Hi all
I’ve been offered an interview for Menzies driving a 7.5t on nights. Advert states the hourly rate is £9.21, is this right for night work with the company?
Gsobas:
Hi allI’ve been offered an interview for Menzies driving a 7.5t on nights. Advert states the hourly rate is £9.21, is this right for night work with the company?
That’s something you should of asked them !!
If it is around 50-99p more than minimum wage, then I guess you can read into that this IS the “Night Rate”.
(Day rate is exactly minimum wage plus 1p so they can argue “competive salary” on their “shift” adverts…)
I’ve only ever worked for Menzies Distribution on artics, and it was £10.75ph 5 years back.
Aylesford-Ipswich run, easy work, curtain sider-forkie unload, take break, return to base with hoppers of magazines… 7.5hour shifts, paid 8 hours.
It was my last agency assignment before I got taken on temp-to-perm at Brakes in late 2015…
£9.21 an hour on nights for a 7.5 tonner does seem a bit low in my opinion…but…if needs must, and if it suits…why not.
From what I’ve seen of that lot, that would sound about right. Went to a distribution place for them near Sheffield and it was packed round the block with with old looking EE reg transit vans (not even overhead sleepers), which gave the impression they run ultra cheap.
From what I’ve seen of their 3.5 and 7.5T trucks delivering to a place near one of our collections every night, they aren’t fussy about who they employ (by dress and extreme general scruffyness) or how carefully things are loaded.
Perfect your “careless throw” technique and if it flies out the other side of the curtain into a puddle that’s 10 bonus points.
trevHCS:
From what I’ve seen of that lot, that would sound about right. Went to a distribution place for them near Sheffield and it was packed round the block with with old looking EE reg transit vans (not even overhead sleepers), which gave the impression they run ultra cheap.From what I’ve seen of their 3.5 and 7.5T trucks delivering to a place near one of our collections every night, they aren’t fussy about who they employ (by dress and extreme general scruffyness) or how carefully things are loaded.
Perfect your “careless throw” technique and if it flies out the other side of the curtain into a puddle that’s 10 bonus points.
With the rain we’ve had today, it’ll take a jolly good lob to get it across the puddles I’ve been seeing on the roads everywhere…! 