bigmiler:
Where in stoke or anywhere else for that matter are firms paying £16 an hour on nights??
Stoke depot Esl! Ask for mark Watson depot despot!
Co-op lads at our place are on over £14 a hour on nights (although they are salary it works out at this rate) for 48hr average over 5 days however they very rarely get anywhere near 48hrs unless they break down, they generally do 35hrs a week (not including breaks) which makes it £18.10 a hour not bad aye.
Not bad at all is that class 1 directly through the co-op?
bigmiler:
Where in stoke or anywhere else for that matter are firms paying £16 an hour on nights??
Stoke depot Esl! Ask for mark Watson depot despot!
Co-op lads at our place are on over £14 a hour on nights (although they are salary it works out at this rate) for 48hr average over 5 days however they very rarely get anywhere near 48hrs unless they break down, they generally do 35hrs a week (not including breaks) which makes it £18.10 a hour not bad aye.
A fair rate and good for them, trouble is, or luckily depending on your viewpoint, many wouldn’t consider the job because the lorry isn’t a SuperSpaceTopExtraXXL with a bit more on top.
Good jobs do exist but you’ve got to search them out, seldom if ever are they advertised, and more power to those, like the Coop lads who seem to have got the work/life/pay balance right.
bigmiler:
Where in stoke or anywhere else for that matter are firms paying £16 an hour on nights??
Stoke depot Esl! Ask for mark Watson depot despot!
Co-op lads at our place are on over £14 a hour on nights (although they are salary it works out at this rate) for 48hr average over 5 days however they very rarely get anywhere near 48hrs unless they break down, they generally do 35hrs a week (not including breaks) which makes it £18.10 a hour not bad aye.
Not bad at all is that class 1 directly through the co-op?
Yes these are full time staff employed through the co-op this is working on nights and dont expect such eady treatment at every depot, our lads are laughing with the hours they do and they still moan.
Your right about the motors though dont think there is anything younger than 4 years old and most are older than that at our depot.
Sureley thats disgustingly low pay… I made more than that a year when I lived there.
My Son lives in the Daventry area and beats that for 40 hours a week working in a graphics company, My Daughter lives in Cleethorpes and makes 45k wigh a company car just working for a display company.
Pat Hasler:
Sureley thats disgustingly low pay… I made more than that a year when I lived there.
My Son lives in the Daventry area and beats that for 40 hours a week working in a graphics company, My Daughter lives in Cleethorpes and makes 45k wigh a company car just working for a display company.
i like it how you say just works for a display company i can’t see many people earning 45k + car without a lot of responsibility / qualifications / or a fair bit of working their way up. i also wouldn’t of thought cleethorpes was a particularly well paid area either, so i wouldn’t of thought there are people in cleethorpes walking into 45k jobs left, right and center.
your son works for graphics company, making the tea? or a graphics designer?
what is your point?
you’ll be telling us paper boys earning 20k are being had next
Pat Hasler:
Sureley thats disgustingly low pay… I made more than that a year when I lived there.
My Son lives in the Daventry area and beats that for 40 hours a week working in a graphics company, My Daughter lives in Cleethorpes and makes 45k wigh a company car just working for a display company.
And you are?! Do you even drive or are you just mad?
Pat Hasler:
Sureley thats disgustingly low pay… I made more than that a year when I lived there.
My Son lives in the Daventry area and beats that for 40 hours a week working in a graphics company, My Daughter lives in Cleethorpes and makes 45k wigh a company car just working for a display company.
And you are?! Do you even drive or are you just mad?
Pat’s not that mad ,he lives in the free world with the sensible ones Find the right job over here and even 50 big ones falls short ,way short .I’m a tanker yanker ,as is Mr Hasler , and currently banking $500 per day so read and weep young fella
Pay rates in other countries mean bugger all to most of us, for a start we don’t know the exchange rate and not arsed to looking it up, similarly we don’t know what the cost of living is elswhere…re education, health, housing, pension costs and entitlements etc…amazing how many return here when they find the health service, pension etc where they live doesn’t live up to expectations and they fall by the wayside…its all relative.
Comparing rates from years ago is futile too, i know blokes lucky enough to have been driving the 12 car transporters on Tolemans in the late 80’s earning a £grand a week, similarly i was on £27 to £30k in the 80’s before i went on transporters…none of these figures include expenses or night out subsistences which some drivers bizzarely insist is part of their wage.
It became quite obvious as the 90’s vanished that drivers were being paid too much for the value they were giving in some cases…not in my opinion mind, but that was never going to last, hence the millions of East Europeans who from an employers point of view probably saved the day.
Don’t forget the current three cheeks of the same arse Party, the LibLabCon Party want Turkey to join the EU as soon as, millions more cheap (even cheaper?) mobile labourers…remember this when you vote people.
So far in this thread the only decent wage i’ve seen talked about is the lads at the Coop being a good wage for the less than 40 hours they are actually working, the figure in the OP is OK as a basic pay for 40 hours in the M25 Western belt but £35k to £40k for 48 hours should be the norm for artic work in that area, especially unsocial hours.
Once again, the old maxim of all flash no cash stands.
Find the right job over here and even 50 big ones falls short ,way short .I’m a tanker yanker ,as is Mr Hasler , and currently banking $500 per day so read and weep young fella