LOL, don’t worry mate, I’m sure someone will protest on your behalf! 
I’m off now, catch you later bellend! 
I think working for Stobarts is greatly exaggerated in terms of them being “bad” to work for. I’m on supermarket deliveries, and I find the job fun, with plenty of contact with other people, and you’re never far from home, not to mention being home every night. Downsides can be the difficult manoeuvres in tight, busy areas, and the occasional very complicated drops.
The only thing that gets under my skin with the management is when the Stobart lads drop-on a knackered, bashed-up manual, and get given five drops in a local city centre, but then the foreign agency driver, who hasn’t got a clue how to do the job, gets a brand-new 16 plate, and drops-on a cushy, long, four-hour each-way single drop. You would have thought that the planners would look-after their own, but I get the impression the just don’t care, and as long as they get loads out and get the job done, they’re happy.
There’s a heavy reliance on agency drivers, particularly at Doncaster, Goole, and Sherburn from what I can see, and I was told that ESL have a shortage of 450 drivers, which is where the masses of agency drivers come in, whom we refer to as “yellowcoats”.
There have been rumours circulating at work that the Tesco contract lies in question, and that the management will be letting us know if anything will change in the next month, but these are just rumours.
I’m very tempted to ask about tramping, and possibly move to Sherburn, as at the moment I don’t really have anything to come home to, and I would like the extra money, so I’ll see how that goes. The cab-hopping can get a bit frustrating, especially hopping between manuals, autos and rigids, and it would be nice to have a truck of my own, as well as do some longer runs, maybe see more of the country than I do now, so I’ll have to see.
Take it you work out of Goole Rotty, tell them you want the Millom run not the agency lol
agencies recruit drivers for stobart jobs promising them a new truck to drive…as stobarts rely on agency drivers so much that is what they get,the captive green drivers get the old trucks.
stobart is the only company ive worked for where the agency drivers get preferential treatment over the companies own drivers.then they wonder why they cant get drivers?mind you everyone will want to work for stobart when they get their 14p per hour pay rise wont they?
Ive just enquired re: an ongoing application & was told by HR that its £420 pw Mon - Fri days 50hrs & £571 pw Mon - Fri Tramping 60hrs take home all in! I wont be progressing my application!!
how can hr give you a take home figure??that all depends on your own personal tax code etc?
Just passing on what I was told.
Rottweiler22:
I think working for Stobarts is greatly exaggerated in terms of them being “bad” to work for. I’m on supermarket deliveries, and I find the job fun, with plenty of contact with other people, and you’re never far from home, not to mention being home every night. Downsides can be the difficult manoeuvres in tight, busy areas, and the occasional very complicated drops.The only thing that gets under my skin with the management is when the Stobart lads drop-on a knackered, bashed-up manual, and get given five drops in a local city centre, but then the foreign agency driver, who hasn’t got a clue how to do the job, gets a brand-new 16 plate, and drops-on a cushy, long, four-hour each-way single drop. You would have thought that the planners would look-after their own, but I get the impression the just don’t care, and as long as they get loads out and get the job done, they’re happy.
There’s a heavy reliance on agency drivers, particularly at Doncaster, Goole, and Sherburn from what I can see, and I was told that ESL have a shortage of 450 drivers, which is where the masses of agency drivers come in, whom we refer to as “yellowcoats”.
There have been rumours circulating at work that the Tesco contract lies in question, and that the management will be letting us know if anything will change in the next month, but these are just rumours.
I’m very tempted to ask about tramping, and possibly move to Sherburn, as at the moment I don’t really have anything to come home to, and I would like the extra money, so I’ll see how that goes. The cab-hopping can get a bit frustrating, especially hopping between manuals, autos and rigids, and it would be nice to have a truck of my own, as well as do some longer runs, maybe see more of the country than I do now, so I’ll have to see.
at my depot when i started 4 years ago (yes thats right 4 years) we had 150 stobart drivers…today we have about 30…
you not tempted to make it 29? doesnt sound a great place to work mate.
