My time at H&R has been good I earn well do good miles and have a good dispatcher. I have made loads of good friends since joining the big red team, but they seem to be leaving H&R because they have had enough.
When I first came here everyone was happy but its not the case anymore every driver you speak to is very unhappy why ?
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Sorry to hear about these guys leaving, is it a case of the grass is greener else where?
Hi Mike
As a family due to arrive in Canada shortly and a husband coming to work for H&R can you shed any light on why so many are leaving? Are they all immigrants and have they been there long?
Thanks
You know my reasons Mike.
Rockies Rockies Rockies, and I was employed as a US capable driver!
I was available to drive for 132 days of which I spent 75 running Canada, 56 in the USA, and what seemed like a disproportionate amount of time sitting (unpaid) without loads, but it was the way they treat you when you are waiting which did it for me.
They are bully boys.
Go sit an wait for hours (on a dock, in a kill plant etc) for the load, without pay, or sit in the truckstop without pay.
Take it or leave it!
I also know there are some drivers there who are very happy at H&R, so I suppose it takes all sorts mate.
Drive safe.
P.S. I understand if you don't want to post this comment.
Hi Mike, I echo what Mick says.
Sitting for nothing with no lookout on what the next load is a killer which I tolerate but not accept.
People are leaving because we are all different and have different expectations.
I also believe that when you are not told the truth about a load/reload it all adds to the boiling pot.
Everything lately seems to be a mystery, the preplan is not a preplan anymore, dates and times are vague,
Plus of course the reccession doesnt help.
Cheers,Phil
Hi to you all first mick i know your reasons buddy and i do understand still going to miss you both.paulc hi paul there have been a large number of drivers coming back after they found it was muddy the other side of the fence but a few left for the same reasons as mick and for what I have just put on my blog now paul and alison the amount of drivers going from one job to the other in Canada is eye opening there is no reason for a driver to stay so they move on I don't know what company you worked for in the UK but one company I done a lot of holiday cover for in southampton had top of the range trucks with everything fitted as standard fridge/freezer tv's dvd's microwave's even a bloody coffee maker but none of them drivers left why because they wouldn't get all the toys at another company so you see there is nothing like that over here to keep a driver so you get alot moving around to find the best. When a driver does find a job where you get looked after then guess what he's going to tell all his mates then they will go in big groups like they did last year I don't know the full story so this is only hear say 50 dutch drivers went in one day how true it is I really can't tell you its one of the stories that get passed around the drivers room
I'm not a trucker but a regular Canadian reader of your blog who ponders why some Euro drivers who leave their distant homelands after months of preparation, completing pages of paperwork, fly across the pond (at their own expense?) only to return because of one or two people who upset them at one work place, in one Canadian province. We have ten provinces spread across the country stretching 5000 miles from the Atlantic to Pacific Oceans, containing other possible jobs??
Caldwell seems to have no problems with changing jobs if an employer treats him badly. He's gone in a flash...then finds himself another trucking job.
So, I can only assume there must be other factors at play here. For example, the strong pull of familial stomping grounds back home, our cold winters (southern B.C. being the exception, plus this past winter was worse than normal), or perhaps some people are just not able to adapt to new ways of doing something different in another country.
Under the "Police section" of the British Expats forum, there's an ex-bobbie named Rae who is now an Edmonton cop. Although he earns a comfortable salary (42,000+ GPB), lives in a larger home, owns a couple of late-model cars, and despite his family being happy in Canada....he's not a happy camper himself. Recently, he had considered returning to police work in Britain, when another poster friend reminded him what lifestyle he'd be returning to.
On May 1st, "Respecttradition" said
"Rae you big DICK! What the F**K are you doing?!?!?! I guarantee within 15 minutes of hitting the UK soil you will be craving to get back here - I know there are things that p*ss you off here, but trust me they aren't half as bad as back in that sh*thole! Think boy racers, think Chavs, think smack heads on every corner, think booze britain, think miserable people everywhere, think grey skies, think Post Offices that stink of p*ss, think of dole scum, think of chewing gum over every pavement, think of paying 50k GBP for the car you have now, think of 1 quid a litre, think of all the wan**r Inspector and above who couldn't lick your boots, think of every little thing that you told me you left for!
Apologies to everyone who reads this but sometimes Rae only understands things that are spelt out bluntly!
Call me I'll take you for a beer to talk some bloody sense into you!"
I'm not sure what all this means to you as I've never been to Britain, but this is one man's description on why he departed.
Hi mike a very informative Blog im supposed to be starting with H&r in november so all the information you give out is very much welcome im pretty much in the same boat as youself with and daughter staying back in the uk for a while etc i look forward to reading about your travels and possible meeting up with you soon
rgds dom
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