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builder22

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or advice, just curious to see what people have to say

options are

25k a year mon-fri start at 7am, don't finish until about 6pm, not a hard job and there is at least 2, sometimes 4-5 hours downtime waiting for the next delivery/collection slot

option 2 is 31k a year. shifts are stated as 'must be flexible working 5 of 7 days including weekends, 9.6 hrs a day 48hr week. dunno how much downtime there would be but I'd imagine it'll be pretty well planned


these are HGV driving jobs btw
 
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I'd probably go with job two, more money for less hours. As nice is it is working Monday to Friday I wouldn't do a 55 hour week for £25k regardless of downtime.
 
Option 2, more money for less hours.
However you do have to take into account working weekends sucks and wrecks social life.
 
Option 2 although bear in mind the 48hours is only to satisfy the working time directive, after breaks & POA (period of availability / waiting time) you'll find your doing a lot more than 48hrs.

Salaried driving jobs advertise the lowest hours to make the hourly rate seem good, I reckon you'll be doing at least 10hrs per week on top of that, for a set wage.

If it's short work on a job & knock basis , all good, I wouldn't hold my breath though!

As an example, last week I did 64 hours, my contract is 50hours but, I'm paid by the hour.


One thing for sure with driving work, the start time is set the day before but the finish time varies wildly day to day, hour to hour in many cases!!
 
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The 2nd one is with the coop so will be store deliveries. You're prob right about the 48 hrs tho.
1st one is hourly pay, 25 is just what it works out at doing those hours.
 
Option 2 sounds way better - but depends how much you love your weekends.

Does Option 2 open any more future prospects - i dunno, does proving you're happy to work flexible hours mean you may be able to get better job in the future?
 
builder22 said:
The 2nd one is with the coop so will be store deliveries. You're prob right about the 48 hrs tho.
1st one is hourly pay, 25 is just what it works out at doing those hours.
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Where abouts are you? - I've delivered to pretty much all of the CO-OP Distribution centres around the UK, they vary greatly, some nice, new & modern others, old, decrepit and generally awful! :p
 
Spanner in the works time.

Will option 2 be having 2 days off together or will it be a case of having x day of then y day off? I worked having 2 separate days off per week for a little while ,example Wednesday and Saturday, which seems great on paper but in reality you don't get the feeling of having had a decent break.
 
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Spanner in the works time.

Will option 2 be having 2 days off together or will it be a case of having x day of then y day off? I worked having 2 separate days off per week for a little while ,example Wednesday and Saturday, which seems great on paper but in reality you don't get the feeling of having had a decent break.
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You should do it so you have two days off together every two weeks, so, if you work Monday - Saturday one week, the following week you'd have Saturday & Sunday off.


If you consistently have split weekly rests, you quickly find you'll end up with weekly rest infringements unless your **** hot at monitoring your working & driving time.
 
It would be the Newhouse Coop distribution centre in North Lanarkshire I'd be working from. It's only about 4 years old, the stores could be the crappy bit.
I stay quite close to the massive tesco RDC but they're super strict on H+S etc, not sure how they pay either
 
builder22 said:
It would be the Newhouse Coop distribution centre in North Lanarkshire I'd be working from. It's only about 4 years old, the stores could be the crappy bit.
I stay quite close to the massive tesco RDC but they're super strict on H+S etc, not sure how they pay either
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Know it well!

Having done store delivery work for the CO-OP down here, I know from experience, delivering to your average Tesco is far better!

Generally CO-OP's are smaller stores requiring use of a tail lift to unload, where your average Tesco has a service yard with dock leveller etc.

Having driven for Tesco many times (Stobart do a lot of work for them) on store delivery, I've not found them any worse than a CO-OP for H&S crap.

The two jobs would be very similar, I'd prefer to work more local to home personally.

I assume the Tesco you refer to is Livingston?
 
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