iceman1:
went and done 29 hrs in 2days for an appleton company through trg, anyway gets wages and they only paid me 16 hrs total so rang them and they said sorry that company only pays 85 per shift, i was fuming mate, ha they made sure not to say before the shift or wldnt av done it and they knew full well am still trying to get it and am gonna see a brief when get chance steer clear
STOBRATS?
Noooooo,there was a agency driver on here the other week on about how he laughs at all company drivers as he earns Ā£Ā£Ā£Ā£Ā£Ā£Ā£Ā£Ā£Ā£, then we find out there on Ā£87 a shift,and they canāt get them to pay that,brilliant ,them who laugh last laugh loudest
Trouble is, laughing at it doesnāt make it all go away.
Cons, Fiddles, Low pay, and outright lies are here to stay in the āUK flexible working marketā that basically means a free-for-all regarding how anyone hiding behind āTemp Ltdā can get away with murder in āHands off our Crooksā Britain.
Itās long past time that a large, disreputable agency went under because all the drivers have left - rather than just the decent drivers or at least those with enough brains to know when to cut their losses.
Tesco/stobart/trg are laughing at all their drivers imho. Mrs Ovlov has just got a job full time in a tesco store stacking shelves on a fri/sat/sun night. Sheās on Ā£13 ph and the drivers dragging the stuff from the dc are on Ā£12 ph. Thatās why I personally wouldnāt touch said firms. Iām a proud man, but personally I would go on the rock and roll before I took a low paid driving job. People that do just compound the problem
An agency left our place to go tetco readingā¦heās full time, on the cards, reckons its the best job ever! Well he would say that butā¦have they taken some drivers in house and some agency? Prob a little bit of everything is good I spose
OVLOV JAY:
Tesco/stobart/trg are laughing at all their drivers imho. Mrs Ovlov has just got a job full time in a tesco store stacking shelves on a fri/sat/sun night. Sheās on Ā£13 ph and the drivers dragging the stuff from the dc are on Ā£12 ph. Thatās why I personally wouldnāt touch said firms. Iām a proud man, but personally I would go on the rock and roll before I took a low paid driving job. People that do just compound the problem
The drivers that are ādragging the stuff from the dcā are on more then Ā£13 an hour if they are working nights like mrs ovlov
Have to say that all this ā ā ā ā annoys meā¦who the f do these companies think they are treating drivers like this. Somewhere on this forum, the OP was knocked for suggesting a walk out. Companies who feel they have the need to rip the P out of their employees need to be taught a lessonā¦
OVLOV JAY:
Tesco/stobart/trg are laughing at all their drivers imho. Mrs Ovlov has just got a job full time in a tesco store stacking shelves on a fri/sat/sun night. Sheās on Ā£13 ph and the drivers dragging the stuff from the dc are on Ā£12 ph. Thatās why I personally wouldnāt touch said firms. Iām a proud man, but personally I would go on the rock and roll before I took a low paid driving job. People that do just compound the problem
The drivers that are ādragging the stuff from the dcā are on more then Ā£13 an hour if they are working nights like mrs ovlov
Maybe at reading, but at Dagenham they were offering Ā£12 an hour on a Sunday night, according to the 2 drivers I work with, who upon hearing that, duly took their redundancy from harlow and didnāt look back. For the record, same shift at harlow paid them Ā£28 an hour, hence the depot closed. They may now be paying more due to a lack of interest in the job, I can only go on what the guys told me. After all, if it was good money, they had done 25 years between them at harlow, and they chose to go tramping for coltons
OVLOV JAY:
Tesco/stobart/trg are laughing at all their drivers imho. Mrs Ovlov has just got a job full time in a tesco store stacking shelves on a fri/sat/sun night. Sheās on Ā£13 ph and the drivers dragging the stuff from the dc are on Ā£12 ph. Thatās why I personally wouldnāt touch said firms. Iām a proud man, but personally I would go on the rock and roll before I took a low paid driving job. People that do just compound the problem
The drivers that are ādragging the stuff from the dcā are on more then Ā£13 an hour if they are working nights like mrs ovlov
Maybe at reading, but at Dagenham they were offering Ā£12 an hour on a Sunday night, according to the 2 drivers I work with, who upon hearing that, duly took their redundancy from harlow and didnāt look back. For the record, same shift at harlow paid them Ā£28 an hour, hence the depot closed. They may now be paying more due to a lack of interest in the job, I can only go on what the guys told me. After all, if it was good money, they had done 25 years between them at harlow, and they chose to go tramping for coltons
Yeah them old contract lads were on great money, thatās a big change the 2 lads you know have made, supermarket work to tramping, goodluck to them, hope they enjoy it. Quite a few lads from Weybridge who took redundancy are now working at Reading with TRG, they had to wait 3 months before they could come over. A lad I was talking to went to Mckeefry when he left Weybridge, but he couldnāt hack the hours so heās now back at tesco on agency.
