Tesco Lorry Drivers earn £47600 pa

tomstickland

Sorry, did someone take my posts yesterday seriously?

GreyPilgrim

BettiePage wrote: »

Unfortunately not. It's 'Bettie Page'. She was a pin-up girl who became famous for her saucy photo's. Be warned if you google her that some of her photo's are nude and some risque and probably best not to be seen by children.

DAMMIT! I was just off out the door on the way to your casualty department, after having mysteriously developed a broken arm

(*puts down hammer)


better not google it as I'm still at work at the moment...

ess0two

tesuhoha wrote: »

This discussion is ridiculous. My daughter works in the office of a large supermarket warehouse. All the lorry drivers are employed by an agency, not the supermarket and I should imagine Tesco drivers are the same. Agencies are not exactly known for their good terms of employment and Im not sure if they even get sick pay. That also goes for the pickers and the office staff and the managers, all employed by an agency, not the supermarket and they are treated badly.

At the risk of repeating myself again....................my friend drives for Tesco and YES this wage is possible.

GreyPilgrim

ess0two wrote: »

At the risk of repeating myself again....................my friend drives for Tesco and YES this wage is possible.

You sure he's not driving for Mclaren?

pararct

tesuhoha wrote: »

This discussion is ridiculous. My daughter works in the office of a large supermarket warehouse. All the lorry drivers are employed by an agency, not the supermarket and I should imagine Tesco drivers are the same. Agencies are not exactly known for their good terms of employment and Im not sure if they even get sick pay. That also goes for the pickers and the office staff and the managers, all employed by an agency, not the supermarket and they are treated badly.

All supermarket RDC's (Regional Distribution Centres) use agency labour but not exclusively.

It allows them to make the shortfall in headcount due to holidays sickness etc.

Agency drivers command more or less the same hourly rates (pay) as regular staff. Once you add on the agency fees you could be talking £18 - £20 an hour, and that's before adding in a night or other premium rate such as a weekend day or Bank Holiday. Regular drivers may only be on £10 to £12 an hour so economically it makes sense not to employ solely agency.

In response to the 'anyone can do this job or not that job' the answer is simple.

90% of the population are capable of performing anything from being a top level consultant to a CEO in a Blue Chip. It simply boils down to education, and the level of 'advantage' given in early life.

Charis

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pararct

ess0two wrote: »

At the risk of repeating myself again....................my friend drives for Tesco and YES this wage is possible.

With a little inside knowledge of Tesco in Weybridge. I would say this is possible albeit in very limited circumstances.
That said I will add a caveat.

The ability to do this will mean a hell of a lot of overtime is being worked. On that basis the Driver in question.
May be in breach of Regulation (EC) 561/2006 (Drivers Hours)
May be in breach of The Working Time Regulations.
May be in breach of his workplace agreement.
May be in breach of local Health and Safety rules.

Certain backhanders have in the past been made to shift supervisors to ensure certain names are bumped up the overtime lists.At the same time favours are afforded when the relevant percentage of tacho discs are analysed with 'some being left out'.
(Not necessarily this depot but it has occurred in the past)

There are always ways and means around doing anything. Tesco management will not be too concerned, provided the work gets done and it does not come back to bite them in the bum.
I worked in a Supermarket Distribution depot for 16 years. That makes me qualified to make this assertion.
In any 3 Month period at least 50% of employed drivers will have infringements on their drivers hours records.
Haulage Company's and Supermarket (Own Account Operators) are required to 'speak to drivers' to inform them of their errors and demand compliance. If that compliance is not forthcoming then they are supposed to take them into the disciplinary process. That rarely happens and the DOT are so stretched they only inspect records themselves where non compliance is reported to them or an incident has occurred.


This chap may well have earned that sum of money but it is almost certain he will have bent some rules in order to have done it.
He will not be doing his health and good and will have little time for family and friends.

mitchaa

flatbroke49 wrote: »

I work in an nhs hospital as a nurse and earn 38k a year. This sounds wonderful, but....I have been sudying for nearly twenty years to get qualifications including a masters degree part time. All the courses I did were self funded and :A part time which I did around working and raising two children. The driving force behind this was that my husband who works incredibly hard earns around 14k a year and I was the one with the potential to earn better. Having said all that, I am still in debt and using all the resources on this site, which are great, to help me get sorted. Despite what peoples salaries are, when you are in debt the consequences are the same. Its just that when you earn more, you borrow more and the debt is more! The stress and worry for all debtors is exactly the same.

Are you a grade 7 nurse then? Not all nurses work unsociable hours, i actually know 3 nurses who 99% of the time work monday to friday either 8-4 or 2-10 shifts. They i believe do 1 sunday a month and get paid a little extra for it.

These are grade 5 nurses 3-4yrs out of uni and earning £23-24k.

tomstickland

pararct wrote: »

90% of the population are capable of performing anything from being a top level consultant to a CEO in a Blue Chip. It simply boils down to education, and the level of 'advantage' given in early life.

Whatever it is, it's not simple.
Your statement might be true if it was "90% of the population had the potential to do most things when they were young subject to opportunies and education."
But even then, I'd question whether everyone was capable just based on education and opportunities.

omelette451

The_White_Horse wrote: »

the point is as I said, you COULD be a brickie. a brickie more than likely could NOT be a doctor.

That's a bit harsh! There are many reasons, most of them socio-economic, why people become what they become, but it's perfectly possible that under different circumstances someone who is a bricklayer could have become a doctor, or even a top brain surgeon. Just look at the percentages of doctors who grew up in working class households and compare it with the number of bricklayers who grew up in working class households.