How much do lorry drivers earn? Do they like their jobs? We ask them! 

"You are your own boss". That couldn't be further from the truth. Constant phone calls, what's your eta, why haven't you got there yet, you should have phoned to let's us know you were gonna be late. OK so you hit traffic, of course you have, your on the M25 car park, so you phone in let them know your obviously gonna be late cause the genius who's planned your route planned it like it was a Sunday and not a Friday asks what's your new eta. How the f***K do i know! Crystal ball is in for service, all depends when the car park opens up again. So you've done your drops, you're headed home, you're into your 12th hour and they drop a collection on you which you may or may not be able to do before you run out of duty time of 15hrs. So it's touch n go if you're kipping in your own bed or in a rocking cab in a stinky lay by with no food or drinks or toilet and the worst bit is, you're only 8 minutes from your yard. If it all goes to rat shit during the day, it's always your fault because yiur the driver. The whole world n his brother hates being stuck behind a lorry and you wouldn't believe the lengths people go to to get in front of one, f**kin suicidal in most cases. Forklift drivers hate you cause you're bringing them mors work. Sitting on loading bays for 4 hours waiting to be unloaded sounds great, but the novelty soon wears off especially when your running short of hours. Then there's the yellow perril, slapping tickets on your screen for feeding the nation. VOSA now they are in the private sector have to earn their keep so any excuse and you have a substantial fine. With new trucks they can download your card while they drive past you or when you drive under selected motorway gantries and pull you should they need to chat. So, 13hrs twice a week and 15hrs 3 times a week unless you want to do the 5 days one week and 6 the next alternating. There's a whole book that can be written on the subject and this is not the place. I was an hgv mechanic for 30 years and loved it. I've been driving for 15 years after I closed my toolbox for the last time due to arthritis. For me personally, it's a way to earn a living. A much poorer living since the enforcement of the IR35. My wages have been halved since I was forced to go PAYE by the government. What's the best thing about being a lorry driver? The end of the day when I get to go home. Would I recommend it to a FRIEND? If you like long hours, stress, potential to be fined every time your wheels are turning, being blamed for everything, hated by all, barrage of phone calls from planners, spending nights out unprepared because you're a day driver and not a tramper, and finally if you're involved in a serious accident which isn't your fault then being dragged away in hand cuffs because your the "Professional Driver" and you should have known better then Absolutely recommend paying 5 k for your licence and becoming a C+E. If none of that daily excitement appeals to you THEN ABSOLUTELY NOT‼️ This vid was propaganda, I get it, you want bums on seats and you want people to sign up with you to get licences, but tell the truth about the industry and not some fluffy pink and blue water colour picture that's frankly BS.

Don't know how I stumbled on this video.. I'm not a driver but I would like to say thank you to all the lorry drivers for what they do and go through to keep things on our shelves and homes...thanks guys n girls😉

What’s the difference between a prison cell and a lorry? The prison cell has its own toilet.

The wisest thing that should be on every wise individuals list is to invest in different stream of income and don't depend on the government to bring in money especially now the pandemic is hitting the economy

If that's the case, I will stick to driving a van for Asda for 10.50 per hour. Those rates are a joke.

I'm retired from driving now, but prior to my HGV driving career I was a Civil Servant working for the Government in various departments. People used to ask me why I made such a change in career (office work to truck driving) and I'd say they were both similar in that they both involved sitting on my arse all day staring out of a window.

I'm a class 2 driver in a local authority, usually in a road sweeper. Due to LGA agreements, my basic is around £23.5k, which is crap. However, my commute is about 4 minutes and I love the job. Background - I am a certified data centre engineer who (after 20 years) got fed up and jumped. Started as a 7.5t driver (grandad rights in 1984), did aquired CPC [1], then paid for my own class 2 and have never looked back. My advice to anyone wanting to HGV it.......get your medical & provisional and have a trial lesson. Its easier now with automatics (pah - should do it in a manual 4 over 4). If you like it, join our diminishing club. If it isn't for you, at least you had a look at our world for an hour.

No one should drive a class 1 for less than £27000 per year national living wage is catching us up think how much responsibility we have driving a class 1 compared to shop workers

Be nice of they mentioned to earn 40-45k you’re gonna be doing 60+ hours a week and sleeping in a metal box all week.

You didn't ask a HGV1 driver , who has to run around like a headless chicken, with a boss that couldn't care less about him/her, and wants that truck in 3 different places at the same time, think you would have got a different response, this reminds me of a classic biased BBC news report.

