Tesco Lorry Drivers earn £47600 pa

Conrad

Dithering_Dad wrote: »

I can't believe that Conrad took leave of his senses and added the Turkish bit to this thread. I normally find him to be a decent enough bloke on here. Perhaps he had been at the whiskey when he posted?

DD, the last thing I would be is racist!

You've taken a classic mental shortcut I'm afraid.

One driver was ethnic English the other Turkish.
So, why did I mention he was Turkish? Because on the one hand there is this view it's so hard to earn a decent living, yet here in front of me I had a guy who had very poor English (just as I have even worse Turkish - it isn;t racist, it's merely a fact), that despite this potential handicap manages to pull in £45k pa.

He's been here 5 years only, so that further shows that you can earn good money with hard work and a can do approach, sometimes.

Conrad

Catblue wrote: »

Conrad, do you really think that it is entirely responsible to post details of your clients' salaries on the internet? Along with details of their ages, ethnic background and their employers?

Seems very unprofessional to me, I'm afraid.

I agree with you, which is why I've altered the ethnicity and age.;)

Catblue

Conrad wrote: »

I agree with you, which is why I've altered the ethnicity and age.;)

So you are banging on about someone's ethnicity, which you now admit that you made up?

Rather than posting about real life examples (with certain bits that you now say are made up), why don't you just respect your client's confidentiality in the first place?

Snooze

Conrad wrote: »

Rob

What possible motive would I have to put this thread up??

I have both clients pay slips and P60s.

Actualy, thinking about it, your response is exactly the reason I put this thread up. Time and again over the years I notice people seem hell bent on filtering facts that lead them to conclude other peoples incomes are lower.

I assure you these figures are real.

I couldn't give a !!!! what you've got in front of you. I will tell you right now (again) and stake my life on it that those figures are NOTHING like true. A fake P60 can be picked up from just about fake ID site for a tenner and the same go for pay slips.

You believe what you want but no HGV driver of ANY description is on over £40k per year. FACT.

I strongly suggest you go and do some proper research before posting such bull$hit on forums in future. In fact, go on the trucknetuk.com forums and post on there what you posted here and watch them all keel over laughing.

:rolleyes:

Rob

wharty

The_White_Horse wrote: »

a fair wage for a tube driver is about 15k - lets face it, a trained monkey could do the job. no tube staff member should be paid more than 25k as the thing is useless. they can all have a 10k bonus if there are no delays in one year.

As for driving a bus or a lorry, I reckon 15k is fair for that as well. remember these are unskilled jobs that potentially thousands of people could do with maybe 2 or 3 weeks training.

hardly surgeons, architects or lawyers are they.

trouble is, everyone is overpaid these days. I would cut football wages down to 10k a month. If any footballer don't like that, they can always leave and find another job paying a similar salary.

Unskilled but yet you need training?
HGV medical, Driving test(Car), class 2, class 1, hazard perception and theory, nvq 3, and driver cpc coming in soon, and thats just a standard driver. Then add on all Airport training, RHIDES cards for the docks and Chemical training for the oil refinerys.
Thousands of people could do it, but there is a shortage?
Why dont they then?
Paid 30k a year for no more than ten hours a night, so why are more monkeys not doing it?
Ride your white horse some place else you !!!!!, and don't slip on any of those banana skins i left on the floor.:beer:

alm71

My husband is a HGV driver who unfortunately has just been made redundant. He was only on £15,000 per year. In the past he has worked very long hours and not been home to see the family for days on end. I've virtually raised the children as a single parent, but you put up with the this to put food on the table. You don't often see well paid lorry drivers. They are very few and in the minority. I'm 6 months away from qualifying as a staff nurse but I'm facing the prospect of not having a job at the moment. I agree that if I worked for a few years in nursing I would probably have an income of approx £25-30,000 (If I'm lucky) but that is justified in my opinion with the responsibility that goes with the job. I think you need to be doing the job before having an opinion on it. My eyes have been well and truly opened on this nursing degree course. No nurse goes in to the profession for the money. There are many jobs out there that does not justify the money they get and HGV drivers and nurses are not one of them.

pararct

Training to pass a test to group C+E (Artic Class one in old money) could set a person back up to £3000. Even that figure may be out of date now.

That said the job is about experience, a person that has just passed a test for example probably would not be able to do high street shop deliveries straight away. These places can be difficult to access with large vehicles and could involve reversing some distance against the flow of traffic on a blind side.
The size of these vehicles means that if it goes wrong considerable damage can be caused and persons badly hurt or killed ( I saw a rigid lorry catch a 8 foot wall in E17, it went over just missing a mum wheeling her pram).

So no not every man and his dog can do it. It should also be remembered that there are many unsocial working conditions as well as the hours. It's not a 9 to 5 job and days can often be 12 or 13 hours long. Depending on the type of job a driver may only get to see his wife and kids at the weekends or if over the water maybe once for a couple of days every three weeks.

Rolandtheroadie

At the end of the day, who cares? Sure some drivers are on 15k and some are getting sores sitting on ther !!!! for 48hrs + per week doing nights/weekends/days/staying away to earn more. They are making a sacrafice to do so.
If your happy with your job, your happy. If not, why moan about what other people get? Get off your !!!! and do something about it. Try and improve your own prospects.

As far as the skilled argument goes, no, it's a manual job, albeit requiring additional training, a manual job just the same. I would perhaps say semi skilled.

BettiePage

alm71 wrote: »

My husband is a HGV driver who unfortunately has just been made redundant. He was only on £15,000 per year. In the past he has worked very long hours and not been home to see the family for days on end. I've virtually raised the children as a single parent, but you put up with the this to put food on the table. You don't often see well paid lorry drivers. They are very few and in the minority. I'm 6 months away from qualifying as a staff nurse but I'm facing the prospect of not having a job at the moment. I agree that if I worked for a few years in nursing I would probably have an income of approx £25-30,000 (If I'm lucky) but that is justified in my opinion with the responsibility that goes with the job. I think you need to be doing the job before having an opinion on it. My eyes have been well and truly opened on this nursing degree course. No nurse goes in to the profession for the money. There are many jobs out there that does not justify the money they get and HGV drivers and nurses are not one of them.

You qualify the same time as me then. Good luck! :T

LillyJ

I know that bin lorry drivers (with HGV licences) can earn over £40k with overtime.
But to be honest I don't really care. As the poster above says, I cannot abide people moaning about what others earn (and going on about how easy it is). If it's so bloomin easy to be a nurse/lorry driver/junior doctor/GP/politician etc, then why the hell are you all sitting about moaning about it? Go out and get the qualifications/training and do the job if you are that bothered! But instead you waste your time on the internet saying how unfair it is that someone earns so much, when said person is probably at work doing overtime.