So whats the first six months involve then because all I can see is the bit about it depending on how long it takes to pass your tests. It’s not going to take 6 months, there 5 day courses so if you pass within say a month (extra time for booking lessons etc) then whats the other 5 months involve. That advert makes it seem like if you can pass your tests quicker then 6 months then you’ll start on the 20k.
If that’s the case and it indeed takes a month to pass the tests them you go onto the money then it’s not that bad. Not sure why they are stating 6 months.
Harry Monk:
Gregory’s train up drivers, give them free training, pay them a salary while they are training and put them on full whack from the day they start making deliveries, not six months afterwards.gdl.uk.com/recruitment_details.asp?JobID=216
Dentressangle are just a bunch of thieving, exploitative [zb]
No mention of what the salary actually is, maybe the same as JSA.
I think it’s a decent offer. Like people have already said, the experience alone to a new driver is priceless. I assume the 6 months is maximum time. If you can’t pass a test within 6 months then this work isn’t for you. I think it’s hugely possible that within a month you could have done your lessons, test, and bits of other training.
On reading this initially i thought con ,but after giving it more thought i thought its really not that bad for a youngster i mean there on job seekers with little or no job or prospects when for the same money ( job seekers) they could be gaining a qualification for life most of us would i think agree that most company’s are not very forward thinking when it comes to training for the future so imm thinking this isn’t such a bad initiative
I wouldn’t get too hung up on the 6 months, it could well be, dude turns up, yes we’ll take you on. Wait to see doc for medical, send off for provisional, wait till that comes back, book a theory, wait to see if you pass that, book class 2, wait to see if you pass that, book class 1, no idea what new drivers have to do regarding the Dcpc?? What’s that gonna take 3 months? Add in a bit of time for cancellations, delays and fails and you’ve got a sensible worst case time scale, not some best case scenario.
Its a con …
I wonder if norbet offers such a deal to its current 7.5 and class 2 drivers
thetastytrucker:
Its a con …
How? The unemployed person is no worse off and gets a license and training, where is the con?
del trotter:
thetastytrucker:
Its a con …How? The unemployed person is no worse off and gets a license and training, where is the con?
The con is on the taxpayer who is subsidising a for profit company. Yes find jobs for these people but let it be jobs that the government are currently paying out for. Have them working for local councils so it reduces the council biĺl having the knock on to reduce that councils subsidy from central government.
If you ran a haulage company and ND were a compettitor how is this fair?
thetastytrucker:
‘…hgv 1 driver no pay for 6 months then 20k a year…’
‘Diversity’ …hmmm, how attractive is it now 
Meanwhile, expect your MP to be glad-handing and gobbing-off somewhere else in the World on extended expenses rather than learning about these atrocious realities in their own country during their holidays 
m1cks:
del trotter:
thetastytrucker:
Its a con …How? The unemployed person is no worse off and gets a license and training, where is the con?
The con is on the taxpayer who is subsidising a for profit company. Yes find jobs for these people but let it be jobs that the government are currently paying out for. Have them working for local councils so it reduces the council biĺl having the knock on to reduce that councils subsidy from central government.
If you ran a haulage company and ND were a compettitor how is this fair?
How would them working for the council reduce the council bill? They would no doubt have to be trained, insured, managed all of which incurs cost, I very much doubt they are going to be doing deliveries for ND whilst training,unless accompanied by a qualified trainer, which will cost ND money so it ain’t really subsidizing them.
Wots an “International Transport Giant” doing accepting government subsidies (not even it’s own government it pays taxes to) from the UK for creating non jobs that give you very little at the end of a long underpaid assignment? Skinflints! 
“We make our money by fleecing others out of theirs” - That’s not even the Japanese business model (just in time) but the Zionist one surely?
A proper “global firm” would be snapping up the creme de la creme of the driving world right now with £40-£50k packages for drivers with excellent records and qualifications all around - you would think.
There’s an opportunity here for a new (but growing) firm as yet unheard of knocking nobbies off the coconut shy outright in the next year or two… 
Once again, I suggest a collapse in the insurance market might precipitate a revolution in haulier ethics… Company is liable for every accident by it’s drivers. Have a big pool of inexperienced, boy racer, or just plain idiot drivers? - Out you go!
Public-ready drivers become the new premium driver. I reckon the public have had enough of the non-public ready ones! 
now they’r training baby monkey’s for peanut’s don’t do it kid’s go to night school get some qualification’s become a rocket scientist not a truck driver “oh sorry a monkey” 
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Anyone know where North ampton is?
Probably not far from South ampton …
*Oh look … is that my taxi