Any body know what the shift pattern / rota is at Asda Chepstow
I know it’s a 10 week rota any 5 from 7 with 60% of weekends worked. But I need to know
If there are single rest days and how often. Got a interview next week but don’t want to
Waste my time going if the rota is pants. I know the pay rates but they wouldn’t tell me the rota so I’m guessing it’s not good.
Cheers.
Go in and ask them.Dont believe some of the stuff you read.
Dimlaith:
Got a interview next week but don’t want to
Waste my time going if the rota is pants. I know the pay rates but they wouldn’t tell me the rota so I’m guessing it’s not good.Cheers.
You shouldn’t just…
Assume that to be the case. Some people want earlies, some people want lates, some people want a mix of both and some people want 4 on 4 off etc. You’ll only know what the rota/shift patterns are by going in and finding out.
There are a few Asda driver who contribute here, they might be able to enlighten you.
There are a couple of 9hr rotas, 1 has no fridays off. They have tried to give every other weekend off as much as possible within the 60% weekends. As our week is sunday to saturday there are quite a few single midweek rest days because saturday is in 1 week and the sunday is in the next. I have 1 single rest day sunday too.
Edit, you will stay on your start time too, if you are on 08.00 that is the time you start every day. None of this early, mid, late, night and repeat nonsense.
Fuzrat:
There are a couple of 9hr rotas, 1 has no fridays off. They have tried to give every other weekend off as much as possible within the 60% weekends. As our week is sunday to saturday there are quite a few single midweek rest days because saturday is in 1 week and the sunday is in the next. I have 1 single rest day sunday too.
Edit, you will stay on your start time too, if you are on 08.00 that is the time you start every day. None of this early, mid, late, night and repeat nonsense.
Thanks for that. Pretty similar to the rota I work now which I want to get away from so decided to give it a miss. No point changing from a rota I hate to one which would be the same plus extra miles on the commute. Been thinking about it for the last week and better the devil you know. Any 5 from 7 is always going to give single rest days I guess. Can’t fault Asda for giving me all the information, except the actual rota though.
Don’t know about Chepstow but in Bristol on 5x9hr shifts, you work around 50-60% weekends.
Normally x3 or x4 single rests in that 10 weeks mostly Mondays and Fridays. Anyway they change it every year so wouldn’t worry about it too much specially with new owners incoming
Why the ■■■■ do all these companies fail spectacularly at rotas? It’s really [zb]ing simple : 4 on 4 off, 4 sets of drivers to 1 truck, max 11 hours shift so 2 medium distance runs or 3 locals. That’s it. Everyone knows where they stand, there’s no ■■■■■■■■ about Joe Bloggs have 1 extra weekend day off than you and the truck is fully utilised. No need to employ staff on a full-time basis just to make the most convulted and overly complicated rotas possible to completely mess up the driver’s home life, 1 day off here, 3 there, 2 here, 0 next week. If you’re not making enough money from 4 shifts (the usual whinge) then put your name down to cover sickness and holidays. 
drover:
Don’t know about Chepstow but in Bristol on 5x9hr shifts, you work around 50-60% weekends.
Normally x3 or x4 single rests in that 10 weeks mostly Mondays and Fridays. Anyway they change it every year so wouldn’t worry about it too much specially with new owners incoming
Thanks, as above I’m not going to bother with it.
DCPCFML:
Why the [zb] do all these companies fail spectacularly at rotas? It’s really [zb]ing simple : 4 on 4 off, 4 sets of drivers to 1 truck, max 11 hours shift so 2 medium distance runs or 3 locals. That’s it. Everyone knows where they stand, there’s no ■■■■■■■■ about Joe Bloggs have 1 extra weekend day off than you and the truck is fully utilised. No need to employ staff on a full-time basis just to make the most convulted and overly complicated rotas possible to completely mess up the driver’s home life, 1 day off here, 3 there, 2 here, 0 next week. If you’re not making enough money from 4 shifts (the usual whinge) then put your name down to cover sickness and holidays.
Spot on, I could not agree more. After almost 20 years I have finally realised I’m working myself into an early grave for these so called Blue Chip tossers.
Why can’t big plc,do what general hauliers have been doing for years, 5days and 6 days, and your either a Saturday man or a Sunday man,
biggriffin:
Why can’t big plc,do what general hauliers have been doing for years, 5days and 6 days, and your either a Saturday man or a Sunday man,
Who wants to work six days? Not me.
biggriffin:
Why can’t big plc,do what general hauliers have been doing for years, 5days and 6 days, and your either a Saturday man or a Sunday man,
Because times have moved on. Drivers don’t want to work every weekend day. 5 days is more than enough. 4 days is plenty (unless you’ve debted yourself up to your eyeballs), hence why if your operation runs at weekends then 4 on 4 off is the perfect solution, assuming that the overall money is sufficient to cover working the weekend days. Too many old skool drivers still refuse to work weekends so ■■■■ it up for everyone at 24/7 companies, necessitating the stupid rotas that the OP speaks of just to accommodate them. If I were running the place it would be 4 on 4 off for everyone with the money being attractive enough to offset working the weekends. Anyone who doesn’t like it 
there’s the door. 
DCPCFML:
If I were running the place
Luckily…
For everyone you’re not.
yourhavingalarf:
DCPCFML:
If I were running the placeLuckily…
For everyone you’re not.
Lucky for who? All those drivers who love the 9-10 week rotas where they don’t know whether they’re coming or going? No, thought not.
Bloody ridiculous these days expecting people to work any 5 from 7, particularly at the ■■■■ poor rates being offered.
