01andr1d:
Avonmouth, Magor & Southampton all recruiting as well. Wouldn’t be surprised to see them take transport back in house. Avonmouth have always done their own transport but at the moment there must be 80 loads a day (if not more) going to local contractors.I believe Avonmouth drivers are now on £12 an hour basic. Time and a half after 42 hours. But then in Avonmouth this is only what everyone else is paying. Especially with The Range.
what about shift premiums?
I believe it’s 25% extra between 22:00-06:00. Not sure about bank holidays or weekends
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toonsy wrote:
Rough take home pay. Rough (actual) working hours. Overtime available. Is it banked overtime (I’ve heard overtime is paid quarterly). Weekly pay? Stuff like that
Pay is every 4 weeks, so 13 payments a year, overtime is time & a half after 42.5 hours, shift length is 9.25 hrs, less 45 mins break, so 8.5 paid. Saturday & Sunday is time and a quarter, not great I know, bank holidays are time & a half plus a lieu day, work between 10pm & 6am pays a 25% of hourly rate allowance, so £15 an hour for Hinckley.
Anything over 42.5 hrs is banked hours & is paid every 4 weeks, not quarterly. DC where I’m at there’s plenty of overtime, basically do as many hours as you want, some go home after 9.25 hours, some do much more. Can work rest days which is paid at time and a half.
The rota i work is a mixture of weekends on & weekends off, it’s alright on end you get used to it, some drivers switched to permanent tues - sat rota but I like the variety so I stayed as I was.
Pay rate at DC I’m at is higher so I’m not gonna say my take home pay but it’s easy enough to work out from the info I’ve given & the hourly rate advertised for Hinckley.
It’s one of them jobs where you keep your head down if you wanna get left alone, no hassle from office, left alone to get job done but it has its usual big company rubbish that some people can’t get used to.
Let me know if you wanna know anymore
bigdave789:
From a drivers point of view I would imagine they would be quite happy to be TUPED’d over form Stobart to Tesco whose pay and conditions are considerably better It all stems from the current boss trying to increase profit margins to 4.5% so getting shot of contract haulage would be a natural solution towards this goal, good for drivers.
I’d very much doubt any Stobart drivers would be transferred to Tesco should this be the case, they’d simply re-assign them to other work in most instances but you do make a very interesting point about the current ESL management’s policy of increasing margins and that by it’s very nature means walking away from low margin work, however historical, high profile or whatever.
Tesco were a large customer of the now defunct Palmer and Harvey and the failure of P&H must have caused Tesco a few headaches in their supply chain service, especially to the smaller shops in their empire, given that they have inherited a large fleet of vehicles from Booker it would seem appropriate to review their whole logistic and distribution operations.As to why they are advertising to recruit C+E drivers to work as a full time, cards in, Tesco employees is yet to be revealed
The P&H work and all its problems were sorted in a few weeks and will be staying in house, they will be supplied exactly as the Express stores are serviced.
The Booker fleet was to small and not suited to the work, as the business is predominately cash and carry.
Plenty of jobs going, trouble is finding drivers to do it.
mike68:
bigdave789:
From a drivers point of view I would imagine they would be quite happy to be TUPED’d over form Stobart to Tesco whose pay and conditions are considerably better It all stems from the current boss trying to increase profit margins to 4.5% so getting shot of contract haulage would be a natural solution towards this goal, good for drivers.
I’d very much doubt any Stobart drivers would be transferred to Tesco should this be the case, they’d simply re-assign them to other work in most instances but you do make a very interesting point about the current ESL management’s policy of increasing margins and that by it’s very nature means walking away from low margin work, however historical, high profile or whatever.
Tesco were a large customer of the now defunct Palmer and Harvey and the failure of P&H must have caused Tesco a few headaches in their supply chain service, especially to the smaller shops in their empire, given that they have inherited a large fleet of vehicles from Booker it would seem appropriate to review their whole logistic and distribution operations.As to why they are advertising to recruit C+E drivers to work as a full time, cards in, Tesco employees is yet to be revealed
The P&H work and all its problems were sorted in a few weeks and will be staying in house, they will be supplied exactly as the Express stores are serviced.
The Booker fleet was to small and not suited to the work, as the business is predominately cash and carry.
Plenty of jobs going, trouble is finding drivers to do it.
But Tesco will looking for drivers but to many Bookers drivers can lost job??If they have to save some 150 million in next 3 years that some saving will be from load consideration.More bigger company,less drivers and warehouse requared.Plenty people can lost job at Booker in next couple years.