Why are class some class 1 drivers working for £9.00 hr, first i understand some people are desperate with family commitments but jesus, i would rather work at asda on the till than work for that rate, people need to get a grip have some balls and tell them to do one.
to be honest you can get more on a class 2 but your still getting people turning up for these jobs, i dont think some of these guys realise if you have an accident and one is killed witch is normally the outcome its jail, as we know well things can go wrong fast in this job no matter how good you think you are .
Class 1 drivers should be on £15.00 min if your working for £9.00 hr dont bother your cocking the job up.
If I was new to it, I’d take that wage if there was nothing else going and IF it was straight trunking from A to B, then once I’ve got more experience I would get more discerning about what work I do and at what rate. If it was multi drop, then no, I wouldn’t touch it at that rate.
hgv wages been on downwards spiral for years mainly due to everyfirm undercutting each other for work, depending on areas wages can be worse in one county comapred too 20 miles down the road
sweeper1gg:
Why are class some class 1 drivers working for £9.00 hr, first i understand some people are desperate with family commitments but jesus, i would rather work at asda on the till than work for that rate, people need to get a grip have some balls and tell them to do one.
to be honest you can get more on a class 2 but your still getting people turning up for these jobs, i dont think some of these guys realise if you have an accident and one is killed witch is normally the outcome its jail, as we know well things can go wrong fast in this job no matter how good you think you are .
Class 1 drivers should be on £15.00 min if your working for £9.00 hr dont bother your cocking the job up.
Agree with you. At the end of the day driving a HGV is a skill. Which should be recognised. But sadly it isn’t.
and meanwhile in the real world there are folk who have gone to Uni for 4 years completing medical degrees, saving lives on a daily basis earning a lot less then £15 p/hour… i,m not saying work for peanuts but in comparison most drivers have a pretty easy life…
dle1uk:
and meanwhile in the real world there are folk who have gone to Uni for 4 years completing medical degrees, saving lives on a daily basis earning a lot less then £15 p/hour… i,m not saying work for peanuts but in comparison most drivers have a pretty easy life…
But where would the world be without lorry drivers…?
dle1uk:
and meanwhile in the real world there are folk who have gone to Uni for 4 years completing medical degrees, saving lives on a daily basis earning a lot less then £15 p/hour… i,m not saying work for peanuts but in comparison most drivers have a pretty easy life…
But where would the world be without lorry drivers…?
lol, but if you really think the world will stop turning because of a shortage of truck drivers
sweeper1gg:
Why are class some class 1 drivers working for £9.00 hr, first i understand some people are desperate with family commitments but jesus, i would rather work at asda on the till than work for that rate, people need to get a grip have some balls and tell them to do one.
to be honest you can get more on a class 2 but your still getting people turning up for these jobs, i dont think some of these guys realise if you have an accident and one is killed witch is normally the outcome its jail, as we know well things can go wrong fast in this job no matter how good you think you are .
Class 1 drivers should be on £15.00 min if your working for £9.00 hr dont bother your cocking the job up.
Agree with you. At the end of the day driving a HGV is a skill. Which should be recognised. But sadly it isn’t.
HGV driving is a job you can be qualified to do in a week or 2, hardly the definition of highly skilled.
SouthEastCashew:
dle1uk:
and meanwhile in the real world there are folk who have gone to Uni for 4 years completing medical degrees, saving lives on a daily basis earning a lot less then £15 p/hour… i,m not saying work for peanuts but in comparison most drivers have a pretty easy life…
But where would the world be without lorry drivers…?
You could say that about many jobs, where would we be without Doctors, Farmers, Oil Workers, Factory Workers (Can’t be a truck driver if nobody builds the truck)
Interesting topic,came across my contract of employment the other day for my first and one and only HGV driving job…bear in mind this was a Class 2 job working mon-fri NO nights out.
Some places pay this now for Class one work,some less than this…note that I started this job in 2003!!
sweeper1gg:
Why are class some class 1 drivers working for £9.00 hr, first i understand some people are desperate with family commitments but jesus, i would rather work at asda on the till than work for that rate, people need to get a grip have some balls and tell them to do one.
to be honest you can get more on a class 2 but your still getting people turning up for these jobs, i dont think some of these guys realise if you have an accident and one is killed witch is normally the outcome its jail, as we know well things can go wrong fast in this job no matter how good you think you are .
