I was a courier before and after I worked for them, and often had to pick u the slack when they had a driver off, but I was treated like Royalty by the office staff, I had no contact with the regular drivers and I had had enough of subbing to big courier firms so basically walked into the job, got a red van and turned up for work, it was horrific out of Leeds, just total chaos this will have been around 98/99 I was shown my round by a woman who was leaving after only being there a week or tow and she was clueless, she'd bought a brand new sprinter for the job too so she lost a fortune, she had to have it wrapped in white to get rid of it. I just hired mine to see how it went, I'd been a courier for a few years so new the job inside out but I had to quit, I went back intot he courier market but it was becomeing very difficult to mae ends meet with outfits like MTvan jsut charging backload rates, so I went and worked for a local electrical wholesalers, best move I made, I got paid EVERY week, no accounts to do, no weekend work, 08:30 start and only 2 miles from home, wish I'd done it sooner.
