UK HGV Driver Wages. How much do we get paid 2024? 

Considering from April- National Living Wage confirmed to rise to £11.44 from April 2024. Then HGV driving is still extremely low paid and undervalued. You have mega responsibility requiring load, drivers hours and general road safety. HGV drivers should be on a minimum of £20 an hour in my opinion (x class 1 driver)

There's hauliers based in ireland, operating Ireland - UK - Europe paying £135 per day before tax and £25 per night out in april 2024, no shortage of foreigners willing to do it, they're planning 15 hour days for that which takes the driver comfortably under minimum wage.

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I’m working for a company that starts with a big A and I get 600 a week, it’s job and finish so some days 10 hours some days 15 and 5 days with 2 off, not the best wages but for a job that is easy enough rdc etc it’s ok. My friend works for a pharmaceutical company and he does 60 hours a week, with every second Sunday and he brings home after tax, 3800 a month, sometimes does the odd night out. There is jobs out there but the best ones are not advertised on indeed etc. As I write this I am sitting in drivers lounge eating my dinner chilling, so it’s not all bad

I was a tanker driver in essex before retirement and 13 yrs ago we had drivers on 70 thousand a year

Thats a fine wage for a young man. When your young you can cope better with the change of hours .

I've been told I can earn £40,000 a year as a truck driver, based on this I'm looking at doing my class 1 and dangerous goods. I earn roughly that a year now 4 on 4 off but what worries me is that people tend to over exaggerate wages. I would hate to leave my job only to find that the wages are not what people say.

My lad, single guy, usually clears £900 a week, when he gets his quarterly bonus he clears £1060. This includes night out pay. He works as a tramper, 5 days a week, no weekends. Based in the North East mainly vehicle manufacturer based loads, in and out of the docks.

I average 51.25hrs per week starting 1am working Sunday to Thursday. Done by 11:15 most days and normally sat waiting for a few hours oer shift. Absolutely not everyones cup of tea but suits me. Based in South Midlands But because its unsociable hours because its unionised and therefor has premium rates for nights/weekends/overtime it adds up and I'll be grossing just shy of 60k this tax year. Previous job was general haulage flat rate, max hours around 42k. There are good jobs out there, not always advertised.

I know it's a 2 month old video (just got it recommended) and I don't live or work in the UK, but I'd recommend looking at median salaries for your general area if you're looking for work. Median helps filter out the outliers that earn ridiculous salaries (on both ends of the spectrum). Not that big of a deal for HGV drivers as a whole, but if you're somewhere with a lot of highly specialized work like tankers, logging, hazardous waste, oversize and heavy equipment delivery etc, it helps to filter out those if you're not planning on going in that line of work as the salaries for specialized stuff is always going to be higher than your general container/curtainsider/reefer work.

I had a great hgv job. £23 an hour and often cleared over a grand a week after tax. But I recently got sacked and I'm gutted! Most jobs I see advertised are now 13-15 an hour.. It's a huge drop

£32,000 clearly is not enough I'd rather drive a coach & wear a suit

There are some really good paying driving jobs out there, but they are never advertised. My old firm never had to look for staff. There was always somebody to fill a space when an opening became available

Very few hgv driving jobs will pay you 60k probably tankers on old contracts or working your maximum hours on a well paid job, I'm getting a basic of 43k salary for 40 hours per week class 1 but we have class 2 salaried the same but longer hours in the North East some drivers at our depot who put the hours in are getting mid 50 k plus yearly bonus so close to 60 k, the problem with earning this much is you end up in a higher tax bracket so your not much better off than earning just below 50 k

I work for bidfood as a C2 driver (38k before overtime) and i make more than HGV drivers in the south west. Yes the work is harder due to multi drop nature.

