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This is a simple question to all the lads trying to make a living
Its not about Unite or GMB or Nat association just you and me the drivers.


We all know the jobs crap at the moment but we still pay high rents for the tracks collars lease whatever you call them in your neck of the woods

The owners just keep taking the money no credit crunch for them
Lets just say NO like the advert
Reductions in rent of 20% are the least we should be asking for
Our earnings have hit rock bottom

We earn less than the minium wage you all know its true
12 HOURS for £60 70 if your lucky
RENT £30 a day minimum
X 6 we all work that
get another job not an option a lot of us have done this for a long time
What else we gonna do?
This is just me trying to get some feed back
We need to stand together when I raised this at a Unite meeting I was told we dont get involved in rents
Same with the nat assoc GMB ET ALL
I think if this gains momentum a national rent strike wil work
They cant sack all of us
No drivers no rent no buisness without us no busisness
Try it !!!!!!!!!
You never know we just might get somewhere for a change
Feedback appreciated

We had a discussion about this sort of thing in our office. Obviously we don't pay rent for the vehicles cos we're PH, so it wasn't about that side of things. The general outcome was that you just will not get the drivers to stick together when push comes to shove. Yes they would all like a reduction in settle cos work is considerably lower than usual but it ain't never going to happen because most drivers have financial committments and would rather work themselves to death than take a chance of loosing their income

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Mmmmm drivers won't stick together will they?? We nearly had a full scale strike on our hands last night at 11pm. Drivers were fed up of earning nothing, high fuel prices, high rentals, feeding drivers via the dispatch desk. They'd all had enough. I don't mind shovelling the brown stuff because every job is not a £20 fare, the little jobs have got to be covered like the big jobs but, the big jobs always seem to go out to the same drivers, I call them office budgies because they sit on the radio ops shoulder looking at the booking screen.


I named one driver tiddles. He said why do you call me tiddles? I said your like an office cat always after the cream. Tiddles has stuck with him.

Word must have got back to the booking staff that the drivers were planning action at the busiest time of the night, all but 4 vehicles were taking part.

Did you all take action then?

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Grandad,

I think the problem with the unions/associations in your area is they are plate owner run, thus they don't give a f*** about your rental rates.

However all the time drivers are desperate for work, owners will get as much out of them as they can.

One thing I have noticed locally is that more and more owners are looking for journeymen, so maybe that's a way to lower rents.

But all the time there is an endless supply of folks wanting to do this job, I'm not sure there is an answer.

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IDFIMH

Nidges manor is deregulated sussex.

CC

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Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin

It's dam expensive round here at the moment, how they come to the figure they do is beyond me.

Did I say it wasn't?

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IDFIMH

maybe there wouldnt be so many new drivers wiling to try if there was more transparency about actual earnings ,i hummed and haghed for months as i couldnt get accurate figure sand the advice on here was generally give it a go.

last week at the petrol station a big mouth hack shouts across to his mate " i am happy mate done me £200 " - it was 10pm .

to much BS

not enough fact !

Are you saying that he should have taken more than £200 or less than £200? Was that for the day or the week? Had he just had a very nice long airport run?

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Grandad,