Any truck drivers here?

Not to sound like a dick but that is not that great pay rates for what you do. I thought you was on at least £15/h. I earn more than you on my side job delivering in a Merc sprinter.

Can't believe that's all you get paid after all the hours/years you have to put into it. Hope this doesn't sound rude, not meaning to.
 
I have a cat C, as has been said, its a great back up to have in case something goes wrong.

I needed to fall back on it this month after I put my notice in at my current job due to them asking me to spend the next year in a hotel down in London and coming home at the weekends (not happening, married, children, London is a festering **** hole) .

One email secured me a permanent Cat C job if I need it, pending the outcome of other offers.
Problem is, driving is an absolutely terrible job I find, no matter whether its multi dropping or bulk work, parcels or food delivery.
 
Scania, what do you do in the cab all day?

Can you listen to podcasts or learn a language or something, or is that sort of thing considered too much of a distraction?

I think I would go mental pretty quickly if all I had to listen to was the regular radio…
 
I must be mental then coz most of the time I don't even have the radio on.

When waiting to be tipped I play my guitar

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Rybo89 said:
Not to sound like a dick but that is not that great pay rates for what you do. I thought you was on at least £15/h. I earn more than you on my side job delivering in a Merc sprinter.

Can't believe that's all you get paid after all the hours/years you have to put into it. Hope this doesn't sound rude, not meaning to.
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At £15 per hour why is it your side job.
 
I do agree lorry drivers are underpaid on the whole when you consider the responsibilities of the job, there's also a fair bit of pressure involved meeting delivery targets/not working over hours, plus the added expense of getting the licence.

I wouldn't mind doing it to get into ADR fuel tanker work which pays more, but I've heard that's well oversubscribed.
 
One of the HGV job's I used to do started at £27,500 pa now after the "economic downturn" it now starts at £17k and rises to £23,500. Truckers got hit hard in the past few years.
 
norm said:
I do agree lorry drivers are underpaid on the whole
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Especially when train drivers earn close to £50k for doing essentially the same sort of stuff (use pedals, levers, travel x distance following y rules).

No doubt someone will be along to say they have to deal with a suicide once every 10 years.
 
Irish_Tom said:
Scania, what do you do in the cab all day?

Can you listen to podcasts or learn a language or something, or is that sort of thing considered too much of a distraction?

I think I would go mental pretty quickly if all I had to listen to was the regular radio…
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Hammer my iPhone listening to podcasts mainly, I often find youtube documentarys and listen to them too, today's listen was Len Deighton's superb "Bomber" dramatised by the BBC uploaded to youtube, kept me entertained from Stoke on Trent to West Thurrock this morning nicely!

I also have a 16gb USB stick crammed full of music, podcasts and audio books.

My Scania has a Pioneer HU with USB and AUX inputs, 6x9 speakers built into the doors as std, rock on!! :D

Sometimes though I listen to nothing and just ponder things! :o
 
mattyg said:
At £15 per hour why is it your side job.
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£15/hr working out to £27k/yr at 37.5hrs/wk 48 weeks/yr which is roughly national average and therefore not particularly well paid, I expect getting on for half the people on this forum who aren't students are on more than that.
 
Trucking is actually a job which i dont think would be too bad, i'd like the solitude and the act of actually driving them i think, however;

The thing which i never get with the type of pay being talked about here is that you can earn way in excess of this simply temping locally in an office somewhere drinking coffee and going to a few meetings. Why bother doing a job which involves actual responsibility and anti social hours for this type of money? The rates just dont add up :confused:
 
All you have to do is pretend to know what you are doing and come up with some management speak in meetings, surely everybody can do that :p
 
Rybo89 said:
Yup you need to re-read my post.

If I was on £15/h or more I would be showing off my new Focus RS or VXR8 in the show us yours motors thread :p
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LOL..

I re-read that 4 times and still didn't realise my mistake.

Then I had a cup of coffee and boom. Reading skills restored.
 
Jez said:
All you have to do is pretend to know what you are doing and come up with some management speak in meetings, surely everybody can do that :p
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I often wonder this, applying for said positions though with Class 1 HGV driver on my cv for the past 17years seems to rule me out of the contest prior to the interview stage....

I know management speak, am very computer literate and articulate in both speech and (more or less) writing style.

What am I doing wrong here Jez?
 
I'm no careers advisor mate, i guess no office experience of experience in any office type field is never good. :(

I do know that certainly locally (to me) there are temp jobs everywhere advertised at around £10/hour listed as literally data entry though, so totally unskilled so you could always go for something like that just to get experience "in an office"(?) (My GF is temping albeit in a specialist role due to being pregnant and having been made redundant, so i know the market a bit as she has been offered tons of these type of roles by recruiters who don't read her cv properly).
 
Jez said:
Trucking is actually a job which i dont think would be too bad, i'd like the solitude and the act of actually driving them i think, however;

The thing which i never get with the type of pay being talked about here is that you can earn way in excess of this simply temping locally in an office somewhere drinking coffee and going to a few meetings. Why bother doing a job which involves actual responsibility and anti social hours for this type of money? The rates just dont add up :confused:
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I've always thought this as well.
 
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