Just been reading a question about pay rates at Fowler Walsh.So I read they are paying less than 8 pound an hour for night rate .Jesus.
I am a truck mechanic,work nights,bank holidays,5 nights sun to thursday 15 quid an hour.
Drivers where I work (different company) 13.50 (roughly)per hour,shares,6 months sick with pay,discount on company product,etc.(bleat like fuuu.)
Is this the norm or is it Fowler Welsh?
you see their drivers ARE so grateful they have a job that they will work for those rates. 
jessicas dad:
you see their drivers ARE so grateful they have a job that they will work for those rates.
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
If that is the “average” rate of pay for night shift its about time some ■■■■■■ got a kick in the balls.Disgusting
Bking:
jessicas dad:
you see their drivers ARE so grateful they have a job that they will work for those rates.Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
If that is the “average” rate of pay for night shift its about time some [zb] got a kick in the balls.Disgusting
yep i agree with you bking but… they can always string the job out keeerrrrching. ffs
Bking:
Just been reading a question about pay rates at Fowler Walsh.So I read they are paying less than 8 pound an hour for night rate .Jesus.I am a truck mechanic,work nights,bank holidays,5 nights sun to thursday 15 quid an hour.
Drivers where I work (different company) 13.50 (roughly)per hour,shares,6 months sick with pay,discount on company product,etc.(bleat like fuuu.)Is this the norm or is it Fowler Welsh?
I hope not, Asda actually pay more to stack shelves on nights.
id rather work in a warehouse theres a depot near me and all there drivers are eastern european no english drivers will be working in the next few years due tu rates
jessicas dad:
Bking:
jessicas dad:
you see their drivers ARE so grateful they have a job that they will work for those rates.Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
If that is the “average” rate of pay for night shift its about time some ■■■■■■ got a kick in the balls.Disgustingyep i agree with you bking but… they can always string the job out keeerrrrching. ffs
All the KEEEErchings in the world dont make it right.Why only HERE.Not Germany Not France not even Greece for ■■■■■■ sake.Do we the british have some sadomasochistic bent that allows some ■■■■ to buy a few trucks then shove his ■■■■ up our asss while we smile sweetly?
I wont work for a company that only pays such a small amount above minimum wage. What wih all the extra hassle and stress plus additional costs of your licence up keep. This is whyI found myself a job as a yard shunter, cos it pays better than most local haulage companies.
maestro:
I wont work for a company that only pays such a small amount above minimum wage. What wih all the extra hassle and stress plus additional costs of your licence up keep. This is whyI found myself a job as a yard shunter, cos it pays better than most local haulage companies.
yep thats what im after
Well my Brother in Law is a night fitter for a large bus company and they only get the same rate per hour as the day shift guys so not everyone is paid extra for nights. He has been there for 20+ years so if folk are happy with it then so be it, there is always going to be some on more money than others and that is a fact of life otherwise everybody would be content with their job and nobody would ever want to change companies. Some folk work for companies who they like and the money side is secondary, others are ‘chasing the Dollar’ and loathe the job and the people they work for but stay just because the money is good. I worked for a company where I was approx £5 grand a year down on other drivers working for different firms who were running side by side with me, but no way would I have jumped ship. Each to his own.
Pete.
OMG!!!
You mean they pay less than Stobarts??!!
What is this world coming to??
To be brutally honest there are quite a few companies paying circa £7+pennies per hour for nights.
We are getting royally shafted since the enlargement of the European union!
It would seem that we are heading for Soviet style pay and conditions and pretty soon will be offered weak cabbage soup and a slice of black bread instead money 
jamdoms:
We are getting royally shafted since the enlargement of the European union!
It would seem that we are heading for Soviet style pay and conditions and pretty soon will be offered weak cabbage soup and a slice of black bread instead money
This, this, a thousand times this.
Nights should be 30% more than days.
Weekends should be time and a half.
The standard working week should be 40 hours, with anything over that paid at time and a half.
Your wages should be your hourly rate x the time spent at work. Night out money, fuel bonuses and meal allowances should be extras, not a means of bringing a low hourly rate up to something halfway decent.
If all of the above held true then it wouldn’t matter that firms were only paying £7.50 an hour.
Eg a Monday to Friday day driver doing 0400-1400.
Forty hours basic = £300
Ten hours o/t = £112.50
Fifteen hours dark money = £33.75
=£446.25 before government theft.
Sadly too many drivers have traded away their rights for a couple of extra days holiday, or an extra pound an hour on the basic rate leaving us in the dominant flat rate for all hours culture we now have. And with the race to the bottom for rates being driven by agencies there is no turning back the clock. The few workers who still enjoy these benefits are derided when companies try and remove them and they fight for their rights.
Some drivers would be overpayed with cabbage soup and black bread
SHYTOT:
Some drivers would be overpayed with cabbage soup and black bread
Very True!
SHYTOT:
Some drivers would be overpayed with cabbage soup and black bread
This is true and since the “Some” are now a significant minority it is reason enough for all of us to be worried.
This is a race to the bottom!
Would bking like to send me an application form?
Retired Old ■■■■:
Would bking like to send me an application form?
Well I am a bit of a ■■■■■ so if you got the where with all I am very flexible but after 40 years of crap I dont come cheap,I dont live to work I work to live,and if you got a pretty wife or daughter well Im your man!
Give me a bell!
And Im good at what I do!
RSVP at your leisure ■■
Too many east euros. That will be a fair rate for them. The problem is “whats a good rate for them is a bad rate for us”.