Just seen a job advertised, £30,000 - £50,000 a year. Surely you can’t earn £50,000?
That works out at less than 1K per week,so its not that much.The wagon could be worth £200,000 and the load could bring the whole lot upto a million.So taken in context its alright.
You can. I know someone who will get very close to that this year. Friday for instance he did a shift of just under 11 hours collecting vehicles, 17 motorbikes on this occasion, to take back to base and earned £311 before deductions for the shift. Only works Monday to Friday with the odd Saturday if he wants it, starts between 5 and 6 o’clock and is finished by lunchtime some days, mid to late afternoon on others and home every night…
I know the figures are correct as its my 23 year old son, but apparently he won’t be regarded as a proper trucker because despite holding a ‘Class 1’ for 4 years he drives a rigid. I’ve told him this but he is more than happy to not be a proper trucker. 
Bloody hell. I may have to leave the tankers [emoji52]
Coffee’s son is in a tiny minority earning that dosh for short hours, yes £50k can be earned but on the vast majority of work you will have earned every penny, long hours of relentless graft…Ford’s own have the very best terms and conditions but you aint got a hope in hell of getting on there unless related or already working for Ford or associates.
If i could earn that I’d leave the trains lol
Juddian:
Coffee’s son is in a tiny minority earning that dosh for short hours…
He’s not in a minority where he works though, all the drivers are on that sort of money. Obviously what he got Friday isn’t every day, it was just an e tea good day because of the bikes and being able to get 17 on which with the payment per vehicle they get turned out nicely. The most cars he can get on at one time is 7 so would earn less on a day if that’s all he does, but then if he gets 2 runs of 7 in a shift that works out to a decent sum as well. He did 7 this week, he sent me a picture of the loaded truck, and I think on another day he did two runs of 5 so a pretty good week.
His work can be a bit seasonal apparently, summer being busier than winter but over the year it will be a good wage, especially for a 23 year old.
He’s only been there a few weeks so time will tell but he is enjoying the job and the hours.
I’ve spoke to a few ECM lads where i work now (Landrover solihul) and they say they can get close to that if you put the graft in.
Coffeeholic:
You can. I know someone who will get very close to that this year. Friday for instance he did a shift of just under 11 hours collecting vehicles, 17 motorbikes on this occasion, to take back to base and earned £311 before deductions for the shift. Only works Monday to Friday with the odd Saturday if he wants it, starts between 5 and 6 o’clock and is finished by lunchtime some days, mid to late afternoon on others and home every night…I know the figures are correct as its my 23 year old son, but apparently he won’t be regarded as a proper trucker because despite holding a ‘Class 1’ for 4 years he drives a rigid. I’ve told him this but he is more than happy to not be a proper trucker.
Sounds like a normal week on the agency.
What exactly does a car transporter drivers job entail?
Bulldog164:
What exactly does a car transporter drivers job entail?
Go to the docks find the cars load them up and deliver I imagine.
Themoocher:
Coffeeholic:
You can. I know someone who will get very close to that this year. Friday for instance he did a shift of just under 11 hours collecting vehicles, 17 motorbikes on this occasion, to take back to base and earned £311 before deductions for the shift. Only works Monday to Friday with the odd Saturday if he wants it, starts between 5 and 6 o’clock and is finished by lunchtime some days, mid to late afternoon on others and home every night…I know the figures are correct as its my 23 year old son, but apparently he won’t be regarded as a proper trucker because despite holding a ‘Class 1’ for 4 years he drives a rigid. I’ve told him this but he is more than happy to not be a proper trucker.
Sounds like a normal week on the agency.
He’s not agency, never done any agency work, that’s a full time, contracted position he has.
Bulldog164:
What exactly does a car transporter drivers job entail?
Transporting cars.
Might be docks to dealers, dealers to dealers, factory to dealers, second hand cars such as ex hire or fleet cars to auctions, new cars and vans to hire companies, accident damaged insurance write offs from garages and recovery companies to scrap/recycling yards.
When I was doing office work fur a recovery company recently we would have multi-car transporters coming in almost every day to collect one io two cars we had recovered following accidents on behalf of the insurance companies to take for scrapping.
Coffeeholic:
Themoocher:
Coffeeholic:
You can. I know someone who will get very close to that this year. Friday for instance he did a shift of just under 11 hours collecting vehicles, 17 motorbikes on this occasion, to take back to base and earned £311 before deductions for the shift. Only works Monday to Friday with the odd Saturday if he wants it, starts between 5 and 6 o’clock and is finished by lunchtime some days, mid to late afternoon on others and home every night…I know the figures are correct as its my 23 year old son, but apparently he won’t be regarded as a proper trucker because despite holding a ‘Class 1’ for 4 years he drives a rigid. I’ve told him this but he is more than happy to not be a proper trucker.
Sounds like a normal week on the agency.
He’s not agency, never done any agency work, that’s a full time, contracted position he has.
Sorry I was been sarcastic
I tried & failed to get into that, good luck to all those chasing it:)
Pimpdaddy:
I tried & failed to get into that, good luck to all those chasing it:)
Is it hard to get into?
I’ve heard few guys saying it’s stressful loading and unloading the motors.
Is it £30k or is it £50k though?
Theres quite a difference between the two.
It’s like most jobs, they advertise what you can earn if you work the maximum legal hours etc, for 99% of people however its a lot less
Themoocher:
Is it hard to get into?
I’ve heard few guys saying it’s stressful loading and unloading the motors.
I have no idea, it all seemed like good fun to me because I seek adventure. Some people can just walk straight into it easily from what I’ve seen but my face didn’t fit in most places as a driver so I left it…
£50K a year driving Petrol Tankers is common.
Home every day too.
Putting the pay into context back in the 70s Progressive (later Tolemans) where on £400 pw plus for "ferrying"new cars from the Standard Triumph to local holding compounds,so what is £400 in todays terms.Graft they did 7 cars into the compound next to our depot, in tip and out again in 8 minutes.We timed them.
So I would think £50k is possible considering they now carry about 11 cars and at todays new car prices thats a valuable load