- Location
- South Wales UK
Whats the going rate for a self employed tractor driver?
- Thread starter Winklepicker
- Start date
Terrible wages with the cost of living where it is ,especially if your only doing 38-40hrs.
- Location
- Hereford
Agreed . Surely a decent tractor driver is worth £15 an hour ? ...or am I wrong
Hence tax payers are financing these low paying companies by the way of Universal Credit , no family man can survive on minimum wage without government (tax payer ) assistance.
Should be but what average sized farm can afford workmen on £600+ / week for 40 hrs, 52 weeks of the year
- Location
- South Wales UK
That's why no one want to work in this Country then possibly???
Nobody wants the s.hit jobs on s.h.it money anymore, we are going to have to pay higher wages to get the worse jobs done and wealthy business owners/shareholders are going to have to share the wealth . Nobody starts or stays working on farms just for the money though, sometimes doing the job you like is worth a paycut
Gerbert
Member
- Location
- Dutch biblebelt
The minimum wage isn't mandatory. If you think you are worth more, ask more or go somewhere else.
i bet his names diesel dick.Probably get a lad in wales to bring a tractor and trailer for £12 hr
- Location
- South Molton
It does depend on the area you live in.
Buying or renting in the SE is vastly different to West Wales.
House prices locally have risen 22% in the last year.
No one should be working on a farm for minimum wage these days , there's plenty of unskilled work out there paying considerably more and generally it`s a lot more easy than farm work with more sociable hours.
betweenthelines
Member
- Location
- southwest
What you pay a person with basic skills has to be reflected in what you pay your better qualified or experienced staff.
If someone comes in for a few days to drive a tractor hauling silage trailers and you pay him £15/hour, your 12 days/fortnight herdsman on £30k ain't going to be too impressed when he realises he's a skilled man on £10/hr!
If someone comes in for a few days to drive a tractor hauling silage trailers and you pay him £15/hour, your 12 days/fortnight herdsman on £30k ain't going to be too impressed when he realises he's a skilled man on £10/hr!
Ivorbiggun
Member
- Location
- Norfolk
Farm owners can afford it, do you ever see them going without, they’ve been lying to us for years just to line their own pockets. Just ask yourself why you’re driving a machine worth hundreds of thousands pounds on just over the minimum wage.
kiwi pom
Member
- Location
- canterbury NZ
You're self employed so you set the rate, what were you thinking of charging?
Area dependant, probably not much more than a tenner for basic work like that, less if you're only 18/19
Is anyone actually on, or pay the high rates mentioned on here?
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Self employed at £11/hr, if he’s any good he is seriously undervaluing himself.
kiwi pom
Member
- Location
- canterbury NZ
Very true. He/she has to get someone to pay higher rates though, I'm not sure many will.
Ivorbiggun
Member
- Location
- Norfolk
That’s the problem, farmers need dragging into the year 2021, most are still stuck in 1921.
When low paid farm workers (<£14.00ph) see the boss buying more land , new tractors and a new 4x4`s it has to grate when they drive home in their f**ked car to their rented terraced house, it`s the one industry where the employer really is living in the dark ages , in construction good workers are paid very well and at managerial levels often given the use of a new 4x4 to keep them on side.
How else will they buy more land for a few £100k every 3 or 4 years and new £100k tractors if they pay you a fair wage ?