Anyone ever seen anything as crap in your life as these chancers.
uk.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=41c3 … m%3Dserpso
£1.50 pay rise until a certain date.
Then you will get a pay decrease.
Never seen or heard so much ■■■■■ in all my life.
Whilst I sort of agree look a little lower and you’ll find:-
> Benefits include free uniform, free life insurance, on site parking and Company pension.
Ignoring the uniform and parking, that’s gotta be worth something.
What’s the actual cost per month/year of an average Life Insurance and there’s a pension scheme.
That’s just crass, hedging their bets in a desperate attempt to compete with agencies offering almost twice the hourly rate.
We’re seeing an outbreak of this kind of nonsense as the awful truth finally dawns on the haulage industry that over the last two decades of plentiful cheap Eastern European agency drivers, they’ve created a Frankenstein’s monster that they have no control over, agencies can offer substantially higher hourly rates and hoover up drivers leaving transport managers with no choice but to pay the agency the inflated rates or the load stays in the yard, simple as
Agencies aren’t in the transport business, they’re in the worker supply business and as such drivers are an essential commodity they’re prepared to pay a premium to attract
Here’s that phrase again, you reap what you sow.
Seems like they have temporarily raised their rates as they are gambling on a return of the cheap foreign labour in the near future. When bums on seats are fufilled then its back to normal.
I do hope this bites them on the bum!
pierrot 14:
Whilst I sort of agree look a little lower and you’ll find:-> Benefits include free uniform, free life insurance, on site parking and Company pension.
Ignoring the uniform and parking, that’s gotta be worth something.
What’s the actual cost per month/year of an average Life Insurance and there’s a pension scheme.
They’re legally obliged to provide a workplace pension mate. It’s akin to proudly boasting “all of our vehicles come equipped with seat belts and tyres”.
the maoster:
pierrot 14:
Whilst I sort of agree look a little lower and you’ll find:-> Benefits include free uniform, free life insurance, on site parking and Company pension.
Ignoring the uniform and parking, that’s gotta be worth something.
What’s the actual cost per month/year of an average Life Insurance and there’s a pension scheme.They’re legally obliged to provide a workplace pension mate. It’s akin to proudly boasting “all of our vehicles come equipped with seat belts and tyres”.
I’m definitely out as there’s no cycle to work scheme 
. I’ve always struggled with why a “free uniform” is listed as a job perk. Shouldn’t they be paying me to advertise their company everywhere I go? I’ll stick to my casual jeans and shirt ta. Obviously I’m talking about basic pallet haulage here, not crawling about in sewers doing jetvac work, for example.
pierrot 14:
Whilst I sort of agree look a little lower and you’ll find:-> Benefits include free uniform, free life insurance, on site parking and Company pension.
Ignoring the uniform and parking, that’s gotta be worth something.
What’s the actual cost per month/year of an average Life Insurance and there’s a pension scheme.
I pay £3 a month for £60,000 cover. By law for the 9 years large companies have had to have to have a workplace pension scheme, the last 3 years for all employers even employing just one person. If it weren’t law I’m sure they wouldn’t.
DCPCFML:
I’m definitely out as there’s no cycle to work scheme
Our lot provide free buses to work from Grantham and outlying villages, which is great if you work in the warehouse with regular start and finish times, not so good for a driver however. And I’m bloody sure I ain’t cycling the 17 miles to work on country roads full of nobheads like me obsessed with beating their PB journey times!
Temporary pay rise - says it all - like I mentioned on another thread, the suits aren’t going to like the pay increases and this outfit is hedging its bets that it will be situation normal in the new year.
If there’s any management or financial vacancies advertised with this lot, one of the main qualifications/abilities required would be to peel an orange in their pocket.
If I worked for them it would be cheerio time, big style.
the maoster:
They’re legally obliged to provide a workplace pension mate. It’s akin to proudly boasting “all of our vehicles come equipped with seat belts and tyres”.
Conor:
I pay £3 a month for £60,000 cover. By law for the 9 years large companies have had to have to have a workplace pension scheme, the last 3 years for all employers even employing just one person. If it weren’t law I’m sure they wouldn’t.
Yes I know about the fact that employees need to provide a pension plan, but we don’t know what they are actually offering.
And how about the Life insurance, you haven’t commented on that. How many companies provide that? Gotta be worth a bit !?
Free life assurance/insurance wouldn’t sway me in the slightest, and if it were offered to me where I work now I would question the whole logic of the scheme. Far better for companies to pay a decent wage and operate under decent conditions and let people sort their own needs out.
The free life insurance will be basically death in service usually x3 your salary, everywhere I have worked have had that.
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Zac_A:
Free life assurance/insurance wouldn’t sway me in the slightest, and if it were offered to me where I work now I would question the whole logic of the scheme. Far better for companies to pay a decent wage and operate under decent conditions and let people sort their own needs out.
+1…
If I was looking to go full time (which I’m not) life assurance wouldn’t be a deal breaker for me.
Straight money, decent kit and don’t try to run me ragged.
My neighbhour was doing agency work for Elddis out of Worksop last year and the ran him ragged, asking him to do a collection 9-10hrs+ after his shift started wasnt unusual, so after 6 month he threw in the towel and hung up his keys. Although now hes resitting his DCPC pestering me to put him in touch with the mob I work for to get behind the wheel again, as hes been dipping into his pension pot and the penny has dropped that he cant maintain his new lifestyle without doing a few day a week
An ex - work colleague of mine worked for Elddis for approx 6-9 months out of Haltwhistle (A69) & couldn’t wait to get out of there as they were running him ragged for approx £8.50/£9 ph approx a year or so ago. He went the agency route & is driving mostly for UPS & says all the tea in China wouldn’t get him back to Elddis!
Most likely they are paying the rate for the area. Cant be that bad as its the first time I have seen anything about them on here,before now. Might have been a bit more attractive if you could get a good discount off a caravan. Back in the pre 70s they ran as Siddle C Cooke out of Consett before NFC took them over.
lolipop:
Back in the pre 70`s they ran as Siddle C Cooke out of Consett before NFC took them over.
Is there where the name Elddis came from?
DCPCFML:
lolipop:
Back in the pre 70`s they ran as Siddle C Cooke out of Consett before NFC took them over.Is there where the name Elddis came from?
Yep, Siddle backwards. I drove past an Elddis caravan the other day and thought it was the Welsh version of Elvis 