Well i can say one thing, if you wont drive the truck for the money they offer, there will be 20 EE that will do it and be thankfull for the given job, and they wont give a ■■■■ if their boss is driving a RR or going on holiday every month. At the end of the day its not the bosses problem, that you have 5 kids, 6 wifes to feed and that you dont know what a condom or a proper degree is( because if you did, you wouldnt have 5 children and if you had a degree you wouldnt drive a lorry for a living)
Really? I know a fair few drivers with degrees.
Are they ‘proper’ degrees though or just mickey mouse ones that aren’t of much use on the real world…!?
You need 5 or 6 kids to know what a shafting is
Pimpdaddy:
Yes like some east European-£400 is a lot to them…
I’m English and £400 is a lot to me.
Truckulent:
If you start working for [zb] all, you’ll always work for [zb] all mate!The money you’re stating is about right for 3 shifts (assuming a bit of o/time) with no nights out. If you do all week and nights out for that, you need a psychiatrist not a job mate.
If you’re doing the same job as an experienced driver the company are making the same money out of you so why charge less? Also, the experienced man will be ■■■■■■ off you’re undercutting him. (see above posts!!)
People like you are contributing massively to the [zb] wages drivers are being offered. Grow some balls mate!
I’m not sure where you get your figures from that £400 is 'about right for 3 shifts? In my experience that job offered doesn’t look a lot different to any other tramper jobs i’ve seen advertised, or had. But don’t take mine or your advice for it, lets see what the Careers people have to say…
nationalcareersservice.direct.g … river.aspx
Ooops !!! It looks like £400 isn’t about right for three shifts !!! Infact it looks like the wage offered is about the norm, or going rate?
Pimpdaddy:
Are they ‘proper’ degrees though or just mickey mouse ones that aren’t of much use on the real world…!?
American politics (so a bit useless), marine biology, electronics (bit vague but something in that field) and a teacher who Ieft that a drives so I’m assuming has a degree.
Anyway the stupidest degrees seem to open the highest paying jobs.
Science based degree 15 to 30k
“media” studies 20k to ■■?
I hope the feller gets the job, OK its not paying great but it will give him the experience he wants and needs and can move on in due course.
Lots of us have had to do the same.
Back in a previous life i had just been made redundant again, middle of yet another recession, i heard a whisper that a firm that operated scabby car transporters near me were looking, so i applied and i got the job.
Guess what the job was crap, i had to go on trade plates for around 6 months as there wasn’t a heap of junk, otherwise known as a transporter, available.
Eventually a truck became available, and i was trained up, i use the term loosely, it meant going out with another driver double manned working 15 to 20 hour days, the best bit about it being that whilst training you weren’t paid, not a penny.
I spoke to the boss and explained that because we were double manned i had helped the lorry to earn far more than it otherwise would, he reluctantly agreed to pay me £100.
I was the first driver ever to be paid for a training period there.
The job was awful, bent running, vehicles never serviced and i mean that simply bodged to keep them running, i once asked when the truck was next in for oil change, the mechanic looked at me aghast and said ‘we ain’t servicing the effin thing’…luckily that changed whilst i was there, it had to their luck had run out and they’d got too big to carry on like that.
However a few years there gave me the valuable and priceless experience i needed to get a proper job on the cars, and i got a start with one of the big players and never looked back.
Its all very well some of you clever buggers having a go at the fellow for trying to get this job, but sometimes you have to invest a bit of time and effort into learning your trade.
As some have said, if he doesn’t then there’s dozens of foreigners who will.
I could maybe accept a poor wage if I was inexperienced, provided that my employer was putting the rest of the money aside to invest in proper training for me. Like a rail company does for a newbie driver. It would make it worth it in the long run. But as the majority of road transport companies don’t work like this, why should you work for a crap wage. It benefits the employer more than it benefits you. If you want European experience for that kind of money mentioned above, go get a job driving in Poland or somewhere like that and stop giving companies in this country an excuse to continue to offer poor wages.
Some of the comments on here are making me laugh this job is better then no job at all, there appears to be a hell of a lot of brilliant professionals on here! everyone needs to start somewhere.