Maritime is suffering a driver shortage, like most companies in the industry. This is prompting the company to raise pay rates. 
£522 basic.
Maybe…just maybe, were looking at the beginnings of a confirmation of the "is there or isnt there" driver shortage debate. Top brass at the RHA have very recently been making statements to the effect that a crisis is looming.
Even as a late and humble newcomer to the madness of the haulage game, ive found myself this week being cajoled by two sizeable local companies to join their respective ranks, both of whom are pledging regular and ongoing work - as much as i care to do. Time to do some careful considering as to who should be the lucky recipient of my relatively new driving abilities! Lets cross our collective fingers and toes, boys and girls, in the hope of a better (make that “more realistic”) remuneration scale for our services. Pay scales have been stagnant for far too long now.
backload:
Maritime is suffering a driver shortage, like most companies in the industry. This is prompting the company to raise pay rates.
What does the 522 include
how much hours?
days or nights?
Night out money?
Shifts or tramping?
Themoocher:
backload:
Maritime is suffering a driver shortage, like most companies in the industry. This is prompting the company to raise pay rates.What does the 522 include
how much hours?
days or nights?
Night out money?
Shifts or tramping?
four nights away 
if you’re not on the Friday board ( run in Saturday ) 
and set up all boxes for Monday! 
was £440 take home! 
whoppeeeeeeeee do 
so 28k a year?
I don’t know what they are like to work for but most on here seem to love or hate. from my own experiences too many seem too eager to get rid of drivers for petty reasons then moan they need drivers.
war1974:
from my own experiences too many seem too eager to get rid of drivers for petty reasons then moan they need drivers.
Then claim there’s a driver shortage, smh…
Themoocher:
backload:
Maritime is suffering a driver shortage, like most companies in the industry. This is prompting the company to raise pay rates.What does the 522 include
how much hours?
days or nights?
Night out money?
Shifts or tramping?
Nobody can criticise the pay until these questions are answered.
A Maritime driver I spoke to last week claimed to be on £7.63 p.h, I’m sure that wouldn’t help.
Maritime is/was £102 per day for Mon-Fri days. £120 per day for 4 on/4 off. 11 hours a day contracted, overtime after that.
So the payrise is only actually £12 a week. Looks more like your standard small % annual rise rather than some ‘driver shortage’ busting thing.
Does that include cab hopping “bonus”? If they still do that…
Does that include cab hopping “bonus”? If they still do that…
Wildy:
A Maritime driver I spoke to last week claimed to be on £7.63 p.h, I’m sure that wouldn’t help.
Not good when a depot/yard has more than 1 pay structure, even worse when new staff get more than the long serving staff, made even worse if you complain, leaving you no option but to leave if you want to change it, then have companies wondering why the can’t retain staff.
Conan the Librarian:
Does that include cab hopping “bonus”? If they still do that…
No mention of that when I was making enquiries.
rob22888:
Conan the Librarian:
Does that include cab hopping “bonus”? If they still do that…No mention of that when I was making enquiries.
I’m sure it’s on another Maritime thread, one where a guy on this forum actually started working for them. He was cab hopping but claimed he was not getting money for it.
drivers on an older contract got it, new drivers didn’t. So in the event of an older contract driver’s perminant wagon was off the road, they could just put them a new drivers perminant wagon and move the newer driver back to cab hopping with no cost.
Think he ended up leaving as well.
Themoocher:
backload:
Maritime is suffering a driver shortage, like most companies in the industry. This is prompting the company to raise pay rates.What does the 522 include
how much hours?
days or nights?
Night out money?
Shifts or tramping?
Bet it’s not 9-5pm 35hour week with paid meal breaks…
WOULDNT get out of bed for that
Winseer:
Bet it’s not 9-5pm 35hour week with paid meal breaks…
Absolutely! Let’s look at that basic of £522 shall we? Assuming that figure is not including expenses (surely no Co would include that would they? 
) £522 based on 40 hours is £13.05 p/h, which is certainly a decent rate, £522 based on 50 hours drops that to £10.44, which itself isn’t a terrible rate. However the big questions would be “do I get overtime rate after my 40/50 hours? If so, is it proper time and a half, or time and a bit? Do I get overtime rate for weekend/bank holiday working?”
So before I get out the bunting to celebrate what at first glance appears to be getting near where we should be, I’d need to read the small print I reckon.
Their basic hours are 55 per week and they only pay cab hopping bonus on old contracts. Anyone employed about 4-5yrs ago to present day don’t get it.
weeto:
leaving you no option but to leave if you want to change it, then have companies wondering why the can’t retain staff.
They can wonder all they want, staff are very easy 2 replace at the end of the day…
“Overtime” should be on anything past 40 hours. If you don’t get paid for breaks, it’ll be after 45 hours even on that deal.
Those firms that only pay overtime with unpaid breaks for “more than 50 hours” are effectively paying overtime only when running bent" which would be what working 55 hours each and every week would amount to over any reference period longer than 12 weeks - on nights at least - under the Working Time Directive, I believe.
Yes - of course there’s plenty of that kind of full-time contract out there…
It keeps agency bods like me in plenty of work, because at such yards - it’s always better to be paid 55 hours for being at work 55 hours for a one-off week basis - than doing those hours for a meagre salary every week based on what an office waller would get for 35-40 hours.