Just had a driver walk off the job because the truck he was allocated for his nights work didn’t have a sat nav in it!
A former agency driver who we took on full time after Xmas.
That’s what happens when you scrape the barrel.
Agency driver walks off.
Something of an oxymoron no?
James the cat:
Agency driver walks off.Something of an oxymoron no?
Did he think only limpers needed to provide their own? 
And if so, then yes, a moron breathing oxygen!
limps me thinks.
perhaps it was a new fangled truck that operates by satnav only, bit like driverless car but less sophisticated 
Speechless. 
peterm:
Speechless.
now that’s a first D
A full time directly employed driver walked off the job because he wasn’t being pampered enough … what’s unbelievable about that 
It didn’t take the former agency driver long to get into the swing of being directly employed did it 
gezt:
peterm:
Speechless.now that’s a first D
you just know that his allocated nights work would be a trailer swap trunk up the m1 or m6 same as he has done for the last 3 months every night…limpers doing what they do best
dieseldog999:
limpers doing what they do best
Yep…earning more money for doing less work. I’ve often wondered what it must be like as a fulltime employed driver knowing the agency guys basic hourly rate is your overtime rate. Must be even worse for those full time employed drivers working for parcel companies and pallet networks on night trunks knowing that not only are the agency drivers doing the job on more per hour but they also get paid hourly pay as well…
Maybe thats why there is so much hate towards agency drivers because they have a work life most drivers would love to have getting paid more, being able to pick and choose when they work, getting the easy runs, if they don’t like the job not having to go back the following week and still knowing they’ve got work, being able to park in truck stops and MSAs knowing they’ll get their parking paid whereas you can’t unless you pay for it out of your own pocket because your boss told you they won’t pay parking…
Conor:
dieseldog999:
limpers doing what they do bestYep…earning more money for doing less work. I’ve often wondered what it must be like as a fulltime employed driver knowing the agency guys basic hourly rate is your overtime rate. Must be even worse for those full time employed drivers working for parcel companies and pallet networks on night trunks knowing that not only are the agency drivers doing the job on more per hour but they also get paid hourly pay as well…
Maybe thats why there is so much hate towards agency drivers because they have a work life most drivers would love to have getting paid more, being able to pick and choose when they work, getting the easy runs, if they don’t like the job not having to go back the following week and still knowing they’ve got work, being able to park in truck stops and MSAs knowing they’ll get their parking paid whereas you can’t unless you pay for it out of your own pocket because your boss told you they won’t pay parking…
in your dreams.how can you see where your going especially nightshift wearing those rose tinted blinkers,.id say your easiest run is the 28 miles to your nightshift trunk and back again when you’ve finished,…ignorance is bliss.no doubt that’s the reason agencies constantly advertise for new suckers day in and day out,…meanwhile,back on planet earth…
Conor:
dieseldog999:
limpers doing what they do bestYep…earning more money for doing less work. I’ve often wondered what it must be like as a fulltime employed driver knowing the agency guys basic hourly rate is your overtime rate. Must be even worse for those full time employed drivers working for parcel companies and pallet networks on night trunks knowing that not only are the agency drivers doing the job on more per hour but they also get paid hourly pay as well…
Maybe thats why there is so much hate towards agency drivers because they have a work life most drivers would love to have getting paid more, being able to pick and choose when they work, getting the easy runs, if they don’t like the job not having to go back the following week and still knowing they’ve got work, being able to park in truck stops and MSAs knowing they’ll get their parking paid whereas you can’t unless you pay for it out of your own pocket because your boss told you they won’t pay parking…
I have worked both agency and full time, as and when it suits my circumstances, and your biased diatribe is utter boloks.
Being able to choose when and where? Sometimes yes. But when you had a slack week, and the phone rings Friday afternoon, you have little choice.
Agency paying for parking? Not as a rule, because they have to be able to claim it back from the client.
But I know, you are not only a driving god, you are an agency driving super god.
I wonder why there isn’t a big queue of presently full time employed driver beating the agency’s doors down…
+1
back of the net…
Driver is a bit strange but there maybe other reasons we don’t know about.
Ahem however I’d like to take Conor to task. You are an idiot of the highest order. all your drivel about agency drivers.
In my experience 1998 - 2005 pretty good on agency and I was doing ok. Not rich but I was getting by. Then 2005 - 2010 with the rise of the flip flop I was struggling the power had gone back to the agencies. So then I go a job 2011 - present employed staff driver doing ok apart from 5 months off sick.
So as you can see I have worked both sides of the fence but I will tell you on either side I think Conor is a nob of the highest order.
If you want to joke about limping etc then great it’s a good bit of banter but you get the idiots on here who believe the hype.
If I bump into a driver I can think he is great, stupid etc on my on observations and not on who pays his wages.
Some shallow driver on here need to get a grip.
DonutUK:
Just had a driver walk off the job because the truck he was allocated for his nights work didn’t have a sat nav in it!A former agency driver who we took on full time after Xmas.
Not really unbelievable, I see this behaviour on a daily basis not as extreme as walking off the job however this has happened, I come into contact with the most pitiful excuses for drivers.
Like being rescued by the fire brigade from a dead tail lift or doing £20,000 worth of damage without leaving the yard, or “I’m not driving that unit” why not I ask “the drivers door opens too wide I might fall out” and endless list of excuses to be doing anything other than what they are paid for.
You say the driver was ex agency, can’t do enough for you they get the job and behave like ■■■■■, there is a vey real reason why lots of drivers are agency and can’t keep a full time job.
I know of an agency bod who in being given a unit came back and refuse to drive it an auto was hired in and he then asked of the yard staff to reverse it out of the yard as he thought it was to tight (it isn’t) this I saw first hand in skemersdale
DonutUK:
Just had a driver walk off the job because the truck he was allocated for his nights work didn’t have a sat nav in it!A former agency driver who we took on full time after Xmas.
Was he a yodel driver by any chance?[emoji23]
I refuse to believe this, there’s people like me struggling for work lol
Conor:
I’ve often wondered what it must be like as a fulltime employed driver…
…and I’ve often wondered what it’s like to be an astronaut. It’s basic human nature to desire what we can’t have.
Stop trying to glamourise your miserable existence Conor, we don’t want the young impressionable readers to be misled and think agency work is a smart life choice now do we.