Sorry this a false view of the industry if you take into account forced breaks and poa your hourly rate is in total lower. There are two jobs on indeed right now in Bristol for class 1 from £9.00 per hour and shop assistant from £9.45 per hour. My advice for a young person is take the shop job because you will be treated better and in the long term you will be paid better.

Extremely suprised that hgv class 2 is only a pound above minimum wage. Thats crazy

I have worked for the same agency since 2017, first on vans, then after the first lockdown, I decided to go for my LGV. I have had the privilege of working for different companies in that time, but there is a common theme amongst drivers; under-paid, company doesn't care, stressed, over-worked. However, I have met many employees like this across the numerous sectors that I have worked, basically, bone idle, want money for nothing. The reality of the world is this, there is no perfect company, no perfect job, no perfect boss, and when that is realised the workplace makes a lot of sense.

I'm class 2.. my pay is a bit crap but my god the work is easy and the company I work for is great.

Do not drive hgv,for a living. Money is for at least 60 hours,at minimum wage. Your homelife is non existing, I was earning same wages 20 years ago. The ministry fine you for misdeeds, which they only know. They change these laws every year, without informing drivers.. You will earn more, working as a labourer on a building site

I think them wages are completely in outer space, I've just left a class 1 articulated roro job which is a very specialised job and the hourly rate was £10.72 an hour, wich is disgusting but thats about the most you can earn around the midlands. My advice is just dont bother !!!!!

Really good vid pall! I’m not surprised the uk are low on drivers mind, that wage is awful. I was learning my hgv license with big wheelers until I realised how much they get paid. The top drivers are on less than I’m on right now as a roofer.

I have a class 2 and class 1 licence and chose to come out of it as no work life balance and the pay not worth the hassle and stress you get put through. I chose to go back in the warehouse as I have a young family and I get to see them a lot more and less hours and pay not that far behind wagon driver that have to live on the road. For me this video is glamourising the industry from what I seen. Also the anxiety of having something wrong with the vehicle which messes your day up and some extremely tight places that some vehicles struggle to get in as well as so many impatient drivers that are rude and don’t care about putting there car 2 foot away from the lorry at 56mph after cutting in front. Just my short experience in them. On a positive note though I do respect and see drivers in a different light which more people need to do to know what they go through instead of out of sight out of mind view.

I can’t lie, you do sound like Jay Cartwright😅 but great informative video!

I didn't see a single artic driver interviewed there or any driver from the general haul. I can honestly say I've been a lorry driver for 11 years and I think it's definitely not a very good career choice. The money is made up by the sheer number of hours we do, nights out are something blokes rely on for wages too which I think is wrong really. I don't think this video has given a true reflection of the haulage industry really

one thing i've learn't about life in general is that no one tells you the truth about their job, esp in haulage, the grass is always made to sound greener on "their" side. it very rarely is, and more often is not, usually worse. if you are thinking about it as a career, i wouldn't bother, its a lot worse than you think.

I don't understand all of the negative comments. Im a newly qualified class 2 driver and I have just landed my first job as a driver for 40 hour week 31K per year overtime paid at time and a quarter. Im in Manchester

Anywhere from 22k-25k is average for starting wage for class 2 I’d say, but that’s for 50-60 hours a week. Not 40

Im a HGV mechanic , always fancied class two tipper driving , had class 1 & 2 for 20 years and PSV for 22 years but you can keep driving buses did it for my last employer now with fire service

Ha ha ha You make me laugh ! Did you ask the agencies how much they get from the employers? Ask them and let us know. Thanks.

Changed a bit since last year. Drivers getting huge increases now. With the shortages. No fuel deliveries etc. I'm starting my process for class 1 this week.

I'm a class 2 driver and earn 32,000+ really easy job although I am going to be doing my training for class 1 crane driver and earn 40,000+ that's sounds good to me XD great fun and as they say always nice to not been stuck in somewhere and nice to see the world!

All depends on who you work for, I drove walking floors delivering biomass to farms, power stations etc and I loved it but then the boss got greedy, ruined the job for me and now drive a grab for a utilities company, better money, lot less hours easiest job you could wish for. We can be picky at the moment just don’t stick a job you hate and try and get away from general haulage that’s where the stress is.

