Deben Transport
Salary 480.77 (65 hrs) average between actually 55-65hrs
Meal all. 37.50 (7.50 per day)
Night out. 21.50 (per night)
ADR jobs . 7.50 (per job)
Splitter trl. 10.00 (per day)
Take home average after tax £455.00 Drivers wages are swings and roundabouts. Drivers should be more candid with each other what they earn and shame the bad low paying firms. That’s the only way to get a pay rise, hauliers will pay the going rate and that’s as little as they can get away with…!
Realistically how much would make you feel a valued employee with a good career.
I think a Class 1 driver should be on £550 for a 60 hour week that’s only £9.16 per hour. Its what you’re worth when you think of the responsibility you take on the training we have to go through, yet we seem happy to settle for 10 pence more than minimum wage and work as many hours as god sends to make a living wage. No wonder there’s a driver shortage.
backload:
60 hour week…£9.16 per hour.
Glad I didn’t blow £1500 on a class 1.
People working too many hours to earn money they don’t really need to buy things they don’t really want to impress people they dont really like.
backload:
I think a Class 1 driver should be on £550 for a 60 hour week that’s only £9.16 per hour. Its what you’re worth…
Are you on a wind up?
Surely there’s nobody still driving class 1 for less than £10 an hour?
Contraflow:
backload:
I think a Class 1 driver should be on £550 for a 60 hour week that’s only £9.16 per hour. Its what you’re worth…Are you on a wind up?
Surely there’s nobody still driving class 1 for less than £10 an hour?
Aye take home!
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
That’s the most sensible post of the thread.
Contraflow:
backload:
Surely there’s nobody still driving class 1 for less than £10 an hour?
Yep unfortunately but then again im under half the average age of a trucker and they took me on after only having the licence 2-3mths so i got over it. On a probation period for 3mths on £9.00. We don’t get break time taken off us and get £25 night out.
Still Downtons down the road pay £8.50 and James Timms pay under £8 the last time i checked.
£140 a day m-f x3
£160 Sat and £200 Sunday
£25 Night out x4
£880
+vat
£1056
vat man - 105.60
Tax Account - about 100
NI - £2
Works out about £850 a week if working weekends with 4 nights out, sometimes more as i get paid for weekends rest away if i am out of times
Averagings 45-55 hours a week if only 5 days
After tax 3 grand.
lefkasman:
People working too many hours to earn money they don’t really need to buy things they don’t really want to impress people they dont really like.
That’s a sad but true story.
Dont really matter what “you” take home does it?
What matters is that everybody takes home a reasonable living wage,and why?
Because if nobody has the money to buy “stuff” then they dont need transport,
As the saying goes “no man is an island entire unto himself therefore ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee”
The british workers worst enemy is the british worker
Er, yes. I agree. I suggested the idea and I think this thread is well and truly done 
. The point seems to have completely passed some by. Some got it, a lot didn’t. Interesting to compare the responses in the linked bulletin board were unanimous and no complaining. I found the original idea useful myself as did a lot of my colleagues. Compare it to respsonse here is interesting. But some on truck net will argue black is white in an empty room 
. You can lead a horse to water as they say…
F-reds:
I don’t care, if it’s enough to pay the bills, I’ll just keep on!To be honest there is NO ONE on the earth that is doing my exact job. We are a small firm of 3x 8 leggers and 1 artic. 2 rigids and the artic, out of the other depot, and my rigid out of a different depot. This means that no one else is doing the same hours, or the same conditions, as me. By conditions I mean, runs, customers, different depot staff, different traffic.
As such, if one of the other guys at the firm is on more than me, fine. He will have done something different to me, to have earned that.
As for what you boys/girls are on? I’m not fussed about that either. You will either be working harder, or longer, or on a job that is more skilled than mine, or you have found a better job than me. In which case, well done! It’s probably not that hard, but as I said I’m happy with my lot.
Did I forget to mention I’m happy
[ just my way of thinking
OK, just my personal two pennorth.
I run my own truck, I’m an employee of my own limited company and I pay myself a salary in line with what I would be paid if I was an employee of any other haulage company. In £.s.d. terms I pay myself a net wage of between £2,100 and £2,300 a month. I’d probably be better off driving a supermarket truck, although I’m not in the least materialistic and quality of life is a very important part of how I live. I have an easy job working sensible hours, I very rarely take a reduced break for example and I get plenty of time off at weekends.
The main bonus I have as an owner-operator is that I can buy a lot of things which are genuinely for business use but which also come in handy at home or on my boat.
Like many others on here, I was earning more 20 years ago as an employee on continental work than I am now as an OO on domestic work, but the world has changed since then with the advancement of the eastern European economies and you can’t un-ring a bell.