I’ve got a Morrison’s RDC near me (Bridgwater). I know someone who worked there and
said it’s easy work
From what I can see it’s all agency as they never seem to advertise for class 1 drivers, once I’ve seen a banner on the outside of my local store a few years ago
Anyone got any experience with these? Money ok? Etc
Cheers
It used to be run by DHL. Hasn’t been a DHL run site for a while now. Its now run by Wincanton. That’s about as much as know about that place.
Wincanton at Wakefield. This is what they’re advertising there;
Wakefield WF2
Wincanton
Job details
Salary
£12.31 - £13.54 an hour
Full Job Description
HGV C+E Licence
Driver HGV C & E License
Full time positions working 5 days out of 7.
From £12.31ph – £13.54ph.
We have an exciting opportunity for Class 1 drivers to join our Morrisons Transport Team at Wakefield J41.
This role is paying as per the following:
Days (05:00 – 11:00) £12.31
Lates (11:00 – 17:00) £13.54
Start times available: Various
Weekend work required
Full time contract 45 hours per week
Lunar pay
You will be delivering products to national supermarkets
mbax81:
Job details
Salary
£12.31 - £13.54 an hour
Full Job Description
HGV C+E Licence
Driver HGV C & E LicenseFull time positions working 5 days out of 7.
From £12.31ph – £13.54ph.
Plot twist: these are LTD rates 
It was roughly 50/50 agency/full time last time I heard.
Job easiest there is, no interaction with the load unless Wincanton have changed the way it’s done.
Just be warned they do some petrol forecourt stuff out of Willow Green, avoid at all costs.
mbax81:
Wincanton at Wakefield. This is what they’re advertising there;Wakefield WF2
WincantonJob details
Salary
£12.31 - £13.54 an hour
Full Job Description
HGV C+E Licence
Driver HGV C & E LicenseFull time positions working 5 days out of 7.
From £12.31ph – £13.54ph.
We have an exciting opportunity for Class 1 drivers to join our Morrisons Transport Team at Wakefield J41.
This role is paying as per the following:
Days (05:00 – 11:00) £12.31
Lates (11:00 – 17:00) £13.54
Start times available: Various
Weekend work required
Full time contract 45 hours per week
Lunar pay
You will be delivering products to national supermarkets
I do believe that’s a straight though rate too,any O/T,weekend working is paid at the same rate.
Yorkielad:
mbax81:
Wincanton at Wakefield. This is what they’re advertising there;Wakefield WF2
WincantonJob details
Salary
£12.31 - £13.54 an hour
Full Job Description
HGV C+E Licence
Driver HGV C & E LicenseFull time positions working 5 days out of 7.
From £12.31ph – £13.54ph.
We have an exciting opportunity for Class 1 drivers to join our Morrisons Transport Team at Wakefield J41.
This role is paying as per the following:
Days (05:00 – 11:00) £12.31
Lates (11:00 – 17:00) £13.54
Start times available: Various
Weekend work required
Full time contract 45 hours per week
Lunar pay
You will be delivering products to national supermarketsI do believe that’s a straight though rate too,any O/T,weekend working is paid at the same rate.
That’s almost the same as what I’m on presently
It seems that every site seems to operate differently
I applied for the Wakefield depot last night and this morning got a rejection email already,20 years experience,clean licence and good cv and references but still get rejected.
Advert still on website and 2 agency’s local can’t get drivers in there quick enough but I’m not joining an agency.
Can’t believe it me honestly they get applications from honest hard working experienced men and just overlook them
yorkshire terrier:
I applied for the Wakefield depot last night and this morning got a rejection email already,20 years experience,clean licence and good cv and references but still get rejected.
Advert still on website and 2 agency’s local can’t get drivers in there quick enough but I’m not joining an agency.
Can’t believe it me honestly they get applications from honest hard working experienced men and just overlook them
Because you…
Know your trade and therefore, they are less able to ‘push you around’ so to speak. Easier to pick on dozy style drivers who just bend over.
Alternatively, the gaffer recognised you from all the ■■■ kickings you gave him at school.
Ive worked there on agency, they will only ever give you afternoon starts eg 2 or 3 pm working through til mindnight or later and i hate that shift pattern, hanging around all morning with having to go to work on your mind and then having no social life in the evening so i quit. days and mornings seems to be only for the full timers. but its the best of the supermarkets in terms of easy working. just put it on bay and go to the canteen or the shops cafe til its done, and none of the tesco local style little high street shops that need cages pushing over the pavement. nice runs down to cornwall or wales sometimes. not many long hours usually
chrisdalott:
Ive worked there on agency, they will only ever give you afternoon starts eg 2 or 3 pm working through til mindnight or later and i hate that shift pattern, hanging around all morning with having to go to work on your mind and then having no social life in the evening so i quit. days and mornings seems to be only for the full timers. but its the best of the supermarkets in terms of easy working. just put it on bay and go to the canteen or the shops cafe til its done, and none of the tesco local style little high street shops that need cages pushing over the pavement. nice runs down to cornwall or wales sometimes. not many long hours usually
Cheers
Job I’m in presently is self tip, and some of them are a bit like those Tesco locals with tipping in car parks / at the kerb sometimes
yourhavingalarf:
yorkshire terrier:
I applied for the Wakefield depot last night and this morning got a rejection email already,20 years experience,clean licence and good cv and references but still get rejected.
