brados:
most companies even office workers get meal allowances each day now.
Unfortunately the deragotry term “steering wheel attendants” will always get the lower end of the hourly rate, not necessarily fair for the hours they have to do, but that’s the way of our illustrious world for the time being!
C
The more you have on your record the more you will earn e.g many many years experience +10, you can drive anything and have a certificate for anything +10
The problem with earning much of your wage via bonus’s or night out money and the like is when it comes to holiday pay, you get the basic day rate and you only then realise just how crap it is. At the firm I last worked at in the UK you could easily earn £450 or £500 for a week away in the truck, yet when it came to holiday time, you earnt £300 or less for the week because its basic pay and nothing else.
We don’t do tramping at our place, although we do, do nights out. WITHOUT N/O money on a 5 day we I take home 470 on a 6 day week I take home 535 if I do nights out I get £20 a night and usually do 3 a week its not too bad as its day rate but if like last week I did 68 1/2 hours in 5 days the hourly rate starts to look naff. Although its still one of the best paid round here. I have had some 10hr days but not last week
Tarrman:
I think if your driving class 1 and you don’t ‘take home’ more than £300 then there’s summat wrong.
Forgot to say, in some cases some people don’t have a choice, big respect to them for having to stick it out.
I would sincerely hope so … I was taking more than that home in 1992 FFS and that was in the UK, I took more home when I did a few months on agency before starting perminant ar Tesco. I took home double that amount at least in my last UK job so pay must have really gone down hill since then.
For your information my minimum take home here is at least $950.00 a week after all deductons.
That’s going off the rate of some class 1 jobs advertised at £6.50 p/hr. it’s a scandalous amount per hour but someone will do or have to do it.
brados:
most companies even office workers get meal allowances each day now.
Be interesting to know if this is hearsay or fact. As the only allowance I know of to date for office workers getting “a meal allowance”, is ONLY if you are not working at your permanent place of work.
Fact! Veolia for a start give office staff a daily meal allowance to use in the restaurant or vending machine, it equates to £2.50 per day for on site staff.
Ah so its not a taxable allowance but a company perk then a bit like I said Innocent Drinks may still do/used to do. Rare as rocking horse zb in the real world of most offices, believe me!
That’s the difference, whereas if you work in lots of different places and travel around you will actually get an allowance to make up for having to get your meals on the go.
Unfortunately allowances/perks are two different things that’s why I got confused by your opening statement in all seriousness and the broad statement that because Veolia done it, every office in the UK did it.
Juddian:
First of all i’m not telling anyone here what i take home, but i’m very happy with it considering i work around a 44 hour week of easy stress free work and need work no overtime unless the company are in the doo doo, in which case like anyone with half a brain i’ll help them out.
There are several points about this though before you start the ■■■■■■■ contest.
The question itself means no more than how long is a piece of string, too many variables.
How many hours does one have to work to take home this pay.
How hard physically and how stressful is the jo, is it dangerous, do you go home after each and every shift.
Subsistence and ex’s have never and never will form part of your pay, they are a seperate items.
A skilled or hard graft job will most likely pay more than one involving lots of sitting around on ones arse, like chauffers.
The only real way of comparing pay is to divide the total pay (excl ex’s/subsistence) by the hours worked, there is no other meaningful figure other than ££ per hour, a bloke taking home £550 for a 45 hour week is far better paid than someone taking home £700 for an 80 hour bugger…if for no other reason than the bloke taking home the £150 extra is quite likely heading for divorce.
Rubbish ,the fact the mrs has a extra £150 a week to spend on hair,tanning,makeup is more likely shell stay than one who’s having the £150 a week less and is having to just get by with none of the above.
limeyphil:
We all want more money no matter what we earn, But what is your average pay after tax with meal allowances and subsistence included?
Do you think it’s about right? Average? Poor? or Excellent?
The reason for the question isn’t to be a nosey git, It’s to help one another know what the average driver is on, or should be on. Some may be earning a huge amount compared to others, Yet think that they are being screwed. Some may think they are getting a decent wage, Then realise that they are being screwed.
No-one else’s business.
Oh yes it is,you for years have made a career of trying to belittle people’s wages,peanuts,buttons etc,so go on let’s see a example of one of your mega bucks wages pckts,p60 from last year,or is that why your saying its no-one else’s business,the cat would be out the bag
I’m happy with my lot for the work I do it’s decent money. Put it this way I can enjoy myself on a weekend, buy stuff what I want now and again and go away twice a year so I’m content but I don’t want much to be happy I suppose. One way I feel drivers wages would go up is if hauliers worked together for backloads instead of them having to sort them out through company’s like Baronwood where they take quite a bit off the rate just for advertising the backload and giving it to said haulier. Basicly paying someone to do ■■■■ all.
