I work for a large supermarket on hgv class 1 just outside London, im a new licence holder and have been driving for a year with this being my first ever hgv job… I’m paid £20 an hour, even more if I go over 8 hours a day, no hand balling, 2 drops a day, normally working between 10 and 12 hours a day and work 4 days a week, I’m very well looked after in terms of benefits and all that comes with the job… there are so many negative comments on the hgv world, it seems to me that you just have to find the right company to work for, so in other words I think the bigger the company the more they will look after you and pay you fairly.. my only downside is that I work nights but you can work around that working 4 days a week, I would say it’s the best job I’ve ever had.
@@AshleyHaleUK Exactly mate, I'd say the "negatives" were more just a reality of what the job consists off. And not sounding like you're trying to put people off the career.
I think honestly the biggest issue is people get their licenses because they hear about the money and just do it for the money then. You have to know you enjoy that lifestyle from the beginning otherwise you will never like it.
What I would say to any new class 1 driver is if you’re struggling to get work, have a look at companies that run both class 1 and class 2 Get yourself in driving class 2 , do a decent job and let the gaffers know you have a class 1. Come holiday time you’ve a good chance of getting into a bendy as they know you as opposed to bringing in an agency driver. The other thing I would say is don’t think class 1 is the route to top money, many “specialist” companies run rigid and the pay very well for the right people.
Retired last year after 43 years on class one had 14 years on ford delivering parts and then a great job delivering bathrooms but then as time went on the job got shit and more shit wages didn't improve that much glad to get out of it
The high demand isn't (maybe in a select area or two) there anymore. The demand is back to wanting drivers with 2yrs experience which is BS considering that requirement was dropped to taking a new pass with zero experience 2 yrs ago. Already alot of jobs back to advertising near enough minimum wage again.
I understand, that's why I'm going good do another video about wages for 2024. I've seen from the comments people are struggling to find jobs without that experience. So I'm going to try and speak to different agencies and insurance companies and find out what companies and new pass drivers can do
@AshleyHaleUK that is a great idea. Please record the calls/meetings. Up here in Glasgow there is a few agencies who are not taking on new driver's as they have far too many driver's as is and that has been since before the November/December madness.
@@RazzyBCFyeah I remember after covid and brevity they were so desperate they were letting people go from car license straight to class one 😂 and even the class 2 wage went up and new drivers were snapped up. But now it's back the normal shit pay and at least 2 years experience. Obviously there has been a mass of people passing there tests so the eastern European drivers are no longer missed. Also in the UK it's NOT seen as a skilled profession the employers just see you as purely someone who is just one rung up the ladder than someone with a car licence and how tens of millions have a car licence? Also factor in the army hand out these licences like candy to any soldier so when they leave the market is flooded with them too.
I would love to no how it's not considered a skilled job imagine having 44 tons to navigate around our tight roads not to mention of you mess up you basically wipe out anybody you touch or even cause millions in infrastructure damage or imagine the pressure of doing manoeuvre with people recording you I would say the time intakes I get your licence has people confused lol
I started driving class 2 multi drop in foodservice and this definitely isn't for me, I will try to get my class 1 licence next month and then I will be searching a new job. Any recommendations on what kind of job would be good for someone new? I definitely don't want to do any multi drop, ideally 2-3 drops a day. Don't mind the long hours as long as I am paid for them (currently on salary which isn't great). I enjoy long highway runs but the idea of parking/reversing an artic on a very small yard gives me anxiety :D
@@PiotrstrashcanŚmietnikPiotra ruclips.net/video/qwmnPVkpOMg/видео.html Check out this video if you haven't already. January isn't the best time to look for a new job, typically very quiet at this time of year for jobs.
Try and join a local authority. Get in the door then harangue them to put you out on a truck. Your local authority may also have class 1s to take loads from a depot to a processing plant. The bonus is the pension scheme is better than anything out there along with a descent wage of over £33,000 for a bin lorry driver to excess of £40k for a class 1 plus your also working with a group of guys so your not on your own and you get home each evening at a reasonable time to spend it with the family. It’s a great starting point and if you’ve got yourself a job doing it and you don’t like the council you’ve built up that experience others might not give you.
