We require an experienced Class I HGV Wagon Driver.
A Class I Licence is essential with at least one years experience, you also must be a minimum of 25years old for our insurance. You must hold a Full Drivers CPC
Class I HGV Wagon Driver - Distance Work
The job is delivering palletised goods within the UK
The position is to cover distance with nights out and early starts.
A clean licence is desirable.
The wage structure is below:
£328.50 guaranteed to 45 hours - £7.30/hr
£9.45 / HR OT - Not even time + half of the original poxy wage
waynedl:
We require an experienced Class I HGV Wagon Driver.
A Class I Licence is essential with at least one years experience, you also must be a minimum of 25years old for our insurance. You must hold a Full Drivers CPC
Class I HGV Wagon Driver - Distance Work
The job is delivering palletised goods within the UK
The position is to cover distance with nights out and early starts.
A clean licence is desirable.
The wage structure is below:
£328.50 guaranteed to 45 hours - £7.30/hr
£9.45 / HR OT - Not even time + half of the original poxy wage
£20.00 Night Out
£5.00 4am Start
£4.00 5am Start
Wayne, out of interest what is the best pay you can find offered for a job with your skill set besides driving a lorry?
waynedl:
We require an experienced Class I HGV Wagon Driver.
A Class I Licence is essential with at least one years experience, you also must be a minimum of 25years old for our insurance. You must hold a Full Drivers CPC
Class I HGV Wagon Driver - Distance Work
The job is delivering palletised goods within the UK
The position is to cover distance with nights out and early starts.
A clean licence is desirable.
The wage structure is below:
£328.50 guaranteed to 45 hours - £7.30/hr
£9.45 / HR OT - Not even time + half of the original poxy wage
£20.00 Night Out
£5.00 4am Start
£4.00 5am Start
Wayne, out of interest what is the best pay you can find offered for a job with your skill set besides driving a lorry?
Quite a lot mate since I’m a qualified and time served network engineer, I’ve just no interest in doing the job anymore, hence why I gave it up and become a bin man quite a few years ago.
bald bloke:
Got to say all these type of threads are getting boring now.
The way I look at it is this, my missus is a cleaner in a council run gym, she gets more than that.
She doesn’t need a digi-card, a hgv licence, a cpc.
In fact, all she does is clock in, do her hours and clock out.
She knows exactly what time she will start tomorrow and exactly what time she’ll finish.
She also gets full sick pay and final salary pension, Christmas saving scheme (money goes out of wages before tax and insurance and then is given back at xmas) and other stuff.
So, to expect someone to go through all we have to do, then drive on our roads with the maniacs - did you hear about the truck driver who was stabbed and then they stole his lorry? - for that money…
Also, if the topic bores you, why click on it, is the title not clear enough what’s going to be in the thread?
I could put another truck on the road and employ someone, but I don’t because I would only be able to pay a similar wage and I couldn’t be arsed to deal with posts on TruckNet about how crap my wages were. In the scenario above, the wage works out to about £90 a day, which is bang-on average in my area for driving a truck.
If you wanted to earn more then you should have studied harder when you were at school.
Mike-C:
Wayne, out of interest what is the best pay you can find offered for a job with your skill set besides driving a lorry?
Quite a lot mate since I’m a qualified and time served network engineer, I’ve just no interest in doing the job anymore, hence why I gave it up and become a bin man quite a few years ago.
You?
That doesn’t really answer my question though. When you answer mine, i’ll answer yours
That job you’ve highlighted will probably give you 5 ton a week. Seems pretty much the norm to me. Not the best, not the worst. I’ve seen similar jobs offered (hourly rate) for 40 hours flat and thats that. So not quite the 5 ton.
It just seems mad to me to say i don’t want to do this or that (in your case a network engineer) and you want to drive a truck but then complain that the wages are “not as they should be” ? Maybe all network engineers hate it and want to drive trucks and thats why the wages have gone down? Ok, i’m only joking, but you get my point? If everyone wants to drive a truck, and (there’s loads of recent threads on this) and the wages should be £12 plus per hour who’s not going to do it? That in turn produces a willing workforce, which in turn…
bald bloke:
Got to say all these type of threads are getting boring now.
The way I look at it is this, my missus is a cleaner in a council run gym, she gets more than that.
She doesn’t need a digi-card, a hgv licence, a cpc.
In fact, all she does is clock in, do her hours and clock out.
She knows exactly what time she will start tomorrow and exactly what time she’ll finish.
She also gets full sick pay and final salary pension, Christmas saving scheme (money goes out of wages before tax and insurance and then is given back at xmas) and other stuff.
