I just love the fact that as soon as I hit the 8 hour point the pay shoots into hyperdrive ( would prefer warpdrive but can’t have everything ) so it’s really good to get in 12 to 14 hours in a day.
Of course the next best thing if you can’t get a few hours overtime is when you do 3 hours work and get 8 hours pay like I did yesterday. 
Can beat you there Willy, 2 hours work, 8 hours pay, and I was only driving a sprinter, for 24 minutes, the rest of the time was taken up with transferring 3 pallets of stores to a ship.
Funny that.
Since going onto agency work just before xmas,I’ve had some serious hours in,less breaks and poa of course.
Last week was a classic example:
81 hours,less my breaks,less my poa,and ended up ‘working’ no more hours than I did at my last employer,and because of the holiday Monday,and Saturday at time and a half,and then time and a half after 8 hours on normal days,I have actually doubled my money. 
Kerching indeed.
Ken.
at the kwik save great bridge, when it was still quick save, theyd sometimes order too many drivers from the agency and just sedn you home for 8 hours pay, ive seen it happen but wernt lucky enough for it to be me!
i used to do agency shifts at Helmans at Fradley Park doing overtspill and many a night it was in for midnight cup of char back in bed for 01.30 for 8 hrs pay and on fri night sat morn it was time and a half
I got called out for a night shift. Walked in and introduced myself. “We don’t need anyone tonight drive”, he says. “Fine mate, just sign here please”, I said. He signed, I headed home.
I called the office on my new mobile phone (well phones that fitted a pocket were new, then), so they sent me somewhere else, same story. Two 8 hour shifts, with travel expenses and I was only out of the house an hour. The next morning I got another job, guaranteed 10 hours pay.
So for one 24 hour period, I got paid 26 hours. Overtime rate after 8 hours.
It only happened once, in five and a half years of doing agency work though. 
i had a few jobs that had been cancelled while i was agency. wasnt told, not my fault, paid 8 hours.
i used to get all the overtime i could too. especially on my temp to perm with Exel since i was on a higher rate of pay. i was working 60 hours a week and taking home almost £600.
now im salaried, i do the fewest hours possible