I think he’s talking about tilbury cold store
jessicas dad:
sounds like a steady job with ok money, £8.50 is a very good hourly rate in the yorkshire area. i think all the negative comments on here have frightened off topmixer but i would like to know the overtime rates and night allowance before i make my judgement.i think you have jumped the gun making accusations about the rates and jobs before you know the facts.all i know its a job out of tilbury driving a 26 tonner fridge on £8.50 an hour. no mention of overtime or n/o money.
I do agree to an extent but why did topmixer not put all of the details in his original post?
It is easy to say that drivers are useless and lazy and don’t want work at £8.50 an hour which is mostly untrue I would reckon, but if he had added that it’s £8.50 for 40 hours then time and half plus twenty someoddquid for night outs, then he would be inundated with drivers - maybe. In my opinion. But to just say what he did in the original post was a little out of order. Also given that he has a lot of mates who would jump at it!!!
PinkLadyTrucker:
I have noticed that a lot of jobs are unsocialable as in having to work weekends, what about the family, Oh the companies DO not care about drivers with family, either you take the job or be unemployed, and probably be divorced or single and the Companies would be happy so you can work longer hours to pay maintenance etc
A driver with a family who wants to spend weekends with them wouldn’t apply for the job would they? That’s when they need a driver and you really can’t expect the company to change that just because someone has a family, I don’t think that’s them not caring.
I see plenty of jobs with hours that don’t fit in with the lifestyle I want so I don’t apply for them, it’s a pretty simple concept.
BTW. Congratulations on shoe horning a ‘Won’t someone please think of the children’ type post into the thread though. That was some quality work right there. 
jessicas dad:
sounds like a steady job with ok money, £8.50 is a very good hourly rate in the yorkshire area. i think all the negative comments on here have frightened off topmixer but i would like to know the overtime rates and night allowance before i make my judgement.i think you have jumped the gun making accusations about the rates and jobs before you know the facts.all i know its a job out of tilbury driving a 26 tonner fridge on £8.50 an hour. no mention of overtime or n/o money.
To be fair Alex I’m not far from Tilbury and there are plenty of firms paying around £10ph on days class 2
Coffeeholic:
PinkLadyTrucker:
I have noticed that a lot of jobs are unsocialable as in having to work weekends, what about the family, Oh the companies DO not care about drivers with family, either you take the job or be unemployed, and probably be divorced or single and the Companies would be happy so you can work longer hours to pay maintenance etcA driver with a family who wants to spend weekends with them wouldn’t apply for the job would they? That’s when they need a driver and you really can’t expect the company to change that just because someone has a family, I don’t think that’s them not caring.
I see plenty of jobs with hours that don’t fit in with the lifestyle I want so I don’t apply for them, it’s a pretty simple concept.
BTW. Congratulations on shoe horning a ‘Won’t someone please think of the children’ type post into the thread though. That was some quality work right there.
Unsocial hours and the hourly rate explains the lack of takers!! 
Or maybe there is better paid work locally which means the rate should be competitive with local companies! 
Maybe there isn’t many Class 2 drivers about as most seem to go straight for Class 1 after getting their C!
bigvern1:
tootman318:
bigvern1:
Tilbury…Lovely place! I said the other day, most people in this country are lazy barstools.
A Polish guy will take it, and be good at it. Fair play to them.Bit harsh tiny, we not all lazy
Tiny? The OP Stated lazy [zb]…Not all people I said…Most, or at least some people.
Sorry but u did say most which is the majority, just pointing out tiny(Big- sarcastic) that we Brits are not all lazy ■■■■■ Anyway, whens your next video?. Your last 1 made me smile 
DAF DAVE:
Problem is drivers think they are worth more than what they are,advertise it around the polish commmunity, ive just taken on a pole and he is far superior in his work and apperance than other applicants that i had for my driver vacancy, uk drivers need to start waking up a bit.
Makes me sick seeing how we’ve become in this country always makes me think 'hope a polish/foriegn firm takes your work off your company’when I see these comments,put the boot on the other foot!Yeah ‘some’ people need a shake in this country,but the one thing we didn’t need was all these east europeans!
lynchy:
Makes me sick seeing how we’ve become in this country always makes me think 'hope a polish/foriegn firm takes your work off your company’when I see these comments,put the boot on the other foot!Yeah ‘some’ people need a shake in this country,but the one thing we didn’t need was all these east europeans!
Completely agree, the worst thing that happened to this job, and for the life of the average working Brit in the UK in general was when the EU was opened up to eastern Europe and employers suddenly discovered an army of slave labourers on the doorstep.
