Fuzrat:
commonrail:
Don’t they ask you to go on the checkout for a couple of hours…while your waitingI’m sure in Carryfast world you would be on the tills or cleaning the store bogs, but in the real world… ZZZ
I’m surprised Carryfast hasn’t been frantically searching Google looking for an extreme example of a “driving job” that involves doing a bit of everything as well as driving.
cgscott:
8 wheeler grab working on utils. Gas water electric.£170 a day and tine half saturday double bubble sunday.
If you opt in for emergency callout its £100 quid for on call and hours paid when out.
Regards.
Similar to what I’m on-but no extra for a Saturday (but it’s job and finish and still get paid ten hours)Sunday job and finish paid 15 hours.we don’t do call out work .most week days only work 9 hrs but paid for ten and I get a van supplied to commute even though I’m only five miles from the yard.not a bad job at all!
andrew.s:
cgscott:
8 wheeler grab working on utils. Gas water electric.£170 a day and tine half saturday double bubble sunday.
If you opt in for emergency callout its £100 quid for on call and hours paid when out.
Regards.
Similar to what I’m on-but no extra for a Saturday (but it’s job and finish and still get paid ten hours)Sunday job and finish paid 15 hours.we don’t do call out work .most week days only work 9 hrs but paid for ten and I get a van supplied to commute even though I’m only five miles from the yard.not a bad job at all!
I hate that type of work.
Job and finish… pfft.
Basically means your there as long as they need you.
I also hate it when companies use day rate. Because ye some days you only do 7-9 hours but some days you do 12 hours. You cant say anything about late finishes because they some days you finish early.
Na, I’d rather be paid hourly.
adam277:
andrew.s:
cgscott:
8 wheeler grab working on utils. Gas water electric.£170 a day and tine half saturday double bubble sunday.
If you opt in for emergency callout its £100 quid for on call and hours paid when out.
Regards.
Similar to what I’m on-but no extra for a Saturday (but it’s job and finish and still get paid ten hours)Sunday job and finish paid 15 hours.we don’t do call out work .most week days only work 9 hrs but paid for ten and I get a van supplied to commute even though I’m only five miles from the yard.not a bad job at all!
I hate that type of work.
Job and finish… pfft.
Basically means your there as long as they need you.
I also hate it when companies use day rate. Because ye some days you only do 7-9 hours but some days you do 12 hours. You cant say anything about late finishes because they some days you finish early.
Na, I’d rather be paid hourly.
No not in my case
Job and finish for me on a Saturday means when I get finished on a Saturday after working maybe six hours I go home but still get paid ten hours,and on a Sunday I get 15.on a weekday I get paid a minimum ten hours although frequently do less.if I do more than ten I get paid for the extra .like I said not a bad job.I’m left alone during the day to get on with things how I see fit,and that suits me just fine
adam277:
andrew.s:
cgscott:
8 wheeler grab working on utils. Gas water electric.£170 a day and tine half saturday double bubble sunday.
If you opt in for emergency callout its £100 quid for on call and hours paid when out.
Regards.
Similar to what I’m on-but no extra for a Saturday (but it’s job and finish and still get paid ten hours)Sunday job and finish paid 15 hours.we don’t do call out work .most week days only work 9 hrs but paid for ten and I get a van supplied to commute even though I’m only five miles from the yard.not a bad job at all!
I hate that type of work.
Job and finish… pfft.
Basically means your there as long as they need you.
I also hate it when companies use day rate. Because ye some days you only do 7-9 hours but some days you do 12 hours. You cant say anything about late finishes because they some days you finish early.
Na, I’d rather be paid hourly.
Not always.
A few years ago I used to do a night run. It was job and knock paid 10 hours. I NEVER once went over 6 hour including a break. Easiest job I ever had!
tmcassett:
I’m surprised Carryfast hasn’t been frantically searching Google looking for an extreme example of a “driving job” that involves doing a bit of everything as well as driving.
I can remember laughing when they told us that we’d soon be working in the hub warehouse handball loading and tipping trailers as opposed to parked up watching tele, reading, snoozing.
If the examples were ‘extreme’ they obviously wouldn’t be so easy to find.
It’s good when you get a tickle like that
Not always.
A few years ago I used to do a night run. It was job and knock paid 10 hours. I NEVER once went over 6 hour including a break. Easiest job I ever had!
