nightline:
That’s a no brainer 20 quid to sleep in a truck or a free meal and home to your own bed for the same money
Are you on crack?
Captain Caveman 76:
nightline:
That’s a no brainer 20 quid to sleep in a truck or a free meal and home to your own bed for the same moneyAre you on crack?
If you read the post you don’t earn anymore than someone working in burger king they feed you and they don’t ask you to sleep in the back for 20 quid drivers sleep out for 20 quid and have to feed themselves on that tell me what part are you having a problem with understanding
nightline:
Captain Caveman 76:
nightline:
That’s a no brainer 20 quid to sleep in a truck or a free meal and home to your own bed for the same moneyAre you on crack?
If you read the post you don’t earn anymore than someone working in burger king they feed you and they don’t ask you to sleep in the back for 20 quid drivers sleep out for 20 quid and have to feed themselves on that tell me what part are you having a problem with understanding
How much does Burger King pay?
The average Burger King salary ranges from approximately £8,199 per year for Customer Service Representative to £29,997 per year for Store Manager. Average Burger King hourly pay ranges from approximately £6.70 per hour for Customer Service Representative to £12.26 per hour for Delivery Driver. Salary information comes from 887 data points collected directly from employees, users, and jobs on Indeed.
indeed.co.uk/cmp/Burger-King/salaries
As for sleeping out, plenty of jobs involve working away from home without financial compensation.
So, I repeat, are you on crack or something?
The place i work is a bit of the reverse to most places… the busier the business is the less hours you work & the less their is the more hours you work.
Reason being when their is more to collect per customer the less collections fit on the truck, so when you full you go back to depot unload & go home, no second loads
I’d love to see some of you lads who moan about pay spend a day on your feet cooking burgers. Often I’ve found the ones who go on about how other jobs of pay same are the ones who’s only ever driven trucks. Go spend a week stacking shelves or flipping burgers and then come back and tell us how hard done by we are
Captain Caveman 76:
nightline:
Captain Caveman 76:
nightline:
That’s a no brainer 20 quid to sleep in a truck or a free meal and home to your own bed for the same moneyAre you on crack?
If you read the post you don’t earn anymore than someone working in burger king they feed you and they don’t ask you to sleep in the back for 20 quid drivers sleep out for 20 quid and have to feed themselves on that tell me what part are you having a problem with understanding
How much does Burger King pay?
The average Burger King salary ranges from approximately £8,199 per year for Customer Service Representative to £29,997 per year for Store Manager. Average Burger King hourly pay ranges from approximately £6.70 per hour for Customer Service Representative to £12.26 per hour for Delivery Driver. Salary information comes from 887 data points collected directly from employees, users, and jobs on Indeed.indeed.co.uk/cmp/Burger-King/salaries
As for sleeping out, plenty of jobs involve working away from home without financial compensation.
So, I repeat, are you on crack or something?
Exactly, my two best friends have office jobs and they’re away 3/4 nights a week with work
nightline:
switchlogic:
nightline:
So the jist of the post is if you worked in burger king or tesco and done the same hours you would earn the same money only in burger king they would feed you for free and they would not expect you to sleep over night in the back for that so at the end of the day it’s a fools game some are no better than tinkers some go around like zombies from lack of sleep and some are led by the noseYou’re easily bought if all you need is a McDonald’s on top of your hourly rate…
That’s a no brainer 20 quid to sleep in a truck or a free meal and home to your own bed for the same money
You’d have to pay me to eat a McDonald’s every day. Yuk.
At the minute very eratic .
Firstly when i do my own work ,Classic car restoration ,i can do 12/16 hour shifts .I love the work but it is getting harder with age ,Aches pains
Knackered all the time,but that feel good is there doing what i want.
Now hgv was done so i could get away from heavy manual graft ,Basically ,It looks like if i pick the wrong gig it will be exactly the same .
But i must add ,My point .Only do what you feel comfortable with,Money is not everything ,Satisfaction is .Getting to bed Sunday evening looking forward to Monday morning is where you want to be .
Home life for me comes first ,Especially if your waged and not self employed .Easily said ,but there are people who are lucky enough to get what work they want and enjoy it.start as you mean to go on.Never ever except a “Just over broke, ie-Job” because it has good pay ,Especially if you know your going to beat yourself up all day doing it .
Sorry waffled on a bit .Make the change .
Beer improves my balance, especially work/life
4on 4off here and salaried too. Job and jack where I work. My average WT per week is currently 26hours 
The work / life balance ,in my job ,is extreme in this industry . No such thing as " foot down Friday " that’s for sure . I get a lot of people say they would love to do my job , but the reality is that none of them want to spend weeks or months away . That said , if you can get your head around it , it’s a cracking job
I’m away usually 6 days, been 5 the past few weeks. Weekend to myself and I’m only 10 minutes to the yard.
In all honesty I’d probably prefer being away longer, 2/3 weeks at a time. Europe would be the dream but my location isn’t great for that.
A.
