We require an experienced Class I HGV Wagon Driver.
A Class I Licence is essential with at least one years experience, you also must be a minimum of 25years old for our insurance. You must hold a Full Drivers CPC
The job is delivering palletised goods within the UK
The position is to cover distance with nights out and early starts.
A clean licence is desirable.
The wage structure is below:
£328.50 guaranteed to 45 hours
£9.45 / HR OT
£20.00 Night Out
£5.00 4am Start
£4.00 5am Start
I was earning more than this when I first started driving 16 years ago.
I just find it insulting that these wages are been offered. And probably
even worse that somebody is willing to work for peanuts…
Thats a basic wage of £7.30 per hour. I didn’t spend two and a half grand to earn less than McDonalds workers. I think lorry drivers need to learn lessons from the train drivers. Slight whiff of chaos and up go their wages!
Captain Caveman 76:
Thats a basic wage of £7.30 per hour. I didn’t spend two and a half grand to earn less than McDonalds workers. I think lorry drivers need to learn lessons from the train drivers. Slight whiff of chaos and up go their wages!
I completely agree, it’s just a shame that we don’t “stick together” someone is always willing to work for these poor wages. Things will never change but I for one will not lower myself to this!
Captain Caveman 76:
Thats a basic wage of £7.30 per hour. I didn’t spend two and a half grand to earn less than McDonalds workers. I think lorry drivers need to learn lessons from the train drivers. Slight whiff of chaos and up go their wages!
Haulage rates would have to go up before you can even think about pushing for a decent wage rise!
Mickey mouse:
Class I HGV Wagon Driver - Distance Work
H. Young Transport L:td - Huddersfield
We require an experienced Class I HGV Wagon Driver.
A Class I Licence is essential with at least one years experience, you also must be a minimum of 25years old for our insurance. You must hold a Full Drivers CPC
The job is delivering palletised goods within the UK
The position is to cover distance with nights out and early starts.
A clean licence is desirable.
The wage structure is below:
£328.50 guaranteed to 45 hours
£9.45 / HR OT
£20.00 Night Out
£5.00 4am Start
£4.00 5am Start
I was earning more than this when I first started driving 16 years ago.
I just find it insulting that these wages are been offered. And probably
even worse that somebody is willing to work for peanuts…
General Haulage has not altered much,ask for a wage increase and the Boss`s will say I pay RHA rates or we are only a small Family business,as he gets in his Merc to go home to his mansion in the leafy suburbs
Well I’m certainly earning more than £250 take home for a 45 hour week. I was taking that home when I was 18 for a 39 hour week working in a factory lol.
weeto:
Haulage rates would have to go up before you can even think about pushing for a decent wage rise!
Precisely, and then the cost of the product would go up to cover that rise! So you would then be spending more at the till and any rise you had would get eaten up straight away! Truck driving has always been seen as 'unskilled, the job that years ago you drifted into when you left school with no qualifications and nobody else would employ you but the money was decent if you worked hard enough. The alternative was labouring on construction sites. Of course nowadays it costs you to get a license.
On BBC breakfast news a couple of weeks ago, during the run up to the election, they interviewed a woman who was part owner of a cakemaking business in Wales. The reporter asked her “What had most affected the economy for you?” and she replied “Bringing in the minimum wage, before then my workers were happy with whatever I paid them as it was better than nothing, now they expect the same every week and we have had to increase the product price to the customer to cover it, how is that helping the economy?” In a way I could see her point of view, rather Dickensien though!
There is more than post in the thread about drivers paying for damage which details various gimps who regularly pull things off their wagon. In such cases the £328 wage is probably actually more than them and their ilk are worth.
So on a lorry load of cans of coke how much would it need to go up to give the driver another £1 an hour?
The fact is wages have gone down in real terms due partly to mass migration to the UK and the job is dumbed down to the point any moron can do it and the more I see of it the more I think the minimum wage is to much for some of the retards on the road
That works out roughly as £7.03/hr for 40 hours and 5 hours guarenteed overtime @ £9.45/hr.
I think I will pass on that one. Blokes at our place driving sprinter vans earn more than that!!!
General Haulage has not altered much,ask for a wage increase and the Boss`s will say I pay RHA rates or we are only a small Family business,as he gets in his Merc to go home to his mansion in the leafy suburbs
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I know one like that where I’ve worked before.
Employed mostly Polish and no one else would do the work for what he paid.
Crap and dangerous equipment.
Couldn’t afford to go above minimum wage.
Yet he had a self built property which cost £1.5m, three others he rents out, a Porsche, a Ferrari, jet skis, a boat and 6 foreign holidays a year.
The poor berk
Well anytime anyone on this forum tries to talk up the job they get subjected to plenty of other members getting indignant and apoplectic and giving it the usual speel of “our jobs not that important” or “The country will survive perfectly well without us” or “a trained monkey can do it” or “its an unskilled job,nowhere near as important as an electrictian or plumber”. With people like that in the job,why would anyone offer decent wages?
And when you answer back that you need to spend £2.5K to get the license,you get hit with “anyone can get a license.its not hard” or their favourite go to quote “it hardly makes the job skilled,its not exactly a qualification”.
So with THAT attitude in the industry by its drivers,why does anything think we are worth more than minimum wage?
The-Snowman:
Well anytime anyone on this forum tries to talk up the job they get subjected to plenty of other members getting indignant and apoplectic and giving it the usual speel of “our jobs not that important” or “The country will survive perfectly well without us” or “a trained monkey can do it” or "its an unskilled job,nowhere near as important as an electrictian or plumber". With people like that in the job,why would anyone offer decent wages?
And when you answer back that you need to spend £2.5K to get the license,you get hit with “anyone can get a license.its not hard” or their favourite go to quote “it hardly makes the job skilled,its not exactly a qualification”.
So with THAT attitude in the industry by its drivers,why does anything think we are worth more than minimum wage?
hmm lets compare… driving, anyone can get the licence/qualification in a week, 2 max if you’re doing class 1 and 2.
plumbers and electricians on the other hand go to college and work through apprenticeships for upto 5 years!
kr79:
So on a lorry load of cans of coke how much would it need to go up to give the driver another £1 an hour?
The fact is wages have gone down in real terms due partly to mass migration to the UK and the job is dumbed down to the point any moron can do it and the more I see of it the more I think the minimum wage is to much for some of the retards on the road
i totaly agree the minimum wage is to much for these drivers these days the good guys have given up with the industry only the new guys or the imports are left doing the job. it will end up like the nhs has gone, hardly anyone english doing that job anymore as the pay is crap so let the imports do it
plumbers and electricians on the other hand go to college and work through apprenticeships for upto 5 years!
not sure that is the case anymore.
son in law left the army last year and is gas safe registered for central heating etc now
so I don’t think that the apprenticeship scheme seems to be needed now.
Truck driving has always been seen as 'unskilled, the job that years ago you drifted into when you left school with no qualifications and nobody else would employ you but the money was decent if you worked hard enough. The alternative was labouring on construction sites. Of course nowadays it costs you to get a license.