I passed a little over a year ago and walked into a job basically next day doing class 2 multidrop 12-20 drops per day, 7am - 4:30pm mon-fri 1 sat in 4 nearly no overtime, everyone says how lucky I am to get into a job like this and that theres no jobs that come close to how good it is for work life balance. Pay is £12.85/hr
Is this true that i’m lucky to be in this job or are there other, better roles out there? I’ve got no other experience so i’m just trying to find out thanks!
Does it suit you?
Some will tell you that they wouldn’t get out of bed for that money.
Some will say they prefer sitting on their arse than shoving goods around.
Some will say that they would want more hrs to earn more.
Are there alternatives around your area that you fancy?
With a year’s experience you should have more of a choice than a newby, and it quite possible you will find other work (depending on your area) but your comment about work/life balance is a very valid one. If you aren’t actually unhappy think twice, as the hrs you are working are fairly short for truck driving.
There are jobs out there expecting you to do 70 hours for what they say (and what drivers swallow 
) is ‘‘good money’'.
Yeah good in terms of gross amount figure, but not good if no extra rate overtime is present…..but again a lot of drivers are a bit dim on that score, and boast about their ‘‘good money’‘.
Anyhoo I digress, it’s all about what suits you, and whether or not you need to chase the pound to cover extravagant living.
Me I saw the light, I’ve done all the maxing out in fancy trucks, weekends away abroad, minimal rests crap…., I’m now at the stage (and age🙄) when I’ve had a gut full.
So now I still tramp but over 3 and a half or so days at around 40ish hours….and I’m not so much ‘loving it’… but am quite content.
Anyhoo what I’m trying to say is take no notice of what people say about ‘‘better money’’ potential, (most of it is crap anyhoo when it comes to drivers,) it’s all about what suits YOU at the time, it sounds like you have a niche stress free little number,.I would say stick with it.
You’re welcome.
Depends what you want. If pay is good for you and your happy with the pay. Least your set hours know where your upto.
.could maybe earn more at builders merchants for similar hours jewwons used put you through your hiab maybe still do?
If you want more money look else ware but your being doing more hours.to obviously earn more.
Those are nice hours which imo is good for hgv. I personally enjoy fast paced multidrop. My first was 7-5 no weekends doing palkets and now I do roughly 44-50hrs pushing heavy as fark cages over 4 days (routes are slowly getting longer 
)
That money is on the low side and your experience would suit Brakes or Warburton’s.
I forgot to mention like 90% of my drops are forklifted off, I like knowing i’ll be home at a decent time but the pay is low and I just wondered if other drops like the bins or grab driver is an easier or harder job
the pay is rubbish but maybe the good hours makes up for it
My main thing is the hours are nice, the money i’m not that bothered about chasing to be honest
Well you’ve just answered yer own question then eh’?
Same with me I could go back to maxing out with a stress laden life (well tbh I never let myself ‘‘get stressed’’ about it when I think back 
) chase the money, maybe even go back on European and never see the wife.
But like you,.the job suits me, the hours suit me, so why tf would I?
The added bonus is being carefree and comfortable with your job it postpones your first heart attack.
Yep same here @robroy my firm has it’s chasers who in February will have to throttle back of start giving tax man more money as they’ve gone over tax band bracket
Since turning 50 my live to work has changed to work to live and F it , last week was another sub 60 hour week 3 nights out
Only going it tonight as truck had service so gotta sort stuff out other wise I wouldn’t
Common misconception there mate. You start paying 40% tax EVERY time you are paid, not just when you hit the figure of £50270. Which in reality means that every pound you earn over £966 is taxed at 40%. So if you earned for example £1000 in a week you’d pay standard rate tax on £966 and 40% on £34.
That’s the easy explanation, however as with most things it’s not that simple as personal tax allowances need to be factored into the equation. I just used that example for simplification
I suppose that’s a silver lining to a very dark cloud 
Can’t quote as I’ve no idea how to any more
If your pension is a pecentge of your weekly pay more earn more pension your have in later life.
Never been lucky enough to earn next tax band.
Tax man might take more if people do more hours but still getting extra hours in paid more as well.
If you know your stuff there’s stuff you can claim for I know can claim a bit for washing your work clothes. No doubt other stuff . There’s legal ways to get your tax down just case of knowing it all