Im a new driver, been doing some class 1 work and the wage is minimum wage with bonuses which push it up to around 8 quid an hour. Being a newbie it was experience.
Money is oviously bad and the day is typically 12 hours or more so been looking around.
Got an interview to drive a bin wagon, starting wage £9.50 for probation period going up to £13-£14 after probation period of 3 months. This is not a council job its private firm.
Why is there such a difference in money? With refuse wagon its fixed hours so will be home very night at decent time and start time is about what I do now.
Just seems wrong the difference in pay considering the value and size of what your hauling.
This is something I also notice a lot mate.
I don’t have any answers for you but I’ve a mate that drives for a well know firm. He’s solo doing it & im not sure of the name of the truck but it one that lifts the industrial type bin up on front folks.
He starts at 06:00 does he’s round & home indoors at 14:00.
No weekend work - hell he doesn’t even get out the cab unless he wants a bacon bap!
Health care
Good pension
He’s on £13:50 doing it down here in Sussex.
There is a lot to be said for it.
I think some people & I don’t mean to offend anyone think it’s a bit of a crappy job. However listen to my mate there is a lot to be said for it.
The old saying where there’s muck there’s money I guess.
For a class 2 newbie it’s good with lots of reverse experience etc. After all if you hit a bin it’s no great deal. Unless you damage the wagon of course.
All that said mate have a crack at it if money is what your after. I mean you can’t get far with out blasted money.
How much value do you add to the product you are pulling around in your class 1? How essential to peoples everyday lives is that load? Not very I’d argue…
Where as with your refuse, EVERYBODY has ■■■■ to get rid of, and the people who take it away are rightly making a killing on it!
F-reds:
How much value do you add to the product you are pulling around in your class 1? How essential to peoples everyday lives is that load? Not very I’d argue…
Where as with your refuse, EVERYBODY has [zb] to get rid of, and the people who take it away are rightly making a killing on it!
Indeed - could you imagine the complaints if the bins weren’t empty. Rubbish, muck, poor health, pests the list goes on & on.
F-reds:
How much value do you add to the product you are pulling around in your class 1? How essential to peoples everyday lives is that load? Not very I’d argue…
Where as with your refuse, EVERYBODY has [zb] to get rid of, and the people who take it away are rightly making a killing on it!
Indeed - could you imagine the complaints if the bins weren’t empty. Rubbish, muck, poor health, pests the list goes on & on.
Hence better wage I guess.
Add to that, that class 2 refuse isn’t exactly glamour trucking, you are going to need a higher wage to attract bums on seats…
I used to love the landfill work, some decent lads to work with too not up their own arses like so many others in transport, bloody bad winters no problem, you always get home with a 6 or 8 wheeler with double drive.
I think the trucking industry is one where nothing is
Uniform,Truckers do not stick together at all by the looks of it . .wages are all over the place from region to region .Some class 1 get huge rates for bare hours, some get peanuts for long hours.Class c food companies pay better than long distance ?im starting to regret even taking my class c ,ive already payed for my class c+e .not sure why i bothered tbh.
One thing hasn’t changed in the 40 years i’ve been doing it, all flash no cash has been a theme that has never gone away.
One place i worked when we were on about £100 a week, one idiot i worked with before (an idiot back then and will be till the day he croaks) went to my boss and said he’d take a £25 a week (so 25%) pay cut if he got one of the 2800 Dafs instead of the 2300 he drove…that big motor wannabe mindset has always been there and certain companies have always exploited it.
I never chased the lorry i followed the money whist trying to minimise nights out as much as possible, its worked pretty well for me, and if i can do it anyone can.
It won’t come immediately, you’ve got to skill yourself up and make yourself highly employable as a driver by earning a rock steady reputation by being competent accident free and reliable and not taking the ■■■■ with sickies and the like, trust me a good reputation will open doors that should be closed.
My mate has just recently left working for Derby council doing the bins. He loved it. Only paid 19k but he was home by 12pm most days and he never had to get out of cab but always did because he seen it has helping his mates get hone early.
I could have got a job at Biffa here in Leicester and that worked out to around 25k a year. The manager could not match the wages I was getting at P+H and due to me wanting my class 1 I did not see the point in doing it.
I’d say go for it. You’ll get some cracking experience if you need it down tight roads.
Albert1:
I think the trucking industry is one where nothing is
Uniform,Truckers do not stick together at all by the looks of it . .wages are all over the place from region to region .Some class 1 get huge rates for bare hours, some get peanuts for long hours.Class c food companies pay better than long distance ?im starting to regret even taking my class c ,ive already payed for my class c+e .not sure why i bothered tbh.
I don’t get why people get such a negative attitude in this industry. It’s up to you who and where you work at the end of the day and the licence you’ll gain will help you get a job you’re more then likely gonna enjoy doing rather then being stuck in a boring warehouse job being a drone having people higher up then you staring down at you all day long.
At least with this job you’re pretty much your own boss. If you go into this with a negative attitude you’ll never benefit from it or enjoy it.
Albert1:
I think the trucking industry is one where nothing is
Uniform,Truckers do not stick together at all by the looks of it . .wages are all over the place from region to region .Some class 1 get huge rates for bare hours, some get peanuts for long hours.Class c food companies pay better than long distance ?im starting to regret even taking my class c ,ive already payed for my class c+e .not sure why i bothered tbh.