Monday 0900 maths 1200 maths
Tuesday off (was a half day until November)
Wednesday 0900 16th century Scottish history 1200 psychology
Thursday 0900 comms (half day)
Friday 0900 literature 1200 sociology
Saturday 14 hour shift
Sunday 6 hour shift (normally)
I also quite enjoy my job. I’ve had jobs in the past where I was wishing I was old and could retire, but now I’m truck driving, I feel like I could go on well past retirement age.
If you are in a job that you hate and are always clock watching, get out and find something else. You are a long time dead.
My balance is pretty spot on and not the usually ‘worked to death’ complaint. 4 on 4 off. 6:30 - 18:15. Mainly drive a roro but a few days overtime on an artic every month for a change of scenery. Days off taken up with a hobby, taking my lad to school and picking him up. Same applies to the wife. Time on my own away from it all. Apart from the company I work for being a bit crap at the moment all in all not a bad number.
Tony.
switchlogic:
I’d love to see some of you lads who moan about pay spend a day on your feet cooking burgers. Often I’ve found the ones who go on about how other jobs of pay same are the ones who’s only ever driven trucks. Go spend a week stacking shelves or flipping burgers and then come back and tell us how hard done by we are
That is so true
switchlogic:
I’d love to see some of w lads who moan about pay spend a day on your feet cooking burgers. Often I’ve found the ones who go on about how other jobs of pay same are the ones who’s only ever driven trucks. Go spend a week stacking shelves or flipping burgers and then come back and tell us how hard done by we are
Another I’d love to see some of the hard done to moaners do is run your own lorry and I don’t mean the get a unit and pull someones trailer ,I mean the hole Hogg .
Punchy Dan:
switchlogic:
I’d love to see some of w lads who moan about pay spend a day on your feet cooking burgers. Often I’ve found the ones who go on about how other jobs of pay same are the ones who’s only ever driven trucks. Go spend a week stacking shelves or flipping burgers and then come back and tell us how hard done by we areAnother I’d love to see some of the hard done to moaners do is run your own lorry and I don’t mean the get a unit and pull someones trailer ,I mean the hole Hogg .
Not sure I qualify as a moaner, and that’s not for me to say anyway…
But my thoughts on having the stress of ‘running a business’ and driving a truck, I’d say F that, no thanks!
So respect for anyone who does it! 
And while switchlogic isn’t wrong, as the physicality of modern truck driving is generally quite easy…
I think the ‘responsibility’ is the drivers complaint, as what can go wrong flipping a burger or stacking shelves?
And can they take money out your pocket, to possibly putting you behind bars? 
Actrosman:
Harry Monk:
Work Monday to Friday between September and March and spend the Summer bimbling around on my boat.
Do you venture up to New Mills Marina? The father in law has a house boat moored up there…grumpy old Bass turd he is, dead spit for Dr Shipman…been an engineer pretty much all his life, but did some driving ‘back in the day’. His boat was custom built apparently and has a square stern… bit of a rarity apparently
I think I might be going past New Mills marina this year, I haven’t quite finalised my route yet (and even when I do it is subject to change on a whim)… it’s a standing joke on canal forums how many narrowboaters have the Harold Shipman beard, it’s a bit like permanently smelling of wood smoke, almost compulsory 
Freight Dog:
switchlogic:
When I was doing the tesco store work I did short days with early finishes and you know what? I wasted so much time being lazy and doing sod all. I’m annoyed with myself at how much time I wasted now. In contrast I’m away two weeks at a time now doing Euro work again and I find my days off and occasional early finishes have become special again and I don’t waste them.Hey Luke, how much time do you get off after a two week trip? Do you find it’s enough? I worked away 3 weeks/1 week off but I didn’t like the time being condensed into one block and dreaded going away as it felt so epic each time. I wanted more frequent time off. I now work away for say 4 days but you only get 2 off. Just enough time to do washing and some bits and bobs and you’re off again still very tired. I’ve come to realise for me I prefer not going away as day work didn’t feel so epic. I still worked shifts on days, say earlies and lates but no packing or frustrating travel arrangements before you start were involved. I’m tired of travelling constantly I think.
I think weaknesses in my character make me inattentive to my life outside of work when I’m working away and it all gets a bit of a mess sometimes, as a I find adjusting to home quite hard coming back, friendships suffer, domestic to do lists get forgotten whilst you’re knackered on your time off and all you want to do is rest and veg. It’s just who I am as a person. Day work suited my nature best and didn’t allow my personal weaknesses to take such a hold.
I used to do 4 weeks (usually more) away and then get 6 days off plus a day to travel each way, which was two extra days off for me as I lived a couple of miles from the yard, unlike most of my colleagues.
My kids were young at the time and far from missing out, I actually spent a lot of good quality time with them. If I was home every night, the long days in transport would’ve meant I might have made it home in time to tuck them on if I was lucky, so the 4 weeks out didn’t have much of an effect in reality.
Having a full week off was really good, we could go away to Butlins or similar for a few days, go to the zoo etc. Trying to cram days out like that into a two day weekend can be difficult, so I would say that I saw a lot more of my kids growing up than my Dad who didn’t do nights out saw of me when I was little. Although I did spend every minute possible in the lorry with my Dad, so he wasn’t a complete stranger.