@@AshleyHaleUKI’m back here, to share some good news. Today I have passed my class 1 . Many thanks for your kind works, smashed the practical. Only 2 minors woop woop!
i have CE ADR, HIAB, and DE, but I drive a 3.5T van for a water company for £15ph, 8am to 4pm. overtime is x1.5 on saturdays, 2x on sundays. I get 25 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays. I sometimes fill in on the 32T grab lorry(clamshell), but not very often. I think its better to get out of full time HGV driving. ill stick to my 3.5T van
There is work available that keeps you healthy with reasonable hours, even if it doesn't pay as much. I do trade waste on class 2, 6am-3pm. Keeps you fit, home each day, 40k salary. Not for everyone but it's not all long distance haulage
You sound a guy I know at the gym who's got me interested in getting my class 2. Works 6-finish and he's usually in the gym by 1-3pm and makes 40k. I think he said he collects bins from retirement homes in the local area. Personally I'd be happy doing that for 30k once I get my license.
I always wanted to become a HGV driver! As a Briton who grew up in Germany, getting a HGV license in Germany isn’t that easy! In Germany you can’t just go to an optician, you have to go to an ophthalmologist do various tests on a machine for 1 hour, to get an Ophthalmological report! Doesn’t matter if you have the medical, without the report no HGV license! Possibly gonna move back to the UK, and do my license there! Way easier!
Hi mate, starting to look into HGV driving. I’ve just left as a train conductor on 34k per year based on 35 hours per week. My hourly rate was £18.49. I want to find something that’s going to accommodate this sort of wage. I’m only 25 and have 3 children to provide for. Is it worth it?
Agency work at this time of year is very quiet. Typically, it will pick up from March onwards. Your best bet is to actually go I. To places and speak to people face to face. It's shows more initiative.
@@AshleyHaleUK depends some job is always with agency specially now when foreigners go away because the IR35 no more LTD work for them, more chance to fill gaps now -- royal mail with agency got all year work (probably this chap is under 25 insurance cost a lot and nobody takes him) ridiculous
I am introvert and this job looks exactly for me.🙂 But how actually difficult to get these licence. up to 7 000£ deosn't grow on trees (all expenses for training and tests)
It should cost £7000 to get your licence unless you fail test multiple times. It's as easy as you find it, some people it's just clicks and they find it easy, others it takes longer.
I just went from car to Artic license, funded all myself (including CPC) little under £5k all in, that's for 45hrs on road + fees as of 2024, based in the North of England. Passed reversing test first time, failed on road test first time, switched schools and nailed it second time so you could do it cheaper. Going car to Artic was a learning curve but it's not rocket science, and you skip all the steps in-between and get all your rigid licenses as well in one go. Trying to find something half decent as a newbie is a pain but that's the same in any industry. I've turned down a couple of shit offers but if the coffers run dry I might have to suck it up for 6 months to get some experience on my CV. Is what it is, if there was a better way everyone would be doing it.
@@mr.voodoo9243 is the CDL A one with a trailer? Container work is probably one of the easiest. What we call trunking, which is one depot to another is good if you like night working. If you have the experience you can probably do anything along as someone is willing to take you on.
@AshleyHaleUK CDL-A is the big trucks, yes, and I've got 11 years here hauling van trailers to large pieces of equipment. But my wife wants me to move to the UK, and I know it's a night and day difference between our trucks and our loads.
@@mr.voodoo9243 would be easy for you to pass the tests ect. I would recommend speaking to companies in the area you looking at moving and see what they say
Went from calls D to C+E. Passed my Class 1 a month and a half ago Can't find someone who'll hire me. Pay for newies is rubbish, £13-£15 p/h yet they want you to be available nights and weekends too. Amost no one will give you a chance when you're a newie
Really £13-£15 an hour I get £14.65 as a Sainsburys delivery driver and soon will be going up to £15 something next year April. I wouldn't want to leave somewhere that I hate working as it is to go into a new industry and getting paid less makes no sense to me. Can anyone else clairy if they are a new HGV driver that gets paid £13-£15???
@Da10thwonda yes 13 - 15 quid an hour for new pass class ones is normal here in the north east where wages are generally appalling in all sectors intact that rate of pay is normal for drivers with decades of experience. The problem is it is NOT seen as a skilled profession by either employers or the public it's seen as just one step up from having a car licence same with bus drivers coaches. You are ten a penny totally expendable.
