Hi all.I think we are losing site of the main point of the thread.It is,to a degree,irrelevant what you get per hour,what is important is what goes in the bank each month and if YOU personally think that you have earned a ‘‘reasonable’’ wage for what youv’e done for it.We all would like more money but what is important is ‘‘what you can do with what you earn’’.What is the spending power of your money.
Everywhere is different with costs,standards,and quality of living be it UK,Canada,Lappland or even within the same country from north to south or big city or village.
If you earn £3000 net per month but don’t have a pot to ■■■■ in at the end or you earn £1000 but have money in your pocket and are able to save a little.
this is more important.What is your ‘‘quality and standard’’ of life in relation to what you earn,and what you have to do for it and are YOU happy with it.Mike
Big Truck:
So 77hrs DRIVING over the 7days plus some additional work time for the extra’s then for $1800.
Think “Ady1” has shown (via his scanned wage slip) its quite easy to do better for Stobbies over SIX days and half the time kipping in the cab on hourly pay AND getting home each day to get his daily rest in his own bed.
Granted I don’t think he has the 4000sqft house(must be including your basement surely
) and the two V8 cars
Well I hope Ady1 is as happy at Stobarts as I am at Paul Brandt Trucking, I’ll stay with them though, even if the money is better at Stobart, it’d be a [zb]ing ball ache getting to Carlisle for work every day from my house in Canada 
You’re comparing apples to coconuts BT, I live in Canada FFS, WTF does Stobart wages have to do with it? I used to pay myself a grand a week when I had my own lorries, so I could ■■■■ over pretty much any driver’s wages, do you hear me complaining about my current wage or standard of living?
You make assumptions that I would be better off in the UK driving for Stobarts, yet you know SFA about my financial position, you don’t know how much I made in profit when I sold my houses in the UK, how much I sold my business for, how much I had in the bank, or if i’d won the lottery and was totally minted Is it possible that I’m happy with my wages and the life I live over here? I know that would seem a little far fetched in your world, but give it a thought, expand your mind a little, there must be plenty of room for growth 
Nope,
I just wanted to inject a little realism into your post as you well know that some D’Head’s WILL look at your post and jack in their job for Stobbies etc and head over(with family 
) on false promises to work for BFS/H+R/Siemens/Bulk Carriers wearing the rose tinted glasses thinking its EASY to earn $1800 for a weeks work OTR 
Realism
My post is as real as it gets, I did the miles, I earned the money, I have the house, I have the cars, how real do you want it
It isn’t easy to get the miles I do, first you have to have a decent dispatcher to get the work, then you have to be good enough for them to give you the miles, I have that
Then you have to plan your trip, I’m lucky that we have very good work, I don’t spend hours waiting for loads and I manage my time efficiently so that I’m unloading when I’m off duty, before you say it, NO, not fiddling my book, but dropping my trailer on a bay while I have my time off, that’s where the good work we have really benefits me. There are 60 odd drivers at my place, not all of them get the miles I do, it’s like anything, you only get out what you put in 
Anyone who decides to emigrate to Canada on the strength of my OP, thinking that the highways are paved with gold deserves all they get, but if they research it properly and put in the hard work, they can move over and be successful, I’m far from unique, apart from McFly, the rest of the ExPats on Tnet are all happy with their choices
In 1994 I got 13 weeks notice of redundancy from Fed Ex/Matchbox in Rugby, Stobbarts were just setting up in the area and used Rugby truck stop as a recruitment centre. I got to know the trainer guy fairly well and there was some tart there who was in charge of everything. One day as myself and a few other Fed Ex drivers were eating diner I went over to them as they say having diner, asked if they could send some job apps to our depot because about 15 drivers would need jobs, they agree’d and two weeks later they had not supplied them so I asked again ? “I am seeing to it so don’t worry” said the tart.
Two weeks later and still no application forms had arrived and I saw her early one morning and went over to ask again, she snapped at me (obviously not a morning person) “I havn’t forgot to send them and I don’t like being pestered by people over trivial things”
I am afraid I lost my temper “It’s not for me you understand, it’s for the other drivers, they are good men and need work, I wouldn’t work for a ■■■■ company like yours if it was the last transport company on earth you f**kin’ ■■■■■” … needless to say I never got any application forms LOL … the trailer guy who over heard it shook my hand next day and congratulated me for giving her what she deserved.
I once saw the ■■■■■ on TV with Eddie.
Back to the main post this week was even better
Start 6.00pm mon, up to B&J’s, down to NYC by 8.00am tues and go off duty, up at 2.00am weds, load and deliver Peach Glen PA, empt to Delaware drop and hook and head to Carneys Point Flying J for the 10 hours off, up at 2.00 am thurs, deliver Newington CT, back to NYC via the TA at Walcot CT where I had breakfast with some bloke from Belfast NI, load at 05.00am today for Albany NY, deliver and drive half a mile to our terminal there, drop the traier and bob tail home. 1429 miles.
All for my usual salery
So you live in an house the same size as the one i’ve posted in the following link Mercman?
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A slight exaggeration me thinks!!
