waddy640:
So you can dream in the comfort of your own bed.
I can’t see the problem with that.
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Contraflow:
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Themoocher:
tango boy:
36k upto April this year, that’s without nights out/meals added!!!You doing 84 hr weeks for 36k a year?
EFA.
Isn’t he on for stobrats?
I ware orange not green and average about 60/70 hours a week including breaks.
By the way upto 70 hours is rare!!!
tango boy:
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Contraflow:
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Themoocher:
tango boy:
36k upto April this year, that’s without nights out/meals added!!!You doing 84 hr weeks for 36k a year?
EFA.
Isn’t he on for stobrats?
I ware orange not green and average about 60/70 hours a week including breaks.
So really your on 25k plus overtime?
Themoocher:
tango boy:
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Contraflow:
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Themoocher:
tango boy:
36k upto April this year, that’s without nights out/meals added!!!You doing 84 hr weeks for 36k a year?
EFA.
Isn’t he on for stobrats?
I ware orange not green and average about 60/70 hours a week including breaks.
So really your on 25k plus overtime?
nope
If it’s the same ‘orange’ company I’m thinking of, they’re definitely not on 36k for 40 hours. 
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If it’s the same ‘orange’ company I’m thinking of, they’re definitely not on 36k for 40 hours.
ware orange not drive orange 
Truck is red 
It is not what it seems themoocher drivers put in a lot more than 40 hours for decent money, i believe the average driver is working 70 hours a week, and a lot are on 80hrs a week to take home £500-£600 a week, bear in mind that a quarter of that money is subsistence allowance of between £20-£25 a night so dont be under any illusions about the money, its crap for what we have to put up with, what with the regulations, speed cameras, bosses on your back to work 15 hrs a day, and phoning every hour to see where you are, then a lot dont pay for you to park in a decent place, so a lot have to sleep in laybys, where they are under threat from fuel thefts and curtains being slashed and part of the load being stolen. One of the highest payers are the fuel tankers on £17 per hour + but with their responsibility they are paid what their worth, in all honestly we should be on £20 an hour, seeing that we do a difficult job, have a lot of responsibilities, and under constant pressure, and it is amongst the highest professions for stress related illnesses such as strokes heart attacks and diabetes, we also are the industry that gets the least sleep with constant 15 hr days and only 9 hrs rest and that doesnt include travelling backwards and forwards to/from the depot.
waddy640:
Pimpdaddy:
I think I’m worth £30k+ home every night.So you can dream in the comfort of your own bed.
I was on that 10 years ago at Geopost and home every day. Hygena/MFI/Howdens Joinery pays that and their drivers are home every night.
£30k and home every day isn’t anything new.
Themoocher:
Hello everyone.I haven’t posted much or contributed to the forum. Although I have read loads of topics over the past year or so.
Sorry if this topic has been done to death in the past.
I read loads of topics on here about low wages.
Every job I see advertised everywhere are the rates below.
Class 2 depending on what part of the country £9-10 p/h
Class 1 ^^^^ £10-12.50, 40 hrs is £400-500 P/W, 25k basic a year.
Tramping extra plus allowances.Euro guys seem to be clearing £500-600 p/w, 35-40k a year.
Now I don’t know if I’m been ignorant as I don’t have any commercial driving experience.
But to me that seems like decent wages for driving trucks.Are these jobs like hens teeth to find?
I can only assume you are based dahn sarf with the rates of pay quoted, you don’t see anything like that offered around Newcastle area. Class 2 will get you anything from £6.80 up to £8 with class 1 anywhere from £7.50 up to £9. I know some places get higher rates but, as said earlier, they don’t come up that often.
I’ve just been offered a job working fri, sat & sun nights, 12 hr shifts for the grand total of £9ph. I just laughed and ended the call. I went for interview at Port of Tyne, 50 hours a week, day shift, that means starts between 0400 & 1600 btw, for the princely sum of 7.99ph. Again I just said don’t waste a stamp or phone call, I won’t be taking the job.
Conor:
£30k and home every day isn’t anything new.
Yes it may be nothing new but I’m struggling to find it, Howden place nearest to me never advertise.
The rates down south are a lot higher, but i believe the cost of living is around the same as it is up north, the only difference is rent and mortgages, so that must be what makes the difference. You can earn down here more for a weekend than most up north earn for a week, with £200 for a saturday or sunday and agencies often advertise £12 - £14 per hour for weekends and more for bank holidays. The average day rate is £100 - £120. I must admit i dont know haulier rates but what i do know is a load from leeds to london is lower than london to leeds but that could be because a londoner is using it as a back load and are offered a lower rate, i enquired a long time ago with a container company about rates as a i had my own trucks then, i couldnt work direct but had to go through a middle man as it were, the rates were cut to shreds, to feed their own vehicles, and the subbies got what was left on a take it or leave it basis, until the subbies started to complain to the shipping company who didnt know what was going on and why the work wasnt being covered, it did change though and there was a huge increase, sadly i had got other work and couldnt get in the door but you can get an idea as to what goes on.
truckyboy:
The rates down south are a lot higher, but i believe the cost of living is around the same as it is up north, the only difference is rent and mortgages, so that must be what makes the difference. You can earn down here more for a weekend than most up north earn for a week, with £200 for a saturday or sunday and agencies often advertise £12 - £14 per hour for weekends and more for bank holidays.
If you think that those rates “are a lot higher” than up north then I’m afraid to tell you you’re very out of touch with reality, Bob. Agencies up north were paying that 10 years ago and they’re significantly higher than that now.
truckyboy:
The rates down south are a lot higher, but i believe the cost of living is around the same as it is up north, the only difference is rent and mortgages, so that must be what makes the difference. You can earn down here more for a weekend than most up north earn for a week, with £200 for a saturday or sunday and agencies often advertise £12 - £14 per hour for weekends and more for bank holidays. The average day rate is £100 - £120. I must admit i dont know haulier rates but what i do know is a load from leeds to london is lower than london to leeds but that could be because a londoner is using it as a back load and are offered a lower rate, i enquired a long time ago with a container company about rates as a i had my own trucks then, i couldnt work direct but had to go through a middle man as it were, the rates were cut to shreds, to feed their own vehicles, and the subbies got what was left on a take it or leave it basis, until the subbies started to complain to the shipping company who didnt know what was going on and why the work wasnt being covered, it did change though and there was a huge increase, sadly i had got other work and couldnt get in the door but you can get an idea as to what goes on.
You have the same problem with curtainsiders, your firm is subbing to someone else who is subbing so the share of the cake gets smaller. The one who actually does the work gets the smallest portion of the cake.
I was on £20.50 for Sunday work before another agency undercut the other and ripped it to shreds… The payslip is on here somewhere.
Plenty of agencies offering £16-18 an hour for weekends and bank holidays.
I Would much rather have the weekends with my family for the sake of £4-6 per hour over normal rates
Radar19:
£9 a hour where I’m at. Up at 01:30, back by 11am if I’m really quick (I’m not). Class 2 work delivering bread. Nothing fancy.
You at Allied Bakeries? I ask because the agency I’m with at the minute has asked me if I want to do permanent with Allied - They aren’t offering that money… Also said 3am start, around 12-1pm finish.
I know agencies are full of ■■■■, and I already turned this down, but was just curious.
Cheers
Steeps