CMA CGM purchase Freightliner UK intermodal unit.

[Zontar]

IM are recruiting currently. Seems odd when there's t&Cs to be sorted one the takeover happens. I'd have expected them to bung more £ and rip up the IM existing contract snd start again THEN recruit.

 

[Numbskull100]

IM are recruiting currently. Seems odd when there's t&Cs to be sorted one the takeover happens. I'd have expected them to bung more £ and rip up the IM existing contract snd start again THEN recruit.

That would need to be a seriously high ££££ offer, once lost the T&C's will obviously never be seen again.

We accept being the lowest salaried mainline drivers because of the T&C being very very strong.

 

[Zontar]

That would need to be a seriously high ££££ offer, once lost the T&C's will obviously never be seen again.

We accept being the lowest salaried mainline drivers because of the T&C being very very strong.

Are you able to share these please, private message if suits. I'm looking at a job vacancy currently

 

[Numbskull100]

Are you able to share these please, private message if suits. I'm looking at a job vacancy currently

It's basically work life balance.

We get a 13 week roster and cannot be moved from booked jobs without agreement. Gives you a the ability to plan ahead and have a life. Various incentives to move jobs is needed too.

 

[chalkijr]

With the HH side splitting off and losing a lot of drivers to IM is it reasonable to think that HH will be recruiting in the new year for replacements?

 

[20atthemagnet]

With the HH side splitting off and losing a lot of drivers to IM is it reasonable to think that HH will be recruiting in the new year for replacements?

HH didnt lose alot of drivers, IM took a dozen volunteers IM needed that would have been surplus. It still doesnt supply the full amount IM need so its IM that will be recruiting not HH. Most of the IM locations have been up for qualifieds, Tilbury/Gateway, Mossend, Leeds, Birmingham, Eastleigh have all been up this year and likely will more. Their plans are..vast. HH have Suffolk up, in relation to the Sizewell project. Few people I know have interviewed for it.

 

[chalkijr]

HH didnt lose alot of drivers, IM took a dozen volunteers IM needed that would have been surplus. It still doesnt supply the full amount IM need so its IM that will be recruiting not HH. Most of the IM locations have been up for qualifieds, Tilbury/Gateway, Mossend, Leeds, Birmingham, Eastleigh have all been up this year and likely will more. Their plans are..vast. HH have Suffolk up, in relation to the Sizewell project. Few people I know have interviewed for it.

Oh okay that's probably better for me then, fingers crossed. I'm in for Crewe and I know they had an ad up for qualified drivers too.

 

[Unobrow]

HH didnt lose alot of drivers, IM took a dozen volunteers IM needed that would have been surplus. It still doesnt supply the full amount IM need so its IM that will be recruiting not HH. Most of the IM locations have been up for qualifieds, Tilbury/Gateway, Mossend, Leeds, Birmingham, Eastleigh have all been up this year and likely will more. Their plans are..vast. HH have Suffolk up, in relation to the Sizewell project. Few people I know have interviewed for it.

The 12 you mention were only from Crewe, there were more from other depots too that have gone over.

 

[Numbskull100]

The 12 you mention were only from Crewe, there were more from other depots too that have gone over.

Several times the 12 in total and in fact

 

[Unobrow]

Several times the 12 in total and in fact

54 I think the total was? I’m assuming that the figure didn’t change and the full number will transfer.

 

[Numbskull100]

54 I think the total was? I’m assuming that the figure didn’t change and the full number will transfer.

Thereabouts, yeah.

 

[Gostav]

And yet that’s a topic that bubbles along just under the surface in these forums. I’m sure people have seriously suggested there should be far more rail distribution to supermarket sidings, and every time others have responded that it just wouldn’t work.

At the beginning of the century, freight multiple units like MPV were intended to be applied to similar scenarios to improve the flexibility of rail freight. But obviously, nothing more was heard of it after that.

 

[20atthemagnet]

The 12 you mention were only from Crewe, there were more from other depots too that have gone over.

Several times the 12 in total and in fact

My appologies. The literature I saw regarding TUPEd guys mentioned 12. Just been told by one of my old colleagues at HH he requested the switch but wasnt granted mind you so doesnt seem like getting people was much of an issue. Albeit in the southern end. Bham is up now so I’m assuming there’s still a couple of gaps to fill.

