nugnah

a story i was told was about Norbert Dentressangle , Stobart wanted to go into europe so ND said ok you do that and i will come into UK , he has over 4000 trucks and after all running cost and overheads are paid he makes £10 clear profit per truck per day , NICE

have a look here http://www.norbert-dentressangle.co....13.0.0.gb.html

jason

JoeE30

Mar k, why is my post silly, it's my opinion. I think lorry driving is boring as fuck as do 99% of all wagon drivers. I have my class one and have held and worked it for 10 years and have seen the arse fall out of the industry.

Watching a program about an company who not so long ago were up shit creek and in the motoring press for lots of the wrong reasons, get everyone all excited cause they name lorries girls names is just plain boring and shit tele.

Me, right now for a job, I design and fit custom ceilings for all sorts of companies from the nhs, MAN diesel, conlons to private churches and businesses. I'm currently booked up till the end of next year with 2 trips to belgium, a trip to the middle east and china later in the new year......exciting enough?

danneth

Some money in the haulage game, I know the guy who sold palletways filthy rich

Rick Astley

Doesn't sound like my idea of fun! Mmm ceilings!!

Mark_

general public can apply to have a name of their choice, there is a 3yr waiting list at present

Mark_

i wouldnt clasify that as an exciting job at all, pretty dull im my opinion.
but then thats probably why theres not a tv programme about it.


im with you on the fact that the arse has fallen out of driving, however its still something i and many others enjoy.

its obvious to me that a fair few people on here and across the country do find that programme intresting,
same as ice road truckers was pretty good.

opinions will allways vary as life would be very dull if we all enjiyed the same things

Graceland

I thought that too - It's little things like that which will keep that chaps morale up when he's hundreds of miles away from his wife and kids!


Beats the hell out of Northern who are too tight to pay a few quid for some vinyl printing and a bit of pomp and ceremony to name a train after one of our colleagues who died doing his job last month after he fell from a moving train into the path of another

Jon(M600BHP)

What channel is it on?

GAZ W

5

Jon(M600BHP)

When mate?

rsdan2evn

fridays at 8 mate.

Mr S1

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Eddie Stobart as a man sold out the trucking firm some years back to his brother, and Stobart himself went bankrupt in July this year....

JoeE30

No one said my job was exciting, you asked what I did that was so much better than sitting in a lorry for 15 hrs a day with wanker drivers on the roads, arse hole office staff and more and more h&s rules being put in force and I consider travelling abroad and working in some of the worlds best cities on some awesome buildings a tad bit better than the aforementioned lorry driving, but as you say horses for courses and all that but considering I have been a wagon driver and Now a celing designer/construction engineer which I'm guessing you havnt then you can't really comment.....

Yup the programme will be popular as there are some fucking sad stobart spotters out there who will tune in and as for comparing ice road truckers to Eddie stobarts programme that's not even the same ball park... That's like comparing Robson greens fishing programme to that worlds deadliest catch programme!!!!!

JoeE30

Mr s1 what about the tacho problems that plagued the company??

ar4ibaldo

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Sounds like Mark does a bit of truck spotting at weekends

big_wig_074

hes doing better than Norbert then as theyre claiming to be losing money like crazy,millions in debt in the uk.or at least thats what they told the drivers when they cut their wages last year!

david 100

I think in years to come there will only be couple of hauliers on the road , 1 will be Eddie Stobart and the 2nd will be Turners of Soham .

david 100

When i was pulling Willi Betz trailers i was told Willi goes to work on a Rallie Runabout moped , and the only difference between Stowbarts trailers and Willi's trailers is Stowbarts have brakes.

Mr S1

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No idea about that mate, no idea at all....I don't follow trucking per se, but I do know that Stobart himself is now skint.

fezzajsy

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lntresting

Dangerous Malcolm..

It wouldn't surprise me if Willi Betz went to work on a horse with a ten gallon hat on!!

JoeE30

Mrs1 well Eddie was fined lots and lots of money not so long ago before he sold the company to his brother. Guys running Benton tacho and so on, was pretty much the problem but on a large enough scale and frequent enough to be in all the motoring press( hgv press) weekly.

His brother and whomever else runs the business with his must be doing something right as they have recently bought out James irlam and re-branded all his wagons with stobart livery. Great success but still don't want to watch a programme about some stinking old lorry drivers on boring old motorways delivering pot noodles to ndc's.......rather x factor and that is an awful show ha ha

Mark_

nah im not that sad, but i must confess to enjoying the stobart programme

jackocab

right then lets begin

i used to work for james irlam when stobarts bought us out things went downhill.

i work 12+ everyday 6 till 8or9 at night long days at the moment we are doing longer hours than trampers who are out all week.
The guy in the tv programme is seen cooking his dinner on his diesel tank with a gas stove which if i remember are banned from all our trucks because a driver woke up in the morning after using his stove the night before and lit a fag and boom the gas had been leaking all night the result 70% burns to his body so thats why they are banned from use .

