kiwitaff:
Did 64 hours last week on nights… after they take my breaks 45min per night i took home £409.93. I dont care who knows what i earn… I do however know its crap…
And they wonder why lorry drivers have accidents
You could earn more at tescos mate
But then this is a professional job isn’t it
Night trunking, 5 shifts which are anywhere between 7 and 12 hours (I average about 50 hours per week). Salaried at £109 per night which works out at £410 take-home. I’m happy with it and I like the company I work for, they’re slightly old school and they still feel like a haulage firm as opposed to a logistics company.
keebs26uk:
I do believe you can get £500-£600 take home a week but I’m guessing the hours are around 15 a day or the guys who earn this are claiming night out money as wage.
I don’t know what its like in your area, but not all class 1 jobs require 15 hours a day to take home the sort of money talked about here, some earn this for 45 hours, but these jobs are not advertised and they never will be, and no one with any sense is going to shout about it.
We all had to walk before we could run, if and when you get in the class 1 work you’ll be able to search out the jobs that pay the best for a reasonable days work, chances are like most of us you’ll get taken the ■■■■ out of when you start and you’ll believe some bull that you get told to jump ship thereby leaping from the frying pan into the fire…been there done that got the T shirt.
When you’ve got a few years class1 under your belt with a bit of luck you’ll manage to slot into a decent job, took me about 12 years of different general hard graft before i got my best break and that oddly enough started with going back to van driving.
Hints.
What you are told in the pub, here, by the propective gaffer by word of mouth all means bugger all, there’s more lies told about this game than in politics…its whats in writing on the pay agreement is what counts, for thats what you will get paid, take all the glorious top lines spouted large with a big shovelfull of sodium chloride.
Good jobs seldom go hand in hand with flash lorries covered from top to bottom in spotlights, invariably the best jobs are for companies carrying their own goods, or if contractors then unionised ie petrol tankers.
If you work for a general haulage contractor then costs and conditions will invariably be cut to the bone and you can look forward to doing two weeks work for one weeks pay, not everywhere but thats the norm.
Specialising into tankers/transporters should (but doesn’t always) pay much better, the former should pay well for easy work, the latter can pay very well but is the hardest modern lorry work you will find out there apart from exhibition and similar work where you might be assembling stages/marquee etc.
RDC employers such as supermarkets (that still employ their own drivers not the Stobby subby stuff) are as good as anywhere for a work/life/pay balance, but this type of work has to suit you, coming from a builders merchant this should be an ideal next step.
Remember, some of the best contracts have rather peculiar shifts, each and every one has to be worked out, my own shift pattern i work 26 days less over the year than a normal 5 days weeker, suits me cos i like the shift pattern and all the extra time off, others it wouldn’t suit.
We’re all different, some like to be in a nice looking big lorry with all the bling, some like to be away all week for a variety of reasons and don’t mind 80 hour weeks, some want to be home every night and want 45 hour max weeks (thats me), some take a pride in their work and some don’t, some must have their ‘own’ lorry as such, some arn’t bothered if they drive a different lorry every day so long as the pay is right.
Much depends on the area you live in, there is the right job for everyone, its finding the good bugger thats hard and then doing your damndest to keep it going.
Doing an average of 43 hrs per week just over £1800 in the bank every 4 weeks. That’s 5 over 7 early starts and weekend work.
Juddian’s post hits the nail on the head
Juddian:
What you are told in the pub, here, by the propective gaffer by word of mouth all means bugger all, there’s more lies told about this game than in politics…its whats in writing on the pay agreement is what counts, for thats what you will get paid, take all the glorious top lines spouted large with a big shovelfull of sodium chloride..
Probably the most truthful paragraph in this whole thread 
limeyphil:
Olog Hai:
Willy waving about who takes home what is ■■■■■■■■, as is the bile everyone has seen and heard which begins along the lines of “I wouldn’t get out of bed for that…”To the bloke who has three kids, a mortgage to pay and a car on the drip £30k is probably borderline whether it’s enough. Equally to the driver who’s in his fifties, has paid his mortgage and runs a 10-year old Astra half that in his pocket every week (and half the hours worked for it) may well be plenty.
