I learnt long ago to not talk wages. No matter what you say someone will better it or belittle you over it. All I’ll say is I’m happy with the money I earn for the work I do, and for me that’s all that matters
Average 60h/week, home every day, average £560/week after tax Mon-Fri & I don’t drive trucks anymore.
Pimpdaddy:
Average 60h/week, home every day, average £560/week after tax Mon-Fri & I don’t drive trucks anymore.
Tesco goods in clerk who does overtime?? 
selby newcomer:
Pimpdaddy:
Average 60h/week, home every day, average £560/week after tax Mon-Fri & I don’t drive trucks anymore.Tesco goods in clerk who does overtime??
I wish, I’d be driving a car like yours if I was…
switchlogic:
I learnt long ago to not talk wages. No matter what you say someone will better it or belittle you over it. All I’ll say is I’m happy with the money I earn for the work I do, and for me that’s all that matters
Sorry you’ve had that experience. I’ve not found that in my current field. Most people are very open and only happy to help/share. It all comes around and discussion of pay/conditions/job satisfaction is rife as we all rely on info from each other as you get very little truth from companies. Classic case was a firm I was due to work for based out of Essex. The pay was considered below par but the lifestyle was excellent for home life and friendliness of the company. Only through open discussion did this information become known.
Maybe it’s field dependent on attitudes of discussing (sounds very childish that someone would ridicule). Some professions are quite old fashioned in their ways. Must say there’s been a more negative response here.
The point isn’t to put your wages up to be critiqued or show off. I didn’t think people would be so juvenile to do that to someone. I only suggested it for benefit of all. You certainly won’t get the skinny from the firms on pay/lifestyle. Anyway, if not well received the idea will die by its own sword and nothing lost!
peirre:
dozy:
Top line £805.57
Hrs 68.75
805.57 div 68.75 =£11.71 p.hThe OP asked what was the take home pay (the bottom line)
Bu I wasn’t replying too the op 
,I was replying too juddian ,who said use yout top line div by hours = hourly rate ,in future though I will try too reply only too the op ,sorry .
Basic State Pension.
Keep saving, chaps! 
there’s no harm in these threads but they can be misleading, I know they have been for me in the past!
ie if you live in a certain area - lets say London, and you see someone from Glasgow quoting their topline, then you’re probably not going to be too impressed by the figure
also some people quote how many hours they are at work (including breaks), some just state the hours they’re paid for
start times, mon-fri etc are all factors too
Juddian:
The trouble with take home pay comparisons is that you’re not comparing apples with apples, and looking only at whats in the packet is the reason some companies get away with paying peanuts, their drivers are doing 2 weeks work every week AND counting ex’s/subsistence as part of their pay in order to kid themselves they’re doing well.There is one fair formula for comparison purposes, ignore subsistence money and the hours that covers for this (it’s merely a small bribe to sleep in a tin can and protect the load/vehicle), divide your top line by the total hours you are at work to arrive at a mean hourly rate.
I don’t where you get this idea that sleeping in the cab means you’re guarding the load? I’ve never worked for anybody who’s expected me to guard the load on a night out.
And while I agree night out money shouldn’t be included for comparison, it is still money in your pay packet.
muckles:
Juddian:
The trouble with take home pay comparisons is that you’re not comparing apples with apples, and looking only at whats in the packet is the reason some companies get away with paying peanuts, their drivers are doing 2 weeks work every week AND counting ex’s/subsistence as part of their pay in order to kid themselves they’re doing well.There is one fair formula for comparison purposes, ignore subsistence money and the hours that covers for this (it’s merely a small bribe to sleep in a tin can and protect the load/vehicle), divide your top line by the total hours you are at work to arrive at a mean hourly rate.
I don’t where you get this idea that sleeping in the cab means you’re guarding the load? I’ve never worked for anybody who’s expected me to guard the load on a night out.
And while I agree night out money shouldn’t be included for comparison, it is still money in your pay packet.
Your n/o money was originally for you to get digs. When I first started it was £8 a night. For me it has gone up by 12quid in 35 ish years, if it had the same ratio to pay now as it was then it would be about £50 or so quid, or the same price to get a room for the night.
That is why a lot of us slept across the seats to save the n/o money, sleeper cabs ■■■■■■ ed that up, and were the reason all the good town truck parks went…along with the social life the job used to have.
I’m with juddian, night out money is ex’s, not wages.
What ever you call n/o money…it pays for the weekends indulgances.
I don’t care what’s called what on my pay slip, it’s the amount that goes into my account on a Friday that matters. As for guarding the load, if a load of nice gentlemen turn up in the night and start pinching things out of the trailer I’m not gonna be stopping them in a hurry. A few places we load at have security notices up and a regular line is ‘the driver challenged them and was beaten. His phone was stolen’ so no thanks
It’s hard to make a comparison. My wage would be probably quite high compared to someone in the west country or Scotland but in london housing costs are a lot higher so after that’s taken out disposable income won’t be much difference.
It doesn’t really matter what the wages are, it’s how you manage your money that is most important.
I’ve worked at firms where the wages are very good, dome drivers lived in a nice 3 bedroom semi, had a nice car and two weeks in the sun every year, other drivers on the same firm, earning the same wages lived in a council flat, drove a 500 quid car, never went on holiday, we’re always poncing ■■■■ and never had money for breakfast.
The only difference between the two groups was how they managed their money.
“It doesn’t matter what your wages are its how you manage your money”
Says the man who obviously doesn’t make enough.
What a load of nonsense.
Maybe if more men where worried about how much they make and not about feeling sorry for their bosses. The industry wouldn’t be able to take advantage of drivers.
Men working for little over minimum wage is a utter joke and has been left happen due to the yes men mentality.
wired4smoke:
“It doesn’t matter what your wages are its how you manage your money”Says the man who obviously doesn’t make enough.
What a load of nonsense.
I am sure newmercman will address what you have to say, but… a bloke could be picking up a grand a week, completely mismanage it and end up in worse financial straits than someone else who was pocketing £300 and cuts his cloth accordingly.
newmercman:
It doesn’t really matter what the wages are, it’s how you manage your money that is most important.
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My version of that would be :It DOES matter a lot what the wages are, but it’s how you manage them that is more important
wired4smoke:
Men working for little over minimum wage is a utter joke and has been left happen due to the yes men mentality.
Couldn’t agree more, although things are looking a bit better lately on the wage side. ( but we still have to endure the yes men 
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I can see the job interview taking place, “So what are you like handling your monthly outgoings and your wages”
“Oh yes I am very careful”,
"That’s great then, was going to offer you £600 but since your good I will just give you the £350 and leave the £600 for the men that haven’t a clue.
Money is everything in this job, as the men at the top are making plenty of it. And I want my fair share.
The problem is that the industry is full of men with the attitude you should be grateful we are working type mentality.
Then there are the people that wages come 2nd to the truck and the work they do.
I care about what I earn, but I don’t care about what anyone else earns.