Nice little jobs on offer here. They used to, until recently, only employ through agency but have found that the agency cannot supply enough. Having delivered into the depot for a supplier & talking to the drivers it’s considered a doddle of a job. Depot to depot, bay to bay, no handball, the heavy lifting bit in the advert is for their class 2 drivers delivering to shops, you don’t do that on class 1. A retirement home for drivers one of them described it as. Decent money for up here aswell. Don’t know what they mean by 4 years of DCPC though.
HGV Driver
Closing Date: 31/10/2014
Vacancy Number: 14694
Salary: £27,870 rising to £29,340 after probationary Period
Vacancy Details: Full Time, Permanent. Bakery
Benefits: Generous benefits, including Profit Share, Staff Discount, 22 days holiday, plus Public Holidays, (pro-rata for part-time), along with Pension Scheme and Free Life Assurance after qualifying period.
Balliol , Balliol Park, Longbenton NE12 8EW
Loading up, and making sure those deliveries get to their shops on time isn’t easy. It involves a lot of heavy lifting, night work or early starts. But on the other hand, you do feel independent — and the timescales do make your day go quickly. Just ask any of our qualified HGV drivers. Their role isn’t just about deliveries — it’s about lorry compliance checks, food hygiene and health and safety too. It’s a varied role where you work on your own and as part of a delivery team.
To apply you will need to have have completed 4 years of CPC and have the relevant certificates to prove it.
Not for me thanks, not the hand balling bit, but you’re delivering to shops in the city centre etc fending off drunks / scum etc - and you’re near enough a security guard while doing your job as you’re opening the front of the shop to deliver into.
Knew someone that did it a while back, was given a whacking bunch of keys, deliveries and paperwork then told to just ‘go…’.
BillyHunt:
Nice little jobs on offer here. They used to, until recently, only employ through agency but have found that the agency cannot supply enough. Having delivered into the depot for a supplier & talking to the drivers it’s considered a doddle of a job. Depot to depot, bay to bay, no handball, the heavy lifting bit in the advert is for their class 2 drivers delivering to shops, you don’t do that on class 1. A retirement home for drivers one of them described it as. Decent money for up here aswell. Don’t know what they mean by 4 years of DCPC though.
HGV Driver
Closing Date: 31/10/2014
Vacancy Number: 14694
Salary: £27,870 rising to £29,340 after probationary Period
Vacancy Details: Full Time, Permanent. Bakery
Benefits: Generous benefits, including Profit Share, Staff Discount, 22 days holiday, plus Public Holidays, (pro-rata for part-time), along with Pension Scheme and Free Life Assurance after qualifying period.
Balliol , Balliol Park, Longbenton NE12 8EW
Loading up, and making sure those deliveries get to their shops on time isn’t easy. It involves a lot of heavy lifting, night work or early starts. But on the other hand, you do feel independent — and the timescales do make your day go quickly. Just ask any of our qualified HGV drivers. Their role isn’t just about deliveries — it’s about lorry compliance checks, food hygiene and health and safety too. It’s a varied role where you work on your own and as part of a delivery team.
To apply you will need to have have completed 4 years of CPC and have the relevant certificates to prove it. Think they need to change that to “Must hold a valid DQC”
+1 Trucks are too slow for me, don’t give a zb how much they pay or how tasty the pasty & sandwiches are:grin:
You disregard a pretty good paying job with good benefits because the trucks don’t do 56? Almost as daft as not considering a job because they run Axor’s.
This logic is maybe a contributory factor as to why you don’t have a job.
Seriously guys… pay, conditions and benefits first and foremost.
I get the feeling this advert is for Class 2 work though, but they want a driver with C+E for their own benefit. In which case, no thanks
No it’s deffo class 1 drivers they are after, they advertised for class 2 last month & didn’t bother changing the info, just the title of the drivers they require. You can see the advert & application form on indeed.co.uk. They have a Q&A to fill in to see if you’re up to their standard.
I wouldn’t give a ■■■■ about what vehicle I got to drive, providing it was modern & clean.
The money seems good for up there it’s true. Can’t say I like the idea of a 7 day shift pattern… Makes it sound like you’re working the shortest shifts possible, which means more days wasted of one’s life at work…
“4 on 4 off” on the other hand, would have me considering moving up north!
At least we’re starting to see 40 hour weeks as part of a full time job now though.
rob22888:
You disregard a pretty good paying job with good benefits because the trucks don’t do 56? Almost as daft as not considering a job because they run Axor’s.
This logic is maybe a contributory factor as to why you don’t have a job.
Seriously guys… pay, conditions and benefits first and foremost.
I look at the bigger picture, I don’t call self-tip a good job, there’s usually an underlying reason why you think it pays well. I think a truck driver should do just that-drive the zb’ing truck & I don’t think it’s too much to ask that it be a decent one!!!
I do now have a job but it’s not a driving one anymore.
There’s so much more to a job than ‘pay, conditions & benefits’, again-look at THE BIGGER PICTURE.
Isn’t the “easy passage of time” whilst at work the best thing, given everything else being equal?
I’d rather do Trunking on Nights for £14ph say, than Multidrop on days for £14ph, or Tramping across a weekend for £14ph.
Many years ago on the post office, one had to put in actual postal duties as well as driving when working for them.
You used to get extra variety, and sometimes extra money as well for each extra skill that you might employ.
Not everyone was any good at the sorting frame among the drivers for example, had the organisational skills to stand in for a clerical duty like “balance of staff” when the incumbent was on leave, or wanted to drive a fork truck/reach truck/minibus etc.
Having all that taken away, so that all the drivers became “professional drivers, network driver rank” was, I think, a step backwards. Why? - Because perhaps the job becomes devalued - if any old ■■■■ can do it. The lower skill rating of the entire rank then becomes an excuse for the pay falling behind in the years to come…
I’d quite like to get a driving job where some other skills are involved, even things like “acting manager”…
i have applied for this, me mothers a manager of a shop so decided to go pick her up and have a bit crack with 1 of the delivery drivers. he told me they are wanting both class 1 and 2 drivers, they have 2 sites next to each other. class 1’s run out of 1 and class 2’s out of the other. told me to get a job with him on the class 2’s and told him i prefer class 1 work to which he replied whey they are all lazy ■■■■■■■■ over that side and its money for nowt. 1 long shift a week which is normallys a run to nuneaton and back and 4 short shifts goin to the likes of penrith and glasgow. also the class 2 lads are paid by the hour and class 1 is paid as a salary so cant imagine they want you flitting between the 2
Almost as daft as not considering a job because they run Axor’s.
