Was wondering if it was true that stobarts have lost the tesco contract to Dhl
They have in Ireland.
Any company can lost any contract.
eagerbeaver:
They have in Ireland.
Yet RDC talk will have changed that fact to now include the UK.
Now come on Ginge. You aren’t suggesting on this forum that embellishing of tales takes place?
Anyway, must dash. Got a ferry to catch. Did I ever tell you about that one I just missed…?
eagerbeaver:
Now come on Ginge. You aren’t suggesting on this forum that embellishing of tales takes place?Anyway, must dash. Got a ferry to catch. Did I ever tell you about that one I just missed…?
Yeah the Woolworth Ferry.
I don’t tell tales due to the whole Official Secrets Act I signed in a previous job.
Robbo919:
Was wondering if it was true that stobarts have lost the tesco contract to Dhl
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Are they really bothered though , at one time our depot was 100% tesco work , when I left it was 99 % anything bar tesco , my mates I still speak too confirm this , as they say it will be eventually be 100% any other work bar tesco .
Before I left I did 2x wide loads per day , 1 1/4 hrs driving , rest sat waiting on site , told it was £660 per load , opposed too 140 apx for a local tesco delivery 
Before I left the same statement kept comming up , if we can’t make money on it we won’t do it ,I’m guessing that’s why there taking on this other work , they can’t make money on tesco ,tesco won’t pay anymore too make it profitable for stobarts so there sourcing work from elsewhere .
Nb those are figures I was told , I never saw any paperwork that confirmed it
They are starting a new contract at bellshill something to do with sugar but thats a payer aswell.They are starting to ditch the milk for not paying enough and there bring in new work.We have noticed they dont do tosco day hire at much as they were up in scotland.
mrginge:
eagerbeaver:
Now come on Ginge. You aren’t suggesting on this forum that embellishing of tales takes place?Anyway, must dash. Got a ferry to catch. Did I ever tell you about that one I just missed…?
Yeah the Woolworth Ferry.
I don’t tell tales due to the whole Official Secrets Act I signed in a previous job.
Woolworth fairy you mean 
I was the first driver employed by Tesco’s Thurrock in September 2001…I was yard Marshall…I was also the first. Driver to be sacked after 8 weeks… didn’t stand for there shxxx…it was Rubber and Britain then… Anybody that gets. involved with company of that size, don’t think you got it made…coz they will ■■■■ you in and spit you out…now I love Dozy… good man… but I go a long way back and have seen the rise of Stobarts,and how they’ve done it…Downton seems to be chasing them…Well if I’ve got a Xmas wish they will both fail
I hope Downton don’t fail. They pay my mortgage.
They won’t fail…but Downtown’s is only bread and butter wages…call me a liar if you ain’t been looking for something better
Depends what you mean by ‘better’ Rog. Pay is average, yard is 10 mins from my house. Mon - Fri days which is what I wanted. No knobhead 4 am starts, usually work 6am to 6pm. Get spoken to very respectfully, the work is very clean and easy. Double time on a Bank holiday. Been given my own immaculate unit to use.
So yeah, i’m quite happy. You liar.
How long before DHL takeover UK store deliveries
Slightly on topic but DHL have also taken the cadbury contract from Gregorys.
I work for Stobarts doing Tesco deliveries, and all I’ve heard is one rumour. This was in the driver’s room from someone who also claimed to be ex-SAS, but he seemed to think that Tesco is weighing-up between Stobarts and DHL, and us drivers will be let known what our fates will be at the end of the month. This was last month, and we haven’t heard anything yet. 
I’m sure there would be some major commotion at the depot if DHL had taken-over, such as those in the know moving to other depots in order to avoid the chop, and at the moment, it’s business as usual. I very much doubt anything is happening to be fair, it’s just driver’s room rumour.
