gsm31:
Just what I thought would happen,Tesco are looking at bringing in Poles.
Tesco better issue them with a suit of armour,they’re going to need it.
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Maybe this means they will also get more into the shops and working on the checkouts. Always a much better, friendly and polite shopping experience with a Polish checkout operator I find. 
Coffeeholic:
gsm31:
Just what I thought would happen,Tesco are looking at bringing in Poles.
Tesco better issue them with a suit of armour,they’re going to need it.
business.scotsman.com/topics.cfm … =835492007Maybe this means they will also get more into the shops and working on the checkouts. Always a much better, friendly and polite shopping experience with a Polish checkout operator I find.
Really Coffee “I would expect better from you 
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You forgot to mention them being pleasing to the eye as well
montana man:
You forgot to mention them being pleasing to the eye as well
True, but then again the average British checkout operator doesn’t offer them much in the way of competition.
Here’s a little tip for anyone subbying for Tescos. Empty roll cages fetch about £10 each, you get maybe 80 on an empty trailer. More than a weeks wage. Of course no good if you have Tescos Isotrack fitted. Thats what i hear anyway, not sure which pallet yards take them you have to find out yourself.
Mike-C:
Here’s a little tip for anyone subbying for Tescos. Empty roll cages fetch about £10 each, you get maybe 80 on an empty trailer. More than a weeks wage. Of course no good if you have Tescos Isotrack fitted. Thats what i hear anyway, not sure which pallet yards take them you have to find out yourself.
Chicken and egg 
maybe thats why they have Isotrak now 
Anyway them Poles will know what to with 'em
You get that sort of cash for any of the supermarket roll cages. I don’t think they have the isotrack for that though, as far as i know they don’t even have their trailers tracked, they’ve lost quite a few. The isotrack is to monitor ‘driver performance’. I recieved a ‘Major Notice’ text last month stating that Tescos have a new Isotrack system and they are monitoring where you take your breaks, you should only take breaks at RDC or a store. At most (all?) of their depots they have done away with security guards and have an automated gate system now, thats gonna be fun in the run upto xmas this year!! I reckon they’ll have the guards back on. Someone mentioned in this thread about how many hours the Middlewich guys are contracted for, well whatever the amount is i can vouch that most of them are (or where) spent in the drivers locker room. It was unreal, they go and do a run and then come back and don’t want to go to far, so they sit their time out in the locker room. On the other hand if you are an agency driver in there and have done 8.5 hours for example, they try to force you out again saying you are ‘contracted for 11 hours’. If you get a one hit job that lasts for 9-10 hours then its not bad but in general its a horrible place to work and really it should be renamed to ‘Tescowskis’.
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jesus i wrote some ill informed nonsense
use a name:
,the majority of poles working in m/wich are in the w/house picking ,there aint a lot of drivers from east europe
There was a lot of subbys (Bratts) and agency Polish drivers until the introduction of that laptop with a webcam to take your picture and a request for a photographic ID, preferably licence
so the next thing to happen will be a new rdc some 500 yards from the old one and there is one weeks away from being opened next to wincantons shed just up the road,sounds like livingstone dont it,
I could see that happening. It would probably save them breaking the conditions of their O licence by operating more trailers and units than they are licenced for come xmas time.
Well done Alex Saville on this one as you know we had a similar problem @ Warrington RDC and lo & behold as someone said “the writing is on the wall” as Stobart,s have now got a foothold on the transport side so be warned this is not only a cost cutting exercise it is also the slippery downward slope to 3rd party haulage / warehouse operations!
Good luck to the Livingstone guys and I hope they win the the dispute and as a union man for as long as I have been in transport (over 35 years) and before than as an apprentice fitter the one thing you don,t do is CROSS A PICKET LINE that is sacrosant as far as I am concerned and any driver who crosses a picket line should hand in their union card!
When the Scots drivers where on strike for the £1.00 an hour many years ago as far as I am aware the majority DIDN,T cross the picket lines that is how the drivers got the rise they deserved by “sticking together” not stabbing one another in the back.
This dispute is about “Cost Cutting” and nothing else and for a company like Tesco to use “Bully Boy” tactics shows what kind of management they employ as if they had any morals or concsience they would tell the truth and and tell the drivers they are on their way out.
Has anyone asked the question “Why are we using 3rd Party” when we have always been a majority own account operator ?
Answer: simply to cut costs for when the 3rd party operator comes in to take over the contract and don,t believe the management when they say they have “No plans for 3rd Party” .
NEJ:
Has anyone asked the question “Why are we using 3rd Party” when we have always been a majority own account operator ?
I thought only a few RDC’s where run by Tescos themselves? Well a few years ago anyway. Didn’t the likes of Middleton used to be run by Wincanton? I could be wrong but i thought they had brought all the RDC in house in the last few years? I know for sure though that Stobarts have had a preffered subby status for quite a few years. I was doing Tescos store deliveries about 7 years ago from Crick, the glasshouse. At the time the majority of the warehousing was devoted to Tesco, mainly electrical but other stuff as well. Stobarts also used to take all the imported tinned/canned goods from Felixstowe to all the Tesco RDC’s via D/E shed, City transport took it over then went bust, not sure who does it now.
Anyway another supermarket has gone to the wall it looks like now, staff at quicksave turned up today to find they had no jobs. Not heard anything about the drivers?
QUESTION
NEJ:
Has anyone asked the question “Why are we using 3rd Party” when we have always been a majority own account operator ?
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ANSWER 1
use a name:
so i think we just got to accept the gravy train is over and the unions have messed that job up by demanding toooo much and not giving anything back,
ANSWER 2
use a name:
also the rate at which tesco has expanded means that the workforce cant service the amount of stores tesco has
Seems to explain it really
Exactly!
andy187:
Tesco’s hinckley have hired in a load of white fridges to be loaded in Hinckley RDC and subbies and also and a few scanias for agency drivers, taking them to Carlisle for onward delivery to scottish stores.nice easy 12 hour shifts
all Tesco DC’s have now some new white Fridges,so i know
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Lovlyperson:
andy187:
Tesco’s hinckley have hired in a load of white fridges to be loaded in Hinckley RDC and subbies and also and a few scanias for agency drivers, taking them to Carlisle for onward delivery to scottish stores.nice easy 12 hour shifts
all Tesco DC’s have now some new white Fridges,so i know
These where specially hired in, no HL123456 numbers on trailer,
What remains of Tesco’s credibility just took another severe dent.
It sounds like an episode of Monty Python at the Livingston depot.
Tesco,have had to hire interpreters, because the immigrant scab drivers can’t understand what they’re being told to do.
It now looks like the best scab outfit in the haulage industry are involved in the dispute.
Yuill and Dodds,the lowest of the low,have been called in by Tesco to save the day.
Expect fireworks!
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gsm31:
What remains of Tesco’s credibility just took another severe dent.
It sounds like an episode of Monty Python at the Livingston depot.
Tesco,have had to hire interpreters, because the immigrant scab drivers can’t understand what they’re being told to do.
It now looks like the best scab outfit in the haulage industry are involved in the dispute.
Yuill and Dodds,the lowest of the low,have been called in by Tesco to save the day.
Expect fireworks!
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POWER TO THE PEOPLE
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You mean
Sadly Mike for some I fear this would be prefered…
or even
In the same way I damaged your screen with coffee the other day MM, you’ve just damaged mine.
Call it even?
