as someone whos coming into the driving profeshion i’v been researching as much as I can about the industry as a hole. this is a brillant website for information and many of the members have been very helpful in giving adivce in the short time i’v been a memeber.
One of the first things that I found being menshioned alot was the avarage wages not increaseing in as many as 10 years and its even thought to have gone down by many people. another thing witch many speak of is how badly people treat driver now.
like I said I have no expirants in this profeshion what so ever but I don’t need too to know that what is being spoken here is more or less on the hole compleatly true.
the reson I can bealeave these things to be true is because the profession i’v been in for 12 years and am currantly still in “well till i’m made redunant in the next few months” has suffered the excact same problems that lorry driving has.
i started there in 2000 on minuim wage then after 6 years i got a pay rise in 2006 and that was the first and only one iv had there after. 1 pay raise in 12 years the last one being 6 yeas ago. also for the last 3 years having to work longer and harder for that money more than ever befor and still i’m going to be out of work at the end of the year !
the way in witch people in my profession get treated is at an all time badness too. in the last 4 years the daily abuse includeing verbale mothing off and pyhical violents has made me begin to hate being around the human race.
If you were wounding what my job is i’m a shop worker, retailer.
My point if any, is that during my time looking for what the hell to try and get a job doing next I found that every industry fourm is filled with the same plite that has affected yours and mine.
when you look into most jobs theres almost nothing out there that hasnt sufferd wage cuts or wage stagnation an having to work longer for less. sader still is the fact that the reson people treat an speak to you like crap is’nt because your a lorry its sadly just the way some many people treat other these days. i smiled when i read so many driver saying this as I could relate to what thay were saying and how thay felt. I always thought as being a shop worker I was looked down apon and treated like a servent or someone that is dumb and never has nay recoinishion for the job i do an the hardships it involves.
there isnt much of a point to my ramblings other than to share my thoughts on how most work forces feel these days is the same. In my search to find a new job i found that if I was to lisen to the negative pionts to anyone alreddy in a trade i’d wind up not going into anything. just the same as if anyone asked me if retail was any good by the time id finished telling all the horror storys of the last 12 years thay wound rather get a job testing sleeping pils for freddy krueger.
if anything we can take some comfort in knowing that its nothing personal to the trades we’'r all in or that the lack of good paying jobs only exsites in are own feilds of work. its just the way things are all over. if there was one thing that might improve peoples respect and manner for others is if we all spent afew days in each other shoes. I know even after just driving a lorry for a short hour i came away with a hole new found respect for what lorry drivers do.
which do make for hard reading in fact I just dont read them sorry