Advert still on website and 2 agency’s local can’t get drivers in there quick enough but I’m not joining an agency.
Can’t believe it me honestly they get applications from honest hard working experienced men and just overlook themBecause you…
Know your trade and therefore, they are less able to ‘push you around’ so to speak. Easier to pick on dozy style drivers who just bend over.
Alternatively, the gaffer recognised you from all the ass kickings you gave him at school.
yes dozy who does 4 days a week , has holidays when he wants , a month at Xmas , and is off for the last 2 weeks in March / first week in April , but you keep on convincing yourself I’m having a terrible time of things , anyway I need rest as apparently every night is 14 hrs 59 mins & lay-by , good night , poor old dozy
yorkshire terrier:
I applied for the Wakefield depot last night and this morning got a rejection email already,20 years experience,clean licence and good cv and references but still get rejected.
Advert still on website and 2 agency’s local can’t get drivers in there quick enough but I’m not joining an agency.
Can’t believe it me honestly they get applications from honest hard working experienced men and just overlook them
Had the same myself. Also applied for Muller at Normanton, which is ■■■■ money apparently and got rejected there too.
Got a kid on the way and can’t be doing the ■■■■■■■■■ hours, working for ■■■■ heads.
May try Sainsburys at Sherburn, still Wincantonski but I believe it’s 4 on 4 off.
dozy:
yourhavingalarf:
yorkshire terrier:
I applied for the Wakefield depot last night and this morning got a rejection email already,20 years experience,clean licence and good cv and references but still get rejected.
Advert still on website and 2 agency’s local can’t get drivers in there quick enough but I’m not joining an agency.
Can’t believe it me honestly they get applications from honest hard working experienced men and just overlook themBecause you…
Know your trade and therefore, they are less able to ‘push you around’ so to speak. Easier to pick on dozy style drivers who just bend over.
Alternatively, the gaffer recognised you from all the ass kickings you gave him at school.
yes dozy who does 4 days a week , has holidays when he wants , a month at Xmas , and is off for the last 2 weeks in March / first week in April , but you keep on convincing yourself I’m having a terrible time of things , anyway I need rest as apparently every night is 14 hrs 59 mins & lay-by , good night , poor old dozy
You only work 4 days a week due to the law lol. If they could get a full 5 days out of you they would.
dozy:
yourhavingalarf:
yorkshire terrier:
I applied for the Wakefield depot last night and this morning got a rejection email already,20 years experience,clean licence and good cv and references but still get rejected.
Advert still on website and 2 agency’s local can’t get drivers in there quick enough but I’m not joining an agency.
Can’t believe it me honestly they get applications from honest hard working experienced men and just overlook themBecause you…
Know your trade and therefore, they are less able to ‘push you around’ so to speak. Easier to pick on dozy style drivers who just bend over.
Alternatively, the gaffer recognised you from all the ■■■ kickings you gave him at school.
yes dozy who does 4 days a week , has holidays when he wants , a month at Xmas , and is off for the last 2 weeks in March / first week in April , but you keep on convincing yourself I’m having a terrible time of things , anyway I need rest as apparently every night is 14 hrs 59 mins & lay-by , good night , poor old dozy
And yet over on the “looking for new job with fixed salary” thread you mentioned how your 4 days a week equates to 58 hours!
Believe me, that’s not something to brag about and imply you are onto a good number as your doing 15 hours a week more in just 4 days than the average UK worker does in 5!
I haven’t worked at the Bridgwater RDC for many years but I occasionally get snippets of what is happening there.
I believe Wincanton have taken over the transport side on some Morrisons sites but not all, it used to be DHL.
In the early days it showed so much promise, but a culture of indifference and an amoral attitude to staff wellbeing took over. After 3.5 years I threw in the towel, which was a shame as it had taken quite a while to get in! Most of the good people had gone by then.
If you are the type of driver who can turn up and do what they are told without question then you’ll be fine. Particularly if you see no issue with driving round and round the yard in order to make it look like you are busy, or pulling out of the delivery store and having a nap for 2 hours before returning to the yard so you don’t have to do anything else. Personally I hate this sort of thing, I like to be productive, however I blame the culture and disorganised office which forces drivers to behave this way.
The pay is barely acceptable, but at least you are not expected to touch the load, so strictly speaking you should take your break at the store (you have lots of facilities at your disposal). A few times however I got locked in the store delivery compound with no access to the store or means of escape. The warehouse staff having gone home and left the next shift the tip me, not so great of you need the loo and have a frantic hour of pressing the bell to get attention, and ringing the office (who don’t care). The relationship between drivers and some store staff seemed strained to me. The planning was woeful, some shifts were a nightmare, while some involved lots of pretending to me busy. Weekends seemed to be a good time to ramp up the hours and recoup any overtime you might be due during the week. I worked 5 whole weekends out of 8. My shift was changed from mid morning start to early afternoon start without discussion with me, basically shutting the door on any sort of social life.
