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£17k for using your home toilet? Every little helps…

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Okay, so Tesco is not paying their delivery drivers £17,000 to use their home toilets, unfortunately.

If they were, well then sign my partner up, because I’m certain he would end up bankrupting the company.

I’m sure all delivery drivers have been there.

You’ve still got a couple of deliveries to go, and you’re suddenly bursting to use the loo.

What do you do when these situations arise?

Especially if you work for Tesco, whose vans have tracker systems fitted.

This means they can check up on you every 5 minutes or so, alongside monitoring your speed and location.

Well, for one Tesco delivery worker, his solution was his home toilet.

Nothing too crude here, thank you.

This week’s tale fuels itself with justice and a hefty £17k package.

Tesco’s Scottish branch awarded Billy Fitzsimmons £17k in compensation after his unfair dismissal.

Due to his ailments, he required to use the toilet far more than your average person.

An employment tribunal ordered Tesco to pay Mr Fitzsimmons for not taking his medical problems into consideration.

His employer penalised him for using his toilet at home, even though he only stopped by between deliveries.

After discovering these stops, his boss learned about his urinary tract infection and enlarged prostate, which required urgent restroom access.

However, Tesco bosses claimed they were not aware that Mr Fitzsimmons also experienced incontinence.

Although they were aware of his other illnesses.

Unfortunately, he’d also had to visit home on some occasions to change. 

After conducting his business at home, Mr Fitzsimmons would wait in his delivery van until he had to drop off groceries to the next client.

Nothing wrong with that, right?

Deliveries were always made in a timely manner, and not a single person ever made a complaint against him.

Discrimination against disability isn’t a joke.

Fortunately for Mr Fitzsimmons, the judges agreed with him.

Hopefully, many of you will not have faced an illness or a situation like this, but I’m sure we can relate to needing the toilet after a long drive.

We wish Mr Fitzsimmons the best, and if he ever requires cheap van insurance for another role, we’re here to help!

Supermarket Delivery Drivers Make Up To £12 An Hour

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The time for making money as a supermarket delivery driver is right now. Customers need shopping delivered, and supermarkets need drivers.

It’s the perfect match and many of our nations supermarkets are on the hunt for delivery drivers who are polite, friendly, and of course…good drivers.

How much do these drivers get paid you might wondering? More than you would expect, especially if you are lucky enough to get hired by one particular supermarket.

Ocado to be exact, who are willing to pay up to £12 an hour just for you to get in one of their vans and deliver groceries to their millions of customers.

What about Asda, are they worth working for as a delivery driver? They certainly are, with the average pay at roughly £8.50 an hour but this also includes a competitive bonus package and discount for when you do your own shopping.

In return you must be a people person and also have no trouble driving a 3.5 ton automatic van. If you have more than 3 points on your licence then forget about it, because Asda don’t want your application.

The same can be said for Tesco who also don’t like to see penalty points on your licence if you are applying to be one of their delivery drivers. They do like to see a full driving licence though which must have been held for at least 12 months.

If you become a delivery driver for Tesco then expect to get a full workout each and every day because they get you doing other things as well. Things like checking the baskets and loading up the van…they might even get you on the shop floor stacking shelves.

The main job is driving of course, where you will be expected to be a safe and courteous driver who treats every delivery of shopping as if it was your own.

Another supermarket that is always on the lookout for delivery drivers is Sainsbury’s, who are not as strict as Asda when it comes to points on your licence, they don’t mind if you have 6, but they are more strict when it comes to experience, they want 3 years of driving experience.

If you start driving one of the Sainsbury’s vans around UK roads then expect to be compensated with £8.20 an hour for your time.

Should you even consider supermarket delivery driving though? It was only a couple of months ago when I reported how robots are soon expected to take over this kind of role, especially once vans become self driving.

In my opinion this won’t be for a few years yet, which means you should go ahead and apply to your local supermarkets such as Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Ocado.

Delivery driving is a boom profession right now. A real gold rush. There are many self employed positions in the courier industry as an example.

Just make sure you get the correct van insurance if you are going down the self employed route, something which you can find right here at this site.

Tesco expands to van cover in its insurance offering

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While rumours are swirling about the possibility of some insurers leaving the commercial van market, one iconic supermarket giant has expanded its car insurance offering into the commercial van insurance sector.

The banking arm of Tesco, which already offers a range of financial products, has announced they are offering van insurance that boasts not only comprehensive cover but also includes a lifetime guarantee on repairs, legal cover, lock and key cover, a courtesy van, and mobile repairs, all standard.  Each van can have as many as eight drivers included in the cover, which is ideal for commercial vehicle fleets with floating drivers, and Tesco is also including more than three months’ worth of Eurozone cover as well.

The supermarket giant has certainly pulled out all the stops, especially for Clubcard customers, as Tesco offers a payment holiday scheme that can net as many as two months’ off from paying insurance instalments in a 12 month period.  Tesco is also offering public liability and employers’ liability insurance in an add-on bundle for customers that need cover for their equipment and tools.

Tesco Bank’s managing director of insurance, Julie Hopes, spoke out on the new offering, commenting that Tesco understands how integral it is for commercial vans to be kept running smooth for all too many firms in the UK.  Self-employed van drivers are in particular need of a comprehensive policy that offers excellent cover as standard as well, the supermarket giant said, adding that it’s not only AXA-underwritten tradesmen and van insurance policies that are available, as third party only and third party fire and theft are also on offer from Tesco as well.

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