eagerbeaver:
Don’t bother mate. Housing shortage and HS2 means that the construction game is what you need to get into.Heavy plant machinery; Excavators, diggers, bulldozers etc. £20 per hour Mon-Fri 35 hrs per week and home every night.
Truck driving is no good. The money is crap, the facilities are crap, and the vast majority of people in the industry are crap too. DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY LIKE I DID. GET INTO CONSTRUCTION
You are right about the rates on Plant ,well agency rates anyway, full time not so much. Pretty much the same as on the lorries but 35hrs?!? Maybe if you work for a local company if you get on something like a big muckshift you could be looking at 7 days a week possibly 16 hour days (no tacho’s on plant) going like stink to get the work done.
From my own experience you can do your 45hrs ON SITE but there’s the travelling to and from which can be a good few hours even more if the roads are screwed, usually on a friday as well.
There are good points though no drivers hours rules, not many cyclists but its probably no different from driving or most jobs really people will always want more money better hours etc there’s the same gripes everywhere i reckon.