I agree with the responsibilty thing, one mistake can cost you big time. As an agency driver with nearly 2 years experience I've had people expect me to take badly loaded trailers, units with defects, trailers with defects, and when I refuse they get snotty but ultimately it's MY licence and ME who goes to jail if anything happens so to any new drivers out there don't be pressured into doing anything dodgy. If there's a defect don't move until it's fixed and if a load is unsafe refuse it. Love the channel mate, I hope my new channel turns out as good.

@ShaunReynolds83

4 ай бұрын

I’ve just subscribed mate good luck 🍀👍

Happy prosperous new year Raul! Keep on keeping on.

happy new year Raul hope you had a great Christmas and new year hope your trucking ventures and Business goes well for you and your family in 2024 .

That new front facing camera has awesome picture quality, looking fwd to seeing more videos with it 👍

Great vid again Raul. Would be nice to see you unhitching/ hitching up the trailer when swapping one over.

Hi, Raul. I'm on an agency contracted to a National company so plenty of regular work with short shifts ( 8-9 hours ) . Suits me as I'm not fussed on tramping and have plenty of down time for myself . My agency saying it's the worst January he's had in 20 years with virtually no work, here's hoping for all those drivers out there it picks up soon.

I expected quiet in January so worked 70-80h per week summer time. But to be honest I did not expect it to be that quiet. It's just 1 shift per week. And like you say I refuse to drive HGV for minimum pay. I'd rather get back to the forklift. Happy new year!

Raul keep the content rolling, hope you and the family are all well too! Mike h, halewood, Liverpool. 👍👌

Best of luck with everything as always 🚛👍👍👍

Hey! Nice to see you coming off the motorway at my home junction (or one of them ;-)). Yeah I know, it doesn't take much to excite me 😀

All the best Raul for 24

youre a very relaxed driver

Hir Raul , i am on agency myself my agency has a 17 week tie in with my current assignment, i get 70p per hour more than the company drivers also double time on b/holidays and time & half, BUT unaware to the agency i have been offered a full time job after the tie in peroid :), just one note on your dash cam can you not switch it from kmh to mph ??

Thank you 😊

I agree with pretty much everything you say there's some shit jobs out there with poor rates. I do a 4 on 4 off shift and do odd days on overtime or agency not everyone's cup of tea but works for me. This time of year is shit there's no work out there and it seems the rates have gone down.

I Work for a Company Part Time in Cornwall and I had 2 Days Last Week and 1 Day the Previous Week, can only get Better.

@mattador3696

4 ай бұрын

I used to live in Cornwall, money much better out of Bristol though

That’s good money for the time u worked , with a nice big long summer holiday

I have my cpc to renew very soon, and I'm think very serious about if I give up on driving or not. The wages compare to the responsibility, fines, very long shifts, and other's negative sides of hgv jobs it's not attractive anymore. After 23 years of this, I don't see any bright future on this..

@hillman1281

4 ай бұрын

I’m in exactly the same boat mine is up in June and I’m thinking about getting back into the building game I’m 32 and have drove for 5 years. I think the wages are rubbish The hours are unsociable The way you are spoke to/treated is a disgrace

It took me 1 year to complete my class1, After i worked for 3 months to realise how stupid i was to quit my old job for it. I get better money doing fast food delivery :D so i am back to what i was doing now and class1 keeping as plan B

I take it you work througght your own limited company still? If so so you work direct to whoever you drive for sometimes or is it all through an agancy? I'm PAYE through an agency and they have kept me quite busy so far this year, but I am doing class 2 work to fill any class 1 gaps, I take no less than £13/hr on class 2 though and £15/hr class 1 with holidays on top of them rates.

@Raul689

4 ай бұрын

Most of the work I do is LTD, agency or directly to a company

Actually to get your licence to fly passengers it’s cost around £100k. On a different note, love your attitude to driving your very laid back. I drove trucks for over 20 years in uk and some of it was tramping, hated the services your treated worse than a pig. Luckily for me I’m now in Canada and thinking of trucking here but it’s a whole different ball game here. Happy trucking all

@Substance2020

4 ай бұрын

20 years sitting behind a wheel and you never figured out the difference between "your" and "you're", lol.

im on car transporting through agency. Net 650-900 a week + Holiday on top. Do a fair few hours though

@Billy_W

4 ай бұрын

650-900 is a pretty big difference?

@Ryan-uh9le

4 ай бұрын

@Billy_W 4 on 4 off some weeks 3 days only. 5th shift is 28 p/h

£208 per day on average nothing wrong with that

If you want to work all year on agency and make good money you have to be prepared to drive all classes and do a bit of everthing . Oh and be reliable good at it and not a whiner .

@tony78uk48

4 ай бұрын

Hi Raul What truck satnav do you use or recommend, I'm thinking of changing from a tomtom . Thanks

That 30k for x days work looks good, but i bet each day was 15 hours, nearly double that of a standard working day. What was the average hourly rate?

@Raul689

4 ай бұрын

Didn't have any 15h days. On agency you are not putting much hours

@adamrhodes2566

4 ай бұрын

I've been working through an agency for 5 months now, I asked them before I started to keep my shifts under 12 hours and every single run has been under 11 hours. If you can find a decent agency on this job you've cracked it. It would take a hell of an offer to make me go back to working on the books for a firm.

Hi Raul, how much roughly do you earn off the trucking vlogs in the year?

@Raul689

4 ай бұрын

It all depends on the views and how many videos i put out, can range between £500 and £1500 per month

Poundland Wigan love that place you can disappear in there for hours

Saw a class 1 tramper job advertised yesterday for £11.50 an hour, seemed pretty poor?