I earn closer to the latter than the former but have enough to live on and contribute a few shekels to one or two of the local hostelries each weekend. Life ain’t all about money despite what one or two on here seem to think and if you’re earning enough to live the life you want to who gives a [zb] what others think?
Most of what you say i totally agree with, But the first line that you quoted i don’t get. This thread has nothing to do with willy waving, We all know haulage isn’t a standardised industry. There are day drivers, night drivers, uk trampers, european trampers, those that are away for a week, 2 weeks, and a month or more. Simply finding out what people take home for doing what is educational. Some may think they are hard done to, then read this and find out that they are not on a bad thing and best stop moaning about money to the boss. Others may realise that they are being screwed and best start moaning to the boss.
Spot on phil,I’ve learnt 2 things from this thread,1 money is crap for 40 hrs,and my wage is above average or above average if you look at the wages quoted on this thread.
Thanks phil for putting up thread.
keebs26uk:
I do believe you can get £500-£600 take home a week but I’m guessing the hours are around 15 a day or the guys who earn this are claiming night out money as wage.
I’m really glad I operate in a totally different league. I get that sort of money for 2 nights work and sleeping in my own bed. Aim low and that is all you will achieve. Far too many drivers just seem happy to accept what their bosses tell them is a fair wage.
Truckbling:
keebs26uk:
I do believe you can get £500-£600 take home a week but I’m guessing the hours are around 15 a day or the guys who earn this are claiming night out money as wage.I’m really glad I operate in a totally different league. I get that sort of money for 2 nights work and sleeping in my own bed. Aim low and that is all you will achieve. Far too many drivers just seem happy to accept what their bosses tell them is a fair wage.
Yes and for the next week/two you get cancelled 
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nightline:
Some people here don’t even earn what you earn and that’s doing Europe as well, don’t believe what you hear here class 1 gets you a few buttons more and longer hours we are working for less, anyone who says they are getting 650 to 750 a week is pulling the wool over your eyes or they are doing mad hours for it. And if they are they are earning below the min wage with the hours they work.
Not quite as clued up in the industry as you think you are then… Prat…
Truckbling:
keebs26uk:
I do believe you can get £500-£600 take home a week but I’m guessing the hours are around 15 a day or the guys who earn this are claiming night out money as wage.I’m really glad I operate in a totally different league. I get that sort of money for 2 nights work and sleeping in my own bed.
What type of driving job is that, then? I’m genuinely curious because I have never heard a single lorry driver make such a claim - except for those driving petrol tankers in war zones.
5 nights, double manned, 14hrs per night. Home every morning Take home £520
Cheggy:
5 nights, double manned, 14hrs per night. Home every morning. Take home £520
m1cks:
Juddian’s post hits the nail on the head
eddie snax:
Juddian:
What you are told in the pub, here, by the propective gaffer by word of mouth all means bugger all, …its whats in writing on the pay agreement is what counts. etc, etc…Probably the most truthful paragraph in this whole thread
thetastytrucker:
kiwitaff:
Did 64 hours last week on nights… after they take my breaks 45min per night i took home £409.93. I dont care who knows what i earn… I do however know its crap…And they wonder why lorry drivers have accidents
You could earn more at tescos mate
But then this is a professional job isn’t it
Are we seriously going to believe this ■■■■■■■■ that a shelf stacker earns more in their part time 20 hour week than most lorry drivers do or are we acually talking about Tesco lorry drivers?
If we are talking shelf stackers you truly are in cuckoo land about their hourly rates!
Perhaps we should ask someone on here who says the rates are ■■■■ (biggest whinger about 500-600 week not being enough for anyone). Then say go and do a month on shelf stacking and report back about how great the wages and working conditions are/were!
I bet they change their tune within a week and want to be back on the road earning better money driving! Rather than this illustrious shelf stacker job that pays £30 per hour and you only do 20 hours a week, which simply does not exist anywhere in the UK! Hell the store managers don’t even earn that amount per hour in tosco!!! 
Or if you go to a supermarket ask how much they are on and how many hours they get, you might just be suprised they are paid less than most other workers!
