It's not bad, but I did earn more when I was building over all. It was the feast or famine bit I couldn't handle. HGV money is better now.
i was 19 and couldn't have dad fighting my battles! besides i was a strong independent woman as i wobbled away on my shaking bambi legs! Dad never knew about the bar manager that used to send the *smallest female bar staff in to break up any trouble I used to wear steel toecap docs for my bar shifts, just in case *that was always me
It's all relative. If you're a banker a Dr's pay is peanuts if you're a Dr an HGV driver's pay is poor. It also depends on what sort of wagon driving you do. Shift drivers, tanker drivers, grain bulker drivers and long distance trampers with ADI usually get the better pay. Local drivers who are home each night at 5 and council drivers are usually at the lower end, maybe 23k or thereabouts. The others vary between 32k to 55k. I'm at the lower end of that group, but only do four days for that now.
ha! well it was summer so likely i was 18 coming up to 19 at the end of august I can't even remember what job it was for, just the horrible purple-faced shouty bloke
I had been involved in the construction of large curtain wall buildings for eight years before going into lorry driving. I had had my fill of the politics of dealing with huge corporations on a senior level by then. My building firm grew from the germ of me building my own house single handed just a year before this incident. It was but a fledgling outfit back then and I was learning how to deal with the public, who, when paying for building work seemed to turn into accountants with werewolf traits. It was a steep learning curve that one!
Plopytops we've been talking about bullying in the pub this afternoon. You have to be brighter than the bullies. One of the lads had a groundworker on at him so he put raw garlic on the handle of his van. Apparently your hands proper stink and you don't know why
My older brother drovee aviation fuel in Afghanistan during the tanker drivers strike....he said he would happily swap with the civvy's drivers if they got his pay, his 80's wagon with no power shift etc....and was happy for people to shoot at them if they wanted..or didn't want!
@crossy2112 I get em every Saturday morning they wake me up so i answer the door in by boxes and say look i'll have to stop you there i'm from Barnsley, for some reason they run off shouting he can't be saved
