Anyone else noticed that a few agencies are now showing pay rates in Euros
I may be cynical but is this to make us think we are going to earn more than we do?
Agency Blue Arrow - Burton
Sector Driver, HGV Drivers, LGV (HGV) Class 1 Drivers, LGV Drivers
Salary EUR9.50 to EUR10.50 per hour
Town/City Burton
Locations Midlands-Staffordshire
Contract Type Temporary
Date Posted 27/01/2012 16:25:00
A strange one indeed so i phoned and enquired. They denied all knowledge of it or said if true a misprint. 
A misprint hey?
These from UK Driving Jobs:
Job Title: Cls 1 Low Loaders & Cls 2 Tipper Drivers
Salary: EUR8 to EUR15 per hour
uk-driving-jobs.co.uk/candid … acID=15958
Job Title: Driver
Salary: EUR8.50 to EUR12 per hour
uk-driving-jobs.co.uk/candid … acID=15901
Job Title: Driver
Salary: EUR8 to EUR9 per hour
uk-driving-jobs.co.uk/candid … acID=15900
Job Title: HGV Mechanic
Salary: EUR10 to EUR12 per hour
uk-driving-jobs.co.uk/candid … acID=15890
Job Title: IT Support role
Salary: Salary negotiable
uk-driving-jobs.co.uk/candid … acID=15874
Job Title: LGV 1 Night trunk drivers
Salary: EUR12 to EUR15 per hour
uk-driving-jobs.co.uk/candid … acID=15862
It’s some clueless bird in the office says she knows nothing. The driving consultants in Spain back on Monday. Phone, ask, harass 
01283537660
Perhaps the parent company is European based or they are aiming at eastern european drivers, most of whom I think are Polish - trouble is the Polish currency is the Zloty.
Now THIS IS a misprint
Bodyshop - Panel Beater Motor Trade Job - Bodyshop Job We are currently seeking to recruit a…
Employer: Driven Motor Jobs
Location: Norwich, Anglia, Anglia-Cambridgeshire, Anglia-Suffolk, Home Counties, Home Counties-Essex, Home Counties-Hertfordshire
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: EUR21,000 to EUR28,000 per hour
Thats about 50 million a year, Sign me up!!!
If the rate changes they will soon pay you in £££ again and smartish!
mkb600:
Now THIS IS a misprintBodyshop - Panel Beater Motor Trade Job - Bodyshop Job We are currently seeking to recruit a…
Employer: Driven Motor Jobs
Location: Norwich, Anglia, Anglia-Cambridgeshire, Anglia-Suffolk, Home Counties, Home Counties-Essex, Home Counties-Hertfordshire
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: EUR21,000 to EUR28,000 per hourThats about 50 million a year, Sign me up!!!
50 il a year for smacking some metal, sign me up too
If the pay is in whatever currency suits them, then I think I’d have to insist upon Gold Sovereigns.
Euros are worth 15% less than Sterling, and Sterling is worth everything% less than a living wage for some time to come yet!
What do truckers get in Scandinavia, where everything is expensive in the first place?
Hi Winseer.I think it depends a lot on which scandinavian country you live in,and more importantly which area.Norway is the best paid but also the most expensive.The more populated,the more expensive.Up here where i live the cost of living is not much more than anywhere else in Europe. I am English but lived for many years in Holland and spent the last 20yrs doing work all over Europe so feel able to compare reasonably well.
The thing about living up here is that the economy is very buoyant due to the mining sector and a shortage of people[do you want 6 months of winter].The main expensive things are alchohol and fuel.But on the other side,buying property is cheap and wheeling and dealing is popular.I drive a 50t tipper in a mine,We work 7days x10hrs,then 1 week free.Last year i banked app £23000 NETTO.This includes shift allowance[1 week is 0500-1430,the next shift is 1430-2400]plus 1 month holiday.I also get tax relief for travelling.Last year was about £2000.so the life is not so bad but it’s MUCH more simple.Mike
hutpik:
Hi Winseer.I think it depends a lot on which scandinavian country you live in,and more importantly which area.Norway is the best paid but also the most expensive.The more populated,the more expensive.Up here where i live the cost of living is not much more than anywhere else in Europe. I am English but lived for many years in Holland and spent the last 20yrs doing work all over Europe so feel able to compare reasonably well.
