Jeez them reviews on indeed dont make for good reading, i know you got to take them with a pinch of salt and all but you would need a whole tub of salt for that lot.
Three things drivers require; a fair days wage for a fair days work (no quibbles over ten minutes here or there), equality (no favouritism for the blue eyed boys) and finally honesty from the management. If you can be honest with the drivers they will reciprocate tenfold.
Drivers get sick to death with being treated as a necessary evil to be merely tolerated. As I said earlier drivers are the only true money earners for any transport operation, treat them well and they will treat you well.
What seemingly a lot of management fail to recognise is that drivers have a vested interest in YOUR business, if it does well they stand to increase their wages, if it fails they must go through the whole rigmarole of looking for alternative employment and starting again at the bottom.
You are always going to get idiot drivers but it’s your (managements) job to weed these out and get rid. YOU recruited them after all! Cherish and recognise your good employees and they will reward your business many times over.
the maoster:
Three things drivers require; a fair days wage for a fair days work (no quibbles over ten minutes here or there), equality (no favouritism for the blue eyed boys) and finally honesty from the management. If you can be honest with the drivers they will reciprocate tenfold.Drivers get sick to death with being treated as a necessary evil to be merely tolerated. As I said earlier drivers are the only true money earners for any transport operation, treat them well and they will treat you well.
What seemingly a lot of management fail to recognise is that drivers have a vested interest in YOUR business, if it does well they stand to increase their wages, if it fails they must go through the whole rigmarole of looking for alternative employment and starting again at the bottom.
You are always going to get idiot drivers but it’s your (managements) job to weed these out and get rid. YOU recruited them after all! Cherish and recognise your good employees and they will reward your business many times over.
Amen with knobs on.
Stop with the ‘‘one size fits all based on the lowest common denominator’’ method of management.
the maoster:
Three things drivers require; a fair days wage for a fair days work (no quibbles over ten minutes here or there), equality (no favouritism for the blue eyed boys) and finally honesty from the management. If you can be honest with the drivers they will reciprocate tenfold.Drivers get sick to death with being treated as a necessary evil to be merely tolerated. As I said earlier drivers are the only true money earners for any transport operation, treat them well and they will treat you well.
What seemingly a lot of management fail to recognise is that drivers have a vested interest in YOUR business, if it does well they stand to increase their wages, if it fails they must go through the whole rigmarole of looking for alternative employment and starting again at the bottom.
You are always going to get idiot drivers but it’s your (managements) job to weed these out and get rid. YOU recruited them after all! Cherish and recognise your good employees and they will reward your business many times over.
Maybe that’s what they are doing… 
Hmmm, good point, well made 
Spoke to one of their drivers last week at the fuel pumps in a service station . He was under the impression that the company was in his words "trimming the dead wood / getting rid of the shirkers "
His opinion - NOT mine - just saying there might be two sides to the story .
beefy4605:
Spoke to one of their drivers last week at the fuel pumps in a service station . He was under the impression that the company was in his words "trimming the dead wood / getting rid of the shirkers "
His opinion - NOT mine - just saying there might be two sides to the story .
It’s been said before, whilst people were enjoying furlough management were playing The Apprentice with a board covered in mug shots picking who to keep.
mrginge:
beefy4605:
Spoke to one of their drivers last week at the fuel pumps in a service station . He was under the impression that the company was in his words "trimming the dead wood / getting rid of the shirkers "
His opinion - NOT mine - just saying there might be two sides to the story .It’s been said before, whilst people were enjoying furlough management were playing The Apprentice with a board covered in mug shots picking who to keep.
That’s what I wanted to get back to work
Sent from goodness knows where
Wheel Nut:
Its definitely not a Mercedes0
Tasty. Just the motor to keep running 7 days a week.
(Hint hint… )
blue estate:
Deek:
Please get your facts right before posting
No 20 plate mercs on the road - and no redundancies in Highbridge
We are trying to run a business and negative untrue facts don’t help !!Did your Grass get the new truck for his good efforts in grassing this thread up?
P/s I don’t work for you either
Mrs. Keedwell, for that’s who Deek is, obviously one of your blue eyed boys alerted you to this thread, just as one of my mates alerted me. You should take a look at Maoster’s post on this thread, obviously if the company is struggling and about to go bust, you won’t advertise this, but transparency does go a long way, and that is something which is alien to the Keedwell style of management. Mrs.Keedwell speaks with a forked tongue, is Highbridge your only depot? No of couse not, I along with others at Hensall have been made redundant, as have others at Carlisle, so maybe it’s you, Mrs.Keewell, who needs to get your facts right!! And the 20 plate Merc, sorry, I should have said Renault, as the photographic evidence in this thread proves, Mrs.Keedwell. Or maybe it’s a case of Mr.Keedwell not being transparent even with his missus?
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Most managers are worse than politicians. Keedwell are being economical with the truth. When there are redundancies every one is notified regardless of who is staying or going. This has been handled badly from the start from day one. Drivers are expected to be honest and follow the book. The prats in the offices can be dishonest
And what’s the score with Keedwell Konnect? Subbing out work? Is it any wonder that he’s getting rid of drivers, and units?
From the outside looking in I’ve always been given the impression that Keedwell are one to avoid anyway. There’s not often a good word said about them and stuff like the despeccing the units speaks volumes about how the drivers are viewed by management.
But its not just Keedwell. A lot are like it. Funnily enough without the ones that are so often looked down upon, those who do the looking down bit wouldn’t have a job and those above them wouldn’t have a viable business. How much does a lorry that doesn’t move make?
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Firms like Keedwell and downton etc are all the same lie to drivers and don’t care about their drivers,sounds like Keedwell same as downton don’t like bad publicity and tell the world they are fantastic when anyone with any experience in the industry knows they are crap with crap work and crap pay
Wheel Nut:
Its definitely not a Mercedes0
See they’ve jumped on the “NHS heroes” band wagon aswell then. Wonder if all this false gratitude will still be there when the inevitable cuts arrive and normality returns.
Where was all the respect for the NHS before this…
Plenty of money there then [emoji848]
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