peterm:
On that BBC link: “However, most of the solutions are likely to be driven by industry, with progress already being made in testing and hiring, and a big push towards improving pay, working conditions and diversity.”
That’s a word that’s as bad as ‘efficiency.’
You try getting a job in inner London nowadays as a “Professional Driver” - if you ain’t ethnic…
If you’re Non-Ethnic - How many jobs are filled anywhere these days - if you ain’t EE…?
What does “Diversity” even mean? We were never told what will one day be the “Big Gain for Britain” if we endure it long enough to finally “work some good”… 
I know people of colour that have turned DOWN job offers - because they realized at interview stage, that they were only being offered the job on the basis of “Positive Discrimination”, and had experienced “Bad experiences” in the past from a shop floor full of their own colour that abused them from a position of “We’re unsackable, because we’re protected by company Diversity policy”…
What DOES a person of colour do - if they get bullied in the workplace by fellow people of colour?
Better to turn down the job to start with - which is exactly what many folk I know have already done, regardless of which way they vote, Labour, Tory, Libdem, Brexit, Remain…
Noremac:
the maoster:
toonsy:
Thinking was Rob22… something said about RDCs and turn round tines which is an excellent point because it causes or can cause so much downtime. If you’re on a bay for four hours that’s lost time. If there’s ten bays and it’s the same for all that’s effectively a “weeks” worth of work hours lost. Perhaps a time, using the supposed shortage, to get back to a time when demurrage becomes a thing again?
On Thursday I did two Tesco deliveries; firstly I did 26 pallets to Daventry, back to the yard, changed trailers and then 26 pallets to Doncaster. I was in Daventry for 4 hours and Doncaster for 3 and a half! That’s almost a normal working day stationary on bays with the vehicle not earning. It’s unsustainable IMO and a demurrage charge of £100 per hour after the first hour would persuade them to employ an adequate staffing levels to facilitate reasonable turnaround times.
I also heard from our traffic office that the supermarkets are double ordering against the possibility of not receiving the loads in the first place. This then creates the problem of wastage for fresh stock and also storage issues through lack of space.
There probably isn’t the square footage required in the Tosco warehouses. If you expand the operation to include the new express stores and also decide to do bread through the warehouses instead of direct, when the warehouses weren’t designed for this, there will be bottlenecks. Add in the lack of drivers on the Tosco side and they probably can’t clear the decks in the goods-in. But no, when they build the warehouses, they don’t allow for expansion.
We’ve got a bottleneck around our local parade of shops - delivery rigids are double-parking and blocking the entire road through the estate… 
the nodding donkey:
How very dare you…?
Ooh…
I’m impressed with your skill of keeping the beer in the glass when it’s horizontal 
peirre:
the nodding donkey:
How very dare you…?
Ooh…
I’m impressed with your skill of keeping the beer in the glass when it’s horizontal
Just because you can’t stand up anymore, is no excuse stop drinking…