Slightly tongue in cheek topic, but here goes… I drive on the A9- A90 to Aberdeen most days, & I sit at 50mph most of the way there & back. Now, I’v noticed that pretty much every other truck is sitting flat out on the limiter & what I’m wondering is this- How much extra £££’s is your employer paying you to risk your licence, livelyhood, & other road users safety by breakng the law??
Or are they really daft enough to be doing it for nothing?
In Staffordshire the M6 has roadworks with a strict 50mph limit enforced by a plethora of average speed cameras. I go bang on 50mph in lane one as (a) it is the speed limit, (b) I don’t want points on my license, (c) I know they have busted thousands of drivers there. Guess how many HGV driving morons come roaring on my tail expecting me to break the speed limit, or how many I see riding inches from cars travelling bang on fifty in the middle lane, trying to intimidate them into breaking the law.
Rather than busting people for not having spare tacho rolls, I’d like to see DVSA guys in unmarked cars doing something to bring these clowns that give us all a bad name, back into line.
£8.00 something a hour last week , I didn’t do it for the firm ,I did it for me as I wanted to get back to a place with toilets ,sink to wash in etc ( showers bust ) ,I also did it last shift flat to the floor board as 4 nights out was enough for me ,I just wanted to get home asap
busteredwards:
How much extra £££’s is your employer paying you to risk your licence, livelyhood, & other road users safety by breakng the law??
Did you sit at 50mph all the way from Glasgow to Carlisle before the motorway ?
busteredwards:
other road users safety
That’s kinda a mute point now with the rest of UK able to do 60mph on dual. Same standard of roads, same standard of drivers = different politicians.
LIBERTY_GUY:
In Staffordshire the M6 has roadworks with a strict 50mph limit enforced by a plethora of average speed cameras. I go bang on 50mph in lane one as (a) it is the speed limit, (b) I don’t want points on my license, (c) I know they have busted thousands of drivers there. Guess how many HGV driving morons come roaring on my tail expecting me to break the speed limit, or how many I see riding inches from cars travelling bang on fifty in the middle lane, trying to intimidate them into breaking the law.Rather than busting people for not having spare tacho rolls, I’d like to see DVSA guys in unmarked cars doing something to bring these clowns that give us all a bad name, back into line.
+1
chaversdad:
busteredwards:
How much extra £££’s is your employer paying you to risk your licence, livelyhood, & other road users safety by breakng the law??Did you sit at 50mph all the way from Glasgow to Carlisle before the motorway ?
if your on hourly paid cabbage work,then seems daft to speed,if your paid by the trip then its up to your own initiative? I got done for 84 at Lockerbie in the 80s,but seeing as how he was a nice cop and I grovelled he let me off by doing me for 79 in a 40…seemed fair to me at the time… 
dozy:
£8.00 something a hour last week , I didn’t do it for the firm ,I did it for me as I wanted to get back to a place with toilets ,sink to wash in etc ( showers bust ) ,I also did it last shift flat to the floor board as 4 nights out was enough for me ,I just wanted to get home asap
People drive lorries for £8 odd an hour■■?
Seany:
dozy:
£8.00 something a hour last week , I didn’t do it for the firm ,I did it for me as I wanted to get back to a place with toilets ,sink to wash in etc ( showers bust ) ,I also did it last shift flat to the floor board as 4 nights out was enough for me ,I just wanted to get home asapPeople drive lorries for £8 odd an hour■■?
And a lot less too ! 
Seany:
dozy:
£8.00 something a hour last week , I didn’t do it for the firm ,I did it for me as I wanted to get back to a place with toilets ,sink to wash in etc ( showers bust ) ,I also did it last shift flat to the floor board as 4 nights out was enough for me ,I just wanted to get home asapPeople drive lorries for £8 odd an hour■■?
Currently doing agency, but was offered permanent job last year on steel deliveries doing local and mid distances. £7.20 hour for 26 tonne rigid, or £8.00 hour for artics. Another company this year tried to offer me a permanent job on bulk tippers at £7.00 hour. There are some hauliers that don’t live in the real world…
LIBERTY_GUY:
Seany:
dozy:
£8.00 something a hour last week , I didn’t do it for the firm ,I did it for me as I wanted to get back to a place with toilets ,sink to wash in etc ( showers bust ) ,I also did it last shift flat to the floor board as 4 nights out was enough for me ,I just wanted to get home asapPeople drive lorries for £8 odd an hour■■?
