Oa
Your bloke puts you on traction work for stobarts and you say the rates I’m on are bad, can’t stop laughing 
Nevereasy
alamcculloch:
If it helps anyone Stobbies are taking on at Coupar Angus £11. for C+E.[/quote
There not in 2 sisters now gist are doing it .
Conor:
0a.:
according to our gaffers stobrats have offered our company as much work there as we went because they cant get any drivers (!) but we are not locals and around 40 mins drive away. are things really that bad at goole? no-one seemed to know what they were doing there although the girls and old guy on traffic desk seemed right enough.Been that way for a while. The money offered to drive at Google is the best in the area because nobody wants to do it. There’s not many HGV drivers in Goole and those in the nearby cities aren’t prepared to travel. When they first started they basically treated people like crap which wasn’t a surprise given who the manager was. The agency adverts on the job centre website and in the papers wanting drivers for Goole got further and further away and the money kept going up. It was less than a year before it was agencies in Leeds and Sheffield and the rate being >£10/hr.
I don’t consider a 40 minute drive too far away. Its what I’ve done most of my working life.
Why will nobody work there? cannot be just because it’s stobarts.
mac12:
Conor:
0a.:
according to our gaffers stobrats have offered our company as much work there as we went because they cant get any drivers (!) but we are not locals and around 40 mins drive away. are things really that bad at goole? no-one seemed to know what they were doing there although the girls and old guy on traffic desk seemed right enough.Been that way for a while. The money offered to drive at Google is the best in the area because nobody wants to do it. There’s not many HGV drivers in Goole and those in the nearby cities aren’t prepared to travel. When they first started they basically treated people like crap which wasn’t a surprise given who the manager was. The agency adverts on the job centre website and in the papers wanting drivers for Goole got further and further away and the money kept going up. It was less than a year before it was agencies in Leeds and Sheffield and the rate being >£10/hr.
I don’t consider a 40 minute drive too far away. Its what I’ve done most of my working life.
Why will nobody work there? cannot be just because it’s stobarts.
Plenty of people DO work there. I’m back in there tomorrow and Friday 
At this time of year Stobart use plenty of subbies. Marshalls bricks always put a few motors on because no-one is doing DIY patios in winter.
holliefabbabe:
i go to goole , and guess what iam english , plus i can reverse ,do i get a prize ?
…no, because like me, you won’t slave away for £7-8ph. 
There was only ever a shortage of good drivers prepared to work for crap wages.
Since getting vacancies filled on crap wages has been priority ever since insurance scams were invented, it’s going to be damned hard for clean drivers who are British (deliberately hedges bets there, with the Scottish referendum coming up!) to get on any kind of decent contract - ie any full time job… And that’s down south here, let alone the frozen land of EndOf where we are expected to eat Robin’s Minstrals… 
keano1:
mac12:
Conor:
0a.:
according to our gaffers stobrats have offered our company as much work there as we went because they cant get any drivers (!) but we are not locals and around 40 mins drive away. are things really that bad at goole? no-one seemed to know what they were doing there although the girls and old guy on traffic desk seemed right enough.Been that way for a while. The money offered to drive at Google is the best in the area because nobody wants to do it. There’s not many HGV drivers in Goole and those in the nearby cities aren’t prepared to travel. When they first started they basically treated people like crap which wasn’t a surprise given who the manager was. The agency adverts on the job centre website and in the papers wanting drivers for Goole got further and further away and the money kept going up. It was less than a year before it was agencies in Leeds and Sheffield and the rate being >£10/hr.
I don’t consider a 40 minute drive too far away. Its what I’ve done most of my working life.
Why will nobody work there? cannot be just because it’s stobarts.
Plenty of people DO work there. I’m back in there tomorrow and Friday
So why so many agencies and so far away
mac12:
Conor:
0a.:
according to our gaffers stobrats have offered our company as much work there as we went because they cant get any drivers (!) but we are not locals and around 40 mins drive away. are things really that bad at goole? no-one seemed to know what they were doing there although the girls and old guy on traffic desk seemed right enough.Been that way for a while. The money offered to drive at Google is the best in the area because nobody wants to do it. There’s not many HGV drivers in Goole and those in the nearby cities aren’t prepared to travel. When they first started they basically treated people like crap which wasn’t a surprise given who the manager was. The agency adverts on the job centre website and in the papers wanting drivers for Goole got further and further away and the money kept going up. It was less than a year before it was agencies in Leeds and Sheffield and the rate being >£10/hr.
