chicane:
Are you seriously saying an experienced driver with C+E & DCPC is only worth and extra 20p/h?Why the hell would anyone spend the better part of 3k of their own money for that?
To turn this on its head, why would a logisticski company who just need to put 1000 bums on their customers seats want to pay £12/15 an hour for the top tray skilled desirable drivers of proven worth, when they’ve dumbed the job down to the lowest achievable level, and in most cases the min wage most inexperienced person can do the job every bit as well as the most, computerised lorry that only needs steering, no goods handling (look at the moaning here about having to strap the load inside a curtain sider), nothing to do other than start the lorry put in drive and steer it, the company can remotely watch the driver to see if they are doing anything wrong, cheerio to the worse offenders.
This is what maddens me, short sighted drivers wanted this, as is so often the case they voted for their own demise.
Working people have allowed themselves to be brainwashed, rich people (govt and their lackeys) told them that proper unions are not needed, hence look at the difference between lorry and train drivers
Train unions didn’t allow their job to be demeaned, they kept it skilled, and by full union membership supporting aid union kept their conditions.
Young men in this country are paying the £3k and getting the licence, because thanks to successive governments policies (starting with Thatcher) we have lost almost all our manufacturing and engineering base, and have legion of frustrated young men with no other future apart from drink drugs and criminality.
What the hell are strapping you men doing selling tellys and washing machines or flipping burgers or sat on their arses with a headphone glued to their shell likes in a bloody call centre, these are not jobs for men.
You can’t have failed to notice the sea change in the attitudes of the young driver, when i was young the majority of young drivers got into lorries because they wanted to, it was a chosen life for themselves me included, many but not all young drivers now are there because there is nothing else for them.
Now throw limitless (and it is unless we leave the EU) EU immigration into the mix, countries that are now in worse straits than even us, their millions of young men have a chance to move to Britain and earn up to 5 times the money they could earn at home, they’d have to be bonkers not to come and i have no argument with them whatsoever.
A good driver is worth their money, and its far in excess of the figures being spoken of here, indeed in many cases they have found those jobs and are looking after them because good drivers are seldom idiots and keeping schtum because they don’t the job to be spoiled by others.
The thing is those good jobs usually require some specialised skills, and/or the better companies want the best for their money so are very particuar about recruitment, most of the good jobs go by recomendation, or by face to face application, they are seldom if ever advertised for these days legislation has made recruiting a dangerous game for good employers.