Holy crap, I can't believe what they pay drivers in the UK. I live in the US and just started driving last month and I am already making 45,000 ponds per year and the potential just goes up from there. If you can land a job with UPS, you can make 22 to 30 pounds per hour. If you own your own truck, it's a whole other ball game. They need to pay there drivers more over there and maybe they won't lose soo many.

I was a truck driver for 27 years, it's a shit job with shit pay and loads of responsibilities, very early starts and late finishes, you can't plan anything Monday to Friday because you don't know what time your going to finish. My advice is stack shelves at Aldi, better hourly rate than driving and if you did 70 hrs you'd come out with more money than a truck driver.

Averages worked out at 40 hours a week? 🤣🤣 What about us who work full time

passed my class 2 last friday and now waiting my licence to come back so i can start my mod 4. i can't wait to go back into a lorry full time! the moment i climbed into the cab first time i knew this is for me for life! :D

These wages are all based on a 40 hour week. How many HGV Drivers work 40 hours a week? My guess is not many.

Where are you getting your figures? 1st point, truck drivers don’t do 40 hrs a week! (If you know a company that does, please post) 2. On average truckers do 12 hrs a day minimum, 12 x 5 = 60 x £13.50 = £810 x 48 weeks = £38880 (& that’s allowing for 4 weeks unpaid holidays) 3. Add in 1 extra day every fortnight (as we can drive 6 days every second week) so roughly an extra 20 days pay on top of those figures! 4. Now in point 2, I said an average 12 hour day, most drivers do 13 and at least once a week if not more 15 hour days. 5. Add Meal allowance & over night allowance I drive internationally and I can tell you, international UK drivers on average take home pay is £600 - £700 per week! (& thats for 13 days a fortnight) Divide this by all above) Most small & almost all international hauliers pay by the day, (a flat rate, regardless of hours worked which has meal & overnight allowance included in that rate) The industry pay structure is a complete joke, there is a shortage of 65,000 drivers in the UK 🤔 now why would that be? Let’s try answer it. Young lad acquires his LGV license and looks for a job. Here’s the conditions: 5 - 6 days a week Early starts, between 3am and 6am Average 12 - 14 hours work a day Your planner will start at 8am and finish at 5pm, he’ll have his tea and lunch breaks at 10 & 1, he will call you constantly to get updates and push you to drive quicker or dodge traffic because the ignoramus at the last drop delayed you. (However if you request something like a phone number, proper delivery address, contact name on site, he will get it whenever he’s ready) no rush. And most important if your lucky to be finished after doing a 12 hour shift and it’s before he leaves he will try to get you to do something extra ie: another collection, wash the truck, swap trailers!! Oooh and by the way, you’ll have the VOSA & traffic police ready and waiting to relieve you of some of your well earned cash whenever the find fault. If your fatigued and are unfortunate enough to have a bad RTA, you’ll go to jail. You people promoting this scutter on you tube should be held accountable, your telling lies, conning people, giving out false information. Do something right for a change, go to parliament and get proper working conditions for professional drivers. 1. 40 hours a week like in any other industry 2. Overtime paid at time and a half and doubled whenever due. 3. Proper parking facilities with toilets & showers. That are cleaned regularly 🤬 I love my job, I am fortunate to work for a good company that follow the rules, appreciate their drivers, and pay accordingly. Would I settle for any less? NO And before all you company men reply telling me I’m moaning, it’s you knobs that have the industry the way it is & the sole reason young people don’t want this career. What’s the UK government’s solution to the driver shortage? Allow the drivers we have to work longer hours 🤣😂 you couldn’t make it up!

I work for a German milk company as a class 1 driver, I took home after taxes and pension £34,800. My average p/h is £15-16hr, I'm not agency driver and do about 8-11hr days & home each night.

I only worked for two companies in my thirty years on class ones, both specialised in transporting hazardous materials and contaminated waste removal, my last pays slip was £975 top line, four days, three nights out, brand new truck ( Volvo FH 3 then 4) every three years, there is money out there in HGV driving, sadly the food supply chain operators pay the minimum wage for lads and lasses, they pay the bloke who drives the 44-ton truck less to deliver the cans of beans than the supermarket pays the bloke to stack them on the shelves, and there lies the problem of shortages of drivers!

Jay Cartwright. So this is what he’s up to these days.

"you're not stuck in the office 9-5" No, you're stuck in a lorry 8-6 😂😅😂

I did the conversion, I make about double driving a garbage truck in the US compared to what those UK guys were making 😳 pay your drivers more!

