Just seen Gregorys ads on here and looked at their Web site. 22k for class 1 work 
Their havin a laugh aren’t they 
nick2008:
Just seen Gregorys ads on here and looked at their Web site. 22k for class 1 workTheir havin a laugh aren’t they
And they expect you to max your hours out for that.
(I’ll leave it there. Worse then Stobartski. Would not ■■■■ on them if they were on fire. )
nick2008:
Just seen Gregorys ads on here and looked at their Web site. 22k for class 1 workTheir havin a laugh aren’t they
Where is the ad Nick ?
bald bloke:
nick2008:
Just seen Gregorys ads on here and looked at their Web site. 22k for class 1 workTheir havin a laugh aren’t they
Where is the ad Nick ?
In the jobs forum.
They advertise a 48 hour week. Wednesday to Sunday 0500 till 1700
Yeah right. Gregorys plan their work around 15 hours, because that’s what you’re allowed to work.
Cockwombles.
They’rehavingalarf.
They do open days from time to time. I went to one but walked out after they mentioned the hourly rate.
They didn’t seem bothered. As if they expected it.
Always some mug though. I see enough of them on the road.
When are drivers going to realise…
That unless a company is a new start up, either wholly or in a new previously for them unchartered field…
If they need to advertise for drivers, especially regularly, need open days, or bloody great placards on the back of their vehicles, or signs in the middle of fields alongside motorways, or even worse have to resort to local radio ads…then the job is either paying poorly or requires excessive hours to make a living wage, or they treat their staff like something they stepped in, or is an agency style zero hour contract, with variations along these and similar lines.
If you don’t keep these companies afloat by swapping from one easily found but poorly rewarded job to another only different in livery or level of arse holedness in the traffic office, thereby keeping each of them with a constant supply of new drivers often prepared to bend over because they are new, then they will slowly but surely have to up their act, and instead of relying on cheapness to sell their services, they’ll have to up their game and supply on efficiency/can-do/product/service, which usually requires a better class of staff which won’t come at cheap as chips prices…which is how it all should be.
Oh and for crying out loud stop voting for your own replacements in general elections (one would think this wouldn’t need spelling out, but people seem to have a lemming like death wish), open borders means a never ending supply of people who will do the job cheaper than you, its that simple.
You can overcome this to some extent by finding jobs that require more than being a bum on a seat chauffer, where skills care taken language local or national knowledge are to your clear advantage, once you’ve landed those premium jobs look after them.
That advert is Wednesday to Sunday too
I got £31k (plus £4K nights out) and only did 8 Saturday mornings last financial year. And I wasn’t impressed with that to be honest. They deserve nothing but the most awkward, obnoxious damage merchants in the industry.
They were advertising for a night trunker couple of months ago, mon./fri. 48 hrs average per week. 24k !! hmmm, thought, should i go for it. 
It says 05.00 - 17.00 five days a week and paid 48 hrs well that’s 60 hrs of work. That’s at the very least £8,000 below what it should be and that’s being generous.
I did do a spell many years ago for them,
You got paid your POA that week / month but any O/T got paid out quarterly it was to get you to keep your average down.
Don’t know if they still do that.
Poor Steve the manager, i got him so tide up with their own H&S bull he went sick with stress for about 3 months 
Long before Eddie Stobart laid off all of their trampers and tried to get the general public to buy a franchise via an advert in The Sun to cover their work, Gregory were, and as far as I know still are at it with what they called “Super Subbies”. Basically a gang of drivers roaming the land in seven or eight year old DAFs & Topliners, pulling GDL trailers on GDL work. They got (get?) to buy their own insurance, diesel, tyres & pay for their own repairs.
It must have been a well paid number. Why else would anyone take on the hassle of running their own truck without paid holidays etc. for the same as or less than a driver would earn after expenses?
On the other hand, why would Gregory (or Stobart) cover work with “Owner Drivers” that cost them more than it would have if they had covered it with their own trucks?
