so is 9 quid an hour acceptable for an experienced class 1 driver?
Doing what?
artic,4 on 4 off nights long trailer
Your dentist has a tough job mate! 
So it’s nights and not tramping, so maybe also 12 hours shifts on the 4 and 4.
Is there overtime?
What’s your geographical region?
What does the work entails?
But for my region I’d say no! 
Minger:
so is 9 quid an hour acceptable for an experienced class 1 driver?
I turned down a job in Leicester last week at £9 hour, 45 hours a week .
Hopefully getting a job paying a bit more soon
stobart pays more than that for nights!!!
It’s disgraceful and no professional driver should be tempted to work for that sort of pittance. Employers have a bombshell coming their way… Very soon!
Honestly !
In Eastern Europe - yes. In the entire UK - No.
Note the EU does not let any enforcement of the UK minimum wage be bestowed upon eastern European drivers of NL, D, or F artics over to blighty, and then pay them 3-4 euros per hour to tramp over here.
So tell me again someone - how come foreign artics get to drive on our roads untaxed, have huge derv tanks that mean they do not have to buy duty-paid diesel here at all, and get paid less than the minimum wage despite working over 50 hours per week within the UK throughout all of that time?
We’ve ditched the EU because the upside we don’t get - and the downside we DO get.
Simple answer NO especially for nights 4/4 as that will inevitably include weekend work
Evil8Beezle:
Doing what?
prehaps driving. i think the clue was in the question 
Minger:
so is 9 quid an hour acceptable for an experienced class 1 driver?
There’s a place in Hull that pays a little less than that for a pallet run. 3 hr drive, half hour tip, wait 3 or 4 hours, half hour reload then 3 hr drive back.
They employ EE, newbies and idiots who can’t get a job elsewhere.
thats a complete waste of time,you might as well work in a warehouse,£9 an hr is a disgrace,unless you are hopeless and cant reverse or keep hitting stuff every five minutes and work for some cowboy who doesnt give two monkees what you do.If you take a bit of pride in the job,dress pretty cleanly etc and do a proffessional days work you want at least £11
trapfour:
thats a complete waste of time,you might as well work in a warehouse,£9 an hr is a disgrace,unless you are hopeless and cant reverse or keep hitting stuff every five minutes and work for some cowboy who doesnt give two monkees what you do.If you take a bit of pride in the job,dress pretty cleanly etc and do a proffessional days work you want at least £11
£11 for a day’s work, sod that
£9 for NIGHTS! Pulling a LST? erm… NO!
Not every area has firms willing to pay £11+ per hour, I have never seen a tramping job advertised at that money or heard of anyone being paid it!
My wages are crap, but I’m staying out till the right opportunity comes up the jobs in Nottingham are mostly crap pay for crap firms I’ve tried enough of them
Where I am now don’t provide boots or uniform and don’t pay the average of 12 weeks pay for annual leave, have not got me back early once when I needed to be but the job itself is okay. I know it’s crap but there’s nothing that appeals to me at the minute so I’ll put up with it.
Very good question???Good or bad.Sometime lower wages give more money for total taked home money. One man go to driving assestment ,pass and DPD offer him 12.50 per hours.But job just 8 hours per day and no Saturday job or any overtime.Just possible if traffic or Christmas time.So he can earn just about 100 quid per day or 500 per week before tax or 25k per years…He refused this because he now work one big company from agency for less money but he easy can earn 500-600 after tax per week or 35k per years.
get on supermarket work,its pinching money 
It’s peanuts , buttons , shelf stackers earn more ( there now I’m on a good wage I can now do the abuse bit 
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trapfour:
get on supermarket work,its pinching money
Could not agree more,especially in house driving,not contractor 3rd party
Not sure how local you are to it, but Tossco at Fradley Park are desperate for drivers.