del trotter:
And to think when I called them a race to the bottom haulier in another thread I was slaughtered and accused of talking BS.
I think terms are dictated by those far higher up the food chain than road hauliers, be they large or small.
nurglets:
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.
Kay Transport was taken over by Gregory’s. They have run it as a separate brand for a few years but the Kay name and livery is being dropped soon.
Gregory’s pay rates vary according to geographical location and also depends on what haulage contract the work is for. They just recently advertised for class 2 pallet driver in Cornwall at £19k. They also recruit so-called apprentices as drivers which allows them to pay around £7 per hour while being ‘trained’. This is all on their website careers page for all to see.
I know absolutely nothing about Gregorys, but I’ve seen their motors on the road for years.
I always had them down as a good solid old fashioned haulage firm who would look after their drivers, seems like I’m wrong and I’m quite surprised by what I’ve heard.
robroy:
I know absolutely nothing about Gregorys, but I’ve seen their motors on the road for years.
I always had them down as a good solid old fashioned haulage firm who would look after their drivers, seems like I’m wrong and I’m quite surprised by what I’ve heard.
I would with past experience aline them with the green mob 
nick2008:
robroy:
I know absolutely nothing about Gregorys, but I’ve seen their motors on the road for years.
I always had them down as a good solid old fashioned haulage firm who would look after their drivers, seems like I’m wrong and I’m quite surprised by what I’ve heard.I would with past experience aline them with the green mob
Oh right 
, …as bad as that then.
How many units do they have parked up because they have no drivers?
mac12:
How many units do they have parked up because they have no drivers?
They are paying market rate as has been said earlier in the thread. Why would they have no drivers?
The big players earn the money from warehousing and distribution not transport. That is why they have most of the driving jobs that simple and unskilled. If you want to earn money driving you need skills ( adr, hiab, moffet, chains, ropes etc).
Don’t forget that there are more to these jobs than £/hr. Most of them pay for your cpc and pay you for attending. Sick pay, uniforms, parking etc etc.
If the big players really were that bad to work for they wouldn’t be that big.
I worked for Gregory’s about ten year ago at minworth doing mainly cadbury work pay back then was 450 a week five nights a week Mon Fri .I left after only three months upto 720 km a shift not for me
mike68:
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.
? ? Meant to say why do drivers ask such silly questions like what are these companies like pay conditions ETC they are for profit hauliers for crying out loud.
Downtons, Owens, Stobart, and all the others of that ilk we be more or less the same, you will do 2 weeks work for a weeks money and be treated like an idiot peasant
Because drivers 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.
Darkside:
mac12:
How many units do they have parked up because they have no drivers?They are paying market rate as has been said earlier in the thread. Why would they have no drivers?
The big players earn the money from warehousing and distribution not transport. That is why they have most of the driving jobs that simple and unskilled. If you want to earn money driving you need skills ( adr, hiab, moffet, chains, ropes etc).
Don’t forget that there are more to these jobs than £/hr. Most of them pay for your cpc and pay you for attending. Sick pay, uniforms, parking etc etc.
If the big players really were that bad to work for they wouldn’t be that big.
And that’s just what I’m getting at everyone on here says they won’t work for that money but someone will nobody has trucks parked due to paying low wages.
they are advertising for a new contract at the moment and the wages seem decent on face value
MancunianAndy:
they are advertising for a new contract at the moment and the wages seem decent on face value
Lies. No such thing as a 48 hour week at Gregorski. You are allowed to work 15 hours, so that is what they plan for.
the nodding donkey:
Lies. No such thing as a 48 hour week at Gregorski. You are allowed to work 15 hours, so that is what they plan for.
Can’t honestly say that it was like that when I was there, a typical shift would be about 12 hours on with 12 hours off.
Gregory’s may have their faults, but I have never heard anybody say they run drivers ragged.
The Kays lot in Willand seemed pleasant enough, I wonder how they feel about the takeover. What is going to happen to Framptons in Shepton Mallet, has that brand been swallowed up?
My impression of the company was only reinforced recently when I pulled into the Cullompton site to be greeted by a transport manager strutting around like a rutting chimpanzee with a bad attitude.
The money they are offering is par for the course, but you can get class 1 work for similar money in Devon with less hours and working for nice people.
One of the nicer transport supervisors (Steve) who used to work at the Morrisons RDC ended up there but I think it was on the Spar side.
I had a call off a lad called Mick about a night trunking roll for £26k @Minworth ,Plus night allowance
Is that hogwash chaps?
I also read a review ,that they will take new pass,drivers ,but once on they put you in a class 2
And drop the rate to suit ,Any one there care to chip in .i need work now ,absolutely applied everywhere
Hundreds of rejections .
Agencies offered me jobs on a rate ,i get job then rates suddenly less and no night out cash
I dont want to use agencies ,not yet anyway.i have set up ltd until the April changes
Are Gregory better or worser than ES
Albert1:
I also read a review ,that they will take new pass,drivers ,but once on they put you in a class 2
And drop the rate to suit ,Any one there care to chip in .i need work now ,absolutely applied everywhere
Hundreds of rejections .
Agencies offered me jobs on a rate ,i get job then rates suddenly less and no night out cash
I dont want to use agencies ,not yet anyway.i have set up ltd until the April changes
Are Gregory better or worser than ES
It sounds like you’re desperate why don’t you just go for it what have you got to lose.
I am not desperate yet ,figure of speach? , haha ,Just a bit frustrated with dishonest agencies ,and companies trying everything to treat you like a lepper
Steve
Until us drivers stand together the wages in our industry will continue to decline. Sadly it’s becoming the ‘norm’ that “if you won’t do it, he will”.
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Honestscott76:
Until us drivers stand together the wages in our industry will continue to decline. Sadly it’s becoming the ‘norm’ that “if you won’t do it, he will”.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
This could be my problem,
I wont do crap money .No offense ,but start as you mean to go on .