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CONTRACTED DRIVERS' VIEWS
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"The fact that BardoryTarrnac/Hanson franchises make it so easy for you is reflected in the amount of prof it you can expect to make. They hold your hand and do half of the work for you... [so] you're probably only going to make half the prof its you would do if you went it properly on your own.
"[But] there are plenty of people with these franchises running two or more trucks and employing drivers and presumably still making enough money to make it worthwhile."
"Don't fly about to chase every last load; don't overstretch yourself financially; don't become slave lathe job. I've been on asphalt 25 years now; I nearly left 10 years ago, but when I looked at other jobs I wouldn't have poked my head out of the toed covers for the wages."
"It's a bit of a halfway house between employed and full owner-driver. You get some of the benefits of being an owner-driver in that you get to choose or spec the wagon; you get to employ someone to drive it if you want a fortnight's holiday without it being parked up losing money.
"You get to shop around for the cheapest and best servicing, and the cheapest fuel, tyres and insurance. You get to choose how much you pay yourself and how much you reinvest into your business.
"On the downside, even if you are offered twice as much money to work somewhere else you can't and you have to do more or less the loads you're given at the rates you're given.
would be highly unlikely to go into any three-year-plus contract on this basis unless there were some kind of fuel surcharge system built into the rates, as otherwise it's far too easy for them to leave the rates alone as fuel prices steadily rise."
"When the company gives you work all of the time, why work for someone else? They give the work, you make the profit [by] how you use your right foot on the brakes and fuel."
"I'm having trouble making ends meet. doing runs that are taking 50% of the rate in derv. The local runs make up for them but some days it's mostly the long runs and no locals.
"I was born into this daft way of life. We downed tools for a couple of days in the early 1990s along with some other Midland quarries and we got 5% straight away' "Within two weeks, two of the organisers had been told their lorries were no longer required and within six months the 5% was taken off us as 'work was going quiet and they had to slash costs'."
"If you've been cautious in the past and keep the kit together you are going to last longer than those with the big HP running to the main dealer all the time to have a bulb changed.
-My best advice is to get the wife/partner a good job."