crush99:
Wheres the money, or should i be content with 38k 55hrs nights, ok work
Easily obtainable, if dozy can ( could earn ) £50/60 k & I’m apparently by far the worst driver on here , you can
£15 ph x 71 x 52 weeks = £55380 + £25 x 4 x 52 = 5200 = £60 , 580 ( & I wondered why I was getting letters every week about not paying / owing tax
Nb i will now be doing 5 days , apparently 12 hrs ( 60 pw ) for £28 k , but health is more important to me now than money
But if you want to earn it you can , as I say dozy could ,
Cue the tax rebates , allegedly , lies , trolling , from the so - called top trick net drivers who can’t stomach that hopeless dozy can earn / achieve more than those up there own ■■■ drivers can
crush99:
Wheres the money, or should i be content with 38k 55hrs nights, ok work
Easily obtainable, if dozy can ( could earn ) £50/60 k & I’m apparently by far the worst driver on here , you can
£15 ph x 71 x 52 weeks = £55380 + £25 x 4 x 52 = 5200 = £60 , 580 ( & I wondered why I was getting letters every week about not paying / owing tax
Nb i will now be doing 5 days , apparently 12 hrs ( 60 pw ) for £28 k , but health is more important to me now than money
But if you want to earn it you can , as I say dozy could ,
Cue the tax rebates , allegedly , lies , trolling , from the so - called top trick net drivers who can’t stomach that hopeless dozy can earn / achieve more than those up there own ■■■ drivers can
So tramping but who’s paying £15ph
And would it be fools gold to change from Easy(ish) to hard work, or was it just the hours
So tramping but who’s paying £15ph
And would it be fools gold to change from Easy(ish) to hard work, or was it just the hours
Supermarkets, no nights out. plus shift premiums plus overtime premium after 45hrs. 60hr week is over a grand before tax, thats for a 08.00ish in morning start time. Could probably do it on 55hrs starting about 18.00ish with plenty of night premium.
So tramping but who’s paying £15ph
And would it be fools gold to change from Easy(ish) to hard work, or was it just the hours
Supermarkets, no nights out. plus shift premiums plus overtime premium after 45hrs. 60hr week is over a grand before tax, thats for a 08.00ish in morning start time. Could probably do it on 55hrs starting about 18.00ish with plenty of night premium.
You’re not doing 71 hours per week driving for a trolley co. 35 hours on a busy week and a lot of weekends for the same money.
Dozy is not doing £55k per year. He lives in the middle of carrot-picking country so if he’s getting a tenner an hour he’ll be one of the higher paid ones and most of those tenners get spent on pot noodles when he gets stuck in laybys on the A1 because he’s too thick to be able to calculate his remaining driving time.
Nope I’m not doing 71hrs a week, doing 55 on a normal week, 60+ on the run up to xmas and easter. Even when its dead its 45hrs contracted. The Mrs has a spreadsheet to work out my hours, keep track of pay etc and since last July its a 55.25hr average (needed to work out 12 week average for holiday pay)
Weekends, work 5 out of 10 of Sundays, every other and 6 out of 10 Saturdays, every other weekend off with 1 random extra Saturday in there.
Fuzrat:
Nope I’m not doing 71hrs a week, doing 55 on a normal week, 60+ on the run up to xmas and easter. Even when its dead its 45hrs contracted. The Mrs has a spreadsheet to work out my hours, keep track of pay etc and since last July its a 55.25hr average (needed to work out 12 week average for holiday pay)
Weekends, work 5 out of 10 of Sundays, every other and 6 out of 10 Saturdays, every other weekend off with 1 random extra Saturday in there.
Dozy, not you. Saying he’s getting £15/hr then someone said supermarkets. He isn’t getting or doing either. Or are you Dozy under an alias?
So tramping but who’s paying £15ph
And would it be fools gold to change from Easy(ish) to hard work, or was it just the hours
Supermarkets, no nights out. plus shift premiums plus overtime premium after 45hrs. 60hr week is over a grand before tax, thats for a 08.00ish in morning start time. Could probably do it on 55hrs starting about 18.00ish with plenty of night premium.
