So what's the pay rate then?

A bit more insight into the world of Trade Plate Driving.

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2011/06/s...

So if I understand correctly the job offer above entails :-

Make your way , in your own time and at your own expense to point A to collect a car and drive it to point B .

If point B is < 60 miles away you will earn £20 .

You make your return journey in your own time and at your own expense , or the good will of passing motorists who pick up hitch hikers , and await further work ?

At minimum wage , £20 is about 3 1/4 hours work . I think you'd be lucky to do the above task in 3 hours.

Please correct me if I'm wrong .

All depends on where your next job is, and how far exactly your journey is.
If we have a team of local guys, they will on average do 4 <60m jobs a day, average compound opening hours are 07:30 - 16:30.
If you do a job to Scotland and back, it's on average £80 up and £80 back.
The idea for us as a logistics company doing work for over 30 customers is that we try and get you a car to drop off near to where there is one to pick up to minimise the travel in between.
Downtime for us is lost revenue, that's the best way of looking at it, so the more time we have a driver in the seat of a car behind the wheel, the better it is for everyone!

You all have good days, you will have bad days, that's the nature of being self employed in any line of work.

What needs to be taken in to consideration with trade plate driving is that unlike most other jobs, the commuting to work is between dropping off and picking up. Yes, there 'may' be an element of cost involved, but then again, most people who commute to work have an element of cost involved. I travel 15 miles each way to work and no one pays my fuel or time, where as a trade plate driver will have collected his car the day before and is earning as soon as he leave the house.

Hi Lex,

I've had about 40 emails re:work over the past 4 days. Haven't had chance to go through them all yet.

....all?

really?


Prey tell the companies who you have worked for.

We have 4 vacancies available to be filled immediately.

If you are interested and meet the criteria, then please email in the first instance to a cox@cevl.co.uk

Drivers working for my company average £300+ a week and in busy times (new reg release etc), then they generally earn £350-£450 a week.

The reason I am advertising for more drivers is that we have increased the size of our business due to increased workloads and a new contract with another major company.
80hours + a week? Maybe for some companies, but that is not how we work.
I started this company 7 years ago next week with 6 drivers. 5 of those are still with me today.
Now we have 50 driver positions, of which 46 positions are filled with drivers who are regularly working and pulling in regular money.

Unless you have correct facts relating to my business, then please refrain from posting drivel.
I'm offering members of this forum, the opportunity to earn some money driving cars.
What is it exactly you are offering?

EFA.

If your company was as decent as your posts claim in this thread you would not even be needing to advertise as the vacancies would be filled by word of mouth and/or you would have a backlog of drivers on file waiting for vacancies to come up. But you don't... and that says it all.

I will leave it at that and let people make up their own minds about plating work before you go crying to the mods again to get my posts removed because you don't want people to see the true picture.

Just like the 'true' picture you are portraying?

So, how can you let people make their own minds up when you are offering up such unfounded comments?

As a member on here and being a car related job, it makes sense for me to come here to advertise and offer people work. Just part of the community spirit which you seem to have lost along the way.

And yes, I do have a few names of people on file and they have been emailed out as well this morning, but it doesn't mean they are suitable and it doesn't mean I shouldn't offer out the opportunity here or anywhere else for that matter. And lets face it, people don't just sit around on their arses if I didn't have any vacancies at the time they enquired and the majority of people whose names I have on file have probably got work already. Out of 7 I emailed this morning, 3 have already had the courtesy to mail back to state they have found alternative employment, one is coming to the office on Monday morning and 3 others I am waiting for a reply back.