Class 1 drivers should be on £15.00 min if your working for £9.00 hr dont bother your cocking the job up.
Agree with you. At the end of the day driving a HGV is a skill. Which should be recognised. But sadly it isn’t.
HGV driving is a job you can be qualified to do in a week or 2, hardly the definition of highly skilled.
SouthEastCashew:
dle1uk:
and meanwhile in the real world there are folk who have gone to Uni for 4 years completing medical degrees, saving lives on a daily basis earning a lot less then £15 p/hour… i,m not saying work for peanuts but in comparison most drivers have a pretty easy life…
But where would the world be without lorry drivers…?
You could say that about many jobs, where would we be without Doctors, Farmers, Oil Workers, Factory Workers (Can’t be a truck driver if nobody builds the truck)
Yep your right. I’m Just pointing out a fact though. Don’t you agree the wage should be better…
sweeper1gg:
Why are class some class 1 drivers working for £9.00 hr, first i understand some people are desperate with family commitments but jesus, i would rather work at asda on the till than work for that rate, people need to get a grip have some balls and tell them to do one.
to be honest you can get more on a class 2 but your still getting people turning up for these jobs, i dont think some of these guys realise if you have an accident and one is killed witch is normally the outcome its jail, as we know well things can go wrong fast in this job no matter how good you think you are .
Class 1 drivers should be on £15.00 min if your working for £9.00 hr dont bother your cocking the job up.
Agree with you. At the end of the day driving a HGV is a skill. Which should be recognised. But sadly it isn’t.
HGV driving is a job you can be qualified to do in a week or 2, hardly the definition of highly skilled.
SouthEastCashew:
dle1uk:
and meanwhile in the real world there are folk who have gone to Uni for 4 years completing medical degrees, saving lives on a daily basis earning a lot less then £15 p/hour… i,m not saying work for peanuts but in comparison most drivers have a pretty easy life…
But where would the world be without lorry drivers…?
You could say that about many jobs, where would we be without Doctors, Farmers, Oil Workers, Factory Workers (Can’t be a truck driver if nobody builds the truck)
Yep your right. I’m Just pointing out a fact though. Don’t you agree the wage should be better…
Everybody would agree about better wages, but truck drivers wages are at the whim of the free market. If as the OP suggests drivers refused jobs for £9ph then wage would go up, but they don’t so wages remain the same.
I earn less than what I did 7 yrs ago when I took this present job after redundancy about 7 yrs ago.
I was used to making bloody good money with bonuses on my 2 out of 3 previous jobs working outbased parking my truck at home, before I started this one.
When I started this job it was always going to be temporary until I got something else, and for about 3 years I was constantly looking at outbased work for foreign firms again to no avail.
In the meantime about 3yrs ago, I managed to get my own little weekly niche job on the firm I am on. Ok, the money aint brill, but I am left to my own devices on the whole, not pushed or pestered, and I am finished every Sat lunchtime, and not back in to the following tues around 7am, so long weekend at home every weekend, so a decent home life for a change after bloody years.
In the meantime about a year ago I got a call from another Belgian co asking if I was still wanting to start with them, and the money was good, what I had been used to previously.
I weighed up the situation, I had a choice of staying where I am with the contentment I had, but relatively average wage, or back to Euro tramping with all the uncertainty, long hours, weekending, teararsing to catch ferries and all the rest of the crap…, and I thought ■■■■ it, been there done that, don’t need it anymore, anything for a quiet life, so I thanked them for keeping me on record, but declined the offer.
So if the o/p is saying the likes of me are ■■■■ ing up the job with my average wage for the area where I live, my answer would be tough ■■■■ mate !
sweeper1gg:
Why are class some class 1 drivers working for £9.00 hr, first i understand some people are desperate with family commitments but jesus, i would rather work at asda on the till than work for that rate, people need to get a grip have some balls and tell them to do one.
to be honest you can get more on a class 2 but your still getting people turning up for these jobs, i dont think some of these guys realise if you have an accident and one is killed witch is normally the outcome its jail, as we know well things can go wrong fast in this job no matter how good you think you are .
Class 1 drivers should be on £15.00 min if your working for £9.00 hr dont bother your cocking the job up.
Agree with you. At the end of the day driving a HGV is a skill. Which should be recognised. But sadly it isn’t.