Juddian:
If they need to advertise for drivers, especially regularly, need open days, or bloody great placards.
That’ll explain why GG have a billboard ad plastered on the side of the old postoffice near their yard 
Kerragy:
Long before Eddie Stobart laid off all of their trampers and tried to get the general public to buy a franchise via an advert in The Sun to cover their work, Gregory were, and as far as I know still are at it with what they called “Super Subbies”. Basically a gang of drivers roaming the land in seven or eight year old DAFs & Topliners, pulling GDL trailers on GDL work. They got (get?) to buy their own insurance, diesel, tyres & pay for their own repairs.It must have been a well paid number. Why else would anyone take on the hassle of running their own truck without paid holidays etc. for the same as or less than a driver would earn after expenses?
On the other hand, why would Gregory (or Stobart) cover work with “Owner Drivers” that cost them more than it would have if they had covered it with their own trucks?
Harry one for you !!
Here in sunny Wales Gregory’s pay £104 per shift including weekends and bank holidays on the 4 on and 4 off shift
alans123:
Here in sunny Wales Gregory’s pay £104 per shift including weekends and bank holidays on the 4 on and 4 off shift
Nice when it falls that you’re getting paid for working a 3 day week that’s £312 woopie 
Juddian:
When are drivers going to realise…That unless a company is a new start up, either wholly or in a new previously for them unchartered field…
If they need to advertise for drivers, especially regularly, need open days, or bloody great placards on the back of their vehicles, or signs in the middle of fields alongside motorways, or even worse have to resort to local radio ads…then the job is either paying poorly or requires excessive hours to make a living wage, or they treat their staff like something they stepped in, or is an agency style zero hour contract, with variations along these and similar lines.
If you don’t keep these companies afloat by swapping from one easily found but poorly rewarded job to another only different in livery or level of arse holedness in the traffic office, thereby keeping each of them with a constant supply of new drivers often prepared to bend over because they are new, then they will slowly but surely have to up their act, and instead of relying on cheapness to sell their services, they’ll have to up their game and supply on efficiency/can-do/product/service, which usually requires a better class of staff which won’t come at cheap as chips prices…which is how it all should be.
Oh and for crying out loud stop voting for your own replacements in general elections (one would think this wouldn’t need spelling out, but people seem to have a lemming like death wish), open borders means a never ending supply of people who will do the job cheaper than you, its that simple.
Because driers as a general rule are thick as pigshit, this perpetual movement from one dead end job to another has happened since time immemorial,there are plenty of well paid quality jobs about it takes a bit of nous to find one then to stick at it. Easy.
You can overcome this to some extent by finding jobs that require more than being a bum on a seat chauffer, where skills care taken language local or national knowledge are to your clear advantage, once you’ve landed those premium jobs look after them.
aren’t Kays the same outfit or at least same parent company and run pretty much the same as gregorys? there’s a small kays depot up the road from me and often thought about doing local class 2 work for a change.
bald bloke:
Harry one for you !!
Fair enough, I’ll have a go at answering the points made earlier.
I subbed for Gregory’s for four years, I earned a reasonable living but by no means a fortune. It fitted in with my life requirements at the time.
For the first few years it was fine, but then old man Gregory stepped down- I believe he was 82- control passed to the next generation, and from that point the ethos of the company changed, as they became increasingly more profit-motivated. They got rid of the two senior transport planners at North Tawton, Graham and Roger, both of whom were highly respected and had been there for decades and the bloke who is running the traffic office now is quite frankly a complete idiot.
They wanted a bigger and bigger slice of the pie all of the time until it got to the point where I decided it was no longer worth doing, although in fairness I was already planning to move on, and so I pulled off and sold the truck. Life is change.
As for wages for employed drivers, I really don’t know, but from the few chats I have had with their employed drivers I understood that they pay pretty much the going rate for that type of work in that area.
And to think when I called them a race to the bottom haulier in another thread I was slaughtered and accused of talking BS.