And working on miles instread of hours. I’ve been following this bloke for a while now, I think he suits me because he’s grumpy. He changed from frigo work to flat deck and for a while things went quite well. Then today this:
Coming up on 11 am…26ish hours since I parked here with my hopes up. Contacted the planner for this area, she was still going thru all the emails that were sent to her while she was out. And who knows who is covering for my dispatcher today. This load was a total waste 5+ days for a 1000 mile trip. I should have just deadheaded home from Biloxi last week and gave them the #1 sign. Now I am over 700 miles from home. This place is rapidly devolving into the worst company I have worked for, one that rivals Big G’s level. It is truly a totally different company than the one I signed on with almost 2 years ago. It may as well say E.W. Wylie on the door, they couldn’t do any worse!!!
Ironically I wish I’d have been paid mileage like owner drivers and American drivers.Not the £7 per hour I was getting for class 1 nights doing around 2,000 miles 5 nights per week.
Wow, that’s pretty impressive. London to Land’s End, to John O’Groats then back to London, in a night. Then back into it all over again, four more times that week. Rinse and repeat for how many weeks? I’m surprised you weren’t snapped up for European or Middle Eastern work, you’d have been massively successful. 16,000km a week, respect.
It sounds like a version of trip-money, with the office deciding who gets the good trips, long m-way with single quick drops and collections, and who gets the multi-drops in towns and country lanes, with collections always crowded.
Depends on the rate too.
The trailer swop night trunks that CF used to do might be worth 10p a mile, but multi dropping in a town center deserve £10 per mile.
Feltham to Charnock Richard or Killington Lake Scottish change over, or Feltham Dewsbury, or two return runs to Bristol or North Kilworth actually, SDU.
[quote=“carryfast, post:6, topic:238793, full:true”]around 2,000 miles 5 nights per week.
Feltham to Charnock Richard or Killington Lake Scottish change over, or Feltham Dewsbury, or two return runs to Bristol or North Kilworth actually, SDU.
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You must’ve got lost a lot!
Another way the companies have drivers by the short hairs is mileage is usually based on "Household movers guide’ or book miles as we called it. Mileage is calculated from post office in one city to the post office in the other city but this is in a straight line. I drove for a company that paid like this and would always drive %10 more miles than paid. There’s no reason drivers can’t get paid by the hour for all hours worked.
You’re the one claiming to be driving 2,000 miles five times a week. According to my schoolboy geography, thats the equivalent of Land’s End to John O’Groats, every night. And you are always complaining of lack of decent distance work.
400 miles per night x 5 nights = 2,000 miles for the week.What has Lands End to John O Groats got to do with it.
Bearing in mind from memory the double return run from Feltham to Bristol was more than 400 miles so was double North Kilworth and Killington Lake and possibly Charnock Richard.I think Dewsbury was just under the 400 miles at around 380.
To be fair maybe I should have said around 400 miles per night 5 nights per week.
Just in case someone thought I meant 2,000 miles per night 5 nights per week.Which would have meant an average of around 222 mph in 9 hours driving or 200 mph in 10.
Even in the days before limiters, let alone a limited Merc 2534, Carryfast indeed.
Yep although from memory only J858 NCP was eventually fitted with a limiter first and couldn’t do Killington with that one from then.
It was my first ever encounter with limiters and I defected it with a problem to much laughter from the workshop staff.
J857 NCP wasn’t fitted with one for a while if ever think there was a grace period ? both were sold off when the run ended around mid 90’s.
DAF 2300 rigid and close coupled trailer 16 speed box and no limiters.Extended 10 hours definitely not 5 nights per week.Only if Scotch was running late he had the worst hills to contend with.
Let’s have it right…Mill Street East.
It used to be Harrisons of Dewsbury depot when I started out there as a van lad 60+ year ago.
Harrisons morphed in to Carryfast and moved to Shaw Cross. The Mill St. site is now a UPS depot.
Let’s have it right…Mill Street East.