Agency drifer or full timer makes no difference to some.
There’s that old poster that says “Treat your works vehicle as if it were your very own”.
Obviously some of the drivers own crusher dodgers and live in a caravan park looking by the way some treat “their own” vehicle for the next year, month, or even single shift.
Anyone at either extreme can even become “victim” to that opposite extreme - overzealousness
I accidently left an expensive book in the cab overnight (A book, not a magazine - so stop laughing!), only to find out it had been skipped when the regular driver took the cab back over again.
I’m sure most drivers would object if their “tramping hamper” got skipped, cos I objected to the stench of mouldy packed lunches, insects, salad cream scum around the steering wheel, etc. FFS why do fat barstewards insist on “eating salads” when they’re terminally north of 20stone? - arrrgh!
I didn’t get asked back to that place, so I guess at least in some parts, the full-timers word remains law! Managers come and go, but some drivers cannot be removed - ever! My excuse of “don’t have adr, so I’m not qualified to drive with a biohazard in the cab” didn’t hold water alas.
Trucker8oy:
‘… all the drivers in our depo have their own units … sometimes are being used by agency drivers … when i opened the door i thought that i have steped into a farm…’
Maybe reflect on four glorious weeks of prime-time holiday regardless of the state that one’s High Horse descends into during in one’s absence & read the words of an un-sympathetic German Bank Manager saying to an ex-colleague “you have had the good times … well, these are the not-so-good times”
Be mindful that every one of us is at a different point on our trajectories of: life; keenness; experience; hygiene expectation; job-enjoyment; professionalism; knowledge of time-spent-wasting-time & giving-a-stuff
Juddian:
especially galling if the gaffers are ignorant too.
COME TO STOBARTS PAL! Mobile skips, NOT agency drivers either!!! MANAGERS DON’T/ WON’T DO ANYTHING
ive been told that stobarts lorries are well looked after in and out. and that if its a tip you can actually refuse to drive it and they will give you another unit
Was talking to a lad who was driving an ex-Stobart unit and he said they were a great bye. Everything still worked and was generally pretty clean. One thing that let his down was you could still make out where they’d taken the wrap off.
I once found out that the security guard was sleeping in my truck at night as he found the yard shunters were too dirty to sleep in , i refused to have a night out that night and mankey security ■■■■ him self when i grabbed him in the security hut at 5am in the morning .
JAKEY:
I once found out that the security guard was sleeping in my truck at night as he found the yard shunters were too dirty to sleep in , i refused to have a night out that night and mankey security [zb] him self when i grabbed him in the security hut at 5am in the morning .
Thats a joke!!! Lazy ■■■■■■ shouldn’t be sleeping on the job anyway.
I used to take the keys home.
jackg:
Simple…Leave it as you found it, weather you are an agency driver or not
Well said m8. And i do apologise if i have ofended anyone. Not all agency drivers are dirty pigs. like it has been said theres all sorts of drivers around. Thank you for sharing you experiences ■■
I have been an agency for over 6 years and I get issues all the time just because I’m an agency driver. I don’t get it, I come in to do the job and I go again, so I don’t understand why you pick on a agency driver where it could of been one of your own driver or mechanic.
Only takes few mins end of shift pick up rubbish
Never expect it to be left spotless clean.
I used to hate having a week off. As like most here had a dedicated truck tramping out.
On my weeks off used have empty everything out which took ages.
Then when back again took ages put everything back in. As never knew who’d be using it all week and wouldn’t trust to find everything there when I returned back from holiday…
like it has been said theres all sorts of drivers around. Thank you for sharing you experiences ■■