Surely there must be a limit of halfway house and endorsed licence people in this country?
It’s not even a question of “Someone thick might apply” - surely they would not?
To even the slowest licence holder - peer pressure and the grapevine have the biggest effect in putting them off?
We can’t even argue these ads are aimed at the unemployed or new arrival… If anything such applicants will purposely find something else to do like “apply for a shelf stackers job” so they don’t get lumbered with the likes of this.
We’ve recently looked at going back to Bristol as my girl has got her own house now , I’ve no idea what the wages are avonmouth way but to get the equivalent house ive got in lincolnshire I’d have to take out a £100,000 + mortage for about 9 yrs wheras now I have no mortage , I can’t see they’d pay that much more to pay a 100,000 mortage so I’d be no worse off , so for me it’s a non starter and I’d expect that to apply to a lot of drivers .
Only way you can make it pay is get somewhere in south mead , lock leaze or knowle west assuming prices would be a lot lower
A new guy just started in our company,his first non-driving job.He came off the road as his pay was the lowest in 11 years.
£450 for a weeks work,55 hours.He only worked there two weeks before he realized that he needed to get away.
The best bit is that the company advertises these jobs as “guaranteed high earnings”,if the guaranteed high earnings is £450,what is a low pay then ?
Don’t know if i’m allowed to mention the company name,but they do a lot of containers and have trucks that are white cabs and blue at the bottom.Guess you could say the name could have something to do with the sea…
Neverstress:
A new guy just started in our company,his first non-driving job.He came off the road as his pay was the lowest in 11 years.
£450 for a weeks work,55 hours.He only worked there two weeks before he realized that he needed to get away.
The best bit is that the company advertises these jobs as “guaranteed high earnings”,if the guaranteed high earnings is £450,what is a low pay then ?
Don’t know if i’m allowed to mention the company name,but they do a lot of containers and have trucks that are white cabs and blue at the bottom.Guess you could say the name could have something to do with the sea…
Pat Hasler:
Why are you people not all out on strike ? In 1994 Tesco drivers were on 12 quid an hour, in 1997 I was getting 13 quid an hour.
…I was on £12 per hour in 1998 working out of Dartford, but as for striking offer some of them a shiny new Volvo or Scania and they will take a wage cut, I was sat waiting for a truck in Bradford round about 1990 so I could do a night trunk, and a brand new tractor trailer the boss had just bought was parked in the yard, painted Maroon and Gold looked very nice it did too, he was telling me he was taking it to a show at the weekend and asked if I wanted to go (I laughed gently, thanked him, but told him I would rather have red hot needles poked in my eyes and eat my own feet than spend what little spare time I had polishing and looking at bloody trucks), when a head poked through the little widow they have in offices and this shaven potato with piggy little eyes said, " whatever your paying the driver of that truck I will do his job for half the money " I never forgot that, and while (I hope) most wont go to that extreme, a new truck does buy a lot off…by the way potato head was told to go away and never show his ugly face again.
25 years ago, the biggest problem in society was being booted out of one’s home because no one was able to double (or more!) their income in the space that interest rates went up that year.
These days, house prices are considered “unaffordable” not because they are overpriced, but because in real terms the interest rate differential (between what banks pay and what their customers pay them) has never been higher.
This means that you don’t get a mortgage anywhere near 0.5% (as of today) - but more importantly you don’t get 95-100% LTV and you don’t get fee-less, deposit-less easily arranged residential mortgages that were based around how much it took to double that payment rather than how much it took to double it today.
TODAY our biggest problem is that wages have long since refused to keep up with real inflation, which of course includes increases in mortgage rates.
The future for those communities hoping to fill jobs @ sub=£10ph wages - looks as bleak as the future for house prices in those same areas then.
