There are loads. If the agency calls and says you've got a 02:00am start for a driving job and gives you the address, you might find when you get there that they didn't actually want a driver, they wanted someone for the warehouse with maybe a couple of hours driving per week. They say "We told the agency what we wanted. They're always doing this. I can understand if you want to go home". This is exactly what happened to me a while back. I had already done about 30 mins before I asked when I should start loading. I went home, called the agency later that morning. They apologised. That's it. No money.
That afternoon they called to say I had a 06:00 start at another company for the following day. I arrived and sat around until 09:30 when they said there had been a mix up. They had asked for 3 drivers, the agency had sent 3 drivers (including me), but 4 drivers had turned up. One EU guy had turned up, having worked the previous day, and been sent on a delivery run, even though the agency hadn't sent him. Again, home I went with no money.
Another day I was delivering for IKEA. 06:00 start. My driver's mate called at the end of our 2nd run to say we were heading back to the (Bristol) depot from rural Oxfordshire and would be back at about 19:20 (according to my satnav). Someone in the office said one of their lorries was having a bad day and we were to rendezvous with them in Oxford and take 4 deliveries off them and deliver them on our way back. They were big deliveries. By the time we'd unloaded the flatpacks from the lorry onto our van and made the deliveries it was 23:20 when we made it back. That's a 17:20 working day with a 30 minute break. When I got my pay it showed as a flat daily rate of £90. When I complained that it was effectively under minimum wage they eventually gave me an extra £50.
Also, you never know if or when or where you'll be working. Yeah, quite a bit different to a normal job.
