mike68:
KLSCOTT:
Evening all,
I’m posting on here as I’m after some feedback as to the question above.
I will shortly be setting up a recruitment agency & am interested in what would make you choose an employer over another.
We are planning on offering Free CPC Training to all drivers
& have contract work for a good reputable company (which drivers in our area already like working for)
Would any of these benefits help you decide or is it just down to plain simple MONEY?!
Please help 
Thanks,
Kate
Actually you’re not an an employer, you are in fact an agency, the utter dregs of humanity.[/]
Thanks for your insight Mike.
If you had read the comments beforehand then you would realise that I’m going to be running things a little differently to hopefully improve the way drivers & haulage companies perceive agencies.
It’s probably summed up in one word: Integrity! - But that sadly means you probably won’t be in business very long…
KLSCOTT:
Evening all,
I’m posting on here as I’m after some feedback as to the question above.
I will shortly be setting up a recruitment agency & am interested in what would make you choose an employer over another.
We are planning on offering Free CPC Training to all drivers
& have contract work for a good reputable company (which drivers in our area already like working for)
Would any of these benefits help you decide or is it just down to plain simple MONEY?!
Please help
Thanks,
Kate
Kate,
The present model of Agency’s is all wrong. Ok some positive info (I did not call anyone scum) We all know that Employers with the help of Agency’s have had a race to the bottom. The employers that have achieved that. The majority of drivers have complained about the support they receive and how poorly they are treated by both and even full time employed drivers . I stand by what I have said. I thought about creating a cooperative as a model. Why? The Employer gets what they want. A set of Drivers who understand the Wants and Needs of the sector and are profitably rewarded for there flexibility.
Anyone who has been self employed knows that there will be uptime and downtime. So factoring in the downtime, remuneration has to match.
You want to create a business that is new and fresh then you have to look at the industry with new eyes and listen.
I realise its a bit abstract but if you really want to champion this, you have got some really hard work thinking and researching.
Drivers do not go into work to do a bad job its the rubbish they have to deal with that creates a stigma and in the main injustice’s to drivers.
And so on …
miketaurus:
KLSCOTT:
Evening all,
I’m posting on here as I’m after some feedback as to the question above.
I will shortly be setting up a recruitment agency & am interested in what would make you choose an employer over another.
We are planning on offering Free CPC Training to all drivers
& have contract work for a good reputable company (which drivers in our area already like working for)
Would any of these benefits help you decide or is it just down to plain simple MONEY?!
Please help
Thanks,
Kate
Kate,
The present model of Agency’s is all wrong. Ok some positive info (I did not call anyone scum) We all know that Employers with the help of Agency’s have had a race to the bottom. The employers that have achieved that. The majority of drivers have complained about the support they receive and how poorly they are treated by both and even full time employed drivers . I stand by what I have said. I thought about creating a cooperative as a model. Why? The Employer gets what they want. A set of Drivers who understand the Wants and Needs of the sector and are profitably rewarded for there flexibility.
Anyone who has been self employed knows that there will be uptime and downtime. So factoring in the downtime, remuneration has to match.
You want to create a business that is new and fresh then you have to look at the industry with new eyes and listen.
I realise its a bit abstract but if you really want to champion this, you have got some really hard work thinking and researching.
Drivers do not go into work to do a bad job its the rubbish they have to deal with that creates a stigma and in the main injustice’s to drivers.
And so on …
Mike
Firstly respect to you for coming back with a thoughtful answer. You make some valid points there; for the record, the co-operative model has been tried before. Back in the late 1990’s, a group of former Carlsberg-Tetley drivers set up a company called “Omnia” in Burton-on-Trent; I believe they pooled their redundancy to form it.They prospered for a while because naturally the drivers had the experience pertinent to the beer trade which was of course the mainstay of the area; they were a major competitor to us for business at Trade Team and also at Carlsberg-Tetley and Marmite. Unfortunately it didn’t last; they realised that they had to diversify in order to survive as the brewery trade changed, and there were the inevitable problems which come when long-term employed drivers realise that agency work isn’t by any means as predictable as their previous employment. As far as I know they do still operate but I think they ended up having the same problems as all other agencies have and they never became anything more than a small local agency.
Sidevalve:
miketaurus:
KLSCOTT:
Kate,
The present model of Agency’s is all wrong. Ok some positive info (I did not call anyone scum) We all know that Employers with the help of Agency’s have had a race to the bottom. The employers that have achieved that. The majority of drivers have complained about the support they receive and how poorly they are treated by both and even full time employed drivers . I stand by what I have said. I thought about creating a cooperative as a model. Why? The Employer gets what they want. A set of Drivers who understand the Wants and Needs of the sector and are profitably rewarded for there flexibility.
Anyone who has been self employed knows that there will be uptime and downtime. So factoring in the downtime, remuneration has to match.
You want to create a business that is new and fresh then you have to look at the industry with new eyes and listen.
I realise its a bit abstract but if you really want to champion this, you have got some really hard work thinking and researching.
Drivers do not go into work to do a bad job its the rubbish they have to deal with that creates a stigma and in the main injustice’s to drivers.
And so on …
Mike
Firstly respect to you for coming back with a thoughtful answer. You make some valid points there; for the record, the co-operative model has been tried before. Back in the late 1990’s, a group of former Carlsberg-Tetley drivers set up a company called “Omnia” in Burton-on-Trent; I believe they pooled their redundancy to form it.They prospered for a while because naturally the drivers had the experience pertinent to the beer trade which was of course the mainstay of the area; they were a major competitor to us for business at Trade Team and also at Carlsberg-Tetley and Marmite. Unfortunately it didn’t last; they realised that they had to diversify in order to survive as the brewery trade changed, and there were the inevitable problems which come when long-term employed drivers realise that agency work isn’t by any means as predictable as their previous employment. As far as I know they do still operate but I think they ended up having the same problems as all other agencies have and they never became anything more than a small local agency.
Actually its a brave person who is going to do anything right now with an Election looming. Different Government different policy’s which everyone will be waiting to base there strategy’s on.
I guess in your narrative that the question and answer is in there.
By the way … Thankyou
