Driving refuse/bin lorries?

helpimcrap

helpimcrap

helpimcrap

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Do they require a digicard?

I start on Thursday and i told them i do 4.5hrs then break. He said councils run under different rules so i don't need a digicard.
Is this true?
 
I don't want to risk losing my license first time out. I could have researched it but I wanted people who know or experienced it to give me a real world view.
Thanks for the links. :)
 
Just seems very odd. Those links tell me what should happen but i can't see any relevance to the question with it being council? Sorry guys. I am probably being blind.
 
Load of ********. "No experience" so taken off the driving and they cancelled next week as the agency lied apparently....
Quit my job for that!
Wtf is it with drivers!?
 
A lot of employers will want some experience...
Find a new agency ASAP as there are many that do have jobs for newly passed drivers.
 
_lecro_ said:
A lot of employers will want some experience...
Find a new agency ASAP as there are many that do have jobs for newly passed drivers.
Click to expand...

Believe me I know this - it was the agency lying to the company that did me as I'd quit a job based on that - I am now jobless thanks to lying *******.

The ones who need new passes are all class 1. Class 2 is impossible to get into. They need experience for the insurance - because from being driven around by some drivers I was far safer than all of them!
 
Its not impossible to get into , i got a full time job within a month of passing my class 2,
the agency i was with had continuous work with a food distribution company that had no issue with new passes in fact they advertised as such.
The full time i got is driving skip and tipper lorries and only needed me to be over 25 for there insurance.
One days training on the various vehicles and i was out on my own.
Dont get disheartened and stick with it, theres much more work than drivers out there ;)
 
I thought it would be easy as people want drivers... But not in Leicestershire. There are obviously too many here. The only way i might stand a chance is commuting to Birmingham 40 miles away.

I've been looking for work since last November in driving.... Not one. Until yesterday.
 
sign up with as many agencies as you can, (best check but fairly sure there's nothing wrong with doing that!) different companies will use different agencies....can only increase your chance of shift offers if you're signed up with a few
 
I have - I must have signed up with 20 agencies with zero success because I 'have no experience' which every company seems to want 'for insurance purposes' or some rubbish....
 
don't lie, but maybe have to be economical with the truth if there's nowhere that'll take brand new drivers...ie don't tell them what you have or haven't done unless it's a specific question.
you should be able to get an assesment with a company as an agency driver though, even with zero experience (some companies won't use any agency drivers until they've been assessed, but that tends to go out the window when one of their drivers phones in sick and they're too busy or the assessor's not on site....so there's flexibility...)
 
Cheers both. Things are hopefully on the up....
Shunting class 2 tonight with an agency i was 'succinct' with. :)
If that gets my foot in the door fingers crossed.
 
Fingers crossed something comes of it as shunting in pitch black. Never reversed inches from vehicles, people and buildings in the dark but managed it well - even at 2am.
They said they'd put a good word in for me.
 
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