Never done the job and have never really fancied it but…900£ p/w is decent money.
If the job offered is as described then go for it…or look back with regret…
I used to do a bit for Graypaul, specialist dealers & sourcers, a few auction houses, private collectors & delivered all of Land Rover/Range Rover’s TV & film vehicles for a few years.
This is the motor trade we’re talking about here isn’t it? In ‘Honest John’s’ car trader world the only geezer getting close to £900pw is Honest John himself 
It’s BS mate.
Most of this tackle is moved in anonymous, curtain sided tilt & slides. I got asked to do it because I fit the candidate requirements almost perfectly & I spent a lot of time buddying up with newbies to teach them the very delicate loading/unloading proceedures. They aren’t going to ask someone who shares more DNA with a gorilla than is healthy & has just stepped out of a tipper truck to pick up Eric Claptons Ferrari for a service or deliver a Bugatti Veyron to Bruntingthorpe are they?
Funnily enuff, most of the lads doing this kind of work are actually ex SAS. Believe it or not, it’s one of the career avenues that the regiment offers them when they retire . . . Along with operating very high class portable toilets . . . & I don’t believe ANYONE could make that up !
From the drivers i’ve spoken to this covered transporter lark doesn’t pay the driver as well as normal open transporters, in some cases the pay is very poor, though the subsistence might be better when you’re over the water and/or weekended away, and i have no idea if there’s any tips (ie here working class chappie have £20) involved, probably rarely.
Compared to a normal transporter the loading times are long, it can take as long to put 2/6 expensive cars inside a covered lorry as it can to put 11 on a normal carrier.
On a normal transporter once you are up to speed and have found the right job (with the right planners), you should gross £900+ a week for a 5 day week, not including night out pay, plus get paid for stand down time for WTD purposes, but you will earn every penny of it.
On the covered transporters it’s gonna be around £125 p/day.
We were paid everyday we were away so it does add up but £900p/w take home = no chance.
I had some monster tips during the first 5-10 years I was doing it (£100/200/300) the big tips were usually after you’d been at a race meeting/european rally and the 5/6 owners would all chip in ,but they are few and far between now and you’ll be lucky to get a Thank you from most of them.
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Dork Lard:
They aren’t going to ask someone who shares more DNA with a gorilla than is healthy & has just stepped out of a tipper truck to pick up Eric Claptons Ferrari for a service or deliver a Bugatti Veyron to Bruntingthorpe are they?
You’d think that…
Wouldn’t you.
I was at Bruntingthorpe delivering and collecting for BCA on trade plates. Got talking to another BCA red plate driver and started bragging to him that I’d had an Audi RS6 from Nottingham to Andover the previous week. He then told me about and showed me the photos of the McLaren he’d collected from the factory and driven to a dealership. He had no HGV licence, was near on half my age and was only given a brief 5 minute ‘how to drive this car’ from a McLaren employee.
At BCA Goole it’s what ever the computer spits out gets done.