Only been in this job 6 months, first ever class 1 job since passing class 1 and getting back on the road after a 4 year break (was only doing class 2 back then), and I’m going to have to leave as they’re scrapping our shift patterns (4 on/off), for us all to go onto 5 on 2 off.
We’ll be worse off £££ by me doing that extra one day on a 5 on 2 off shift pattern that our current 4 on 4 off shift pattern…
Excuse my ignorance but unless you are salaried and the salary will not be adjusted to mate the new shifts, then how are you going to be financially worse off through working extra shifts?
the maoster:
Excuse my ignorance but unless you are salaried and the salary will not be adjusted to mate the new shifts, then how are you going to be financially worse off through working extra shifts?
Perhaps 4 on/off came with a tidy little enhancement for all the weekends and bank holidays he’d end up working and I’m assuming 5 and 2 means Monday to Friday therefore attracting a lower wage .
Salaried on a day rate - no bonuses or O/T rates either. But still works out better for us as it’s job and knock…
Quicker you’re done the better, and I’m home most of them nights (even without you pushing the headlight out)…
The main killer is 4 and 4 for us works out really well in our house regarding lower child care costs – before / after school clubs when my shifts fall on weekends etc…
If I’m going to be away all week days from now on, the child care costs would be astronomical…!
So if the company are changing from a 7 to a 5 day week are they going to use more trucks? Employ weekend only staff (hint) or shift less stuff?
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Ask them if theyre going to pay extra for the extra shift you have to do ? then decide if you wanna stay…it maybe that they now want you to work a weekend shift on a rota…and if its a day rate…tell them no thanks but i`ll stay with my 4 on 4 off…if you have that choice.
Goldfinger:
Salaried on a day rate - no bonuses or O/T rates either. But still works out better for us as it’s job and knock…Quicker you’re done the better, and I’m home most of them nights (even without you pushing the headlight out)…
The main killer is 4 and 4 for us works out really well in our house regarding lower child care costs – before / after school clubs when my shifts fall on weekends etc…
If I’m going to be away all week days from now on, the child care costs would be astronomical…!
I see there advertising quite regularly now out of Blyth & Birtley!
For £8hr for the day rate drivers and trampers wages, I’m not surprised Mark… 
As I said, us on the 4 & 4 salaried shift pattern, it works out at more per hour for us…
truckyboy:
Ask them if theyre going to pay extra for the extra shift you have to do ? then decide if you wanna stay…it maybe that they now want you to work a weekend shift on a rota…and if its a day rate…tell them no thanks but i`ll stay with my 4 on 4 off…if you have that choice.
After tax, for that extra one shift, it works out at only about £40 a week extra! (This exact question was asked recently)
A whole extra days graft for £40■■?
No choice of staying on the 4 & 4… They’re completely scrapping this shift pattern…
It’s not one extra day, its an extra 7 ish days work in a typical 31 day month.
Money aside, 4 on 4 off is a totally different ballgame to a 5/2 shift in regard to your homelife, they can’t be surprised if drivers walk over this and I don’t blame the OP. An almost identical thing happened where I work a few years ago, drivers who had joined specifically to work 4 on/4 off mostly walked out the moment they got the news.
The gaffers probably think they are doing you a favour putting you on Mon-Fri, but not everybodies lives evolve around weekends off.