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Kevin joined this forum for advice and what do you lot do
Boo him off calling him a clown
what kind of bloody forum do you call this
lord_screaming_sutch:
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Kevin joined this forum for advice and what do you lot do
Boo him off calling him a clown
what kind of bloody forum do you call this
its the kind of forum that lets idiots join a thread half way through and leave stupid comments about the answers when most of the “clowns” recognise whats going on and can recognise a user name change 
Ah well a jobs is a job as long as it legal and above board where are you based Kevin i have done europe as far out as Bulgaria with 7.5 ton van Clean licence ect ect PM me if you are on the level (a change is as good as a rest ).
regards Roy
YOU PAY PEANUTS ,YOU GET MONKEYS…THAT’S IT ,I AM GOING HOME TO PICK MY NOSE AND SCRATCH MY ARSE…OR IS THE OTHER WAY ROUND. 
My former employer is advertising in Manchester and Huddersfield for a driver £80 a day plus £20 night out, in a Sprinter.
glen958:
My former employer is advertising in Manchester and Huddersfield for a driver £80 a day plus £20 night out, in a Sprinter.
Would you recommend your former employer 
glen958:
My former employer is advertising in Manchester and Huddersfield for a driver £80 a day plus £20 night out, in a Sprinter.
That sounds like GBA money.
Simon:
glen958:
My former employer is advertising in Manchester and Huddersfield for a driver £80 a day plus £20 night out, in a Sprinter.Would you recommend your former employer
His a tight arsed yorkshireman 
when it comes to wages and likes to send you non toll as much as possible in france, but i have worked for him 3 times so he must be doing something right.
GBPub:
glen958:
My former employer is advertising in Manchester and Huddersfield for a driver £80 a day plus £20 night out, in a Sprinter.That sounds like GBA money.
Yeah but luckily he’s nothing to do with GBA(who I’ve also worked for on the phones back in the day)
Steve-o:
£650 clear for a van driver I think you’re having a laugh. I’d say at least £100 or so less that what a truck driver gets would be more realistic
Well, if I do 3 days of UK job (once to London and one day local) i am already better off than I was on five days a week local pallet distribution on 18/26 tonner - my last job.
I usually do no longer than 6 days away and I am much better than 650 in that case (off course not every week I am away, recently it had been quiet in our place, so I am spending more time home than away, but I am still better off than on full week 12-15 hours per day on the 18 tonner…
Is it OK to the lorry drivers? Well, if you are not happy with what you get driving artic around Europe, nothing stops you from looking for a van driving job, isn’t it?
GBPub:
Most van drivers doing Euro work, do considerably more hours a week than legally allowed and earn every penny of there money in my opinion. The sooner they put tachos in them the better.
Well, I am fully for some regulations, but I don’t think the tachos should give the same hours.
When I was on local multidrop I was coming home shattered every day - from pulling pallets, handballing etc…
I can drive my van (or car, for that matter) for much more than 9 hours and still feel much more relaxed. For me it’s a plain pleasure, I feel like on holidays all the time
Off course though there should be some way to check some drivers - I seen some idiots who were proud that they did “Brussels to Lisbon, then Lisbon to Callais in one shot and they are not tired” then fell asleep at the table on the ferry… Or some who were looking like a zombies and were struggling to put the nozzle to the fuel hole…
There is not much “other work” involved in the vans - usually loading/unloading takes me 2-3 mins…
Therefore I think that tacho rules for under 3.5 t saying, for example, 15 hours working day max, 12 hours driving, two 45 minutes breaks after 4 hours of driving each and waiting time not counted (as sometimes you wait for 24 hours or more for the load, it would be stupid to trying to fit incoming loads into your patterns if you were doing nothing for two days) should be enough and still give the advantages needed in that industry (which is being MUCH faster than a truck).
kevin kelly:
Hi chaps, some info please,
could anyone advice me of weekley/monthy wages for a Euro/van driver, wot would be the going rate,ext ext
got sum in my mind of 450/500 euro per week with sum ad ons would prefer uk drivers but not sure wheather to use european natives (ie spanish drivers) job could be upto 2weeks away at a time would this be exceptable.and feedback welcome
Regards kevin.
500 euro per week is not much, but I can bet you can find someone to work for it and not only in Eastern Europe.
But as someone said: pay penuts, get monkeys.
I dare to tell that it’s really important to have responsible people in that business, maybe even more than in trucks, as truck drivers are checked much harder (tacho, VOSA, lorry checks, truck bans on many dangerous roads etc.) and van drivers get more freedom.