Atlas Courier Express UK Ltd Employee Reviews

Great company to work for! They have been very good at providing me with plenty of work and have been very fair with rate increases due to petrol prices. 3 times in 3 months! Madness! Traffic team are good at there job and always give me as much work as I can do

Pros

Very fair rate increases

Cons

Can be early starts or late finishes

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Turn down a job and see what happens :)

Driver (Current Employee) - London, Greater London - 9 September 2023

Turn down some jobs and see if you going to stay there anymore, they give you jobs that dont worth sending there vans if you want to be a cleaner in the company go ahead and be one , i have seen 1200 payments but 400 pound petrol cost that week doing crazy hours , most of the time your going for jobs where its hour away from you and you get forced to do jobs they will act all sweet till you turn down the job most of the time your going to say yeh go ahead and send the job in because your thinking your helping them but actually think twice because why dont they send there van there because its not going be worth it so you coupd go and do it just a cleaner when there own vans and employees dont want to cover most things youll end up doing them so dont be thinking you’re a team member no you are not one of them anyways join and see after 2 months you’re going to regret it i rather do dpd or amazon rather then working for this cold hearted people

Pros

Nothing

Cons

Everything

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Insights into Atlas Courier Express UK Ltd

Based on 5 survey responses

What people like

Trust in colleagues
Ability to meet personal goals
Clear sense of purpose

Areas for improvement

Time and location flexibility
Ability to learn new things
Energising work tasks

Great managers and friendly company

Driver (Current Employee) - Essex - 17 March 2023

Company that cares for you and actually try to help if needed. Always trying to provide as much work as posible even on the back runs. I would highly recommend for any hardworking driver.

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Lovely company, lots of good work available

Courier (Current Employee) - London, Greater London - 17 August 2022

Have worked with Atlas for a few years now, they've been great for providing good work and have always been very accommodating with taking time off for personal reasons. Money is good so long as you're prepared to put the time in. Perfect job for a hard worker if you ask me

Pros

Great company

Cons

Workload can vary but always make sure to keep you busy

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Poor logistics planning

Courier(unhappy) (Former Employee) - Chelmsford, Essex - 13 July 2022

Was a very good firm before 3 traffic controllers left, now no one no's anything, could drive 60/70 miles for a backload an get paid £40 to take it 90 miles, need to get realistic on pricing,

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Very good company lots of job

Courier (Current Employee) - London, Greater London - 5 July 2022

Very good company give me lots of job and i earn lots of money. Many friend work here as well and all are happy. Lots of work provided to me and i get to earn lots

Pros

Lots of job an lots of money earnd

Cons

Hard to contact on mobil phone

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Very good workload and good pay

Courier (Current Employee) - Bromley - 15 June 2022

Good company to work for, lots of work around the country and plenty of flexibility. Management are very nice and fair. Generally earning around £800-1000 a week, so very good pay, especially considering the flexibility.

Pros

good pay, good workload, nice people

Cons

Can be long hours depending on the workload for the day

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Good people to work for. Would recommend

Van Driver (Former Employee) - Thurrock, Essex - 31 May 2022

Good company to work with for sameday work. Lots of work going around the UK and flexible working hours which means I can schedule work around my life. Office staff are nice and always helpful if you ever run into issues on a job. Have since retired due to poor health, but I would have been happy to continue working with them.

Pros

Lots of work, nice staff

Cons

Can be long days, depending on how far you go

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Good company to work with

Delivery Van Driver (Current Employee) - Dartford, Kent - 23 May 2022

I've been working with Atlas for 3 years now and they've been great to work for. Always in communication with me and always work with me to make sure I can get as much work as possible. Very easy to have time off, just need to let them know in advance but they've been very accommodating of last minute emergencies as well. Would strongly recommend working with Atlas.

Pros

Good workload, fun job, nice people to work with

Cons

Can be some waiting time at collections and deliveries but you get paid extra for that

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Very good very nice

Van Driver (Current Employee) - Witham, Essex - 20 May 2022

Good company to work for. Lots of jobs, good for if u like driving. Some day quieter than others but always pay fairly and nice people to work with. Like to be my own boss so this job is best for me

Pros

good pay, flexibile hours, nice people

Cons

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Jobs at Atlas Courier Express UK Ltd

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Courier Driver (OWN VAN REQUIRED)

Great place to work

Courier Driver (Current Employee) - Chelmsford, Essex - 27 April 2022

Great company to work for. I love being able to earn money driving up and down the UK and the management team always make sure to keep you as busy as they can. There can be less busy days but the busy days even the workload out meaning I don't find myself short for money. Can be as flexible as you need it to so long as you make sure to plan ahead and they are always understanding of last minute plan changes.

