As required by the bylaws of The Roast Court, written by a driver, in a van, at the Holiday Inn Express in Wigan, allegedly.
We don't ask for your depot. We don't ask which company you drive for. We don't ask for your email or your real name. You get a daft random handle and that's it. If your boss spots something on here, they cannot prove it was you. That's not a feature — that's the whole platform.
UK delivery drivers. Multi-drop, A-to-B, same-day, contract, owner-driver, pharmacy, white-glove, anything in between. If you've spent more than three consecutive hours behind the wheel of a 3.5t van wondering whose idea it was to put a postcode boundary right through the middle of an industrial estate, you're home. If you've sat in a warehouse loading bay for four hours waiting for a same-day job that took eight minutes to drive, you're also home. We're not just for the multi-drop crowd — A-to-B drivers built half of the industry.
We host the daftest games we can think of, all about the daily experience of UK courier work. You upload, you roast, you rate, you comment. Other drivers do the same to yours. Nobody wins anything. That's the point.
Your depot. Your company. Your email. Your phone number. Your real name. Your number plate. Your address. Your manifest. Your tachograph. Your shoe size. None of it. Don't tell us. We don't want it. It's a feature.
A random ID for your browser (so you don't have to log in twice). A daft handle we made up for you (e.g. "Wheelie Bin Whisperer"). The photos and comments you actively post. That's it. We never write down your IP next to your activity.
Don't post a photo where your number plate is visible — crop it out, blur it, draw a Sharpie line through it. Don't post photos of the customer's house number. Don't post photos that include a uniform with your company's logo across the back. We can't stop you, but if you do, that's on you, not us.
Roast the van, the drop, the depot, the sat-nav. Don't roast the driver. Don't dox anyone. Don't try to work out who's who. Don't name managers, customers, or specific drivers. Be cheeky, not cruel. The Roast Court is watching.
A small team of UK courier-business people who got bored of building actually-useful things and decided to build this instead. We are not affiliated with any courier company. If we were, you wouldn't trust us, and rightly so.
Driver work is hard, often unfair, and full of moments that are objectively very funny if you don't have to live them every day. There's no real place online where drivers — anywhere — can share those moments without risking their job. We thought there should be.
You'll be banned for: naming individuals, sharing addresses, targeted harassment, racism, sexism, ableism, anything you'd regret saying in front of your nan. You'll be warned for: being a bit boring. There is no appeals process. The Roast Court is self-appointed and immune to subpoena.
We don't, currently. If the site catches on, we'll eventually do silly merch (bingo cards, stickers, possibly an enamel pin shaped like a wheelie bin). We won't charge drivers. We won't run programmatic ads. We won't sell aggregated data to courier companies — that's the whole opposite of why this exists.