The thing about living up here is that the economy is very buoyant due to the mining sector and a shortage of people[do you want 6 months of winter].The main expensive things are alchohol and fuel.But on the other side,buying property is cheap and wheeling and dealing is popular.I drive a 50t tipper in a mine,We work 7days x10hrs,then 1 week free.Last year i banked app £23000 NETTO.This includes shift allowance[1 week is 0500-1430,the next shift is 1430-2400]plus 1 month holiday.I also get tax relief for travelling.Last year was about £2000.so the life is not so bad but it’s MUCH more simple.Mike
Thanks Hutpik, there’s some good pointers there. It wasn’t that long ago when we used to hear stories of Beer being £10 (for a litre I suppose?) and fuel being twice the price of the UK. If one can get a job somewhere near where one works, then it would cut down the need for road fuel, then that would leave the fuel bill for keeping the place warm over them cold winters. Is it fuel oil up there, or piped in gas & electric like the UK?
Put it another way, would it be possible to live as a family up there and save up money because there’s actually a disposable income to be had?
I made enquiries about working in Egypt about 10 years ago, because the cost of living is about 20% of what it is in the UK. Trouble is, there’s no work for LOW pay, let alone work for any pay similar to the UK, so I gave it up. 
The idea of living and working somewhere right out of it appeals to me and my family. 
Language wise, I know most people speak English across scandinavia, but I reckon I could pick up svenska/norge a lot easier than suomi which doesn’t seem like any other language apart from something out of a Tolkien book 
Hi Winseer.As you say earlier there was a bigger discepancy between Scandinavia and Europe but in recent years the gap has narrowed for a lot of things.
First.The majority of private houses have a mixof heating systems,there is no gas heating so you have electric radiators,oil fired boiler with water rads,wood burning boiler with rads,and most houses have a bloody great wood burning stove.
I have a wood burning stove and electric rads which are oil filled and ones which blow hot air.My house is wood with 25cm thick walls so is easy to heat.
To put things in perspective,lastyear my electric bill was 16000kr[10kr-£1 app]this is also for cooking,washing, lighting,and heating garage in winter.I purchased 30cubic meters of wood[app 1 rigid full]for 12000kr.This is enough for app 3years.
In towns it is a bit different with houses and flats having heating from the grid in one form or another and it’s in the rent.
For alchohol it is dear,1 bottle[70cl]whisky is app250kr,beer varies,50cl,5percent,10-15kr.
Fuel is about 14-15kr ltr.BUT many companies do a deal for drivers,Three monkeys,type of thing.
Rental housing IS expensive here and will continue to be so because of a chronic shortage of properties to rent,HOWEVER,if you want to buy,and are prepared to live in a village,say 30-60kms outside the town and commute then it is poss to find a NICE house for between £20,000-£60,000.
I live 90kms from my work and paid ,£25,000 for my house,i’ve spent app £20,000 on improving.The house is 9mx7m.I also have a separate building for the sauna,a woodshed,a small guest cottage app25sqm.a garage,with a scooter\quad shed on the back and 5 acres of land on a river so all things are poss.
The reason i choose Sweden is first i spent 9yrs driving from Holland to North Norway in the winter so knew what to expect,plus i lived for a time in Canada and here it is sooo similar,people,climate,mentality etc.Take care.Mike
Thanks, the bit about village life appeals! I have no hope of affording it in the UK where one is looking at between 250k and 500k for a 3bed semi out in the country. The gap has indeed closed as to what prices were like in the 80’s and 90’s. I will be looking into this a lot more seriously in the future I think!
I looked at going to Canada about 5 years back, but I couldn’t come up with the “equity requirement” - ie do you have £250k after liquidating your house & debts upon it… A couple of mates from work managed it, but I didn’t since I’d only been in my house from 2000 rather than 1990ish like them. (Ie I hadn’t doubled my money in my property!)
Are there much problems with midges in the summer months? Long winters, midnight sun in june, and regular aurora don’t bother me that’s for sure!