I donāt do nights so Iām unsure what they earn, but I know the tesco lads are a good bit more than Ā£12, thereās night and weekend premiums to go on, so at a guess Iād say Ā£18-19 p/h
Agency liers mate don,t even go there, all agencies are crap idiots, as i,m finding out, since i lost me company, i would have a real job if i could but they don,t like takin on ex owner drivers, so looks like a career change for me,
hth, they paid me after 5weeks i say paid me huh, 54pound for 13hrs work, sick of gettin fobbd off emails and phone so wont bother but steer clear all you hard workin truckers, hey if we were office staff hr would sort it, we get treated like somethin they puked up dont work for trg fellas theres loads more that will pay you what you earn just my story on what they v done to me so i imagine thats the norm with them
iceman1:
hth, they paid me after 5weeks i say paid me huh, 54pound for 13hrs work, sick of gettin fobbd off emails and phone so wont bother but steer clear all you hard workin truckers, hey if we were office staff hr would sort it, we get treated like somethin they puked up dont work for trg fellas theres loads more that will pay you what you earn just my story on what they v done to me so i imagine thats the norm with them
Sorry but I cant believe grown men allow these young parasites to get away with it. An agency, by law, must inform you in writing of the rate, details of job and all that other ā ā ā ā ā ā ā ā BEFORE you do the job. Any driver worth a ā ā ā ā would not attend a job without first knowing the rate and getting that rate in writing either via email or text message. If the agency umm and argh then tell them that you will not be getting in your car until the message is received. They will then either find another mug to take on the job or text you the rate offered.
If you donāt know how to play the agencies then ask on here or any other driver related site. Some drivers donāt get treated this way because they know how to play agencies and have learned the hard way how to get them to pay. Ok, they still lie through their back teeth but they know who they can mess about and who not to try it on with.
The reason drivers are on such crap rates at the weekend are because drivers turn up for them and that is it, no other reasons whatsoever although the agency will have you believe that they are losing money on paying you Ā£7 per hour on a Sunday and most of you will bloody well believe it. You need to start saying no as do the others and then they will have to pay more but alas that wont be happening because I know what drivers are like. All wind and ā ā ā ā , gonna do this gonna do that but then come up with a hundred reasons why they need to do it such as mouths to feed and bills to pay, well boo hoo aint we all got those.
I never worked out how anyone can afford to commute to a sub-Ā£7ph job in the first placeā¦
Ā£54 for a 13 hour shift with deductions for working the 6 day week and the fuel round trip each day means youāve hardly got anything left to get yourself a burger during your legally required-to-take break each day.
9 out of 11 agencies Iāve signed up with in the past tried it on with the āItās Ā£13phā (verbally) and when I said āEmail me the postcode, client name, and that rate you just saidā I got āOh itās cancelled nowā straight away.
The suggestion is therefore that most agencies are crooks. Not all. Iām working for one thatās trying real hard to play it straight, but even theyāve cancelled me on occasion. I donāt get fiddled with my pay though, only honest mistakes that get rectified straight away have occurred in the 2 years Iāve been here so far.
Why oh why canāt some of the crooked competitors go bust ffs!
I finished up on my job a few weeks back. In over 20 years of driving trucks Iāve never touched an agency in my life and always been lucky to be in work. Had no luck finding anything here in N.I. so I had a look at work back in England and had seen the ad for trg.
Glad I read this post, I emailed trg my cv, completed the online form for a position working out of one of the Tesco RDCās but they didnāt get back. They sent me a text to say phone up for a driving assessment but after reading this I donāt think Iāll bother.
