£1000 per week is good if your doing 40 hrs.
Supermarkets. I need 60hrs a week on my 0800 start time to do a grand, night guys need less. Granted its not every week, it does go quiet but I did a fair few of them last financial year and we are looking at a decent pay rise for this year. 48k a year for a piece of cake job, home every night and a lie in every day is pretty reasonable 
It’s the lie in…every day that swings it.
Done for 9 tonight…so a few carlsberg exports.
1300 start,for a one hit Stoke.
Chille con carne for lunch
Just ask your self - where are all the millionare truck drivers ? How many do you know and how many have you meet in your career as a driver ? Probably about the same as me - none .
rambo19:
£1000 per week is good if your doing 40 hrs.
Probably fits into the category of needs to be 40 hours a week because getting finished every day is the only thing to look forward to in the job the money is the only upside. 
dozy:
Tesco , I get £13 ph x 70 hrs , 4 nights = £1,000 , I could if I wanted do a extra shift & make it 1,250 but 5 days is more than enough
Now I know there struggling badly for drivers as loads have left for more money , so £1,000 pw is nothing special these days ( we had a thread on here years ago where’s at the time only me & a few others it seemed weren’t on 1,000 pw ,£15 ph , 90% seemed we’re
I don’t think this sounds right. For a start if you got a tug you’d be in for over £1200 p/w in fines. Also, Tesco would show you the door with that many infringements.
LazyDriver:
dozy:
Tesco , I get £13 ph x 70 hrs , 4 nights = £1,000 , I could if I wanted do a extra shift & make it 1,250 but 5 days is more than enough
Now I know there struggling badly for drivers as loads have left for more money , so £1,000 pw is nothing special these days ( we had a thread on here years ago where’s at the time only me & a few others it seemed weren’t on 1,000 pw ,£15 ph , 90% seemed we’reI don’t think this sounds right. For a start if you got a tug you’d be in for over £1200 p/w in fines. Also, Tesco would show you the door with that many infringements.
I can confirm that you can achieve £1000 with Tesco. PoA is a wonderful thing…
You really have to love the job though. God it ■■■■■ hard.
adam277:
I can confirm that you can achieve £1000 with Tesco. PoA is a wonderful thing…
You really have to love the job though. God it ■■■■■ hard.
I don’t doubt it, if you were to work 5-6 shifts. It is impossible to do it over 4, as Dozy suggests. The max you can work over 4 shifts is 58hrs and thats if they pay breaks, which they don’t. So 70hrs over 4 shifts is poppycock. I’m not a fan of POA, although I do exploit it when necessary.
LazyDriver:
adam277:
I can confirm that you can achieve £1000 with Tesco. PoA is a wonderful thing…
You really have to love the job though. God it ■■■■■ hard.I don’t doubt it, if you were to work 5-6 shifts. It is impossible to do it over 4, as Dozy suggests. The max you can work over 4 shifts is 58hrs and thats if they pay breaks, which they don’t. So 70hrs over 4 shifts is poppycock. I’m not a fan of POA, although I do exploit it when necessary.
dozy said 4 nights as in “night out money” during a 5 day week.
LazyDriver:
adam277:
I can confirm that you can achieve £1000 with Tesco. PoA is a wonderful thing…
You really have to love the job though. God it ■■■■■ hard.I don’t doubt it, if you were to work 5-6 shifts. It is impossible to do it over 4, as Dozy suggests. The max you can work over 4 shifts is 58hrs and thats if they pay breaks, which they don’t. So 70hrs over 4 shifts is poppycock. I’m not a fan of POA, although I do exploit it when necessary.
POA means ‘available’ for warehouse work.It’s only a matter of time until a keen office upstart looking for promotion notices it.So how many hours POA does it take to get the grand a week.Good luck with that when they work out the saving in warehouse staff wages.
Carryfast:
It’s deffo not about the money it’s getting up and looking forward to doing another day’s or night’s work and more or less enjoying it.To me driving trucks was like being paid for a hobby .
