Me and the wife were clearing some old paperwork and stuff we’ve had for years and I came across an old diary I had from 1990 working for B R S .My rate was £3 91 ph on class1 or £3 65 ph on rigids and you got £17 50 for a night out and I just wondered how much others were on at that time because I remember in those days people saying to me you should go and work for so and so,I also thought at the time the night out money was a joke but it’s not far off what people get now .
I can’t remember the specifics but I was taking home about £200 with night out money.
Harry Monk:
I can’t remember the specifics but I was taking home about £200 with night out money.
Lucky to hit £250 with nights out, continental 
but the perks made a MONKEY a week 
no mobiles, limiters and jumped up ADOLFS in office to chase you! 
Late 80s was 150 & night outs + cash in hand … 
more than a few 2 card days running ferry -ferry.
jimmy
Night trunking for BRS on the Coca Cola contract out of Edmonton 87/88 £300 take home for 5 nights.
I mostly got around 180 a week but the 1 week I got 315 if I remember right that was running ■■■■ out off gallaghers at stakehill Oldham I felt rich that week 
Equitran:
Night trunking for BRS on the Coca Cola contract out of Edmonton 87/88 £300 take home for 5 nights.
I bet some people only get that now or just above 
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Equitran:
Night trunking for BRS on the Coca Cola contract out of Edmonton 87/88 £300 take home for 5 nights.I bet some people only get that now or just above
I must have ben workin for nowt back then I have payslips for 115 117 take home with a couple of nights out!!
I seem to remember being on £4 and hour for 8 hours a day then overtime at time and a half over that in 1994, they did used to take an hours a day off for dinner though. I think I normally booked about 60 hrs and 5 nights a week. Can’t remember the night out rate though reckon it would be about £15 a night. I don’t know if we were well paid, but the company certainly didn’t go mad on flash trucks. Most of the fleet were Renault G290’s with a few Renault Majors for the drivers who’d been there a few years.
I think we were on £200 plus a week takehome and another £75 expenses way back in 1981
However, that was for Kammac Trucking, and we were all working 20 plus hours a day on the old log book system just prior to tachos.
Should really have been wearing a cowboy hat thinking back
I know I’ll be accused of willy waving but I’ll stick my head in the noose anyway.
In 1994 I was clearing £1050 a month in salary, was getting £30 a night in night-out money paid 30/31 days a month tax-free and was booking all diesel purchased at £30 per 100 litres when I was actually paying £11 per 100 litres (these were my company instructions).
I generally cleared around £3,000 a month. Adjusted for inflation, that would probably be about £8,000 a month now.
About £200-£250 a week Mon-Fri with the occasional 5 hours on a Sunday loading and shunting would be finished by 3P.M on Friday at the latest.
We were payed per tonne with a bit more effort £300+ per week was achievable, when you consider the cost of living today and if pay had kept pace with inflation we should be earning around £700 a week net.
Harry Monk:
I know I’ll be accused of willy waving but I’ll stick my head in the noose anyway.In 1994 I was clearing £1050 a month in salary, was getting £30 a night in night-out money paid 30/31 days a month tax-free and was booking all diesel purchased at £30 per 100 litres when I was actually paying £11 per 100 litres (these were my company instructions).
I generally cleared around £3,000 a month. Adjusted for inflation, that would probably be about £8,000 a month now.
ten posts above you said you were taking home 200 quid a week including night out money
Harry Monk:
I can’t remember the specifics but I was taking home about £200 with night out money.
green456:
ten posts above you said you were taking home 200 quid a week including night out money
But the first post was about 1990, and in the second I was replying to a subsequent post about 1994.
There were some really crap jobs around in those days, I knew loads of people doing Italy/Spain for 200-250 a trip back then, but there were some really good jobs around too, if you knew the right people…
In 1990 I was putting 340.97 in the bank 52 weeks a year. In 1989 it was 290.47, but we got a 50quid a week pay rise on the first of January 1990. As I remember it we were taxed on 300quid and the rest was bonus/night out money, which some consider not to be wages, however I class money in the bank from my company as wages, looking at the above posts, I was on to a good thing too
At the end of 1990 I left that job for a better paid one, every month I cleared 2grand and because of the extras we got for doing a bit, I never touched my wages while I was out on the road, so every penny of that 2grand went to my family, at the time I had just bought a new house (in SE London) for 42grand, so 2grand a month gave me a very nice living, the mrs had a little XR2 to smoke around in and I had a Sierra Cosworth
Two years in that job and I saved enough to buy my first lorry for cash, an F16 Globetrotter
i was taking home 250+ in the seventies expences were on top of that nights out car parks ect. worked roaming uk on a bonus sceme as follows, for every 20mph covered 1 hr paid 200mls 10hrs do it in 5/6 hrs guarenteed 3hr tip 3hr load so you could wk 11 get paid 16+hrs after 40hrs reached wether bonus or not all hrs time and a half so 16 hrs became worth 24 at single time at the end of a week add hrs up you might have say 75 hrs ,40at single 35at one and a half .Sunday double time bank holidays at tripple time and day in lieu.As a roamer expected to carry your case at all times 7/10 days away not uncommen and weekend working norm you could arrive at home depot 3 0 clock fri afternoon and be turned around again, daft as it sounds happy days no body on your back just got on with it.
I got 20p a week (cash in hand) and I used to blow the lot on a 20p mix.
I was only 5 in 1990.
I hope this helps.
JIMBO47:
Late 80s was 150 & night outs + cash in hand …
jimmy
Yep, exactly the same here.
Back in 2000 I was on £3.20 an hour as a security guard. I now work in a warehouse on 3 times as much and I’m still no better off!