ScaniaUltimate:
Excellent idea.
I don’t believe it will necessarily encourage people to return to the industry, but it could help persuade ‘days only’ drivers to consider tramping.
I suspect new young drivers tempted in by money will be less likely to want to do tramping than previous generations of young drivers, who joined with a genuine desire to do the job, therefore it may help there too.
£30 sounds a lot better than £26.20, despite being a modest increase.
Getting even that will be difficult, but I would still prefer it to be closer to £40 to a least give drivers a reasonable chance of covering the cost of a room if preferred.
It depends on what type of nights out it is.
If it’s the result of insufficient duty time to cover a lot of local drops in a shift nothing will incentivise that.
If it’s not enough driving time in a shift to cover a lot of distance work, then the quality of the work by comparison will make the difference in night out money moot.
The transport policy which is heading the industry’s way will remove most if not all of the latter jobs.