So, to expect someone to go through all we have to do, then drive on our roads with the maniacs - did you hear about the truck driver who was stabbed and then they stole his lorry? - for that money…
Yes, that’s the point I was trying to make, I could employ somebody and pay them £500 a week into their bank, but I know they would just be on here moaning about whatever the hourly rate was. Even Rikki joined in with the Coombe Valley Transport bashing thread.
So why give a bloke a job when I might, if I was lucky, make £100 profit with all of the aggro of running a second truck?
bald bloke:
Got to say all these type of threads are getting boring now.
The way I look at it is this, my missus is a cleaner in a council run gym, she gets more than that.
She doesn’t need a digi-card, a hgv licence, a cpc.
In fact, all she does is clock in, do her hours and clock out.
She knows exactly what time she will start tomorrow and exactly what time she’ll finish.
She also gets full sick pay and final salary pension, Christmas saving scheme (money goes out of wages before tax and insurance and then is given back at xmas) and other stuff.
So, to expect someone to go through all we have to do, then drive on our roads with the maniacs - did you hear about the truck driver who was stabbed and then they stole his lorry? - for that money…
Does she get £500 a week?
I’d guess not,
I’d also guess she doesn’t work 65-70 hours a week either
Harry Monk:
If you wanted to earn more then you should have studied harder when you were at school.
I used to say that to my drivers (one in particular) when they started whining about something that comes with the territory when you’re a lorry driver
bald bloke:
Got to say all these type of threads are getting boring now.
The way I look at it is this, my missus is a cleaner in a council run gym, she gets more than that.
She doesn’t need a digi-card, a hgv licence, a cpc.
In fact, all she does is clock in, do her hours and clock out.
She knows exactly what time she will start tomorrow and exactly what time she’ll finish.
She also gets full sick pay and final salary pension, Christmas saving scheme (money goes out of wages before tax and insurance and then is given back at xmas) and other stuff.
So, to expect someone to go through all we have to do, then drive on our roads with the maniacs - did you hear about the truck driver who was stabbed and then they stole his lorry? - for that money…
Does she get £500 a week?
I’d guess not,
I’d also guess she doesn’t work 65-70 hours a week either
No she doesn’t, you’re correct, but as George pointed out, she doesn’t do 65 hrs per week and live in a tin box either.
BUT she does get the 328 that job is guaranteeing for less hours and is home everyday with all the perks listed above.
I’m currently a lorry driver, the wages above were nowhere to be seen when I became a lorry driver otherwise I wouldn’t have bothered.
I can work for a low hourly rate if the job is right and the guaranteed hours are right.
I currently only get £8 / hr, but I get time + half after 8, time + half on a Saturday and double time on a Sunday, I get £27 per night n/o money and parking paid, and that’s as a box jockey.
If I have no option but to do general work for those wages, then I’ll definitely change career, but for now I enjoy driving a truck which is why I do it and put up with all the crap that goes with the job.
There is no other industry that is so heavily regulated as far as individual employees are concerned than the transport industry … take a look at the fines that VOSA will implement at the earliest opportunity!.. in which other industry would a worker be fined £60 for forgetting to sign a piece of paper?(referring to a tacho irregularity printout ) The penalties are 'kin endless…
Add to that the need to fund medicals, DigiCards, licence renewals and DCPC and you wonder why we ■■■■■ about poor wage offers - Jeez…
Who else goes to work with the risk of such financial penalties hanging over their head for doing their day to day duties? …and also death for that matter…it’s a high risk industry! I’ll tell you now…no one!
If you’re willing to work for £7.30 an hour to be Professional driver with all of the above risks associated (and I’ve missed a few out) then i suggest you become a Post Man who earns £8.78 an hour without fear of fines for putting the letters in the the wrong post box.
And before anyone starts asking about my abilities to do other jobs i HAVE been a Postie and was also a Certified Network Engineer who then went on to manage an IT Helpdesk earning £18+ an hour before taking VR…
The people that are accepting these low wages really need to start drawing comparisons and have a rethink… & remember, there’s more chance of your partner/Spouse receiving a call from the Police to say that you’ve been killed at work than in any other industry…
Torkey:
& remember, there’s more chance of your partner/Spouse receiving a call from the Police to say that you’ve been killed at work than in any other industry…
Are you sure? I think the army and probably the police are more dangerous? In general industries it’s quite dangerous but I’m not convinced it’s the most dangerous.
Torkey:
& remember, there’s more chance of your partner/Spouse receiving a call from the Police to say that you’ve been killed at work than in any other industry…
Are you sure? I think the army and probably the police are more dangerous? In general industries it’s quite dangerous but I’m not convinced it’s the most dangerous.
i thought farming is at the top of the list, with comparable pay to hgv driving
