albion:
Sounds much like our firm, and the kind of advert I’d have written if we advertised.
Some days you were rushing, plenty of days it was steady, some quiet days.
Advertising for staff is a nightmare,
I have usually found people who I previously worked with and their own networks enough but when I have had to advertise, the sheer number of clueless hopefuls I have to wade through kinda negates the process.
Especially in the age of the internet ,so despite the outright savage honesty of our tipper fleet owner I am willing to bet with good money he is getting applications from “non knuckle draggers”
Acorn:
Mmmm £50K based on £14 upto £17 an hour! Not so sure. Working 5 day week + 1 day every other week is @ 275 days per year or £181.80 a day, but even at £17 an hour that requires a steady 10 1/2hr days - EVERY day. You need a fair bit more if most of the day is at £14.00 an hour. Just a thought.
The bloke did say put in the hours and has put what he’s paying down in black and white, no vague bonus schemes where you can’t work out your potential earnings.
£14 x 13 hours x 5 days = £910 x 52 = £47,320
£17 x 13 hours x £221 x 26 Saturdays = £5,746
Total £53,066.
That doesn’t include the £17ph for working before 6am or after 7pm.
Long days agreed, but then there are those “21st century, Blue sky thinking, logistics operations” who pay their “Logistics Technicians” far less per hour and believe a full weeks work includes all 3, 15 hours shifts, but they do give you a nice uniform and a lovely Corporate Drivers handbook, so I suppose that makes up for it.
Yup, if i wasn’t happy where i am now (and lived close enough) i’d be round there like a shot.
What a refreshing ad compared to all the corporate team building arse covering equal opportunities ■■■■■■■■, £ to a penny not a driver facing camera to be found there.
Muckaway:
So who would work for someone who constructs an advert like this?
We’ve plenty of knuckle draggers hankering for the 1970s again on here so there’ll be no shortage of applicants. Several of the prime suspects seem to have already posted.
Hourly rate is decent but he’ll want you chasing your arse around everywhere. Shame the company name isn’t there as I’m sure if it was there would be people who live in the area they cover who’d confirm they’re flat out on the limiter everywhere all the time.
You mean the militant 1970’s when there were no tachos to keep a check on breaks.When unions were unions and did what they said on the tin.
But yes I’d reply to the ad…and ask him if he’d be interested in making it a job share on a 3 days on 4 days off rota and if not why not.
dozy:
No not a chance, weekends are for football , beer , family & friends not driving a ZB
Lorry ,
To be fair if we take the job offer on as a job share that’s only every other Saturday in exchange for every other Friday,Saturday,Sunday,Monday off and every other Sunday,Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday off ain’t exactly a deal breaker.
Yes, i prefer this add to the corporate packaging b/s that’s used today. Reminds me of when i went to see about a job when i’d started driving artic’s and the TM said ‘i’ll take you on lad but don’t f**k up’. It doesn’t get much plainer than that.
Seems ok, if you choose to drive rigid tippers (as I did for 20+ years) you have to accept that there will be many long days and you will be expected to graft while the work is there . I worked with some o/d’s on tippers who were smashing lads but wouldn’t start before 7am and wanted to be home by mid afternoon but then moaned that they were not earning as much money as those who put the hours in. Can’t have it both ways. This guy expects his ‘pound of flesh’ but the rewards seem very good to me, almost four times what I was earning, but then I have been out of the industry for 18 years (a retired ‘knuckle dragger’ I suppose! ) so what do I know about the job these days?
Punchy Dan:
Sounds like a good job to me ,is it driving a Dodge tipper for Hawletts ?
Picture the scene.The Guvnor says you’ll now all be paid by the hour not by the trip/load.So now you’ll get twice as much money per hour but you’ll be expected to do three times as many loads/trips in an hour.
With that money and that attitude I’d jump at chance if I lived nearby. Much rather a straight talking boss like that than the alternatives. I’ve worked for people like him as well as the alternatives and one thing about these types is do the job the best you can and not let him down and he’ll have your back no matter what
far less per hour and believe a full weeks work includes all 3, 15 hours shifts, but they do give you a nice uniform and a lovely Corporate Drivers handbook, so I suppose that makes up for it. 
) so what do I know about the job these days? 