brados:
Its simple really isn’t it, all visiting drivers to canteen and put screens in there with numbers on for when your truck is finished with - drivers get food, drink and more importantly toilets, Tesco get the safety sorted and everyone is happy, no scratch that - there will still be some who will moan that the tea costs 75p.
The issue as I see it will be the time when its busy and the bays are full and there are trucks waiting for an empty bay, a trailer on bay 107 has been tipped, so the put a call out for the delivery driver on bay 107 who just happens to be in the canteen, & has just ordered his monster breakfast while his tacho is on a 45. Whats the odds you wont get that driver back to goods in before hes eaten his monster breakfast, had his 45 and possible gone for a ■■■ and a crap before he meanders back to goods in especially if its at the opposite end of bemoth of a RDC to the canteen.
The knock on effect of having trucks waiting in the yard to be tipped, while an overweight delivery driver scoffs his monster breakfast, takes a dump, waddles back what seems to be 5 miles goods in without having a heart attact en-route before getting his keys and moving his truck off the bay will soon mount up.
Also the option of possibly parking up and heading to the canteen AFTER pulling off the bay is frowned upon as they want you off site, which is why they only give you pass code for the gate that is valid for 30 mins
karl67:
who’s to know your delivering to tesco and not a tesco driver ?
I think the lack of Tesco uniform may tip them off, even agy drivers get pulled over and quizzed about their right to be there
karl67:
I can’t see why you can’t go into their canteen. who’s to know your delivering to tesco and not a tesco driver ?
Tesco DC have a simple plan; the canteen is upstairs and the most convenient way to get there is the stairway behind the transport office. But, that’s the other side of the building… So, if he wants to go to the canteen, he should walk through the warehouse; of course, the staff would not like it. But, he can walk around the buiding and get through the walkway from the transport office if he want to do so… But it’s a very long walk, doesn’t worth it. And the hot food is available in limited time slots, otherwise he can buy the same sandwich choice that available from the goods in offices wending machine…
If the ■■■■■■■ at the RDC’s tipped motors promptly as per their booking times the drivers wouldn’t have to eat the ■■■■■■ horse burgers and other unmentionable crap on offer,they could pull off the bay asap and then call at the E.coli van for a a donkey berger or similar----- well at least you know what the E.coli vans serve !!Cheers Bewick.
peirre:
I think the lack of Tesco uniform may tip them off, even agy drivers get pulled over and quizzed about their right to be there
I don’t know what tesco his refering to but i sub to tesco and never been pulled on walking around building, through warehouse, or for being in any canteen.
And i don’t wear a uniform.
DonutUK:
If you think some RDC’s are a bit lacking in facilities…try collecting from some of the produce firms…then you will really learn about “lack of facilities”!
try the rest room at morrison chill wakefield you wouldnt put livestock in there
In my agency days, I did an awful lot of deliveries to Tesco RDC’s, and was always able to use the staff canteen if it was open. Not the very best food inthe world but definitely hot and filling, and cheap.
beefy4605:
So let me get this straight -
You whinged and gurned when they had no food and now your whinging and gurning because they have food .
What standard of service would you like sir ? Reservations at the Blue Duck , The Ritz ? Chauffeur driven limo/private helicopter/ private jet to whisk you off for dinner while your tipped ?
no i think to be treated like a normal human being would be ok bit like on the contenent good food etc etc unlike one of tescos horses and labeled as something that is not what it says on the packet
DonutUK:
If you think some RDC’s are a bit lacking in facilities…try collecting from some of the produce firms…then you will really learn about “lack of facilities”!
try the rest room at morrison chill wakefield you wouldnt put livestock in there
Over the road from the chill, the breakfast in Morrisons canteen this morning wasn’t bad. Bacon, sausages, egg, hash brown, toast & tea for £1.70
peirre:
I think the lack of Tesco uniform may tip them off, even agy drivers get pulled over and quizzed about their right to be there
I don’t know what tesco his refering to but i sub to tesco and never been pulled on walking around building, through warehouse, or for being in any canteen.
And i don’t wear a uniform.
The trouble is at Tosco canteens you need a card to pay for stuff, once at Southampton Tosco their coffee machine in the goods in waiting room was out of order so i wandered around to the staff canteen to get one there but couldn’t, in the end one of the kitchen girls felt sorry for me and made me a coffee.
peirre:
I think the lack of Tesco uniform may tip them off, even agy drivers get pulled over and quizzed about their right to be there
I don’t know what tesco his refering to but i sub to tesco and never been pulled on walking around building, through warehouse, or for being in any canteen.
And i don’t wear a uniform.
The trouble is at Tosco canteens you need a card to pay for stuff, once at Southampton Tosco their coffee machine in the goods in waiting room was out of order so i wandered around to the staff canteen to get one there but couldn’t, in the end one of the kitchen girls felt sorry for me and made me a coffee.
this has been the case at every Tesco rdc I have visited, employee only card which employee tops up, no card,no grub
Umbrella revealed itself as a scam to me originally, because I turned up looking to do two long weekend shifts per week.
Since the £27 commission charge is effectively per payslip, you stand to lose more as a percentage from 1-2 days a week than you would out of a full week, where many will no doubt feel that coughing up £27 to get a week’s pay is worth doing. I don’t, because I’m only looking for that 2 day average, so cut overheads like umbrella fees to the bone before I start. It seems I’m very much in the minority though, as when I turn into some depots for a shift, I notice the agency on duty sheet full of agencys whom I know to “only do umbrella”. I’m thinking “bigger fools them”, but who’s to say that they are not happy getting first dibs over the shifts compared to me? No doubt if I were desperate for monday-thursday shifts, I’d have to bend over and bring my own grease with these large umbrella outfits like TRG and ADN. They don’t even make more if they give you more shifts, but the extra expenses claimed (not always properly by HMRC standards! ) covers up their fees a lot better, which is why I guess they like drivers with the “desperate for full time hours” more.
At said depot, I’ve only been cancelled/given a God-Awful shift a handful of times in the past year I’ve been working there, so I’m quite happy to stay on the current arrangement where the aim is to book 15-30hrs per week rather than 48-56 hours.
karl67:
I know we have a card we use.
But you are all moaning you can’t go and sit in the canteens and have to sit in a waiting room.
Take your own food and sit in the canteen.
If you take your own food, you can’t claim for the meal expense.
Make up your minds, first you can’t go to the canteen, then you can’t buy any food, now you can’t claim your meal expense.
next you’ll be moaning you don’t get the discount on your shopping.
now i can see why they stick them in a shoe box out the way till their loads tipped.
When i was a young man we had log books…are today’s drivers such a bunch of no not wimps as they still do the job,but moaners…just get on with it . i still have 5 years before my state pension…please keep working, i worked to pay your parents pension
No disrespect to the brother rubber’s who do 
) covers up their fees a lot better, which is why I guess they like drivers with the “desperate for full time hours” more. 
