Pay disparity

We’ll I got things wrong , I thought wages would stagnate , little or no pay rises etc , saw sheet yesterday , we get a apx 12% ( 2 ph ) pay rise from sept , Hr confirmed it .

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12% is good :+1: .We got 6% (non union, small firm so happy enough).

we got 3.8% only on basic pay thou. everything else stayed the same. Our over time is paid at £2 an hour more than basic. on 4 on 4 off if you work an extra day, say a Tuesday you don’t even get overtime. You get normal basic rate for working a day extra. And people do it?? I’ve never done a days overtime in 5 years. bosses hate me, but overtime is at my discretion, not theirs. They pride themselves in giving a pay increase every year, but every year apart from one ( covid year) its been less than inflation and only covers basic pay. overtime has never gone up in 20 years.

Tell him to stop buying new trucks and give his drivers better wages. there’s always a choice to be made its just never drivers that get the benefit.

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At the end of the day things will always need hauling. you should be charging enough to at least keep drivers wages up with inflation. If you’re not making enough profit to keep paying decent wages and a profit then go bust and stop undercutting quality haulage companies. Haulage companies have made this problem and drivers suffer because of it.

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Another thing that has always bugged me. The longer you are a truck driver, the more experience you get. Yet you get the same rate as someone who has just started. I don’t know any other industry that penalises you when you’re better at doing your job :slight_smile:

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lol every job does. if your a warehouse man you get the same rate as everyone else. Most companies if there is a pay difference is baised on length of service not skill level for the same job.

They manage it in Australia for similar loads (not just the road-trains). In Oz. by law the over-time for example has to be at a set-rate (double time etc). In the USA it’s not even taxed!

Length of service pay-increments usually is a good barometer of experience / skill. It just doesn’t transfer well when a driver changes company