Recent content by scott736

The railway standard is 35 hrs per week averaged over a link,. (FL intermodal is a 27 week link). Be careful with 'annualised hours' too. Some FOC's work on this principal so if you have done a lot of overtime in the beginning of the year and the work dries up they can send you home for weeks at...

The listing closed beginning of December I think? It's taken around 6 months to get through all of the tests etc. An epic test of patience!!

I was lucky enough to get through the last round of recruitment with intermodal, and start on Tuesday, and we heard that they had somewhere around 1600 applications for around 10-12 jobs over all of the depots. Don't get too disheartened by it all, and don't put all of your eggs in one basket...

Yeh, it'll be PTS, DP and cab safety. Not sure if I'm doing the whole thing as I already have my PTS etc and a renewal is normally 2 days, not 3 that the initial one takes. Time will tell. Either way I'm just glad to be starting! Are you starting on the 27th at Leeds as well for the induction...

No, not heard, other than there is 3 of us for this course!?

Got letter on Friday for a start in 4 weeks....notice is now in and counting the days!!

How many are through for Leeds / Eastleigh? I'm through for Leeds!