the firm i work for do taut and flat work they considering of changing the way we are payed and changing it to hourly pay.8hr normal then over after that.what do u consider a good hourly rate.some loads are sheeted others can be steel chained or rebar or just strapped on flats no sheet.then is the logistics stuff food drinks paper reels anyhtign that will fit in a taut.just to give u a idea.some of our driver saying 9.50hr but other it should be more.
thunder367:
the firm i work for do taut and flat work they considering of changing the way we are payed and changing it to hourly pay.8hr normal then over after that.what do u consider a good hourly rate.some loads are sheeted others can be steel chained or rebar or just strapped on flats no sheet.then is the logistics stuff food drinks paper reels anyhtign that will fit in a taut.just to give u a idea.some of our driver saying 9.50hr but other it should be more.
This question has been asked a thousand times Zzzzzzz
£10.50 straight thru
Surely you wait for the company to pick a figure and in the mean time find out what other firms in the area are paying and if they are hiring so when you get told the figure you know what to do.
£8, £12 and £16. £32 for today
Deffo not £8 even for rigid
I was on £8.84 rigid now £9.36 Artic general
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This works for me : £9.95 ph (guaranteed 50 hrs), every hour over 50 paid at £15 ph, weekends and Bank Hols £15 ph, £25 night out plus all food and parking paid. Bonus at Christmas. What’s not to like?
Weekends and bank holidays
I pay £10 p/hr straight through ,double time on night jobs and Sunday’s, £25 night out plus I pay parking and or room too .
A straight-through rate will always be better, as with something like time and a half after 8 hours say, you’ll be planned for 9 hour shifts all the time, and scrutinized relentlessly if you attempt to book overtime in any shift… “Have you deliberately hung it out? - That’s fraudulent!” type arguments from management.
With a right-through rate, if you get delayed en-route, you get paid. That’s a good thing. It doesn’t have to be time and a half - if it’s a decent base rate. I would suggest for 2018 that rate would need to be around £12ph days, £14ph nights. 
I like the idea they’re already looking at OT after 8 hours, so calculated on a daily basis not weekly, that’s a good start.
Depending on your current wage which only you know, would they take a deep breath of shock if you went for £10 basic? more?
You want a good increment for OT though, if they would go for time and a half then great, but i suspect for general haulage that might be a stumbling block, so you might have to agree at say £13/13.50 an hour after 8 hours, but with another £2 an hour on top for before 6am and after 6pm and all day Saturday.
You could also negotiate a better Sunday and bank hol working rate whilst talking.
If they want one wage straight through, then it obviously wants to be as high as possible.
Always ask for as much as possible on the basic, because that’s what they can’t pay you less than.
Maybe ask for, if you don’t already get it, sick pay, you could start by asking for sick pay from day one, but negotiate back to not being paid for the first 3/5 days, that way the company won’t get too many skivers/■■■■ takers doing to old sickie routine for extra holidays, IMHO sick pay from day one is neither any good for the company nor for the genuine reliable staff who have to pick up the slack.
Don’t forget, DCPC paid for and done in paid work time, licence and medical cost re-imbursements etc.
Start out asking for 14 17 and 19 and 25 for night out plus parking and let them haggle you down to what you think your worth
if you ask for 9.50 they sure as hall wont offer you more
I don’t think that a driver should work for less than £9.00 per hour but as this is a National Forum that might not be enough in the South of England where living costs are higher.
£15.00ph & 10 hours max a day regardless of driving/other work.
£18.00ph nights & a max shift of 9 hours regardless.
Are they considering it because they think the driver’s aren’t being fairly treated or perhaps they can save money. Hmmm
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Skip man near me is paying £12.50 with 50 hr guarantee.
Best of kit, eight wh drawbar roll on offs and multi skip outfits.
Says it’s the only way he can get and keep the best men. His general drivers are on £10 .50. I don’t know about o/t.
In 1997 I was on 12 quid and hour ate Tesco’s, since 21 years have passed you should all be on about 25 quid an hour.
There’s so many variables though which makes it hard to answer. As an example paid breaks… my hourly rate is not as high as I could get at another place. I could leave and get an extra 60p an hour but at the other place you lose one hour a day break pay while at the minute I get paid start to finish.
So at the minute for a ten hour shift to keep it to simple maths I’d get £106.80 for the day. For the same shift at the other place I’d get £102.60 despite having a higher headline rate.
The point I’m making is to try not to get sucked into pay rates and look at the whole package.
Winseer:
A straight-through rate will always be better
If it’s £20 per hour, sure, I can work with that.
Now back in the real world… 
I’ll stick with a decent standard rate and time 1.5 after 8 hours like used to be norm until this flat-rate race to the bottom started.
depends how old you are , if your 20-30 mortgage , kids , etc then you’d want £12-£15 ph
, if your like me mid 50,s then £8-£9 ph as its only pocket money to be honest