Looking for some advisec… does anybody know what the AA is like to work for… hours… wages etc… currently a tipper driver but thinking of a change
Davieboy237:
Looking for some advisec… does anybody know what the AA is like to work for… hours… wages etc… currently a tipper driver but thinking of a change
Before I did my classes, I used to do recovery work on a part-time basis. The money was better per se than available class2 jobs available. I did 2 days of class2 work, just for the crack, before I went and did my class 1, then the money made it worthwhile to ditch the recovery work and hawk myself round the agencies for the best paid class1 work. It was2.5 years before I found a job sufficiently well paid to come out of the factory permanently.
It was then I realised just how dangerous recovery work really is, especially on dual carriageways, when the cars didnt make it to a layby, so theres that to consider too.
I have to say, I found it quite enjoyable though.
Davieboy237:
Looking for some advisec… does anybody know what the AA is like to work for… hours… wages etc… currently a tipper driver but thinking of a change
Have you tried phoning them up ?
A mate started with them , odd shifts it seemed , 2 weeks nights , week days , few nights , that sort of thing. Money didn’t seem great but two days compulsary overtime a month bumped it up.
He lasted 5 weeks and went back to what he did before .
And bear in mind when everyone else is on holiday enjoying themselves ie easter xmas summer theres a fair chance you will be working especially with aa
i did it for a while and enjoyed it, they say the shifts have changed greatly since then, so not up to date info on those, the pay was good at the time due to the many add ons, as said before not for the faint hearted on the side of the motorway, the training I did was two weeks and all the ways to stay safe were shown and explained, as well as paid training and accommodation, ill health put paid to me continuing but it was good while it lasted.
Hi, look up AA recovery driver feb 2018 on this forum, was discussed then. As you will see not the best of results. As ex AA on both recovery and roadside repair I am still in contact with old workmates and on the forum and its not good. Very low moral, push push push,sell sell sell. Not a patch on what it was, people leaving all the time, very bad shifts and it has to be said, A MANAGMENT UNION. But at the end of the day go find out for yourself it may suit you. thebeardedone
Might as well stay on the tippers.Although I’d guess doing continental car ‘recovery’ ( repatriation ) work either working for or as a sub contractor is a totally different matter.No surprise you don’t see those types of job available very often and usually dead man’s shoes.
Remember the golden rule of AA recovery; Use flashing beacons when recovering Tom and Doris’ old Micra, pretending it’s,an abnormal load.
Muckaway:
Remember the golden rule of AA recovery; Use flashing beacons when recovering Tom and Doris’ old Micra, pretending it’s,an abnormal load.
that way you fit right in with all the tippers going down the road with them all going, as well as the guys carrying steel with about 2ft rear overhang and countless highways/utilities vehicles that leave em on constantly
…no wonder people don’t notice ■■■■■■ vans and ab loads heading straight for them 