Good to see a man enjoying his shift! Great video.

52k sounds a lot to some, but it's for work approx 62 hours a week and being away from home and family for lengthy periods of time.

As someone who earns £1200 per day on an oil rig I simply cannot imagine how you can survive on this. 45 hours of your life for £625 is pretty much slave labour. In the 3rd richest country on the planet this is a disgrace. How can you put anything back into the economy? This pay scale is so greedy and idiotic I am lost for words. Much respect for you actually doing it but my advice would be to stay where you are for now but up-skill and find something that pays more. No man should be working in any job for that amount of scraps.

H! - a-i-t-c-h There is no H. Jeez!

Haha ignore him ash, just some sad little lazy loser

There’s always one 😂. I thought it was helpful pal .

Any way I can dodge child maintenance on this job 😢

It's your company that should sent somebody to recover you, distance being not huge. Rules are not shit, belive me, if rules will alow you to drive 11 houers per day, then the companies will find work for you to drive every day 11 houers, cose they are greedy

Food delivery better earning with electric bike than hgv drivers or cab drivers with less stress .

Mate get the fuck out of the uk. 780 is a scam

Got off the class 1s about 4 years ago to much stress, every road user hates you, and also very lonely job. Long hours and poor pay for the huge responsibility. While train drivers go on strike because there 9hr shifts and 60k salaries aren't good enough 😂

Great reply 😂😂

Not that great for the hours worked these days...but like you say, it is all relative. By the way, your salary works out at £13.88 p/h and your overtime is only £14.50.....tight barstards. In my opinion it is a bit cheeky to make it look like the £26 per night out is part of your "wage"...then "they" say it is tax free and you're meant to clap and say whoopee doo?

63 hours a week, is that including sitting for 45 mins a day "rest period", it doesn't matter how much your wages are, you haven't got time to spend it, you are always at work. 😭Become a train driver.😁

Just signed up to do my class 1, nervous but excited, i have my medical next Tuesday.

Wrong… your salary isn’t 52k it is 32k pal. Overtime should not be calculated in to your annual salary as this is additional. You are employed on a £32,500 salary. Overtime isn’t consistent so you cannot work it out from one decent week

Do byou get the tramping allowance even when you're on holiday then? I don't

If i'm reading that right your weekly pension contributions is: £16.44 (from the employer) + £27.40 from your pay would work our roughly 4% of your earnings for both you and your employers contributions. That seems low, I would def increase that by a lot!

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Here's one of many different reasons why I gave it up, I was on Falmouth high street, a blue badge holder had 'abused' his badge blocking the road, me and the traffic warden had to go and hunt him down took 20 minutes to find him. The rest is the abuse he gave me and the warden.

We are severely underpaid in this here UK

Should’ve planned your journey better 🤷🏻

hi bud, I drive a garbage truck, home every day, no sleeping or keeping the truck, 5 days a week and every Thursday I bring home 1070 euros after tax, I drive in Ireland

I get so sick and tired of other drivers going on about how great a job HGV driving is. It’s not good for everyone and depends what you want in life. This blokes pretty young looking. I am in my mid fifties and my body is wrecked with driving. I keep myself pretty fit but the stiffness is now getting to me. The security guards at my DC’s I go to get paid better than we do. And service stations at night have nothing open. Apart from some shop selling coffee for £4 a cup and £6 stale sandwiches. People need to know it’s not all a bed of roses and if you have a young family it’s crap. I don’t want people spending a fortune getting all the licenses and then end up hating the job. Try van driving for a while to get a taste for it. And then get your HGV licence. Plus if you’re young and planning to get married. No woman wants to see her husband two days a week or fortnight. my main piece of advice is. when you go to get your medical make sure get you head examined at the same time.

Crap wages …. go back to school kids

I salute HGV drivers who like working overtime & doing nights out 🫡.....But not for me. I only get just under £32000 annually working 42hr per week as a Class 2 driver, but i enjoy being in my bed every night. 😴

Basic pay is similar to what I earn as a forklift driver. I’m lost for words

HGV drivers should be on a minimum of £1000 a week take home. Everything any of you own came by road on the back of a truck at some point on its journey. That is why after being a HGV Driver for 22 years I am leaving the driving game. The pay and conditions that we put with just don't add up for me anymore. BIG Respect to all my trucking brothers and sisters out there 💯 ❤

Easy bro 👏

I’m leaving Hgv driving because the pish cpc the government have come out with uk driving only cpc why oh why scrap the dreaded cpc and old school might come back driving I would like to say it the way I think about it but # f==k it

What a load of EU Red tape 😵‍💫😡

£625 per week is money any labourer can make working on site .

It’s the same as in North America , a race to the bottom , companies crying there’s a drivers shortage but really wanting to use government policies to hire cheap ass immigrants ….go back to school kids

Drove class 2 skip trucks, tippers & roro trucks for 20 years. Last job I had was driving a 18 ton skip truck for 45 hours a week on £13.50 p/h. Every other Saturday 6 hours at £21 p/h. I did my class 1 in 2012 & haven’t driven one since the day I passed my test. Got sick of driving in the end, mainly cus of the traffic & other car drivers. I now work in a well known car factory building cars on £19 p/h for a 36 hour week, although I do do shifts now of 1 week mornings, 1 week nights & 1 week afternoons. But I’m earning more money with less stress & responsibly & less hours

I work for a supermarket and we have to drive a 8-10 metre urban with a rear steering axle. Blind siding from the main road with cars that wont wait 5 seconds. I wouldn't recommend supermarket work as a new pass

A difficult job in todays driving conditions. May seem a reasonable wage but it includes overtime etc. If he's got a family and mortgage then his wife probably has to work as well. His basic rate for the responsibility he has needs to be higher. Some people love driving, some put up with it to earn a crust. It's not for everyone. Safe driving.

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I found it depends on where you live as well I’m in the south east of England working 4 on 4 off not tramping in a class 1 and my wage is near enough the same I’m also only doing 42 hour week, I’ve seen more jobs towards the north of the country pay less but this is what I have found to be the case

I feel your pain I use this road daily. The worst ones are when they over take you while your doing 50mph pull in front then slow down like wtf.

Hi . Thanks for your videos . I’ve got a question about if I work 12-13 hours two times a week and total driving 9 hours how much breaks should I have or take for 12 or 13 hours driving and other jobs. Thank you