 

[20atthemagnet]

News - Heavy Haul Rail

Read the latest news from Heavy Haul Rail, relating to our organisation, our partners and the services we offer.

www.heavyhaulrail.co.uk

All done and dusted now. Have to say quite like the new HHR scheme! A white logo a cheeky way to keep the green scheme.. website styling is quite nice though!

 

[sad1e]

News - Heavy Haul Rail

Read the latest news from Heavy Haul Rail, relating to our organisation, our partners and the services we offer.

www.heavyhaulrail.co.uk

View attachment 196959

All done and dusted now. Have to say quite like the new HHR scheme! A white logo a cheeky way to keep the green scheme.. website styling is quite nice though!

Any ideas which 66 this is with the new logo applied ?

 

[Class73Electro]

Read through the posts here, but might have missed it - are we losing the Freightliner name?

 

[Class15]

Read through the posts here, but might have missed it - are we losing the Freightliner name?

No, it’s staying for the intermodal side.

 

[fgwrich]

Any ideas which 66 this is with the new logo applied ?

66602

 

[Class73Electro]

No, it’s staying for the intermodal side.

OK thanks!

Shame the 70s are moving - I do like them in the Freightliner Green livery

 

[BRX]

Do we know yet what those 70s are going to be used for now?

 

[class442]

Despite CMA CGM purchasing the Freightliner name, I imagine the Freightliner business will go through another rebrand. Freightliner's current house black and orange colours, and logo, are those of former parent company Genesee and Wyoming, but is no longer owned by them, so I think the colours and logo might change to something new.

Ironically, HHR now has a unique brand, with the green colour of Freightliner as it were pre-G&W acquisition, but is still associated with G&W through shared ownership by Brookfield Corporation.

 

[Class73Electro]

Another question from me... possibly slightly related to post 110.

So Intermodal I believe is the container trains?

What would Heavy Haulage be?

 

[Forty29]

66602 Not to be confused with Hanson Haul although the 'H's' are side by side and the same size .

 

[Freightmaster]

So Intermodal I believe is the container trains?

Correct.

What would Heavy Haulage be?

Off the top of my head...

- aggregate (overwhelmingly from the Mendips and Peak District, but also a handful of
oddball flows from Tytherington, Machen, Moreton on Lugg, etc.)

- cement from Earles/Tunstead

- sand from Middleton Towers to Ince and Elton.

- binliners from Greater Manchester to Runcorn/Ferrybridge

- imported gypsum from Southampton/Tees Dock

- HS2 tunnel segments from Hartlepool

- departmental services from Doncaster to Toton and Crewe


All sorts, really!



MARK

 

[66701GBRF]

So Intermodal I believe is the container trains?

What would Heavy Haulage be?

Everything else.

 

[Class73Electro]

Correct.



Off the top of my head...

- aggregate (overwhelmingly from the Mendips and Peak District, but also a handful of
oddball flows from Tytherington, Machen, Moreton on Lugg, etc.)

- cement from Earles/Tunstead

- sand from Middleton Towers to Ince and Elton.

- binliners from Greater Manchester to Runcorn/Ferrybridge

- imported gypsum from Southampton/Tees Dock

- HS2 tunnel segments from Hartlepool

- departmental services from Doncaster to Toton and Crewe


All sorts, really!



MARK

Ahh OK - Interesting!

Thanks!

 

[Western Sunset]

Thought GBRf did the gypsum flow to/fom Southampton?

 

[fgwrich]

Thought GBRf did the gypsum flow to/fom Southampton?

Hasn’t been for about 2 years now - September / October 2024 is when Freightliner won the contract for it.

Perhaps, part of the down turn in traffic for the 69s.

 

[Unobrow]

Do we know yet what those 70s are going to be used for now?

The plan for a while was to utilise the 70’s on the Tunstead stone trains. They’re also supposed to be training Southern based drivers on them for that reason. That was the main initial plan, obviously operational needs, availability and other things change.

 

[Freightmaster]

Off the top of my head...

Just remembered that HHRail also operate the potash/salt trains from Boulby.



MARK