With the cost of commuting nowadays, I limit my travel to 15 miles tops, so the work catchment areas I look at include Cannock, Stafford and Wolverhampton. Quite a bit of varied industry out there in those areas though.
The job scene here is a bit glum, with the driving jobs being advertised seeming to be the usual bull from agencies, you know the non existent stuff just to get a list of drivers names (and their valuable contacts from previous work). You can tell the jobs are ‘iffy’ when they have exactly the same job advertised in multiple towns. Permanent jobs with ‘proper’ employers are very thin on the ground with typically only around one per fortnight coming up on the main job sites.
Is this what people are finding in their part of the country too?
I keep hearing about recovery of the economy, which should directly relate to more road traffic as those goods need to be moved, but I only see the most marginal of improvements in the current job scene.
Where are you based? I’m guessing you’re just after day work if your commuting distance is that short? Could you increase it to say 25 miles that would open your options up massively.
If I extend to further distances, then it tends to be store deliveries or home deliveries and I won’t touch those with a bargepole. I tend to go for the industrial stuff, it dirtier, smellier, heavier, but better than being forced to wear a tie and smile at customers…
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Not local to you, but jobs with decent money are coming up more often down here in Essex. We get around £2300 take home and need drivers and Bulkhaul are advertising at £40k with pension etc! Most of the container and traction only companies down here seem to be around the £550-£600 p/w mark.
