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Why knock all agency drivers?
Let me give you a brief rundown of my past, and then this question may make more sense. I have forty years plus driving experience on low loaders up to 80 tonnes, cattle trucks and tippers, I've hauled steel and chemicals, and I have ADR qualifications for everything but radioactive materials.
I hold an international CPC and was an owner-driver on small haulage contracts, I've been a transport manager and have done the health and safety at work course, plus three refreshers. I have a licence for a fork truck, Hiab crane and have done quite a lot of Continental work.
I do a bit of freelance driving for haulage contractors through an agency, One day, I took ajob for the agency at a
haulage contractor about th miles away. I was given a tractor number and trailer C off I went to the first drop: 2' reels of paper near Maccles field, next to Crewe. Then or the Wirral to pick up a loadei trailer. I took this to Warring dropped it off arid while changing trailers, it happene
A man came towards me screaming and shouting; I asl if he had a problem. He said I was the health and safety ani driving assessor and said in future I had to strap every lo; and with that he rang the dep I had set off from, This was al because I was an agency drki and an unfamiliar face.
So I rang his manager in Cumbernauld and was told hi was not, in fact, a health and safety rep. This was further confirmed when I saw him get fork-lift driver to pick up the front of the trailer and move i like that. The amount of stick agency drivers get for being slapdash makes me sick. I ha to ask, should these people throw stones?
an Nelson, Kendal, Cumbria.