ezydriver:
£7.80 p/h for class 1 nights working every Fri and Sat night?Get out of here ya troll!!
that is what they have told me,with productivity on top
dodged600:
Hi SuetayYou can get paid £11 per hour paye as an agency driver there and £13 per hour Saturday and Sunday all hours worked.
I got a text yesterday from an agency offering me work today, £12 an hour PAYE with £137 bonus on top of any hours worked. I’m guessing they are a bit desperate.
Didn’t do it. I’m still tossing around on the boat. 
suetay:
I do understand everyone’s viewpoint on the pay, but i’m new to class1 and need the experience
Try Stobarts or some other outfit like them.
They give “Newbies” a chance. After you got your expierience you move to somewhere else or stay.
Stobart pay around £9.64 on week nights (18:00-06:00). Still not good but a start.
Around 1.50 more than that poor Turners pay.
suetay:
ezydriver:
£7.80 p/h for class 1 nights working every Fri and Sat night?Get out of here ya troll!!
that is what they have told me,with productivity on top
What happens if work gets a bit slack, and you ‘produce’ less than normal? Do you get just £7.80 p/h?
Personally, I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole, even if they do take on new passes.
ezydriver:
£7.80 p/h for class 1 nights working every Fri and Sat night?Get out of here ya troll!!
Dread to think what they are paying their day drivers lol
Perhaps the OP misunderstood and it’s actually 78 Zloty an hour.
roadhog69:
suetay:
I do understand everyone’s viewpoint on the pay, but i’m new to class1 and need the experienceYou should add to that ‘but don’t need the comfort of my own bed at night or much money!’
I can empathize with your situation but as waddy640 says, Jack Richards isn’t the best payer but I believe they will take new passes - what did you do before you got your article licence?
JR certainly do. A friend of mine, over half my age past his test and had a contract ready to sign “as soon as he passed”. He’s with JR and enjoys the work. I also know that he is on a decent take home (I’ve seen it in B & W).
No insults or criticism from me, I worked some terrible jobs when I was younger.
If you don’t mind tramping, consider working further afield. So you might have to travel 100 miles but if you are tramping, that’s not so bad twice a week. With luck you’ll find something close than that. Two of my lads live in Manchester and Preston and their base is in Herts.
SouthEastCashew:
ezydriver:
£7.80 p/h for class 1 nights working every Fri and Sat night?Get out of here ya troll!!
Dread to think what they are paying their day drivers lol
A bottle of vodka and 3 jars of pickled cabbage per shift, I hear.
£7.80/hr !!!
I bet You could earn more as a sperm doner …
peirre:
£7.80/hr !!!
I bet You could earn more as a sperm doner …
are you saying it’s ■■■■?
suetay:
I do understand everyone’s viewpoint on the pay, but i’m new to class1 and need the experience
Go try Stobarts. They offer new drivers a start.
They pay £9.60 or a bit more on week nights. Not much more but a start.
Get some expierience, at least 6 month and decide if you want to find a better company or stay.
SouthEastCashew:
ezydriver:
£7.80 p/h for class 1 nights working every Fri and Sat night?Get out of here ya troll!!
Dread to think what they are paying their day drivers lol
£7.08 per hour in 2016. I think it was below minimum wage, even back then. But the “productivity” bonuses brought it up to an “equivalent rate” of between £8 - £9 per hour.
As a company, they’re horrendously penny-pinchy. They are obsessed with telematics, fuel-consumption, and over-zealous micromanagemnt. They were one of the first firms to use driver-facing cameras, because too many trucks were being smashed-up by incompetent drivers (pay peanuts, get monkeys).
And it’s a fact that they are 95% reliant on Eastern Europeans. Particularly the Polish. Newmarket, and their East Anglian and Lincolnshire bases would cease to exist if it wasn’t for them. Spalding literally didn’t have one British driver.
Not a nice place to work at all. That’s why they’re reliant on EEs. And give the wages that go with it. Massive “them and us” culture, where the management think drivers are scum. Their depots ■■■■ the life out of you. Also, if you’re doing fridge work, it tends to be mainly Sainsburys. So it’s a lot of sitting in soul-destroying RDCs for hours and hours, waiting to be tipped. Horrible.
I’ve worked for both Turners and Stobarts, and Stobarts are much, much better.
Blimey. Of all the posts over the years Ive read on here, this genuinely depressed me. I sympathise with the o.p. re- getting experience, but for Gods sake go somewhere else or do something else. These awful companies need avoiding. Try the agency route as suggested.
