Freightliner ltd - any drivers?

[Willie mcbeath]

Any drivers work for freightliner ltd? (Pref mossend) just looking for sone info and the job most importantly pay and time off.
Pm would be great.

 

[Crazyb]

Intermodal

Pay is around 45k ish, I left a year ago, and the pay was around £44, 1?? then.

Pay deal comes into effect on the Feb's pay packet.

Overtime every 4 weeks.

Overtime paid at flate rate, also R/D's.

Sunday inside, flat rate.

4 hour movements off spare.

1 hr wait time for a late running, pending your actual hours, that day.

Jobs are from 5 hrs to 11hrs, I suppose some depots it may change. I think we had a 10:40 ish. Quite a few 10 hr jobs !!!! at my depot.

100% pension, but double check that. At the moment it's 100%, but things are changing in the freight world.

You get mod payments. If your booked diagrams changes to more hours, there was a standard 1hr payment, then double mins that you was over by.
Im sure there was another type of mod payment as well, but I can't remember.

Rosters are 13 week cycles......I wasn't at Mossend, but all depots should run the same.

Your 2 wks leave is made up from a week of restdays and a week of 5 days leave. So the 12th and 13th you was off. This could be diferent at other depots, it could be line 13 and week 1, your off.

If I can remember, you could use one of your weeks off as extra floating days.

It "was" 6 floating days, plus BH's, on top of your standard leave.

You get sign on money which was £10 per day, non pensionable. I think it works out £1800 ish, minus your leave.

You work 4 days a week "OVER" the course of the year. Some weeks 3 days, some weeks 5 days, etc etc. Some depots may vary.

Not many weekends, so I take it Mossend would be the same.

Not sure what the scope of HH work is up there, but you can or could opt to learn T3's and CL6 trains, but under HH conditions for that day.

Not sure on Mossends routes, but they do come to Crewe...They did lodge at one stage at Crewe, but Im going back years ago.

Thats about it really

 

[Willie mcbeath]

Intermodal

Pay is around 45k ish, I left a year ago, and the pay was around £44, 1?? then.

Pay deal comes into effect on the Feb's pay packet.

Overtime every 4 weeks.

Overtime paid at flate rate, also R/D's.

Sunday inside, flat rate.

4 hour movements off spare.

1 hr wait time for a late running, pending your actual hours, that day.

Jobs are from 5 hrs to 11hrs, I suppose some depots it may change. I think we had a 10:40 ish. Quite a few 10 hr jobs !!!! at my depot.

100% pension, but double check that. At the moment it's 100%, but things are changing in the freight world.

You get mod payments. If your booked diagrams changes to more hours, there was a standard 1hr payment, then double mins that you was over by.
Im sure there was another type of mod payment as well, but I can't remember.

Rosters are 13 week cycles......I wasn't at Mossend, but all depots should run the same.

Your 2 wks leave is made up from a week of restdays and a week of 5 days leave. So the 12th and 13th you was off. This could be diferent at other depots, it could be line 13 and week 1, your off.

If I can remember, you could use one of your weeks off as extra floating days.

It "was" 6 floating days, plus BH's, on top of your standard leave.

You get sign on money which was £10 per day, non pensionable. I think it works out £1800 ish, minus your leave.

You work 4 days a week "OVER" the course of the year. Some weeks 3 days, some weeks 5 days, etc etc. Some depots may vary.

Not many weekends, so I take it Mossend would be the same.

Not sure what the scope of HH work is up there, but you can or could opt to learn T3's and CL6 trains, but under HH conditions for that day.

Not sure on Mossends routes, but they do come to Crewe...They did lodge at one stage at Crewe, but Im going back years ago.

Thats about it really

Cheers bud.
Did you leave for another freight job or to go pass?

 

[Frightliner]

How much in the seat driving is involved with those 10/11 hr turns?

 

[Dieseldriver]

How much in the seat driving is involved with those 10/11 hr turns?

The absolute worst I know of is an 11 hour night turn with about 9 and a half hours driving.

 

[Crazyb]

Cheers bud.
Did you leave for another freight job or to go pass?

I went for a TOC....Intermodal was starting to fall down after the Americans and HH managerment took over. Loads have left and retired early in the last year and half.

Freightliner in my eyes, well Intermodal is the better of them all. You work to a WTT Timetable, like a PAX depot and you have some conditions.

If I was heading back to a Freight company, this would be the company to go for, preferably Intermodal.

 

[Crazyb]

How much in the seat driving is involved with those 10/11 hr turns?

5 hours in the chair max

We did have 5 hrs in the chair each way, plus sometimes if the PAX trains or signals were doomed. 5 hours was common pratice at our depot when Freightliner took over from RFD in 95/96.

I was at Intermodal, I'm not going to say where, but when I was there we did have some 4 1/2 hours in the chair, but would sit in a loop for 40 mins (not for a break).
I wouldn't of thought there would be many 5hr's in the chair now, seeing you have quite a few depots all over the country. I think there was only 5 depots when I started.

Normal driving was around 2 to 3 1/2 hrs driving in the chair.

 

[Willie mcbeath]

I went for a TOC....Intermodal was starting to fall down after the Americans and HH managerment took over. Loads have left and retired early in the last year and half.

Freightliner in my eyes, well Intermodal is the better of them all. You work to a WTT Timetable, like a PAX depot and you have some conditions.

If I was heading back to a Freight company, this would be the company to go for, preferably Intermodal.

Working for scotrail 4 & a half to 5 hours in the seat is very common (give or take a couple of minutes changing ends).

I almost made the jump tp DRS 6 years ago but decided to stay on the passenger side.
Freightliner intermodal out of coatbridge anyeay seem to have quite a bit of work that they've had for a long time.

They seem to use the aincent looking electric locos, that might be what puts me off tho haha.

 

[tiptoptaff]

Working for scotrail 4 & a half to 5 hours in the seat is very common (give or take a couple of minutes changing ends).

I almost made the jump tp DRS 6 years ago but decided to stay on the passenger side.
Freightliner intermodal out of coatbridge anyeay seem to have quite a bit of work that they've had for a long time.

They seem to use the aincent looking electric locos, that might be what puts me off tho haha.

Class 86s should be the reason to go!! They're great locos

 

[Mutant Lemming]

Note the lack of staff travel facilities.

 

[Crazyb]

Working for scotrail 4 & a half to 5 hours in the seat is very common (give or take a couple of minutes changing ends).

I almost made the jump tp DRS 6 years ago but decided to stay on the passenger side.
Freightliner intermodal out of coatbridge anyeay seem to have quite a bit of work that they've had for a long time.

They seem to use the aincent looking electric locos, that might be what puts me off tho haha.

Good locos the 86's, you could pull anything with them...Did Mossend lose their 86's and swapped them over with double headed 90's.

Oh yeah, Like the person above said, if your not protected, no travel. If you are protected, you have to pay a benefit in kind. I think I used to get taxed 20% on around £650.

 

[Willie mcbeath]

Good locos the 86's, you could pull anything with them...Did Mossend lose their 86's and swapped them over with double headed 90's.

Oh yeah, Like the person above said, if your not protected, no travel. If you are protected, you have to pay a benefit in kind. I think I used to get taxed 20% on around £650.

See 86's coming & going from coatbridge reguarly