Driving on a long road all day and all night can seem like a nightmare job, and it is.
People aren’t lining up to become an HGV driver, and it’s no surprise as it can be pretty lonely out there on your own.
But it could be well worth the cons after one professional driver showed off his payslip.
According to statistics, around 268,000 people worked as lorry drivers in the UK in 2021, which is 16 percent down from the stats in 2017.
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Even though the job provides great benefits, it’s still not considered to be a job that many could tackle.
But Ashley Hale loves his work and documents his time on the road on his YouTube channel.
Underneath one of his videos, he was told by a viewer that what people ‘actually want to know’ is how much they could potentially make doing the job and that this could be an incentive to get people in the industry.
He explained in a recent video where he revealed his payslip that he would be sharing the wage he received from his previous job, and not from his current employer.
Ashley shared that he didn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable at his company while talking about his wage, and instead would talk about a company that no longer exists and made him redundant.
He shared that at his previous job, he worked all week in the vehicle and his pay reflects that specific role of a ‘tramper’.
Putting the payslip up on the screen for viewers to see, he explained that he made £625 per a 45-hour week at work.
That would amount to around £32,500 per year, which is pretty average in the UK.
However, it was the perks that bumped it up to about £52,000.
Speaking to his viewers, he said that overtime was paid at double the standard rate, which was an estimated additional £261 per week.
He also received £3 as a weekly bonus for working ‘unsociable hours’ such as evening driving shifts.
If his performance was on par with his targets, he’d also receive an extra £40 for his hard work.
Then, he’d get around £100 for a ‘nights out’ allowance to reimburse him for accommodation or meals when he was working nights.
So, all in all, that would work out to be about £1,000 per week and just under £53k a year.
Ashley must be rolling in cash - just unable to spend it if he’s working long shifts and on the road all the time.
His commenters were pleased with his breakdown and felt as though the role was more appealing now, they know how much they could earn.
Someone wrote: “H G V are good people and should be paid well.”
Another commented: “This is fantastic, I am considering a career change and plan to get my licence next year. This is fantastic insight.”
Someone else wrote: “Awwww thats quality mate, you must be doing a great job to earn your performance bonus, keep it up!”
Britt Jones