National minimum wage for a job you’ve just spent £3000 or more getting licenses to do AND WHICH IS WELL IN THE TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS JOBS IN THE UK? And not only that, working nights has been proven to have a massive effect on your health and shorten your lifespan and they want you to do it for minimum wage?
First words to that to them would start with F, the second would be OFF.
Come March next year hauliers will be falling over each other to take on any Brit with a license when the tap of Eastern European drivers gets switched off.
Conor:
Come March next year hauliers will be falling over each other to take on any Brit with a license when the tap of Eastern European drivers gets switched off.
Unless the proposed 100,000 visas for Turkish fruit pickers/packers gets extended to the transport industry.
I left Turners recently after a fairly long stint on the tankers. The ‘Them and us’ culture is real, and you can actually watch good new people start in the office, before slumping into the Turners way of thinking.
The productivity pay is a bit of a swizz and is designed solely to limit the companies liability to wage costs in the event of the work going quiet, which it often does. You will never, ever ‘do well’ out of the bonus.
I’ve done six years at Turners in two stints. When I left recently, I promised myself that no matter how bad things got that I wouldn’t demean myself by ever going back there. It made me miserable and exhausted. It does have one or two good points as previously mentioned, but it is simply not worth it. Do not work for this outfit unless you are on the bones of your arse and desperately need money to survive.
albion:
No insults or criticism from me, I worked some terrible jobs when I was younger.
If you don’t mind tramping, consider working further afield. So you might have to travel 100 miles but if you are tramping, that’s not so bad twice a week. With luck you’ll find something close than that. Two of my lads live in Manchester and Preston and their base is in Herts.
Out of curiosity, do you try and allow them to park the truck near home at the W/E? Subject to loading for the next weeks run … surely it would be cheaper for the driver?? Cheaper for the driver rather than to pay for fuel and excessive wear and tear and hours lost driving to to and from home.
I think that’s happened maybe once or twice, but essentially if we are loaded we are restricted to very secure sites that form part of pre advised routing, and as Euro drivers loading out of the site they are based at, they are either running the tunnel or out of Immingham, so it doesn’t really come into the equation.
We do actually rent a flat (long story, too much history), and the standard joke for the single guy is that he may as well move as he only goes home occasionally. As our work is very haphazard, they might not be overnighting at all some weeks. You really have to like spontaneity to work for us
One of them earned over 48k, the other over 44k last year, so they must feel it’s worth it.
claretmatt:
I’ve done six years at Turners in two stints. When I left recently, I promised myself that no matter how bad things got that I wouldn’t demean myself by ever going back there. It made me miserable and exhausted. It does have one or two good points as previously mentioned, but it is simply not worth it. Do not work for this outfit unless you are on the bones of your arse and desperately need money to survive.
You and me both. Horrible company to work for. Turners made me absolutely despise the job. It’s bred into the office workers that drivers are just scum, and to be treated accordingly. Everything done through a tiny serving hatch with a sliding window. I left as soon as it got too much. The stress, pressure and expectations they put on you for a whisker above minimum wage was nowhere near worth it. I hope they struggle to get drivers stupid enough to work for them.
claretmatt:
I’ve done six years at Turners in two stints. When I left recently, I promised myself that no matter how bad things got that I wouldn’t demean myself by ever going back there. It made me miserable and exhausted. It does have one or two good points as previously mentioned, but it is simply not worth it. Do not work for this outfit unless you are on the bones of your arse and desperately need money to survive.
You and me both. Horrible company to work for. Turners made me absolutely despise the job. It’s bred into the office workers that drivers are just scum, and to be treated accordingly. Everything done through a tiny serving hatch with a sliding window. I left as soon as it got too much. The stress, pressure and expectations they put on you for a whisker above minimum wage was nowhere near worth it. I hope they struggle to get drivers stupid enough to work for them.
I did three days and that was enough. treated like an idiot. I then had to wait three months to get paid because they denied I had worked for them. I’ve still got the photocopies of the tacho discs just in case they want their money back.
I haven’t worked for Turners but have worked on productivity where you are paid extra to do anything, lift a box 1 Hour, tip, 2 hours, wash, 2 hours Load 2 hours, lift a box , 1 Hour,
8 hours pay plus hours worked plus mileage covered.
Norfolkinclue1:
Sorry I can’t help on those figures, but here’s some that will link in to the subject based on the mention of a low wage and Turners…
33/1. Turners driver posts about how good it is
30/1. Ex Turners driver posts how good it used to be until…
10/1. The Polish turned up
9/1 . That gets turned into the usual EE driver bashing
7/1 . Some one posts up a copy of a supermarket drivers advert for more an hour
6/1. Anything Aldi
3/1. Anything union
Evens. Some Juddian random stuff
1/2 . “This wouldn’t happen if we all stuck together” whilst forgetting the whole point of free labour movement across Europe
1/4 leading to some Romanian bashing
1/10 Carryfast turns up and spends several pages blaming Thatcher, Ford, the Nazis.
No odds available on anything Stobarts.
Franglais:
Grand National… Win there and you`re set for the big bucks!
Sorry lads but most of GN winners have been geldings so they aren’t worth a great deal when they retire. Flat Race Stallions though are worth loadsamoney if they have been any good. Most expensive foal of all time was Green Monkey who was bought for nearly 16 million dollars. (Found to be slow and possibly shot in the end, despite what it says on wiki)
That stallion that Alex Ferguson had a share of was the most interesting. A ‘covering’ was up to 300,000 dollars a time with each covering costing the same (not like the cheaper stallions) Private applications from group 1 winning mares only so up to 200 mares a season.
albion:
No insults or criticism from me, I worked some terrible jobs when I was younger.
If you don’t mind tramping, consider working further afield. So you might have to travel 100 miles but if you are tramping, that’s not so bad twice a week. With luck you’ll find something close than that. Two of my lads live in Manchester and Preston and their base is in Herts.
Out of curiosity, do you try and allow them to park the truck near home at the W/E? Subject to loading for the next weeks run … surely it would be cheaper for the driver?? Cheaper for the driver rather than to pay for fuel and excessive wear and tear and hours lost driving to to and from home.
I think that’s happened maybe once or twice, but essentially if we are loaded we are restricted to very secure sites that form part of pre advised routing, and as Euro drivers loading out of the site they are based at, they are either running the tunnel or out of Immingham, so it doesn’t really come into the equation.
We do actually rent a flat (long story, too much history), and the standard joke for the single guy is that he may as well move as he only goes home occasionally. As our work is very haphazard, they might not be overnighting at all some weeks. You really have to like spontaneity to work for us
One of them earned over 48k, the other over 44k last year, so they must feel it’s worth it.
From what I’ve read from you over past few months you sound like a top boss/firm to work for, where do I send my CV to?
Is there a productivity bonus with this? 