I’ve managed to do 44 a year with no car commute to work in a bus I was doing close to 60 per week 5 weeks holiday a year 6 months off sick so if you do the math 50 hours in a Lorrie plus travel up and down to a depot and fuel runs for 34/40 very bad paid for hgv class 1 in my opinion but better then be at home doing nothing

Class 2 car transporter tramper, 47k with night out and meal allowance, the class 1 lads are on 60k

This is my first year. I passed last February, class 1 on mon-fri days. The job I took was advertised at 34-36k. I will have taken home 31-32k this first year (including allowences). In my previous job I'd need to bee on 41-42k to see the same take home pay. I've been doing between 50-55 hours a week.

It depends what type of job you do. Im on car transporters working 4on 4off and im earning £57800 with bonus and nights out. Our 5 day lads are earning around £65000 both class 1 work on 11+ transporters

I paid over £40k in tax for 1 year when I worked for Sportsdirect as a Class 1 driver. This was the year we got the bonus share payout.

I work for £17.20 per hour on a 40 hour contract. Any hours over the 40 is paid at time and a half and I get an additional £2.50 for every hour worked during the night. I also get a quarterly bonus. Last month I took home nearly £3200 with overtime and a bonus. Ever since I started working as a C1 driver I haven't taken home any less than £2400.

Hire and reward general transport is struggling, lots of hours involved and they simply can't pay more or they'll go pop. Beware of adverts where they try and include night out money to make the figure look good. Contract transport, ie supermarkets will usually be good, hours might be odd and unsocial including weekend and bank hols but the terms and conditions will normally be well up there, a mate is on £21 an hour working out of a supermarket RDC delivering to shops. Own account or specialised or dirty work or jobs involving hard graft (sometimes all of those things ie car transporters) usually pay better. Money varies so much around the country.

You/they could always come down to Australia for better open road driving with up three 3 trailers (53 mts :eek: ) . My son is carting livestock (sheep/goats/cattle) 50-70 hours a week and he pays a lot of tax! . But it's hard to compare Au dollars to British pounds . Some mining jobs driving on public roads do pay BIG dollars . You can have your traffic all to yourself . How about 250ks without a speed change sign ? Or something like 147 ks/90 miles without a bend ---- but you have to watch out for emergency aircraft that use parts of that highway also .

i earned 26k in 2008 on a 7.5t/3.5t hourly paid job, did work an avg 55hrs per week. was hard work but worth it,

I do 9.5 hours a day am on 53k a year so yep they do exist trust me!

North East based class 1, 4 on 4 off out and back day trunk runs, drop and swap turn round £660 a week average 9 hours a day I then do my side hussle on my days off and earn 10-15k a year extra which I love feels nothing like a job, wish I could do it full time.

I don't know what planned u live on buddy but I've been lorry driving for 20 years and haven't done less than 60 hours per week since I started. So your making out the hourly rate is alot better than it is in the real world.

Hi Ashley! I'm a minicab driver in London making about £20/h average as self-employed, before expenses and I'm looking at maybe transitioning into HGV.ing, specifically as a tramper as I might be saving on rent in London. Great video, by the way! Thanks for putting the effort into making it! Great comments from people in the industry as well! One thing I don't see anyone mentioning is taxes. I imagine for the yearly salary, you're an employee and pay taxes that way, but for the daily rate, given the difference in wage, is that paid to you as a self-employed person? I'm also interested in doing this job as a tramper. I know you say one is being paid a bit more, but could you try to give some realitic estimates for it? As it is a big difference between the 32.5k UK average and a 50-60k mentioned at the end. Thanks a lot again for your videos, really illuminating for someone looking to get in!

Is it still worth getting my licence? Im currently on £24,500 with little prospect of increasing that, im going through the HGV bootcamp process at the moment because i want to earn more money but i keep seeing people saying that wages in the HGV industry are collapsing and honestly looking locally on Indeed recently Class 2 wages dont seem to be much better than what im on now? Is the extra hours work and lost spare time worth it? Ideally i want to go to Class 1 eventually, can you still earn decent money in class 1?

