Tramping for a newbie - 4 nights out.
How does an hourly rate figure into that? Do you get paid 10 hours, 12, or 15 per day and whatever is left kipping in the bunk?
Why does tramping salary seem to lie between earlies and night salary when you’ve got the inconvienience of being away from home 4 days on the spin…?
In other words, is it worth me chasing a £9ph tramping job on my doorstep sat-tues? 
Ooops! dunno how to delete messages posted in the wrong bit yet… Nor attaching a pic at the side!
Tramping for a newbie - 4 nights out.
How does an hourly rate figure into that? Do you get paid 10 hours, 12, or 15 per day and whatever is left kipping in the bunk?
Why does tramping salary seem to lie between earlies and night salary when you’ve got the inconvienience of being away from home 4 days on the spin…?
In other words, is it worth me chasing a £9ph tramping job on my doorstep sat-tues?
All depends on the company.
Most of the times I’ve done it, it’s been hourly paid with a guarenteed minimum, night out allowance and parking costs covered.
I’ve also done it for 1 firm on a day rate + night out allowance and parking paid.
Some places don’t pay parking.
These are the questions you should ask if you get to an interview for a tramping job.
firstly, you have posted this TWICE in the wrong forum 
secondly, the time you spend ‘kipping in the bunk’, that is what the night out allowance is for
You don’t get paid for the bit when you are sleeping in the truck, usually. In other words the bit between finishing one shift and starting the next.
I was paid “Tacho Hours”, total time the card was recording. Could be a bit awkward sometimes as I often parked up for the night where I was loading so the last couple of hours would show as inactive on the card, but I also kept a daily time sheet detailing the work I had done. One day the card was in for 14 hours and I travelled less than 2 miles, but I moved the truck 11 times to different loading areas in Tilbury docks!
Anything over 8 hours was overtime 
shuttlespanker:
firstly, you have posted this TWICE in the wrong forum
I fixed both of those.
dieseldave:
shuttlespanker:
firstly, you have posted this TWICE in the wrong forumI fixed both of those.
Your a good man Dave, what would we do without you. 
…The tramper job is quoted as an hourly rate which I didn’t expect. Therefore I don’t actually know how much it pays!
Is 4 days on considered 48 paid hours with the 4xnight out bonus on top? Or is it some other number of hours?
Winseer:
…The tramper job is quoted as an hourly rate which I didn’t expect. Therefore I don’t actually know how much it pays!Is 4 days on considered 48 paid hours with the 4xnight out bonus on top? Or is it some other number of hours?
Hourly rate is the hours you work. You don’t get paid for overnighting. People do it as a preference to driving home and back to work again, oh and for the extra £20 odd quid night out allowance
altitude:
dieseldave:
shuttlespanker:
firstly, you have posted this TWICE in the wrong forumI fixed both of those.
Your a good man Dave, what would we do without you.
Now I’ve just merged this with the other topic of the same name in this forum. 
Service with a smile.
It’s normally hourly paid and usually only for the time you are on duty so if you work 15 hours then you get 15 hours pay but if you only work 8 and spend the rest of the day on rest then you’ll only get paid 8. You also get night out tax free allowance which is usually around the £20 mark.
Some firms just pay a set salary for the work. I pay my self employed driver £600 for 4 days on 4 days off. £100 of that is tax free for 4 nights out. I pay a set rate primarily because I can’t be arsed working out what hours he’s done in a week.
One Company I worked for, paid £500 into your Bank every week. If you had to pay parking that was also added onto it. At least 4 nights, most likely 5. No idea how the bit before Tax and NI was worked out.
Winseer:
Tramping for a newbie - 4 nights out.How does an hourly rate figure into that? Do you get paid 10 hours, 12, or 15 per day and whatever is left kipping in the bunk?
Why does tramping salary seem to lie between earlies and night salary when you’ve got the inconvienience of being away from home 4 days on the spin…?
In other words, is it worth me chasing a £9ph tramping job on my doorstep sat-tues?
you`ll probably be on hourly rate like a day man, only difference is you kip in the truck at the end of the shift.most trampers try to max out the hours to make it worth while.i used to pull up around tea time for a meal and a shower(or sometimes nip home),then crack on for a couple of hours.