Words fail me

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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There’s a job for a class 1 driver on the job centre website …the driver must also be a chef and help to put up a marquee etc before turning out posh grub and then sleep in the cab over several days for only 84 days in one year all for 120 quid a day as self employed :open_mouth:

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ladder49:
There’s a job for a class 1 driver on the job centre website …the driver must also be a chef and help to put up a marquee etc before turning out posh grub and then sleep in the cab over several days for only 84 days in one year all for 120 quid a day as self employed :open_mouth:

Why not just advertise it as Chef required must have circus experience and a class 1 licence. :smiling_imp: :laughing: :laughing:

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One of the polskie’s will take that for certain, thats exactly why these ‘firms’ scrape the bottom the way they do!

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It’ll be free food as well then! It’ll suit some or they’ll put the money up. I don’t really see it as a words fail me situation.

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These types of pay and requirement for multi tasking are becoming more common by the day. Soon a words fail me thread will be followed by “class 1 driver wanted, £500 per week” as they are now becoming the more unusual ads

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ladder49:
There’s a job for a class 1 driver on the job centre website …the driver must also be a chef and help to put up a marquee etc before turning out posh grub and then sleep in the cab over several days for only 84 days in one year all for 120 quid a day as self employed :open_mouth:

:laughing: I am perfectly qualified for that job :sunglasses:
At 120 a day, they can shove it though :laughing:

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Don’t see a big problem with this; I’m self-employed, if I had a few quiet days I’d happily do it, better than earning nothing. Add VAT to £120 (so now its £144) plus your food / drink is most likely free, sleep in the truck (so no digs to fund) - no worries

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ladder49:
There’s a job for a class 1 driver on the job centre website …the driver must also be a chef and help to put up a marquee etc before turning out posh grub and then sleep in the cab over several days for only 84 days in one year all for 120 quid a day as self employed :open_mouth:

Agreed. Shocking.

If you think about it. They want three people.

A pro driver
A pro chef
and a labourer.

OK driver say £100/day (which is low but bare with me)
Chef £100/day (ditto)
labourer £60/day

Total £260/day

and they’re offering £120…

If you do it, you’re a mug, and part of the reason why these people get away with it.

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Truckulent:

ladder49:
There’s a job for a class 1 driver on the job centre website …the driver must also be a chef and help to put up a marquee etc before turning out posh grub and then sleep in the cab over several days for only 84 days in one year all for 120 quid a day as self employed :open_mouth:

Agreed. Shocking.

If you think about it. They want three people.

A pro driver
A pro chef
and a labourer.

OK driver say £100/day (which is low but bare with me)
Chef £100/day (ditto)
labourer £60/day

Total £260/day

and they’re offering £120…

Isn’t that what the lads on the Ford WRC team do though? Dunno the wage they get but I’ll bet it’s probably more. Maybe some people aren’t driven by money and it’s their dream job…an odd dream job granted but it takes all sorts I suppose.

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I would only to do it if my wages went to charity?.. in Paris!

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Don’t imagine the tacho will be set to other work while you do your two other jobs somehow!

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I don’t see a problem with it to be honest. The money aint that genourous but you’ll get fed and watered.
I’ve never held with this view that I’m a driver so I drive and that’s all I do`.
Do you honestly think that whoever this employer is will employ a chef, a labourer and a driver? That’s not going to work in my book. Why can’t you muck in a bit?
So you’re the driver and you drive for 2 hours to a venue. You then sit on your arse while everybody else mucks in for 8 hours. You then drive home for 2 more hours. Can’t see it happening really.

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If you sign up to anything without “defined” prospects, then who’s to say it’s not

“£120 a day, 15 hour shifts. 6 day week. Get stuck in traffic, and you’ll be expected to pull your card, and run bent. You’ll be expected to pull your card at the 13 hour mark 3 days a week as well.
Wage includes night out money, tolls, any other expenses, and we’ll put it through to HMRC as “PAYE” so you can’t claim expenses allowances off it either.
The Ideal Candidate will be someone used to a world of abuse, low wages, and will be desperate to take the job, because they are probably here without a green card as well.”

