JAKEY:
hell fire , I pay my one lgv driver £12 per hour
There’re a few tippers for sale on Ebay Steve… 
Hiya…i was reading the paper yesterday 23 jan where a agency woman needed
extra’s (people to just walk around while they do filming)in the M25 area she said
she couldn’t get younger or any people to work for £100 per day.she said no body
wanted to work nowadays. she said she was paying £300 for extra’s to work on
a Sunday.Now you lads in the London area find that agency if you work only
2 days (less than 18 ours you pay no tax)that should bring in 400 a week that
would do me.Just my luck i live in the north (further north than Watford)
I’d walk up Regent street on a Sunday in a pink tu tu for £300.
John
emmerson2:
We used to have a cleaner for two mornings a week, but when her pay went up to £12.50 per hour, she had to go!
So yes, £7.50 is crap for a driver.
Hiya the sister in law has a nanny to look after their little one, she has to pay
just over £10 a hour for the nanny.
John
one which after 50 hours work you aint got enough to live on
kr79:
Saaamon:
Funny how in one thread most are giving it the whole, “the job is piece easy and totally un-skilled”, then in another you’ve got the same idiots telling everyone they dont work for less than £9 an hour… Cant really have it both ways can you…you can earn a decent living at it if your not a total moron.
Depends what you call a decent living, but as far as im concerned at the present point in time you cant.
3300John:
if you work only
2 days (less than 18 ours you pay no tax)that should bring in 400 a week that
would do me.
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Surely your liability for income tax depends on your income, not the number of days you work? Personal Allowance is currently just under 150 quid a week - you would pay 20% tax on anything above that.
Quite a few drivers this way earning £7 a hour straight through,no time and a half.Some are on more,but the haulage rates are crap and a lot of the owners are struggling. There is very little money in haulage these days…
3300John:
Hiya…i was reading the paper yesterday 23 jan where a agency woman needed
extra’s (people to just walk around while they do filming)in the M25 area she said
she couldn’t get younger or any people to work for £100 per day.she said no body
wanted to work nowadays. she said she was paying £300 for extra’s to work on
a Sunday.Now you lads in the London area find that agency if you work only
2 days (less than 18 ours you pay no tax)that should bring in 400 a week that
would do me.Just my luck i live in the north (further north than Watford)
I’d walk up Regent street on a Sunday in a pink tu tu for £300.
John
Lol nice , where did you see this . I’m free Sunday 300 in the bank would do nicely .
SYE-1:
3300John:
Hiya…i was reading the paper yesterday 23 jan where a agency woman needed
extra’s (people to just walk around while they do filming)in the M25 area she said
she couldn’t get younger or any people to work for £100 per day.she said no body
wanted to work nowadays. she said she was paying £300 for extra’s to work on
a Sunday.Now you lads in the London area find that agency if you work only
2 days (less than 18 ours you pay no tax)that should bring in 400 a week that
would do me.Just my luck i live in the north (further north than Watford)
I’d walk up Regent street on a Sunday in a pink tu tu for £300.
JohnLol nice , where did you see this . I’m free Sunday 300 in the bank would do nicely .
Hiya …the mail i’am in Spain at the moment it was the only paper on sale,
walking around can’t be classed as work can it every one dose it.
John
Saaamon:
kr79:
Saaamon:
Funny how in one thread most are giving it the whole, “the job is piece easy and totally un-skilled”, then in another you’ve got the same idiots telling everyone they dont work for less than £9 an hour… Cant really have it both ways can you…you can earn a decent living at it if your not a total moron.
Depends what you call a decent living, but as far as im concerned at the present point in time you cant.
I was taking home £550 to 600 a week Monday to Friday no nights out in my last job back in the UK and funny enough spoke to my old boss the other day who offered my a job back there if I go back to the uk.
I think that’s not a bad wage for a lorry driver in the present time.
The best wages are generally found at places where the wagons arent run for profit. Supermarkets being a prime example, they can afford to pay drivers a good living wage for reasonable hours because they are paying you out of their massive profits. Smaller hauliers trying to make money out of the trucks generally can’t unless its specialised work… rates are too low and costs too high.
In my book, a crap wage is where you have to sit in a lay-by and hang the job out in order to get a few extra quid.
kr79:
Winseer:
There’s no point blaming the employers.
Market forces being what they are, if a skinflint boss offers £7ph and some mug jumps at it, then there’s no need for them to raise that rate is there?
“Darn Sarf” here, accommodation is so expensive, that few will be mug enough to work for such a low rate that they’d be paying to go to work.
