you will never know till you apply and find out the good or the bad.
most places that advertise pay rates that look good usually end up crap when you work out the entire deal.
the owner obviously dont want anyone with a limper/plobber mindset and would prefer someone who takes a genuine pride in the job.
it dont mean that he wants a low paid mug to polish his plant.
if you want to trunk your poverty spec every night as a cabbage in a seat then thats what to do as theres as much of a difference in the two aspects of the job.
anything i drive myself on the random trips i do will be a blinged up gruntmobile as it was when i was full time ,but apaft from a wash and scrub now and again,then i wouldnt be doing it in my own unpaid time,hence although itl be a proper job,then it wouldnt suit me for that reason alone.
different strokes for different folks again,but il bet the winning applicant is a happier man that bogdan the limper fleet spec trunkman whether or not his wages are different at the end of the week.