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Winseer:
If you sign up to anything without “defined” prospects, then who’s to say it’s not

“£120 a day, 15 hour shifts. 6 day week. Get stuck in traffic, and you’ll be expected to pull your card, and run bent. You’ll be expected to pull your card at the 13 hour mark 3 days a week as well.
Wage includes night out money, tolls, any other expenses, and we’ll put it through to HMRC as “PAYE” so you can’t claim expenses allowances off it either.
The Ideal Candidate will be someone used to a world of abuse, low wages, and will be desperate to take the job, because they are probably here without a green card as well.”

That’s a fair assumption to make from the advert!
It might be that and you might have that conclusion based on personal experience.

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ThrustMaster:

Truckulent:

ladder49:
Isn’t that what the lads on the Ford WRC team do though? Dunno the wage they get but I’ll bet it’s probably more?

sounds like stobrats F1 that :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing: :grimacing:

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Winseer:
If you sign up to anything without “defined” prospects, then who’s to say it’s not

“£120 a day, 15 hour shifts. 6 day week. Get stuck in traffic, and you’ll be expected to pull your card, and run bent. You’ll be expected to pull your card at the 13 hour mark 3 days a week as well.
Wage includes night out money, tolls, any other expenses, and we’ll put it through to HMRC as “PAYE” so you can’t claim expenses allowances off it either.
The Ideal Candidate will be someone used to a world of abuse, low wages, and will be desperate to take the job, because they are probably here without a green card as well.”

Yeah it really read like that :unamused: :unamused: :unamused: :unamused:

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Truckulent:

ladder49:
There’s a job for a class 1 driver on the job centre website …the driver must also be a chef and help to put up a marquee etc before turning out posh grub and then sleep in the cab over several days for only 84 days in one year all for 120 quid a day as self employed :open_mouth:

Agreed. Shocking.

If you think about it. They want three people.

A pro driver
A pro chef
and a labourer.

OK driver say £100/day (which is low but bare with me)
Chef £100/day (ditto)
labourer £60/day

Total £260/day

and they’re offering £120…

If you do it, you’re a mug, and part of the reason why these people get away with it.

maybe jewsons should send someone out with the driver to work the hiab?

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It’s promo work, I’ve done it myself, best work I’ve ever done and what I’m hoping to do again. In my experience all sorts of other goodies get added to the basic pay, per diems, maybe hotel buy-out money, all your food supplied. Assuming it’s being away for extended periods it could easily end up as a £1,200 a week+ job.

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Harry Monk:
It’s promo work, I’ve done it myself, best work I’ve ever done and what I’m hoping to do again. In my experience all sorts of other goodies get added to the basic pay, per diems, maybe hotel buy-out money, all your food supplied. Assuming it’s being away for extended periods it could easily end up as a £1,200 a week+ job.

Big Mouth H :laughing: , they’ll all be after it now !

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mick.mh2racing:

Winseer:
If you sign up to anything without “defined” prospects, then who’s to say it’s not

“£120 a day, 15 hour shifts. 6 day week. Get stuck in traffic, and you’ll be expected to pull your card, and run bent. You’ll be expected to pull your card at the 13 hour mark 3 days a week as well.
Wage includes night out money, tolls, any other expenses, and we’ll put it through to HMRC as “PAYE” so you can’t claim expenses allowances off it either.
The Ideal Candidate will be someone used to a world of abuse, low wages, and will be desperate to take the job, because they are probably here without a green card as well.”

That’s a fair assumption to make from the advert!
It might be that and you might have that conclusion based on personal experience.

There’s been more than one occasion where I’ve turned up at some yard in the back of beyond, and was given a tractor unfit for the road, or was asked to go somewhere for which I was not given any paperwork/authority etc. In other words, I’d have to pay my own trip across the Irish Sea, and no customs paperwork and I wasn’t allowed to look in the back of a sealed trailer either.

I was miserable driving home having wasted a two-way commute’s worth of fuel yet again, but at least I get to keep my clean licence and liberty. :frowning:

The only time I’ve found myself palmed off with crap pay was when I turned up at a greater london yard, and got shown the door because I was ill-eqqipped to take re-routes on route. ie. bring my own sat nav, laptop, Iphone, etc. with me to work. I kept the shift, but was shown the door the rest of the week, and of course the plum hourly rate only applied after you’d done 40 hours… :imp: 5 hours @ £6.45ph. 13.50ph after 40 hours in one week. I won’t be making that mistake again.