After a week’s work a driver deserves two days off together minimum, if they want to do overtime and cut it down to one day off so be it, their choice, but large companies compelling their supposedly well treated staff to shift patterns like that is a ■■■■ take, and once more the companies deserve exactly the sort of people they are likely to get and the resulting wreckage.
DCPCFML:
Why the [zb] do all these companies fail spectacularly at rotas? It’s really [zb]ing simple : 4 on 4 off, 4 sets of drivers to 1 truck, max 11 hours shift so 2 medium distance runs or 3 locals. That’s it. Everyone knows where they stand, there’s no ■■■■■■■■ about Joe Bloggs have 1 extra weekend day off than you and the truck is fully utilised. No need to employ staff on a full-time basis just to make the most convulted and overly complicated rotas possible to completely mess up the driver’s home life, 1 day off here, 3 there, 2 here, 0 next week. If you’re not making enough money from 4 shifts (the usual whinge) then put your name down to cover sickness and holidays.
I agree with what your saying but in supermarkets the demand for drivers for each day varies a lot.
Asda don’t need the same number of drivers everyday of the week.
They probably need 30% more drivers on weds Thurs and Fridays than they do on Mondays.
So if everyone was on 4 on 4 off some days they would have loads of drivers sitting around doing nothing and not enough drivers on the other days.
Of course Corona completely screwed up they way people shop so that threw a large spanner in the works 
Juddian:
Bloody ridiculous these days expecting people to work any 5 from 7, particularly at the ■■■■ poor rates being offered.
After a week’s work a driver deserves two days off together minimum, if they want to do overtime and cut it down to one day off so be it, their choice, but large companies compelling their supposedly well treated staff to shift patterns like that is a ■■■■ take, and once more the companies deserve exactly the sort of people they are likely to get and the resulting wreckage.
Because they don’t give a ■■■■■ about you, or whether you have a life, your just a lump of meat on a seat to them expendable as there a queue of mugs waiting to jump in your place, or there were until this driver shortage happened
still doesn’t change their view of you though.
Juddian:
Bloody ridiculous these days expecting people to work any 5 from 7, particularly at the ■■■■ poor rates being offered.
After a week’s work a driver deserves two days off together minimum, if they want to do overtime and cut it down to one day off so be it, their choice, but large companies compelling their supposedly well treated staff to shift patterns like that is a ■■■■ take, and once more the companies deserve exactly the sort of people they are likely to get and the resulting wreckage.
Pretty much spot on there Clown, these firms are not for experienced drivers to be suffering. They have their place but they have a high turnover of drivers as well as the damages.
drover:
DCPCFML:
Why the [zb] do all these companies fail spectacularly at rotas? It’s really [zb]ing simple : 4 on 4 off, 4 sets of drivers to 1 truck, max 11 hours shift so 2 medium distance runs or 3 locals. That’s it. Everyone knows where they stand, there’s no ■■■■■■■■ about Joe Bloggs have 1 extra weekend day off than you and the truck is fully utilised. No need to employ staff on a full-time basis just to make the most convulted and overly complicated rotas possible to completely mess up the driver’s home life, 1 day off here, 3 there, 2 here, 0 next week. If you’re not making enough money from 4 shifts (the usual whinge) then put your name down to cover sickness and holidays.I agree with what your saying but in supermarkets the demand for drivers for each day varies a lot.
Asda don’t need the same number of drivers everyday of the week.
They probably need 30% more drivers on weds Thurs and Fridays than they do on Mondays.
So if everyone was on 4 on 4 off some days they would have loads of drivers sitting around doing nothing and not enough drivers on the other days.Of course Corona completely screwed up they way people shop so that threw a large spanner in the works
What’s to stop them advertising part-time roles for only Weds, Thus and Fris then? The core drivers stay on their 4 on 4 off which covers all the basic needs and the part-timers cover the busier days? For any short-term unexpected increases in volume they hire temps, either agency bums or subbies like they’ve always done. Seems pretty straightforward to me without needing to [zb] up every driver’s life with completely retarded rotas.
DCPCFML:
drover:
DCPCFML:
Why the [zb] do all these companies fail spectacularly at rotas? It’s really [zb]ing simple : 4 on 4 off, 4 sets of drivers to 1 truck, max 11 hours shift so 2 medium distance runs or 3 locals. That’s it. Everyone knows where they stand, there’s no ■■■■■■■■ about Joe Bloggs have 1 extra weekend day off than you and the truck is fully utilised. No need to employ staff on a full-time basis just to make the most convulted and overly complicated rotas possible to completely mess up the driver’s home life, 1 day off here, 3 there, 2 here, 0 next week. If you’re not making enough money from 4 shifts (the usual whinge) then put your name down to cover sickness and holidays.I agree with what your saying but in supermarkets the demand for drivers for each day varies a lot.
Asda don’t need the same number of drivers everyday of the week.
They probably need 30% more drivers on weds Thurs and Fridays than they do on Mondays.
So if everyone was on 4 on 4 off some days they would have loads of drivers sitting around doing nothing and not enough drivers on the other days.Of course Corona completely screwed up they way people shop so that threw a large spanner in the works
What’s to stop them advertising part-time roles for only Weds, Thus and Fris then? The core drivers stay on their 4 on 4 off which covers all the basic needs and the part-timers cover the busier days? For any short-term unexpected increases in volume they hire temps, either agency bums or subbies like they’ve always done. Seems pretty straightforward to me without needing to [zb] up every driver’s life with completely retarded rotas.
Good idea in principle but they recently tried employing drivers in Bristol on part time contacts (4x9hrs)but drivers don’t want to work part time!