Any good info about this company,job,condition,wages,deduction for damaged car,hours.Have oportunity for driving assestment and training after.
Auction or main fleet? Mon - Fri or 4 on 4 off?
Wages differ week to week depending on work but if you’re on main fleet and out Mon-Fri and when you’re up to speed (which could take 6 months to a year depending on how you take to it) then generally £750 - 800 take home atm. If you want to make that then you’ll be doing 55-60 hrs every week and earning every penny and some. You don’t get deductions for damaging cars but there is a damage bonus and there’s only so much damage they’ll put up with.
Conditions - it’s a tough job. You’ll work twice as hard as the rest of the industry for probably no better money hence lots leaving. New car work is slow since covid and no signs of it picking up so lots of multi-drop and auction work which doesn’t pay as well, so take home pay has gone down in reality while the rest of the haulage industry has had a pay rise 
If it’s something that you want to do, then go for it. BCA are no better or worse than anyone else to work for, the training is good. If you are only interested because you think it’s mega money, then I wouldn’t bother, it’s just not the case any more!
crunch13:
Auction or main fleet? Mon - Fri or 4 on 4 off?Wages differ week to week depending on work but if you’re on main fleet and out Mon-Fri and when you’re up to speed (which could take 6 months to a year depending on how you take to it) then generally £750 - 800 take home atm. If you want to make that then you’ll be doing 55-60 hrs every week and earning every penny and some. You don’t get deductions for damaging cars but there is a damage bonus and there’s only so much damage they’ll put up with.
Conditions - it’s a tough job. You’ll work twice as hard as the rest of the industry for probably no better money hence lots leaving. New car work is slow since covid and no signs of it picking up so lots of multi-drop and auction work which doesn’t pay as well, so take home pay has gone down in reality while the rest of the haulage industry has had a pay rise
If it’s something that you want to do, then go for it. BCA are no better or worse than anyone else to work for, the training is good. If you are only interested because you think it’s mega money, then I wouldn’t bother, it’s just not the case any more!
Job in Corby.They said who can choice 4on 4 off or Monday to Friday?They said 2 week training and 1 week after drive truck and job with another truck and driver.What this training??Class room,or in computer,loading land?Delivery across full UK and villages.I know it is hard job,I earn sidereal money now in Stobart.But it is good time try self.Now they taked unexperinced(with car transporter) drivers.If something go bad can back to normal driving job.MAY BE LOOSE SOME EXTRA STOBES IN WEIGHT.What is top hard in this job or top danger.
Juddian is your man; I don’t know if he ever worked for BCA but he did quite a few years on car transporters and is always very willing to advise.
Long out of the game mate and glad to be so at my age, anyway Crunch 13 has given as good a concise breakdown as anyone, i got no idea what its like now except what posters like Crunch have said, same as anyone here.
BCA is the current name, its more or less an amalgamation of what was once Walon (Autologic) before they bloody ruined that, and Paragon (Eurofleet/JSM/Inchcape/ADT/ Stobart Transporters or any other names you care to mention its been called over the years, i’ve missed a few out pretty sure) all since bought out.
edit…hang one got confused there, ES bought the uk Autologic operation, and Paragon bought them out when ES couldn’t make it work…however there is at least one name missing from the E’fleet line up of names over the years…ah just remembered, Camden or was it Cambden.
Interesting Crunch mentions turnover of staff, always been the case with E’fleet onwards on that side, Walon didn’t have a high turnover of staff until high management changed late noughties.
T’aint a job for everyone, as he rightly stresses the point its hard work and the rewards aint necessarily there, for some, for others they are.
Mate of mine on another outfit is knocking up nearly £60k currently.
Andrejs:
Job in Corby.They said who can choice 4on 4 off or Monday to Friday?They said 2 week training and 1 week after drive truck and job with another truck and driver.What this training??Class room,or in computer,loading land?Delivery across full UK and villages.I know it is hard job,I earn sidereal money now in Stobart.But it is good time try self.Now they taked unexperinced(with car transporter) drivers.If something go bad can back to normal driving job.MAY BE LOOSE SOME EXTRA STOBES IN WEIGHT.What is top hard in this job or top danger.
Might be a day in a classroom but basically 2 weeks practising loading and then tested doing an 11 car load at the end. Then a week following another driver around loading and tipping at the same places - you’ll learn more on that week tbh.
Why’s it hard? It’s a physical job and it’s dirty. Can be stressful, you can never really switch off, if you do, you can guarantee you’ll damage something. And you’re constantly busy, there’s not really much waiting around so if you do a 15 hr day you’ve probably been driving or working hard for 14 of them. No sitting round on loading bays for 6-8 hrs a day!
Not trying to put you off at all - I enjoy being busy and having to think all the time - you should just go in with your eyes open because many don’t and then jack in the first few weeks once they realise what’s involved.
Juddian:
Long out of the game mate and glad to be so at my age, anyway Crunch 13 has given as good a concise breakdown as anyone, i got no idea what its like now except what posters like Crunch have said, same as anyone here.BCA is the current name, its more or less an amalgamation of what was once Walon (Autologic) before they bloody ruined that, and Paragon (Eurofleet/JSM/Inchcape/ADT/ Stobart Transporters or any other names you care to mention its been called over the years, i’ve missed a few out pretty sure) all since bought out.
edit…hang one got confused there, ES bought the uk Autologic operation, and Paragon bought them out when ES couldn’t make it work…however there is at least one name missing from the E’fleet line up of names over the years…ah just remembered, Camden or was it Cambden.Interesting Crunch mentions turnover of staff, always been the case with E’fleet onwards on that side, Walon didn’t have a high turnover of staff until high management changed late noughties.
T’aint a job for everyone, as he rightly stresses the point its hard work and the rewards aint necessarily there, for some, for others they are.
Mate of mine on another outfit is knocking up nearly £60k currently.
Fair play to him and I’m sure he’s earning it! Unfortunately the walon contract is the same as it’s always been - great with the right work but not enough of it to go around and drivers getting fed up of it. Although even ECM have got drivers leaving atm too apparently which is never normally the case.
crunch13:
Andrejs:
Job in Corby.They said who can choice 4on 4 off or Monday to Friday?They said 2 week training and 1 week after drive truck and job with another truck and driver.What this training??Class room,or in computer,loading land?Delivery across full UK and villages.I know it is hard job,I earn sidereal money now in Stobart.But it is good time try self.Now they taked unexperinced(with car transporter) drivers.If something go bad can back to normal driving job.MAY BE LOOSE SOME EXTRA STOBES IN WEIGHT.What is top hard in this job or top danger.Might be a day in a classroom but basically 2 weeks practising loading and then tested doing an 11 car load at the end. Then a week following another driver around loading and tipping at the same places - you’ll learn more on that week tbh.
Why’s it hard? It’s a physical job and it’s dirty. Can be stressful, you can never really switch off, if you do, you can guarantee you’ll damage something. And you’re constantly busy, there’s not really much waiting around so if you do a 15 hr day you’ve probably been driving or working hard for 14 of them. No sitting round on loading bays for 6-8 hrs a day!
Not trying to put you off at all - I enjoy being busy and having to think all the time - you should just go in with your eyes open because many don’t and then jack in the first few weeks once they realise what’s involved.
What about driving car transporter… Reversing more easy than arctic.But what most danger in the road.Example you drive in bad road like M 25juncition 21-23 where road surface very bad.Can this damaged loaded car??Whare most car can be damaged and from what.