I don’t get why people get such a negative attitude in this industry. It’s up to you who and where you work at the end of the day and the licence you’ll gain will help you get a job you’re more then likely gonna enjoy doing rather then being stuck in a boring warehouse job being a drone having people higher up then you staring down at you all day long.
At least with this job you’re pretty much your own boss. If you go into this with a negative attitude you’ll never benefit from it or enjoy it.
My attitude is possitive .i have been reading on forums and facebook.and truckers are all against each other .i run my own firm.
I was 100% possitive until i got involved in it all
I have been in many industries never have i witnessed so much ■■■■■■■■ .even on here the trainers getting attacked for helping people
Im a positive person .truckers are far from it.
Albert1:
I think the trucking industry is one where nothing is
Uniform,Truckers do not stick together at all by the looks of it . .wages are all over the place from region to region .Some class 1 get huge rates for bare hours, some get peanuts for long hours.Class c food companies pay better than long distance ?im starting to regret even taking my class c ,ive already payed for my class c+e .not sure why i bothered tbh.
I don’t get why people get such a negative attitude in this industry. It’s up to you who and where you work at the end of the day and the licence you’ll gain will help you get a job you’re more then likely gonna enjoy doing rather then being stuck in a boring warehouse job being a drone having people higher up then you staring down at you all day long.
At least with this job you’re pretty much your own boss. If you go into this with a negative attitude you’ll never benefit from it or enjoy it.
I don’t think people come into the industry with a negative attitude, or at least i didn’t but after a few years you realise how bad a job it is and thats where the problems start if your to old to do anything else. I no drivers who hate Sunday nights because they no that on monday it’s back in the truck.
Its a broad industry so don’t just be a bum on a seat on a crap wage living in a big tin can, get out there and find your niche.
I’ve been doing the job 40 years, i’ve barely visited RDC’s over those years, i’ve worked for an RDC though for some happy years, Kwik Save supermarkets and that was a crackin job though apparently just as bad as any other to deliver to.
To me there would be nothing more disheartening than to drive to an RDC nearly every day, get spoken to like some convicted child molester and forced to hand in me keys like a little kid, then sit in a Godforsaken waiting room for hours on end…so i don’t do it, i found other avenues in lorry world.
If someone is a miserable depressive then its likely the lorries arn’t for them, though i wonder if they’d be any happier in any work.
There are no glory boy jobs cruising along empty highways in designer shades with available ladies giving you the eye as they pass you in your pimped up 1000hp superextraspacetoplinerexecutiveglobecruiser lorry, getting a £grand a week for 39 hours with a boss that smiles and pats you on the back when you rip the nearside step out or ram some bugger up the arse, delivering to places where they welcome you sit you down in a nice totty filled office and ply you with drinks and cakes whilst decent chaps tip your load whilst a valetter hoovers it inside and washes it outside so you don’t get your handy pandy’s dirty, those jobs do not exist they never have and they never will.
get realistic, you only get out what you put in just as with any job, you have to walk before you can run, and you keep your eyes peeled for the good jobs…jobs that are never advertised because they don’t want unrealistic unreliable dreamers or have to cater to some groups who are more trouble than they are worth.
Albert1:
I think the trucking industry is one where nothing is
Uniform,Truckers do not stick together at all by the looks of it . .wages are all over the place from region to region .Some class 1 get huge rates for bare hours, some get peanuts for long hours.Class c food companies pay better than long distance ?im starting to regret even taking my class c ,ive already payed for my class c+e .not sure why i bothered tbh.
I don’t get why people get such a negative attitude in this industry. It’s up to you who and where you work at the end of the day and the licence you’ll gain will help you get a job you’re more then likely gonna enjoy doing rather then being stuck in a boring warehouse job being a drone having people higher up then you staring down at you all day long.
At least with this job you’re pretty much your own boss. If you go into this with a negative attitude you’ll never benefit from it or enjoy it.
My attitude is possitive .i have been reading on forums and facebook.and truckers are all against each other .i run my own firm.
I was 100% possitive until i got involved in it all
I have been in many industries never have i witnessed so much ■■■■■■■■ .even on here the trainers getting attacked for helping people
Im a positive person .truckers are far from it.
People just moan for the sake of moaning. Most who whined at my last place are still there cause they actually like the job and the people.
Been to interview and they just need warm bodies to throw at the contract. Showed no interest in me at all just sign your name on the line. For 12 weeks you work for us before the client picks you up and you go onto 14 quid an hour if they like you. Until then you are self employed via umbrella company which wants to claim all your tax breaks for travel etc etc, you dont earn any holiday pay and the tax breaks make up part of your wages so in honesty you are on just over minimum wage with extras bumping up your pay £2 an hour…
There are no glory boy jobs cruising along empty highways in designer shades with available ladies giving you the eye as they pass you in your pimped up 1000hp superextraspacetoplinerexecutiveglobecruiser lorry, getting a £grand a week for 39 hours with a boss that smiles and pats you on the back when you rip the nearside step out or ram some bugger up the arse, delivering to places where they welcome you sit you down in a nice totty filled office and ply you with drinks and cakes whilst decent chaps tip your load whilst a valetter hoovers it inside and washes it outside so you don’t get your handy pandy’s dirty, those jobs do not exist they never have and they never will.
they exist like that on the stobrat tv programs do they not?
or is that just they way they think they portray it?
125 motorway miles to go,5 hours driving time left with a 45 still to be taken. will the driver have enough time left to polish his shades and slap on some more hair gel,or will it be a dodgy night out and a chicken choking session zipped up in the bag…