Yes we were paid trip money back in the 80s, we got 9 days for a Rome, 8 days for a Milan, so the trick was to try and do Five Milans in a month so you got paid 40 days money.
Hi YOYO5 ,was that all in .no night out money per day/night.
Dan Punchard:
I’ll have a look one day for old invoices but 2 loads of stone at £5.50 tonne and 2 loads of scrap back at £5 per tonne ,or 1 stone 1 scrap 1 sand but £2 for every tonne of scrap loaded by our machine .and port talbot was as much then as it is now !
first driveing job w h phillips top 80 pound take 
home 62 plus 5 pound night out
When I left BRS Bedford to go to Australia in 1965, I grossed 1500 quid for my last
year. In West Oz , I did 2 Perth Carnarvons a week at $75.00 per trip, 2400 miles at 38mph with old Fodens. A big difference.
graeme1970:
newmercman:
deckboypeggy:
newmercman,god who were you on for doing fridges at that rate and what work was that … not one of the well known companies, or else we would have all been working there ,was it a owner drivers second motor,you lucky man… that with night allowance included…That was Solstor, it was rumored to be the best paying job on the continent. We had quite a few ex ACH lads on there and their wages weren’t too bad, so that says a lot about how well we were paid.
We earned every penny though, trust me, there was no hanging around once we had a load on.
When doing the fruit & veg in the 90’s used to chat to a few solstor boys when I was reloading back for Scotland,I can confirm they were on good money,used to meet them when loading back off wheatagrove,rodanto,the wheatagrove boys we’re on quite good money too…there was also a solstor wagon that used to reload fish out of bellshill for b/gate for awhile in the 90’s.good lad bluey was his name…what I class as the good old days
bluey is still working out of the fields today lol
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Daventry:
deckboypeggy:
Newmercan yes you are correct about the big money ,v mostly own account…i actually did start for SOLSTORE FROM .ACH 1998-ISH ,I DID NOT FIT IN, iwas used to my own unit i did a couple of carrot runs… however i met and run with a lot of the lad,s not one bad one, all good men…this still does not answer my question =in the 1979/80 drivers strike what was the ammount per hour we were striking for,£5 or£1 per hour…dby it would have been £1.00 as I was on Bewick’s from 1976 to 1986
I worked for Geo. Davies & son out of brantwood Essex, we were out for 7 weeks but we won a 12 1/2 % pay rise, cant remember how much an hour that was but it was lots more than a £1 an hour.
Steve.
I was working for a local quarry about the time the heavy goods licence came in .(got mine on grandad rights)Rate shot up from 4 shillings an hour to 6 shillings an hour overnight .
My first artic job was general haulage in 1976, after a couple of years my average gross was £93 a week, old rough motors there but paid between 30/50% better than the all flash no cash merchants in the area.
Changed jobs a few times, gradually increasing me money, got me big break around '86 when i actually went driving vans on nights for far better than i could earn on artics, right place right time they increased the night trunk operation and i slipped into one of the best night trunk jobs of the 80’s, sadly these things never last, and on my last year probably '90 when we agreed redundancy terms was on target for £30k gross.
Went onto car transporters on a scabby outfit, but learned that trade and when a job on a proper outfit came up managed to slip in there.
In real terms taking inflation into account that night trunk of the 80’s i’ve never bettered.
What i’ve learned though, which doesn’t go down terribly well here with some, is that in all cases the best paid jobs with the best fringe benefits have been properly unionised.
Just as a comparison in 1987 I had split from my first wife and to keep myself busy I was doing 3 jobs .
Main job was a shift manager in Dispatch dept of Sunblest , loading 130 bread wagons . £12.500 pa gross for shift work
I worked part time delivering and collecting hire cars 3 half days each week that gave me an extra £250 each month .
I also did 2 weekends each month working for my brother in law doing fridge refits in supermarkets
He paid me £10ph cash and we averaged 36hrs over sat +sun inc travel .
No wonder I lost 6 st over about a year .
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