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- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: Transport managers | General discussions
- Topic: We are moving company and have put our van driver through class 2 training and test and paid for all the expenses.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 86
Re: We are moving company and have put our van driver through class 2 training and test and paid for all the expenses.
Unfortunately nothing you can really do post training however I would look at the contracts of all your employees and maybe have a clause regarding training paid for by the company. If an employee was to leave before a certain period (defined by you) then they are to pay back costs on a sliding sca...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Transport managers | General discussions
- Topic: We are moving company and have put our van driver through class 2 training and test and paid for all the expenses.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 86
Re: We are moving company and have put our van driver through class 2 training and test and paid for all the expenses.
few things: law is not in our side as employers. Drivers are most unprofessional and ungrateful people (I accept not all are same but you will have more bad experiences than good ones). I have done this in my past and drivers threatened to pull me to tribunal courts for literally £300 quid. Their a...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: Transport managers | General discussions
- Topic: We are moving company and have put our van driver through class 2 training and test and paid for all the expenses.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 86
Re: We are moving company and have put our van driver through class 2 training and test and paid for all the expenses.
few things: law is not in our side as employers. Drivers are most unprofessional and ungrateful people (I accept not all are same but you will have more bad experiences than good ones). I have done this in my past and drivers threatened to pull me to tribunal courts for literally £300 quid. Their a...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: Advise please, If I take home £450 pw for 5 days starting at 5am finishing between 3 and 6pm, is the employer taking
- Replies: 205
- Views: 912
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:37 pm
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 2002
Re: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
Surprised at how many answer on here that drivers wages are too high ifyou take the fabled £1000.00 pw and a low average 60 hours per week that's £16.66 per hour. I would suggest a lot of drivers do more hours and get paid less . £1000.00 by the time you take , tax , nhi and pension contributions ,...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:35 pm
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 2002
Re: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
Drivers wanting £1k per week for minimum hours. Companies wanting dvrs to do 15hr gold service days. Drivers refusing to provide customer service because they're expected to carry on smiling 5hrs daily for their £1k per week as professionals. Surprised at how many answer on here that drivers wages ...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 2002
Re: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
and no credible union with the strength to negotiate properly.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 2002
Re: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
that’s not exactly true though is it, I’m doing a load for Stobart (Culina) on Saturday morning Rugby to Reading £400. 80 miles £5 per mile and 6 hours work which I’m not going to complain about so can’t be them to blame if you ask me. The people to blame are freight forwarders and the east Europea...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 2002
Re: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
Companies like Culina group undercutting rates, to do jobs at less than cost. that’s not exactly true though is it, I’m doing a load for Stobart (Culina) on Saturday morning Rugby to Reading £400. 80 miles £5 per mile and 6 hours work which I’m not going to complain about so can’t be them to blame ...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:59 am
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
- Replies: 305
- Views: 2002
Re: GOOD MORNING ALL. What is going on in our industry? More companies going in to administration.
Companies like Culina group undercutting rates, to do jobs at less than cost. that’s not exactly true though is it, I’m doing a load for Stobart (Culina) on Saturday morning Rugby to Reading £400. 80 miles £5 per mile and 6 hours work which I’m not going to complain about so can’t be them to blame ...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: Email from transport manager claiming I had an infringement for working 7 hours 28 mins and only taking 21 min break
- Replies: 135
- Views: 1246
Re: Email from transport manager claiming I had an infringement for working 7 hours 28 mins and only taking 21 min break
comparing your shift and the break times, I think you are within the law. At no time did you work more than 6 hours without a 15 min break and you had your 45 min required to cover the whole shift length.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: Hi guys, am a new lorry driver and am after an advise from more experienced drivers or someone who's being in same
- Replies: 197
- Views: 1680
Re: Hi guys, am a new lorry driver and am after an advise from more experienced drivers or someone who's being in same
Just drive into him next time.
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:03 pm
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: Morning chaps... Eddie stobart... Are they really as bad as the reviews online? Do any of you chaps have experience
- Replies: 138
- Views: 1012
Re: Morning chaps... Eddie stobart... Are they really as bad as the reviews online? Do any of you chaps have experience
Found a beaut for ya. Container shunter at stoke ports whatever that is
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: How many on here went from Mon-Fri to 4 on 4 off and did you find it the best thing you did or do you regret doing
- Replies: 155
- Views: 1042
Re: How many on here went from Mon-Fri to 4 on 4 off and did you find it the best thing you did or do you regret doing
I saw jack Richard's advertising for 6on6off that looks amazing on paper.
Yrs ago I did 4on4off continental shift swapping from days to nights each time. Was great going from days to come back on nights.
Yrs ago I did 4on4off continental shift swapping from days to nights each time. Was great going from days to come back on nights.