Trouble is it never seems to last for ever, usually someone gets the green eyes and moans or grasses you and it comes to an end
Is ADR any benefit for bigger money tanker work , the likes of Lomas distribution haul a lot of lime and Cement.
Stacks74:
Is ADR any benefit for bigger money tanker work , the likes of Lomas distribution haul a lot of lime and Cement.
Pretty sure you don’t need an ADR for cement mixers. I’m happy to be corrected if I’m wrong though.
LazyDriver:
Stacks74:
Is ADR any benefit for bigger money tanker work , the likes of Lomas distribution haul a lot of lime and Cement.Pretty sure you don’t need an ADR for cement mixers. I’m happy to be corrected if I’m wrong though.
They’re more bulk tankers than mixers mate.
I’d agree with you about the cement, but not sure about the lime for ADR.
Dave??
Still waiting people for the OP question to be answered so I can send my CV off. 
Not interested in driving a fleet spec motor though for 60+hrs, I want top spec Volvo or Scania and 35hr weeks.
halewood:
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I’m sure the likes of Lomas distribution and Simon Gibson bulk drivers Are on a lot more than £8:00 an hour and those Lads are on the Tramp all week with Nights out I see them delivering Lime to Collins Earthworks jobs , 1 at junction 16 M1 it’s gonna be a massive new Amazon warehouse and Collins have all the soil stabilisation work in most of those Amazon new Builds , any tank bucker lads in here want to chime In .
Carryfast:
adam277:
They soon just want to go home early as possible. Money is not everything.^ This.
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 and wouldn’t have traded an open road and the surrounding countryside on a mid summer evening at 8-10 pm and morning at 4-6 am and even the rest of a warm night with all windows open and the wind blowing through, for the world.
But the life v money trade off can damage financial security in the long term.
With hindsight I really wish that I could have settled in engineering and factory work like my Dad but it was never going to happen.
Same mate, I’ve done my share of office and factory work and in various forms spent the last twenty years on the road, I wouldn’t trade it for an extra £1 an hour and home every day at 5,pm , I love the road even the motorways, now £2 per hour extra you might have a deal [emoji848][emoji848][emoji848]
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spacemanZ10:
Carryfast:
With hindsight I really wish that I could have settled in engineering and factory work like my Dad but it was never going to happen.Same mate, I’ve done my share of office and factory work and in various forms spent the last twenty years on the road, I wouldn’t trade it for an extra £1 an hour and home every day at 5,pm , I love the road even the motorways, now £2 per hour extra you might have a deal
I posted a CNC turner job on page 2 it seems to be saying 35-37k basic ( 40 hrs or less ) + over time.
We know that even 35 hours on that job will seem like more than 70 waiting for the clock to get to 5 pm on a Friday and starting another week on a Monday morning.
The advert clearly seems to be saying no timewasters only take this on if you know that you will be able to handle the prison like existence and laugh at it.
Those that can are a special breed.
Carryfast:
spacemanZ10:
Carryfast:
With hindsight I really wish that I could have settled in engineering and factory work like my Dad but it was never going to happen.Same mate, I’ve done my share of office and factory work and in various forms spent the last twenty years on the road, I wouldn’t trade it for an extra £1 an hour and home every day at 5,pm , I love the road even the motorways, now £2 per hour extra you might have a deal
I posted a CNC turner job on page 2 it seems to be saying 35-37k basic ( 40 hrs or less ) + over time.
We know that even 35 hours on that job will seem like more than 70 waiting for the clock to get to 5 pm on a Friday and starting another week on a Monday morning.
The advert clearly seems to be saying no timewasters only take this on if you know that you will be able to handle the prison like existence and laugh at it.
Those that can are a special breed.
Yes a special breed, I’m amazed when people say 'i don’t know how you can drive all day’s but without them being happy in one place we would have nothing to.deliver and vice versa I guess!
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probably in that extra pallet that don’t have no paperwork, the boss puts a few hundred in the brown envelope for you at the end of the week
bbez:
probably in that extra pallet that don’t have no paperwork, the boss puts a few hundred in the brown envelope for you at the end of the week
I miss my little brown envelopes… 
Where is the big money in haulage?
It’s usually in the back of the big blue armoured truck doing 70mph+ running up the M1 with the city of London police Escorts
As you were…nothing to see here, had second thoughts
