that depot/depots should have stayed open untill the last driver retired ,hopefully some can transfer or maybe someone will take on those depots and theyll have a better job than they had
Brooks81:
Sorry if I missed it but where is this new super depot going to be? Cheers
lutterworth
Whatever the rumours are I don’t think that this has been confirmed officially anywhere…? That obviously doesn’t mean that it won’t happen. It does seem rather strange to put out “bad” news about two depots closing before announcing “good” news about this supposed new super depot opening. Rather disingenuous too I feel, and just likely to stir more rumours.
I’m a tesco/stobart driver not through choice I might add!!!
I hope and pray for the day stobart goes bang. We have had to sit back and watch one by one ex tesco drivers being severely disciplined or even sacked over the course of two years for slight misdemeanours. This ruthless stance that this backward company is taking is purely drivin by lowering costs due to the wages we are on.
The company has screwed the industry in the uk and Ireland so any bad press against them is no less than they deserve.
Bluenose83:
I’m a tesco/stobart driver not through choice I might add!!!
I hope and pray for the day stobart goes bang. We have had to sit back and watch one by one ex tesco drivers being severely disciplined or even sacked over the course of two years for slight misdemeanours. This ruthless stance that this backward company is taking is purely drivin by lowering costs due to the wages we are on.
The company has screwed the industry in the uk and Ireland so any bad press against them is no less than they deserve.
Troll?
You wonder why Tesco have other folk in doing the transport:
Some Tesco drivers I have worked with are the laziest people I have ever met. I work the odd shift out of doncaster for Tesco, I was in there a couple of years ago and some of the drivers were making Doncaster-Bridlington-Doncaster a full shifts work. A round trip of 120 miles! Serves them right if they lose their job for being bone idle. I had a shift in there a couple of months ago and was returning to doncaster and I was on the M1, bearing in mind all the trucks are limited to 50mph, you dont get to overtake many things, well you’d think! What did I overtake? Another tesco lorry probably doing 43-44mph just so he could string the job out a bit more. ■■■■■■
That tesco lad doing 43 mph was probably on overtime!!! If it’s anything like mine 33 (euro) an hour I would be doin that speed to!!
I would rather the extra few quid in the bank than drive at 56mph ya [zb]!!!
And people wonder why firms are going ■■■■ up! And as for doing 43mph on a motorway, he should be sent to court for driving like a ■■■■■ It wasn’t you was it??
That tesco lad doing 43 mph was probably on overtime!!! If it’s anything like mine 33 (euro) an hour I would be doin that speed to!!
I would rather the extra few quid in the bank than drive at 56mph ya [zb]!!!
And people wonder why firms are going ■■■■ up! And as for doing 43mph on a motorway, he should be sent to court for driving like a ■■■■■ It wasn’t you was it??
I have to agree with fileep on this one. To purposely drag a job out to the extremes of driving at 43mph on a motorway can be dangerous, thats besides all the moral wrongs of stealing/cheating/integrity etc etc.
On a side note, I would have thought that TM/line managers etc must already know that this goes on so I would have thought that if suspicions arise then a simple audit of tacho charts can show irregularities in driving. i.e. showing a sustained and constant period of driving at 43 mph is obviously motorway driving so a simple conclusion can be made especially if its 2 in the morning
Fileep:
Some Tesco drivers I have worked with are the laziest people I have ever met.
I went into what was then Salvessen Doncaster for trays, backed onto the bay, booked myself in
and said to the loader I would join him after I had got myself a coffee.
When I returned to the bay, the loader was single handedly tipping a Tesco trailer.
It’s driver came in and spent the next 10 minutes or so watching him and trying to tell me how
he had “earnt” £36000 the year before and how little he had done in return.
I don’t know what else he might have said because I told him he wasn’t worth it and that Tesco were not stupid enough
to let that carry on forever and went for a smoke.
When he had gone and while WE were loading my trays, the loader told me that he had now found out that
the Tesco driver had been seen by a workmate to have arrived over an hour before I did and simply gone to sleep on the bay without telling anyone he was there.
Fine for him, perhaps, in his quest for more money in return for no work but it held me up for half an hour or so and handed Tesco another
nail for the coffin of directly employed drivers.
I am certain that one of the reasons for there being so few well paid drivers’ jobs is the ability of some staff to kick the arse out of even the best deals.
i knew a lad who drove for tesco he was telling when bank holidays were coming they had what the driver called grab a grand week i met him on a stag do he had just been finished as stobarts had just moved in he admitted it was unreal the money they could earn and he knew that he will prob never see that kind of cash again
from what i have heard /read and been told you can see why tessco brought stobarts in it must be a huge saving in the wage bill alone
also i think the tessco lads killed it themselves i heard of them going out doing a drop coming back after 6 hrs or so and refusing to go out with a second local drop if i was being paid that kind of money it would be mouth shut head down and crack on
sometimes we are our own worst enemy
cliffton 27:
i knew a lad who drove for tesco he was telling when bank holidays were coming they had what the driver called grab a grand week i met him on a stag do he had just been finished as stobarts had just moved in he admitted it was unreal the money they could earn and he knew that he will prob never see that kind of cash again
from what i have heard /read and been told you can see why tessco brought stobarts in it must be a huge saving in the wage bill alone
also i think the tessco lads killed it themselves i heard of them going out doing a drop coming back after 6 hrs or so and refusing to go out with a second local drop if i was being paid that kind of money it would be mouth shut head down and crack on sometimes we are our own worst enemy
I would rather use the terminology that sometimes a minority of people are everyone elses enemy.