Rottweiler22:
The only thing that gets under my skin with the management is when the Stobart lads drop-on a knackered, bashed-up manual, and get given five drops in a local city centre, but then the foreign agency driver, who hasn’t got a clue how to do the job, gets a brand-new 16 plate, and drops-on a cushy, long, four-hour each-way single drop. You would have thought that the planners would look-after their own, but I get the impression the just don’t care, and as long as they get loads out and get the job done, they’re happy.
It’s not just Eddie that works that way…
Because you’re more experienced, reliable and less likely to come back to the yard with two cars wrapped around yer rear bumper, you’ll get given the old dog motors and more difficult jobs.
Trucker Ed:
Take it you work out of Goole Rotty, tell them you want the Millom run not the agency lol
Haha Goole sent me there at 1400 on a Sunday once.
So I politely enquires with my empty head planner, if there will still be staff there to take the delivery.Was told of course there will,get going.
Gets there to a store in pitch blackness.Ringing bell ,phoning store and planner for an hour.
Planner rings back and tells me to take it back to Goole.
“its ok Ill night out here and deliver it first thing”
Was dying for a ■■■■■■■ pint!!
Gets as far as Preston and run out of hours so parked up.Next morning empty head rings up and tells me to go back to Millom.
Bevy sesh and brewery springs to mind.
Mark500:
Ive just enquired re: an ongoing application & was told by HR that its £420 pw Mon - Fri days 50hrs & £571 pw Mon - Fri Tramping 60hrs take home all in! I wont be progressing my application!!
£420 pe before tax is ■■■■■
xichrisxi:
Mark500:
Ive just enquired re: an ongoing application & was told by HR that its £420 pw Mon - Fri days 50hrs & £571 pw Mon - Fri Tramping 60hrs take home all in! I wont be progressing my application!!£420 pe before tax is [zb]
err im sure says take home somewhere in there??
Mark500:
Ive just enquired re: an ongoing application & was told by HR that its £420 pw Mon - Fri days 50hrs & £571 pw Mon - Fri Tramping 60hrs take home all in! I wont be progressing my application!!
Is that class 1 ? if so that’s 11p less than I get class 2
xamtex:
xichrisxi:
Mark500:
Ive just enquired re: an ongoing application & was told by HR that its £420 pw Mon - Fri days 50hrs & £571 pw Mon - Fri Tramping 60hrs take home all in! I wont be progressing my application!!£420 pe before tax is [zb]
err im sure says take home somewhere in there??
If HR told him its £420pw then I’m sure they’d refer to top line rather than take home.
I haven’t had that one yet Ed, it’s the holy grail, and rumour has it they tend to send you at weekends now, it’s too much of a pain in the week. I thought I had it last week, but they changed me to three in Blackpool with an 8m trailer. 
That being said, one of the Stobart lads dropped on five good runs a couple of weeks ago. Millom, Heysham and Carnforth, Barrow-in-Furness, Wisbech and Carlisle, all in one week. We’re chuffed to but if we get one of those in a week!
We were discussing whether planners give decent runs and trucks to agency men, but the general consensus was that the planners don’t give a toss what truck they give out, or what load, it’s completely random. I really hope that’s the case, it’s probably not, but I hope it is. Plus there’re more agency men than Stobart lads, so that could have something to do with it! 
One of those four-legged Mercedes Actros’ that pull the Williams Forumula One set-up was in the depot a few weeks ago, and the driver was, you guessed it, a nineteen year-old Romanian who couldn’t reverse for toffee, nor find the exit, resulting in him having to ask me. It must have been some sort of accident or clerical error for him to end up with that, I wouldn’t have trusted him with a pallet truck!
£420 per week take-home seems about right for Monday to Friday days. No way would that be before taxes, you’re looking at £500-£550 per week before taxes. I must say I’m tempted by the £570 take-home for tramping though, it would suit me down to the bone at the moment. No cab-hopping, own truck, longer runs, got nothing to lose at the moment.
You must be on days not nights then are you to get a run like that