Fileep:
If its what you want to do, then do it.
It sounds a poor wage to me:
5 nights out at £20 leaves you with £400, to clear this you need to make £500 before tax. So if you’re maxing your hours out on week one, lets say 56 hours driving and 20 hours other/break/poa, so 76 hours week one. Week 2, 34 hours driving and for ease lets say 16 hours other/break/poa. So that’s 126 hours a fortnight, that’s a hourly equivalent of £7.93 ph straight through. I’ve worked for less, but wouldn’t anymore.
You seem to know what you’re on about and have been round the block a few times, experience like yours should get a premium in my opinion.
but in phils op he states that he will only be home once a month so most weeks will be seven nights out which reduces the wage further
trubster:
Hang on, are we talking about maxing hours and getting £500 per week!
Here I was thinking the europeans were cheap, must be the uk-euro drivers too
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Limeyphil is borderline unemployable both from a criminal and driving record point of view so it comes as no surprise he was offered £500 for max hrs and 5 nights out a week. Probably recognise a desperate person knocking on the doors of the last chance saloon.
Thats uncalled for.limeyphil is one of the few posters who doesnt attack people.he gives helpful pointers and always has a story to share.he only asked a question
conor is a clown. Phil is one of the few decent posters on this forum.
Take out theoretical night out/subsistence money, then add 10 hours to the potential employers estimation of working hours, then divide the top line before stoppages of your wages by the number of hours you will really work to give an average hourly rate.
Its the only way to compare jobs and wages IMO.
It may be of no interest to you Phil but if you’re prepared to graft which you obviously are and be away a lot then one of the hard grafting but high paying car transporter companies could be a good move for you, particularly the Irish carrier that run out of Honda a lot, they did (and may still do for all i know) run over the water, i know the lads on there earn very well, similarly ECM pay well but long hours, away all week,and don’t as far as i know go over.
Its still a good paying game if you use your noddle despite the influx of foreign companies and a certain large logistics operator recently moved into the game.
I hate it when people quote “take home” pay. If an employer says that to me I assume, right or wrong, that he is up to all sorts of tax avoidance stuff. ie - the pay will be a load of night out money, meal, and other allowances. All fine, except when it comes to holidays, when you find that the basic is half what you expected, and if you ever need a mortgage or anything like that.
£500 a week nett, is an annual salary of £34500 before tax and NI - not bad for a 40, or even a 50 hour week.
happysack:
Phil is one of the few decent posters on this forum.
As a truck driver he is an embarrassment. He doesn’t give a toss about any of the laws and would quite happily drive 100hrs a week if he thought he could get away with it. He doesn’t give a toss that he’s a danger on the road to other people.
Quite surprised anyone offers him a job TBH but it comes as no surprise that those who do are the companies who take the ■■■■ out of their drivers.
Santa:
£500 a week nett, is an annual salary of £34500 before tax and NI - not bad for a 40, or even a 50 hour week.
However as he said he’ll get home one day a month he is effectively working a 29/30 day month for £2875 or £100 a day including night out which is disgusting.
Santa:
£500 a week nett, is an annual salary of £34500 before tax and NI - not bad for a 40, or even a 50 hour week.
However as he said he’ll get home one day a month he is effectively working a 29/30 day month for £2875 or £100 a day including night out which is disgusting.
happysack:
Phil is one of the few decent posters on this forum.
As a truck driver he is an embarrassment. He doesn’t give a toss about any of the laws and would quite happily drive 100hrs a week if he thought he could get away with it. He doesn’t give a toss that he’s a danger on the road to other people.
Quite surprised anyone offers him a job TBH but it comes as no surprise that those who do are the companies who take the ■■■■ out of their drivers.
I could drive that amount of hours. I worked over a 100 regularly on a farm. Hard physical labour. Something the likes of you, conor, will never understand. Driving to me is almost recreational. I get paid as well so it’s a bonus.
How many accidents has the bloke had? How many fatalities?
If the answer is none or a reasonable number ( of accidents) then perhaps belt the ■■■■ up and let him get on with it.
I’d do a 15 hour drive if I could simply because driving is a piece of ■■■■ compared to a lot of jobs and a 15 drive with regular breaks ain’t hard work.
I’ll await the flaming about blah blah blah professional driver and blah blah blah children but the only driver who has never run bent (even by 10 minutes) passed his test this morning
I was passenger in a wagon as a teenager in the army in Germany on exercise, the driver had not stopped driving for 26 hours (well he had about 5 short breaks for wee’s and food) I made him stop and kip when he started seeing gnomes run across the road in front of him
Before I got HGV I worked in Ipswich and loved in Somerset. Driving home one night I swear I saw a buffalo cross the road in front of me. I pulled over and slept.
Tipper Tom:
Before I got HGV I worked in Ipswich and loved in Somerset. Driving home one night I swear I saw a buffalo cross the road in front of me. I pulled over and slept.
limeyphil:
I’ve never had an accident. Never fallen asleep at the wheel, never put anyone in danger, and never obeyed the rules.
That makes you a safer driver than me. I’ve had one accident since passing my test at 17. Never fallen asleep at the wheel whilst driving (have in lay-bys)