Also you may have seen that the driver had fancy curtains in his cab along with boxing gloves hanging in front of the windscreen and a third hand steering device fitted all of these items are banned from inside our trucks.

Also the guy is seen useing his isotrak this is also banned from use while driveing so it seems to me that its 1 rule for 1 and another rule for everybody else gets right on my tits.

They have shown u all what they want everyone to see but really its nothing like on the tv its 10 times worse rant over till i have another bad day

Oh and something else the owner is that picky he forgot to notice the tanker last week was not in carlisle but in his own depot in stoke!!!!

Silver'Scort

I been watching it, got a mate who works on the wagons so watched out of interest really. Agree that the spotters are a bit ott, but i guess it keeps them entertained.
Never actually realised how massive the company is, and the sort of money involved.
Thought it was nice and all when they took the wagon off the lad which were named after his daughter, then named his new one after his other daughter

DazC

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Smoking is banned in the workplace though so surely that no longer applies?!

The Sludge

I have heard and read this also i thin it was on tachodrivers.co.uk

big_wig_074

you can smoke just outside the lorry though!so it could still go up

jackocab

yes this is true no smoking in trucks but it still states in stobarts drivers manuel no gas stoves are allowed to be even kept in your cab at any time

DazS1Turbo

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My daughters got one named after her

The Sludge

Si B

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Sorted for you so pic shows.

I enjoy watching the program and am a Class 1 / C+E Driver.

Glenn_

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Ive heard stobart is a coonnt to work for.

dave_si

Heres another view:-

I work for Stobarts as well, and this is without a doubt one of the easiest driving jobs i've ever had! Nice new clean motor, fairly decent uniform, job security! I dunno how easy some drivers want it!

The thing with drivers is, wherever you go, whoever you work for, theres always someone moaning about something or other. The amount of chinese whispers which goes on in this industry is ridiculous! It wouldn't surprise me if I walked into a waiting room at some point and got told Eddie is related to Nelson Mandela!

Edward Stobart (Eddies Son) was the man who originally run the show untill things turned a bit Pete Tong and he got bought out by his brother William and Andrew Tinkler who have since turned things around!

Anyway, I dare say some drivers will be moaning about what ive got to say but to be honest ill probably hear some bollocks later about something so im not too bothered!

And JoeE30, to some people lorry driving is boring and I respect your opinion as you've been there and done it! However ive sat in offices, sold cars, done all types of sales, and this is without a doubt the one thing ive enjoyed the most! Being on the open road, tunes on the go, no one hassling me, it does me just fine!

big_wig_074

bloody hell,just looked on their site,offering 35-40k for class 1 weekend tramper drivers!!!!!thats WAY more than you can get with Norbert Dentressangle!!!!where do i sign up?

georgie1

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yeah ive been watching this and seem good

JoeE30

Dave si, I totally agree it's whatever suits you, but seeing as I have done my 10 years and now find it the most mind numbing work in the work I'm entitled to that opinion as are you and some of the others who still enjoy and find it a good job....

As for all the people who think they could earn 40k a year not a fucking chance, my old man was a wagon driver, ADR actually and back and the early 90's was bringing home £350 a week and that was considered good money, not many drivers now will earn close to that and we have moved on 20 years...... Get out lads and learn a new trade as the cpc will only make things harder

Mark_

wincantons are offering £30k a year for class 2 at hoddeson, i recently had my induction with them, decided to stay with my current employer driving class1 in the end as they offered me a nice pay rise and its only 4miles from me as opposed to wincantons 20mile drive.

also ADR still pays well depending who your with.
£40k a year is achiveable. some of the BP and morrisons drivers are getting close to £50k working on their days off, however there are some companies/agencies offering far less than that.
Due to do my cpc early next year.
love driving the wagons but hate the hours which is the only reason ive been looking at retraining

david 100

About ten years ago there were some of us hauling out of felixstowe for CCC, some truckers on here will know the company and we were earning big money, you want to know how, ok beleve this or not, we would leave Felixstowe for Scotch Frost in Edinbrough tip then reload paper in Cramlington and back to Felixstowe, for breaks we would pull out the engine stop control a little then clamp a crocodile clip on it to short out the tacho showing a break, there were many trips done like this, maybe many young driver on here wont beleve it but I am sure there will be a few older drivers on here that were doing the same 10 years ago and will remember the log books

Whoever brought my old Scania 143 i am sorry but it has done a lot more miles than it shows on the clock.

Dangerous Malcolm..

It used to be as simple as pulling a fuse! Or winding the clock on, putting another tacho in, and hey presto, a full days driving again!