The transport manager used to be Clive Silverton, who was/is an uncharismatic amoral idiot. Good staff left (Clive would use them as a scapegoats for his failings) to be replaced by career driven, no understanding of what involved with lorry driving people with no interest in staff wellbeing, take the pay check and bugger off types. I queried to a new transport supervisor Justin why there was a notice up saying drivers would now have weekly ‘one to ones’, instead of monthly, when most of the drivers there had not had any sort of review for months or even years, and I had no idea who my line manager was after the last guy left many months ago. Justin looked flustered and pretended to give a monkeys. If you can close your mind to this type of thing, you’ll be fine. I cannot abide people being paid for incompetence. He was replaced by Leanne who up until Justin’s ‘moved’ to Frozen Goods In to had been basic admin staff, I guess she saw an opportunity which frankly few would want.
I could go on (please God no!). The drivers were a nice bunch on the whole. Things may have changed now but I doubt it. It’s like turning round the QE2, it takes while, and you have to recognise there are issues before you can even start to think about making changes. Even having 60% agency driving staff at one time didn’t seem to give the signal to management that there might be something amiss. Clive just found someone to take the blame (HR this time), and went back to ■■■■■■■ it in the smoking shed.
Reading last post it does seem that to be a supermarket driver in 99 % of cases you need to be bone - idle , hours sat outside trying not to get a 2 nd run , how many times have i pulled up to find the supermarket driver hasn’t pushed the bell to inform the store there there , hiding inside the ring round the shop etc etc so not to get back with time to do a 2 nd / 3 rd run
Then all you hear is the same people & others complaining there t&c,/ jobs are being cut /lost & it’s everyone’s fault but there’s , thick as pig ■■■■
cheersdrive:
I haven’t worked at the Bridgwater RDC for many years but I occasionally get snippets of what is happening there.I believe Wincanton have taken over the transport side on some Morrisons sites but not all, it used to be DHL.
In the early days it showed so much promise, but a culture of indifference and an amoral attitude to staff wellbeing took over. After 3.5 years I threw in the towel, which was a shame as it had taken quite a while to get in! Most of the good people had gone by then.
If you are the type of driver who can turn up and do what they are told without question then you’ll be fine. Particularly if you see no issue with driving round and round the yard in order to make it look like you are busy, or pulling out of the delivery store and having a nap for 2 hours before returning to the yard so you don’t have to do anything else. Personally I hate this sort of thing, I like to be productive, however I blame the culture and disorganised office which forces drivers to behave this way.
The pay is barely acceptable, but at least you are not expected to touch the load, so strictly speaking you should take your break at the store (you have lots of facilities at your disposal). A few times however I got locked in the store delivery compound with no access to the store or means of escape. The warehouse staff having gone home and left the next shift the tip me, not so great of you need the loo and have a frantic hour of pressing the bell to get attention, and ringing the office (who don’t care). The relationship between drivers and some store staff seemed strained to me. The planning was woeful, some shifts were a nightmare, while some involved lots of pretending to me busy. Weekends seemed to be a good time to ramp up the hours and recoup any overtime you might be due during the week. I worked 5 whole weekends out of 8. My shift was changed from mid morning start to early afternoon start without discussion with me, basically shutting the door on any sort of social life.
The transport manager used to be Clive Silverton, who was/is an uncharismatic amoral idiot. Good staff left (Clive would use them as a scapegoats for his failings) to be replaced by career driven, no understanding of what involved with lorry driving people with no interest in staff wellbeing, take the pay check and bugger off types. I queried to a new transport supervisor Justin why there was a notice up saying drivers would now have weekly ‘one to ones’, instead of monthly, when most of the drivers there had not had any sort of review for months or even years, and I had no idea who my line manager was after the last guy left many months ago. Justin looked flustered and pretended to give a monkeys. If you can close your mind to this type of thing, you’ll be fine. I cannot abide people being paid for incompetence. He was replaced by Leanne who up until Justin’s ‘moved’ to Frozen Goods In to had been basic admin staff, I guess she saw an opportunity which frankly few would want.
I could go on (please God no!). The drivers were a nice bunch on the whole. Things may have changed now but I doubt it. It’s like turning round the QE2, it takes while, and you have to recognise there are issues before you can even start to think about making changes. Even having 60% agency driving staff at one time didn’t seem to give the signal to management that there might be something amiss. Clive just found someone to take the blame (HR this time), and went back to ■■■■■■■ it in the smoking shed.
That’s practically an indictment LOL
Funnily enough I used to work somewhere that was mismanaged by a guy called Clive, he didn’t blame other people - he was more of a Caesar figure. Ultimately stabbed in the back by those around him.