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
I’m happy with my lot for the work I do it’s decent money. Put it this way I can enjoy myself on a weekend, buy stuff what I want now and again and go away twice a year so I’m content but I don’t want much to be happy I suppose. One way I feel drivers wages would go up is if hauliers worked together for backloads instead of them having to sort them out through company’s like Baronwood where they take quite a bit off the rate just for advertising the backload and giving it to said haulier. Basicly paying someone to do [zb] all.
Come of it Steve, your only saying that because your unhappy that I earn more then you. I am sorry if I earn £200 a week. I do 70 hours a week for that, but if I do 20 hours OT I get £210 for a weeks work. Not bad, but no life
How many have a job that’s 36 hours a week in line with other industry?
55-60 hours a week for the same pay as a 36 hour worker outside haulage gets is slavery, let alone 84+ hours a week. It’s the hours that are wrong in the haulage business, rather than the cash.
Think of all those lives that would be saved if we didn’t have to work stupid hours half asleep just to make ends meet…
Yes mate but my enjoyment on a weekends actually consists of knocking about with the tramps in a park,drinking White Lightning and smoking roll up after roll up of Stale bacca
If any of you drivers are taking home less than £500.00 a week its a scandal. For a start most drivers do 60+ hours a week, that is a week and a half’s work compared to the hours an office or factory worker do.
Winseer:
How many have a job that’s 36 hours a week in line with other industry?
55-60 hours a week for the same pay as a 36 hour worker outside haulage gets is slavery, let alone 84+ hours a week. It’s the hours that are wrong in the haulage business, rather than the cash.
Think of all those lives that would be saved if we didn’t have to work stupid hours half asleep just to make ends meet…
I don’t know anyone who does 36hrs a week. I know plenty that do 48 or 60 for about 150 a week less than me, oh and they have to ‘work’ for it. I just drive a truck listening to the radio. I had a job once I’m alright now.
Rubbish ,the fact the mrs has a extra £150 a week to spend on hair,tanning,makeup is more likely shell stay than one who’s having the £150 a week less and is having to just get by with none of the above.
That tells me all i need to know about relationships where one pays…
Silver_Surfer:
Well, I’d say £600 gross with £100 tax free nights you be doing ok. Poor man haulage .com
£600 after tax, go on yourself… VIP, hookers on tap?
This is about what I class as a good wage. I know people earning £600-£700 week take home but as stated above you have to put alot of hours in for that. Although I would be very happy and live a nice life with £500 take home for a few less hours
My take home pay isn’t up for discussion on here, but I have to say that all in all, I’m fairly well satisfied with it, work an average 48 hours a week, with no shifts longer than 10 hours, and thats only 2 a week. The rest are 8 hours. I’ve had guys watch me doing my job at various places, and they’ve come to me and said, no way they could do that, meaning they can’t be bothered with a day-cab truck, they don’t want to have to deal with 2 sets of trailer legs, and don’t want the trouble of getting lined up nicely for loading the trailer via the truck, and then they moan about their money?
If you only want to be a steering wheel attendant, then you’ve no real cause to moan so much about the money.
robinhood_1984:
The problem with earning much of your wage via bonus’s or night out money and the like is when it comes to holiday pay, you get the basic day rate and you only then realise just how crap it is. At the firm I last worked at in the UK you could easily earn £450 or £500 for a week away in the truck, yet when it came to holiday time, you earnt £300 or less for the week because its basic pay and nothing else.
You’re very right there Robin, holiday pay ■■■■■ in many ways, I notice most companies here just pay about $120 to $140 per day on vacation which is terrible, we still get that measly $140.00 for a national holiday or bank holiday as it would be refered to, but we get average pay for our vacations, the more bonuses we get the higher the average pay and each year our bonuses go up stage by stage, I have figured out one good thing though … When I book a weeks vacation in any week with a public holiday I get average pay plus the paid public holiday. I took memorial day holiday in my last week so my holiday pay that week was over $1500.00
My old company only paid $100.00 per day for vacation but I learn from talking to drivers they now pay average pay also.
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When I book a weeks vacation in any week with a public holiday I get average pay plus the paid public holiday. I took memorial day holiday in my last week so my holiday pay that week was over $1500.00