I’ve been having a look through Indeed.com and some vacancies for car transporters are paying £40k-£50 per year for 3-4 nights out a week and I imagine running max hours.
Has anyone got experience and/or opinions on car transporting? Ups and downs? Would anyone recommend I aim for it in the future?
check previous threads because its been done to death on here and I will go mad if I have to read it all again. 
Really not my cup of tea. I would hate living in that tiny cab. I did speak to a guy at Beaconsfield services who left Maritime to do transporter work and he loves it. He got fed up waiting for 8 hours at Sainsbury’s for his box to get tipped.
Car transporter work used to be the best driving work in the UK but the pay levels plummeted, Silcock Express was the highest earners, then companies like Keddy came on to the market and ruined everything, Eurofleet was another job killer.
At one time there was only one better paid job than transporters,and that was on petrol tankers,but then along came the cut throat outfits and you can guess the rest.
Not a job I would want these days,loading/ unloading looks to technical would have done it when it was a straight seven cars on /off but not juggling the decks about.
Good money but all money is good its just that theres not always enough of it
I love it I pick up scrap cars which is hard graft sometimes if you’ve got a load that don’t drive,don’t have to worry about damage thought,the money isn’t as good as the big players,but I earn slightly more then when I was on general haulage tramping,and I’m home everyday an never work more then 12 hours
Don’t like heights - especially when you need to clamber about a steel frame.
And yes I know, you lower some of the decks so far to load, but that one over the cab 
- in the wet and wind too!!■■ 
Then what is it like in the winter, climbing up iced framework…?
And that low cab…■■? 
Doff my hat to the ones that do, do it…
i did it for about 2 year, yep good money to be earned but you will work for it… in that time about 35 drivers came and went, very high turnover and being honest though i was there 2 year i prob only learned 50-70% of the job…
A bloke on here called Juddian is the oracle on transporters. He is the best guy to listen to.
Olog Hai:
A bloke on here called Juddian is the oracle on transporters. He is the best guy to listen to.
Juddian is non gender specific and doesn’t relate to being a bloke. He/she prefers to be known as ‘shim’ and has his own ■■■■■■■■ breasts to fondle in his little cab
Juddian could be anything these days, now he’s an old ■■■■ and all the wrong bits are shrinking sometimes he wonders if he’s a she
Transporters are a marmite job, there’s no middle ground, you can either do it and enjoy it or you can’t, some take to it like a duck to water, others take up to 2 years to get the hang of it and it never comes naturally to them.
I enjoyed my time on it, but i’m bloody glad i’m out of it now.
Yes you can earn good money, but earn it you will, its filthy and sweaty work in the summer, it’s filthier still and you bloody freeze yer brass monkeys off in the winter, you get hurt regularly so if you can’t take the odd clout don’t do it.
If you get a good reputation then lucrative doors open for you, and interviews for other specialist and the better jobs tend to be over quickly once they learn what you’ve done before and the job is offered.
The drop out rate is horrendous, and i have nothing bad to say about those it doesn’t work out for, i’ve known really good general drivers that have done everything else simply can’t get their heads round it, in some ways you would be just as well as new pass except the lorries are a bloody handful at the best of times.
I have just started about 6 weeks ago and i have to admit. I really do enjoy it. Its challenging at times but still enjoyable for me anyway. ( apart from doing the dreaded London run)
theflyingdustman:
I have just started about 6 weeks ago and i have to admit. I really do enjoy it. Its challenging at times but still enjoyable for me anyway. ( apart from doing the dreaded London run)
Glad you are enjoying it. I enjoyed my time on transporters although it was only for a summer season and it was quite a few years ago now. As with everything it has changed but I would love a go now just to see how I coped. I know a couple of lads who do the job now and they love it too. Yes it takes a little time to learn and mistakes can be easily made if there is a lapse of concentration but why I wonder do so many drop out as Juddian says? That intrigues me! I can understand it would be a bit rough over winter but what other problems do drivers have?
jakethesnake:
theflyingdustman:
I have just started about 6 weeks ago and i have to admit. I really do enjoy it. Its challenging at times but still enjoyable for me anyway. ( apart from doing the dreaded London run)Glad you are enjoying it. I enjoyed my time on transporters although it was only for a summer season and it was quite a few years ago now. As with everything it has changed but I would love a go now just to see how I coped. I know a couple of lads who do the job now and they love it too. Yes it takes a little time to learn and mistakes can be easily made if there is a lapse of concentration but why I wonder do so many drop out as Juddian says? That intrigues me! I can understand it would be a bit rough over winter but what other problems do drivers have?
I applied for a job at copart last week and waiting to hear about it.
I don’t have any experience but wonder if the drop out is due to the work involved. Maybe for some their comes the point that the extra money isn’t worth the effort compared to waiting for someone else to load/unload
good luck with copart you,ll need it , have a read of reviews on indeed,
dle1uk:
good luck with copart you,ll need it , have a read of reviews on indeed,
I have. I don’t view them as a long term option but if they are willing to let me practice (and make mistakes) with a transporter rather than bca etc sounds good to me
kcrussell25:
jakethesnake:
theflyingdustman:
I have just started about 6 weeks ago and i have to admit. I really do enjoy it. Its challenging at times but still enjoyable for me anyway. ( apart from doing the dreaded London run)Glad you are enjoying it. I enjoyed my time on transporters although it was only for a summer season and it was quite a few years ago now. As with everything it has changed but I would love a go now just to see how I coped. I know a couple of lads who do the job now and they love it too. Yes it takes a little time to learn and mistakes can be easily made if there is a lapse of concentration but why I wonder do so many drop out as Juddian says? That intrigues me! I can understand it would be a bit rough over winter but what other problems do drivers have?
I applied for a job at copart last week and waiting to hear about it.
I don’t have any experience but wonder if the drop out is due to the work involved. Maybe for some their comes the point that the extra money isn’t worth the effort compared to waiting for someone else to load/unload
Yeah possiblbly true.
I passed this when heading East the other night… no likey, just lighty!! 
Shame about the motors that were on it though tinyurl.com/ya3ogoz4
The one thing that I would hate is how inadequate the access is to some of the showrooms I see. Must be a right pain is the arse sometimes.
kcrussell25:
dle1uk:
good luck with copart you,ll need it , have a read of reviews on indeed,I have. I don’t view them as a long term option but if they are willing to let me practice (and make mistakes) with a transporter rather than bca etc sounds good to me
as long as your eyes are open when you go for it, but get the money quoted out your head you wont get anywhere near it, guys who have been there years are earning decent money but not that much, if you want any more info which most is bad tbh pm me,