A question:
When did agency drivers become known as Limpers and Limpets? Its a recent thing on here and I’m not a fan of it. I am an agency driver and I am neither clinging on for dear life nor hobbling round the yard. I am in fact just another hard working truck driver with aspirations and dreams. So my lifestyle doesn’t suit the full time employed situation, I can’t do 4 on 4 off, I need flexability to be able to say at fairly short notice that I’m not available for next Wednesday, this is why I am an Agency driver.
Not because I am something to be scraped of the hull and thrown away and not because I am physically challenged.
Can we please stop using this pejorative term for people just as hard working as you?
I have never seen an agency worker referred to on here as a ’ limpet ’ mate. Don’t limpets cling on for dear life?
Then again…January and sat next to the phone springs to mind.
I was an agency driver and I got called a few names. Not that any of it bothered me but the thing is I absolutely hate agency’s and what they stand for. People should be working full time hours with a real wage. Thanks to all these agencies n people wanting flexible days as not only ■■■■■■ up driving jobs but all jobs. I was on agency as I couldn’t get a full time job with a real wage working regular hours. Now finally I have n hopefully the agencies will all get closed down and abolish 0 hours contracts.
yorkielee:
I was an agency driver and I got called a few names. Not that any of it bothered me but the thing is I absolutely hate agency’s and what they stand for. People should be working full time hours with a real wage. Thanks to all these agencies n people wanting flexible days as not only [zb] up driving jobs but all jobs. I was on agency as I couldn’t get a full time job with a real wage working regular hours. Now finally I have n hopefully the agencies will all get closed down and abolish 0 hours contracts.
As I said in the OP, Agencies have their place, just like tramping isn’t for everybody, neither is agency work. As for zero hours contracts, yes they are being overused but without a zero hours contract, I wouldn’t have had the good start in this industry I had. Again, its different strokes for different folks.
Limpet? Think you imagined that one bud.
Maybe you were stumbling at the time?
Agency limps are legendary. I was at Lidl Runcorn one day, and I really ought to have questioned this one guy’s sobriety. He literally was hanging onto the grille of every wagon on a bay to get back to his own. I reckon if there had been a bay out of use, he’d still be there now.
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I assume you’re a grown man? why should you even care what a few people, who you don’t even know, that ■■■■ in lay-bys and ■■■■ in plastic bags, call you?
Excuse me. Carrier bags are too good for toilets. Don’t they do it au naturel, so that they can keep the carrier bag for their weeks worth of gear?
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My mate used to have his name stored in the other drivers phones as “Kev Limp”
I do believe the Beaver once met him at Neston.
He’s not even agency. But he has had his knee done now.
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Because of this Limper business I now always watch my gait so as not to unintentially limp.
I’ve stopped wrapping my sandwiches in an old Lidl carrier bag and I shave once a week whether I need it or not.
I feel much better having got a “proper job” at last. Me old Ma’s proud of me now…
PaulNowak:
Limpet? Think you imagined that one bud.
Maybe you were stumbling at the time?
Agency limps are legendary. I was at Lidl Runcorn one day, and I really ought to have questioned this one guy’s sobriety. He literally was hanging onto the grille of every wagon on a bay to get back to his own. I reckon if there had been a bay out of use, he’d still be there now.
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Mikey D:
And to rub salt in the wound the limpets are probably on better money 
in viewtopic.php?f=2&t=140370
I’m sure there a more than a few ■■■■■■ up full timers too. Just because we are not tied to one company doesn’t make us lesser drivers.
nurglets:
I assume you’re a grown man? why should you even care what a few people, who you don’t even know, that ■■■■ in lay-bys and [zb] in plastic bags, call you?
Call me what you want, I respond to Oi You if you would prefer that. Just don’t call me it in pejorative way. The way that these terms are being used makes it clear that the users feel that being Agency makes you a lesser person. The inference is that those of us who drive for agencies do it not because we choose to but because we are incapable of living the way full timers do.
No idea op. But I limp from odd job to next, don’t find it offensive as a term and tbh I think zero hours contracts work well for some people, including me regardless of what some MPs would have you believe!
I think somebody is a tad on the touchy side, especially considering the fact that he’s bothered by an insult that it would appear has never even been used.
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PaulNowak:
I think somebody is a tad on the touchy side, especially considering the fact that he’s bothered by an insult that it would appear has never even been used.
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Are you blind as well a bitchy? I posted the quote and the bloody link. If you have nothing intelligent to contribute…
Yep. I remember Kev the limp Paul. It was indeed Aldi Neston.
By the time he got over to his pallet mover, the battery was flat.
Hey mate, Kev is half the size he was since he’s had his knee done. And he wasn’t exactly a fat knacker before, he just couldn’t get around quick enough to burn the calories off at a fair old pace.
He’s on a right health kick at the moment. You really wouldn’t recognise him.
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Get over yourself fella. Limpet was probably a smartphone auto correct.
I too was agency once, one day. That was enough.
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Been a member for nearly 4 years and still hasn’t figured out the TN mentality and has the audacity to question the validity of ‘agency’ ability 
Crack on driver, and accept you’re not good enough to be employed full time 
cue conor for a good ‘typical limper response’
Conor, first of his name, king of the unwashed and the unemployable, Lord of the inconsistent pay cheque and protector of the realm.
And Guardian of the Aldi bag
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