Excellent vid.. Look forward to meeting you for training. Bermuda to London later this Oct 2020.

Agree with the two foreign chaps at the end though you will never be out of work. Just know your worth dont go self employed for less than 15 quid an hour and always remember the companies need you more than you need them believe it or not.

Wages are piss poor to be honest and an insult to hgv drivers for the responsibility and danger. If you want to feel worthless and be a second class citizen hgv driving is for you! That’s the truth. You can go do extra tickets like ADR for no real extra pay unless you land a good job on the tankers (not all tanker jobs pay well) Your averages are wrong, To earn 40/45k per year your doing doing nights out and maximising you’re hours. That is unless you land a dead mans shoes job which are very far and between. You never know when your gonna be finished. If not your in a dead mans shoes job and will find it hard to earn that money elsewhere. Your not your own boss at all, you do have some independence if that’s what the mortar guy means until some unqualified tosser in the office is banging your ears with the where are you? What time will you be there? Can you? Will you? Why haven’t you? Questions so the bloke in the mortar wagon is talking rubbish. You will never be out of work but never be rich. You do see some good sights and not in the same place all the time. You can get some good job satisfaction and challenges, some people do appreciate you but not that often. Your only classed as a professional driver when something goes wrong. Constantly people breathing down your neck wether it’s traffic planners, transport managers, Dvsa or some unappreciative bastard at your delivery or collection point who thinks your late on purporse or whatever. Can be really lonely. A lot of trucks not have cameras all over them (not always a bad thing though some are quite invasive on your personal space) i.e in cab cameras. A lot of time have to go on pathetic courses because of cyclists and idiot car drivers because it’s always the truck drivers fault. Make your own minds up but that is the facts coming from a hgv driver and I know most would agree with me word for word. Good luck!

Hes basing this on a 40 hour week so its bullshit, its more like 50 hours a week so it brings the hourly rate down to minimum wage

I get £16.60ph on days driving class 2. We work 4 10hr shifts a week. We don’t work Saturdays but do work 2 out of 3 Sundays. We never work more than three days without at least 1 day off unless we’re doing overtime. Most earn £40k with a bit of overtime, bank holidays and annual bonus added. A lot are class 1 trained but work here because the money is good. To me what we get should be average for the industry as a whole.

Pretty sure you’ve got the wrong vehicle in the background when your talking about the role.

I passed class one HGV test in may 1983 and wasted the rest of my life sat behind a steering wheel and being treat like shit and paid absolute peanuts to boot

I think the wages definitely vary depending on where you work. Best I managed was 29k on class 1 and away from Saturday to Wednesday and maxing out on hours. I was about ready to throw the towel in but then found a job on class 2 with 30k basic plus potential 3k P/A bonus 6am to 4pm. Yet go 20 miles down the road and the Haulage companies are only offering around 25k to 28k tramping.

I love this I am a lorry driver always on your own

Long hours, hassle from bosses, DVSA, waiting around, traffic conjestion, other road user misdemeanours, crapping in plastic bags.....For the money I'd be better off packing fudge in a sweet factory!

So please tell me about the £40 -45K jobs where I'm not scraping the legal boundaries of a 15 hour day umpteen times a week and blasting my way to infringements for breaking the 48 week reference periods and using POA as it now is legitimately. Oh and whilst your at it ask them if they'll throw in a sparkly unicorn and a couple of fluffy bunnies for good measure.

i want to apply now for hgv. MY goal is to earn 45k/year in the next years. Might be to much and impossible for some but i will do my best to accomplish this.

Have been driving class C for 25 years now (trained by NDC in 96 when you were based just off Beddington Farm Rd) have had some good and bad jobs but always got a fair wage, now working local authority contract £14.77/hour for 38hr week early start early finish.🙂

Hi mate, Thanks for sharing this video. It was informative and also educational for those that want to become a lorry driver and to follow a career in transport industry. Kind Regards, Robert Mihalache

Grab drivers on the utilities in the Northwest or down south inside the M25 you can get good money if you can get the bucket filled before it's empty with no swinging around you can get good money for the right company possibly £200+ a day 10 hours 07:00-17:00

Wow. One of the most informative video I found for people looking into hgv driving. Thanks.

