12k better salary, 20 miles closer to home, only work half the year. There are no questions to be asked in my book.
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No way. Blue collar workers are either full-time or casual, although permanent part-time is becoming more of a thing.
F-t is 38 hrs a week plus reasonable o/t at penalty rates after 7hr 36min. 10 days pa paid sick leave. 10 days public holidays. 20 days annual leave.
Casual is minimum 4hr shift, penalties after 7hr 36 min, all earnings attract 20% loading to compensate for lack of paid leave.
Bloody commies! I am amazed that any companies find it worthwhile opening up shop there.
Poor bosses having to pay out like that.
Mods, mods, Carryfast has hacked Franglias’ account! 
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Except it’s not is it, it’s 4off, 2on, 1off, 2on,1off, 1on, 2off, 3on, 1off, 4on. Repeat 
I wouldn’t last five minutes at that. I get rather possessive and protective of “my” truck.
remuneration Vs stable weekly pattern.
Not sure where a certain contributor got his ideas from, but speaking as someone who has worked 4 on 4 off. There is no problem with a fluctuating weekly pay packet because the banks will look at your monthly average, and your yearly total.
The pain is for you personally, as in each cycle, you have 5 weeks where you work at least one weekend day and only 2 weeks where you have both weekend days off.
This might effect families more. It also could stop you doing some regular social thing like darts on a tuesday evening, or knitting on thursdays.
But as far as progressing, take the class 2 job. You’ll leap faster into class 1 from class 2 than from 7.5T.
And parcel delivery, as others have said because that’s where I started many decades ago. It’s a ballache. The O/T offered probably more likely handball in the depot when they’re short of loaders. At the place I started, even the trunk driver tossed a few parcels during busy period in the morning getting everyone loaded for deliveries.
Dunno if things have changed, I assume the DPD is local deliveries not trunking. Multi drop is a pain, you’re all over the place, missing customers, irate customers, wrong parcels, thousands of parcels, wrong addresses, closed roads, random out of the way places that don’t exist on sat nav. oh and bitey dogs. (sometimes geese) oh and lunatic farmer types who walk perpetually around with a loaded shotgun.
“Please don’t shoot me, I’m delivering your ■■■■ mag order from Amsterdam and don’t want a pathologist digging charred bits of Hairy Wives, Barely? Legal? and Foot Feelers in Silk out of my deceased body”
Jeez Adamale, you must have an interesting library-I’ve never ■■■ across any of those three! 
Sorry that should have said ‘come’!
I agree 100% on what you said… thanks mate
@star_down_under I’m a second driver & this morning the windscreen was caked in bugs. Don’t need that hassle of cleaning first thing.
@driveress Potatos Potartos 
OP have you got the wetherspoons job yet, hurry up