Colas Multi skilled driver, info wanted

[LeGrimpeur]

Hi
If anyone can give me any info regarding Multi Skilled Driver with Colas I'd appreciate it.
Job is driving a variety of otm.

Are Colas ok to work for?

Includes company van, would I book on at home or once at site?

What's shift pattern like?

Pay is late 50s?

Any info appreciated thanks[/automerge]

 

[Zontar]

Freight drivers are £58 and a 5.5% pay deal agreed.

drivers are home based and book on from home. However in lieu of travelling to a depot they are asked to give up to 1 hours travel time at the start and end of their shift. Where the travel time is less than this, they don’t give the remaining time. Where its more than 1 hour, they are paid for any additional time as if they were driving a train.

36 hours per week. Sunday in the working week.

 

[LeGrimpeur]

Brillaint thanks.donyou know what the roster is like in terms of earlies/ lates/ nights?

reight drivers are £58 and a 5.5% pay deal agreed.

drivers are home based and book on from home. However in lieu of travelling to a depot they are asked to give up to 1 hours travel time at the start and end of their shift. Where the travel time is less than this, they don’t give the remaining time. Where its more than 1 hour, they are paid for any additional time as if they were driving a train.

36 hours per week. Sunday in the working week.

 

[Zontar]

Usual pattern, 5 days off every 3 I think.
Be worth checking all this as it may be different for otm drivers. I don't work for colas either, just info I've picked up.

 

[LeGrimpeur]

@Zontar thankyou. Much appreciated.

I'd be interested if anyone can clarify the shift pattern for colas otm drivers.
Thanks

 

[NI 271]

Usual pattern, 5 days off every 3 I think.
Be worth checking all this as it may be different for otm drivers. I don't work for colas either, just info I've picked up.

Might want to find better sources, imo.

 

[Zontar]

Might want to find better sources, imo.

Yes. That's why I said he would be better off checking, but thanks for your agreement.

 

[NI 271]

Yes. That's why I said he would be better off checking, but thanks for your agreement.

Any "agreement" would start and end with the "Be worth checking all this as it may be different for otm drivers. I don't work for colas" bit tbh. However, you're welcome for that all the same.

If you know* something, great, pass it on. If not, it's better not to waste people's time misinforming them with hearsay. For example, the pay deal you say is "agreed" was implemented, including back pay, in November. But that's for freight drivers, not the plant side, who have totally different salary, terms and conditions, and it's therefore utterly irrelevant here. Your guess about rest day pattern bears no resemblance to reality, none at all. I've been driving trains for Colas for nine years, and yet I didn't try to provide any info here, because I don't have the first clue about the plant side of the company, and LeGrimpeur clearly stated the job he was interested in was driving on track machinery. It would help nobody if I had a wild stab in the dark, so I don't.

You're not the first person I've seen (or pulled up, for that matter) posting guesswork about Colas, and I'm bewildered as to what the motivation of people who do this is - there's an awful lot of companies in the railway industry, I've no reason to suspect each one won't have several people with no connection to the company passing on utter bunkum in places such as this - that they probably don't realise isn't true - to people who come here in good faith for a bit of information. This is not just a dig at you personally, this section of the site is riddled with people guessing (sometimes very wildly, sometimes making statements about companies I've never worked for yet still know to be 100% wham) at something and imparting it as if they are some sort of authority. It annoys me, because taking advice (thinking it to be legit, which is turned out it was not) from someone doing that cost me a job in early 2013. Luckily, I ended up in a much better job by the end of that year, but others won't be so lucky, and it isn't right to mess with people's lives like that, nor to waste their time.

Have a happy new year.

* As in know it to be a fact, not think it to be a fact.

 

[baz962]

Freight drivers are £58 and a 5.5% pay deal agreed.

drivers are home based and book on from home. However in lieu of travelling to a depot they are asked to give up to 1 hours travel time at the start and end of their shift. Where the travel time is less than this, they don’t give the remaining time. Where its more than 1 hour, they are paid for any additional time as if they were driving a train.

