RE: Re no work1 Apr 2019 19:05
A tad short sighted. Openreach have taken on around 3000 new FTTP engineers with more still arriving. Fibre Cities is in full swing and as soon as the Service Providers start to migrate their customers on to it then there won't be time for any standing around.
Chances are the 4 vans had 2 experienced and 2 newbie engineers. Someone has to mentor them for a while. They have just started using a new climbing system too and that could be another reason for 4 vans as all get used to the new system.
If you don't want to see engineers with no work, then lobby OFCOM to get off their fat behinds and instruct the SPs to migrate, after split was those moaning fecks that nearly brought the full separation of BT and Openreach which is of course what Murdoch wanted.