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Avoid Abuse And Change Your Career?

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So, we have two things to report on this week.

The first is actually from across the pond, involving an angry Amazon manager and his poor employee.

The second is related to the ongoing fear of driver shortages Britain is facing at the moment.

Stay Off My Lawn!

Something perhaps more fitting for an elderly gentleman to yell at some troublesome teens.

But no.

This unfortunate Amazon delivery driver received a whole lotta abuse from his own manager. 

You may have seen the video doing the rounds online.

It’s been published in most tabloid newspapers, so it isn’t too hard to find, but you may not want to watch it.

If delivery drivers didn’t have enough to put up with already, this really takes the biscuit. 

The manager claims his employee broke several rules whilst delivering the package to his loving boss.

So, naturally, he felt the best way to let his worker know about it, was to yell at him.

Obviously. 

The main issue the video captures is the berated delivery driver walking across his manager’s grass to deliver the package.

Clearly, a rookie mistake and one that warrants verbal abuse.

Said no one, ever. 

Have you ever experienced unreasonable behaviour from your manager as a delivery driver?

Let us know — we’d love to call them out on it.

Of course, we’d hope no one in Britain would be quite as ‘stern’ when talking to their delivery drivers.

It appears America is a whole other kettle of fish.

Considering A Career Change?

Next up.

If you feel you aren’t being treated well enough as a delivery driver, then why not consider becoming a lorry driver?

With all the driver shortages, Brexit, Covid-19, and just general chaos and hoo-ha that’s hit Britain lately.

Selco is helping with the panic. 

They’ve decided to launch an academy for lorry drivers, encouraging van drivers to become HGV drivers instead.

They’ve also recently increased their pay.

Not too shabby, eh?

So, what do you reckon?

Career change to rid yourself of the annoying boss?

We’d hope not, especially in the UK.

So until then, and as usual, we’ve got your back with the cheapest van insurance quotes around.

You’re welcome.

Suppliers: Has The Driver Shortage Affected You?

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If you haven’t heard about the driver shortages, you’re likely not from the UK.

Otherwise, you must be living under a rock.

Remember this post we made a few weeks ago about tests for van and lorry drivers being made easier?

This was because the UK was facing the severe issue of a lack of delivery drivers — from vans to HGV drivers.

The reasons are numerous.

The driver shortages stem from Brexit, with Covid-19 making things much worse.

It’s like a tornado stirring the pot.

If there wasn’t a shortage already, ‘pingdemic’, as it has been affectionately named, has unfortunately caused further chaos.

This is because drivers are being pinged left, right and centre, and being told to self-isolate by the ‘track and trace’ app. 

As you can imagine, the consequences have been dire.

Many newsagents, including the chain NISA, have had to drive their vans to pick up supplies.

This is due to severe staff shortages among their suppliers.

This is time and effort spent on top of maintaining and managing their store branches and dealing with staff off work themselves, too. 

There are calls for the government to allow drivers who have been vaccinated (with both jabs) to skip the isolation period.

This is as long as they continue to test, and the results are negative.

At the moment, this is due to come into force from the 16th of August, but things could change — sooner or be pushed to later.

So, everything is up in the air, and everyone is panicking.

Help?

We think so.

What do you think?

Has the media blown this out of proportion, or is this something that needs further immediate attention?

Have you been affected directly by the driver shortages?

The struggling supermarkets certainly show us how serious this all this.

Let us know your thoughts! 

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He Told The Lorry Driver – “I’m Going To Wipe Your…”

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Those Police drug vans we told you about are stalking the roads of our nation. They are hunting down the “drug drivers” and taking prisoners.

Take Police in Essex as an example. They are one of the pioneers of a new technology called “DrugWipe” and around the roads of Essex they drive, day after day, in their Police Vans and armed with a big pack of DrugWipes.

Which is just as well. Because while patrolling the Essex motorway recently they noticed a HGV lorry pulled up on the hard shoulder. It wasn’t broke down and the lorry driver wasn’t stranded.

Instead, he was…

Fast asleep, like a baby!

That’s right. This particular lorry driver had decided to get 40 winks while the other traffic whizzed on by. He really didn’t have a care in the world.

He should have used an allocated rest zone or a service station, but not this lorry driver…the hard shoulder was the place to be, right there and then.

So it was right there and then when Essex Police swooped in and gave this lorry driver a rude awakening.

“Wakey wakey, rise and shine,” said the police officer.

No doubt the lorry driver was surprised to see an officer in blue waking him up, but he was probably even more surprised about what happened next…

After giving the lorry driver a stern telling off and taking down his particulars, the police officer then said something which shocked the lorry driver…

“I’m going to wipe your…mouth. It’s a DrugWipe. I need to get a sample of your saliva”

And guess what? It turns out the lorry driver wasn’t sleepy because he had been working hard. Oh no. He was sleepy because he was off his face on puff the magic dragon. Oh yes.

Can you believe that? Here at CVI we are a drug free zone and we condemn “drug driving” and applaud the new “DrugWipe” and the Police drug vans.

“If you snort up and then start up…your lorry or van…then you are NOT welcome at Cheap Van Insurance,” said a spokesperson for CVI.

As for the lorry driver. He was taken directly to jail. No passing go and no collecting £200 pounds.

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