I used to start about 3a.m. Delivering to London building sites. I once had a conversation with a telescopic fork driver. I said you need to get your H.G.V. license. He asked what's the pay, I said £14.50 an hour. He laughed and said he was on £20.00 an hour, plus 😮.
switch with agency work, better money contract is not worth just destroying your health and time - agencyes are more flexible you are the driver you choose how to work
what is a haich g v driver ??...done it for 34 years c1 and it was a great job but if id known back then just how over regulated and over policed i wouldnt have bothered !
It helps but nowhere near as much as actual HGV driving experience. Its almost certain to get you class 2 work and will help a little with class 1 work. I will say that if your used to driving buses go straight for your class 1 test you will find it easier going forwards than a class 2. Buses you have to steer later to get them round corners and its the same in artic so you will take to driving one very quick and pass your test easy. I say all this as I did 2 years on the buses then got my class 1 license got a class 2 multi drop job that I hated did it 3 months and then got my first class 1 job.
the truth of hgv driving 2024, run away from company contracts. Always agency, better payd, better threated as a driver. When you need to be off you are off, company moans this that no possible, agency always understands drivers and can quit without notice. Being on contract as hgv drive is shit, hard pushing and stress for just a nuts
Same for me, I passed my Class 1 recently, and no one will even acknowledge it, not even agency. I have experience of long-distance driving with larger vehicles for years. All I get is 6 months driving or two years on your licence, removing the provisional points. The UK government need to have a hard look at themselves with this mess
@@mjp34 not if it's what you want to do. I'd have to check the rules around how often you'd need to have the medical check up as it's more often when your 'older' but that wouldn't be an issues I'm sure.
go for it! its never too late!! you can just do agency work and leave when you please and find another temp job or go perm if you want, there's way more permanent jobs with contract then self employed! trust me the tests are not hard either! i passed first time for all of them and i hate studying!!
Any company that has signs up outside begging for drivers is best avoided. Likewise companies where you walk in and say “giez a job” and they say yes would be best avoided too. Maybe ok for new passes to get experience. Our lot have never advertised, it’s always been word of mouth
Been at the new job now for nearly 6 months after walking in from being a sign. No issues with them. Everything has been as they have said. I get not everywhere is like that.
3 years in to my HGV career. As we are professional drivers,that can be fined in an instance and also in the 3rd most dangerous job. HGV class 2 should be minimum £15ph. And HGV class 1 should be £20ph, but as the government have flooded the market therefore suppressing wages.
You close your garden gate on Sunday midday to go to work, hoping you'll be home before Saturday. You are under constant supervision by the DVSA in regards to tacho rules and and overall road worthiness of you , the vehicle and the load. You get fined £1000 for any violation or mistake, they are the same thing, YOU pay, not your boss. The rules are incomprehensible to even the officers who enforce them. Then your employer makes you do the mandatory training in your own time, sometimes during your daily rest, you work in the yard, washing cleaning etc. without being on tacho. All that on top of the negatives you already mentioned, was it really worth it? Glad I retired.
That's the trouble with doing this kind of work. When I was a tramper my bedding when up on the top bunk out the way all day. Now I'm a day driver I'm rarely on the bed. Still take it off and wash it every couple of days though.
Why can't I be trusted. When I've been looking, there has been no shortage of jobs. What there may be is a shortage of jobs thaybpeiplenare willing to do for the pay or hours that are being offered
Not always. Im a grumpy HGV driver, I would HATE to deal with a constant flow of people like me all day. But that why I left retail. Are you a FLT driver?
Not fake. I was being force to change my job role at my last employer or take redundancy. I was deliving on the industrial estate and saw the sign saying they were looking for drives. I went in after work explained this situation, my experience etc. And they said OK can you start next Monday. I was very lucky, I'm not nieve, I know it's not like that for everyone, but that s what happened.
Poeple like to tell porkeys about the wages! Dont listin, phone around a few companies and find out for yourselves. U will be very lucky to get £13ph. Like i said poeple will tell u there on £20ph, there just dreaming!!
