UnionJack:
20 weeks paid hols
Pension
number one you lucky bugger lol
but 20 weeks paid holiday 
i want i want i want
pm’d you
read 
Gauranteed £400 a week on top, plus £18 a night out. Dont do saturdays, but if I do its £30 to run in, or £50 if I tip a box. I might take home about £370 for this week 4 nights out. Average hours about 65, lots of them either in the bunk, or doing other stuff. No doubt this will be classified mop & bucket money!
Mal.
DRAWBARDAZ wrote:
just one question,are you all including your night out/expenses money in with your take home pay?
Dont do Nights out
Dont do expenses
Do do go 2 pub most nights, do go out week ends, do go spain tho …5 weeks in the summer
rota : 4 on 2 off, no nights out, garanteed 10 hrs pay (usualy work8-9 hrs per shift) good tackle to drive (apart from STRALIS ) easiest job I`ve
had : AVERAGE £ 280.00 per week.
single payscale, rigid & artic drivers all get same money.
tankers south-west region.
gsoh Mal…nice one mate…lol… … 
Nice picture unionjack…Is that the driver tak`in his lunch break■■?
Blimey the DRIVER SHORTAGE really is biteing
400 horses, 1 DONKEY 
just thought id add this well known phrase:
“wage rise ■■.. listen son there no money in transport , times are hard”
Same Man last year bought a 1.6million pound yacht …fact!!
same man bought office boys MERC 4x4’s & LOADS of other toys for himself.
Dont get me wrong he has worked hard all his 56 years, and i dont begrudge him his rewards but i do get a bit [zb] being told theres no money in transport
Edited for reasons already explained.
yeh tony 420 horses & 1 donkey
and here is this months p-slip, (4 weeks)you can see that i only did 49.25 hrs o/t all month, i had 2 days hols rest is flat 4 weeks, not bad eh some jobs are decent even if i have to drive a 52mph volvo fm 12
p.s check total for year, there is about £3k to add for next month. 
Big Truck, Most saturdays mate I can be found in the Portside bar, If you are wanting a chat and some numbers, meet up with me and Ill pass on some numbers for ya, but remember, its all for tramping mate!!
Kev
I believe everything you say Jack because Tesco was very similar
Yep I was earning that 3 Years ago in a ridged!
Not now driving Class 1 
Take home usually around £250 80-30 start 'till finish. Multidrop on Artic. Finish between 16-00 and 18-00 (paid hourly). Crap holidays but I work virtually office hours 
. It suits me anyways.
Scania King Kev,
You have PM!!! 
Take home £480 for 60 odd hrs and 4 nights out, usually home by 3pm on a Friday. I’m on percentage though, I do have some bad weeks at £400 take home.
Class 2, £270 flat rate mon - fri. night out rate £30 (no parking money) 2 nights out a week take home £274 and a few pennies, work the job how i like as long as it’s done and no one complains.
roy.
TONY:
gsoh Mal…nice one mate…lol…
You know I like a laff Tone!
Mal.
UnionJack:
DRAWBARDAZ wrote:just one question,are you all including your night out/expenses money in with your take home pay?
Do do go 2 pub most nights, do go out week ends, do go spain tho …5 weeks in the summer
nice one! good to know theres some good jobs out there.lol
RIGHT, This is how I see it (with apologies to Monty Python)
Ahh… Very passable, this, very passable.
Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
You’re right there Obediah.
Who’d a thought thirty years ago we’d all be sittin’ here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
Aye. In them days, we’d a’ been glad to have the price of a cup o’ tea.
A cup ’ COLD tea.
Without milk or sugar.
OR tea!
In a filthy, cracked cup.
We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
The best WE could manage was to ■■■■ on a piece of damp cloth.
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, “Money doesn’t buy you happiness.”
‘E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN’. We used to live all week in this tiiiny old SCANIA, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
SCANIA? You were lucky to have a SCANIA! We used to live all week in a steam driven FODEN, all hundred and twenty-six of us, and no seats. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
You were lucky to have a FODEN! WE used to have to live all week in an ERF!
Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin’ in an ERF! Woulda’ been a palace to us. We used to live in an old SCAMMELL on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! ERF!? Hmph.
Well when I say “ERF” it was only a TIPPER covered by a piece of tarpaulin, but it was like an ERF to US.
We were sacked from our SCAMMELL; we had to go and live all week in an IVECO!
You were lucky to have an IVECO! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small SPRINTER in the middle of the M6.
SPRINTER?
Aye.
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a WHALE GULLEY SUCKER next to a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the tank, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
LUXURY!! We used to have to get out of the SPRINTER at three o’clock in the morning, clean the M6, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for TUPPENCE A MONTH, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the WHALE GULLEY SUCKER at twelve o’clock at night, and LICK the tank clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for FOURPENCE EVERY SIX YEARS, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day shuntin’, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing “Hallelujah.”
But you try and tell the young people today that… and they won’t believe ya’!!!.