Cheers for the info tokenyank!
alder:
Well I have not stopped! I have now signed up to 4 agencies but one in particular has used me most of the time and has me with a large logistics company doing RDCs and multi drops. I think they like me there because:
I don’t moan and get on with it. The other day the tail lift would not go up on remote but would go down so I had to climb up every drop which was a pain! I just reported the problem and someone in the office said we have nothing else you will have to take it out tomorrow. I had a go at problem solving and found the connection was dodgy so I clean the pins with a bit of emery cloth and got it working perfectly. Browny point to me
I am good with customers and represent the company well (Not sure if the company has been ringing up and checking)
Another agency driver had a problem with his sticking door (just something in the track!) and kicked up such a fuss and I offered to swap him wagons and mine is a 2013 reg!
Came in to do a shift at 05.15 and it was cancelled, actually the agency cocked it up so I waited around half an hour to see if they were OK for staff and no one called in sick. The planners loved me for it. I then signed up for other agencies that day and got a night run that night.
Anyway I politely asked if I do my class 1 (they have a large fleet) would I find it difficult getting on the artics with having a new licence category? Guess what, the guy in charge of the transport office piped up and said “no mate you wouldn’t as I will send you out for 3 days with one of the class 1 drivers and then you would be on your own”. Wow virtually a job offer!!!
So the moral of the story is make them want to keep you, create an impression.
That’s exactly the kind of attitude TM’s are looking for. Anybody with this kind of attitude won’t struggle to get work. Keep up the good work mate. 