I’ve Been offered a job driving on NHS contract, already work for DHL doing a back-breaking 7.5 ton job. Was over the moon to be offered the HGV job, until I worked out it seems £4000pa less than my current 7.5t multi drop job (basic pay).
Anyone work on this contract? Was told that a new pay deal is on the table, which could be substantial.
I’d welcome a break from lugging flat packs and washing machines up stairs to flats, and could stomach a small drop in pay, but the money on offer is £18.5k.
Any info would be gratefuly received.
Depends what area It is I think mate. Down here DHL also do the NHS laundry on the Class 2’s and thats back breaking lugging big sacks of dirty scrubs around.
I’ve had a few days here and there ‘on secondment’ to the NHS job. (Been with DHL since they took us (Exel) over).
Claw-arsing about in a four wheel Renault Premium all over Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. Drop points were Primary Care Trusts / GP surgerys in the middle of housing estates where you might have to park out on the road 100 yards from the place and then pump-truck pallets down the pavement and through the car park while trying to get over speed humps and avoid hitting coffin-dodgers (inside and outside of cars) who couldn’t get out of the way in time.
Not my idea of fun when compared to the 44 tonne UK general haulage work I was doing at the time - even though they were paying me C+E money to do it. Though the pallets were not that heavy to be fair.
That said, it was MUCH better than the 7.5 tonne Argos job that I was seconded to several years ago…another story entirely!
Funny you should say that, my current job IS the 7.5t argos job! Thanks for the info, I had to give a yes or no to the NHS job today, and I had to think of the money. It is amazing that I can earn £22500 doing a 40 hour week on argos, where it would be likely I’d earn 4k less driving class 1 and 2 on NHS!
I reluctantly had to turn down the NHS one, couldn’t afford to live on that money.
Fair play to you mate.
From what I’ve seen, the whole NHS job is run on a shoe-string budget. Some of the TMs aren’t on much more than you are on now driving a 7.5! And they get a lot more hassle.
Depends where you are in the world I suppose, market forces and all that, but come on - £18.5k for class 1 drivers? They’re having a laugh! 