I got my Class 2 in Jan 2020 (before covid hit) I had an airport job lined up for 13.00ph, then lock down happened, i then went on to pursue HIAB in August 2020 (Hook and crane) but never became useful (as many of the jobs here require brickgrab HIAB - remember to do job research before doing extra qualifications). I started my first HGV job working on the bin lorries (12 week contract) afterwards i worked again 3 months on a water tanker lorry doing drainage. In Feb 2021 I got my ADR and started job seeking again but to no avail, eventually I got into Cazoo (requires only class 2 + CPC) out of the jobs (minus the airport ones) it has been the better ones and paid slightly more! 4 on an 4 off shifts, just very long days!! *Just to add, i'm not sure if it's worth doing my Class 1 as there doesn't seem to be a real benefit, but i'll keep that open ajar in case a good opportunity comes up!

Good God, the wages in the UK are appalling. In Sydney, you would not get out of bed for these wages.

All classes in 2021, Agency zero hours £10 ph, Tesco C1E £25kpa Amazon picking in a warehouse is £12 ph. Morrisons sitting on a till £10.50ph.

I was going to get my class 2 last year because I like being out on the road and I used to absolutely love going out with my dad in his truck when I was a kid. But then my dad told me what its like in the game nowadays and I've had a few chats with other lorry drivers, put it this way... I'm so glad I listened to them!! I could spend ages telling you stories of crap that's happened to lorry drivers, but all I'll say is this... there are so many reasons NOT to get a job driving a lorry, but only a couple to get one!

Obviously these rates of pay are wrong but the video is really good.

Good money just stay away from general haulage. I was on £26000 but doing 55 plus hours a week. Now I do 45 hours a week about £31000 plus over time so maybe a bit more that’s class 2 as well delivering pet food.

Certainly isn’t a good job.I’ve been a hgv driver for over 35 years now and I’m totally pissed off driving on British roads.No car drivers care about you whatsoever,they don’t want you near their precious little villages.So don’t moan when you can’t get any food in your local supermarket and your petrol stations run dry. Then there are all the enforcement agencies who are constantly out there after you. So at the end of the day most of the older drivers like myself are getting pestered every week can you work.So the answer is NO I would rather sit at home and do nothing at all,all day long.The supermarkets and petrol stations etc can all run out.All for £10.50 an hour class one.Who gives a shit. Thankyou Terry.

Based in Hampshire. Class 2 tramper. Do 4 nights out a week. 60 plus hours a week. 10.89 per hour. That being considered a very good wage in the local area. I dont think the wages shown in this video are accurate at all. You can get a gem of a job if your very lucky but things are not as they seem on this video. Need to ask a wider range of drivers in terms of experience, and type of work. Also probably worth bearing in mind for new drivers that in the first couple years you need to take what your offered. Once you have experience, there are many routes you can go down in terms of work/distance/goods/loading and unloading methods. Etc. However this video alone is not enough to show a genuine reflection of the industry and its many many problems. Albeit I do understand that may not be the purpose of this video, but to potential drivers of the future just make sure you understand what your signing up for.

£11.50/12 class 2 flats with Crane in south east, 45hr week, overtime is £14ph weekends £18ph.. thought our wages were bad, but some of the sub £10ph stuff is shocking... If people don't want to drive hgvs anymore the industry will have a problem, bout time paymasters wizened the hell up. Al the old schoolers are retiring, and the take up is very low for youngens, im the youngest hgv driver out of 30 at my base and at 36 thats not a good sign.

Actually this is just a joke in its self. If it's that great being a lorry driver, why is there so much of a shortage?

One of the worst things that happened to jobs like truck driving is the minimum wage. There was no ripple effect upwards so semi skilled jobs like driving are paid barely more than cleaners or checkout staff. It’s one of the reasons for the driver shortage, why spend thousands to get your license when you can just go and work in Tesco or your local warehouse and go home at a reasonable time every day, previously the wage gap was an incentive to get your license. You only earn a good wage because you do double the hours of everyone else. The minimum wage is a good thing, don’t me wrong but the pay needs to be better for those trades just above minimum wage level otherwise nobody will do them.

This has to be a setup, who are all these drivers who have time to hang around chatting to a numpty with a microphone?

WOW thank you for your time putting this video out, vary interesting.

wages also depend on area, in wales i have seen 7.5 ton for 17 to 18k a year.