It absolutely infuriates me when I see or hear about people doing as per all the examples given on here of individuals dragging work out. They are people who cant see any further than the linings of their own pockets and dont have the intellect to see the bigger picture or what the consequencies can be in the long run for not only themselves but there own work friends/foes. Personnally I compare it to being no different to the people who claim benefits falsely, some may think I’m being harsh, but I dont care, I’m from a work hard, play hard background.
If someone is going to pay you to do a job then do the bloody job to best of your ability, if you dont think your being paid enough or you disagree with the way you are being told to do the job then do something about it or leave the job and look for something else. Basic integrity!!!
as an ex stobarts tramper just made redundant from leeds, i can tell you all that 300+ tramper have been made redundant, leeds depot has been closed, tesco are taking their transport back in house, and norberts have taken a big chunk of the coca cola contract. the way the company is treating drivers is disgusting. 18 year olds are being trained at the academy in widnes to take our jobs. despite what people think the company is not doing well at all. VOSA are starting to look more closely at stobarts and the way they plan work and william stobart is apparently retireing this year, so what does that tell you. they took a £9m grant from the government to create new jobs while they made redundancies at the same time.
Easy way around lazy drivers draggng the job out, change rotas so that most/all shifts are of roughly equal length, and then put drivers on weekly/monthly salary rather than hourly pay. Hey presto, drivers do their job in 8 hours instead of the 11 they could previously get away with, the trucks are back more quickly, productivity increases and costs go down.
Simon71:
Easy way around lazy drivers draggng the job out, change rotas so that most/all shifts are of roughly equal length, and then put drivers on weekly/monthly salary rather than hourly pay. Hey presto, drivers do their job in 8 hours instead of the 11 they could previously get away with, the trucks are back more quickly, productivity increases and costs go down.
It’s not rocket science
Totally agree with the above but for whatever reason tesco have they choose to pay their drivers by the hour! But on the other hand I can understand why firms won’t salary drivers, too many idiots will try and cut corners just to get the job done, accidents will happen! We just need people with a work ethic in the industry!
cliffton 27:
i knew a lad who drove for tesco he was telling when bank holidays were coming they had what the driver called grab a grand week i met him on a stag do he had just been finished as stobarts had just moved in he admitted it was unreal the money they could earn and he knew that he will prob never see that kind of cash again
from what i have heard /read and been told you can see why tessco brought stobarts in it must be a huge saving in the wage bill alone
also i think the tessco lads killed it themselves i heard of them going out doing a drop coming back after 6 hrs or so and refusing to go out with a second local drop if i was being paid that kind of money it would be mouth shut head down and crack on sometimes we are our own worst enemy
I would rather use the terminology that sometimes a minority of people are everyone elses enemy.
It absolutely infuriates me when I see or hear about people doing as per all the examples given on here of individuals dragging work out. They are people who cant see any further than the linings of their own pockets and dont have the intellect to see the bigger picture or what the consequencies can be in the long run for not only themselves but there own work friends/foes. Personnally I compare it to being no different to the people who claim benefits falsely, some may think I’m being harsh, but I dont care, I’m from a work hard, play hard background.
If someone is going to pay you to do a job then do the bloody job to best of your ability, if you dont think your being paid enough or you disagree with the way you are being told to do the job then do something about it or leave the job and look for something else. Basic integrity!!!
ive found over the years[and the companies do eventually] that the ones who shout the loudest about how every other driver than them are idle zb, nearly always turn out to be the worst offenders of the lot
Simon71:
Easy way around lazy drivers draggng the job out, change rotas so that most/all shifts are of roughly equal length, and then put drivers on weekly/monthly salary rather than hourly pay. Hey presto, drivers do their job in 8 hours instead of the 11 they could previously get away with, the trucks are back more quickly, productivity increases and costs go down.
It’s not rocket science
Totally agree with the above but for whatever reason tesco have they choose to pay their drivers by the hour! But on the other hand I can understand why firms won’t salary drivers, too many idiots will try and cut corners just to get the job done, accidents will happen! We just need people with a work ethic in the industry!
I again completly agree with everything being stated , after a lifetime in the industry I can sit back and watch drivers destroying their own and other peoples jobs and the industry as a whole . It appears to me that this is the tip of the iceberg and we can see more companies going the down the same path .In defence of hauliers and drivers its about time certain industries looked closely at some of the ludicrous demands they place on the industry in most cases due to their own inefficiency and poor quality management .
,dont think bewick +mates will be back to be honest,thought the end was nigh,but thoughts of our super depot have really taken the wind out of there sails,THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING
