Terry T:
Weekend premiums should definitely be factored into the salary.
I’m constantly surprised at how easy drivers are willing to sacrifice their pay and conditions.
done that:
Considering you do only 25 sundays and 26 Saturdays in a year, and only 20 complete weekends (e.g Saturday and Sunday) there are still 105 days left for normal pay.
Asuming they pay GBP 11.00 an hour = £ 13.992 for the normal days and assume they pay Saturday and Sunday complete double time, its again £13.464 = 27.456
Was on just short of £30k 4 on 4 off 12hr shifts as a shunter with Stobbies 8 years ago. I would say £30k is perfectly achievable. Don’t forget you’re doing a lot of Saturdays and Sundays which normally attract premium rate at the better firms.
Coffeeholic:
Not everybody is as concerned about weekends and don’t make a big deal of Saturday or Sunday. I always used to, and still do mostly, prefer a couple of days off during the week when most other people are working.
Agreed, it suits us better with me working lots of weekend days too, but i’ll still price them and regard them as premium rate days, i am not working weekends nights bank hols for standard weekday pay.
I too agree , I love shift work and would hate to work Mon to Fri,
Typed by my big finger whist drinking my 6th pint of San Miguel (don’t drink cider now)
Terry T:
So you’re working 12 hour shifts. That means you’ll be spending 42 hours per week on duty as an average. So yeah, good luck getting £30k with that and if you do, tip us all the nod on the location
Conor:
Was on just short of £30k 4 on 4 off 12hr shifts as a shunter with Stobbies 8 years ago. I would say £30k is perfectly achievable. Don’t forget you’re doing a lot of Saturdays and Sundays which normally attract premium rate at the better firms.
Yep.
I worked Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun
Thu and Fri £6.50 an Hour
Sat and Sun £9.- an Hour
So i took in second Year Thursday and Friday Holiday and worked Mon-Tue-Wed for £9.- Had to leave in Autumn for some Reason but pay was ok in second Year
Terry T:
Weekend premiums should definitely be factored into the salary.
I’m constantly surprised at how easy drivers are willing to sacrifice their pay and conditions.
This, this, a million times this!
Drivers are their own worst enemy, who in the “real” world puts in the hours drivers do? For the pay they get?
It’s time HGV driving was dragged into the 21st Century.
I work 4 on 4 off for a well known german supermarket… My salary is 32.5k plus bonus of up to 2.5k annual bonus which is always obtainable plus driving 14 plate scania’s it’s a no brainer.
The company I’m working for this week through agency have drivers doing 4 on 4 off distance work with nights out, they get £27.5 k, there are others that do 4 on 4 off day shift only, they get £21.5k.
Pimpdaddy:
Why on earth would anyone want to work this horrible shift pattern!?
You only work half the year - even less when you factor in your annual leave entitlement. You get 4 days off in a row after working your 4 days, so with careful holiday planning you only need to use 6 days leave for a fortnights holiday when drivers on a more traditional pattern would use 10 days. Plenty of free time for other activities on your 4 days off, some nice long weekends away for example, or if you felt inclined you could do another little job on some of those days to bank some extra money.
Personally I don’t see a downside to it and I would work that pattern no problem.
I had to be persuaded by my missus to do it, she wanted a year off instead of 6 months maternity. So glad I do it, it has totally changed my life for the better. You can really relax when you have 4 days rest, go away for a night or a long weekend, money is fantastic usually on this shift wherever you work .
darratt78:
I work 4 on 4 off for a well known german supermarket… My salary is 32.5k plus bonus of up to 2.5k annual bonus which is always obtainable plus driving 14 plate scania’s it’s a no brainer.
Pimpdaddy:
Why on earth would anyone want to work this horrible shift pattern!?
I do a rolling 4 on, 4 off pattern for a well known Cornish based pasty haulier. I love it. I work less than half a year (taking my annual holiday entitlement into account), get paid a decent wage for this neck-of-the-woods and I love the fact that I have lots of time off to do what ever I want on my fours days off, i.e off to the beach to surf, out across Dartmoor with the dogs, over the border into Plymouth to do some shopping and drinking! I only have to go back for four and then I can have another 4 days off.
Been on 4 and 4 for years and love it . Working the weekends is no problem , generally our planners want a quiet time so tend to leave us to get on with the work , also no rush hour traffic to snarl up the cities .Can be useful to have time off in the week sometimes too .
Taking my next 4 days as part of my annual leave , so off for 12 days in total .
Vegas33139:
I only have to go back for four and then I can have another 4 days off.
So you don’t mind the many weekends you have to work then?
No, not at all. Take the rough with the smooth. It works out to roughly (as the shift pattern rolls forward a day each week) I catch 4 weekends on, then 4 weekends off!
Another plus-point of the 4 on 4 off is that you can plan things months in advance because you now what you’re doing, and if my four days off are during the week - great!! It’s nice and quiet where ever you go.
flat to the mat:
Been on 4 and 4 for years and love it . Working the weekends is no problem , generally our planners want a quiet time so tend to leave us to get on with the work , also no rush hour traffic to snarl up the cities .Can be useful to have time off in the week sometimes too .
Taking my next 4 days as part of my annual leave , so off for 12 days in total .
But how many hours a week are you paid for as some weeks you’ll only do 3 days ?
but pay was ok in second Year