Start on class 2 tippers, skips, roro. All local work. You can earn around £27k - £30k+. Doing 10/11 hour days. 5/6am to 4/5pm.
If you get bored of tippers try roro. Once fed up with roro back onto tippers etc. I enjoy tipper/roro work, easy work. Good laugh with the drivers. You dont have to drive like a maniac like you have probably heard. I dont speed for no company. Clean license.
When i passed my class 1. Only places who offered me a start wanted 70 hour weeks and/or tramping mon - fri. Not interested in paying a mortgage to sleep in a truck, working silly hours instead. Not the life for me