Hi
i am new here,and need some help.Want to start work with my truck and planing to go to Maritime or solstore company.
Does anyone work for any of them? can give my some information?
many thanks.
Have you had a search of the forum? Plenty of threads about Marmite.
mgr8421:
Hi
i am new here,and need some help.Want to start work with my truck and planing to go to Maritime or solstore company.
Does anyone work for any of them? can give my some information?
many thanks.
Your foray into being an owner operator will be short-lived.
Carl Usher:
mgr8421:
Hi
i am new here,and need some help.Want to start work with my truck and planing to go to Maritime or solstore company.
Does anyone work for any of them? can give my some information?
many thanks.Your foray into being an owner operator will be short-lived.
as far as maritime are concered the best way to get an experience of working with/for them is once you have read this find the nearest wall and start banging your head against it. 
m.a.n rules:
as far as maritime are concered the best way to get an experience of working with/for them is once you have read this find the nearest wall and start banging your head against it.
And then use a rusty hacksaw to remover your testicles, both have a similar pain that you will find on a daily basis @ MTL 
oooh stan I wouldn’t do that to myself but I can think of a couple of knobs behind the counter at bift I could do it to 
I was thinking about this , does anyone have anything good to say about maritime■■? Can’t be that bad can it
m.a.n rules:
oooh stan I wouldn’t do that to myself but I can think of a couple of knobs behind the counter at bift I could do it to
ONLY a couple my friend ?, I can think of a “few” more if my flame thrower would reach 
mel owen:
I was thinking about this , does anyone have anything good to say about maritime■■? Can’t be that bad can it
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ YES ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Thanks for a good words 
So no one se any point to start driving with own lorry,i have seen Solstor looking for as well owner drivers,
may someone been here somthing about them ■■
mgr8421:
Thanks for a good words
So no one se any point to start driving with own lorry,i have seen Solstor looking for as well owner drivers,
may someone been here somthing about them ■■
I can`t comment on Solstor, as I haven’t done any work for them…
But I have seen quite a few comments on here about them, that`s probably why I haven’t ?
No sub-contracting pays particularly well (I’m a subbie myself) but I did the maths on both Maritime and Solstor before I started and I just couldn’t see a living in it. Perhaps if you had a bought-and-paid-for truck, could do your own maintenance and could park somewhere for next-to-nothing there might be a wage in it.
Am not a fan of that bought and paid for policy on trucks. When you have turned it into dust, you will have to buy another one at some point, and where are you going to find the money for that on the rates Maritime pay their sub-contractors?. All you have done is paid yourself back the money you spent on the truck in the first place.
Any prospective contractor for these companies should just ring them up and ask them what their rates are for a range of jobs from their depot area. I heard that Maritime currently pay £90 for a local job in Manchester. Can this be true? Whilst a big company can enjoy the economies of scale, an o/d can’t. Unless you could bash out three or four jobs a day on a regular basis. I can tell you for certain, that will not happen with that company. It is cynical abuse of either desperate or naive o/drivers. I have worked for them, and know people that do, and would always without any equivocation, tell anybody interested to not even think about it.
£1.35 per mile average and £25 per hour waiting time after 3 hrs
im putting one on containers but not with them lol and ive got a splitter so get a bit more £££ per week
You have to ask yourself, if the jobs are so good why don’t they do them themselves?
Never heard of a subbie making it pay with a splitter trailer yet looks good on paper but in reality doesn’t work and there heavy for about the only thing reloaded around Manchester anyway, in boxes, that been waste.As for 90 quid I don’t think its that low but your not to far off
Have maritime also cut there subby rates as wincanton have?
Does that mean you’ll now be making less, or losing more, money.
Concretejim:
Have maritime also cut there subby rates as wincanton have?Does that mean you’ll now be making less, or losing more, money.
Fuel price escalators work both ways.
Fuel prices are down around 25%, I would think that most customers inputting traffic into a supply chain would expect rate reductions in those circumstances, this will inevitably filter down to the bottom of the logistics chain.
Concretejim:
Have maritime also cut there subby rates as wincanton have?Does that mean you’ll now be making less, or losing more, money.
they do that and youll be paying to deliver there stuff with maritime rates