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I work for a large supermarket on hgv class 1 just outside London, im a new licence holder and have been driving for a year with this being my first ever hgv job… I’m paid £20 an hour, even more if I go over 8 hours a day, no hand balling, 2 drops a day, normally working between 10 and 12 hours a day and work 4 days a week, I’m very well looked after in terms of benefits and all that comes with the job… there are so many negative comments on the hgv world, it seems to me that you just have to find the right company to work for, so in other words I think the bigger the company the more they will look after you and pay you fairly.. my only downside is that I work nights but you can work around that working 4 days a week, I would say it’s the best job I’ve ever had.
Will you put in a good word in about 4 months? Saving up to do my C+E now
I would love to join you... ❤
Appreciate this video, Alot. I'm seeing too many negative doom and gloom videos on how bad it is and never how good the job is and can be.
I tried to be positive rather than negative. On the whole the job is good, it has its bad days, but like I said it can be dealt with
@@AshleyHaleUK Exactly mate, I'd say the "negatives" were more just a reality of what the job consists off. And not sounding like you're trying to put people off the career.
I think honestly the biggest issue is people get their licenses because they hear about the money and just do it for the money then. You have to know you enjoy that lifestyle from the beginning otherwise you will never like it.
100% agree. Its is definitely a lifestyle not a job that you have to opt in to.
What I would say to any new class 1 driver is if you’re struggling to get work, have a look at companies that run both class 1 and class 2
Get yourself in driving class 2 , do a decent job and let the gaffers know you have a class 1.
Come holiday time you’ve a good chance of getting into a bendy as they know you as opposed to bringing in an agency driver.
The other thing I would say is don’t think class 1 is the route to top money, many “specialist” companies run rigid and the pay very well for the right people.
Good video and good information Ash.
All the best
☕👍
Retired last year after 43 years on class one had 14 years on ford delivering parts and then a great job delivering bathrooms but then as time went on the job got shit and more shit wages didn't improve that much glad to get out of it
The high demand isn't (maybe in a select area or two) there anymore. The demand is back to wanting drivers with 2yrs experience which is BS considering that requirement was dropped to taking a new pass with zero experience 2 yrs ago. Already alot of jobs back to advertising near enough minimum wage again.
I understand, that's why I'm going good do another video about wages for 2024.
I've seen from the comments people are struggling to find jobs without that experience. So I'm going to try and speak to different agencies and insurance companies and find out what companies and new pass drivers can do
@AshleyHaleUK that is a great idea. Please record the calls/meetings. Up here in Glasgow there is a few agencies who are not taking on new driver's as they have far too many driver's as is and that has been since before the November/December madness.
@@RazzyBCFyeah I remember after covid and brevity they were so desperate they were letting people go from car license straight to class one 😂 and even the class 2 wage went up and new drivers were snapped up. But now it's back the normal shit pay and at least 2 years experience. Obviously there has been a mass of people passing there tests so the eastern European drivers are no longer missed. Also in the UK it's NOT seen as a skilled profession the employers just see you as purely someone who is just one rung up the ladder than someone with a car licence and how tens of millions have a car licence? Also factor in the army hand out these licences like candy to any soldier so when they leave the market is flooded with them too.
I would love to no how it's not considered a skilled job imagine having 44 tons to navigate around our tight roads not to mention of you mess up you basically wipe out anybody you touch or even cause millions in infrastructure damage or imagine the pressure of doing manoeuvre with people recording you I would say the time intakes I get your licence has people confused lol
Just signed up to do my class 1, nervous but excited, i have my medical next Tuesday.
@@Flip5ide good luck, let us know how you get on!
@@AshleyHaleUK will do, thank you for the video.
I started driving class 2 multi drop in foodservice and this definitely isn't for me, I will try to get my class 1 licence next month and then I will be searching a new job. Any recommendations on what kind of job would be good for someone new? I definitely don't want to do any multi drop, ideally 2-3 drops a day. Don't mind the long hours as long as I am paid for them (currently on salary which isn't great). I enjoy long highway runs but the idea of parking/reversing an artic on a very small yard gives me anxiety :D
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Check out this video if you haven't already.
January isn't the best time to look for a new job, typically very quiet at this time of year for jobs.
Got my class 1 last year, no one would touch me , i drive a 7.5 ton , on 21.78 hr. Momday to friday 8-6. Happy 😊
Where abouts do you work mate?