Not the fault of those coming here, if I got the chance to go and pick strawberries in Bialystock for £100,000 a year I would be off like a shot, but it should never have been allowed to happen.
lynchy:
DAF DAVE:
Problem is drivers think they are worth more than what they are,advertise it around the polish commmunity, ive just taken on a pole and he is far superior in his work and apperance than other applicants that i had for my driver vacancy, uk drivers need to start waking up a bit.Makes me sick seeing how we’ve become in this country always makes me think 'hope a polish/foriegn firm takes your work off your company’when I see these comments,put the boot on the other foot!Yeah ‘some’ people need a shake in this country,but the one thing we didn’t need was all these east europeans!
Absolutely.
I have recent experience of working with these people and it drags the job down, especially when they are employed in the office 
Now found a place in a company that employs British people in all areas…More money, people who smile and say hello and a really nice place to be.
I don`t like the Eastern Europeans in any way, shape or form…And I am not being racist, it is merely my opinion and I am still allowed to express it…Prior to my recent experience of Eastern Europeans, it had all been positive, but bunch them together and the whole job is brought down to their level…Not nice.
Harry Monk:
Completely agree, the worst thing that happened to this job, and for the life of the average working Brit in the UK in general was when the EU was opened up to eastern Europe and employers suddenly discovered an army of slave labourers on the doorstep.Not the fault of those coming here, if I got the chance to go and pick strawberries in Bialystock for £100,000 a year I would be off like a shot, but it should never have been allowed to happen.
Totally agree. Truck driver’s pay had risen substantially before this happened. Its gone backwards since, in many cases its less now than 10 years ago.
I don’t think some folk will be happy untill we’re all on minimum wage.
Tilbury is a bit far for me but £8.50 ph up here is a decent rate
PLT I dont have a family as both my kids have moved on & have there own places so dont matter to me what hr I work ( FYI my x in a nurse so again unsocial hrs & I did work in catering before driving again unsocial hr & low rate of pay )
Still a bit confused. Someone comes on here accuses us all of being lazy ■■■■■■ tells us the basics of a job that he has available via job centre that no one can find, we offer people for said job and now he buggers off! Is this a bloody wind up!!!
MysonVinnie:
Still a bit confused. Someone comes on here accuses us all of being lazy [zb], tells us the basics of a job that he has available via job centre that no one can find, we offer people for said job and now he buggers off! Is this a bloody wind up!!!
It’s called “Trolling”.
Look it up on Google, & while your there, look up 'sock puppe’t & ‘sycophant’ too.
This forums full of 'em & it’s getting a bit boring
gazza1970:
i earn £28.44 per hour driving a train, i hung my truck driving gloves up when i got this job.
No wonder train tickets cost so much. 
You can afford to work for this money when you can buy a 3 bed semi for £60000 oop north, you can’t buy a studio flat in the south east for that,
topmixer11:
cannot believe that after 2 weeks only 3 people have applied for 26 tonne nights out refrigerated work out of my place at tilbury docks 8.50 an hour 61 plate mercs lazy [zb] out there and the 3 that have applied are from goverment backed scheme not 1 applicant from job centre plus where its added
£8.50 an hour. So only £1.50 an hour less than I was earning in 2008 in East Yorkshire.
Conor:
topmixer11:
cannot believe that after 2 weeks only 3 people have applied for 26 tonne nights out refrigerated work out of my place at tilbury docks 8.50 an hour 61 plate mercs lazy [zb] out there and the 3 that have applied are from goverment backed scheme not 1 applicant from job centre plus where its added£8.50 an hour. So only £1.50 an hour less than I was earning in 2008 in East Yorkshire.
but was that employed with a permanent contract? or was it agency or going direct to a company self employed? no point comparing unless it’s like for like.
because £10 per hour is not the norm for class 2 in east yorkshire and it wasn’t in 2008, i was earning £10.25 straight through, for class 1 in 2005 on agency out of MBF, it wasn’t the norm and you’d probably struggle to find it now!
stevie
44 Tonne Ton:
You can afford to work for this money when you can buy a 3 bed semi for £60000 oop north, you can’t buy a studio flat in the south east for that,
Wow you was lucky finding a 3 bed semi for £60,000
Most of the houses less than £60,000 in the area you exampled, are dumps literally, I know I saw them during searching for a Home, We are buying one for £68,000 in Upton nr South Elmsall, Hope to exchange and complete very soon
44 Tonne Ton:
Mebbe everybody has got a job that pays more than £8.50 p.h.? It’s not exactly fortunes, is it? The fact you’ve had such a poor response should tell you something!
£8.50 is not bad
With Overtime,bonus,Night out,ect,ect gives that over £40000.- take Home.
Better then Tsco