I think a lot of drivers are conditioned in to thinking they just couldn’t do another job after driving for years. If more people left the industry for pastures new, the wages might improve. As has been said, quite often supermarket shelf stackers get the same or more than a lot of HGV driver’s. Even security guards must be getting near to what some blokes earn.
your bang on the money silver and all the time people work for 6 pound an hour it wont change which is one reson i wouldent do it the other being the morgage aka the national debt
one word “■■■■■■■ im on class 2 and get 9.30 p/h
bjd:
I have said it before and ill say it again i wouldent work driving a truck for that money this is not because imm fussy its because i class my self as a professionl driver as for being dole scum beleive me i would find something else to do i have never been unemployed
To quote an old French proverb. Never say ‘I will never drink out of that dirty pool’ because one day you may be so thirsty that you have to.
As for dole scum benefit agencies have to pay the cost of the cheapest available housing or have people on the streets. Because housing costs have got so far out of line with the rest of the economy, the cheapest available housing is more than some people can earn. But don’t expect the Daily Mail etc to tell you its high house prices that are putting so many people on benefits.
Quinny:
and not had to work for less than I’m worth.Ken.
How do you work out what you are worth?
Compared to the Bankers etc we are all underpaid. Compared to those who make our clothes for 20 pence an hour we are all overpaid.
bristolron:
He was not from Wales or Cornwall, he was from essex.
Strange you should say he’s from Essex. I was talking to a driver from Essex last summer while on holiday & he reckoned he couldn’t find a driving job that paid any good. His problem was lack of experience though & he was dependant on agency work. When he complained the agency boss told him he’d been given money to buy houses within the M25 & fill them with drivers from overseas. That’s what he claimed to be the problem & he was having to put up with it until he got some time under his belt.
I felt sorry for him because he was a very highly qualified man in another job/industry which I won’t identify & was simply being exploited.
My 16 year old nephew started as a trolley boy with a big supermarket recenty & he’s on more that £6 an hour.
BB
bristolron:
Met a driver this week. We were talking and he showed me his wage slip. £6.00 per hour for 50 hours per week. No more money after that even though he was doing 60 hours a week and working weekends! This was for driving a 44 ton artic. I know sprinter drivers on more money than that!
I don’t understand when you say he was doing 50 hours a week, then 60 hours a week?
Incidentally, my hourly rate improved a lot when I left truck driving to go into the building trade. But my average pay packet stayed about the same because I couldn’t work so many hours. Even when the work is available you are so knackered after 8 hours your mental and physical efficiency drops off. There are very few trades where you can work the number of hours you do in haulage.
Glen Clark:
bristolron:
Met a driver this week. We were talking and he showed me his wage slip. £6.00 per hour for 50 hours per week. No more money after that even though he was doing 60 hours a week and working weekends! This was for driving a 44 ton artic. I know sprinter drivers on more money than that!I don’t understand when you say he was doing 50 hours a week, then 60 hours a week?
I took that to mean he gets £6 an hour for up to 50 hours but no more than that when he works more hours. So, £50 hours at £6 ph he gets £300 but when he works 60 hours he still gets £300.
If that is the case I don’t think we should be too hard on him as he is obviously a McNugget short of a happy Meal.
to be honest circumstances ect come into it… personally yes i would work for £6! ok not for long until something better comes along but I would much prefer to work for that then sit on the dole…
my dad and family members were made redundant in the 80,s when thatcher closed round oak iron and steel, the estate where we all lived turned into a crap area within weeks and I watched my dads confidence, self esteem ect disolve, not just my dad but other guys, uncles. they had worked there since leaving school and knew nothing else… similar to some ex forces guys they did,nt know what to do…
I dont get much more than that per hr but only work 8 hrs a shift the work is really easy as I have said before
No Hassel
No Traffic
No Pressure
No Deadlines
Yes I know my job is safe
But this may suit him it also may depend what is on his licence ie traffic offences
I work with a guy who is happy to earn £300 per mth anything over that is a bonus to him due to other money coming in from his pension ( ex army of 22 yrs )
Coffeeholic:
So, £50 hours at £6 ph he gets £300 but when he works 60 hours he still gets £300.
Company is breaking the law then. Below the minimum wage.
He was getting £6.00 per hour for 50 hrs so £300.00 per week. Any hours over that were NOT PAID. On top of that was night out money and a meal allowance. Judging by the wages I could not even look at the expenses! I saw his time sheet and some days he was working 15 hour days!
