Passed 6 months driving HGV class 2 for a company based in London and enjoying it.
I was wondering if is there a way to save on the INSANE rent i have to pay.
Is getting a job in London the only solution to get a certain amount of wages ? Or are the wages the same nationwide even where rents are ridicously cheaper than around M40/M25 ? I commute within a 35mins driving on home-work route.
I think you’ll need to say how much is your rent (for what size of place) and what your earnings are?
How far are you willing to relocate? (Eg. Avonmouth I understand is high salary/cheap housing.
stu675:
I think you’ll need to say how much is your rent (for what size of place) and what your earnings are?
How far are you willing to relocate? (Eg. Avonmouth I understand is high salary/cheap housing.
I have to agree. Not enough information to give advice.
stu675:
I think you’ll need to say how much is your rent (for what size of place) and what your earnings are?
How far are you willing to relocate? (Eg. Avonmouth I understand is high salary/cheap housing.
Pay 875 for a really small studio in SL. I’m on 38k. Looking for something closer to stansted or at least in between stansted and NW.
DGSA2:
stu675:
I think you’ll need to say how much is your rent (for what size of place) and what your earnings are?
How far are you willing to relocate? (Eg. Avonmouth I understand is high salary/cheap housing.I have to agree. Not enough information to give advice.
As a general rule is a class 2 driving Job in London area paid better than other areas?
Marktrucker:
Pay 875 for a really small studio in SL. I’m on 38k. Looking for something closer to stansted or at least in between stansted and NW.
Thanks, I am going to have to bow out as although I know property prices where I am and wages. Outside my area of expertise.
DGSA2:
Marktrucker:
Pay 875 for a really small studio in SL. I’m on 38k. Looking for something closer to stansted or at least in between stansted and NW.Thanks, I am going to have to bow out as although I know property prices where I am and wages. Outside my area of expertise.
And? What are the substancial differences?
Marktrucker:
DGSA2:
Marktrucker:
Pay 875 for a really small studio in SL. I’m on 38k. Looking for something closer to stansted or at least in between stansted and NW.And? What are the substancial differences?
Well, here are some property rental prices for Nelson.
rightmove.co.uk/property-to … elson.html
On the M65 corridor. Close to Fagan and Whalley.
Also fairly close to Preston. (Which is a poverty area for lorry drivers wages) however I think you should be able to get £13 per hour easy, more if you go agency. Other than that I don’t know. Just my two pence. That is about 27.5k per year on a 40 hour week).
London always has higher wages to make up for the higher cost of living. This isn’t just in driving but any job, it’s normally referred to as London Weighting. It was brought in to try and stop people leaving London to move to cheaper parts of the country
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Marktrucker:
Passed 6 months driving HGV class 2 for a company based in London and enjoying it.
I was wondering if is there a way to save on the INSANE rent i have to pay.Is getting a job in London the only solution to get a certain amount of wages ? Or are the wages the same nationwide even where rents are ridicously cheaper than around M40/M25 ? I commute within a 35mins driving on home-work route.
Lorry driving wages in London are nothing special and the London weighting doesn’t make up for the additional housing costs. £15-£20/hr for Class 1 is possible in most of the UK now. I’m on £16.16/hr plus shift bonus which makes it roughly £18/hr and you can still buy a small house for under £100k in the area and a flat for £80k.
Marktrucker:
stu675:
I think you’ll need to say how much is your rent (for what size of place) and what your earnings are?
How far are you willing to relocate? (Eg. Avonmouth I understand is high salary/cheap housing.Pay 875 for a really small studio in SL. I’m on 38k. Looking for something closer to stansted or at least in between stansted and NW.
Rent a whole house in Newport South Wales for that price and work from avonmouth Bristol for the same money. Means you have to live in Newport though 
Here in the Northwest, outskirts of Manchester. Plenty of class 2 jobs. Rochdale to Preston, and Burnley to South Manchester area Inc Wigan and Warrington all working class areas, -
£600-£650pcm gets you a 2 bed with a driveway/garden. A flat could probably be had for around £500
Plenty of houses for sale around £150k.
Wages are £25-£33k for depending on type of work/hours and willingness for silly o clock + handballing.
Just for reference I’m currently on 31k as my first class 2 job, BUT it’s 4am starts and a hard graft.
Been lucky to have boxed off a HIAB job starting in two weeks though which is 35k.
Marktrucker:
Passed 6 months driving HGV class 2 for a company based in London and enjoying it.
I was wondering if is there a way to save on the INSANE rent i have to pay.Is getting a job in London the only solution to get a certain amount of wages ? Or are the wages the same nationwide even where rents are ridicously cheaper than around M40/M25 ? I commute within a 35mins driving on home-work route.
I left west london 8 months ago and should have done it earlier. I found out that wages in the Midlands are way, way higher than in west London, while rent is half of that and food prices are about 2/3, if you are willing to get the local products from street markets, instead of the overpriced supermarkets. Quality of life is incomparably better as well. There is nothing like living in a rural area.
East Midlands plenty of work and good wages.
Some places advertising over £15 a hour for Class 2!
I am new pass on a daily rate at one of the larger hauliers who generally pay less. Mon-Fri will yield 37K easily.
I moved away from Bristol 38 yrs ago apx ,on sat I used a full tank of fuel to go & watch rovers , if I want to visit sister /aunts / uncles / cousins , it’s again a tank full of fuel , a simple birthday / family birthday party is a day/ night stay over
Just remember if your family are in London & you move to Lancashire it won’t be a 2 min drive round the corner , it will be a day ( weekend more like ) with a the fuel / costs to go with it
London and the home counties have turned into an extreme scenario of being expensive dormitory areas for high paid office workers.
Most of the industry and blue collar jobs which were here up to the 1960’s have long gone.
Turning it into the perfect storm of high residential based real estate values requiring relatively high wage costs causing more incentive for employers to move out.
Obviously no place to base a truck operation and that applied even in the best of times here in Surrey at least.Kent and Essex seems to be where the main road transport interest was here.
But what’s left is as a result more likely to be class 2 retail distribution and building trades and skip type work if you want that.