You’re not doing 71 hours per week driving for a trolley co. 35 hours on a busy week and a lot of weekends for the same money.
Dozy is not doing £55k per year. He lives in the middle of carrot-picking country so if he’s getting a tenner an hour he’ll be one of the higher paid ones and most of those tenners get spent on pot noodles when he gets stuck in laybys on the A1 because he’s too thick to be able to calculate his remaining driving time.
I worked out of rugby not Grantham , plenty of people commute for work these days , rugby area was / possibilly is still known as the golden triangle , £15 ph round there is nothing out of this world
£15 ph x 71 + £100 night out ( not including xtra shifts , £300 bonuses ) , I’m thick so can’t add it up so you do the sums !!!
Amazing how you were all smiles , and laughs when dozy was on supposed peanuts & buttons , but when he gets a half decent rate you all become bitter & twisted !!!
crush99:
Wheres the money, or should i be content with 38k 55hrs nights, ok work
Easily obtainable, if dozy can ( could earn ) £50/60 k & I’m apparently by far the worst driver on here , you can
£15 ph x 71 x 52 weeks = £55380 + £25 x 4 x 52 = 5200 = £60 , 580 ( & I wondered why I was getting letters every week about not paying / owing tax
Nb i will now be doing 5 days , apparently 12 hrs ( 60 pw ) for £28 k , but health is more important to me now than money
But if you want to earn it you can , as I say dozy could ,
Cue the tax rebates , allegedly , lies , trolling , from the so - called top trick net drivers who can’t stomach that hopeless dozy can earn / achieve more than those up there own ■■■ drivers can
So tramping but who’s paying £15ph
And would it be fools gold to change from Easy(ish) to hard work, or was it just the hours
Logistics people paid me £15 ph , it was £13 ph & they’ve just given a £2 ph pay rise , the work I did was easy , i was on soft drinks , driving pop round the country , yes was very long hours , pushed for maximum , if you got back in 10/12 you’d be sent back out as far as you could then get
That’s why I change to 4 days , still 55 hrs min
It just amazes me , I’m apparently thick & cant string a sentence together , but the ones who say that can’t seem to do simple arithmetic £15 ph x 71 + £100 night out ( then if you’re that way inclined you could do a extra shift , no idea what hourly rate is as I’ve never done them , but £200 should be easily achievable
Before I left i was 4 days , £15 ph x apx 55 + £75 = £825 pw ( or am I as bad at arithmetic as spelling !!!
This is rugby , put a search on indeed , hgv jobs Grantham , treasures who according to the know it alls have a yard in the carrot crunching area are advertising , £8/ £900 pw , so why is £1,000 not achievable in a area that was known as the golden triangle , if £8/900 pw is apparently in a poorly paid area
I don’t give a ■■■■ , it doesn’t matter to me , but it obviously does to you , and £1000 pw is achievable & it doesn’t have to include hard work , but be prepared to start at 6/7 am , finish at 9/10 pm , I did that most days , that’s why I went to 4 days
I’m now back working in Grantham , big pay cut , but I’m home every day , 5 mins from my house , I’m a month off 60 so I don’t need the money , If you want it , need it it’s there
Fuzrat:
Nope I’m not doing 71hrs a week, doing 55 on a normal week, 60+ on the run up to xmas and easter. Even when its dead its 45hrs contracted. The Mrs has a spreadsheet to work out my hours, keep track of pay etc and since last July its a 55.25hr average (needed to work out 12 week average for holiday pay)
Weekends, work 5 out of 10 of Sundays, every other and 6 out of 10 Saturdays, every other weekend off with 1 random extra Saturday in there.
I may not be able to string a sentence together , but at least I can do my hours without the need from help from my mrs & a bloody spread sheet whatever that happened to be
Mon 15 hrs
Ties 15 hrs
We’d 15 hrs
Dozy can even do that on his own !!!’n
Beer tanker driver jobs in Grantham ( which is treasures ) , posted 1 day ago , £852 - £1100 pw !!! , and according to the know it alls on here it’s a ■■■■ paying area , so my £1,000 a week out of rugby looks easily achievable !!!