My wife gets £8.00/hour working in a garden centre as a part time job!!!
bristolron:
He was getting £6.00 per hour for 50 hrs so £300.00 per week. Any hours over that were NOT PAID. On top of that was night out money and a meal allowance. Judging by the wages I could not even look at the expenses! I saw his time sheet and some days he was working 15 hour days!
My wife gets £8.00/hour working in a garden centre as a part time job!!!
I think you have to look at the whole package. When I was driving I used to make as much on expenses (untaxed) as I did on wages (after tax).
Its all very well saying places will continue to pay £6ph as long as some moron is willing to work for it and that it will continue until everybody refuses to work for that hourly rate BUT, its just the same as saying “nobody buy fuel from Shell on a wednesday, we`ll show them”…
This will never happen, people will always do what they want to do. Personally I think £6ph for driving class one is really, really low and an insult if I`m honest because I know it takes a huge amount of skill to drive a truck that size and responsibility…
If this was the only work the guy could get and he obviously has bills to pay then fair play for getting out there and getting a job, hes looking after his family and earning money. Its not ideal pay for him and it sounds like hes being taken for a ride at no more pay over 50 hrs but hes a ■■■■ site better than these ppl I see drinking beer in the day, wrecked walking around town who`ve never worked a day in their lives using handouts taken from our pay packets
Muckaway:
Depends on your circumstances. Tuckwells don’t pay much but you cant get an easier job than their tipper drivers have. If they’re running stock to their Radley depot from Ducklington they’ll only do about 4 loads a day.
oh i dunno…1 drop per night seems ok to me but i do have to open the trailer doors 
When the time comes (and i’m sure it will) that our depot closes, i may well be one of those 'lowlife’s that has to work for £6/hr or thereabouts. Will that make me scum? I don’t think so (other opinions are available 
), just me not wanting to sit around on my 'arris doing naff’all!! But then again, the wifes oldest son is 20 and don’t get outta bed till 4, no need to get up early cuz he don’t work and is waited on hand foot n ■■■■ 'ing finger and happy with the 60 quid/fortnight ‘jobseekers’…i like the sound of that…actually, (since i to have only been out of work for 3 days since leaving school in '83 (left sch w’day, job center thursday am, interview pm, start following monday)) …i don’t. Spent 2 wks as our tm’s ‘assistant’ cuz planner was on holiday and gotta admit, 2 wks indoors did my nut in…was nice to see how they ■■■■ a good job up though 
look at it another way… my wife is a health professional, spent 5 years at uni, 100,s of different courses, majority at our own expense!! amounts to at least 15 times more then gaining a class 1 license… she works for NHS and although her wage when you look at the figure is very good, but when you take into consideration the hours at home she does, reading up on new stuff, keeeping up to date, paying HPC, finishing paperwork that she had,nt had enough time to complete but has to complete due to law… does,nt work out to that much better then a class 1driver…
I think we can all agree that the expense involved in obtaining a Class 1 licence is out of all proportion to the wages that can be earned with that licence nowadays.
When I started driving a truck, my wages doubled overnight compared to my previous job as a taxi driver. Now I could earn more driving a taxi.
What happened?
Harry Monk:
I think we can all agree that the expense involved in obtaining a Class 1 licence is out of all proportion to the wages that can be earned with that licence nowadays.When I started driving a truck, my wages doubled overnight compared to my previous job as a taxi driver. Now I could earn more driving a taxi.
What happened?
This…
newmercman:
This…
Yes, you are right, there has never been a Government more hostile to working class people than the last Government. Mass immigration designed purely to keep down our wages, massive increases in the cost of housing, you can’t even have a ■■■ in the pub with your pint any more.
Maggie had nothing on these two clowns.
Coffeeholic:
Glen Clark:
bristolron:
Met a driver this week. We were talking and he showed me his wage slip. £6.00 per hour for 50 hours per week. No more money after that even though he was doing 60 hours a week and working weekends! This was for driving a 44 ton artic. I know sprinter drivers on more money than that!I don’t understand when you say he was doing 50 hours a week, then 60 hours a week?
I took that to mean he gets £6 an hour for up to 50 hours but no more than that when he works more hours. So, £50 hours at £6 ph he gets £300 but when he works 60 hours he still gets £300.
If that is the case I don’t think we should be too hard on him as he is obviously a McNugget short of a happy Meal.
£6 an hour accross the board - no o/t ?