Ecomotive Reviews

Long hours Sometimes traffic is terrible

Where to start? On my second day I was left stranded in Suffolk at 5:30pm with my planner completely ignoring me. I did not know what to do and had to get home myself, taking nearly four hours. I also had to pay this out of my own pocket. Planning emails are poor. My planner would email and say he's looking for another job. Would not inform me of the fact he had found a job and when I asked him if I should head home, he got short with me and told me I have another job. I looked at the job and collection had to be made by 5pm, over 3.5 hours away. It was gone 2:30 pm and I would not have made it. I was just greeted with a message from him of "not going to make it" So I was left stranded again, hours from home and had to pay to get home AGAIN out of my own pocket. Planning is the big let down with this company. Yes it says somewhere is 2 hours away by public transport, but that doesn't factor in waiting times or any sort of delay. If a bus only appears in a town/village every 1 hour, you cant hit your jobs for the day. You will have to leave home at 6am at the latest and do not plan to be home before 8pm every day. A typical day looked like this. Starting in Buckinghamshire, then driving to Surrey by the coast, your next job is in Leicestershire which you have to get public transport to, then driving over to Cambridgeshire, then public transport to Shropshire, then drive back to Buckinghamshire. It's just not possible. You have to cover the cost of all public transport you use, and then get it back FOUR weeks later. The company asks you to keep your transport costs below £140 a week, which is near impossible when you could be spending 30 hours a week on a train.