We agree on almost nothing at all but this is one area we really do. I’ve never been motivated by money and had so far an incredibly happy career as a result. Where as the ones I’ve known who chase money from job to job always seem to be miserable. I’ve always loved what I do and the moment I stop loving a job I’m on my way to the next
Carryfast:
LazyDriver:
adam277:
I can confirm that you can achieve £1000 with Tesco. PoA is a wonderful thing…
You really have to love the job though. God it ■■■■■ hard.I don’t doubt it, if you were to work 5-6 shifts. It is impossible to do it over 4, as Dozy suggests. The max you can work over 4 shifts is 58hrs and thats if they pay breaks, which they don’t. So 70hrs over 4 shifts is poppycock. I’m not a fan of POA, although I do exploit it when necessary.
POA means ‘available’ for warehouse work.It’s only a matter of time until a keen office upstart looking for promotion notices it.So how many hours POA does it take to get the grand a week.Good luck with that when they work out the saving in warehouse staff wages.
Poa means available to pull onto the bay when the double deck fridge in front that was planned at the same time as you gives you a toot to wake you up after 2hrs and pulls away from store
Don’t they ask you to go on the checkout for a couple of hours…while your waiting 
commonrail:
Don’t they ask you to go on the checkout for a couple of hours…while your waiting
I’m sure in Carryfast world you would be on the tills or cleaning the store bogs, but in the real world… ZZZ 
Carryfast:
Good luck with that when they work out the saving in warehouse staff wages.
No doubt, it’s not like it was introduced 15+ years ago…
switchlogic:
Carryfast:
It’s deffo not about the money it’s getting up and looking forward to doing another day’s or night’s work and more or less enjoying it.To me driving trucks was like being paid for a hobby .We agree on almost nothing at all but this is one area we really do. I’ve never been motivated by money and had so far an incredibly happy career as a result. Where as the ones I’ve known who chase money from job to job always seem to be miserable. I’ve always loved what I do and the moment I stop loving a job I’m on my way to the next
If it was all about the money I’d have listened to my Dad, completed my training, and stayed in engineering.For me 8 hours shut in a factory was like 16 or more.
That’s what it takes to earn a grand a week in the real world or a decent wage for 40 hours.
Rob take note my guess is you’d be running for the door before lunchtime on the first day let alone put in the overtime.Check out the wording of the add.What it’s actually saying is only apply if you think/know that you can handle the prison like existence of the job without running for the exit.
totaljobs.com/job/cnc-turner … ob91617315
But compromising on pay to be out on the road doesn’t add up if/when some muppet decides to maximise duty time in the form of warehouse work etc and minimise the driving.Thereby totally defeating the object.
Let alone the career ending damage that can cause to your health if it involves a lot of manual handling. 
POA be careful what you wish for.
Not much point in anyone being a truck driver if they don’t want to drive and it’s only a matter of time until someone takes the word ‘availability’ literally.
mrginge:
dozy said 4 nights as in “night out money” during a 5 day week.
Ah, ok. I get that now thanks, although 70hrs over 5 days would require paid breaks. Max allowable who be 71hrs. But if they don’t pay breaks it would be 67.25hrs.
Carryfast:
.So how many hours POA does it take to get the grand a week.
Going by Dozy’s figures at least 10hrs or 22hrs p/w over 17 weeks if done constantly. But all this just proves the point made earlier, you have to max out to earn decent money.
Racking up POA at a company like Tesco is so easy.
I’ve turned up to stores only to wait 3 hours to get on the bay. Only for them to unload me extremely slowly.
Heck, I’ve gone from the Purfleet depot to the Pitsea Extra store. Which is a distance of about 10-15 miles and had to wait over 6 hours to be unloaded.
Then again the Purfleet, Dagenham depots are a special case. Cause if the QE2 is fudged then good luck getting home.