Suprisingly I know, I can’t believe it 
Supermarkets keep their profits up, by not paying the employees and suppliers as much and cgarging the consumers as much as physically as possible! Nice friendly capatilistic economics at work! 
C
dozy:
Truckbling:
keebs26uk:
I do believe you can get £500-£600 take home a week but I’m guessing the hours are around 15 a day or the guys who earn this are claiming night out money as wage.I’m really glad I operate in a totally different league. I get that sort of money for 2 nights work and sleeping in my own bed. Aim low and that is all you will achieve. Far too many drivers just seem happy to accept what their bosses tell them is a fair wage.
Yes and for the next week/two you get cancelled
Some of us don’t get cancelled because we are good at what we do. I’ve worked solid now for the past 3 years with the only days off being ones that I have chosen to take off. As I said, different league to all the agency muppets who get cancelled every other day and tolerate it.
Constantine:
eddie snax:
Juddian:
What you are told in the pub, here, by the propective gaffer by word of mouth all means bugger all, …its whats in writing on the pay agreement is what counts. etc, etc…Probably the most truthful paragraph in this whole thread
Are we seriously going to believe this ■■■■■■■■ that a shelf stacker earns more in their part time 20 hour week than most lorry drivers do or are we acually talking about Tesco lorry drivers?
If we are talking shelf stackers you truly are in cuckoo land about their hourly rates!
Perhaps we should ask someone on here who says the rates are [zb] (biggest whinger about 500-600 week not being enough for anyone). Then say go and do a month on shelf stacking and report back about how great the wages and working conditions are/were!
I bet they change their tune within a week and want to be back on the road earning better money driving! Rather than this illustrious shelf stacker job that pays £30 per hour and you only do 20 hours a week, which simply does not exist anywhere in the UK! Hell the store managers don’t even earn that amount per hour in tosco!!!
Or if you go to a supermarket ask how much they are on and how many hours they get, you might just be suprised they are paid less than most other workers!
Suprisingly I know, I can’t believe it
C
With what you’ve posted here, I’d have thought you’d be in agreement with the above quote, and I totaly concur with what you’ve posted here.
There is alot off BS being written about wages in this thread, I’m not going to say some are lying about their earnings, but they are being nieve about the potential earnings available in other sectors of the economy
I would have hoped that some would have looked at the earnings of others and been a little more open minded.
But instead we have the usual, People slagging off others that are earning a little more than them, Claiming £500 to £700 take home per week to be BS.
In my last job, £500 would have been a bad week, £900 would have been an excellent week (usually got that about 7-8 times per year). My average worked out to about £600-£650.
We worked very hard for it and the rules had to be manipulated, We were away from home for anything from a week to 6 weeks.
32 k a year paid weekly.
5 weeks of a year at full pay.
All bank holidays off and paid for full day.
And average weekly hours are 44
And if it matters a brand new scania aswell.
ezydriver:
Truckbling:
keebs26uk:
I do believe you can get £500-£600 take home a week but I’m guessing the hours are around 15 a day or the guys who earn this are claiming night out money as wage.I’m really glad I operate in a totally different league. I get that sort of money for 2 nights work and sleeping in my own bed.
What type of driving job is that, then? I’m genuinely curious because I have never heard a single lorry driver make such a claim - except for those driving petrol tankers in war zones.
With you on that one, £500-£600 take home for two nights, Mate your dreamin !!!
Truckbling:
keebs26uk:
I do believe you can get £500-£600 take home a week but I’m guessing the hours are around 15 a day or the guys who earn this are claiming night out money as wage.I’m really glad I operate in a totally different league. I get that sort of money for 2 nights work and sleeping in my own bed. Aim low and that is all you will achieve. Far too many drivers just seem happy to accept what their bosses tell them is a fair wage.
So lets break it down, you say £500-£600 for two nights, Average £550 devided by two nights £275 take home per night, Times 5 for a week. £1375 take home per week. times 52 for the year. £71500 take home.without weekends, tax at 20% HOLY CRAP YOUR ON MORE THAN THE PRIME MINISTER…