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Not worth it at all

Courier Driver (Former Employee) - Unknown - 26 April 2022

They go through drivers like muck through a duck.The cost of your van, Insurance, servicing and upkeep, the cost of accountants, invoicing and such you need to turn over at least £60k to earn £30k, no holiday or sick pay, expected to work every bank holiday and be available over the xmas period. You'd need to make £1500 a week the reality is £600 if your lucky, Drivers take all the risk and they take all the reward. the owners all drive 50k motors while the drivers run around in barley legal vans, not their fault they are pushed until they either give up or go under, doesn't matter to them there's drivers lined up for years.JUST DONT BOTHER WITH ATLAS if you want fair and decent paid work.

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Fun workplace. Nice worklace!

Van Driver (Former Employee) - Maidstone, Kent - 12 April 2022

Nice experience for me. I will always love this company. I enjoyed every day here. Sometimes to many death mileage, but the office staff working hard to can reduce this how much is possible. Thank you Atlas Courier

Pros

Best job to see lots of places from country. Great office suport

Cons

Sometimes less jobs

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Good rates paid very quickly

Delivery Driver (Current Employee) - Wickford, Essex - 2 January 2022

Good work and varied. Can go all over the country with the option of work to get home with. Pay is decent and quick and the Office seem to know where you are and what to give you next.

Pros

Varied work quick pay

Cons

Can be long days

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Decent work

Driver (Current Employee) - Wickford, Essex - 8 October 2021

Work part time as a driver for a couplke years. Regular work which I can do when I wantSometimes quieter months there isn't too much to do but mostly kept busy.Rates of pay are good

Pros

flexible working

Cons

some months can be quieter

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Good place to work, good pay.

Driver (Current Employee) - Wickford - 11 June 2021

Worked there for many years. Always honest with you, make sure you are honest back. Tell them when you're available and when you can't work but not at the last moment. So works well if you only want to do so many days a week. They will look after you. Just think if you were a plumber and told your customer on the day I'm not coming they're not going to hire you. There is always lots of work.

Pros

Always busy

Cons

Always busy

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Worked to exhaustion for peanuts and terrible management/planners

Driver (Former Employee) - Essex - 14 August 2020

This is a company with little respect or care for their drivers, reflected by a constant revolving door of people starting and leaving. The vehicles are nothing short of awful. Communication with planners and office staff is appalling at the best of times. Expect to be regularly prostituted out to local pallet network companies that treat you like an agency day driver, worked to exhaustion around Central London and the South East for 14hrs a day earning peanuts. Night out work was tolerable as it generally required less communication with what can only be described as clueless and mostly rude people on the other end of a phone twenty times a day, but still hard graft and maxing out 13/15hrs a day, four days a week for less than 10hrs pay across entire UK and EU, in a fleet spec vehicle with no fridge, air con etc. Not acceptable this day and age IMO.

Pros

Varied work, gained experience.

Cons

Pay, Workload, Planning, Vehicles

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not a place to work

Delivery Driver (Former Employee) - Gillingham, Kent - 21 July 2020

not a good company to work with, I managed to work 2 days to get to know them better, but they are worst company you will ever work with. Worked for almost half a day and getting £45.

Pros

never even try to pick there call

Cons

just don't work with them

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Working for free

Driver (Former Employee) - Wickford, Essex - 18 May 2020

Some jobs doesn’t even cover your diesel , but they don’t care . Some morning you will receive a call to go 70 miles to do a 10 miles job then no one from the office will answer your calls anymore . If you do the mistake to argue with anyone from transport , better find another job ASAP . I don’t recommend to anyone to work in this place . It’s a family business and only their friends or family gets the nice jobs , you will get the small ones

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Good place to work

Owner Driver Courier (Current Employee) - Anywhere - 20 April 2020

I am an owner driver, this entails being given instructions via an app on my phone to collect goods from one or more of their customers The goods must be delivered to the recipient where ever they may be located.

Pros

good team of dispatchers

Cons

none

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Don’t work with them

Privet Courier (Former Employee) - London, Greater London - 23 December 2019

This company is very bad like service which they provide to the clients.They don’t respect the drivers and they paid absolutely silly money which you can cover only the fuel.I was work for them like 3 months and this is was the worst company which I’m been working for. They will promised that they will pay good money,but actually they didn’t do it. Please don’t work for them if you don’t want to make more problems for yourself.

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