Britt Jones
A professional truck driver has shared one of his payslips, detailing just how much he earns a year, and you’re going to be shocked.
Being a truck driver isn’t for the faint of heart, as it’s a long and challenging job. Imagine being on the road, it’s quiet, it’s dark and it’s just about the time where you’d be sleeping in bed. Could you honestly say you’d be able to a) stay awake, or b) endure messing with your sleep schedule?
Not to mention, you've got varying weather conditions to navigate a hefty truck through, other drivers causing chaos in front of you, and risking being bridged if you don’t pay attention to height restrictions.
But as it turns out, there's a lot of people on thee UK that take it up as a career. We’ve got about 268,000 people working as lorry drivers, which has gone down by 16 percent from 2017, according to ONS stats.
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That being said, Ashley Hale loves his work and documents his time on the road on his YouTube channel.
Underneath one of his videos, he revealed that he would earn about £52,000 a year from truck driving.
That being said, Ashley Hale loves his work and documents his time on the road on his YouTube channel.
Underneath one of his videos, he revealed that he would earn about £52,000 a year from truck driving. In the clip, 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.
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He explained that he would be sharing the wage he received from his previous job, and not from his current employer. This is because, as he shared, Ashley 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.
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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.
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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!”