What was, or is , your best time at the wheel money wise
Mine was early 90 's on recovery. Hard work but the money was good and easy to earn if you put the graft in…
Nowadays less money for the same work…
Late '90’s
Trunk from Reading to Bootle, Leeds or Charnock ■■■■, paid for 15hours but usually did the run in 9 hours or less with no breaks 
No limiters and on domestic regs 
Those were the the days …sigh
for me it as to be menzies newspapers on nights 37.5 hours 8.50 per hour and as much overtime as i would like 1989 those were the days and that was driving a van
1998ish,One of the easiest/Lucrative days I did was Waitrose, Brinklow, Milton Keynes to Central Milton Keynes (approx 3 miles) deliver- collect empties-return to Brinklow. 1 hour from clocking in to clocking out £50. (one of them a day would be nice)
Whilst chauffeuring in Dublin. I lived on my tips for 2 years. The money was amazing,especially when working on the film sets. 
Agency in rugby. Class 2 £10 Ph 2004. Days GAP DC drop Leicester and return 2 hours work paid for 8. Or nights DC to Solihull too and return. Work 2 paid 8.
Often did that and did 2nd job on rugby bin wagons off chart bringing in £160 per day for a total of 10 hours for the 2 jobs.
Trunking for 3 years, 4 x 12 hour night shifts per week, midnight to midday. Easily done in 9 hours but still paid 12 hours. Was on £8.50/hour for first 40 hours then £12.75/hour so paid for 48 hours (£442). That was good money for well over a decade ago.
Tiger.
bigvern1:
Whilst chauffeuring in Dublin. I lived on my tips for 2 years. The money was amazing,especially when working on the film sets.
Hi Vern,do you know Dave Sullivan?
Driving a Leyland Fg from 1979 to 1982 
. . couple of call outs,was really good money back then tyre fitting for Nts 
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Fast forward to 2000 doing 3x Belges a week,money was good and so were the perks 
Probably the last racing team I worked for, good money especially for Norfolk + points bonus + from the moment I left the workshop until I returned everything was payed for, Hotels, meals, snacks, taxis, laundry and even beers, as long as you didn’t take the ■■■■.
My present job could be nearly as good, but it’s based in East Sussex and not away as often, 
so the living costs eat into the pay.
P+O ferrymasters from 98 to 2004. First at Lutterworth on continental then when they sold out to trans alliance doing the Irish from Fleetwood or Birkenhead.Best company I ever worked for 500 notes a week for 6 day tramp but never pushed and no hassle plus a lot of it was flatbed work not much of that curtain crap.Kinsella was your mans name at Fleetwood and a real gentleman as were the “runners” in France and Germany.
Would love to find a company half as good would be there like a bloody shot.Not much chance due to the likes of bloody Stobart or Betz.But thats the way it is.
I would say from 1980 up to about 1996
The rest has been a grind 