Roymondo:
Sploom:
Last time I went to Tescos, I had to sit watching a screen for two hours, like an idiot, waiting for my bay,and then sit on a metal seat, nah, I can live without going back there.
Fair play for admitting your mistake on here, nobody’s perfect, all we can do is try our best to drive as safely as possible, while we do our job.
I am so glad that I never have to go to supermarket RDCs (or indeed pretty much any other RDC for that matter).
Couldn’t agree more, miserable places more suited as prisons.
Nearly all…
Of my drops are RDCs. The greater portion of them offer me a canteen to wait in, access to the bogs and free wi-fi in the Sainsbury’s ones.
The others I’m still allowed to sit in the truck on a red but without keys. I’m quite happy to earn my measly hourly rate whilst watching a film or whatever on my tablet with my earplugs in.
I’m not saying they’re like the first class lounge at Heathrow T5.
I agree in the past there have been some shockers which included one where I was told I had no access to the toilets… I drove out.
Harry Monk:
FlyByNite is rock and roll work and you could generally expect (in the best case scenario) to be away from home from Easter to September. You might get home in between tours for a week or two but then again you might not. It is not a job for people who want to get home. With the extras you might take home a grand a week, but that is only during “the season”.
I have a mate who does it, he enjoys it but he does look very ill at the end of a tour, bloated, grey and disorientated. There is a lot of night work involved and a lot of double/treble driving etc. Your mate would probably start as a “third driver” and be flown to Place X then drive to Place Y and then fly back again.
I`m not having a go at Harry here of course, just looking at the job he outlines.
During the flying transfers to/fro vehicle the driver involved should be treated as being on POA shouldn`t he/she? A trip as a passenger on a plane is no different than a trip in the passenger seat of a van. So presumably they will have a 9hr rest in an hotel before/after their driving shift? Unless the flight and driving is less than 15hr total?
Just asking.
rsg1234567:
I figure you are being tongue in check, but I will make the point anyhow, I understood you did an absolutely marvelous job as a TM setting up a new depot from scratch with no previous management experience etc…I thought it was a sad day when they let you go…I agree you were too candid perhaps on social media…but ironically that job could have lead to bigger positions in bigger companies where you could have had a lot of influence and improved drivers conditions…and also earned really fat pay checks, which let’s be honest is always nice to receive…
Marvelous might be over egging the pudding somewhat but I suppose setting up and running a new depot as someone who’d never even worked in a office before was/is something to be proud of. The whole thing taught me one thing though, offices simply aren’t for me, far from being upset when they sacked me I walked out the office feeling like I was walking on air, such a burden was lifted. That said Virginia are doing really well and is great to see, that hatchet was buried a while back. I belong in the driving seat
rsg1234567:
BTW a totally unrelated addendum…I was just browsing the net and noticed a photo of a very young you in a coach, next to your brother and your dad’s truck…I can’t explain why, perhaps for a lot of reasons, but that photo deeply moved me …one to be proudly displayed on the wall I hope.
That photo is on my desk as it happens. So long ago! We are a transport family through and through, for better or worse!