(UK) Addison Lee offers £5K to new London taxi drivers

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London Taxi Firm Offers £5,000 Welcome Salary to Lure Drivers

Addison Lee Ltd., London’s largest taxi firm, is offering 5,000 pounds ($6,861) for four weeks of work to recruit drivers amid a nationwide shortage of staff.

The salary guarantee applies to the first month and requires drivers to complete 140 trips, the company said Friday in an emailed statement. Additional perks include paid days off and a pension.

Brexit has left Britain with a shortage of workers in industries from farming and banking to retail and transportation. A scarcity of truck drivers triggered a fuel shortage and gridlock at the nation’s ports. The government this week eased immigration rules to attract foreign butchers in a bid to ease a severe backlog of pigs awaiting slaughter.

Addison Lee is trying to hire 1,000 drivers after business passenger-car trips jumped more than 40% between August and September. The company expects growth to continue through the Christmas holidays.

And to think it was only a month ago that Addison Lee announced they were ordering 200 electric vehicles a month until they were fully electric!

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London Taxi Firm Offers £5,000 Welcome Salary to Lure Drivers

Addison Lee Ltd., London’s largest taxi firm, is offering 5,000 pounds ($6,861) for four weeks of work to recruit drivers amid a nationwide shortage of staff.

The salary guarantee applies to the first month and requires drivers to complete 140 trips, the company said Friday in an emailed statement. Additional perks include paid days off and a pension.

Brexit has left Britain with a shortage of workers in industries from farming and banking to retail and transportation. A scarcity of truck drivers triggered a fuel shortage and gridlock at the nation’s ports. The government this week eased immigration rules to attract foreign butchers in a bid to ease a severe backlog of pigs awaiting slaughter.

Addison Lee is trying to hire 1,000 drivers after business passenger-car trips jumped more than 40% between August and September. The company expects growth to continue through the Christmas holidays.

And to think it was only a month ago that Addison Lee announced they were ordering 200 electric vehicles a month until they were fully electric!

Maybe a lot of the Pak lads wil head home, and bring their Baltic brides with them!

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I mentioned in another thread Freenow are running loads of ads on youtube and on the buses.You have to wonder what they're at considering they can't get enough drivers to cover their work already.Why blow a ton of cash on expensive adverts if it's already hopping?

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I mentioned in another thread Freenow are running loads of ads on youtube and on the buses.You have to wonder what they're at considering they can't get enough drivers to cover their work already.Why blow a ton of cash on expensive adverts if it's already hopping?

I'm back working nights, and I guarantee you the work is not there. Imagine trying to come up with rent for a platelord? *Shudders*

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Today was quieter for a Monday but Friday, Saturday and the Sundays I've been out I've been kept going.

Freenow are offering €50 a head if you bring your mates in to sign up....They're simultaneously recruiting and advertising for customers which seems odd to me.They probably have nothing better to be doing.

I just looked at my app and my acceptance rate is only 50% so I could be busier but I rarely take anything that will take me more than 5 minutes to drive to.Traffic has been horrible.

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Today was quieter for a Monday but Friday, Saturday and the Sundays I've been out I've been kept going.

Freenow are offering €50 a head if you bring your mates in to sign up....They're simultaneously recruiting and advertising for customers which seems odd to me.They probably have nothing better to be doing.

I just looked at my app and my acceptance rate is only 50% so I could be busier but I rarely take anything that will take me more than 5 minutes to drive to.Traffic has been horrible.

I tend to reject jobs with flowers in the title i.e :

Marigold

Snowdrop

Tulip

Buttercup

Especially Primrose!