Have Longs of Leeds put their basic pay up to £10.00 per hour ■■
I don’t think so but a ■■■■■■■■ I was talking to assures me they have
Still says £8.50 on their website
Tenner an hour doesn’t sound a bad rate to me?
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xfmatt:
Tenner an hour doesn’t sound a bad rate to me?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Unless it’s straight through all hours 
axletramp:
xfmatt:
Tenner an hour doesn’t sound a bad rate to me?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Unless it’s straight through all hours
That’s about going rate in East Yorkshire. You’re not gonna get a tenner then time and half from anywhere
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xfmatt:
axletramp:
xfmatt:
Tenner an hour doesn’t sound a bad rate to me?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Unless it’s straight through all hours
That’s about going rate in East Yorkshire. You’re not gonna get a tenner then time and half from anywhere
Matt.
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Most I’ve had on overtime is £12.60 matt and that was a large waste firm, won’t mention any names No one pays around here.
I very much doubt Longs have upped their hourly rate to £10 per hour. That’s most-likely for a lot of hours, so if they were offering £10 per hour, it would have to be all hours.
When I was looking for work around a month ago, they got in touch with me about a six-day Monday to Saturday contract, five nights-out per week. It was too much for me, so I turned it down.
It probably wouldn’t be a bad job for a young, single lad, with no commitments, and who’s willing to spend their life on the road. Family-owned firm and you get your own truck as far as I know. Parking paid, and they don’t expect you to skimp it in lay-bys. Could be OK for the right person.
I imagine the alleged £34,000 their drivers earn, as seen on their website, is a driver working 6 days per week, and including all of their night-out money, so I imagine £8.50 is their basic rate. Most smaller firms around the Yorkshire area tend to be around the £8.50 mark, so I expect Longs is around that.
The current rate is £8.50 per hour. 8% is deducted, this is not explained at interview. No sick pay. Entire fleet is tired, all but a few of the trailers are poor.
They promise lots at interview, nearly all of it is not true.
Don’t apply if you don’t like London. 7 to 8/9 drops to builders yards and timber yards all over London, on every day of week is normal.
I worked there about 4 months, it made me one of their long term drivers.
You’ll definitely be shafted and regardless of what is promised at interview, you will be expected to work most Saturdays.
If you are desperate enough to take the job, you better take lots of cleaning kit, unless you are a bit of a stinky type.
If you are a new driver with no experience and can’t get a job, longs will give you one.
Most of the internal straps are knackered, if you want good kit, you’ll need to buy it or nick it.
Apart from that, you’ll never get a worse job, so the only way is up.
I didn’t mind doing it but then again I was limping so on more money and only had to suffer a week at a time.
Conor:
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just guessing, but if you worked out of Hull, that’s a different job to Leeds. Most of the timber work was done by Leeds drivers. Hull was a lot more relaxed. The times I worked out of Hull, I enjoyed it.
It’s news to me that anyone was on more money? With the exception of young trainees who were expected to work their training period for free!
It filled a gap, would never go back,
Part of the Leeds triangle…
Drivers go from Walkers to Longs to Bedfords and…back to Walkers.
They all pay the same (crap) and you’ll end up with the same money whichever one you choose.
yourhavingalarf:
Part of the Leeds triangle…Drivers go from Walkers to Longs to Bedfords and…back to Walkers.
They all pay the same (crap) and you’ll end up with the same money whichever one you choose.
That’s about it. Although longs advertising £34,000 on the website, that’s just a lie. The wage is a lot less even if you are tramping. More like £28,000 if you manage to get 3 nights out pw. Deduct cost of living out and it’s less again.
It’s not unusual to start at 6am to be stood down at 2pm and told to have a 9.
It’s as you said crap
Stood down after just a few hours ‘working’…■■?
Is their work not ‘consistent’…■■?
Goldfinger:
Stood down after just a few hours ‘working’…■■?Is their work not ‘consistent’…■■?
At longs the driver is treated like a tool, put away if not needed. To save money, so the directors can spend it on themselves.
These medium and large firms in Leeds and West Yorkshire as a whole are all crap,
As for longs they just don’t seem to have any pride in there appearance anymore,
Trucks look tired with white panels on wraped trucks,surely getting that panel re wraped can’t be hard,but they don’t seem to care.
Don’t know much about walkers except that it don’t look like fun to me with a lot of drops etc.
Bedfords,well to me they don’t seem to be around as much as they were.
Don’t know if the polestar print plants closing affected them but you could pass there yard midweek and it would be full of trucks parked up as most worked through the weekend doing the print and news papers.
Jingle Jon:
Conor:
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just guessing, but if you worked out of Hull, that’s a different job to Leeds. Most of the timber work was done by Leeds drivers. Hull was a lot more relaxed. The times I worked out of Hull, I enjoyed it.
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Yep, timber and paper reels off King George Dock. Did the odd load out of Leeds and Harwich docks when I was tramping. Must admit that Leeds seemed to be quite chaotic.
Conor:
Jingle Jon:
Conor:
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just guessing, but if you worked out of Hull, that’s a different job to Leeds. Most of the timber work was done by Leeds drivers. Hull was a lot more relaxed. The times I worked out of Hull, I enjoyed it.
,Yep, timber and paper reels off King George Dock. Did the odd load out of Leeds and Harwich docks when I was tramping. Must admit that Leeds seemed to be quite chaotic.
It’s a few weeks now since I moved on, the Hull lads did mainly paper. Almost all of the multi drop timber work was out of sites in Wdness and Boston, boards out of Chirk, Auchinleck, Cowie & HexhamHull lads did a bit, not much in comparison.
It wasn’t the work that killed it for me, it was the money, the fleet, the planning, the attitude of the longs family. I now work where the kit is good & the system is designed to protect safety, longs system is designed to protect longs. Nothing that’s the drivers responsibility is serviced or cared about.
Jingle Jon:
It’s not unusual to start at 6am to be stood down at 2pm and told to have a 9.
I wouldn’t be doing that. How can you go to sleep an two o’clock in the afternoon? Basically they’re expecting you to be awake for over 30 hours at a time. It might be legal but it isn’t safe.
Do they pay straight through doesn’t sound like they do ?
Harry Monk:
Jingle Jon:
It’s not unusual to start at 6am to be stood down at 2pm and told to have a 9.I wouldn’t be doing that. How can you go to sleep an two o’clock in the afternoon? Basically they’re expecting you to be awake for over 30 hours at a time. It might be legal but it isn’t safe.
Jingle Jon:
Apart from that, you’ll never get a worse job, so the only way is up.
. Love it! I’m pinching that saying and claiming it as my own Jon.