Darkside:
I have been under a bonus scheme for around 18 months now, but it is only a bonus and doesn’t mean a lower basic. I would of course love more bonus, but it does pressurise the job too much and as transport has a tendency to go wrong spectacularly, I am ok with the level it is set at.
Of course it means a lower basic, even if the company dresses it up to appear otherwise.
NO! Zb’ing hate bonus schemes. Worst idea ever brought into haulage. Give me just straight overtime, that way you can’t take it away for no reason like you can with bonus’s.
andy288*:
The clue is in the title of the post - ‘Bonus’!Unless its screwed down watertight with all the possible variables taken into account it can be manipulated in such a way that you get very little or even nothing at all! Just my twopenneth from very bitter experience!
Always remember a bonus is just as it says - a bonus IF you get it!
Same here. Had my £90 a week POD bonus regularly cut by £50 for the stupid electronic POD system failing to accept the photo of the signature. Almost every week I had to demand to know why its been stopped then argue to have it set right.
Roymondo:
Darkside:
I have been under a bonus scheme for around 18 months now, but it is only a bonus and doesn’t mean a lower basic. I would of course love more bonus, but it does pressurise the job too much and as transport has a tendency to go wrong spectacularly, I am ok with the level it is set at.Of course it means a lower basic, even if the company dresses it up to appear otherwise.
No mate. Was introduced when I was already there so they couldn’t (I wouldn’t have let them) drop the basic.
On what I read here ours seems quite fair £112 a week class 1 bonus all we have to do is not damage our trucks, clean it at least once a week, turn up to work on time and perform fairly. Not to much to ask id say. [emoji846]
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I remember two schemes that went horribly wrong for the companies.
Newcastle Brown had a scheme that was related to their share price. In theory, if everyone pulled their weight, the company made more profit and the share price went up - everyone got a bonus then. If the share price went down, no bonus. Worked alright for a while and then the share price went down, so no bonus for a couple of years. Then someone made a takeover bid; the share price rocketed and bonuses went through the roof. They had to do a deal in the end.
The other was a meat haulier in Carlisle.(Cavray?) They split the divers into groups and paid them on some complicated scheme based on productivity. If a driver left, and was not replaced, they got more bonus. What the company didn’t know was just how lazy the drivers had been; so they could easily drop two or three drivers from each group and double their pay.
UselessForce:
On what I read here ours seems quite fair £112 a week class 1 bonus all we have to do is not damage our trucks, clean it at least once a week, turn up to work on time and perform fairly. Not to much to ask id say. [emoji846]Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
doing your job then? 
Conan the Librarian:
UselessForce:
On what I read here ours seems quite fair £112 a week class 1 bonus all we have to do is not damage our trucks, clean it at least once a week, turn up to work on time and perform fairly. Not to much to ask id say. [emoji846]Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
doing your job then?
Pretty much [emoji4] but you wouldn’t believe how many “drivers” appear to struggle with this.[emoji12]
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For the employed drivers theres a bonus of 110eur pm for no damage/scratches ect. Theyre all top spec big power units and drivers are well paid, most keep them immaculate anyway. We work on pay per load/distance and although its not needed as most employed are on around 40k eur pa theres also an unofficial weight bonus …
do all your drops with no returns + any collections bonus of £20 per week payed monthly sounds fair enough to me will see how it goes as only been there a week