m1cks:
Trev_H:
damoq:
Do you drive a Stralis with a ‘wee man’ number plate in the windscreen?No thats what the agency guy drives .
Contender for best response 2014
+1 
Contraflow:
You’ve made 8 posts and only 7 are on this thread, plonker.Anyway, I thought you had flounced out of the door already?
An agency bloke probably beat him to it.
the wee man:
tachograph:
Why did he take your particular lorry, was he originally booked to do that run ?no he was supposed to do glasgow,i had multi drops in aberdeen,glasgow job cancelled.
We don’t know the system at your place so sorry for the questions.
You say his name wasn’t on the list, is it a list with all the drivers names and the run they’re to do ?
m1cks:
Isn’t it a bit worrying someone can turn up at your yard and help themselves to a motor?
This ^^ See not everything said on here is “bad”…
Where do you work OP? What loads do you carry? loaded trailers in the yard? whats the cctv set up like?
Like everyone, could always make do with making a few bob extra…
I love it when people flounce off forums then keep on coming back. Like we give a ■■■■ whether he goes or stays. 
I care…not! 
And the lesson of this thread must surely be… think very carefully about where you insert your plonker!!
-The Agency driver was NOT at fault. It was your company and the Agency.
If I was that man I would carry out my last instruction which is to report to your company for duty.
Seems like your company needs to review their procedures
G8YMW:
-The Agency driver was NOT at fault. It was your company and the Agency.
If I was that man I would carry out my last instruction which is to report to your company for duty.
Seems like your company needs to review their procedures
I don’t get this bit. Surely the agency driver knew that runs are allocated on a list and you go off that list. He’d obviously been before as he had the access codes. Why did he just pick any run off the list and take it?
Going to be in a minority here, but if that was me, I’d be making a call to either my agency/the co boss to find out and not just bugger off with any run I fancied. And I would be paid if they said no work, been there, done that, got the T shirt and the pay
Henrys cat:
G8YMW:
-The Agency driver was NOT at fault. It was your company and the Agency.
If I was that man I would carry out my last instruction which is to report to your company for duty.
Seems like your company needs to review their proceduresI don’t get this bit. Surely the agency driver knew that runs are allocated on a list and you go off that list. He’d obviously been before as he had the access codes. Why did he just pick any run off the list and take it?
Going to be in a minority here, but if that was me, I’d be making a call to either my agency/the co boss to find out and not just bugger off with any run I fancied. And I would be paid if they said no work, been there, done that, got the T shirt and the pay
+1
another reason I always get my jobs text to me
Trev_H:
But surely someone gave him the keys to the lorry and paperwork etc.(is this not the plonker!) or can anyone just turn up at your place and just drive away with one?
+1 here.
Ken.
Weeman unless your a owner driver or the company owner its not your truck.its the companys and as such not yours
Since working for several companies in the last year, I’m amazed how many companies leave the keys in the vehicle. A popular place for tippers and plant machinery is “under the sunvisor”, “open the grille/bonnet etc.” Why would you risk insurance cover? There aren’t many building sites where drivers leave the keys in the diggers, which is a pain because I now have to wait whereas I used to just track the machine out of the way.
nick2008:
Henrys cat:
G8YMW:
-The Agency driver was NOT at fault. It was your company and the Agency.
If I was that man I would carry out my last instruction which is to report to your company for duty.
Seems like your company needs to review their proceduresI don’t get this bit. Surely the agency driver knew that runs are allocated on a list and you go off that list. He’d obviously been before as he had the access codes. Why did he just pick any run off the list and take it?
Going to be in a minority here, but if that was me, I’d be making a call to either my agency/the co boss to find out and not just bugger off with any run I fancied. And I would be paid if they said no work, been there, done that, got the T shirt and the pay
+1
+2
We don’t know the system the company have in place, but it does sound to me like the agency driver was well out of order.
At 3 in the morning it’s hard to make all the right calls all the time when things go pear.
As an agency driver I’d have no problem ringing the agency…whatever the time,…let them earn their money!, but we don’t know the details of how things work at this yard. It seems a bit sloppy to have someone just take a motor like that though.
The fault clearly lies with the office staff here.
I would have taken the truck, who`s driver didnt have access to T/Net
The thing is a lot of places you get a text telling you what wagon you’re taking and the time it is due out, report to security or get the keys out of the key padded locker do your checks and leave just as it is where Trev H works and other places I go to as an agency driver. The fault lies either with your boss for not giving clear enough instructions to the agency or the agency for not cancelling, no blame with the driver.
Ps
Trev very witty retort.
Wee man is your name Rodney ? Wot a plonker
well said everyone apart from wee man, your just a zb zb zb zb zb zb and a zb tata for now
Possession is 9/10ths of the law.
You turn up for work as an agency driver, you’re not gonna let some piece of bad management con you out of not only a day’s pay, but a round commute trip as well.
I’d have turned up, and got on with it - there’s no “permission” at issue here, since every agency driver on the books of the “in house” agency is already deemed to “have permission” in advance - otherwise a manager would have to be present to see off every driver on their runs each and every day… If a shift is cancelled for any reason within an unreasonable time space (ie after the agency driver is likely to have left home to go in to work!) it is the firm’s responsibility to carry the risk that it might be “too late to cancel” and the agency manager’s risk that they might have to pay out a shift’s pay regardless…
The agency driver’s risk taken is that he won’t get ■■■■■■ about by third parties over what job gets done when. He turns up, does the job, goes home, gets paid. It should be a simple process, and with decent client firms and decent agencies it is. 