Try and join a local authority. Get in the door then harangue them to put you out on a truck. Your local authority may also have class 1s to take loads from a depot to a processing plant. The bonus is the pension scheme is better than anything out there along with a descent wage of over £33,000 for a bin lorry driver to excess of £40k for a class 1 plus your also working with a group of guys so your not on your own and you get home each evening at a reasonable time to spend it with the family. It’s a great starting point and if you’ve got yourself a job doing it and you don’t like the council you’ve built up that experience others might not give you.
@@petermcelvogue7521 hi mate, I really appreciate that. Thanks a lot 👌🏻
Seriously? Are you based in London?
Have got my class 1 (c+e) training next week, feeling nervous but I’m hoping it will be fine.
you will be fine, it's not as daunting as it first seems. Remember you won't get it right the first time, but you will get it right eventually.
@@AshleyHaleUKI’m back here, to share some good news. Today I have passed my class 1 . Many thanks for your kind works, smashed the practical. Only 2 minors woop woop!
@ExertGames CONGRATULATIONS, fantastic result! Well Done! 👍
@@exe-678how's it going now mate have you got a job?
@@FFFFF157 yes!
i have CE ADR, HIAB, and DE, but I drive a 3.5T van for a water company for £15ph, 8am to 4pm. overtime is x1.5 on saturdays, 2x on sundays. I get 25 days holiday a year, plus bank holidays. I sometimes fill in on the 32T grab lorry(clamshell), but not very often. I think its better to get out of full time HGV driving. ill stick to my 3.5T van
Where abouts do you work mate?
Would love any recommendations from you ..
@@Parkfield00 i work for my local water company
@@mohammadjamo call your local water company to see what vacancies they have
There is work available that keeps you healthy with reasonable hours, even if it doesn't pay as much.
I do trade waste on class 2, 6am-3pm. Keeps you fit, home each day, 40k salary. Not for everyone but it's not all long distance haulage
You sound a guy I know at the gym who's got me interested in getting my class 2.
Works 6-finish and he's usually in the gym by 1-3pm and makes 40k. I think he said he collects bins from retirement homes in the local area.
Personally I'd be happy doing that for 30k once I get my license.
I always wanted to become a HGV driver! As a Briton who grew up in Germany, getting a HGV license in Germany isn’t that easy! In Germany you can’t just go to an optician, you have to go to an ophthalmologist do various tests on a machine for 1 hour, to get an Ophthalmological report! Doesn’t matter if you have the medical, without the report no HGV license! Possibly gonna move back to the UK, and do my license there! Way easier!
Hi mate, starting to look into HGV driving. I’ve just left as a train conductor on 34k per year based on 35 hours per week. My hourly rate was £18.49. I want to find something that’s going to accommodate this sort of wage. I’m only 25 and have 3 children to provide for. Is it worth it?
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Check out my latest video on wages. Hopefully it helps.
Its been a 6 month looking for a job ,havnt got any job still.Applied on too many agencies
Agency work at this time of year is very quiet. Typically, it will pick up from March onwards.
Your best bet is to actually go I. To places and speak to people face to face. It's shows more initiative.
@@AshleyHaleUK depends some job is always with agency specially now when foreigners go away because the IR35 no more LTD work for them, more chance to fill gaps now -- royal mail with agency got all year work (probably this chap is under 25 insurance cost a lot and nobody takes him) ridiculous
I am introvert and this job looks exactly for me.🙂 But how actually difficult to get these licence. up to 7 000£ deosn't grow on trees (all expenses for training and tests)
It should cost £7000 to get your licence unless you fail test multiple times.
It's as easy as you find it, some people it's just clicks and they find it easy, others it takes longer.
I just went from car to Artic license, funded all myself (including CPC) little under £5k all in, that's for 45hrs on road + fees as of 2024, based in the North of England. Passed reversing test first time, failed on road test first time, switched schools and nailed it second time so you could do it cheaper. Going car to Artic was a learning curve but it's not rocket science, and you skip all the steps in-between and get all your rigid licenses as well in one go.
Trying to find something half decent as a newbie is a pain but that's the same in any industry. I've turned down a couple of shit offers but if the coffers run dry I might have to suck it up for 6 months to get some experience on my CV. Is what it is, if there was a better way everyone would be doing it.
What do you suggest for someone possibly experienced with a CDL-A in the US to start in the UK as an HGV?
