Evil8Beezle:
Cheers for that info, and to me looks like the standard reported ES wage, definitely in my eyes not worth the effort…
I wasn’t considering it, I just wanted to know if it compared to the reported Asda wages.
I think ESL are a better employer for trampers, the majority I’ve spoken to say it’s the best tramping job they’ve had. 16-plate truck to yourself, varied work, mixture of long and short runs, and plenty of depots to park for free at. There were rumours that a tramper can take-home £570, which could be a possibility, working nearly 60 hours, and getting four lots of night-out money.
Personally, I’d advise staying away from the Stobart-Tesco work, you can understand why they can’t get drivers for love nor money.
@Selbynewcomer…have seen a lot of plain white Renault units (rentals from Renault trucks I guess, door badge sort of gives it away) and a few FHs pulling Tesco trailers…is it because you are busy or has somebody got a finger in the pie…is someone on trial or just a load of ‘summer cover’ in?
dozy:
rob22888:
dozy:
You got too laugh , 100 shops moaning about stobarts performance , the same shops who had no room too take the stock so would sit you at the gate for hours 
, same shops who’d stop tipping 2 hrs before shift change , same shops who’d totally ignore the bell meaning you’d have too get customer services too put a call out that there was a truck at back door etc etc etc .
Then there’s the dc,s , maybe my memory’s fading , but I thought stobarts just did the transport , not ran the warehouse , if you sit there waiting for the loaded too be loaded for 3 hrs I’m not sure how stobarts are too blame for that .
I remember when I first started doing that job they called the ex - tesco drivers too zb , then when they’d gone it was stobarts , theyl run out of people too blame for there [zb] own performance one day
Another side to it…
My mate is a night manager at a Tesco store in the North West, served by Widnes & Goole. I have worked for them in store myself. In regard to stocking the shop, all the manpower in stores is heavily weighted towards nights. Therefore, it is imperative that when the night staff come in at 10pm the gear is all there ready for them to put on the shelves, then further deliveries come on time throughout the night.
Late deliveries in the evening & at night cause massive problems because if the night team don’t have the time to get in on the shelves, the day team don’t have the manpower to catch up. So it snowballs, fast. A few days of poor delivery performance can see the warehouse stock levels spiral (hence no room). He tells me that there are often nights where the main ambient delivery from Goole doesn’t rock up till 3/4am & the staff are pottering about waiting for it… clearly not good enough.
Truth is, the only way Tesco will get the service they want is by doing the transport themselves or through other expensive contractor arrangements, like Wincanton at Middleton, as before. You get what you pay for farming the work out on the cheap to outfits like Stobart. It’s quite satisfying to see it backfiring really. The expensive driver wage bills got results…
what a load of [zb] , if there waiting for these loads why don’t they open the gates when you ring the bell , why did I have too walk round and get customer services too put a call out too tell them there’s a truck sat there , why did I have too ring Goole / donny and get them too ring the bloody store when the call put out by customer services got no reaction 
,why was I told they had no room too take the delivery , why did it take them 2 hrs too change shifts ( even the night shift asked when I got there and kicked off because earlier shift could of at least started tipping the load , if there waiting for these loads why was there often trucks qued up outside , wragby rd Lincoln there’d often be 2/3/4 trucks waiting outside , Ffs the amount of times they were told I’d been there long enough I wasn’t taking anything back then you’d get the thick manager saying why , because I was booked at 17.00 , it’s now 22.00 , I’ve had enough so open the gates because I’m off.
I did the job out of Goole / donny for years , I know the score , i spent hour after hour staring at those zb gates , midnight on a saturday night , ringing the zb bell again and again , it nearly drove me mental , I’d love too know where all these staff you speak of were , because they wernt at 90% of the stores I went too , nowhere too be bloody seen .
And as for these highly paid hard working drivers you speak of , most of them I saw were blocking the zb entries too the delivery yards as the zb didn’t want too go back too early as they’d done there 8 hrs / 1 run
You and your tesco colleagues bury your head in the sand , blame everyone but yourselves , and while you do lidl/ aldi will carry on taking more of your buisness
To be fair Dozy you’d find problems to moan about if you spent the day in an empty room!
Actrosman:
@Selbynewcomer…have seen a lot of plain white Renault units (rentals from Renault trucks I guess, door badge sort of gives it away) and a few FHs pulling Tesco trailers…is it because you are busy or has somebody got a finger in the pie…is someone on trial or just a load of ‘summer cover’ in?
Them Renaults are a permanent fixture mate, there’s about 4 of them I think and each runs a day man and a night man, they are never off the road, a firm called Safe & Sound runs them or at least used to, I ain’t seen the boss man around for a while so I’m not sure what the deal is with them now. Fullers out of Slough are in there a lot, pretty much every weekend, as for the FH’s, I ain’t got a clue about them boys, God knows where they find them coz I never see them anywhere other than at Tesco, there’s been an OD in doin some work for them lately, I think he has an FH as well, white and light blue I think, nice fella, can’t remember his name but his Reg is similar to his name, oldish geezer but a decent fella. Had 4 units from Moran logistics in for a while but they were a disaster and then Maritime do a fair bit an all, even Stobarts do store deliveries out of reading when it goes mental but Maritime normally pull out all the stops to keep Stobarts out of the pic in reading
As for it being busy, might have 2 quiet-ish days a week and the rest is fairly flat out, can’t get loads out the gate quick enough at times, busy or quiet makes no difference to me really, there’s only so much you can do.
You local yourself??
Rottweiler22:
Evil8Beezle:
For the record, what are the wages on the Tesco contract?
I can’t remember the exact figures, they were odd amounts. Monday to Friday days, nigh-on £8.50 per hour, and Monday to Friday nights, nigh-on £9.50 per hour. Then you get the £15 per day tax-free meal allowance added-on.
Monday to Friday days, say 06:00 start, doing 50 hours, you’d be looking at £435 gross. So around £350 after tax, plus your £75 meal allowance, £425 take-home.
Was it worth the handball, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, cab-hopping, difficult manoeuvres, public moaning at you because you blocked their car in, people moaning at you because you’re taking a double-decker through a residential street, nobhead managers, bell-end door staff… Nah!
Just wanted to clear this up a bit. Night time wages mon-fri were about £9.47 an hour give or take a few pence (can’t remember exactly) with £5 a day (not £15) meal allowance. On a normal week say around 50 hours you would TAKE HOME about £440-£450. Saturday rate was a smidge over £12 an hour, Sunday rate was £11.80 something an hour. Days, can’t remember what days was, £8 something. Night out money is £25 a night. Both night out and meal allowance tax free.
Left there to start a new job two weeks ago.
@Selbynewcomer… We’re just the other side of the roundabout mate!
Actrosman:
@Selbynewcomer… We’re just the other side of the roundabout mate!
I’d rather be your side of the roundabout, it’s a right pain in the arse pulling out of our place sometimes, get cars hitting that round about at 50-60mph, there’s been a few close ones 
selby newcomer:
Actrosman:
@Selbynewcomer… We’re just the other side of the roundabout mate!
I’d rather be your side of the roundabout, it’s a right pain in the arse pulling out of our place sometimes, get cars hitting that round about at 50-60mph, there’s been a few close ones
It can be just as bad over here but I tend to go up past the Shell garage…not much hassle and gives the motor a few minutes to warm before caning it straight to Chepstow!
Part time ‘detailer’, full time truck driver