Ok we all want to earn £50 an hour but the main ■■■■■■■■ is always money. So for what you do (i.e. what you drive now) what would you really want an hour and what you would expect for overtime and nights out etc. Also how many hours would you want to work.
Prob best way would be like this
Day Driver
Fridgework
Class 1
10 Years experience
£10ph up to 9 hours
£12ph After 9 Hours
£14ph Weekends
Night Out £25
Working Week 50 Hours Max
Would just be interesting in my view
I’d be happy with that at the moment I’m on no way near that and do more than 50hrs a week
What I’d like to see is proper differentials. If fridge/RDC/trunking is worth £10, then chaining steel on and sheeting it must be worth £16. Hiab? ADR? Multidrop? all worth more than stinkin rdc/ssupermarket stuff. There’s supposed to be a shortage but my vast experience is wasted because It’s not for sale at £8/hr. I write this sitting in a Morrisons lorry.
Balls to em.
should be 12 ph with time and half after 8
orcadian:
should be 12 ph with time and half after 8
Trouble is MPs see a living wage being £7.35ish. Employers are not going to pay £12 if they don’t have too…I’d like to see them live on the living wage whilst paying for everything …
I think we should be taking home £100 a day for an 8 hour day in the year 2014.
I know quite a few drivers are/taking home more.But there’s a lot who are not.
Ramon123:
I think we should be taking home £100 a day for an 8 hour day in the year 2014.
I know quite a few drivers are/taking home more.But there’s a lot who are not.
I wish!
Is that 8 including a break?
Remember you can only average 48 hrs/week and you’ll have to take time off unpaid if you go over this. 
But I’d like to see £10/hr min and enhancements for skills, extra hrs and weekends.
We can dream.
It would be realistic to say ,A 7.5.tonner at least £1.00 above NMW,£2.00 for Class 2 and £3.00 for Class 1.
midlifetrucker:
Ok we all want to earn £50 an hour but the main ■■■■■■■■ is always money. So for what you do (i.e. what you drive now) what would you really want an hour and what you would expect for overtime and nights out etc. Also how many hours would you want to work.Prob best way would be like this
Day Driver
Fridgework
Class 1
10 Years experience
£10ph up to 9 hours
£12ph After 9 Hours
£14ph Weekends
Night Out £25
Working Week 50 Hours MaxWould just be interesting in my view
so on a 10 hour day you will earn £102. In your 50 hour week that makes £510 before tax? Take your deductions of that and then add your 4 nights out. …
I’ve been very lucky, in some respects, that I earned decent wages right from the start of my career, so my expectations are high in regard to how much I want in the bank every week and I am one of those drivers who say “I wouldn’t get out of bed for less than ■■ a week” and I stick to my guns on that.
I realised that I could earn a little bit more as an O/D, so I did that, then got a few more and ended up coming off the road as I could earn more that way. Then I worked out that for the hours I was putting in running a 24/7 operation and the amount of aggro involved the money (good) that I was earning just wasn’t enough, so I got out of it. I started selling new trucks, but then the recession started to bite, coupled with low production numbers, I saw that things were going to get a bit tight and got out of that, I looked around to see what was out there and was disappointed to say the least, wages were lower than they were when I left my last job as an employed driver and, like I said, I won’t get out of bed for that, so I jumped on a plane to Canada with the idea that if I was going to work my nuts off for a wage, I was going to do it in style 
I’ll be on £11.25 p/h 0600 Monday to 2359 Friday night and £12.00 0000 Friday night to 0600 Monday morning…
It isn’t driving trucks either
fredthered:
But I’d like to see £10/hr min and enhancements for skills, extra hrs and weekends.
+1, I think a class 1 driver on days should be on no less than £10/hr.
£7 per hour in 1999 (what I was on) equates to £10.29 today, allowing for inflation. (See thisismoney.co.uk/money/bill … -1900.html ). SO I’d have thought, given a reasonable enough above inflation pay rise of one or two percent a year, we should now be on about £15 per hour for day work. Experience would garner an extra, I don’t know, ten quid a week for every year’s driving, night work would attract a hundred quid a week shift allowance and things like ADR or HIAB qualifications would mean an extra couple of quid an hour. There would still be overtime at time and a half after eight hours, too.