@@mr.voodoo9243 is the CDL A one with a trailer? Container work is probably one of the easiest. What we call trunking, which is one depot to another is good if you like night working. If you have the experience you can probably do anything along as someone is willing to take you on.
@AshleyHaleUK CDL-A is the big trucks, yes, and I've got 11 years here hauling van trailers to large pieces of equipment. But my wife wants me to move to the UK, and I know it's a night and day difference between our trucks and our loads.
@@mr.voodoo9243 would be easy for you to pass the tests ect. I would recommend speaking to companies in the area you looking at moving and see what they say
@@AshleyHaleUK I appreciate the suggestions and tips, I'll have to see what she has in her area.
Went from calls D to C+E. Passed my Class 1 a month and a half ago Can't find someone who'll hire me. Pay for newies is rubbish, £13-£15 p/h yet they want you to be available nights and weekends too. Amost no one will give you a chance when you're a newie
any luck?
Really £13-£15 an hour I get £14.65 as a Sainsburys delivery driver and soon will be going up to £15 something next year April.
I wouldn't want to leave somewhere that I hate working as it is to go into a new industry and getting paid less makes no sense to me. Can anyone else clairy if they are a new HGV driver that gets paid £13-£15???
@Da10thwonda yes 13 - 15 quid an hour for new pass class ones is normal here in the north east where wages are generally appalling in all sectors intact that rate of pay is normal for drivers with decades of experience. The problem is it is NOT seen as a skilled profession by either employers or the public it's seen as just one step up from having a car licence same with bus drivers coaches. You are ten a penny totally expendable.
@leonpaul9443 ok but I've seen people say that you can earn 60k a year. How would you earn 60k a year on £13-£15 an hour???
Check out my video where I show my payslip. It's can be done just need to do max hours every week and get bonuses and nights out etc
I used to start about 3a.m. Delivering to London building sites. I once had a conversation with a telescopic fork driver. I said you need to get your H.G.V. license. He asked what's the pay, I said £14.50 an hour. He laughed and said he was on £20.00 an hour, plus 😮.
I can believe it, but he's working on a building site all day, and it could be £100 an hour, and I would still say no!
It's contracted work aswell could be a year or 2 then you're bk to square one looking for another job
switch with agency work, better money contract is not worth just destroying your health and time - agencyes are more flexible you are the driver you choose how to work
Gonna be brutal when full automation comes in and there isn't any lorry drivers needed what would you do for work
@markwilliams5654 thats not going to happen in my lifetime im sure.
what is a haich g v driver ??...done it for 34 years c1 and it was a great job but if id known back then just how over regulated and over policed i wouldnt have bothered !
C1? 7.5tonne? What you not like about it after 34 years? Why don't you do something else?
If I had 2 years PCV experience and then went for the HGV license, would my PCV experience help me as a HGV newbie to secure that first HGV job?
Honestly don't know? It's more to do with insurance so it might help as you have experience driving larger vehicles.
It helps but nowhere near as much as actual HGV driving experience. Its almost certain to get you class 2 work and will help a little with class 1 work. I will say that if your used to driving buses go straight for your class 1 test you will find it easier going forwards than a class 2. Buses you have to steer later to get them round corners and its the same in artic so you will take to driving one very quick and pass your test easy. I say all this as I did 2 years on the buses then got my class 1 license got a class 2 multi drop job that I hated did it 3 months and then got my first class 1 job.
the truth of hgv driving 2024, run away from company contracts. Always agency, better payd, better threated as a driver.
When you need to be off you are off, company moans this that no possible, agency always understands drivers and can quit without notice. Being on contract as hgv drive is shit, hard pushing and stress for just a nuts
Same for me, I passed my Class 1 recently, and no one will even acknowledge it, not even agency.
I have experience of long-distance driving with larger vehicles for years.
All I get is 6 months driving or two years on your licence, removing the provisional points.
The UK government need to have a hard look at themselves with this mess
Could you pleaese help me to get a job
What's included in the medical?
@@EDeano96 general health questions. Blood pressure etc. and an eye test. been a while since I done it.
@@AshleyHaleUK how often do you have to do it or is it just initially when applying for a HGV license?
@@EDeano96 it's done again at 45. I think it's then done again at 50, 55, 60, 65 and then every year.