My dad (now retired) was class 1 driver and in the 90s was approached by a guy who offered him a 70k a year driving a petrol tanker, my dad asked where? He was told in Iraq!!! 😵‍💫 Dad said errm no thanks!! 😂😂 Im class 1 now myself got into it around 12 months ago, the biggest problem I found was getting someone to take a new driver on!! As soon as you tell them you're a new driver, they say nope!! So tbh having to have your CPC don't mean anything really! Most places i spoke to want 2 years experience. But after being turned down by countless haulage companies, only had 2 phone me back. One the salary was only £540 per week that was for 10 hours a day 5 days a week for general haulage, the other £600 same hours and days, so went with that one. Uk only, the odd night out here and there, but im loving it!! Wished I'd have done it many years ago. Unfortunately my dad used to put me off! He used to say that you get treated like shit and people look down at you! But I've been doing class 2, now 1 for around 14 months now, and haven't come across any of this yet.

Come to Aussie work fork for Lindsay bros example they are on 2.60aussie a kilometre watch ,,,the homeless trucker,,,,

70k I’m on

Did you not realise that most of the jobs advertised don't really exist

Currently wages seem to be dropping, I’ve seen many many jobs at £14 an hour. You’d be better off working for a supermarket stacking shelves, you can work as many hours as you like to make more than being a driver

Class 2 for the big M , 50k at the moment for basic pay plus overtime this year I will be on 61k, we get a yearly bonus each year just before x-mas . From next year our wages go up and basic wage will be 53k plus overtime , will be on about 65k next financial year.

HGV wages are very low, when based on a 40 hour week, They say 50-60k but in reality that’s for 60-70 hours a week plus nights out. HGV wages are like 28k per year based on 40 hours,……it’s too low. Go to college, don’t rely a Truck to keep you employed

I hope £32500 average is for straight day shifts. It would be great if there is extra when you do nights, weekends & tramping because thats exactly what I want to get into trucking for

If your average of £32K is for Class 1, that is rather poor. Who want's the stress for that kind of money?

44 Hours taking home just over 600 a week, Class One Large Multinational 3 Letter Company same job everyday boring but you could set your clock on the start and finish times.

Get a psv licence always plenty of work .

Any driver any class earning over 45k will have you working to the bone!..Just a lucky few will have a cushy job for that.

I am on about 18 quid n hour

Companies expect you to max your hours so keep going on about 50 hours ffs

Iv found it’s all relative to the hours you work more so on day rate, divide the day rate by the hours some work out as below minimum wage ! Some companies advertise can earn 47 grand a year ect, yeah that’s if you work weekends nights, and 15 hour days. It’s not bad in some situations o agree but the time and hours and responsibilities and rules we all have to abide buy in the end 50k a year and never seeing g you’re kids grow up is not enough for me still

I’ve cleared 900 plus every week for the last 20 years

Before retiring I was on £46k for 48hrs on nights class 1, working for Sainsbury’s North London. Many of my colleagues were earning £50k+ with overtime.

Ahh a dark shadey topic hgv wages wot u find in they are all on different wages and nobody will tell you what thier Weekley take home wages not discussed till interview someone could start after you in same job as u and get more money instead of looking after long time staff gangsters the hole lot of em

i'm 26 , I'm hgv driver ,got all the licenses , I'm European and its hard to find a sponsorship in the uk. I love uk but I can't come without visa. Is there any chance in the future for us ?

What is the difference between trunking ? And normal I’m looking for motorway drive long distance what’s the license needs is that class 1? I’m so confused trying my research for hours still couldn’t maybe you can help do I need class 2 or class 1 trunking

Sell your soul to the devil and you can earn the bucks. Loose your marriage, your home, your life then there’s money. Seen plenty of blokes chase that pot of gold, never ends pleasant.

A very simple system is you can get out what your willing put in, a short week can get me £700 take home, a very big workload six days about £900 up to £1000 take home, fifty hours 😂😂😂 aye right ad another 25 hours on top, max the digi out big time

dont like the wage change jobs hgv get a good wage go work in a bar or retail then