I get more than that on Class 2.
well add up 45 mins travel to work each day at your £10 per hour, works out about £2100 for 280 days of work…
I also get a discretionary bonus usually at xmas and tax year end, according to attendance damage ect… + other perks of the job that you would not find out about till youve taken the job, it was not advertised with the job…
as ive said dont always slag the guys off that do these jobs or even dismiss them just cos they advertise at said wage, go and do a bit of homework,
Conor:
dle1uk:
so lets say for the week your £75 better off then me . then take your commuting time away from it? so the actual works hours of roughly 11 a day at the end of the week your not much better off in money terms then myself and having to work shifts to get it…£75 a week is £3,900 a year. Are you saying that you earn so much that you wouldn’t benefit from an extra £3900 a year? Takes me just over 20 minutes longer each way to get to work than you so not really that much more.
And yesterday I went to a farm. Difference between me going to a farm and you is I was on £2.50/hr more.
I like how all these ones in this thread are saying how happy they are working for peanuts because their place of work is half a dozen steps away, but if you look back through their post history you can find the same names moaning about low pay in the industry and how we should all stick together. Drivers : thick as ■■■■. 
it is low pay and i,m not saying any different! what I am saying is look at things a bit more closely, as in my own situation why would i want to run a second car + commuting time to earn an extra 2 quid an hour??
If you do not wish to work for £7 ph that’s fine but don’t be so judgemental about somebody who does.
The reason it’s so low because there’s donkeys working for it. And I am being judgemental as it’s mental asking a man to work for that. Minimum wage minimum effort.
wired4smoke:
The reason it’s so low because there’s donkeys working for it. And I am being judgemental as it’s mental asking a man to work for that. Minimum wage minimum effort.
grow up man name calling went out at primary school.
how many on here are moaning at the wage? well vote with your feet and find something different, your not handcuffed to it you know!
i do what i do cos it works for me and end of the day that is all i care about. ive given the reasons why and i,m sure there are alot of drivers on here that would apply for it if a vacancy arose,. i know several drivers who are in fact in a que for if a vacancy does arise. the wage isnt everything… its down to every ones individual circumstances…
it gives me a good home life and that to me is very important, to spend quality time with my kids whilst they are still young, speak to alot of old timers the main things they regret is not being home…i,m not going to be the same! is it really worth that little bit extra?
Tarmac duck:
If you do not wish to work for £7 ph that’s fine but don’t be so judgemental about somebody who does.
Although I understand the logic of doing a job for £7ph thats on your doorstep with hours that suit you & your family, apposed to doing a job thats £10ph 20 miles away with hours that don’t suit, the fact is that by doing so you are also aiding in the race to the bottom. Hence peoples frustrations.
Finding a job that works both ways is often easier said than done. You sometimes can’t win. You can’t earn as much money stacking shelves in a supermarket as you can driving, even if the hourly rates better.
Personally, if I found myself backed into a £7ph job for whatever reason i’d be looking at hanging up my keys.
I attended Ramage Transport out of North Tyneside yesterday for a chat / interview for a Class 1 job (Local). I stopped the “interview” after 3/4 mins when I was informed that the hourly rate was £7 p/h! No wonder they have a regular turn over of drivers / always advertising. What a P*ss take! Now I maybe a newbie looking for Class 1 work but Im worth more than that! Now whats that saying…You pay peanuts…! It wont be me!!
Mark500:
I stopped the “interview” after 3/4 mins when I was informed that the hourly rate was £7 p/h! No wonder they have a regular turn over of drivers / always advertising. What a P*ss take! Now I maybe a newbie looking for Class 1 work but Im worth more than that!
Yes you are and good on you for walking away.
Anyone that defends working for £7 per hour as a Class 1 driver is a disgrace to the industry. It’s people like them that allow companies/agencies to even consider offering such low hourly rates - you can earn more shelf stacking for God’s sake!!!
If you’re a professional driver then do NOT work for unprofessional rates ! 
Torkey:
Anyone that defends working for £7 per hour as a Class 1 driver is a disgrace to the industry.
…and a disgrace to themselves.
Contraflow:
Torkey:
Anyone that defends working for £7 per hour as a Class 1 driver is a disgrace to the industry.…and a disgrace to themselves.
please explain why?
apart from fitting in with your ideals,
I,m raising a family, which i spend quality time with, I have apart from a mortgage and a credit card no debt. we have 1 main car as said a nice decent discovery, paid for, we have 2 -3 family holidays a year.
so why am i disgrace to myself?
none of this as been given to me I have earned it and now i do whats right for me!
so what do you all think will happen if everyone stopped earning this sort of money and we all demanded top wack? will the bosses pay it out their pockets? no they will just pass it back on to the end user, me and you, so yeah earn £15 an hour but pay £1 for a tin of baked beans.
