I’ve gathered from here that everyone’s definition for this seems to be different!
There are some who like a “job that keeps them fit”, or the more obvious “job with good regular wages”, but there must be a few dozen other criteria as well maybe…
I do know that among a bunch of jobs that all pay the same hourly rate on agency, I’ll be having my favourites along with everyone else I’m sure.
Does the definition change for regions of the UK as well?
I could make the jibe that a cushy job in the north is anything that removes the need to attend the jobcenter, but I might be being a tad unfair…
Individual shifts & actual duty weeks only please. We’ll be getting to complex if we include particular sub-day runs as well I think!
"I once had a job as a chauffeur giving rather tipsy ladies home after the Royal Ascot meetings… Sometimes they’d invite me in for coffee, and however long it took I got paid by the hour!"
Winseer:
I’ve gathered from here that everyone’s definition for this seems to be different!
There are some who like a “job that keeps them fit”, or the more obvious “job with good regular wages”, but there must be a few dozen other criteria as well maybe…
I do know that among a bunch of jobs that all pay the same hourly rate on agency, I’ll be having my favourites along with everyone else I’m sure.
Does the definition change for regions of the UK as well?
I could make the jibe that a cushy job in the north is anything that removes the need to attend the jobcenter, but I might be being a tad unfair…
Individual shifts & actual duty weeks only please. We’ll be getting to complex if we include particular sub-day runs as well I think!
"I once had a job as a chauffeur giving rather tipsy ladies home after the Royal Ascot meetings… Sometimes they’d invite me in for coffee, and however long it took I got paid by the hour!"
I think mine is a cushy job, powder tank work, no more than 2 jobs a day, usually 1, no constant phone ringing with the where are you,how long bull. Just left alone to get on with it because the boss knows we will and knows that getting on at us doesnt/wont work.
Old job on the steel. Start at 6 or 7. Few drops on one area. Normally 6-8. Back at the yard for 2.30-3.00.
Thought the grass was greener and jumped ship to where I work now. Now it’s start at 4/5/6 do 20+ drops in various area. Ring in when your finished and if you have time we will
Send you to meet another driver and help him. Sometimes now I don’t get back to the yard till 8/9 at night.
a lorry that you call your own.
set rate per trip, no hourly rate, the quicker you do it the more you earn.
flatbed, or low loader work would be the icing on the cake.
a lorry that you call your own.
set rate per trip, no hourly rate, the quicker you do it the more you earn.
flatbed, or low loader work would be the icing on the cake.
I’ve got that! Except for the “Own Truck” and flat bed/low loader work!
And I’m looking for something more cushty!
My job is sorta OK
Im paid for 12 hours on a saturday or a sunday and its always job & knock.
Last saturday, left the yard at 6, picked up some crap and was back by 8.30, home for 9.45.
Its not always like that though, yesterday (saturday), didnt get back till 13.00
I have a cushy job, Mon-Fri 37 hours. Never work Friday afternoons, if I do more than 37 hours I can accumulate this to take a day off when I want! 41 days annual leave(that includes B/H) 6 months full pay if I’m off sick! Good pension…only thing is I am begining to hate it and yearn to be back on the road Am I nuts? Do a bit of driving to keep my hand in and keep me sane but still want to go back on the road.
mike68:
Anything that does not involve shunting, general haulage, draw bars,nights out and multi drop.
You forgot to mention “no cab phone, no isotrac, 12 hours pay for 3-4 hours asleep somewhere along a route with loads of laybys and few passers by”.
I was once given a shift pattern of monday,tuesday,wednesday 7 hours with 15 hours on thursday, and friday off ourtight for a 36 hour week in all. What started out as a cost cutting measure by the firm ended up being my very best year for earnings!
When it came to booking leave, I just booked off every other thursday throughout the whole year, meaning that getting a 45 hour rest thursday/friday every other week, I was free to pick up loads of OT on saturday & sunday if I wanted. Taking a 15 hour day off also gave me a 15 hour credit towards WTD banked hours, thus allowing me to get both those weekend days in as OT every other week, which pushes your wages over £40k like you’d never believe!
You’d think that the firm would simply disallow “taking odd days off” to work the system in this way, but they were too bothered cutting everyone’s holiday entitlement by 20% instead (and allowing odd days to be booked to support that change!), because you were only working a 4 day week instead of 5. You still got the same number of weeks off in a year, just less days in them!
Distraction distraction distraction…
Back onto a bay, lower unit suspension, flick a few switches, close up. Drive overnight to European airport, back onto bay, raise suspension, flick a few switches, pull off bay go to bed / down pub.
My current job is the second cushy job I’ve ever had.
Start 0700
Drive truck to site. Unload machine
Cup of tea
Survey the site
Cup of tea
Do a bit of work
Cup of tea
Another bit of work
Cup of tea
Even less work that I did before
Lunchtime!
Slightly more work than I did before
Hometime!
Get paid an excellent daily rate. If I can do another job in the afternoon, get paid daily rate again! Even more if I do a night shift.
Best I ever had was a test driver for Supacat. Non destructive testing and mileage accumulation on the HMT400 that the army call the Jackall. Basically playing in the woods with giant Tonka toys!
Gembo:
My job is sorta OK
Im paid for 12 hours on a saturday or a sunday and its always job & knock.
Last saturday, left the yard at 6, picked up some crap and was back by 8.30, home for 9.45.
Its not always like that though, yesterday (saturday), didnt get back till 13.00
limeyphil:
set rate per trip, no hourly rate, the quicker you do it the more you earn.
thats the way we work in australia for long haul drivers, and its an awful system because all the running around you do in each city is unpaid, waiting time unpaid
limeyphil:
set rate per trip, no hourly rate, the quicker you do it the more you earn.
thats the way we work in australia for long haul drivers, and its an awful system because all the running around you do in each city is unpaid, waiting time unpaid
i know what you mean, but if it’s factored in with the rate, then it’s prety good.
Drop trailer on bay, pick up another trailer and put on another bay.
Sleep or do as you please for an hour
Then inverness to Perth
8 hours pay for that. id say thats pretty cushy.
I’d say that’s pretty monotonous and soul destroying. I don’t think a job that involves driving up and down the same road day in day out could be described as “cushy”. When you take into account the fact that the road is the lethal A9, then you are definitely a long way from “cushy”. I hope you’re getting some danger money on top of your eight hours, you’d have a better life expectancy working in Helmand Province.
Am I nuts? Do a bit of driving to keep my hand in and keep me sane but still want to go back on the road.