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18-06-2008, 1:53 PM
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How do you train to be a tanker driver
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7460452.stm
14% pay raise to £41750 for driving a lorry, so how does one go about qualifying to drive one of these things. 
I'm considering a career change. 
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18-06-2008, 2:21 PM
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
I love how the article basically says, 'yes, the truckers did get a fabulous pay rise BUT please don't anyone else ask for one'
splendid.
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18-06-2008, 2:29 PM
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
Can they get overtime on that?
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18-06-2008, 2:31 PM
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
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Can they get overtime on that?
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Yep appartenly so.. 
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18-06-2008, 2:32 PM
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
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Originally Posted by Hitby
I love how the article basically says, 'yes, the truckers did get a fabulous pay rise BUT please don't anyone else ask for one'
splendid.
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MPs will vote on their pay rise on the 3rd July.
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18-06-2008, 2:36 PM
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
How can Mr Darling say that the 'deal' is in keeping with the government inflationary target when his colleague Jacqui Smith reneged on a Tribunal decision to award Police Officers 2.5% and in fact awarded 1.9%.
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18-06-2008, 2:37 PM
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
Yes but they won't ask for a pay rise - they'll just get one .
They do need to redecorate their flats you know 
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MPs will vote on their pay rise on the 3rd July.
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I love how the article basically says, 'yes, the truckers did get a fabulous pay rise BUT please don't anyone else ask for one'
splendid.
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18-06-2008, 2:41 PM
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
Me too.
If I'd know the pay they get I wouldn't have spent time studying to become an accountant. 
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
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They do need to redecorate their flats you know |
That's not actually 'pay' that's 'expenses'.
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
Yep you got me. 
But i'm sure they add it up to calculate their total income !
Pay / expenses - all the same thing - money in their pockets 
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That's not actually 'pay' that's 'expenses'.
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18-06-2008, 2:49 PM
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
To be honest, I'm not surprised by the wages they earn.
I've known quite a few lorry drivers and they have always earned good money....a good friend of mine regulary clears £700 a week (and he doesn't drive a tanker).
Would I do his job?....not a chance.
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18-06-2008, 2:55 PM
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
Don't they fall in to the 40% tax bracket now they are high earners
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
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Don't they fall in to the 40% tax bracket now they are high earners
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Yes. 40% rate. 
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18-06-2008, 3:06 PM
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
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Don't they fall in to the 40% tax bracket now they are high earners
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Only just.
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Re: How do you train to be a tanker driver
Qualifying is easy - take your HGV1 test.
But don't expect to get straight out there on the big bucks! I've got two friends with HGV1 licences and neither can find enough work to be able to leave their current jobs! Seems no companies are hiring drivers without expirience, and the only work you can get with little to no experience is agency work - and that doesn't pay anywhere near that. Add into that no medial/sick pay, no holiday pay, no pension etc....
So it isn't as cut n dry as it seems
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