Is it worth doing an HGV course to get a job at Shell delivering petrol, diesel and LPG?

Question

Is it worth doing an HGV course to get a job at Shell delivering petrol, diesel and LPG?

The press says Sheel drivers striking - but been offered average earnings of £39k pa, but they want more £££££££££££££££

Is this on for a HGV driver?

I thought perhaps £10 per hour, £400 per week, £20K,

but £39k ???

10 times that is about what that Tory MEP took us tax payers for ?

Even Prem League footballers only get 10 times tanker drivers pay, per week !!

Answer 1

Yes it's worth it - if you fancy being treated like a second class citizen.

Hated by every motorist on the road.  Forced to live in laybys most of the week, with no where to park safely at night and the risk of theives or hijacking.

The detriment to your family and social life.  No other career other than the armed forces results in a higher level of family breakdown - difference beiong the troops can get free support that drivers do not.

Fancy having to work up to 70 hours a week?

£10 per hour - dream on.  Most of us get £7.20 for risking our lives to keep the country going.....(and no I'm not asking to get my **** kissed here - I'm telling it like it is).

Do yourself a favour - unless you've got big balls and can look after yourself, don't even contemplate it.

(PS I work for the biggest independant haulier in the UK - green & red all with names on! I know what I'm talking about).

Don't kid yourself - it's a dirty and hard life and you get little thanks of anybody for doing it.  It's easily the most regulated industry in the country and yet the least supportive in terms of renumeration.

Look at www.truckersworld.co.uk for a true picture of the industry.

By the way - you'll need to pay around £1500-2000 to obtain your HGV licence, plus £38 pounds for a digital tachograph card.   You'll be paying £8 a meal for microwaved c**p.  To deliver goods in tankers you'll need not only the "basic" ADR chemical vocational licence on top of that you'll also need the "expanded ADR course" to cover goods in tanks.

Then you'll need a "Driver CPC", or an NVQ in Driving Goods Vehicles which'll set your back a couple of hundred to do yourself.  Then you'll need periodic training up to 35 hours followed by a theory test every five years - that could be up to £1300 a time.

And all that so you can be called an "unskilled worker" - while foreigners come and steal all the work in unroadworthy vehicles with no real chance of ever being prosecuted.

What a joke.  Welcome to the real world.

Answer 2

Definitely worth it. Unless, of course you fancy yourself a Prem League footballer .

Answer 3

Definitely worth it.