For some unknown reason someone left this in one of our depots late last week, so I thought I might take a photo and let the ‘world’ see the wonderful pay rates for Eddie Stobbart. The pay is absolutely atrocious in my opinion, even though it can be made up with allowances it is still pretty cr*p. For gods sake pay a decent wage, I was getting more than that driving a sprinter Van for Sainsburys a few years ago. Ah but you do get a new Unit every few years.
For alot of driver’s the new unit is more important than good wages.
I’d rather have the money. 
what new unit■■? lol
So would i,but that make’s us the odd one’s
I would work for stobarts just to get on the tele 
OVLOV JAY:
I would work for stobarts just to get on the tele
Can you imagine what it would be like if Stobarts dozy bird, the one that giggles after every sentence, ended up reading the nine o’clock news?
berewic:
OVLOV JAY:
I would work for stobarts just to get on the teleCan you imagine what it would be like if Stobarts dozy bird, the one that giggles after every sentence, ended up reading the nine o’clock news?
That was Pamela Stephenson… NOT
berewic:
OVLOV JAY:
I would work for stobarts just to get on the teleCan you imagine what it would be like if Stobarts dozy bird, the one that giggles after every sentence, ended up reading the nine o’clock news?
It would be like the Amy Childs character portrayed by Morgana Robinson on channel 4s vip
youtube.com/watch?v=x6QFJblF … ata_player
i can’t understand why they have different rates for different times of day, and different days of the week.
it’s still the same job.
…So this is what they mean by “According to Eddie Stobart’s Rates of Pay”?! 
Giving someone a tax-free allowance without the worker being asked to provide receipts for meals paid for sounds a bit dodgy too don’t it… 
Lemme see… 5 days x 48 working weeks @ £13 TAX FREE per day (which should be decided by HMRC rather than the employer!) means you might well get a tax bill on £3120 come the year’s end. 
Best stay up in Carlisle I suppose. All the while there are people in that neck of the woods prepared to indenture themselves to keep the business going, they’ll not be much change to the industry up north in general. 
Around here, .com drivers, bin men, and shelf stackers all get higher rates of pay as a BASIC than this with the so-called allowances stuck on! 
The basic hourly rate is about the going rate IMO. The bank holiday rate is very bad though (unless there is a day in lieu on top). The nights rate could be a little more and next to nothing extra for nights on a weekend?
If you don’t like it then you don’t have to work there of course.
Is it the lowest in the industry? i bet it isnt.
I still take home £500 a week. And the work is ■■■■ easy.
Half of my working week is probably poa, money for nothing really.
Office staff are a bunch of useless lazy company men but once your out and about, its not too bad.
As for new trucks every couple of years, yes, they are all less than 3 years old, but not as shiny inside as you may think. (thanks agency guys)
At the end of the day, its a job, we’d all love to earn twice as much for doing half the work, but with the way things are with the economy, having a regular income is important.
The uniform is a bit naff but means i dont have to get my own clothes covered in grease and crap.
all the haters can hate if they want, but it suits me (yard is 5 miles from my house) and in reality, its probably not much different to the jobs all you so called professional drivers do. 
lilysgranpa:
Is it the lowest in the industry? i bet it isnt.
I still take home £500 a week. And the work is ■■■■ easy.
Half of my working week is probably poa, money for nothing really.
Office staff are a bunch of useless lazy company men but once your out and about, its not too bad.
As for new trucks every couple of years, yes, they are all less than 3 years old, but not as shiny inside as you may think. (thanks agency guys)The uniform is a bit naff but means i dont have to get my own clothes covered in grease and crap.
all the haters can hate if they want, but it suits me (yard is 5 miles from my house) and in reality, its probably not much different to the jobs all you so called professional drivers do.
Firstly how many hours for your £500 pw take home and having worked for them I presume on that kind of money you are a tramper so does the £500 include nights out - I bet it does but that is really seperate from real earnings. Secondly having worked there it isn’t just the agency guys that muck up the units, most of the agency guys I met in my time there respected the units unlike some of Stobart’s own drivers!!! But then you get a mix in both kinds of workers (permanent and agency)
FFS NTSA. One mans poison and all that…
I agree that night out money, meal allowance, expenses, overtime and a host of other crap should not be part of the wage, it should be on top of an already decent wage, times are different now but to say you have a good job paying £■■■ take home is irrelevant if it is made up of half a dozen top ups and 4 nights out a week. The basic wage is probably still crappy.
Why do people say this doesn’t count and that doesn’t count. All the allowances are there to keep the tax down. I’ve had phone allowances in the past, never had to use my own phone, laundry allowances, never once said to my wife “and this fiver is for my washing” and I definitely don’t spend £50 a week on food at work. As long as my take home pay is north of £550 a week, I don’t really care how it’s worded on my pay slip
OVLOV JAY:
Why do people say this doesn’t count and that doesn’t count. All the allowances are there to keep the tax down. I’ve had phone allowances in the past, never had to use my own phone, laundry allowances, never once said to my wife “and this fiver is for my washing” and I definitely don’t spend £50 a week on food at work. As long as my take home pay is north of £550 a week, I don’t really care how it’s worded on my pay slip
I didn’t say it didn’t count but personally i would never include night out money as part of my take home pay, it is what it is an allowance.
When i retired in 1998 my last pay packet was 32000pounds and that was over 12 years ago ? so wages have,nt increased alot but i worked for agood company. The last advert i saw asking for drivers to work for stobbies , were 31000 pounds for trampers and that was in the SUN after the last series on channel 5 so in 12 years has,nt improved a lot !!!
Winseer:
…So this is what they mean by “According to Eddie Stobart’s Rates of Pay”?!Giving someone a tax-free allowance without the worker being asked to provide receipts for meals paid for sounds a bit dodgy too don’t it…
Lemme see… 5 days x 48 working weeks @ £13 TAX FREE per day (which should be decided by HMRC rather than the employer!) means you might well get a tax bill on £3120 come the year’s end.
nBest stay up in Carlisle I suppose. All the while there are people in that neck of the woods prepared to indenture themselves to keep the business going, they’ll ot be much change to the industry up north in general.
Around here, .com drivers, bin men, and shelf stackers all get higher rates of pay as a BASIC than this with the so-called allowances stuck on!
yeah,i’d really love to live in the overcrowded rat race that is south east england and make “loadsamoney”,how much are houses down there again