@skylarius3757

4 ай бұрын

yeah that is bad. Why would anyone want to pay for a licence and test for that low wage?

@Raul689

4 ай бұрын

bad

@squibys2262

4 ай бұрын

Grocery delivery drivers get around that so that is disgraceful

@Ryan-uh9le

4 ай бұрын

That's near enough minimum wage. Van drivers get more

Just out of curiosity, what is your side hustle ? Is it transport related ?

@Raul689

4 ай бұрын

No, I am selling automotive diagnostics and electronics. Check out my links in the description 👍

What agency are you working?

I found a job driving a 7.5t vehicle for more money that what some class 2 jobs are paying.

@Abc-li1ij

Ай бұрын

What firm?

So what's that I hourly rate? Was it 15hours days? 😜

30k I do a crap job that pays crap 5 days a week for 24k so 30k looks like a dream job to me 👌 Hoping to get to that position within the next 5 years with any luck.

@befree9579

4 ай бұрын

Try live 24k lifestyle even when you make 30k. So ur savings grow quicker. Or else it's just a rat race.

We have been told in the recent past that there was a shortage of HGV drivers in the region of 100,000 by some , others saying 50,000 . From what you have said were we misinformed by these people ?

@Raul689

3 ай бұрын

I don't believe that pal

If you mean commercial pilot more like 100k.

@SD-yf9hw

4 ай бұрын

Depends on the country can be 80k

@EGCC4284

4 ай бұрын

Depends on the area and location of the world you are based.

@22:36 it’s £100k

Ya only getting 12pnd hr on them boxes that's all they pay

@Raul689

4 ай бұрын

Not through an agency they don't

For only 144 days 30k is very good

what do you do in your business?

@Raul689

4 ай бұрын

check out my website, it's in the description 👍

i want to do this job but im scared the automation will soon take over and all the truck will drive by them selves, what other job is there similar like this where you can be alone, im search for new careers

@Harambe_

23 күн бұрын

Don't worry mate. Automation is ironically going to take over office work and the programmers who created it before physical services can be replaced. (I work in AI development for many of the major players)

You have to be lucky not to do mistake

Guess it depends on what hours you worked really mate. 30k 144 days is average of £210 a day

@Raul689

4 ай бұрын

On agency you rarely go over 10 hours mate. not a lot of hours there

@Jason-hl8uj

4 ай бұрын

@@Raul689 that’s good money for the low amount of days you worked for the year in my opinion then fella 👍🏻

@seanyd5698

4 ай бұрын

210 a day is realy good fir a hgv driver. I live in north west and your lucky to hit 150 a day here. Most average about 13 quid an hour

12£/h? where? I’m new pass working in Manchester for 17£/h on day trunking 5days in 3 off, looks like I’m lucky ;)

@seanyd5698

4 ай бұрын

Is that for an agency?

I hope 800 before tax :)

Could be worse imagine working back in the Eastern side of Europe.

30k is crap. No, it is not ok. For a guy with a family to support and the stressful nature of the job 30k is shockingly poor.

@TruckinDavo

4 ай бұрын

He owns a business as well, plus whatever he makes from KZread. So he has 3 sources of income. Also, if his wife works any. 4 sources of income I doubt he's letting his family starve. Calm down!

@Me-oo4yu

4 ай бұрын

​@@TruckinDavoSpot on mate

@Substance2020

4 ай бұрын

​@@TruckinDavoHow about you calm down, who said his family was starving? How much does he make from youtube and his business then? Come on let us know fanboy. Be lucky to make 2K off youtube a year I'd say given his numbers. Maybe he has a herd of sheep out the back garden or an oil well in the front garden or gets disibility payments for being a whinger all the time. Completely irrelevant anyway, since the point is about the trucking job and nothing else.

@monkmodemalik8225

4 ай бұрын

@@Substance2020 30k for 144 days at 10 hours is £20.8 p/h. That’s ok for a driver (I don’t have any skin in this game btw).

@Substance2020

4 ай бұрын

@@monkmodemalik8225 Obviously you don't seeing as you think it's 10 hours a day, LOL. Try 12-15. Average it to 13. £14 for a serious job like that is BAD.

Finally someone who tells the truth about wages. All the companies if u work direct u will only get about 12ph, u can stack shelves in a supermarket and get more! We should all get together and go on strike to get a reasonable wage increase

@Raul689

2 ай бұрын

Tried the strike thing a couple of years ago and nothing happened. Only strike you can do is be picky about the jobs and we should not take any job that pais 12ph

Saying "not a single mistake" is total BS. You can make mistakes - just not anything extremely wreckless.

Sometimes at my agency I can do a van driving job for only like 15p an hour less than a HGV driving job. The wages that are paid are pretty poor in my opinion now for HGV drivers. We should be on par with train drivers. We provide a service and keep the nation running and we have to deal with a lot of crap on the roads too. It’s no surprise there is a big HGV shortage.

Get a full time job then

January is quite? come do my shifts give me a week or so off... full of shit mate

@Raul689

4 ай бұрын

In my area is absolutely dead, work is just starting to pick up now

Typical a foreigner driving about in UK...

@Raul689

4 ай бұрын

I'm actually not going to delete this comment or ban you, just so other people can see your comment 😄

@adamrhodes2566

4 ай бұрын

What's wrong mate? Are you gripped because he's one of the foreigners who won't work for a pittance, while most English drivers are chasing their arse round on £12p/h and moaning about the job? I can't fault them, I do the same.

@Paradox0182

4 ай бұрын

These ignorant jerks actually exist. Incredible

@bobbynator

4 ай бұрын

😂 typically moaner

@Aeity

4 ай бұрын

Does it make you angry that this foreigner is delivering the stuff that's in your house? Better retreat to the forest with that attitude.