Live in a cheaper area, and you’ll be commuting so much, you’ll spend your meagre wages on fuel, tolls, and of course wasted time out of your life…How are you going to earn enough to pay £800-£1200 a month rents if you’re keeping legal on £7ph? I make that £338 pw averaged (legal max) of which you’ll take home about £290. Pay your rent, and you’re scrounging food off your mates by Thursday…
Landlords say “If you don’t like it, don’t live here where the jobs are”… Hah! Jobs?A proper job IMO is one that pays ALL life’s overheads, and you’ve got enough left to go out once a week, and maybe go on holiday once a year to boot.
Am I too demanding of a job?A mate of Mine went for a job the boss said I know the wage ain’t great but you can claim tax credits. WTF pay a proper wage and not subsidies e your business with government handouts.
If the wage ain’t great, then I want it over two shifts not five or six - to keep my overheads down you understand! 
Part time jobs are harder to get than full time ones though! 
If I could create my own perfect shift-patterned job, it would be 10am-1am Saturday & Sunday which because of the weekend rate, would average around the £16ph mark. Even with 2x1hr deducted for breaks, that’s £448 gross with minimal commute overheads to boot. 
30 hours over the two days would thus suit me just fine, what with the 5 days of my own life to live each week to boot! 
You think I’m dreaming? - Dream long enough, and it’ll come - mark my words.
Indeed, the day it DOES come will mark the end of this recession proper.
The LAST thing you want to be doing with a low hourly rate is banging on loads of hours. This is not only because you’re compounding the loss that a lower hourly rate represents - BUT you are also likely to earn just enough to knacker your chances of getting tax credits as well!
I believe they peter out totally at around £26k, unless you have a veritable tribe of kids.
If you DO have loads of kids, then my little “5 days off per week option” suddenly starts to make you look like the “World’s Best Dad” for being there for them that much AND earning AND still qualifying for a topup as well - don’t it? 
SYE-1:
3300John:
Hiya…i was reading the paper yesterday 23 jan where a agency woman needed
extra’s (people to just walk around while they do filming)in the M25 area she said
she couldn’t get younger or any people to work for £100 per day.she said no body
wanted to work nowadays. she said she was paying £300 for extra’s to work on
a Sunday.Now you lads in the London area find that agency if you work only
2 days (less than 18 ours you pay no tax)that should bring in 400 a week that
would do me.Just my luck i live in the north (further north than Watford)
I’d walk up Regent street on a Sunday in a pink tu tu for £300.
JohnLol nice , where did you see this . I’m free Sunday 300 in the bank would do nicely .
Supply and demand. She couldn’t fill the vacancies for the £100, so it got pumped up to £300.
Why were there not any volunteers?
Because everyone who would have jumped at the chance was already on shift (me included), and everyone NOT on shift already, wasn’t wanting to work.
Simples.
Im currently on £9.50ph driving a coach, but moving to another firm virtually on my doorstep that pays £11.25 ph, £12ph at the weekend
DAF95XF:
Im currently on £9.50ph driving a coach, but moving to another firm virtually on my doorstep that pays £11.25 ph, £12ph at the weekend
They only up your weekend rate by 75p? I’d be tempted to tell them to keep the 75p as they obviously need it more than me!
Mind you they sound like the sort of company that would miss the sarcasm, thank me for my kind offer and pay me £11.25 all the way through.
nearly there:
Skippy70:
Fatboy slimslow:
Fatboy slimslow:
STOBRATS!stop bashing them!
OOPS-did someone forget to change to their alter ego ■■
Lol
hahaha caught out
I am on £8:36 an hour Class 2. time and half for Sat and double for Sunday. Bank holiday is treble time.
Not bad wage - i do 8-10 hours a day
the maoster:
DAF95XF:
Im currently on £9.50ph driving a coach, but moving to another firm virtually on my doorstep that pays £11.25 ph, £12ph at the weekendThey only up your weekend rate by 75p? I’d be tempted to tell them to keep the 75p as they obviously need it more than me!
Mind you they sound like the sort of company that would miss the sarcasm, thank me for my kind offer and pay me £11.25 all the way through.
But that 75p is quite a bit if you do a 15 hour day…!!!
All of the bigger coach firms in the Reading/Basingstoke area are actually doing ok, certainly putting a few new coaches on the road.
mickyblue:
I am on £8:36 an hour Class 2. time and half for Sat and double for Sunday. Bank holiday is treble time.Not bad wage - i do 8-10 hours a day
Robert Wiseman?
You can make some good money out of them if the hours suit.