toonsy:
It’s not just Tesco that has it’s quota of idiots - it’s most places. I said most, not all.
I like to think I’m viewed positively by employers (past and present) because mostly I get left alone to manage myself. But I do nothing special, I just do the job like a normal person. The worrying thing is that in itself is viewed as me “Going beyond” when as I say to me I’m just being normal and using, wait for it… common sense!
I work for LWC and they willingly take on new inexperienced drivers (been there two years but recently passed cat c and my first day in a wagon was yesterday so no doubt karma will come back and bite me for this lol) but they had one driver (we’ll call him Wayne) cause approx £10,000 worth of damage to an ex very high ranking coppers personal car, unmarked cop cars, civilians cars, the brand new Mercedes Antos (possibly both of them not sure) got a Daf LF stuck on a wet field as he went to turn it around (plenty room in the car park) he was sacked eventually but not soon enough, and thats not including driving OVER a pallet of stock in an Isuzu 7.5t, claims he didn’t see it but walked past it to get in the vehicle lol.
We have another driver that seems to be a reincarnate of ‘Wayne’ took a mirror off a hire wagon followed by removing mirrors on two of LWC’s own fleet vehicles, took a fence down with an Antos (rear wheel steer probably caught him out) and thats what I know of so far, but hes still in a job
mike68:
The stunt with the fire brigade being called to help a “driver” down from a trailer where the tail lift had failed has yet to be beaten, if it were I would not be surprised one iota.
Please tell me that didn’t actually happen!
Sadly it did happen, the battery guard kicked in when the lift was in the raised position.
The thing to do is jump down and start the engine run it for a few minutes and the guard re sets and off you go.
The driver refused all help, an offer of a stack of pallets to climb onto was refused and the stand off ended with the fire service being called and the company picking up the bill.
toonsy:
It’s not just Tesco that has it’s quota of idiots - it’s most places. I said most, not all.
I like to think I’m viewed positively by employers (past and present) because mostly I get left alone to manage myself. But I do nothing special, I just do the job like a normal person. The worrying thing is that in itself is viewed as me “Going beyond” when as I say to me I’m just being normal and using, wait for it… common sense!
Sadly you are an increasing minority in transport particularly own account work.
The good news is most employers know the wheat from the chaff.
Yes they do know who’s who, but it doesn’t stop the good people getting increasingly ■■■■■■ off with having to sign memos etc to do what they’ve already been doing for years, and having to drive around in vehicles damaged by the fools.
As most of us know, the good drivers take a pride in their work and look after their tackle. Only to return to work to see what the twonks have done since they were last on shift is demoralising.
The latest catch all (now that micro managing microlise type gizmos have proved the sum total of bugger all use in the real world) being driver facing cameras, justified because they’ve employed half wits who can’t do a month without some catastrophe, no amount of driver facing lenses will make a scrap of difference to a half wits total incompetence nor curb the damage they wreak, all the camera will do is catch the dull expression at the moment the latest carnage occurs.
You have to be good at rising above it, the management are to blame 100%, damage is caused and nothing is done, a driver can miss the pin in a week old unit and stove the back of the cab in and 2 days later does exactly the same to another new unit.
Microlise to be fair works quite well in the depot the tab in the cab is another matter entirely, I log in as it flags up if you don’t then it goes face down on the bunk for the duration, Fleetboard another huge waste of money no feedback or score for 2 years.
And the cameras have failed to stop cars being dragged down the street listed building being bashed and all manner of mayhem as for professional pride that seems to be none existent in most of the large own account fleets.
Juddian:
One place i worked on the cars, one diamond geezer and his assistant ran all 60 or so transporters perfectly well via the T card system on the wall.
Later on as computers took over, and especially once they got that BS5750 (bs is about right ), they suddenly needed a whole bloody open plan officeful of the sods to run just a few more, and it never did run as well as when the two were doing it the old way.
BS5750, now ISO9001. I hate it, unutterably pointless and we keep it to the minimum that we can, but some customers insist on it…and we have had to change our supplier from one that is ASCB accredited to one that is UKAS accredited. It’s a bit like saying that you will only use a haulier that has DAFS and won’t use one that has Volvos. Stuff gets there no matter what pulls the trailer.
So we have had to shell out 6k to get a supplier that is UKAS registered and end result is we are back where we started.
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“I can’t come to work today because my sat-nav is broken.”
“I’ve had the diff lock on all day and now it won’t go any further. Can you get someone out to me?”
“I didn’t realise you had to raise the suspension” after reversing up a kerb, trapping the mud flaps and pulling the wings off both side of the drive axle.
“I didn’t know you had to strap the load” after it has been shot all over the trailer.
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This driver didn’t know he had to strap the cages in lol
But he did get a quick offload.
), they suddenly needed a whole bloody open plan officeful of the sods to run just a few more, and it never did run as well as when the two were doing it the old way.
