.But only for experienced class 1 Class 1 Drivers with good companies ? £56k
Lorry driver jobs now pay £56k a year - more than solicitors and architects The country is facing a shortfall of around 100,000 drivers By
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I would not get out of bed for that…
Those poor old solicitors architects and teachers, crawling out of bed at anything from 1 to 3am for yet another 12+ hour shift yet trumped by those overpaid oversexed and presumably over here lorry drivers knocking up some £56k, what a bleeder.
The reality is
IF you earn your spurs and desirability as a driver by being consistently reliable competent and accident/damage free, and
IF you live in the right parts of the country, and
IF you manage to land one of the better jobs, particularly specialised/skilled and/or filthy jobs, and
IF you put in the required shifts which may well consist of anti social hours, working bank holidays, and slipping some overtime in when available, then
Yes £56k is quite possible on the right job, but the chances of it being a salary of £56k for a standard working week that maybe a solicitor architect or teacher might expect to work and off every weekend, are slim to say the least.
More likely you’ll be working shifts, based around a 48 hour basic week with additional overtime, working unsocial hours and at least part of almost every weekend.
My week 52 pay slip shows £39,000 , I do mon- wed , been off loads since Xmas with illness , month off Xmas holiday , so I’d of thought the lads who work for the same agency ( same pay I assume ) doing 6/5 , b/ h , every hour god sends would easily earn that & a fair bit more , to be honest if they did just the 5 days I’d think they’d earn that
Nb I’ve a mate who came back for the £££££ and has gone back to his old job for n office , same crap , and a young lad on our street who took his test to earn ££££££ , he did tramping for a week & now works for a builders merchants , said he’d wished he’d never bothered
Cundalini:
https://www.bing.com.But only for experienced class 1 Class 1 Drivers with good companies ? £56k
Lorry driver jobs now pay £56k a year - more than solicitors and architects The country is facing a shortfall of around 100,000 drivers By
Lorry driver jobs now pay £56k a year - more than …
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Looks like there trying to get employed wages somewhere near agency pay , if 56k is what there offering there failing miserably, try harder !!
Cundalini:
https://www.bing.com.But only for experienced class 1 Class 1 Drivers with good companies ? £56k
Lorry driver jobs now pay £56k a year - more than solicitors and architects The country is facing a shortfall of around 100,000 drivers By
Lorry driver jobs now pay £56k a year - more than …
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I would say it is NOT true, as I’ve never seen a full time job (with full time hours 35-40) with that salary attached, only OTE.
This compares to those ads on the backs of London Buses “£500 per week to drive this bus (with overtime)”
£56k is probably available driving 48 hours per week via agency working for RM or Supermarkets however.
But that’s not a steady job, nor a salary though - is it?
Maybe the time is coming where there are no longer “Quiet Periods” in the agency working year, nor “pecking order” when it comes to the plummier jobs…?
Not in the south west it isn’t
You will really struggle to find a job that pays 56k BASIC.
Maybe if you get a job at Ford then yea, but that is like winning the lottery lol.
Usually the salary is around 30-40k and you make everything else up with a ton of overtime be it optional or not.
Winseer:
£56k is probably available driving 48 hours per week via agency working for RM or Supermarkets however.
But that’s not a steady job, nor a salary though - is it?
Maybe the time is coming where there are no longer “Quiet Periods” in the agency working year, nor “pecking order” when it comes to the plummier jobs…?
Approx £49k for 53hrs on nights including paid breaks plus bonuses, shares and 33 days annual leave where I’m at in East Yorks. There’s not been a quiet period there on agency for four years now. Always used to keep a couple of weeks holiday spare for after Xmas as you’d be on 2-3 days until near Easter but for the last few years I’ve ended up having to take them before I lost them at the end of March and for this year and last year the agency allowed us to carry some over.
When I do work I’m on £32,000 p a which is definitely at the lower end of the wage scale locally but then I don’t do very much for it, start between 07:00 and 08:00 and generally do 8-9 hours a day, an 11.5 hour shift is the longest I did over the Winter, and around 80% of my day is spent sitting around reading a book or on the laptop.
I generally do one or two Saturday mornings a month, normally just 2-3 hours and that adds around another £1,500 a year I guess. Pro-rata of course because I only work 6-7 months a year.
I could earn more but my outgoings are minimal, just the licensing and mooring fees on the boat really, I have no loans or car finance to pay and my time is more important to me than money these days. I’m winding down towards retirement now.
Harry Monk:
.my time is more important to me than money these days
A lesson people often learn too late in life.
Harry Monk:
just the licensing and mooring fees on the boat
Off topic sorry but what sort of boat do you have and how much does it cost you?
Hoping to buy a boat this year at some point, went a sailing boat of about 25 to 30 ft, althoujgh want a speed boat too.
Macski:
Harry Monk:
just the licensing and mooring fees on the boatOff topic sorry but what sort of boat do you have and how much does it cost you?
Hoping to buy a boat this year at some point, went a sailing boat of about 25 to 30 ft, althoujgh want a speed boat too.
Don’t know anything about sea-going boats, mine’s a narrowboat and lives on the canal. It cost £23,500 to buy and it costs around £2,500 a year in standing costs.
well done harry monk 
That’s an old piece, 31 AUG 2021, all that big-wage hullabaloo has long gone.
Zac_A:
That’s an old piece, 31 AUG 2021, all that big-wage hullabaloo has long gone.
Only because it’s a quiet time of year. Nothing much has happened to increase the driver pool and drivers will continue to retire in far greater numbers than new blood comes along.
You can earn as much as £865 if you work for Maxi Haulage!!! for example; If you do 60 on hour nights, that includes suppliments.
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Added bonous, you get to drive a Renault (although they have a few Volvos).
Eddie Stobart advertises £58,805.76 average!
Harry Monk:
Macski:
Harry Monk:
just the licensing and mooring fees on the boatOff topic sorry but what sort of boat do you have and how much does it cost you?
Hoping to buy a boat this year at some point, went a sailing boat of about 25 to 30 ft, althoujgh want a speed boat too.
Don’t know anything about sea-going boats, mine’s a narrowboat and lives on the canal. It cost £23,500 to buy and it costs around £2,500 a year in standing costs.
OK, thanks. Once thought of doing that too, but decided I prefer a sail boat, planning to go to Iceland in it, that will never happen unless I tow it there!
adam277:
Harry Monk:
.my time is more important to me than money these daysA lesson people often learn too late in life.
Yes very much so.
Harry Monk:
Zac_A:
That’s an old piece, 31 AUG 2021, all that big-wage hullabaloo has long gone.Only because it’s a quiet time of year. Nothing much has happened to increase the driver pool and drivers will continue to retire in far greater numbers than new blood comes along.
Where I’m ETM we’ve just employed three drivers, it wasn’t that hard to find good experienced drivers willing to take the jobs even though the money isn’t fantastic.
If there is a genuine decrease in size of the driver pool, it’s no surprise there isn’t a massive queue of people desperate to get into an industry with a history of long hours, and where people constantly focus on working out how to work the maximum amount while getting the least amount of rest.