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Thanks Tomnick, Do you know if there's any agreement to limit the amount of weekend work each month?

I assume the difference in Annual Leave entitlement between Nottingham and Derby is for historic reasons, but is there anything in the terms & conditions that balances it out? EMR Nottingham only has 28 days and Sundays are inside, is it just poor terms or has it got something going for it that...

Thanks Economist. Cal me a cynic, but that does have a slight wiff of flooding the market to drive down wages :frown:. I wonder if Aslef are keeping an eye on it.

Thanks Economist, that's all very helpful. What do you mean by pressure from the DfT for XC to recruit trainees? There seems to be loads of TOC's all over the country only recruiting trainees at the minute and not advertising for qualified drivers simultaneously, is there some sort of scheme...

Did you have any luck Stretch? I'm after the same thing. Thanks

Yeah I assumed it would be something like that, but they've both just advertised trainee driver roles too. I was just wondering whether there is actually a constant flow of drivers leaving the likes of WMT etc.. to go over to XC or whether there's reasons why that isn't happening. :?:

I'm sure it's probably been discussed before but I can't find any thread about it. Out of all of the TOC's in the midlands Avanti and XC have driver salaries almost £10k higher than all of the others. Can anyone working for TOC's in that area explain why those two companies pay so much more...

It's for Qualified Driver vacancies. Here's an example from a job advert: "Existing Drivers may not apply until they have occupied their present post for 18 months following completion of all training, including examination and route learning." When I moved depots we signed different routes...

Several Toc's require you to have a minimum length of service in your current post before you can apply. I have had two years of service but split across two different depots within the same TOC. Generally speaking do you think TOC's will accept this as being 2 years service or only accept the...