There are many things I disagree with on how Stobarts handle the Tesco contract, and the reasons why are subject to lots of driver’s room rumour, but it wouldn’t surprise me one minute if Tesco were considering having a fresh start with DHL. Let’s just say the Stobart management have a very liberal attitude towards using agency drivers, to the extent where they play a vital role in the running of the depot, and aren’t just and emergency solution. Believe me, there are tonnes of them. Just picking-up on what I hear every day from Tesco store staff and managers, is that they generally dislike agency drivers, and foreigners. I’ve been behind so many foreign agency drivers doing a drop, and they don’t know what they’re doing, what to collect, how to level the trailer off, they can’t speak the lingo, can’t read the risk assessments and delivery instructions, and the Tesco loading staff get so frustrated. I completely acknowledge that there are some excellent foreign agency drivers, and Stobart drivers aren’t perfect, but s*** sticks, and collectively around the country, there will be lots of Tesco managers asking questions as to whether Stobarts are up to the job, as it gives the impression that they just don’t care. If DHL are cheaper, it could be a fresh start that Tesco wants.
I used to work in a Tesco store tipping the wagons & am still good mates with some of the lads that work there to. As a store that is regularly serviced by Goole especially, I can confirm that they get ■■■■■■ off with the endless stream of the clueless & untrained that show up at the store 2 hours late, take 20 minutes to get on the bay then don’t have a clue what they are doing with the delievery/collection.
When I was on the milk I saw some comedy efforts at getting on bays from some of the agency crew they chucked out on store deliveries, I know everybody has to start somewhere but it speaks volumes about Stobarts imo that they have to resort to chucking out any tom, ■■■■ or henrietta with a license & pulse onto work for a major client doing ■■■■ easy store deliveries. Supermarket work anywhere else generally tends to attract a bit of loyalty from decent agency guys, because it’s straight forward no hassle work.
Truth is, I don’t think Stobarts give a ■■■■ about many of their clients deep down. Their game is to eat up as many contracts as they can at peanut rates to keep as many trucks as they can moving & loaded, as soon as some well paying ad-hoc work crops up the regular clients get shunned in favour. The shunned client won’t take their business elsewhere in a hurry because nobody else will be able to do it as cheap, if they do it’s not the end of the world because they have so much other work to fall back on & power to win another contract in it’s place.
Rottweiler22:
If DHL are cheaper, it could be a fresh start that Tesco wants.
And sadly Tesco’s will probably expect a better service for even less money, what could possibly go wrong? 
That’s the point Rob, and the planners don’t see, know or care that the agency drivers haven’t a clue what they’re doing. I don’t claim to be elite, but I shadowed another driver for a while, to learn about what happens at drops, paperwork, how to deal with multi-drops, double deckers, rigids, collections, etc, whereas the agency lads have nothing like that. Stobarts is one of the few places that will take-on new-pass agency drivers, so a Romanian with the ink still wet on his licence, and zero right-hand-drive experience can walk into the Stobart office, and the planner go; “Here you go mate, manual truck, 10-meter trailer and four drops in Manchester city centre”. I’m surprised they don’t come back with a few cars wrapped around their front bumper… Oh wait, they do! In one day last week there were six collisions, bumps and scrapes. The ops man informed me that none of them were carried-out by Eddie Stobart employees. Go figure.
For the above reasons and others, it’s why the agency drivers supposedly get all of the best runs and newest vehicles. It keeps them out of the way from killing anyone in a city centre, and they fulfill the agency’s promises of giving the driver a brand-new truck to drive. It just means us Stobart lot get the difficult runs and old, bashed-up manual trucks.
There was a famous story about a foreign agency driver at Goole who went all the way down to Daventry, with a load bound for the North-East, because he couldn’t read the paperwork or understand the planners, but Daventry was the only place name he saw, so he went there. 
I get the impression that the management just look at the results, and if Tesco are receiving their stock, then they’re happy, nothing needs to change. They don’t care about how, when, and in what condition, as long as it gets there.