This video was really helpful to know about the trucking industry. I've been trying to move to the uk. Thankhs

I love my job , I earn £36k a year with a good pension and rarely do over 9.5 hours

I have seen over the years England hgv drivers don’t enjoy it as much, Scotland based and I’m 24 just left the army after 8 years service, Landed my first civvy job driving a Class 2 waste management Roro hooklift truck for Offshore companies with no experience for £15 hr (yearly wage rises for loyalty) with £19 hr overtime and £21 on weekends before 7am and after 4am! I’m home at 5 most nights and earning an average atm 600-700 a week it’s amazing and I get like on average 1-2 phone calls from the boss and I’m out and about finishing jobs from the Tablet and it’s easy af 😂 The experienced drivers are on £18hr+ earning nearly 1k a week just for sticking at the job for long enough 😍

North West £10 per hour if you're lucky and nearly all the work is agency work where you wouldn't send your worst enemy. Save yourself the stress and cost and get a normal job.

The only thing I regret about it is I didn't start years ago

If you like being the bottom of the food chain, paid less than a teenager on Tesco checkout, treated like complete shit and work hours in one week that most people wouldn’t do in 2 weeks, be rechristened as ‘drive’ and then spend your nights in a coffin parked in filthy lay-by then become a truck driver.

I belive that is a 3.5 tonne van not a 7.5tonne lorry bit of a difference...you can drive the VAN on a car licence

Thank you for making this video, I was seriously considering making a change from a bricklayer to a hgv1 driving after seeing its 42k a year for 40 hour weeks. After seeing all the comments I'm glad to say f that.. I make and have been making £25/£30 a hour comfortably for the past 5 years.. I really did think lorry drivers made a hell of a lot more than this. Hod carriers get 100/150 per day with no training at all. I am gob smacked really...

I have been driving taxi 12 and 13 hours every day. And 7 days a week. And i am making £24000 per a year. And friends are driving lorry trucks and flat truck in USA they are making $100000 to $120000 in year.

This video is funny with the amount of bs. Your be making around £10-£12 in the south on a normal C2 or C1 job. Don't forget 50-60 hour week is the norm. And so on and so on.

Doesn't mention them salaries are over 60 hour weeks... we work an extra half week over most jobs as standard!

Prepare for 60 hours a week and anywhere outside of London you will be lucky to get over £10 an hour for Class 2. Not to mention how it can take months to get someone willing to take you on after you pass your test because everyone 'requires experience' but nobody is willing to give you it.

Trucker from Oz here. With my night shift allowance ( 30 % ) and shift payment for class of vehicle I drive ( A double, which is basically a two trailer road train) I'm on about $46 an hour. My employer pays over the award rate which obviously helps but my average night is probably 9 to 9.5 hrs. Working a Sunday is voluntary. If I work Sunday twice a month I would be on about 125 to 130k a year. I don't know what this equates to in pounds but I do feel like British lorry drivers are getting a rough deal.

After 40+ years in the industry I was glad to to retire. I've worked for big companies and small, the thing they have in common is there isn't enough hours in the day. The big companies have this veneer of respectability and want you to do the job legally ,and disciplinary action if your caught. The small companies will conspire to get rid of you because your not flexible! Before I retired I jokingly said "if you want an LGV license in the future you will have be chipped" I wasn't far wrong. I wouldn't reccomend anybody to waste their money on a licence untill there's a revolution in the industry regarding hours wage and conditions.

I've got my class 1. The wages are a joke. People are gobb smacked when you tell them what your on. The highest paid I've been paid for driving a artic is £10:50 ph If someone said to me I'm thinking about getting my hgv licence, I would say think really hard about it as for one, you need to spend alot of money getting your licence. I spent 2k getting my class 1. Then for the second reason, the wages are terrible. I still can't believe how bad they are. Third reason, it's the hardest industry to get into and easist one to come out of. Like me, I really struggled to get a job when I passed my class 2 and 1. The first question your asked is, have you got experience? No, we're only looking for experience only. Also your walking on egg shells every day worried about something being wrong with the lorry as VOSA fine you for the most ridiculous thing. For example, the legs on a trailer. If you haven't completely rolled them right up to the top, VOSA will fine you £200. If you roll them just about to the top but they can turn arm right round once, your getting a fine. It's a absolute joke. If you have a accident one day, depending on how bad it is, your getting licence taken off you.

Absolute rubbish, come to the North West and ask what the wages are.... they are nowhere near the figures you're sprouting.......don't forget the hours, generally at least 50% more then your average factory/shop/ office worker....then there's the treatment of drivers by both employers and customers, its poor in general.

