Hi all just been for a interview and the money on offer was £400 a week and £20 night out which is crap if im honest however was told that you get 20% of earnings of the truck after it has earned £2000 which again is poor. How ever im currently doing a job that involdes heights that I just can’t get used to The gaffer there said that you average earnings are around £600-£650 a week once you get used to the job. If this possible or not just seeing what you lot think?
Or if anyone knows any firms taking on around the milton keynes / northampton area
The money doesn’t seem great but if your talking about bulk tipper work I do this fairly often and it is the easiest job going. Depending on if you use nets/sheets all you have to do is open and close the back door a couple of times a day. If your carrying cars and heavy metal you don’t even have to worry about nets.
mknutjob:
Hi all just been for a interview and the money on offer was £400 a week and £20 night out which is crap if im honest however was told that you get 20% of earnings of the truck after it has earned £2000 which again is poor. How ever im currently doing a job that involdes heights that I just can’t get used to The gaffer there said that you average earnings are around £600-£650 a week once you get used to the job. If this possible or not just seeing what you lot think?
Or if anyone knows any firms taking on around the milton keynes / northampton area
Cheeers all shiny side up
Is that 20% of what the truck earns ABOVE £2000? (so if the truck earns £2100 you get 20% of £100?)
Financial incentives are illegal, but they get away with it on how it is worded in their contract, Dvsa do not like percentage of what the lorry earns as you are more likely to break speed limits and push it to the maximum hours or go over.
Ask any S & K driver, on how fair their percentage scheme is.
It can work out pretty good but you wont be hanging about much night out money is poor i agree if you never done tippers before it will take some getting use to
pm if you want i might know the company
If you see a bulker approach behind you, pull over in the verge to let him pass at warp factor, or he will push you off the road anyway.
I know a lad that is paralised from the waist down after chasing percentages,speeding.
He hit a lorry on a corner not expecting it to be there early in the morning, on a regular route.
Not wearing a seat belt,suffering multiple internal damage and years of operations.
When I come down the M1 there are loads of agencies advertising as you hit Northampton and MK and there are loads of RDC’S in that neck of the woods
You are better off trying to get something by going agency to perm rather than let this clown take the pee out of you,that money is garbage.
toby1234abc:
Financial incentives are illegal, but they get away with it on how it is worded in their contract, Dvsa do not like percentage of what the lorry earns as you are more likely to break speed limits and push it to the maximum hours or go over.
Ask any S & K driver, on how fair their percentage scheme is.
amamdada:
When I come down the M1 there are loads of agencies advertising as you hit Northampton and MK and there are loads of RDC’S in that neck of the woods
You are better off trying to get something by going agency to perm rather than let this clown take the pee out of you,that money is garbage.
So if his truck earnings can make £3500 he’s on top line £400 + £300, £700 not bad for a weeks work!!!
toby1234abc:
Financial incentives are illegal, but they get away with it on how it is worded in their contract, Dvsa do not like percentage of what the lorry earns as you are more likely to break speed limits and push it to the maximum hours or go over.
Ask any S & K driver, on how fair their percentage scheme is.
Depending on what you are carrying bulk tipping work can be great. A lot of years ago I got roughly a tenner to load, a tenner to tip and a tenner for every 100kms. If was short distance you only got paid one “end”. Then you got nights out, fiver to wash the body out if going for feed, fiver for a puncture and a bit extra for dirty or smelly loads.
toby1234abc:
Financial incentives are illegal, but they get away with it on how it is worded in their contract, Dvsa do not like percentage of what the lorry earns as you are more likely to break speed limits and push it to the maximum hours or go over.
I think you’ll find that the reason firms offer a basic, as with the op, is that’s how to get round the Financial incentives rules.
mknutjob:
Hi all just been for a interview and the money on offer was £400 a week and £20 night out which is crap if im honest however was told that you get 20% of earnings of the truck after it has earned £2000 which again is poor. How ever im currently doing a job that involdes heights that I just can’t get used to The gaffer there said that you average earnings are around £600-£650 a week once you get used to the job. If this possible or not just seeing what you lot think?
Yep that’s far from good, I’ve been on several % jobs over the years, the last one finished in 2009, that was paying £420 pw (£84 a day) + 10% off gross earnings between £1000 - £2000, and 20% off gross earnings over £2000. I earned reasonable from that, but the best was that I never worked weekends, as they wouldn’t pay a base daily or even hourly rate for Saturday or Sunday, so to me, a cut off % only wasn’t worth it for weekend work
That pay scheme sounds like another one of those…he’ll get paid with as little i can get away with…is there a shop steward vetting the figures?..no thought not…is there a drivers rep vetting the figures, the bosses bestest mate?
I did bulk for several years, out of the general haulage in the area the pay was about the best, but you earned it.
Bulk lads that come into my present work place have in many cases been on the job for ever, as said depending on the type of work it can be a decent job, if its paid well it beats the hell out of sitting in hell…AKA the RDC waiting room.
Juddian:
That pay scheme sounds like another one of those…he’ll get paid with as little i can get away with…is there a shop steward vetting the figures?..no thought not…is there a drivers rep vetting the figures, the bosses bestest mate?
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That is the where you really need to build a good relationship with your boss, never let another driver get between you and the job rates.
Also its essential to keep a diary, and record the rate that is offered and/or paid for each job, and don’t be afraid to question why a particular rate is not what it was the last time you did the same job. Ok you have to take the bosses word for it if he says that the rate has been cut, as they sometimes are, but if he understands that you are checking up, and keeping a record, then He’s more likely to pay you right
If your work involves running out of quarries then ask at the weighbridge for either a rate sheet or the rate for that job, I always did and never got refused. You can then work your money out in advance, I did this for five years and my wage was normally spot on, if I made it more then they paid me on my figures.
The gaffer there said that you average earnings are around £600-£650 a week once you get used to the job. If this possible or not just seeing what you lot think?
