stu675:
Of course it’s tiring, why else are there rest rules? It’s not just 9 hours, you said it was a 12 hour ‘day’.
You come across as someone failing to understand hourly rate.* Why would anyone be choosing between class 2 multidrop and class 1 trunking? You go for the best paying sector that you are capable of and then find the best example from jobs available.
- Probably why someone gets away with paying you below the minimum wage.
The ‘rules’ you are referring to rightly say that you can drive for 9 hours in a day.
People don’t generally get a class 1 licence to do local work also involving lots of load handling.But by your logic they’d choose class 2 local multi drop if the hourly rate was more.
Since when was minimum wage more than ‘‘around £9 per hour’’.
So now I get paid minimum wage to drive high end cars around the country and for sitting on trains.As opposed to driving an artic a couple of hours each way up the road to a hub and the rest the shift working as a warehouse labourer for not much more in real terms.Again hourly rates mean nothing it’s what’s expected of you in terms of duties and workload to earn it that matters.