Theres too many on here who think a week away tramping for £600 gross including expences is about right. Sadly thats where we are now. As a so called profession we need to value ourselves a bit more.
If you have a bit of experience, are reasonably well turned out and can speak good english, shop around there is a demand for you.
Ok, if youre a newbie its reasonable to start at the bottom. But this Turners outfit sounds like its way below even that.
Also, if tramping, as said earlier, spread your net wider…say a 75-100 mile radius.
Rottweiler22:
SouthEastCashew:
ezydriver:
£7.80 p/h for class 1 nights working every Fri and Sat night?Get out of here ya troll!!
Dread to think what they are paying their day drivers lol
£7.08 per hour in 2016. I think it was below minimum wage, even back then. But the “productivity” bonuses brought it up to an “equivalent rate” of between £8 - £9 per hour.
As a company, they’re horrendously penny-pinchy. They are obsessed with telematics, fuel-consumption, and over-zealous micromanagemnt. They were one of the first firms to use driver-facing cameras, because too many trucks were being smashed-up by incompetent drivers (pay peanuts, get monkeys).
And it’s a fact that they are 95% reliant on Eastern Europeans. Particularly the Polish. Newmarket, and their East Anglian and Lincolnshire bases would cease to exist if it wasn’t for them. Spalding literally didn’t have one British driver.
Not a nice place to work at all. That’s why they’re reliant on EEs. And give the wages that go with it. Massive “them and us” culture, where the management think drivers are scum. Their depots ■■■■ the life out of you. Also, if you’re doing fridge work, it tends to be mainly Sainsburys. So it’s a lot of sitting in soul-destroying RDCs for hours and hours, waiting to be tipped. Horrible.
I’ve worked for both Turners and Stobarts, and Stobarts are much, much better.
Sounds about right… It’s bloddy disgusting!! especially when you’ve got companies that will pay double that!. I really hope the OP takes everyone’s advice and looks elsewhere.
albion:
No insults or criticism from me, I worked some terrible jobs when I was younger.If you don’t mind tramping, consider working further afield. So you might have to travel 100 miles but if you are tramping, that’s not so bad twice a week. With luck you’ll find something close than that. Two of my lads live in Manchester and Preston and their base is in Herts.
Out of curiosity, do you try and allow them to park the truck near home at the W/E? Subject to loading for the next weeks run … surely it would be cheaper for the driver?? Cheaper for the driver rather than to pay for fuel and excessive wear and tear and hours lost driving to to and from home.
£7.80 for NIGHTS including w/e working, in the famous words of the ex tennis player John McEnroe YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS
When I was there it was 95% Eastern Europeans, and the other 5% were either brain-dead, or people trying to get experience. They are beyond desperate. Somewhere mentioned they are resorting to paying for people’s licences to get drivers? I don’t know how true that is. I still wouldn’t do it.
They will actually take anyone. The standard is unbelievably low. I remember a driver going around a roundabout the wrong way, and he still didn’t get the sack. He was “retrained”. They couldn’t afford to lose a driver, even though he nearly killed someone.
I remember having to go into their Newmarket HQ, and I popped into the transport office to ask where is the best place in the yard to park overnight. When I say “transport office”, I mean a serving hatch where you wait for 15 minutes to be spoken to, even when they’ve seen you. Like I said, massive “them and us” culture. The bloke in there said I couldn’t spend the night in the yard, quoting “insurance reasons”. He said I had to go out and park in a layby, to return in the morning for my load. I walked off, obviously wound-up. A lovely Dutch driver chased after me to tell me that there’s a “secret” corner in the yard, behind the broken trailers where the trampers park for the night. The Turners management supposedly didn’t know about it. No access to toilets, showers, canteen, of course. What sort of company doesn’t allow their drivers to stay in the yard overnight? The trampers have to physically hide from the management, or go out into a layby across the road. They are the most disengaged company I’ve ever known.
peirre:
£7.80/hr !!!
I bet You could earn more as a sperm doner …
Not sure how many loads you could do in a day 
Is there a productivity bonus with this? 
Magicmikew:
peirre:
£7.80/hr !!!
I bet You could earn more as a sperm doner …Not sure how many loads you could do in a day
Good money for sperm donors.
At least for those who can run four nalf miles, whilst jumping over 30 fences, in about 8 or 9 minutes!