What are todays average wages doing 45 hours per week? Class 2 and Class 1 in the Liverpool/Manchester areas i suspect £28k and £35k am i wrong?
Col81:
What are todays average wages doing 45 hours per week? Class 2 and Class 1 in the Liverpool/Manchester areas i suspect £28k and £35k am i wrong?
You want to be looking at around £14/hr or more now pretty much anywhere so north of £30k for 45hrs.
If your employed it’s about £25 k these days , agency 50k - 100k , but on the 50k -£109 ( rates of just gone up £9k in last 5 mins on agency ) you won’t get any benefits apparently
I do 45 hrs , 3 days x £20 = ? , I won’t add it up as apparently I always get it wrong or haven’t mentioned my weekly tax rebate
Self employed plant driver £200/250.day easy,in the wrong game boys
35k 7:00 to 16:30 5 days a week. Grab lorry, Surrey.
I did 45.5 hours this week which is fairly typical. I’m on a £32,000 basic salary but because one day this week was 11 hours I’ll get an hour’s overtime for that which is £16.03. That’s in Rugby. My wages are a bit below average for the area but apart from the one 11 hour days, the other days were 9.5, 9, 7.5 and 8.5 hours and I spent most of that sitting around reading or on the internet.
Harry Monk:
I did 45.5 hours this week which is fairly typical. I’m on a £32,000 basic salary but because one day this week was 11 hours I’ll get an hour’s overtime for that which is £16.03. That’s in Rugby. My wages are a bit below average for the area but apart from the one 11 hour days, the other days were 9.5, 9, 7.5 and 8.5 hours and I spent most of that sitting around reading or on the internet.
you gone back f/t then H, just thought you had the work.life balance sussed on the boat. 
m.a.n rules:
Harry Monk:
I did 45.5 hours this week which is fairly typical. I’m on a £32,000 basic salary but because one day this week was 11 hours I’ll get an hour’s overtime for that which is £16.03. That’s in Rugby. My wages are a bit below average for the area but apart from the one 11 hour days, the other days were 9.5, 9, 7.5 and 8.5 hours and I spent most of that sitting around reading or on the internet.you gone back f/t then H, just thought you had the work.life balance sussed on the boat.
I went back to work about six weeks ago and I’ll be working full time until around March/April 2022. Then I’ll be off on the boat again.
I normally do go back to work in late August because that’s the time of year I bought the boat back in 2014 so a lot of the annual bills fall due then. I did do agency work for a few years but for the last couple of Winters I’ve been working directly for a small firm in Rugby who tolerate my ways. The pay isn’t the best but they don’t expect too much from me
Class 1 Bristol
£41600 per year Monday - Friday
Averaging 50 hours per week id say, sometimes more sometimes much less
Thejpmshow:
Class 1 Bristol£41600 per year Monday - Friday
Averaging 50 hours per week id say, sometimes more sometimes much less
Im jelly jpm!!
I drive Class 1 and have never done 45 hours my average hours are 60-65 and average wage is £850-900 Monday to Friday if I do a Saturday morning it £1050.
My basic for 45 hours is 39000 anything over 9.5 hours a day is £25 an hour. That’s with hiab class one wagon and drag but run as rigid most of the time.
Most firms around Vale of Evesham are now paying £15 ph except AIM (fowler welch) who are bragging about there new improved rates of £150 per day to max hours 
The game from any yard’s point of view now - must surely be about “Can you con someone into taking this job that pays well below the going rate?”
Perhaps, offer a “Day Pay” rate of say, £150 per day, which some will mistake being for an 8-10 hour day, when we all know it is going to be 12-15 hours in actuality…
Or offer a zero hours contract that’ll have you stood down each and every time you turn down the next graveyard shift offered you?
…Or even offer say, £12ph with “maximum overtime” - which unfortunately is paid at single time rate…
“Top Line £1000 per week” you get told.
But you end up working 60-84 hours per week to get that, and it includes all allowances. 
I’m class one contracted for 50 hours a week at £19/hr. I average about 45 hours a week.
I’m on agency though. Essex.
Works out to about 49k.
If I went 12 hour days on supermarkets maybe I could make 60k+ idk if I can tolerate that atm though 
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Winseer:
working 60-84 hours per week to get that, and it includes all allowances.
Isn’t the WTD adhered to everywhere at 48 hrs per week?
stu675:
Winseer:
working 60-84 hours per week to get that, and it includes all allowances.Isn’t the WTD adhered to everywhere at 48 hrs per week?
Often posters will be counting all time at work (driving, duty, POA, and break) as “work”. Some get paid right through, some get the first 45min break unpaid, some all breaks unpaid.
But when you see 60hrs or more it is probably, booking-on to booking off times.
stu675:
Winseer:
working 60-84 hours per week to get that, and it includes all allowances.Isn’t the WTD adhered to everywhere at 48 hrs per week?
POA is the scam that allows up to 80 hour weeks.
Proper responsible employers that do not want exhausted zombie drivers do not recognise POA., hence why some get paid for 40 hours what it takes those working for irresponsible employers over 60 hours.
Winseer:
The game from any yard’s point of view now - must surely be about “Can you con someone into taking this job that pays well below the going rate?”Perhaps, offer a “Day Pay” rate of say, £150 per day, which some will mistake being for an 8-10 hour day, when we all know it is going to be 12-15 hours in actuality…
Or offer a zero hours contract that’ll have you stood down each and every time you turn down the next graveyard shift offered you?
…Or even offer say, £12ph with “maximum overtime” - which unfortunately is paid at single time rate…
“Top Line £1000 per week” you get told.
But you end up working 60-84 hours per week to get that, and it includes all allowances.
Where ARE you based?? The outer hebrides?? If you still cant find a decently paying job with decent conditions, then you really need to ask yourself ; “what am I doing wrong?” .
Juddian:
stu675:
Winseer:
working 60-84 hours per week to get that, and it includes all allowances.Isn’t the WTD adhered to everywhere at 48 hrs per week?
POA is the scam that allows up to 80 hour weeks.
Proper responsible employers that do not want exhausted zombie drivers do not recognise POA., hence why some get paid for 40 hours what it takes those working for irresponsible employers over 60 hours.
The big problem is the ‘one size fits all’ that they have created. There is a big difference between loading in Plymouth, driving leisurely to Dundee, tipping, driving leisurely down to Newcastle, loading, and leisurely back to Plymouth, doing 15 hour days, having 9 hours off to sleep, or doing 15 local deliveries with a tail lift, a few collections on the way back, and then having to commute home ( and back in in the morning) in those 9 hours.
65-70 tramping mon-fri is easy. The same hours on local multdrop is madness.