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How much should HGV training cost?

Driver medical £50-£150

Theory tests £60*

Driving course £800-£1920

Driver CPC Module 4 (Initial CPC) ** £150-£300

Driver CPC 35 hours (Periodic Training) ** £150-£500

Digital tachograph card £32

* £37 if doing periodic training (see below)

** To get your HGV licence you will need to do either Module 4 or 35 hours periodic training.

So £2000 is actually more like £4000 or around £4300 or so with the DCPC.

Wages. £7-£9/hr is typical - Tesco shelf stackers earn more per hour. International work pays less than doing just UK work. I have a friend who does earn £30k but he leaves home early Monday morning and gets back late Friday spending all week out in the truck, sleeping in it - basically living in an 8ft wide, 6ft long and 5ft high metal box kipping in laybys, overcrowded truckstop and motorway service car parks. The firms paying the big money want experienced drivers though. WAGES ARE BACK TO WHAT THEY WERE IN THE EARLY 2000's.

The average working week is 55hrs usually starting or finishing between 4am to 6am. There are 8-5 jobs at builders merchants and the like but he'd not earn any more than he does now. Legally you can work up to a maximum 15hrs a day and 84hrs in a week and the trampers at Stobarts and container companies do just that. If you do a 15hr day you'll be expected to start again after just a 9hr break. If you finish 12hrs after starting then you've had an early finish. There is no such thing as a guaranteed finish time. Once you've put the key in the ignition, all bets are off and sometimes even before that. I've turned up to work at 3am to find a flat tyre which then adds 2-3hrs onto the day whilst it gets fixed.