Back in about 1990 our average artics used to earn between 2000-3000 per week, mind you we were hitting it hard back then averaging about 700-800 kms a day, we were all tramping, so 1 driver for 1 truck, general haulage and a lot of Ford, Rover, Nissan contract work.
Seen as I have been away a long time and out of the game, just wondered what kind of rates trucks earn nowadays on General, I remember we would generally be paid Essex to Hamilton in Scotland 500 quid one way and we would normally back load out of Dalry (Bricks) or similar to London and be paid R280-300 quid. So roundtrip 800± and be empty by Tuesday morning early, Left for Scotland Sunday afternoon.
my lorry earns about, £5000-£7000 per week. so does my mates.
but some of our lorries only earn around £4000. this is because the drivers only go home once or twice per year, so they don’t ruch to get home.
but when we get our work, we give them a price, not the other way round.
