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As Waberers used to be Hungariocamion I doubt they take
any one
they used to only send well qualified drivers into the west
Out of interest do they take on Brit drivers to do Brit work as they seem to be a lot about and i thought that would make sense ?
I asked him this and he said that it wasn’t the case. He said at Christmas depending where you are there is a coach that picks you up to take you home and the wagon stays a truckstop in whatever country you’re in!
My friend at the Waberers’s said; The salary is rubbish, he never made more than 1200Euro/month. But, for a young person it really can be a big adventure. The rent in Hungary about £300/month,including bills(!!!) anyone can be a Wabbie driver even with a brand new licence… They can spend a weekend in Hungary monthly, the rest in the cab… He done these runs recently;
August; Helsingborg-Madrid-Birmingham-Budapest. September:Budapest-Madrid-Algeciras-Alborg-La Coruna. So the adventure is really an adventure…
The vehicles are excellent too, mainly Volvos, and some MANs, Dafs…
Also, this fella would like to work for an UK haulier. Reliable, nice man with twenty years experience; let me know, if anyone knows a deal for him
Dennisthemenace:
My friend at the Waberers’s said; The salary is rubbish, he never made more than 1200Euro/month. But, for a young person it really can be a big adventure. The rent in Hungary about £300/month,including bills(!!!) anyone can be a Wabbie driver even with a brand new licence… They can spend a weekend in Hungary monthly, the rest in the cab… He done these runs recently;
August; Helsingborg-Madrid-Birmingham-Budapest. September:Budapest-Madrid-Algeciras-Alborg-La Coruna. So the adventure is really an adventure…
The vehicles are excellent too, mainly Volvos, and some MANs, Dafs…
Also, this fella would like to work for an UK haulier. Reliable, nice man with twenty years experience; let me know, if anyone knows a deal for him
There was a company advertising just a few days ago on here… Robinsons of Worcester, bulk tipper work and much better pay than he’s currently on…
If you are lucky, the traffic planner at their HQ will be fluent in many languages, and English too, i worked for an Austrian firm, the reload and unloading details were texted to me, so no real verbal contact with my planner who was Hungarion, a lady.
Most Eastern European firms have a computer in their cabs for the loading details, ferry booking references, so the driver will not have to ring and ask for all this, it saves the phone bills.
When you overtake them, it looks like they have three sat navs on the go, they have one sat nav.
With Waberers, you will see all of Europe and beyond,pack a mountain bike, and get up the hills.
I think a lot of folks under estimate what a lot of our European friends earn. most of the guys I’ve spoken to (or at lol) take between €1500 - €1800 per 28 days which means 13 pay slips per year and after a few weeks away they strip the truck have the best part of a week at home then throw their kit in a different truck and bugger off again . Even if you take that at worst case of €1500 that’s €19.5k in your bin PA that’s not a bad living wage in their respective countries . That will work out around £22.5k ish before tax in the uk . I know of drivers here on not that much more than that . As for the op gaining experience working for those guys I’d rather take his experience than those taking the likes of brakes or p+h on their route to class one work in the uk and that not a dig at those guys either.
I was talking to a Waberers driver recently, he couldn’t praise them enough. We didn’t talk money but he seemed quite happy with his lot. He’d been away for four weeks but he was single and quite happy to be paid for seeing Europe. He had a brand new MAN which he liked so I say good luck to him. It certainly made a nice change to speak to someone who didn’t spend the whole time moaning about something or another!.
Mark R:
I was talking to a Waberers driver recently, he couldn’t praise them enough. We didn’t talk money but he seemed quite happy with his lot. He’d been away for four weeks but he was single and quite happy to be paid for seeing Europe. He had a brand new MAN which he liked so I say good luck to him. It certainly made a nice change to speak to someone who didn’t spend the whole time moaning about something or another!.
There used to be quite a few Brit’s on Waberer’s a few years ago.
As for time away from home most of us Scot’s/English/Welsh fridge lads on long haul euro work used to spend an average of 4-6 weeks on the road in the 80’s & 90’s.
Load Scotland-Portugal-Spain-Italy-Belgium- England-Spain then home for example.
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Lynchy is bang on the button.what kind fool works in another country for very bad cash delivering to the uk anyway.the younger generation are really getting dumber
What because they aren’t obsessed with money? Well we’ve seen where the older generation took us with their money obsession. More people living life for the joy of it and not purely for money would do the world of good for societiry and the world in general.
10 years ago yeah I’d have given this a go.
So do you prefer working for better money now ?
Better money now as opposed to when? I could earn a lot more than I do now, and have done in the past, but I do my current job because its what I want to do and I love it.
Edit: just got what you mean. No, I said 10 years ago because I wanted to do Europe more than anything. I have done lots of Europe now and in a job I love. So no need to work for them is there.
Got weekended with a couple of their lads & a couple of Bulgarians last year, and the the Bulgarians used to say that of the Waberers lads " the suns smiling on the back of the truck, whilst the drivers crying at the front " .
Did make me laugh !
Good luck to him. I’ve done it from both ends of my career.
In my 20s I was driving overland to India (paid nothing for that, it was a way to get myself there), then hauling 3 trailers full of cows through outback Australia. Can’t remember what pay that was, only that it wasn’t much but I did have a company bunkhouse thrown in with nice clean showers in between each trip.
Winding down to retirement I drove a frigo here in France, and occasionally beyond (England, Belgium, Italy) for around €1600 a month, and now, I drive my Berlingo all over France and beyond (Spain, England, Belgium, Holland) for zero wages but all expenses (for me and the motor) paid and I get to see lots of places I knew, lots I never visited before and meet lots of nice people.
It’s fun, I love it - but I couldn’t have done it in the years in between with a wife, mortgage and kids to pay for. That’s the point and why I say good luck to this kid and those like him. Have fun and experience when you can afford it. There’s a long, long time in between of worry that the bills are mounting up too quickly.
