M. Lambe Construction Limited - Birmingham

John-Paul Stevenson

Be wary of this company. I highly recommend you read this review before dealing with them.

My wife went to the doctors and was unable to park in the disabled parking spot due to the inconsiderate driver of this van.

She had to park further away, struggling to walk up a slight hill to the surgery, which is not good for her condition.

On the way she noticed the van parked in the disabled space had no disabled badge on display and decided to take a photo, while doing this she also noticed an open can of Stella on the dash.

While doing this she noticed the gentleman walking back from across the road, possibly from the bar you can see in the background as his breath had a tinge of alcohol on it, but this could have been from the can of Stella.

The man wanted to know what her problem was with taking photos of his works van.

She explained that he was clearly parked in a disabled space, and to all intense purposes not even using the surgery, pointing out the car park is for patients and staff only, the store car park is across the road.

The man chuckled and said “I had no idea I was in a disabled spot”; he wasn't aggressive, just passive rude with a couldn't care less attitude and made no attempt to apologise, move or deny anything, he simply turned his back towards her.

After witnessing his attitude, she decided she would email his company, however, after getting no response she mentioned the whole thing to me.

I decided to research the company and found they have a VERY bad reputation for driver complaints.

In total they have 15 negative reviews about bad driving, 2 for bad attitudes, 4 complaints about other things, 1 negative employee and 6 unknown bad ratings.

The positive ratings boosting their score come from 4 employee reviews and 14 other 5 star reviews most of which have zero to five words, which tells me they just wanted to avoid a 1 star rating by asking employees and a few others to put some 5 star ratings on here.

But it doesn't stop there, on Facebook they have 5 fake reviews that look like investment scams, 2 abusive, rude, and poor workmanship reviews, another 2 comments for bad driving and a bad driving review.

Out of all this only ONE person received a response from the company, compared to many others who have said the company has ignored their complaints.

Some of their bad driving reviews are horrendous.

When I looked at the company website and saw they have a core values page I nearly cried with laughter, please forgive the sarcasm, but if you have something like this you should uphold it.

It clearly states in the first box "Integrity" and then mentions doing the right thing, act in a trustworthy way, and treat people with respect.

This is clearly something they intended to do but are seriously failing at, you only have to read through the reviews and comments for yourselves, look at the photos and you will see how truly awful this company is.

The next image was "Collaboration" which mentions developing strong relationships, support, looking after each other, be approachable, actively listen and a few others.

Again, good intentions are wonderful, but actions speak louder than words, this company seriously needs to rethink and look at the way it deals with people.

If you are looking to do business with this company, I highly recommend you ask yourselves seriously if you should look elsewhere.

If they are this bad with all these things, then you must ask yourself about everything they do.

We all make mistakes, we know companies have people within them that make mistakes, but for me the biggest thing is how they are dealt with, and this company seems to ignore everything and accepts the poor attitudes, standards, and driving by its employees.

They even ignore their own core beliefs; this is why I have invested the time to write such a review.

I hope that they read this and decide to make positive changes, hopefully the sooner the better.

All those complaints deserve to be heard, answered, and action taken against those responsible.

Ross

I had a similarly negative encounter with one of your drivers, who seemed to act as a gatekeeper for poor traffic knowledge and behaviour, and was flaunting it proudly

The driver was straddling 2 lanes for the better part of one mile on a dual carriage way, which left one lane unoccupied for 600 yards, causing increased road congestion during peak rush hour traffic. The crux of the issue comes down to education, or a lack of, about what is the correct driving practice - perhaps a refresher would aid the individual who occupies the roads more frequently as they could be obstructing emergency vehicles in the future. I would advise reading the below article, assuming one is not too proud to be told how to do things correctly!

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/driving-advice/zip-merging/

Cav Smart

Not surprised at the numerous terrible reviews and comments about the drivers of their vans being idiots.
Driver was sat in the middle of two lanes on a dual carriageway, preventing cars from passing in either side, meaning traffic backed-up twice as far down the road as it should have - causing a huge obstruction is any emergency vehicles needed to pass etc.

Seems they are serial offenders, and if this is how their employees act on the roads, I dread to think of the quality of their work.

Ethan

Amazed to find so many bad reviews about driving, but not that surprised given what I witnessed. The guy overtook my car so closely on a bend that he nearly spun us out. Absolute moron behind the wheel.

ian lockwood

Driver of BK23 EZJ van is a complete idiot overtaking on a blind bend, I wouldn't use or offer contracts to this company if these people are the type they are employing.

Heather

Similar to many, many other reviews here, the driver of BK23 EZA van needs to retake their driving test. Dangerous driving and overtaking 3 cars in a row on busy roads

Adrian Holden

Driver of van PJ21 SJV needs to learn that the hedgerows of Nuneaton are not a suitable place to throw their rubbish out of the van. Disgusting behaviour, it's not that hard to find a bin

Macka

Van driver in Brownhills shot out in front of traffic at Friesland lane. Then at junction of coppice lane to Lichfield road proceeded to go around 7 cars in a queue waiting to turn right and himself pushed into traffic on the Lichfield road across into Brookland road. If their drivers are this bad and disregard for other public then I’d hate to see how they act in their trade. I’ll make sure I never deal with this company and I would hope others dont either.