It’s a doddle to be honest, no one on your back all day, no impossible routes and as many drops as the milk man. Everything is straightforward and easy. If running late just call it in then sorted no transport clerk on your back every 5 mins asking how long till next customer or getting stressy because your still at an RDC for 3 hours. And to top it the money’s better and less hours.
I'm guessing here, but I assume you work for the company run by a Mister Dave Lewis? (trying not to say Tesco!)
Not Mr Eddie is it? I did work in store, but now I'm a CDD, but I remember how we'd laugh at the stupid ways the cages were stacked from the RDC. You'd have 6 boxes of bananas sitting on a small box of growing herbs nicely crushed, or boxes of eggs just thrown onto cages, so some poor soul had to waste a good hour cleaning it all up. The warehouse manager at the store was sending pictures of these cages daily, but no-one seemed to bothered by it, if anything, the RDC excelled themselves by doing even more daft stacking, its like a game to them. The drivers, like you, do the best they can, but its the pickers at RDC that cause so many problems.
I know exactly the scenarios you are talking about, but happily its not mr Eddie, especially on the wages they pay its one of the last I would consider working for. And if (they never will after getting kicked of the head office site few years ago as subbies) got the contract I and most of my colleagues would walk out. The operator who runs the contract for where I work as well as 2 more of their depots also are the mayor drinks distributors for most of the biggest brewery's with several depots around the country. They also have depots in I think now its 161 countries throughout the world handling Air, Sea and road freight.
