Hi all, so I’ve completed my dcpc in which I actually learnt a lot! I will be looking to do a refresher day on the wagons as it’s been a few years and then will be registering with some agencies.
Any advice on some good ones near me in Gwent would be very helpful. Oh and there is a job going at local haulage company driving flatbed , what’s your opinion on the following pay:
40 hrs @ £6.85 (min p/w)
Then 20 hrs @ £10.28
£4 meal allowance
£20 night out
Not sure if gross or net. Cheers.
40 hrs @ £6.85 (min p/w)
Then 20 hrs @ £10.28£4 meal allowance
£20 night out
Tricky. First thought is that this is really crap money. To work 60 hours for IRO £450 is not exactly brilliant. But, it’s a job, it’s a start, it’s experience.
The agency may pay a little more and will almost certainly keep you in plenty of hours on the run up to Christmas. But, in the worst case scenario, they may drop you like a stone in January and then the £450 looks almost attractive.
Why not approach the employer with the offer of working for that money for, say, 3 months, and then renegotiate. If they don’t co-operate by end Feb, work will have picked up again on the agency and you might get a better deal there.
Really difficult decision; hope I may have helped a little.
Pete 
Hi Pete
The tm did show me some payslips for the drivers and they were taking home around £450 a week after tax so you’re spot on. The only good thing I can see going for that job is I won’t be thrown in the deep end like agency work ( assumption) and will get some help to start with.
Then again with the agency work I could do a couple of days doing various jobs to see what type of work I want to do.
Nothings straight forward aye!
Btw what kind of money should I be aiming for at agencies?
taking home around £450 a week after tax
Not too bad for take home. But my earlier comments still apply.
Pete
Swift Newport
Drivers Direct Caerphilly
ADR Newport
Thanks