I don’t consider a 40 minute drive too far away. Its what I’ve done most of my working life.
Why will nobody work there? cannot be just because it’s stobarts.
based on my admittedly limited time there I would say that most artic drivers arent fans of ■■■■■■■ very heavy cages of produce off the trailer and then having to refill it with more cages, recycling, pallets, totes etc. of the stobrat trailers i had they all had damaged straps with several of the ratchets mechanisms defective. many of the cages were loaded to about 7ft tall with booze and wine which made them nearly impossible to move without assistance, then add in the usual issues with square/broken wheels on them and what should be a relatively simple job turns into a nightmare. 1 of the trailers had had some treacle like substance spilled on the floor which had somehow ended up with flour falling on it as well. the end result was my boots got ■■■■■■■ up to ■■■■ as it set like concrete. ive managed to stay cleaner doing plant work in the winter! when i got back to goole i told the shunter it needed cleaning out and he laughed at me and said i can see you haven’t been here before and told me its normal before then telling me to put it on a bay to get emptied and reloaded for the next shop.
to conor, i meant the company i drive for are based 40 mins drive away, not where i live myself.
I understand about the cages but I do same work for Sainsbury’s on agency and they don’t need 15 agencies looking for drivers
JOBE:
OaYour bloke puts you on traction work for stobarts and you say the rates I’m on are bad, can’t stop laughing
Nevereasy
im self-employed and contract to a large haulier in my area. the company never has anything to do with stobrats or tesco normally but im guessing that stobrats were getting a grilling from tesco about not being able to fulfil their obligations in the run up to christmas and had to put their subby rates up for a short period in order to cover the work. i know for a fact that ‘our’ company would never entertain their usual subby rates.
An haulier told me he was on £525 a day at Stobarts but another haulier had agreed to work for Stobarts for £450 a day i presume out of Goole and the latter thinks he has struck gold
Think it the Stobarts thing believe it’s the same at Widnes as well got a mate on the shunt there and they get thought loads of drivers
m1cks:
So you get work from another firm and knock almost everything about them. Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you.
I thought the same,
OP it’s spelt Stobart! There’s no S on the end and it’s not Stobrats!
Could always tell the boss you don’t like doing the Tesco/Stobart work and for that reason you would like to leave!
Wheel Nut:
At this time of year Stobart use plenty of subbies. Marshalls bricks always put a few motors on because no-one is doing DIY patios in winter.
Not quite.
Marshalls finished their stint with Stobarts on Friday 19th December and had 40 motors on countrywide. While they were doing that, Marshalls hired trucks in to cover the void left by their own motors. I should know, as I was driving one of them for 3 weeks, and was as busy as hell.
Ken.
they have been looking for staff in around London and Essex
I deal with a agency and stobart have been asking for lots of drivers in an round London for Tesco contract’s
You won’t get any traction out of goole after the January sales for a period of months at least.
Beware the promise.
Silver_Surfer:
Beware the promise.
Anyone would think you’ve worked for agencies before. 
I was delivering to Tesco in York recently and their loading bay staff told me that 2 out of every 3 delivery drivers for Tesco are East European. I accept that as not being rumours.
While working at RB (probably 07-08) The traffic office had two notice boards one in English and one in Polish. A lot of the drivers complained about the amount of damage being done by the Poles. However I remember when I worked for them in the mid 90s ( been there about three times) before foreign drivers were here in the numbers they are now. There was a lot of damage done by Brit drivers.
Another place I worked at had a polish mechanic, the guy could fix anything. He worked all hours. Nice guy too.
I’m not a fan of mass migration or whatever it’s called, but there’s good and bad where ever you go.
hmmm i work outta goole pretty regular and know alot of drivers there. can actually only think of 3 foriegn drivers on books there. Karol, Domonik and Valdis. the rest are British. Cant say the same for the foriegners whom come in from other depots tho 
Maybe the OP requires a Yorkshire to english translator? dus thi know wat i means me told mucka. an for them moanin bout the “heavy” cages. man up thi bunch o" pansies. oh ■■■■ that 500Kg of unbalanced whiskey is too heavy. mebbe tha`ll break a sweat moving such heavy a load on a wheeled cage!!!
do agree with the comments of filthy trailers tho. quite a few are mankie but that all adds to the fun sliding sidways on a 30 degree slope to starboard at some express`s haha