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sunsetdriving:
Had I known about this from the start i’d never have started doing class 2 multidrop let alone work for a company that sends you to places that a van would struggle to get in some of the time and then dismisses any incidents as par for the course rather than just refuse to deliver to places.
So you just went ahead and trashed people’s cars because you thought you’d get away with it (insurance pays)?
My original thread had people asking me questions like this, so it must be the way I write my posts that causes some confusion, its difficult to relay any sort of emotion when typing but if you were to meet me in person then you’d see I’m not a careless or reckless person at all and I’d never purposely trash/destroy anybodies stuff, if it helps all the incidents I’ve had I’ve felt terrible about.
My incidents (I’ve had 3 so far) were mostly a result of inexperience, although there was a degree of poor planning but my only point is I was never told it would effect my insurance and I think people are still mostly unaware. I don’t think i’d have ever taken the job on knowing the ridiculous places you’re expected to delivery to, the demands the customer makes, the constant swapping of vehicles, the boss made it very clear that its his vehicles, his insurance, his rules, like it or lump it and he’ll send me wherever he wants. I racked up 2 incidents here, both on the run up to Christmas although in different vehicles and i’d just be shafted with my overtime pay again which was an unwelcome distraction the week before Christmas to say the least.
The company I work for now is a professional looking outfit, but is run by absolute clowns, only real benefit is i’m in my own truck 90% of the time and I get paid properly but they think nothing of making me deliver a few tyres or the best one was to deliver an envelope (invoice). Only other difference being that anything below £1000 is fixed without insurance being involved, although ironically I’ve not needed to use that yet. I did unfortunately catch a transit custom with my tail swing, I thought I was clear, but I wasn’t, the van itself was illegally parked, half on the kerb and on double yellow lines but that doesn’t stand for nothing, I know it was an error of judgement on my part but it still should never had been parked there.
That is the only other point I wish to raise, that car/van drivers knowingly park like idiots because they know its the moving vehicle that gets ‘done’ for any damages in effect you can park where you want, much like the crash for cash scams! One that stands out is two rival businesses on the same estate and one boss parks like a ■■■■■■■■ to stop the other from getting deliveries through, he’s got cctv everywhere, dash cam fitted and is just waiting for someone to hit his car, he can be seen watching people struggle to drive through with his phone in hand waiting to capture the moment but because the rival business is a good customer of ‘ours’ we are still expected to deliver there and even though we know he won’t move his car, we are expected to ask him everytime (thankfully the rival company now tries to park directly opposite and moves their vehicles if we can’t get through, although that doesn’t always happen because its a shared estate and people park where they feel like it.)
I’m currently stuck between a rock and a hard place, I was looking at moving out of the industry but i’m so used to working 55-60 hours a week that I just can’t afford to drop down to 39 hours a week in an office or whatever, I do enjoy the driving and I do enjoy a challenge sometimes but overall I don’t feel the reward outweighs the risk.
If it wasn’t for the fact my truck is heavily sign written I’d start recording the places we have to deliver to, I’m looking at buying a dash cam but I wouldn’t mind two cameras that look down the sides to actually witness the gaps were expected to go through, the service lanes and loading areas with vehicles abandoned everywhere.