HGV driving is a job you can be qualified to do in a week or 2, hardly the definition of highly skilled.
SouthEastCashew:
dle1uk:
and meanwhile in the real world there are folk who have gone to Uni for 4 years completing medical degrees, saving lives on a daily basis earning a lot less then £15 p/hour… i,m not saying work for peanuts but in comparison most drivers have a pretty easy life…
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But where would the world be without lorry drivers…?
You could say that about many jobs, where would we be without Doctors, Farmers, Oil Workers, Factory Workers (Can’t be a truck driver if nobody builds the truck)
Yep your right. I’m Just pointing out a fact though. Don’t you agree the wage should be better…
tbh yes they should be, but everyone as a choice, I have worked for a low wage cos it fitted with me at the time, 2 minutes from home, left alone, planned my own work… with alot of drivers you never get the full picture, £600 a week blah blah dont tell you the hours conditions though… but my own views are in reality, my wife a senior physio with specialist skills, most days out the door same time as me, but back later, goes without proper breaks most days, brings work home most nights and especially weekends… the frustrations she as to put with, and i earn more…
robroy:
I earn less than what I did 7 yrs ago when I took this present job after redundancy about 7 yrs ago.
I was used to making bloody good money with bonuses on my 2 out of 3 previous jobs working outbased parking my truck at home, before I started this one.
When I started this job it was always going to be temporary until I got something else, and for about 3 years I was constantly looking at outbased work for foreign firms again to no avail.
In the meantime about 3yrs ago, I managed to get my own little weekly niche job on the firm I am on. Ok, the money aint brill, but I am left to my own devices on the whole, not pushed or pestered, and I am finished every Sat lunchtime, and not back in to the following tues around 7am, so long weekend at home every weekend, so a decent home life for a change after bloody years.
In the meantime about a year ago I got a call from another Belgian co asking if I was still wanting to start with them, and the money was good, what I had been used to previously.
I weighed up the situation, I had a choice of staying where I am with the contentment I had, but relatively average wage, or back to Euro tramping with all the uncertainty, long hours, weekending, teararsing to catch ferries and all the rest of the crap…, and I thought [zb] it, been there done that, don’t need it anymore, anything for a quiet life, so I thanked them for keeping me on record, but declined the offer.
So if the o/p is saying the likes of me are [zb] ing up the job with my average wage for the area where I live, my answer would be tough [zb] mate !
robroy:
So if the o/p is saying the likes of me are [zb] ing up the job with my average wage for the area where I live, my answer would be tough [zb] mate !
Exactly. Also to note we don’t have the same bills to pay. I have no wife and kids at home to pay for so as long as I enjoy my job and it pays enough to cover the flat, car collection, going to pub with mates at weekends and still have saving then its enough for me.
Every time I see a post like this, it’s always the low paid sector of the driving industry that are doing the moaning about crap wages, mainly due to their inability to bag themselves a decent paying number. Any new drivers reading this thread would be thinking £9/hour is the only hope they’ll ever have!
Yeh it’s the qualty of life thing.
Ok, I’m tramping which clearly aint everyone’s cup of tea I know.
Some who are home every night, …aka nor real drivers (I’m joking, I’m joking ! ) may even say tramping and quality of life is a paradox, but it’s all I’ve known since I started.
Thing is now I enjoy my longer weekends at home, 2 and a half days every week, max 4 nights out a week, (3 this week) coupled with relatively shorter hours and minimal hassle, so as I said …quality of life and a much easier working week over mega bucks for me nowadays.
xichrisxi:
Interesting topic,came across my contract of employment the other day for my first and one and only HGV driving job…bear in mind this was a Class 2 job working mon-fri NO nights out.
Some places pay this now for Class one work,some less than this…note that I started this job in 2003!!
Says it all. Where some people get the idea from that there is a “driver shortage” is completely beyond me.
I personally know drivers here in NI who are driving quarry bulk tippers/lowloader and bitumen tankers for £7.50hr 1st 40hrs then time and a half rest of week.
Have told them they are MENTAL many times but carry on doin what they do instead of moving on to better paid work.
than work for that rate, people need to get a grip have some balls and tell them to do one.
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lol
) may even say tramping and quality of life is a paradox, but it’s all I’ve known since I started.