I’ve kept off commenting this thread until now but
Giving a driver an extra £2.00 per hour on the load of baked beans beans, say a 10hr run = £20.00 now divide that by the number of tins in a load, even a tin of Heinz finest isn’t gonna reach 70p let alone a quid. It really would make an infinitessimally small difference to the price of the end product.
Not going to criticise anyone for how they choose to support their family but there is no way in hell you’d get me driving an HGV for £7/hr.
Going back just a few years ago(not long ago) i settled for a job paying £8PH. I’d previously earned lots more than that and i’d applied to some big blue chips paying top dollar and been turned down or put on the waiting list. I’d grown tired of agency uncertainty, so i grasped this job for 8ph, it was lots of hours too. I earned a great wage, much more than i needed or could spend. After a few years when the rescession kicked in we where all faced with a meeting. Take a pay cut, or we’ll loose jobs. Of course, not wanting to loose anyones job, and hoping the company could pull through these hard times we all accepted the pay cut. There had been other hauliers in the same line of work that had gone to the wall and their drivers could not find work, we knew this as of course we where all friendly with them and knew them personally. There was at the time no other jobs to go to. So we accepted £6.50 PH. It never really changed anything in my life being paid this lesser hourly rate, and although i always wanted more money it really didn’t affect me in a tangible way. I could still eat, drink, sleep, run my car and have a holiday and buy clothes. So throwing myself off a cliff and becoming “unemployed” because i was a disgrace to proffesional driving for working for such a low amount never entered my head.
That was 2010. I still have the same view, as i would imagine do a lot of people…i’ll do what i want to do and what suits me.
I do feel sorry for the guys that “need” to earn top dollar to keep up their lifestyle. But them decrying anyone elses wages does not change my thought. A jobs a job.
Phew !! That was a long one 
Now lets laugh at everyone who’s hocked up to the eye balls on the strenght of a C+E ticket !!! Looks like everyones got one now Console yourself with the fact that the clothes you wear help support the dollar a day workers in the east. They should have logos on their backs…“without us you get nothing, you’ll be ■■■■ and cold”. But lets ignore that fact and stick to the “without trucks you get nothing” !!!
Mike-C:
…i grasped this job for 8ph, it was lots of hours too. I earned a great wage, much more than i needed or could spend.
Because you were either at work or asleep?
Work to live. Not the other way around.
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Mike-C:
…i grasped this job for 8ph, it was lots of hours too. I earned a great wage, much more than i needed or could spend.Because you were either at work or asleep?
Work to live. Not the other way around.
I do work to live. I’ve never lived to work, i’m lazy by nature. But also i came to find out, if you’re spending so much of your time at work, and 40 hours a week is a lot, then you do need to actually enjoy it. I missed an important point out in my post above and its this…
When we accepted the £6.50PH, after a few weeks the company was still struggling. And for a few months we went through a scenario every Monday morning to find out who was the next to be “let go”. There was 50 of us initially, it eventually whittled down to about 30 of us. It wasn’t a nice feeling to come in on a Monday morn to see if you still had a job. And yes, me and everyone else was very gratefull to still have that low paid £6.50 PH job.
Unfortunately for me i can only work with what nature provided me with. You on the other hand seem to be doing great, posting videos of how dumb truck drivers are and at the same time telling us what we should be earning. You’re one of natures leaders, i’m just a dumb follower. You the man !!! I’ll pay more attention to you in future. Its a pity i could never relay your advice onto all them other drivers ■■■■■■■■ theselves over losing a crap paid job, mind you you where probably still in school then eh ?
Contraflow:
Mike-C:
…i grasped this job for 8ph, it was lots of hours too. I earned a great wage, much more than i needed or could spend.Because you were either at work or asleep?
Work to live. Not the other way around.
but that is exactly what i,m doing!!! i,m doing the hours that fit for me! unlike many who choose to do 80hrs away all week, ect , i,m not knocking them as they have chosen to do it. but in my current situation its not for me…
chicane:
I’ve kept off commenting this thread until now butGiving a driver an extra £2.00 per hour on the load of baked beans beans, say a 10hr run = £20.00 now divide that by the number of tins in a load, even a tin of Heinz finest isn’t gonna reach 70p let alone a quid. It really would make an infinitessimally small difference to the price of the end product.
Not going to criticise anyone for how they choose to support their family but there is no way in hell you’d get me driving an HGV for £7/hr.
baked beans was an example, didnt realise i would have to list every item, basically what i,m meaning is that everything carried by trucks would end up getting more expensive to recuperate the cost.
dle1uk. my point was, taking your example, that the increase in the shelf price of the product would be insignificant.