r/uktrucking

I've had enough experience of the place that I can finally say what I think without sugarcoating it. Not naming the company or depot(north west), but if you've spent your shifts dragging cages into restaurants underneath a certain big yellow letter, you'll know the type of operation I'm talking about.

The driving? Fine. Tight stores, ridiculous entrances, city centres, awkward reverses — that's the job.

Management is what ruins it.

Rotas used like a fucking punishment, start times seemingly picked out of a tombola, stupid finishing times and zero appreciation that drivers have families and lives outside the depot.

Raise a reasonable concern and instead of somebody actually managing the problem, certain managers make you feel like you've committed high treason.

Then they wonder why morale is underground.

Driver complains → ignore him.

Driver asks for some predictability → make his life difficult.

Drivers get pissed off → blame the drivers.

People stop wanting to be there → hold another meeting about “retention”. 😂

Some of the management couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery, but somehow have unlimited energy when it comes to micromanaging drivers and throwing their weight around.

And the irony is that the drivers are the ones keeping the whole operation alive ,getting soaked, shifting cages, dealing with stores and putting trucks into places that were seemingly designed for a fucking Fiat 500.

Good money doesn't automatically make somewhere a good place to work.

You can pay well and still have a toxic culture, shit rotas and managers who confuse intimidation with leadership.

The drivers themselves? Mostly sound. Some genuinely brilliant people.

Everything above them? I'll just say I'm very fucking glad I don't have to take the circus seriously anymore.

If you know which company I'm talking about from the Golden Arches alone… 👀

56+????

Anyone else worked for the place supplying the Golden Arches? Absolute circus.