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peirre:
Remember that it’s Lincolnshire where the local average wage is well down on the national average. I’m all for pitching a pay rate well above the local going rate which iirc is £30-£32k, but pitching a sky high rate seems crazy,
Sky high rate lol…plenty of companies from outside of that area manage to pay it so there’s no reason they can’t other than the fact they’re taking opportunistic advantage of gullible muppets like you.
Sad to see a driver using that old tired excuse of “well the wages are low because it’s X, Y or Z and that’s how it is” you often hear. The companies paying those rates are doing work for clients from all over the UK and businesses in their area are using haulage companies from all over the UK so sorry but that reason doesn’t wash and shame on you for excusing employers who use that. I’m from East Yorkshire, same bollox is spouted here, my lad drives for a company on general from East Yorkshire and today is picking a load up from Southampton. You can bet that the rate they’re getting won’t be one based on the fact the company is from East Yorkshire.
It’s saddening how many drivers are excusing low pay and even saying that is what they should be paying. And then the same people are there whining about how the job pays crap - well it will if people like you just shrug your shoulders, say that’s the way it is and accept it. I refuse to, every year I decide what the minimum I’ll work for is and I’ll refuse to work for less than that. And every year I still manage to get plenty of work. I refused to work for less than £10/hr TEN YEARS AGO even though I’m in an equally poor paying East Yorkshire/Hull area and I never have since and I’ve had all the work I’ve wanted to do.
Got to agree, hauliers are like farmers, they are always pleading poverty,.but with these big firms, have a look around the staff car park, and look in the office at all the ones in parasitic ‘non jobs’, ‘compliance’ this, and ‘project development’ that, all this stuff could be done as other duties among the too many ‘planners’ in these offices, 
saving thousands per year, as all this stuff has to be paid for out of the profits.
They always have a good reason at hand to pay poor wages to drivers, and if drivers are daft enough to believe them, and worse accept those reasons as fact, then things will never improve.
I live in an area that personifies crap money for drivers, up to 10 years ago all my jobs were out based out of my area , foreign and a SE firm, with my truck based at home, all on comparatively good money, and t.s and c.s.
Those jobs are few and far between nowadays, so I’m just like everybody else, having to ■■■■ it up,.as things are never going to improve with collective driver’s attitudes.
I don’t work for a ‘good’ firm as such, more the best of a bad bunch, but I enjoy the type of work, the money works out around 11 quid, not great, but better than some others,.and about the same I was on about 12 yrs ago ,which on reflection says everything about this industry.
I suppose apathy has finally set in, and I’ve just settled for it…There, I’ve .finally admitted it to myself 
If this guy is prepared to pay good money, and look after his drivers, he’ll reap what he sows…
just as the crappy firms do, but in a very different way. 