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 12:31 pm
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: CPC for or against, myself I would have it for newbies and maybe one every 5 years but only for new legislation etc,
- Replies: 155
- Views: 1041
Re: CPC for or against, myself I would have it for newbies and maybe one every 5 years but only for new legislation etc,
Ask about getting a job in France and someone will bang on about their version of cpc which is pass or fail, and out in the yard completing practical activities. Sounds more beneficial than sitting in a terrapin, dying from PowerPoint pox
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: Happy new year everyone! I see a difference of opinions on this load. Who’s straps all who straps the back and who
- Replies: 230
- Views: 2133
Re: Happy new year everyone! I see a difference of opinions on this load. Who’s straps all who straps the back and who
Strap every pallet and cross the rear straps on the rear pallets So 24pt load on XL trailer carrying 1000kg pallets, you just cross internals on the rear! not what I said or meant. If I’d wanted to type an essay I could easily have written 200 words on the subject but who would have read that? Just...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:26 pm
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: Happy new year everyone! I see a difference of opinions on this load. Who’s straps all who straps the back and who
- Replies: 230
- Views: 2133
Re: Happy new year everyone! I see a difference of opinions on this load. Who’s straps all who straps the back and who
Strap every pallet and cross the rear straps on the rear pallets
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:09 am
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: Just started this new job, my first as a truck driver, this week. What's the max a driver can lift and carry? I'm
- Replies: 132
- Views: 948
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:19 am
- Forum: HGV truck drivers | General discussions
- Topic: Hypothetical question for you all to gain your opinion: A mate of mine, aged 20 has been driving class 2 for a year,
- Replies: 163
- Views: 1169
Re: Hypothetical question for you all to gain your opinion: A mate of mine, aged 20 has been driving class 2 for a year,
Here for the, I passed on the Monday, and Tuesday I shipped out to Kazakhstan with a twin splitter and planks across the seats, without a heater comments
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 3:18 pm
- Forum: Bus and coach drivers | General discussions
- Topic: With a severe shortage of lorry drivers should the CPC be scrapped? Then they brought in CPC for both Coach and
- Replies: 131
- Views: 865
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 3:15 pm
- Forum: Bus and coach drivers | General discussions
- Topic: With a severe shortage of lorry drivers should the CPC be scrapped? Then they brought in CPC for both Coach and
- Replies: 131
- Views: 865
Re: With a severe shortage of lorry drivers should the CPC be scrapped? Then they brought in CPC for both Coach and
When the cpc was introduced yes most of it was nonsense. I’m a believer in the cpc as I believe refreshing memory on certain subjects is no bad thing for new or experienced drivers alike. As they say every day is a school day in the profession but the same refresher 5 times over - what’s that all a...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 3:14 pm
- Forum: Bus and coach drivers | General discussions
- Topic: With a severe shortage of lorry drivers should the CPC be scrapped? Then they brought in CPC for both Coach and
- Replies: 131
- Views: 865
Re: With a severe shortage of lorry drivers should the CPC be scrapped? Then they brought in CPC for both Coach and
When the cpc was introduced yes most of it was nonsense. I’m a believer in the cpc as I believe refreshing memory on certain subjects is no bad thing for new or experienced drivers alike. As they say every day is a school day in the profession but the same refresher 5 times over - what’s that all a...
- Tue May 24, 2022 1:15 pm
- Forum: Haulage companies | Owner-drivers and fleet owners | General discussions
- Topic: Hi everyone, new on here. Currently in the process of applying for my O license. Any work/contract guidance.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 1616
Re: Hi everyone, new on here. Currently in the process of applying for my O license. Any work/contract guidance.
I have Two trucks and I've been grossing 3300 4000 on containers per truck with two different companies
- Tue May 24, 2022 11:56 am
- Forum: Haulage companies | Owner-drivers and fleet owners | General discussions
- Topic: Hi everyone, new on here. Currently in the process of applying for my O license. Any work/contract guidance.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 1616
- Tue May 24, 2022 11:50 am
- Forum: Haulage companies | Owner-drivers and fleet owners | General discussions
- Topic: Hi everyone, new on here. Currently in the process of applying for my O license. Any work/contract guidance.
- Replies: 71
- Views: 1616
Re: Hi everyone, new on here. Currently in the process of applying for my O license. Any work/contract guidance.
£3000 - £4000 Gross on containers permanent work if your willing do the miles and stay out
- Sun May 15, 2022 6:04 pm
- Forum: Haulage companies | Owner-drivers and fleet owners | General discussions
- Topic: To all the Iveco Stralis owner, may i please ask what is your average fuel and adblue consumption please? Thank you.
- Replies: 16
- Views: 470
Re: To all the Iveco Stralis owner, may i please ask what is your average fuel and adblue consumption please? Thank you.
8.5mpg I average on my 14 plate 20ton loads and average 10 litres add blue a Day
- Sun May 15, 2022 3:49 pm
- Forum: Road haulage transport services wanted | Looking for haulage sub-contractors to do haulage work
- Topic: Traction work available tomorrow in Crick
- Replies: 3
- Views: 151
Re: Traction work available tomorrow in Crick
Pm me mate. Im interested
- Fri May 13, 2022 12:22 pm
- Forum: Road haulage transport services wanted | Looking for haulage sub-contractors to do haulage work
- Topic: Looking for owner drivers to add to our subbie list ready for our terms are 14 days of receiving your invoice and pod.
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2058