Currently doing agency, but was offered permanent job last year on steel deliveries doing local and mid distances. £7.20 hour for 26 tonne rigid, or £8.00 hour for artics. Another company this year tried to offer me a permanent job on bulk tippers at £7.00 hour. There are some hauliers that don’t live in the real world…
And some people wonder why there might be a driver shortage.
merc0447:
That’s kinda a mute point now with the rest of UK able to do 60mph on dual. Same standard of roads, same standard of drivers = different politicians.
Spot on.
theres lots of work on offer over here for £70 per day if you want it…lots don’t ,which its still on offer every week. and £70 per day means a full 15 card preferably lit before you start thinking about stopping.same old raggedyassed cowboys running on paddy diesel at best.if its not that,then the job description has the words (cross channel uk ) in it which few want either.
44k last yr nights out on top 4 a week 55hours all in average per wk you 
BillyHunt:
LIBERTY_GUY:
Seany:
dozy:
£8.00 something a hour last week , I didn’t do it for the firm ,I did it for me as I wanted to get back to a place with toilets ,sink to wash in etc ( showers bust ) ,I also did it last shift flat to the floor board as 4 nights out was enough for me ,I just wanted to get home asapPeople drive lorries for £8 odd an hour■■?
Currently doing agency, but was offered permanent job last year on steel deliveries doing local and mid distances. £7.20 hour for 26 tonne rigid, or £8.00 hour for artics. Another company this year tried to offer me a permanent job on bulk tippers at £7.00 hour. There are some hauliers that don’t live in the real world…
And some people wonder why there might be a driver shortage.
++++ lots of ones 11111, yes a shortage of MUGS who will work for peanuts, some are cohersed into doing so though by the DWP
neverhome73:
44k last yr nights out on top 4 a week 55hours all in average per wk you
Never Home since 1973 ?
dieseldog999:
and £70 per day means a full 15
Illegal surely ■■?
Terry T:
dieseldog999:
and £70 per day means a full 15Illegal surely ■■?
that’s the wages on offer for quite a few jobs on the go here. my mates on groupage 5 shifts mon-fri…7am start till jobbing finish,which is ever before 7pm,1 night in the yard till midnight on the forklift,( he still starts at 7 next day) and every 2nd sat in the yard on the forklift till lunchtime,and no he has no forkie ticket before you ask… he takes home £420 which he thinks is good compared to some local dung on offer and better than most for norfolkline local work etc. I think slowies mob on local diesel filling ferry shunting dung are still on £70 though I think its for a min 12 hour.( how anyone could work for that slimey condescending cretin defies my logic,but moneys money)its pure class over here in the land that time forgot.if you want to be a busy poor man,then theres plenty of opperchancities over here.theres some good jobs as well,but not so many
tommy t:
BillyHunt:
And some people wonder why there might be a driver shortage.
++++ lots of ones 11111, yes a shortage of MUGS who will work for peanuts, some are cohersed into doing so though by the DWP
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Obviously no shortage of mugs if they’re working for £7-£8 ph. Not even the DWP can force you to drive a truck if you don’t want to, simplest thing to fail an assessment surely.
dieseldog999:
Terry T:
dieseldog999:
and £70 per day means a full 15Illegal surely ■■?
that’s the wages on offer for quite a few jobs on the go here. my mates on groupage 5 shifts mon-fri…7am start till jobbing finish,which is ever before 7pm,1 night in the yard till midnight on the forklift,( he still starts at 7 next day) and every 2nd sat in the yard on the forklift till lunchtime,and no he has no forkie ticket before you ask… he takes home £420 which he thinks is good compared to some local dung on offer and better than most for norfolkline local work etc. I think slowies mob on local diesel filling ferry shunting dung are still on £70 though I think its for a min 12 hour.( how anyone could work for that slimey condescending cretin defies my logic,but moneys money)its pure class over here in the land that time forgot.if you want to be a busy poor man,then theres plenty of opperchancities over here.theres some good jobs as well,but not so many
yup £70-£80 per day plus nights out and maybe a small paperwork or truck cleaning bonus so £110-£120 per day less deductions on yer £70-80
Thats as Dieseldog 999 says appears to be the average, and can be in some places top line, and thats without the 580.620.or 720 horses and added bling
As for the max shift times that depends on the job, if you need to do a 10 and 15hrs duty then so be it, thats the nature of the job, in particular on euro work, but sometimes you may only do a few hrs drive/duty still get paid regardless
As for breaking the law i haven’t been asked to do so