Nb if anyone can put some fullstops & commas in the right place I’ll be eternally grateful
Fuzrat:
Nope I’m not doing 71hrs a week, doing 55 on a normal week, 60+ on the run up to xmas and easter. Even when its dead its 45hrs contracted. The Mrs has a spreadsheet to work out my hours, keep track of pay etc and since last July its a 55.25hr average (needed to work out 12 week average for holiday pay)
Weekends, work 5 out of 10 of Sundays, every other and 6 out of 10 Saturdays, every other weekend off with 1 random extra Saturday in there.
Don’t forget holiday should now be calculated on a 52 week average, not 12 week.
Dozy everyone knows earning the sort of money your talking about is achievable.
However having to work 71 hours for it is desperate. That’s not a life for anyone except the ridiculous money chasers. Not to mention staying out every night and being away from home every week. Let alone being run ragged etc.
That’s nigh on double a normal working week to earn that kind of money.
Drivers are their own worst enemy because they allow companies to walk all over them making them work ridiculous hours for the money. Until drivers stop doing that nothing will change and it will be expected as the norm.
It is frankly ridiculous in this day and age when health and safety is so important in this game that drivers are still allowed to work so many hours a week every week.
But the one thing I guarantee is when drivers end up in a severe smash due to fatigue and tiredness, the company will wash its hands of the driver, they have done all they can to adhere to health safety with every piece of paperwork you have to sign. It’s always the driver who loses out when it goes wrong.
Let alone the ones who die early from working long hours.
cooper1203:
2 things struck me reading through this thread
1 there were four guys at the place i work that claimed they cleared over agrand a week (i dont belive them no matter how much they milked the job and sat for hours in laybys) However soon as the new ir35 rules came in in april they disapeared and went else where to another country .
Taking home more than a train driver. In there dreams!!!
We get it, you’re a train driver.
You seem to enjoy stating how much you earn in comparison to most truck drivers, which comes across as having a superiority complex. We’re all professional drivers and work hard for a living, and I’m sure most could make the transition if given the opportunity.
Fuzrat:
Nope I’m not doing 71hrs a week, doing 55 on a normal week, 60+ on the run up to xmas and easter. Even when its dead its 45hrs contracted. The Mrs has a spreadsheet to work out my hours, keep track of pay etc and since last July its a 55.25hr average (needed to work out 12 week average for holiday pay)
Weekends, work 5 out of 10 of Sundays, every other and 6 out of 10 Saturdays, every other weekend off with 1 random extra Saturday in there.
I may not be able to string a sentence together , but at least I can do my hours without the need from help from my mrs & a bloody spread sheet whatever that happened to be
Mon 15 hrs
Ties 15 hrs
We’d 15 hrs
Dozy can even do that on his own !!!’n
You probably can when you are on flat rate straight through, we get overtime premium, late premium and night premiums that have to be to the standard rate.
Ps, that’s probably why you keep coming on asking what the deal is when they screw up your wages. I know mine to the penny and can show them evidence in a format (excel) that they understand rather than scribblings in a diary.
crush99:
Interesting comments from a few guys who put the hours in, And have now reduced hours, Why did you stop? house payed, new car etc, or burnt out.
Health and general well-being. Went from doing 12hrs upwards and feeling exhausted all the time/just wanted to sleep, to 7-8 hrs shifts and it’s made a world of difference. So much free time now to get other stuff done and actually want to do stuff instead of sleep because I felt knackered. To be honest I’d opt for 3x 15s over 3 days and have 4 days off rather than do 5x 7-8 hrs but that option isn’t there. Having only a 10 min commute to the yard makes the latter tolerable to do every day though.
m25poacher:
If you listen or read the RHA rubbish being spouted, driving a lorry will earn you big ££££.
In reality unless you are employed directly by a company its the agencies getting the big £££.
RHA aren’t worth anything. I listened to him on the radio last week saying the key to fixing the driver shortage was to import labour from outside the EU. Nothing about terms and conditions, a small line about lack of facilities, but basically yeah dont increase the attractiveness of the job, instead import more cheap labour.
