25% cap on owner drivers in Parcelforce Worldwide removed

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[davissi]

Owner drivers always reminds me of privatisation itself, in 25 years I have seen that there has been 20 years of owner drivers and in all the years and all the depots I've worked in or visited I've never known an owner driver not compromise the services that the company offer to paying customers driven by them making the maximum profit from their deliveries. It is a very similar concepts to privatisation. A company cutting corners and not investing or utilising it's profits to make maximum profit gains at the expense of good service and then blaming individuals for failings and not taking responsibility for creating the culture in the first place.
Owner drivers are renowned for doorstepping, failing work, driving unsuitable unbranded vehicles, not wearing uniform and failing timed deliveries and also booking deliveries and collections falsely without weak management doing anything about it.
It is also very hard to find people willing to commit to being owner drivers and very often they don't last very long.
The business also has a habit of making being an owner driver look attractive when it suits them such as times like now during industrial action and also in 2002 with a major restructure. When everyone looks the other way though the owner drivers have their work taken off them and their prices reduced as their contracts state possible and are treated like second rate employees when it suits.

[77SAMPOST77]

Owner drivers always reminds me of privatisation itself, in 25 years I have seen that there has been 20 years of owner drivers and in all the years and all the depots I've worked in or visited I've never known an owner driver not compromise the services that the company offer to paying customers driven by them making the maximum profit from their deliveries. It is a very similar concepts to privatisation. A company cutting corners and not investing or utilising it's profits to make maximum profit gains at the expense of good service and then blaming individuals for failings and not taking responsibility for creating the culture in the first place.
Owner drivers are renowned for doorstepping, failing work, driving unsuitable unbranded vehicles, not wearing uniform and failing timed deliveries and also booking deliveries and collections falsely without weak management doing anything about it.
It is also very hard to find people willing to commit to being owner drivers and very often they don't last very long.
The business also has a habit of making being an owner driver look attractive when it suits them such as times like now during industrial action and also in 2002 with a major restructure. When everyone looks the other way though the owner drivers have their work taken off them and their prices reduced as their contracts state possible and are treated like second rate employees when it suits.

Totally agree , owner drivers will just drag this company down to evri levels of service , It is just cheap slave Labour .

[ariadne]

Parcelforce seem to be struggling to both recruit and retain new Owner Drivers from what I see.
I believe pay alongside terms and conditions are much worse than our competitors such as DPD, DHL et all.

[77SAMPOST77]

Parcelforce seem to be struggling to both recruit and retain new Owner Drivers from what I see.
I believe pay alongside terms and conditions are much worse than our competitors such as DPD, DHL et all.

Parcelforce is a shambles at the moment , dirty old battered vans , low morale , poor management ,
Owner Drivers are treated badly and add nothing to the company anyway , GET RID .
Nearly all Parcelforce contracts are for very heavy and overweight items that is why so many are leaving .
Virtually impossible 1 hour time slots to meet .