36 hours per week. Sunday in the working week.

A whole £58 . Is that hourly , daily, weekly or yearly. I'm so tempted.

 

[37114]

Not sure if you are on RMWeb but Big Jim on there is ex Colas but now works for GBRF and is a good guy, maybe happy to advise

 

[Zontar]

Any "agreement" would start and end with the "Be worth checking all this as it may be different for otm drivers. I don't work for colas" bit tbh. However, you're welcome for that all the same.

If you know* something, great, pass it on. If not, it's better not to waste people's time misinforming them with hearsay. For example, the pay deal you say is "agreed" was implemented, including back pay, in November. But that's for freight drivers, not the plant side, who have totally different salary, terms and conditions, and it's therefore utterly irrelevant here. Your guess about rest day pattern bears no resemblance to reality, none at all. I've been driving trains for Colas for nine years, and yet I didn't try to provide any info here, because I don't have the first clue about the plant side of the company, and LeGrimpeur clearly stated the job he was interested in was driving on track machinery. It would help nobody if I had a wild stab in the dark, so I don't.

You're not the first person I've seen (or pulled up, for that matter) posting guesswork about Colas, and I'm bewildered as to what the motivation of people who do this is - there's an awful lot of companies in the railway industry, I've no reason to suspect each one won't have several people with no connection to the company passing on utter bunkum in places such as this - that they probably don't realise isn't true - to people who come here in good faith for a bit of information. This is not just a dig at you personally, this section of the site is riddled with people guessing (sometimes very wildly, sometimes making statements about companies I've never worked for yet still know to be 100% wham) at something and imparting it as if they are some sort of authority. It annoys me, because taking advice (thinking it to be legit, which is turned out it was not) from someone doing that cost me a job in early 2013. Luckily, I ended up in a much better job by the end of that year, but others won't be so lucky, and it isn't right to mess with people's lives like that, nor to waste their time.

Have a happy new year.

* As in know it to be a fact, not think it to be a fact.

Everything I put came directly from a colas employee, no guess work.

I highlighted that it would be different for freight drivers and acknowledged the op was referring to otm jobs.

I highlighted it would be worth checking.

I agree sometimes no information is better than wrong information. But I also believe some relevent comparable information via better than none, the reader can apply their own discretion to it.

I didn't comment on this to go on trial for my opinions, I will share my info and have no problem with other people sharing their info. It's when people wrongly accuse others that puts me ill at ease. We are entitled to differ, it's human and some will know more than others through experience.

 

[NI 271]

Everything I put came directly from a colas employee, no guess work.

I highlighted that it would be different for freight drivers and acknowledged the op was referring to otm jobs.

I highlighted it would be worth checking.

I agree sometimes no information is better than wrong information. But I also believe some relevent comparable information via better than none, the reader can apply their own discretion to it.

I didn't comment on this to go on trial for my opinions, I will share my info and have no problem with other people sharing their info. It's when people wrongly accuse others that puts me ill at ease. We are entitled to differ, it's human and some will know more than others through experience.

Nobody's wrongly accusing anyone, nor putting them on trial for their opinions. Somebody is accurately, from the personal experience you yourself refer to, pointing out that there are factual errors in someone else's post. Now that *is* better than wrong information. All I've done is make it clear to anyone reading that there are inaccuracies in your post. It's remarkable that someone would take issue with this, it isn't me who is in any way incorrect, after all - I know what I'm talking about, that's not my opinion, it's fact.

I stand by what I said over the rest day pattern. You certainly didn't get that from any Colas employee (unless they were deliberately misleading you) because the RD pattern hasn't changed in the time I've worked for them (ironically, for those who want it, the RD pattern will change this coming weekend). It has never been anything like you suggested, so, absent any other explanation, I can't accept your assertion that there's "no guess work".

I don't think this needs to drag out any further, I've been very clear here. If you wish to continue this discussion via private message, feel free, although I'm not convinced there's too much more for me to add.