Wheel Nut:
Actually I am onto something here, as at the moment I cannot drive for a living, but there seems to be people who will do it for nothing, so I can get the job and they can drive the lorry for me. Now that’s a bonus
They can also get all the fines, penalty points and aggravation from the customer
You lack ambition.
For a few £100’s outlay, you could register yourself with JAUPT as a DCPC trainer. Folk would then actually PAY YOU £££’s to drive your lorry for a whole 35hrs !!!
All you’d have to do is sit in the passenger seat & ‘assess’ their driving skills.
You could even offer the extra hours to cover your normal weekly shifts F.O.C as a special offer
Wheel Nut:
Actually I am onto something here, as at the moment I cannot drive for a living, but there seems to be people who will do it for nothing, so I can get the job and they can drive the lorry for me. Now that’s a bonus
They can also get all the fines, penalty points and aggravation from the customer
We all got taken the P out of one way or another when we were green, it happens, you learn from it and move on.
As i mentioned above it was standard practice NOT to get paid whilst you were out training on car transporters (except for the heavily unionised companies who operated and recruit purely on nepotism and they paid minimal wage duringtraining) i shouldn’t have been paid for my training fortnight but i argued successfully that due to double manning the lorry had covered more work than it otherwise would have, the gaffer agreed, and i was the first driver there to ever get paid for training…fat lot of use the drivers reps/stewards there but their little band of camp followers doted on their every word as they sold them down the river Judas like, plonkers.
Even if i hadn’t got paid the difference in wages between normal and transporter work was around £5k to £10k a year then (mind you earned every bloody penny) and the gaffers knew that.
To be fair the drop out and failure rate for new transporter drivers is horrendous, so you could understand them not wanting to pay for no results.
I ended up training new lads there about 7 years later and many’s the time a lad would walk after a couple of days or even do the full two weeks training and then bugger off.
I mention this purely because all jobs and all ways into them are not as cut and dried as might be imagined from the few giving it large here.
Don’t be so nasty to Camaron, till you’ve walked in a blokes shoes you don’t know their circumstances or reasons for doing what they feel they have to.
Thanks for that mate
I’m just in a situation that I need to earn some money now.
I don’t mind one day but traffic planner said no it’s 3 days training this week
I checked with agency right away about pay for other 2 days they said no pay for training days. I’ve done 10 drops for them already got back at depot to load truck again I would have been out till about 7 ish first day. Ps thanks lads
Gordon
Juddian:
I ended up training new lads there about 7 years later and many’s the time a lad would walk after a couple of days or even do the full two weeks training and then bugger off.
Why, what’s so hard about car transporters, can you do days/nights or it’s mostly all tramping!?
We all got taken the P out of one way or another when we were green, it happens, you learn from it and move on.
As i mentioned above it was standard practice NOT to get paid whilst you were out training on car transporters (except for the heavily unionised companies who operated and recruit purely on nepotism and they paid minimal wage duringtraining) i shouldn’t have been paid for my training fortnight but i argued successfully that due to double manning the lorry had covered more work than it otherwise would have, the gaffer agreed, and i was the first driver there to ever get paid for training…fat lot of use the drivers reps/stewards there but their little band of camp followers doted on their every word as they sold them down the river Judas like, plonkers.
Even if i hadn’t got paid the difference in wages between normal and transporter work was around £5k to £10k a year then (mind you earned every bloody penny) and the gaffers knew that.
To be fair the drop out and failure rate for new transporter drivers is horrendous, so you could understand them not wanting to pay for no results.
I ended up training new lads there about 7 years later and many’s the time a lad would walk after a couple of days or even do the full two weeks training and then bugger off.
I mention this purely because all jobs and all ways into them are not as cut and dried as might be imagined from the few giving it large here.
Don’t be so nasty to Camaron, till you’ve walked in a blokes shoes you don’t know their circumstances or reasons for doing what they feel they have to.
Not me bud. Wherever I have worked I got paid the same as the next bloke. I turned up at a car transporter firm expecting to go to Daventry, within an hour the plans had changed and I was on my way to Rome. Granted someone showed me the ropes, but I got paid both ways and learnt from the experience.
Don’t you be so nasty to Cameron, and lead him astray into thinking the job is so crap and everyone works for nowt!
Cannot understand anybody that would do 3 days for free.Know peoples circumstances are always different but that really is a joke, what you learning, how to carry nukes or how to back on a bay.
If people put roughly where they lived on there posts we might be able to help with permanent or better jobs, and by the sound of it that wouldnt be difficult, never know some might even pay a wage!