The “Crash” when it comes will be spotty and disconnected all about the country. Why? - Because that is the way the Jobs Market already IS with people thinking they can easily fill vacant positions without ever upping significantly the offer.
dozy:
We’ve recently looked at going back to Bristol as my girl has got her own house now , I’ve no idea what the wages are avonmouth way but to get the equivalent house ive got in lincolnshire I’d have to take out a £100,000 + mortage for about 9 yrs wheras now I have no mortage , I can’t see they’d pay that much more to pay a 100,000 mortage so I’d be no worse off , so for me it’s a non starter and I’d expect that to apply to a lot of drivers .
Only way you can make it pay is get somewhere in south mead , lock leaze or knowle west assuming prices would be a lot lower
Why move to Bristol to work out of Avonmouth ? Why look not look across the bridge, the toll goes in just over a years time and a new junction is being built on the M49 the end of this year, £150,000 buys a 3 bed semi in a good area 20-30 minutes away from Avonmouth.
Free prescriptions free tuition fees for the children and gym membership for £9.99 and £… Bristol wages for listening to the radio sat on you’re arse looking out of a window.
dozy:
We’ve recently looked at going back to Bristol as my girl has got her own house now , I’ve no idea what the wages are avonmouth way but to get the equivalent house ive got in lincolnshire I’d have to take out a £100,000 + mortage for about 9 yrs wheras now I have no mortage , I can’t see they’d pay that much more to pay a 100,000 mortage so I’d be no worse off , so for me it’s a non starter and I’d expect that to apply to a lot of drivers .
Only way you can make it pay is get somewhere in south mead , lock leaze or knowle west assuming prices would be a lot lower
You’re looking at about 180K for a cheap 3 bed house in Bristol but for that price it’ll need work or be in a less desirable area so if you are mortgage free where you are I’d stay there and enjoy having all your take home pay to yourself.
dozy:
We’ve recently looked at going back to Bristol as my girl has got her own house now , I’ve no idea what the wages are avonmouth way but to get the equivalent house ive got in lincolnshire I’d have to take out a £100,000 + mortage for about 9 yrs wheras now I have no mortage , I can’t see they’d pay that much more to pay a 100,000 mortage so I’d be no worse off , so for me it’s a non starter and I’d expect that to apply to a lot of drivers .
Only way you can make it pay is get somewhere in south mead , lock leaze or knowle west assuming prices would be a lot lower
100k Mortgage for 9 years would be near a grand a month repayment…you better look at something the pays more than being a lorryist.
mutley:
Quotes a salary not hourly so surely same every week? I’m paid same salary for 28 day month as for 31 day.
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They don’t quote a salary they quote “£448 for 48 hours”… that is 4 times 12 hour shifts. £9.33. Employers are good at misleading adverts…salaried would show an annual amount usually and give you a much better picture of the 4 on 4 off scam! Which is what it is much of the time as in this case, night and weekend work for peanuts!
mutley:
Quotes a salary not hourly so surely same every week? I’m paid same salary for 28 day month as for 31 day.
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They don’t quote a salary they quote “£44 for 48 hours”… that is 4 times 12 hour shifts. £9.33. Employers are good at misleading adverts…salaried would show an annual amount usually and give you a much better picture of the 4 on 4 off scam! Which is what it is much of the time as in this case, night and weekend work for peanuts!
Darkside: They don’t quote a salary they quote “£44 for 48 hours”… that is 4 times 12 hour shifts. £9.33. Employers are good at misleading adverts…salaried would show an annual amount usually and give you a much better picture of the 4 on 4 off scam! Which is what it is much of the time as in this case, night and weekend work for peanuts!
They do.
Salary: £448.00 to £500 / week.
on 12 hr shifts that is £10.33 per hour.
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Nope. You’ve just swallowed their bait. Read it again…the first bit…£448 for 4 times 12 hour shifts…that equals £112 per 12 hour shift so on a 3 day week you’ll have £336…phone them and ask if you don’t believe me! At best that ad is contradictory…
Darkside: They don’t quote a salary they quote “£44 for 48 hours”… that is 4 times 12 hour shifts. £9.33. Employers are good at misleading adverts…salaried would show an annual amount usually and give you a much better picture of the 4 on 4 off scam! Which is what it is much of the time as in this case, night and weekend work for peanuts!
