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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2009
     
    Just thought Destinations deserved their own thread too.Er..Pikey worked for them,that is all I know.
    • CommentAuthorsleepy
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2009
     
    i know one rider who has a great time there and have met several hundred who can't stand it. s'all i'm saying apart from they're blatantly a front for drugs, people smuggling and animal pr0n (have you seen the gait their riders walk with? that's from the zebras).
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      CommentAuthorangeleyes
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2009
     
    i did work for them for about 10 days back in 2001 -02 dont remember exactly .Here is the story:
    i call and they said come around.
    so i did and offered me the usual 250 G for a week.
    I did a week not reaching the G , more like 220.Quite slow week .
    Next Monday called me in office and said because i didnt do enough dockets last week to justify my G they had to take it off from me, and start again from following week.or something like that.
    So it was my fault i was given an X number of jobs thus failing to reach my G limit.
    I left.

    I think they deserve a whole forum dedicated to them.
    • CommentAuthorFesterban
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2009
     
    "s'all i'm saying apart from they're blatantly a front for drugs, people smuggling and animal pr0n"


    Anyone got the recruitment number please?
    • CommentAuthorFesterban
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2009
     
    Oh yeah, they got a dude who's 62 working for them, he has my utmost respect :bigsmile:
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      CommentAuthorThe.Pike
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2009
     
    DO NOT WORK FOR THIS LOT!you think c.s are bad!? anyone remember ADC? same lot diff name!
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    Worth mentioning that in the week that Mark Francis was killed, the directors of ADC, for whom he worked, were in court on a charge of embezzlement. I think the sums were in the tens of thousands, and they were alleged to have colluded with the manager of the despatch department of large city institution.

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      CommentAuthorThe.Pike
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2009
     
    know what i mean! big up bill!
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    But how are Destinations related, if at all, to ADC?

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      CommentAuthorChristianB
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2010
     
    Hi
    Just read a discussion about Destinations (can be found by going to search) I have an interview with them tomorrow. Just like to get more opinions on the company and info as this all sounds pretty messed up.

    Any info or advice would be appreciated.
    Their website is not even on google thats why im believing the stories about it being a front for illegal stuff.
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010 edited
     
    ?
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010 edited
     
    ?
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     
    Bollox. My fail.
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      CommentAuthoroverdrive
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2010
     
    How'd the "interview"go?what questions did they ask?
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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010
     
    Destinations ARE adc.
    Same people run the firm.
    adc stood for Alf & Don Cuozzo. The two brothers who ran it.
    Don Cuozzo still runs Destinations.
    The fraud involved Lloyds of London. Usual stuff. They were making up fake dockets and sticking them on the bill. Exactly what Lewis Day were at in late 2007 and early 2008. It took a year for the press to get hold of that story.
    Except that everyone with an NHS contract cons the idiots out of money somehow and gets away with it.
    But Lloyds of London?
    Gotta give adc credit for the brass neck. If you're gonna pick a fight, pick a worthy opponent.
    I think they swung it so that Alf was rewarded financially for taking the rap. He had a holiday at HM's expense. The rest of the accused just about got off.
    I know a long serving van driver who left there recently as her earnings dropped too much. She was moving to E-Courier but I haven't seen her to ask if they're any better. I don't know anyone who's worked there on a bike recently.
    Is Scottish Pete really 62? He doesn't look it and Scots normally look a good 10 years older than they are.
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    Interesting stuff. Thanks for the info.

    When I was first on the road, stories of back-handers (everything from boozy lunches at the courier companies expense up to new sports cars) to despatch managers were legion. The ADC / Lloyds thing was perhaps the rather prominent tip of the ice-berg.

    The companies that I have worked for (OYB, SD & CC) didn't & don't do that sort of stuff, but I guess it prob still goes on, although perhaps not as much as it used to.
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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeApr 15th 2010
     
    Deffo goes on, William.
    Straight Edge Andy! Get on here. Tell Bill about Highbury season tickets and the like that your employers generously provide.
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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeApr 15th 2010
     
    Have to say in fairness to adc they were apparently a reasonable firm to work for from the earnings viewpoint in the old days. They had a City pushie circuit. Riders didn't go west. Mainly sat in "The Hole" outside Moor House complaining. Thirty jobs per day is a pretty easy ask in the City and just about everyone used to pass that. Presumably they had a few big accounts back then.
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      CommentAuthordrumbrake
    • CommentTimeApr 15th 2010
     
    Trouble is the big accounts - Freshfields and Goldman for example - often pay very low rates. Good for riders; bad for companies
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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeApr 15th 2010
     
    Figures.
    Who do Freshfields use now? City Sprint and Mach One last time I checked.
    What about Goldmans? Was E-Courier and Courier Systems when I last heard.
    Tight-fisted *******
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      CommentAuthorToby Wrong
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2010
     
    Not exactly relevant to a bike forum, but I saw my van driving acquaintance this week - the one mentioned above who's recently moved from Destinations to E-Courier. She's not doing well. And she had a bust brake light in her company van. At least they didn't give her the van with the wonderful advertising slogan "My little sister is a bike" on the side.
    Overall she's no better off working for preppy Noo Yoik LSE graduate Bregman and his bent computer than she was for slimey East End secondary modern dropout Cuozzo and his bent controllers.
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    I can't believe there's so much bentness in the courier industry
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      CommentAuthorpornomike
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2010
     
    A bit like you, banana.
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    wtf? who the fuck told you my nickname that stemmed from the shape of my penis?

    anyway, it's not bent - it's gently curved upwards. wanker.
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    I was unfortunate enough to meet the owner of Destinations the other day. A total fucking tosser! Shame. The rest of the staff seemed lovely but that twat.. a class A pillock.

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