Hello everybody,
don’t know if this ever has been discussed but I found this on Indeed:
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HGV Class 1 Drivers - 6/days on 6/days off
Jack Richards & Son - West Auckland
£26,500 - £27,500 a year
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Established in 1956, we have continually expanded with a fleet of over 300 vehicles and over 500 General Haulage Drivers. We have depots across the UK. Due to additional workloads and continued growth, we are now looking to recruit out of the Northeast of England Ongoing .
Work from: Corby or Northwich Depots
Northwest and the Midlands 6/Days on & 6/Days off Tramping.
20 days holidays based on average hours .
Only working 164 days per year for £27,500 (68 days less a year than a 5 day week)
Additional hours also available, at your request.
Permanent contract offered, so from day one you will be working for Jack Richards & Son
Start within 12 hours from assessment/interview.
Interviews held west Auckland Saturdays’ and Sundays’ .
Notice periods will be honoured from any current employer.
We will also consider:
Flexible Working Drivers (how many weeks you wish to work ?) Pick your weeks, e.g. 48 weeks inc holiday or 20,10 weeks your choice.
We seek HGV Class one ‘Bank Drivers’ ( Contract for Services) for at least two years due to CPC training and holiday cover.
As part of our driving workforce you will benefit from the following:
A permanent contract for those quality drivers if they so wish to join us 4 weekly pay.
Weekly pay PAYE only Bank Drivers/ flexible working.
Holiday pay will be based on the average wage received 20 days holiday pro-rata.
Receive continuous training in other areas as required
Be supplied with company uniform and safety equipment
Drive a DAF or Merc (our average fleet age is 18 months internal cab fridges)
Be able to join the company Pension Scheme once eligible
Driver handheld tablet.
Mobile phone.
We offer total flexibility to our 500 plus drivers across the UK depots.
We require drivers who are flexible, prepared to work hard and are an excellent communicator. You need to hold a Full HGV C+E Class One licence along with a valid Driver Qualification Card (DCPC). As part of our driving workforce you will:
Holiday pay will be based on the average hours. Please ensure to include your current telephone number and email address in your application. To apply, please visit our website via the following link and fill out the form: jackrichards.co.uk/careers/ … ation-form.
Alternatively email your details and CV to us,apply via INDEED how many weeks in a year do you wish to work.
We will endeavour to contact HGV Class one drivers within 24 hours to immediately organise interview day and time and assessment.
If you are not contacted within 28 days of submitting your application, then you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Recruitment Agencies:
We advertise our vacancies to attract candidates and not agency suppliers. If we need assistance from a recruitment agency, we will then contact suitable agencies, local to the area we are recruiting in.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £26,500.00 to £27,500.00 /year
Licence:
LGV C + E
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Source https://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?q=Jack%20Richards&l&vjk=34e0f8d99ffb0291
My personal thoughts: (I also copy and paste a few things to highlight my thoughts on it)
164 days working per anno seems attractive and if you want you can do a bit overtime.
Does that mean working Christmas Day? Probably if you’re unlucky with your rota. 
164 days a 6on 6off means also in my eyes “working” 84 hours including Breaks, POA, Other work, Driving (3x 15hrs, 3x 13hrs) 
May be right for some but definetly a awful lot of hours. But on the other hand you got 6 days to recuperate 
All depending on the contracted hours, which can’t be found in the job advert.
Hourly Rate?
I just devided £26,500 by the 164 days = £161,58 per day (Looks good so far) 
£161,58 per day by either 15 hrs = £10,77
£161,58 per day by either 13 hrs = £12,42
So far still good rates but come on. A night out payment and meal allowance isn’t mentioned above. So I think it’s included to make the pay better.
As far I know the company mentioned and looking for drivers does the general haulage and contracted haulage. So I bet there’s a bit graft and lot’s of rushing around involved. They don’t seem be best payers as said in other topics on Trucknet.
Drive a DAF or Merc (our average fleet age is 18 months internal cab fridges)
Be able to join the company Pension Scheme once eligible
Driver handheld tablet.
Mobile phone
Trying to get Drivers with handheld tablets and mobile phones?
- I mean that is minium basic equipment in every truck in these days and I doubt they let you use the mobile phone for private calls etc. I also used to get a mobile as Limper sometimes to call with arrival times, for next loads etc.
- Pension scheme is the Law anyway.
- Driving a DAF or MERC (internal cab frigdes) > Mimium equipment even for small hauliers.
