Pay cuts apply even if changing one job for something similar at a different firm outright.
They also occur of course when you say, leave a £480pw job @ 48 hours and take up a new one for £500pw for 55 hours.
THese days you’ll find yourself working those full contract hours (and longer!) more often than in the boom times.
Assuming they’ll be lots of “job and knock” is a fools errand I’m afraid.
Im summary, pay cuts can involve staying put, changing jobs, or even taking a “promotion” - if the hours go down that you get contracted for. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to match “like for like” in the transport industry. I’ve yet to see a full time job even advertised that pays what I left my last full time job at, so consequently I remain uninterested in going back to full time working.
The biggest thing I feel I achieve from working agency is the ability to work less when I choose, thus reducing my overheads tactically when required by myself, rather than by others wanting me to effectively pay to go to work.
For me to take a pay cut would require very special circumstances indeed. If the boss was taking a similar, genuine pay cut I might be persuaded, if not then no way. To be honest, with a flood of cheap foreign labour and tumbling rates of pay over the past decade, we have all taken pay cuts anyway.
why should you take a paycut when the company pays more for the new truck the insurance the fuel R and Ms,dfor gods sake why do the cheeky b…ask the most important part of the chain the driver to take a cut its an insult.
it comes down to what is right for you and you alone, I earn less now for more hours then i was earning 15 years ago doing an easier job, but i was,nt happy and it affected family and chose what is more important to me!! the one thing i do whilst being a driver is when i get to work i leave my brain at the gate and pick it up when i go home. as i do think the industry is the worst one in terms of bull crap from the top to the bottom and if you think about it long enough you go nuts…
I have, for the company I work for now. It was necessary at the start of the recession and worth it to stay in business, especially when you hear of things like the (to me) pernicious 0 hour contract and other ways to be exploited, though admittedly this sounds little different to doing agency work. If you have a say in the business, want it to survive/thrive and can do something about it and enjoy the job and can get by then it’s possibly no big deal to take a slight cut. Would do it again, but then I don’t have any great outgoings. After all, most of us have taken an effective pay in real terms the last few years anyway.
I really don’t believe the stuff some of you fella’s write on here. And you believe it to be sensible. It’s beyond rationality. Well hurry yourselves back to the 17th Century you’ll fit in nicely.
WE’LL NEVER STICK TOGETHER! 
it’s time to turn the tables, 
boys and girls, as the race to the bottom is NIGH! 
