Just seen class 1 adr driver wanted at scunthorpe £8 per hour.
cheekymonkey:
limeyphil:
i can’t believe how many fools are willing to be paid by the hour.
it’s a shame how many people in this industry are willing to downgrade it.Yeh, its terrible Phil. Can you tell the thousands and thousands of us how to get a better deal?
Also, how is hourly paid downgrading the job?
if i was a cleaner, then hourly rate would be the norm, but trip money, pence per mile has been the usual thing for some of us for quite some time. day rates are prety good too. if you get done in a 12 hour day, then that’s you done. so many hourly paid drivers stretch it out for a 15 hour day, they end up working longer for the same money as the bloke working on trip money, or a day rate.
salaried positions would be even better, it shows that the company respects its’ employees.
I have a job and get paid, with the way things are, i feel very lucky.
That’s the way the government wants you to feel. It’s a way of keeping us working class where we are while the rich get richer.
mac12:
Just seen class 1 adr driver wanted at scunthorpe £8 per hour.
I always wondered who puts the ■■■■■ in scunny 
ADR doesn’t seem to pay extra anymore,(except tankers) I’ve had it for about 8 years now, a few years back it could command an extra £2-3 an hour on basic rate, not any more, & I think its here to stay judging by the amount of people doing it in combination with their DCPC, not money well spent 
don’t think I’ll be renewing mine next time, Hiab & Moffett don’t seem as badly affected yet, then again you do have to physically use these appliance’s, seems to be the best route in the future.
Calgary,
Yard shunter,
Nights,
GBP14.68/hr for 44hrs/week or 9hrs/day
& GBP20.81/hr overtime.
Pat Hasler:
I could not return, it seems pay there has dropped in a decade and not risen
This could be forseen about 5 to 7 years ago, drivers getting too big for their boots, instead of keeping the job hard work with crash boxes and bit of graft involved most drivers wanted the easy life, twist locks climate control auto boxes and lots of hours to sit on their arses in their huge trucks.
The job got dumbed down and now anyone can do it, factor in the logistics companies many of whom wouldn’t know a real driver if they fell over one so idiots employ idiots and assumed as the normal standard of driver.
Don’t feel too sorry, offer many of them a job on the car carriers for example on £38k’s worth of graft, working hard all hours God sends filthy freezing cold wet through and trying to spend half or all the week out in a cut down ultra small cab with no aircon and they’d laugh in your face.
The old saying of where there’s muck there’s brass has returned, i said to my ever suffering missus about 5 years ago that we’d be turning the clock back about 25 years soon, we’re not quite there yet but not far off.
It’ll get worse and i have a feeling it won’t get any better for years to come, we can only look forward to more immigration and an ever expanding EU which means more and cheaper labour to come, the govt of day and the opposition want it, and their EU masters insist on it.
It’ll be funny to see the East Europeans fighting it out with the Turks in due course for running the warehouses though, unlike us they don;t do as they are (brainwashed) told to.
Country is buggered basically.
On that happy note please carry on…
If only wed all got together and told the manufactures that we love crash boxes and didnt want air-con or any comforts in the cab, and that Atki`s and Scammels should be the peak of truck development.
Oh well. I knew it`d be my bloody fault!
cheekymonkey:
If only wed all got together and told the manufactures that we love crash boxes and didnt want air-con or any comforts in the cab, and that Atki`s and Scammels should be the peak of truck development.Oh well. I knew it`d be my bloody fault!
The trouble is as usual its gone too far, if the job was still hard physical work and required skill and strength half the buggers who do it now couldn’t or wouldn’t, which leaves a shortage of people able to do the job competently, i prefer it like that and the fiscal result… .
Hi guys, my first post.
Im self employed Ltd Company Class 1 driver working in the Coventry, Leamington Spa area mostly, and Crick when I have to. I have worked mainly on a DHL automotive contract now for almost 2 years. Days and lates, easy easy work £11 for the first 8, £15 after that £18 for a Sat. Fairly good pay but obviously no holiday or sick pay!
Warwicktrucker:
Fairly good pay but obviously no holiday or sick pay!
Sick pay?? I’d stand a good chance of losing my job if i had a day off sick.
It is none of your buisiness 
Gentlemans do not speak about money.
limeyphil:
if i was a cleaner, then hourly rate would be the norm, but trip money, pence per mile has been the usual thing for some of us for quite some time. day rates are prety good too. if you get done in a 12 hour day, then that’s you done. so many hourly paid drivers stretch it out for a 15 hour day, they end up working longer for the same money as the bloke working on trip money, or a day rate.
salaried positions would be even better, it shows that the company respects its’ employees.
Yeah 
I just came from London. Left Glasgow Sunday night, delivered Monday morning. Was asked if I can wait until Tues morning for collection. No prob - slept all day, went to a friend for a coffe, then visited another friends and stayed there overnight. In the morning collected stuff as required after 4 hours of delay - ferry cancelations, had to wait for the couirier from Germany. So as if I haven’t enough yet, I slept all morning. Then did some small delivery on the way up, but not too far from London and when I was almost there, I received a call asking if I can wait till evening and collect another stuff from another airport. With pleasure, came back to London, spent rest of the day in the cafe drinking coffe and reading books. After they closed the cafe in the evenin got couple of hours kip out of boredom and then collected at 10 pm, delivered at 5am and here I am at home, and I can’t sleep as I slept too much over last days
I am paid flat hourly rate from the moment I turn up at work to the moment I shut the gate behind me. So I already clocked well over 50 hours this week, while less than 20 was productive hours. Thank you, I stick to my hourly rate instead of being paid “per job” or “per mile” as it is common in my line of work. If you are appaled with that - well:
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Mainline Agency Swindon driving class 1 for Iceland
£8.50 weekdays
£10.50 Saturday
£12.50 Sunday
much the same at all agencies around this area.
Can’t remember to be honest, I did work it out a year or so ago and it wasn’t funny so I try not to think about it. £20300 p/a (class 1), £20 nights out, no weekends or bank hol’s and no chance of overtime. Prick of a boss, most boring job going, defects left un-sorted for months on end, day driver never puts diesel / coolant / screenwash in truck etc etc 
Remind me why I turn up each day…?
I get paid by the hour including the 45 min tacho break some days I might work up to my 15hour spread and get well over €200 for my troubles,Also get paid for bank holidays along with annual leave and manily work mon-fri I noticed that alot of companies/agencies insist on lads working for them selves ala self employed don’t think either our employee laws or revenue people would allow these companies operate.
I counted 34 postings which gave their rates. The average appears to be £9.35 per hour. I counted 4 “shift” rates which averaged £88.25
If we had strong union representation we could press for a clear basic of, say, £10ph for a guaranteed 40 hour week
We could then quantify minima for extras. eg
x 1.5 overtime
x 1.5 saturday
X 2 sundays and BHs
- £2 ph nights
- £2 ph ADR
- £25 night out
etc
loved the pigeon
R
We’ve been told, for the second year running, there’s no chance at all of a payrise “for at least a year”. One of the other drivers has been there for four years and never had a payrise.
The clapped out trucks we have were due to be replaced this year but that’s also been put on hold for the second year running - but this time there was no suggestions of when they’ll actually do it 
Times are hard I guess but seeing / hearing about the perks those higher up the chain are getting, it kinda takes the ■■■■.