So, all in all, I would be on nearly £920 per week for what I do. This is a take home of about £730, which compares to my current take home pay of, er, £350. So, all other external factors being equal (which they never are), I should be on roughly twice what I am on. Yeah, right.
happysack:
midlifetrucker:
Ok we all want to earn £50 an hour but the main ■■■■■■■■ is always money. So for what you do (i.e. what you drive now) what would you really want an hour and what you would expect for overtime and nights out etc. Also how many hours would you want to work.Prob best way would be like this
Day Driver
Fridgework
Class 1
10 Years experience
£10ph up to 9 hours
£12ph After 9 Hours
£14ph Weekends
Night Out £25
Working Week 50 Hours MaxWould just be interesting in my view
so on a 10 hour day you will earn £102. In your 50 hour week that makes £510 before tax? Take your deductions of that and then add your 4 nights out. …
That was an example. Nothing else. Doesn’t relate to me or my work
I currently earn over £500 week for a 38 hour week working a two shift system Monday to Friday. If I do a Saturday morning that pushes it up to £600 week. This is a specialised production job (not driving).
If I went back driving, I would have to find a firm that ignored the WTD (as many do) to get a sensible wage. Rigids typically pay £8 to £9.50 hour and artics £10 to £12 hour… Do the maths… 
midlifetrucker:
happysack:
midlifetrucker:
Ok we all want to earn £50 an hour but the main ■■■■■■■■ is always money. So for what you do (i.e. what you drive now) what would you really want an hour and what you would expect for overtime and nights out etc. Also how many hours would you want to work.Prob best way would be like this
Day Driver
Fridgework
Class 1
10 Years experience
£10ph up to 9 hours
£12ph After 9 Hours
£14ph Weekends
Night Out £25
Working Week 50 Hours MaxWould just be interesting in my view
so on a 10 hour day you will earn £102. In your 50 hour week that makes £510 before tax? Take your deductions of that and then add your 4 nights out. …
That was an example. Nothing else. Doesn’t relate to me or my work
Ah ok. Roger dodger.
LIBERTY_GUY:
I currently earn over £500 week for a 38 hour week working a two shift system Monday to Friday. If I do a Saturday morning that pushes it up to £600 week. This is a specialised production job (not driving).If I went back driving, I would have to find a firm that ignored the WTD (as many do) to get a sensible wage. Rigids typically pay £8 to £9.50 hour and artics £10 to £12 hour… Do the maths…
If I was you then I’d stay put unless its really unbearable. There are far too many employers now using the 48hr WTD thingy to recoup some money when it goes a bit quiet and forcing drivers to stay at home unpaid to service their average hours but battering those hours when busy.
For working out your basic, work on a 48hr week. Then add the extras and see if it looks worthwhile - only the individual can decide if the extras are worth the real term drop in the hourly rate when they are used as part of the wage.
fredthered:
Remember you can only average 48 hrs/week and you’ll have to take time off unpaid if you go over this.But I’d like to see £10/hr min and enhancements for skills, extra hrs and weekends.
We can dream.
We can work up to 84 hours per week.we can work 60 working hours per week.for supermarket -rdc,cdc delivery 48 hours rules no big problem,because we have plenty Poa
fredthered:
LIBERTY_GUY:
I currently earn over £500 week for a 38 hour week working a two shift system Monday to Friday. If I do a Saturday morning that pushes it up to £600 week. This is a specialised production job (not driving).If I went back driving, I would have to find a firm that ignored the WTD (as many do) to get a sensible wage. Rigids typically pay £8 to £9.50 hour and artics £10 to £12 hour… Do the maths…
If I was you then I’d stay put unless its really unbearable. There are far too many employers now using the 48hr WTD thingy to recoup some money when it goes a bit quiet and forcing drivers to stay at home unpaid to service their average hours but battering those hours when busy.
For working out your basic, work on a 48hr week. Then add the extras and see if it looks worthwhile - only the individual can decide if the extras are worth the real term drop in the hourly rate when they are used as part of the wage.
Sadly my current role is long term through an agency. Big reputable company that has a large ‘flexible workforce’ to supplement its regular workforce. Whilst they will always have temps back and are very good to the agency folks there, when it goes quiet then like most temps you can get laid off with little notice. Don’t want to be in situation where I become a ‘minimum wage muppet’ in the quieter times, which is why I am restoring my hgv and psv licenses as a fall back option.