dieseldave:
The words “day rate” as used in driving job offers are as old as the hills.
The rate is specified in this instance as “£105 a day”.
This means that the amount of money to be paid is fixed AND known in advance, so it appears fair enough, and so we’re OK so far.
Now we come to the “a day” part of it… Have you noticed that there’s nothing fixed or known about that in advance?
xichrisxi makes an excellent point IMHO.
Transporting stuff around is fickle and contains a number of unknowns such as, forkies and queues (at both ends of a journey) traffic, roadworks, traffic accidents, weather etc, all of which can add significantly to the length of time needed to do a job.
Doing a job for “day rate” isn’t going to work out very well for a driver, unless the word “day” has a defined meaning in the offer.
The guy on the phone said, it’s about 65 hours, can be less. So before any allowances it’s 8.07 £/ h . With allowances gross 650£, so its 10£/h. Before, I checked Eddie Stobart offer 10.44/h , I thought there will be allowances add on top of hourly rate, then re read the offer, hourly rate included allowances.
There’s AKW Global near me, 29900£ for distance driver, and they write ; Please note, your salary is paid in 12 equal, monthly instalments, regardless of how many hours you work per month. R.T keedwell advertise 600-700£/ week, seems both offers are quite similar. Many negative reviews for akw, some for Eddie Stobart on tnuk, also some for r t keedwell. But no review for this company here. I found info , they got about 100 units, do both container and curtainsider transport, and much closer to my home. Might be not a bad place to gain some experience, and move on better paid jobs or Euro work after sometime. Anyway will find out more at interview/assessment day after get back my licences.