A water tanker supplier fills and delivers water to homes, apartments, construction sites and factories, often in a hurry. The team is drivers, helpers and dispatchers who work long rounds in heat and traffic, so duty hours and safety come first.
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Share your requirementsA water tanker supplier fills tankers from borewells, filling stations or municipal points and delivers to apartment complexes, houses, construction sites, hotels and factories. Staff include drivers, helpers, filling point attendants, dispatchers who take calls and route loads, a mechanic and an accounts clerk. Demand jumps in summer and when supplies fail, and customers want water within hours. Drivers cover long distances in heat and traffic, handle cash and settle disputes about quantity and quality at the gate. Water quality and clean tankers matter for health. Vehicle breakdowns, accidents and long waits at filling points disrupt the plan. See also HR for energy and utilities.
These are the places the people side of this kind of business tends to give way. The rest of this page works through them.
HR here has to work for each of these groups, not only the office. The set-up below is written with all of them in mind.
GullyHR runs talent acquisition for permanent roles in water tanker suppliers. For each role we agree the job description with you, find and screen candidates against it, and support the offer through to joining. Tell us the role and the number of people, and we start there.
We recruit permanent employees. We do not supply contract or temporary staff.
Every business interviews, but few have a written process that works the same way for every role and every interviewer. GullyHR designs yours, from the role brief to the offer, trains your managers to run it, and can run it for you on the roles you hand us.
We agree what the role must deliver, the must-have and nice-to-have skills, and how each will be scored.
Screening call, assessment, interview rounds and decision points, sized to the role and the number of people you hire.
Structured questions for each role family and a rating guide, so two interviewers judge the same answer the same way.
A short briefing for your managers on what to ask, what to avoid and how to give a clear yes or no.
Who approves, how the offer is made, and how candidates are kept informed from first call to joining.
Drivers run double trips in the heat, helpers sleep in the cab, and accidents rise with tiredness.
A society secretary claims the tanker was short, the driver says it was full, and there is no record either way.
Drivers collect payment at drop and deposit later, and a shortfall becomes a blame game.
Tankers are cleaned irregularly, and a customer complaint about taste or smell damages trust.
Drivers wait hours to fill, miss their slots and are blamed for late delivery.
The dispatcher takes calls, assigns vehicles and answers angry customers, and has no tool to see who is where.
Better paying fleets or construction firms lure them away during the busy months.
A tanker hits a two-wheeler and the driver runs or freezes, because no one told him what to do.
Start with the topics that matter most here: Health, Safety and Wellbeing; Employee Administration; Compensation, Payroll and Benefits. Then work through the rest. Each topic is written for energy and utilities, not in general.
Induction, records, incident reporting and follow-through.
Records, attendance, leave and the day-to-day HR that must simply work.
Salary structure, payroll inputs and a month that closes on time.
How many people, in which roles, by when — and what they will cost.
Structure, reporting lines and who is allowed to decide what.
Requisition to joining, the same way every time.
A first day that is the same for the fifth joiner as the first.
Goals, reviews and ratings that hold up in a conversation.
Training planned from need rather than from the calendar.
Named backups for the roles that cannot be vacant.
Communication, recognition and the conditions people actually work in.
Two routes — one for complaints, one for conduct — kept separate.
Policies a manager can apply, and obligations with owners and dates.
Who leaves, when, why — and which of them mattered.
Resignation to relieving letter, in a defined order.
Records that survive people, and approvals that do not queue.
A short monthly pack management actually reads.
An HR function that runs the same way every month.
The pieces a water tanker suppliers business puts in place, in an order that makes each easier. Open any card for the detail.
Maximum trips, rest breaks, a rule on helpers' sleep and an agreed rota for peak weeks.
Maximum trips, rest breaks, a rule on helpers' sleep and an agreed rota for peak weeks. See attendance, shift and leave.
Time, quantity, signature of receiver and meter reading where used, so disputes can be settled.
Time, quantity, signature of receiver and meter reading where used, so disputes can be settled.
Daily deposit, a receipt, a counter-check by the accounts clerk.
Daily deposit, a receipt, a counter-check by the accounts clerk. Pay and deductions follow your payroll provider.
Tank cleaning dates, a checklist, a quality check and a sign-off.
Tank cleaning dates, a checklist, a quality check and a sign-off. See workplace health, safety and wellbeing.
A shared sheet or app showing vehicles, trips and slots, with one call-taker and one planner at peak.
A shared sheet or app showing vehicles, trips and slots, with one call-taker and one planner at peak. See employee onboarding.
What to do after an accident, whom to call, how to record the scene and what to say.
What to do after an accident, whom to call, how to record the scene and what to say. See learning and development.
Before changing anything, find out what is true today. These checks take an afternoon and tell you which of the topics above to start with.
Share your requirementsConfirm with a qualified professional. What applies to you depends on your business, your state and your arrangements, and it changes. This page describes practice. It does not state a legal position.
The services below fit this kind of business best. Each starts by recording where you stand, and every later report compares against that. We do not promise outcomes.
Trip limits, rest rules and peak rotas for drivers and helpers.
A cleaning schedule and incident plan for tankers and crews.
Cash, trip allowances and deductions explained and routed to your payroll provider.
Short driver training on accidents, customer disputes and hygiene.
Start with a free conversation, or see the paid HR Diagnostic.
Understand the business, its workforce, current processes and HR challenges.
Find the missing, weak, inconsistent or person-dependent processes.
Create the structure, processes, policies, SOPs, dashboards and systems needed.
Help HR and department managers actually adopt the new system.
Digitise repetitive and approval-based workflows where it is worth doing.
Track hiring, attendance, employee cost, performance, training and attrition.
Strengthen the people-management system continuously, not once.
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Set a limit based on distance, heat and traffic, and allow rest between trips. Confirm legal driving-hour rules with a qualified professional.
Record each delivery with time, quantity and receiver's signature, and review any complaint against the record.
Give a receipt book, require same-day deposit and have the accounts clerk check against dispatch records.
Keep a cleaning calendar, a checklist and a sign-off by a named person. Test complaints against the last cleaning date.
Pay for peak duty fairly, plan rest, recognise safe driving and be clear about trip rules.
We would meet the owner, the dispatcher and a driver and look at trip records, cash handover and cleaning logs. A fitting first task is a trip and rest rule with a delivery record. Scope and fees are put in writing after we talk.
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