Would love to see an updated video see how much the wages have changed

Loads saying " don't do it" yet they still do it, I've come back into transport from 1990s driving for cargos 813s, im now a class 1 and love it. If you doing it and hate it leave, its very simple

Been driving LGV for 32 years class 1 .. the good days have gone anybody wanting to get into the industry be very careful and do your homework. If your single it’s a good job , but if you want a life pick something else , sorry but it’s the truth. These guys are trying to promote the job obviously because they want the business.

Low wages

LMAO loads of firms out there still only paying roughly £11 -12 per hour for Class 1 and very few places pay extra for HIAB or moffat anymore

I no ppl that earn £970 per week ltd, on class 1 but let’s not forget these companies want you working 15 hour shifts. Royal Mail is a good one to get into, they pay £19 per hour and £22 per for nights, Good money, hour’s aren’t to shabby either. I’m class 2 and earn £1500 after tax on the dustcarts.

First of all I want to know after 8 years of this industry how you work out 26-30k a year is such a high hourly pay, 26k a year is £100 per day, in class 1 work you will be doing 13-15hours a day as often as the planner that constantly pushes you to a breakdown can make you, which quick maths is just over £7ph 🤷‍♂️

Working with SIG in London Heathrow Temp To Perm class 2 Hiab, after lots of Negotiations ( their initial offer was 25k per year) they offer me 30k, however, the contract was issued 30k per year for 47,5 hr a week, £12,20 an hour ( not 40 h per week )and with an entire page of closures where it was stated their ownership of any intellectual and moral creation, I could produce while working or not, and even if made in partnership with somebody else , nop it wasn't in the XVII century it was November 2020. the moral aspect I believe is to make it impossible for me to publicly shame them in case they Rob me of any invention or artistic production I could generate.

An advert just came up for a class 1 driver by me, bulk tipper scrap from Telford side of Wolverhampton to the other side of Birmingham, minimum 5 times a day £500 a week! Not only is that a rubbish wage but traffic won't allow that many drops a day, motorway always blocked and its 90 minutes either way, its impossible

I'd recommend anyone who's is thinking of a drivers job, don't money needs to be risen by 25% on c2 above no overtime payments are made weekend bankholiday waste of time go up 2 pounds, I've been around trucks for 35yrs and its definitely worse money absolutely slashed from 20yrs ago let alone 30 over heads more servicing more taxed more, hrs less 48hr average remember that means alot of people who have days off no pay, to be honest the only pay increase that has come to the job is every one connected to the job but doesn't actually drive it so yeh be a mug and drive a truck, or what I would recommend is a 22 tone driver 360 fork lift crane even scaffolding is 14pr hr and above 😅

I'm a retired (56yo) canadian driver, drove for 32 years and hated every minute of it. I was doing good financially and that's why I did it for so long, a mean to an end now 56 yo and retired where it never snows and that was the goal.

The wages in 2020 were abysmal. £24-27K? i was earning that in a small retail store as a basic and commision on top of that brought ut up to almost £30K and the customers came to me. Its good to see the porry scene get better pay now.

I’ve been driving a LGV small trucks and it was great but I can’t say I drove legal oh no overloaded and driving over the hours every week I was out. But the freedom part is spot on. I was applying directly following a tip from someone who knew a man needing fully licensed from car licensed drivers up to class 1 artic drivers in Denmark. Of course I jumped on the bandwagon and started driving. Stayed for a year and a half then I was sacked for wrecking a truck in Poland and now I’m a courier driver driving cars and going local routes but it’s a free job. I’m doing what I love doing a meaningful job keeping the town from grinding to a hard hitting stop. I would recommend it to anyone get into the industry but you should know what you’re going into it’s not daffodils and daisies out there but it’s up to you guys to decide. Stay safe and healthy everyone.

Them wages are out in the north east. Agency pay 11.25 for van and class 2 but a couple of local haulage firms pay 9.55 an hour for class 1. From what I see your looking around 10 to 10.50 an hour class 1 and also the class 2 wage isnt much different yet 7.5t with Hermes pays 27500k a year Makes no sense

Wow that explains why your having truck(Lori) drivers shortage. 3 years ago when I was a driver I was making $2200 (1598 pa) a week flat rate. Now I own 3 trucks and I pay my driver 32% of weekly gross income. My truck makes $9000- $1100 gross weekly. When you pay drivers in percentage they have the incentive to work harder and push themselves because the more they make the more they earn.