Hi guys. Just looking for a bit of advice. Currently full time in tesco as a shelf stacker but looking to change into lgv driving full time. Got my class c and my c+e booked in for next week although been pondering over work and there’s no jobs that i can find that allows zero experience. Has anyone worked for agencies around south Wales. What they like to work for etc? Do you get the hours etc? I don’t particular wanna step out of tesco if I can’t get the hours. Any feedback would be appreciative…stuck what to do :s
Your best bet would be to drive for agencies on your days off from the shelf stacking, I realise you’re probably keen to get driving full time but the reality is that if you haven’t done it before you don’t even know for sure if driving HGVs is for you, and you don’t want to be throwing away a regular income for agency work that may or may not keep you fully employed.
Until you can find a regular driving job do some part time driving while still keeping your regular job, you’ll be gaining experience and getting paid for it without throwing away a regular income.
Your just the person this forum needs, we keep getting told the pay is better shelf stacking in tesco than driving so how many hours do you work per week and how much do you get paid per hour?
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Yeah come on…Hours and pay…Your job is alot better than ours apparently…Or so we keep hearing…Don’t keep us hanging on now…
Haha apologies for the late reply. Somehow i dont think this job pays more. Hence why I want out. I can barely afford my mortgage and feed my kids on the wage. I’m on roughly 8.20 ph working overnight 10 til 7am rushed off my feet to the point of carrying myself out of here in the mornings. Really not worth the money. People who say supermarkets pay more obviously don’t work in supermarkets lol
craigy77:
Haha apologies for the late reply. Somehow i dont think this job pays more. Hence why I want out. I can barely afford my mortgage and feed my kids on the wage. I’m on roughly 8.20 ph working overnight 10 til 7am rushed off my feet to the point of carrying myself out of here in the mornings. Really not worth the money. People who say supermarkets pay more obviously don’t work in supermarkets lol
Get your hgv as I get £8.50 cat c and you can get higher rates
Already got the class c. C+E booked in for next week so fingers crossed I can suss that then start looking for some work somewhere.
£8.20 per hour there was a class 1 on here a few weeks ago on £6.80
mac12:
£8.20 per hour there was a class 1 on here a few weeks ago on £6.80
Wow. That’s less than if I work on a checkout during a day shift.
I currently work at an airfield doing fuel, C & C+E, they wont give me no HGV training, no CPC, no ADR for £8.60ph.
Currently doing my CPC (grandfather rights) out of my own pocket to get some 7.5t work in order to pay for my C license.
Is it worth me getting ADR as part of my CPC ? is there much work on 7.5t for ADR or is it mostly C/C+E ?
I know how the tesco guy feels, its hard to get the money together to do the training, but desperate to be out on the road.
1 day…
craigy77:
mac12:
£8.20 per hour there was a class 1 on here a few weeks ago on £6.80Wow. That’s less than if I work on a checkout during a day shift.
It’s a terrible hourly rate but by the time night out money is added and the additional hours driving occurs the weekly headline figure will still be more
I seen Tesco DC jobs are going but spoke to someone who works there and their paying 9.50ph for the job. I earn just shy of that working nights filling shelves. Tesco obviously pay crap money for driving
wilky423:
I currently work at an airfield doing fuel, C & C+E, they wont give me no HGV training, no CPC, no ADR for £8.60ph.
Currently doing my CPC (grandfather rights) out of my own pocket to get some 7.5t work in order to pay for my C license.Is it worth me getting ADR as part of my CPC ? is there much work on 7.5t for ADR or is it mostly C/C+E ?
I know how the tesco guy feels, its hard to get the money together to do the training, but desperate to be out on the road.
1 day…
I can’t see why not, I used to get asked to take the 7.5t out at my old place to do an ADR run now and then, as the normal driver wasn’t ADR.
Down South, agencies tend to pay £1 more for ADR drivers, so if you are paying for the CPC yourself, it’s a good way of recouping the cost…
ajt:
craigy77:
mac12:
£8.20 per hour there was a class 1 on here a few weeks ago on £6.80Wow. That’s less than if I work on a checkout during a day shift.
It’s a terrible hourly rate but by the time night out money is added and the additional hours driving occurs the weekly headline figure will still be more
Night out money is not wages it’s to give up your home life and live in a truck. If you want to include it as wages then you need to work your money out divided by all hours at work.