DX

I don't know if it is entirely true but i had a driver called looking for work as DX has laid some drivers off because they have lost the Vision express Contract.

I personally wouldn't have though it would make much difference to DX in a workload sense.

it does not surprise me they've lost the vision express contact there ocs side of the business which is the optical courier services are really poor & majority if the time you'd get lens technicians complain about either not receiving there lens, or it'll be late dx expect to much of there drivers first by delivering all there post & then go back round to deliver to opticians & then all there parcels from a 5am start you'd be lucky to Finnish by midday & then have a break before starting collections & lucky to Finnish by 5pm unload & be home by 6 & i'm talking from experience as i'd first started out with em going back 10-12 years ago there service is real poor.    

I was at one of their depots training drivers last year, Every time i spent 3-4 days training a driver and as i knew the routes it looks easy, When they went onto the run on their own they lasted 2 days Maximum, One guy lasted until 9 am.

I then had to train another new driver, They kept asking me to do the run full time for extra money but  i declined on several occasions.

Point to point, those times are if you live relativley near the depot. i looked into DX work but I live about an hour away from my nearest which ment my day started at 3:30 and ended about 19:30 allowing time for unloading etc on return. I gave it a miss

Blimey badger some people don't want work nowdays     You can sleep in your van !!!!!!!

@ badger never lived that far at the start but as I was doing cv routes around Coventry we started of  running out of Tipton near Dudley enventually got shifted to rugby. So had to travell from Walsall where I use to live to travel to rugby every morning to sort my mail optical crap magazines bookies betting slips & then load up my van to do my route which was cov city centre & then go back to rugby to unload before traveling back back up the m6 to get home. The guy who trained me up eventually we became very good mates & continued to work with each other long afta we left dx although he'd stayed there longer than me where I moved on to same day before dragging him across I hated every min of it but became damn good at multi dropping but would never go back in to multi drop work once you've seen the light on doing Sameday there's no going back that's for sure.lol