They do.
Salary: £448.00 to £500 / week.
on 12 hr shifts that is £10.33 per hour.
Nope. You’ve just swallowed their bait. Read it again…the first bit…£448 for 4 times 12 hour shifts…that equals £112 per 12 hour shift so on a 3 day week you’ll have £336…phone them and ask if you don’t believe me! At best that ad is contradictory…
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No need to ring them…
Actually, reckoned up over an 8 week period it’s far worse than ■■■■■■
A lot of firms used to pay nights with a one - third premium, as well
as T + 1/2 for over 8 hours weekdays and all day Saturday, plus T x 2
for Sundays. All over and above the normal hourly day rate.
So to get £448 top line you would actually be on £6.00 per hour.
Darkside: They don’t quote a salary they quote “£44 for 48 hours”… that is 4 times 12 hour shifts. £9.33. Employers are good at misleading adverts…salaried would show an annual amount usually and give you a much better picture of the 4 on 4 off scam! Which is what it is much of the time as in this case, night and weekend work for peanuts!
They do.
Salary: £448.00 to £500 / week.
on 12 hr shifts that is £10.33 per hour.
Nope. You’ve just swallowed their bait. Read it again…the first bit…£448 for 4 times 12 hour shifts…that equals £112 per 12 hour shift so on a 3 day week you’ll have £336…phone them and ask if you don’t believe me! At best that ad is contradictory…
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You are paid £448 to £500 every week week in week out its a salary.
Darkside: They don’t quote a salary they quote “£44 for 48 hours”… that is 4 times 12 hour shifts. £9.33. Employers are good at misleading adverts…salaried would show an annual amount usually and give you a much better picture of the 4 on 4 off scam! Which is what it is much of the time as in this case, night and weekend work for peanuts!
They do.
Salary: £448.00 to £500 / week.
on 12 hr shifts that is £10.33 per hour.
Nope. You’ve just swallowed their bait. Read it again…the first bit…£448 for 4 times 12 hour shifts…that equals £112 per 12 hour shift so on a 3 day week you’ll have £336…phone them and ask if you don’t believe me! At best that ad is contradictory…
You are paid £448 to £500 every week week in week out its a salary.
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Darkside: They don’t quote a salary they quote “£44 for 48 hours”… that is 4 times 12 hour shifts. £9.33. Employers are good at misleading adverts…salaried would show an annual amount usually and give you a much better picture of the 4 on 4 off scam! Which is what it is much of the time as in this case, night and weekend work for peanuts!
They do.
Salary: £448.00 to £500 / week.
on 12 hr shifts that is £10.33 per hour.
Nope. You’ve just swallowed their bait. Read it again…the first bit…£448 for 4 times 12 hour shifts…that equals £112 per 12 hour shift so on a 3 day week you’ll have £336…phone them and ask if you don’t believe me! At best that ad is contradictory…
You are paid £448 to £500 every week week in week out its a salary.
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eagerbeaver:
mattecube:
TiredAndEmotional:
Darkside: They don’t quote a salary they quote “£44 for 48 hours”… that is 4 times 12 hour shifts. £9.33. Employers are good at misleading adverts…salaried would show an annual amount usually and give you a much better picture of the 4 on 4 off scam! Which is what it is much of the time as in this case, night and weekend work for peanuts!
They do.
Salary: £448.00 to £500 / week.
on 12 hr shifts that is £10.33 per hour.
Nope. You’ve just swallowed their bait. Read it again…the first bit…£448 for 4 times 12 hour shifts…that equals £112 per 12 hour shift so on a 3 day week you’ll have £336…phone them and ask if you don’t believe me! At best that ad is contradictory…
You are paid £448 to £500 every week week in week out its a salary.
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Oh the mentality of some,but I get it the dog is shi*ing your brains
assuming prices would be a lot lower 
