Working your way North

UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUMS THE UK PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS FORUM (INTERACTIVE)
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My first “New Topic”…

Hello folks!
I’m an Edinburgh based driver. Sadly I drive for a removal firm :frowning: Sad, but true. As you can all appreciate, I’m sure, I am quite desperate to get out of there and get myself a real driving job, which doesn’t involve doing my pan in day after day moving other peoples furniture, and in a bendy wagon rather than the rigids I’ve been driving for the past 5 years.

Howerver, despite media depictions of a shortage of drivers, there doesn’t seem to be many jobs going begging this side of the border. I’ve tried all the usual avenues; word of mouth, dragging my ■■■■ round the local yards and speaking to bosses, phoning round every haulage firm I know of and local press. Nowt. Plus the offers of £16,000+ a year I see advertised in the English press, Truckstop News etc is 4 grand a year more than the few jobs I’ve seen advertised up here!!

What the pineapple is going on?

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People up there tell me that wages are lower because things are cheaper up there.

Sure, housing costs are lower, but is food that much cheaper? Or a new car? I’d doubt it myself.

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Hi

Have to disagree with you on this one, there are hundreds. Might not pay too good some of them but they are out there. Try the following;

jobcentreplus.gov.uk/cms.asp?Page=/Home

I tried an EH1 postcode and there were next to none. Try an EH47 postcode and a distance of 10 miles, loads.
West Lothian is where most of the larger transport companies are located
so depending on where in Edinburgh you stay it could be a little travelling or a lot of travelling.

BFG are advertising in this weeks Courier for store deliveries to Iceland(the food stores not the country).

Dean