@@AshleyHaleUK thank you
Yeah and how long have you been lorry driving?
@@DanielBeard-un2fg long enough to have a opinion, but not long enough to be bitter about it 🤣
Do you think 53 is too old to become a HGV driver?
@@mjp34 not if it's what you want to do. I'd have to check the rules around how often you'd need to have the medical check up as it's more often when your 'older' but that wouldn't be an issues I'm sure.
go for it! its never too late!! you can just do agency work and leave when you please and find another temp job or go perm if you want, there's way more permanent jobs with contract then self employed! trust me the tests are not hard either! i passed first time for all of them and i hate studying!!
Any company that has signs up outside begging for drivers is best avoided.
Likewise companies where you walk in and say “giez a job” and they say yes would be best avoided too.
Maybe ok for new passes to get experience.
Our lot have never advertised, it’s always been word of mouth
Been at the new job now for nearly 6 months after walking in from being a sign. No issues with them. Everything has been as they have said. I get not everywhere is like that.
Word of mouth is also a good way to find out companies you don't want to work for either.
you say high demand but every class 1 job in my area requires 1 year driving, making it impossible for someone like me to get a job
It's not necessarily the the company that want the experience it's the insurance that wants it.
Do some agency work.
high demand=shit pay
Depends who your working for and what you think shit pay is!🤔
3 years in to my HGV career. As we are professional drivers,that can be fined in an instance and also in the 3rd most dangerous job. HGV class 2 should be minimum £15ph. And HGV class 1 should be £20ph, but as the government have flooded the market therefore suppressing wages.
What's your hourly rate?
New Job is £17 per hour.
You close your garden gate on Sunday midday to go to work, hoping you'll be home before Saturday. You are under constant supervision by the DVSA in regards to tacho rules and and overall road worthiness of you , the vehicle and the load. You get fined £1000 for any violation or mistake, they are the same thing, YOU pay, not your boss. The rules are incomprehensible to even the officers who enforce them. Then your employer makes you do the mandatory training in your own time, sometimes during your daily rest, you work in the yard, washing cleaning etc. without being on tacho. All that on top of the negatives you already mentioned, was it really worth it? Glad I retired.
@@virago496 for me it is!
Better off driving a train home every night lots more money
That bed looks minging
That's the trouble with doing this kind of work.
When I was a tramper my bedding when up on the top bunk out the way all day.
Now I'm a day driver I'm rarely on the bed. Still take it off and wash it every couple of days though.
There isn't much demand for hvg drivers it's media bullshit
We're all waiting in RDC's for FLT drivers to finish their breaks.
you dont have a clue pal !
@@andrewnicholson4811 why's that?
What are you on about. Don’t trust this guy there isn’t a load of jobs out there
Why can't I be trusted. When I've been looking, there has been no shortage of jobs. What there may be is a shortage of jobs thaybpeiplenare willing to do for the pay or hours that are being offered
There's always work a lot of it is not stuff people want to do like dust carts, tippers and multi drop but there is stuff out there.
Same here in Ireland. I went looking for part time weeknd work as I don't want to go back full time.was offered full time job
Drive a forklift for far less bs
Not always. Im a grumpy HGV driver, I would HATE to deal with a constant flow of people like me all day. But that why I left retail.
Are you a FLT driver?
fake you carnt just walk from one job to over you must have been lucky
Not fake. I was being force to change my job role at my last employer or take redundancy. I was deliving on the industrial estate and saw the sign saying they were looking for drives. I went in after work explained this situation, my experience etc. And they said OK can you start next Monday.
I was very lucky, I'm not nieve, I know it's not like that for everyone, but that s what happened.
EVERY company has issues regardless of who you're working for. It is just about what you're willing to deal with.
Poeple like to tell porkeys about the wages! Dont listin, phone around a few companies and find out for yourselves. U will be very lucky to get £13ph. Like i said poeple will tell u there on £20ph, there just dreaming!!
Not quite £20 an hour but very close. I made a video about it recently. You're right though, You need to phone around
@@covlad2009 😂😂😂
hey bro where can i message you for more info
@@elfranko7016 what would you like to know?
@AshleyHaleUK well i have a deep interest in becoming a truck driver abroad. It's just that I'm all the way in South America, Guyana 🇬🇾