I live here, it has five bedrooms, all above ground
The square footage does include the basement of course, but I prefer to call that the Man Cave 
VERY nice house
I knew you were being a bit cheeky including your basement.
That is the thing with the “less popular” provinces in Canada that I’ve always agreed, BIG bang for your buck house purchase wise. 
Your OCD is getting the better of you when you have made all this money with your house/business sales in the UK yet you still chose to work 7days/week 11/13 hour days with a couple of days off in between instead of better leisure time, don’t you have a family to see 
I much prefer better hometime IE started@ 230am today driving a nice MP2 Actros LD pulled card out@11am(gift of a job ) home by 1130am to play with kids in some sunshine, four of those this week will see £480 in bank next Fri.
Wed a fortnight ago I turned down the offer of a years contract on a job(unrelated to trucking) paying £9k a MONTH TAX FREE, going up to approx £12k/month after 3months because it would mean being away from loved ones for 12wks at a time then 4wks off.
I work to live NOT live to work.
BT,
I also live to work, but I choose to do OTR, because I like it
You paint a slightly different picture though, it’s not all work and no play for me, last year I worked 251 days, this year will be about the same, I usually have at least two full days at home after each trip, I do occasionally go out after a 36hr reset, but only if I choose to do so, for example if I want to visit a truckshow or have a day off in Vegas or NYC, once in a while work will ask me to go straight back out again, I accomodate them too, but it’s very rare, so swings and roundabouts really
BTW, Manitoba isn’t such an out of the way place, the city I live in has everything my family and I need, Winnipeg is a short drive away and as I spend a lot of my time in the USA, I can get whatever I want down there. I also have the benefit of not living in an area with the constant chorus of Police Sirens, very little traffic and all the benefits of country living, it took a little getting used to after living in London my whole life, but I’m very happy with my choices and wish I’d done it much sooner.
BTW, you’d have to see my Man Cave to know that I’m not being cheeky including it, a dingy room full of cobwebs it is not
newmercman:
BT,I also live to work, but I choose to do OTR, because I like it
You paint a slightly different picture though, it’s not all work and no play for me, last year I worked 251 days, this year will be about the same, I usually have at least two full days at home after each trip, I do occasionally go out after a 36hr reset, but only if I choose to do so, for example if I want to visit a truckshow or have a day off in Vegas or NYC, once in a while work will ask me to go straight back out again, I accomodate them too, but it’s very rare, so swings and roundabouts really
BTW, Manitoba isn’t such an out of the way place, the city I live in has everything my family and I need, Winnipeg is a short drive away and as I spend a lot of my time in the USA, I can get whatever I want down there. I also have the benefit of not living in an area with the constant chorus of Police Sirens, very little traffic and all the benefits of country living, it took a little getting used to after living in London my whole life, but I’m very happy with my choices and wish I’d done it much sooner.
BTW, you’d have to see my Man Cave to know that I’m not being cheeky including it, a dingy room full of cobwebs it is not
The police sirens only denote hungry police people heading home for lunch and dinner
so mercman…
that man cave of yours must be bigger than the bat cave,because your house there in that picture would be a 1600-1800 square foot house(including the basement)…
unless you have a 2 storey basement!!!
are you sure that you have measured in feet and not cms…lol…
The house is a regular ground floor and upstairs place, each floor is 1277sqft, include the basement which is the same size as the above ground floors and it adds up to just under 4000sqft in total
I haven’t actually measured it but that’s what it said on the sales brochure
That’s told you Mark you could be driving a nice eddie stobart truck sitting in a drivers waiting room in a rdc in Halifax or burnley have a identi kit barrets house and a three year old mondeo on the drive and you would be living the dream not poncing round in that peterblt like a fool
Kev, I’ve always been like that mate, I just never learn
I am also wondering why the person known as barkingmad would come onto a trucking website & have 2 posts (so far) and they’re both about my house
newmercman:
Kev, I’ve always been like that mate, I just never learnI am also wondering why the person known as barkingmad would come onto a trucking website & have 2 posts (so far) and they’re both about my house
For the same reason others come on and sling insults and issue petty, poorly disguised threats, deep rooted jealousy
I just find it amusing reading posts and quite honestly…its boredom most likely.
Sad… yes…
But fun…
barkingmad:
I just find it amusing reading posts and quite honestly…its boredom most likely.
Sad…
But fun…
I hear that, most of my posts are a ■■■■ take too, but I usually stick to lorries, I’m not an expert on the property market, I suppose we all have our areas of expertise though
You remind me of someone, but no, it can’t be…
newmercman:
barkingmad:
I just find it amusing reading posts and quite honestly…its boredom most likely.
Sad…
But fun…I hear that, most of my posts are a ■■■■ take too, but I usually stick to lorries, I’m not an expert on the property market, I suppose we all have our areas of expertise though
You remind me of someone, but no, it can’t be…
Hello Barkingmad wellcome to Trucknet. I was new on here once and i now how rude some of these of these Ex pats can be. But we are now all good freinds so stick with it and it will be ok. Good luck.