All together this advert maybe looks good with “only 164 days” working but as I tried to point out it made me think about several things and I don’t think this would be for me but everybody feel free to apply there.
I just do 6 months on,6months off.
No need to complicate things 
I think most of this work is on the smurfitt/kappa D.S SMITH contract shifting cardboard/packaging,Think they offer 4 on 4 off too.
50 % of the year in one of their trucks either driving or sitting in a p155 soaked laybay playing a game on your company tablet, guarding the fuel, load and lorry.
164 x 24 hr = 3936 hours
£27500 / 3936 = £6.98 per hour before tax.
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No Thanks 
Having said that if I was a divorced guy with children then maybe ok to be able to have fixed length of time to spend with them ?
dodged600:
sitting in a p155 soaked laybay playing a game on your company tablet, guarding the fuel, load and lorry.
Serious question mate; have you ever done any type of work in the haulage industry that involved being away overnight? If the answer is yes then why did you subject yourself to such a miserable sounding existence that tbh only seems to afflict the terminally stupid and lacking imagination type of person. If the answer is no then what qualifies you to rattle out something a mate of a mate of a mate who actually does the job told you and have the temerity to state that as though it’s fact?
Perhaps slightly different,the mines work on a shift system up here and a lot of the shifts are 7 Days x 12hrs on then 7 Days off.This works out at about 170 hrs per month with a take home pay of about £2500 including extras.The majority of people here seem to be in favour of this as it gives guaranteed free time, and as most people calculate their free weeks when they take holidays,[so they have between 3-5 weeks holiday]You work less than half year.
dodged600:
50 % of the year in one of their trucks either driving or sitting in a p155 soaked laybay playing a game on your company tablet, guarding the fuel, load and lorry.
164 x 24 hr = 3936 hours
Please be quiet, you’re making yourself look incredibly stupid.
dodged600:
50 % of the year in one of their trucks either driving or sitting in a p155 soaked laybay playing a game on your company tablet, guarding the fuel, load and lorry.
164 x 24 hr = 3936 hours
£27500 / 3936 = £6.98 per hour before tax.
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No Thanks
Having said that if I was a divorced guy with children then maybe ok to be able to have fixed length of time to spend with them ?
I don’t know who you work for mate who expect you to park in “ ■■■■ soaked lay-bys” and be a security guard at night when off duty but I’d be telling them to get ■■■■■■. I park somewhere suitable for me and my requirements at night seen as they in the office are going home to a nice bath and cooked meal and I certainly ain’t a security guard for their diesel or load which their insurance policy should cover them for if any get stolen.
As long as I’m not their target they can have whatever the ■■■■ they want.
Sort of sounds interesting, not to me though but I could see it suiting some folk down to the ground. The pay seems okish…as long as nights out are payed on top otherwise it’s cr4p.
commonrail:
I just do 6 months on,6months off.
No need to complicate things
Same as that. Who wants to work when the sun is shining?
Tipperdipper1:
Trying to get Drivers with handheld tablets and mobile phones?
Always makes me laugh when they say “Uniform provided”, as if a pair of nylon trousers is going to be the deal clincher. 
Tipperdipper1:
Start within 12 hours from assessment/interview.
I’ve had numerous interviews where I’ve only been asked two questions.
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Have you got a licence?
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Can you start now?
It’s garbage, simple as that. JR run out of Northwich (near me) and pay peanuts.
The quoted wages do indeed include night out money, and after all the singing & dancing it works out at around £11.50 per hour. For working weekends, bank hols etc. Absolute turd.
To put it into perspective, I am now working for a local (largish) outfit that are quite average payers, and I’m doing 4 on 4 off for £13.00 per hour. Anyone in my opinion who is happy doing a 12 hour plus shift on a Sunday for £11.50 per hour needs their bloody head feeling
Winseer:
Is it legal to do 3x15 hour shifts at the end of week one, and then start week two with 3x15 hour shifts…
A rather nasty looking 90 hour fortnight, and looking totally legal at face value.
You have 3 reduced rests available between weekly rests, so basically any weekly rest of 24 or more hours will reset the 3 reduced.
You can also do a split rest every day if you had at least 3 hours of uninterrupted rest during the shift
But why would anybody want to work a 15 hour day even once, let alone six times on the trot?
This is a job for eastern Europeans and I guess the reason they are advertising here is that their regular supply of third-world mugs is drying up.