Jobs available at B&Q Doncaster

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They’re advertising for class 1 drivers at the Redhouse depot.
jobs.gxo.com/job/Doncaster-Clas … 082372500/

Class 1 Driver
Date: 3 Oct 2023
Location: Doncaster, GB
Company: GXO Logistics

Are you an experienced HGV Class 1 Driver looking for a change? Would you like to work for a market leading company with fantastic benefits?

Here at GXO Logistics we are currently looking for full-time, permanent HGV Class 1 Drivers to join us at our depot in Doncaster for our client, one of the leading retail companies, B&Q.

You will be contracted to work 48 hours per week on a shift pattern of Monday – Friday with multiple start times available.

Pay, benefits and more:

An annual salary of £41,423 (£16.00/hr)
20 holiday days (plus 8 Bank holiday days) entitlement
Workplace pension
Access to a variety of high street discounts
Access to GXO University – an online learning platform

What you will do on a typical day:

Accurately and safely delivering goods to customer stores
Operating company vehicles in a safe and efficient manner
Completing all paperwork correctly and on time
Be compliant with Driver’s hours, Tachograph, Working Time, and Road Traffic Act regulations

What you need to succeed at GXO:

Full UK driving licence with C+E entitlement
No more than 6 penalty points on your licence (no TT, IN, DD, DR, or DG endorsements)
Up to date CPC and Digital Tachograph cards
Excellent communication skills
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My limp is in their yard this week, but this is the first thing that I know about it, I know that they are expanding their scope of work, the work from the Heywood depot is being moved to Doncaster, with an expansion of the plant and flowers deliveries from Doncaster, so I’m not sure what they are planning for anyone who gets a job

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The Wilkos drivers will be put into there,the advertising is just a tick box exercise.
They don’t want to pay redundancy and have been trying to get them in at other contracts,this is well inside the travel scope so they’ll bang them into the jobs.

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It’s probably too far for them to commute (28 miles) especially when DHL has a massive recruitment program in place at Worksop for the old Wilkos depot. (See my other thread).
There are 14 ex Wilko (GXO) drivers moving to the new B&Q Blyth depot, they where doing inductions at B&Q worksop last week, which is why you may see more units (ex Wilko) in the Blyth yard

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Sounds like a cushy number.

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PaddyTheLorryDriver:
Sounds like a cushy number.

It’s pretty easy tbh.
1-2 store delivery runs a day, pull up at a store, open curtains, forklift unloads & puts on recycling and returns, while you sit in the cab doing nothing. Return the yard and repeat if necessary for 2nd run or onto 2nd store for a split load. Average 10hrs a day.
Sometimes it’s 1 store plus backhaul ie: Warrington & down to west Hallam, today is down to Stoke and up to Worksop depot (drop & swop) then back to Doncaster.

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peirre:
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There are 14 ex Wilko (GXO) drivers moving to the new B&Q Blyth depot, they where doing inductions at B&Q worksop last week, which is why you may see more units (ex Wilko) in the Blyth yard

Speaking to one of the ex-Wilko Blyth drivers today they have spent the week in Swindon, nighting out in the 19-plate MANs doing RCC deliveries from there because there’s not enough work yet in Blyth.

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Ex Heywood work is HDC, eg Dutch trolleys of plants/flowers, very busy in spring time, think they also did the Xmas trees.