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.
Wait and see what the current lot have in store for us all You aint seen nuffin yet, this lot will gladly see us all working for 6 quid an hour. That’s if there are any jobs left by the time they have finished. In the door two minutes and they’re selling off the family jewellery. God bless the voters of middle England.
I too have met blokes like that on my travels, but sometimes the cost of living in his area or his situation regards accommodation differs to ours. I agree £6ph is takin the micheal but in some far flung corners of this country of ours people have to take whats remotely local without travelling a million miles for work. And their standard of living in that area is lower. Also, could be inbetween jobs just to pay his mortgage or needs to get expereince… There’s always a story behind a smile…
I get £6 per hour Monday to Friday and £8 per hour for Saturdays and Sundays. But then I only drive a van and not a truck.
I’ve been lurking around this site for a couple of years now and I’ve been wanting to save the money to take my LGV 2 & 1 but keep changing my mind about spending so much money on getting an LGV licence just to earn an extra £1 - £2 and hour.
But also remember that on that much per hr you will poss get Working tax credit 7 if have children at school working child tax credit so free eye test & glasses free dental treatment free prescription free school meals etc the list goes on so may be better for them
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?
Which is why I am driving a taxi for a living now
Do I miss the trucks?
Only in the same way as I miss the good old days, they are viewed through rose tinted glasses and should remain in my past.
I was going to write that but thought someone else would. A tipper firm once offered me a job 50p an hour more than what I was on-would have about half hours travelling each way a day (instead of cycling for 15mins each way), have to go flatout all day for the money “but you get a new truck every 3 years”. Whoopie shi*
maybe imm wrong imm sure some would think i am but show me the money lol i mean as long as yer trucks fit for the job and road worthy what else do you need from it
Muckaway:
I was going to write that but thought someone else would. A tipper firm once offered me a job 50p an hour more than what I was on-would have about half hours travelling each way a day (instead of cycling for 15mins each way), have to go flatout all day for the money “but you get a new truck every 3 years”. Whoopie shi*
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?[/quote]
Market forces. People like you discovered they could earn good money driving a truck, so they went and did their class 1. Increase in supply=decrease in price (in this case the price of labour).
The problem now is that haulage companies have got used to low labour costs and have ratcheted down their margins in order to compete for business. So even if DCPC, lack of new starters, retiring older drivers and possibly eastern Europeans heading for home were to create a driver shortage many operators couldn’t pay increased wages anyway.
Harry Monk:
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?
Market forces. People like you discovered they could earn good money driving a truck, so they went and did their class 1. Increase in supply=decrease in price (in this case the price of labour).
The problem now is that haulage companies have got used to low labour costs and have ratcheted down their margins in order to compete for business. So even if DCPC, lack of new starters, retiring older drivers and possibly eastern Europeans heading for home were to create a driver shortage many operators couldn’t pay increased wages anyway.
So then companys will not have drivers and disapear, there will be a shortage of transport and rates will rise due to customers needing things moved, then wages will rise to attract new drivers and I will stop driving taxi’s…Sorted
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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?
Market forces. People like you discovered they could earn good money driving a truck, so they went and did their class 1. Increase in supply=decrease in price (in this case the price of labour).
The problem now is that haulage companies have got used to low labour costs and have ratcheted down their margins in order to compete for business. So even if DCPC, lack of new starters, retiring older drivers and possibly eastern Europeans heading for home were to create a driver shortage many operators couldn’t pay increased wages anyway.
So then companys will not have drivers and disapear, there will be a shortage of transport and rates will rise due to customers needing things moved, then wages will rise to attract new drivers and I will stop driving taxi’s…Sorted
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Some of the reasons for ‘what happened’ is that the pro rail nutters finally got their way in getting (most of) the British road transport industry taxed off the road thereby reducing job opportunities.Both the Tories and the Labour idiots saw a good way of keeping income taxes low for the rich by putting the tax bill on road fuel duty instead.The periods when you can earn ‘good money’ driving a truck are usually short lived ones and often are’nt generally spread across the industry anyway.It only really ever applys to certain types of jobs which,like train driving,show that it’s got nothing to do with market forces but luck in being one of the few who get those jobs out of hundreds of applicants.For the rest it’s always been like I found in which the relative wage in the industry has never been much better than when my Grandfather started in it and the level of fuel duty just makes things worse.Added to that we’ve got a rigged labour market anyway in which if times are good they’ll just import cheap labour and/or export jobs and if they’re bad they’ll just treat all the unemployed as scroungers and use that as an excuse to cut their national insurance/unemployment ‘benefits’ thereby forcing them to take whatever wage is offered.Some of the (reputedly) relatively higher paying supermarket jobs being the exceptions which prove the rule probably because for many drivers the boredom of doing them makes them untenable and not an option at any wage.Which is probably why we’re not seeing an army of Polish long distance international drivers working for peanuts clogging up the uk supermarket distribution sector with applications.
You aint seen nuffin yet, this lot will gladly see us all working for 6 quid an hour. That’s if there are any jobs left by the time they have finished. In the door two minutes and they’re selling off the family jewellery. God bless the voters of middle England.
