How Much do Tesco delivery drivers get paid

SIX PACK

I just sent them on my Cv but don't see much info on what kind of Salary they pay. I have read on a 2006 thread that average take home pay is €600pw which isn't bad.
Wonder has the pay rate stayed the same?
Thanks for any info Regards Sixpack

The_Conductor

I seriously doubt people are netting 600 a week after tax- thats the equivalent of grossing 42k before tax (here's the PWC tax calculator- plug in 42k and see for yourself)

wobbles

I dont think the drivers will get paid anymore than the regular Tesco Staff. Anyone on decent money in Tesco now will have been there 18 years+. New staff will have different contracts with increments after 18 and 36 months

JohnDx

Wage is'nt that great....
For deliveries to stores and customers €11.50/hr working for agency,
€9.50/hr working direct for Tesco., and after 40 hours work, your paid 12/hr. Sat and Sun you get gratuity payment up to €30/day. Maybe tax free so I've heard, but don't build up your hopes.
You will need a C1 licence for home/customer deliveries
For store deliveries you will need C and or EC licence.

SIX PACK

I have the Hgv licence. Home delivery drivers have to be getting more than €11.50 that's definitely not right, That must be the basic then productivity bonuses on top of that maybe!

I've done courier work few years back and some weeks I could make 900 but ud be putting in a lot of hours driving for that.

dellas1979

SIX PACK wrote: »

Home delivery drivers have to be getting more than €11.50 that's definitely not right

Can I ask you about the above/am curious, why do they have to be getting more?

highlandseoghan

A friend works for them in Portlaoise and is getting €10 per hour. Why do you think they have to be getting more than €11.50 per hour. It is not the same as being a courier, they dont use there own transport or insurance thats all paid for by tesco. Anyone who doesnt have a job and has a C licence I think its a good wage.

SIX PACK

€10ph is okay if your single & don't have much living expenses
.Rate should be €14 - €15ph giving the level of responsibility you have

No wonder their profits are up in the Billions.

hfallada

SIX PACK wrote: »

€10ph is okay if your single & don't have much living expenses
.Rate should be €14 - €15ph giving the level of responsibility you have

No wonder their profits are up in the Billions.

Ah, what responsibility is there? You are just bring groceries to a door and putting the plastic trays into the van. There is no handling of cash.Its simply delivering.

boardsuser1

i'm a recently departed Tesco driver,the money is very very good to be fair

_Whimsical_

hfallada wrote: »

Ah, what responsibility is there? You are just bring groceries to a door and putting the plastic trays into the van. There is no handling of cash.Its simply delivering.

In fairness there is a bit more to it than that. You're working on a tight schedule,going into people's homes dropping messages on their table, chatting to then, being personable, representing the business, you have to be very trustworthy and have good interpersonal skills.My mum gets them every week and I have to say the guys are always really nice, always have a chat, help her taking stuff out of the trays. Their friendliness and helpfulness has done more to endear her to tesco than any offer or money back vouchers etc. I think when you're going into people's homes you have more responsibility than when you're writing full-time packing a truck or working in store. I'd have thought the salary would be better.

Volvoair

SIX PACK wrote: »

I just sent them on my Cv but don't see much info on what kind of Salary they pay. I have read on a 2006 thread that average take home pay is €600pw which isn't bad.
Wonder has the pay rate stayed the same?
Thanks for any info Regards Sixpack

not a ****ing hope.....do really think a van driver is going to get that kind of money :pac:. you would be extremely lucky to get half it after deductions :rolleyes:

The_Conductor

SIX PACK wrote: »

€10ph is okay if your single & don't have much living expenses
.Rate should be €14 - €15ph giving the level of responsibility you have

No wonder their profits are up in the Billions.

Tesco loose between 14 and 22 Euro per delivery- the charges they make bear little semblence to the cost of providing the service. Also- far from them making billions- their profits are plummeting- and they have made a loss in Ireland in each of the past 2 quarters (which they are blaming on excessive use of couponing by customers).

Tesco are in fact in severe financial difficulty.

Armistice

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

In fairness there is a bit more to it than that. You're working on a tight schedule,going into people's homes dropping messages on their table, chatting to then, being personable, representing the business, you have to be very trustworthy and have good interpersonal skills.My mum gets them every week and I have to say the guys are always really nice, always have a chat, help her taking stuff out of the trays. Their friendliness and helpfulness has done more to endear her to tesco than any offer or money back vouchers etc. I think when you're going into people's homes you have more responsibility than when you're writing full-time packing a truck or working in store. I'd have thought the salary would be better.

It's not exactly a 4 year degree + experience type job is it. Don't see why it should be payed like one. You are essentially, carrying plastic trays a few meters from a van and back, and then driving a van.

No offence meant but if Tesco drivers can get 600-900 per week as some suggest then thats very strange. There are many professional engineers, scientists and Accountants on less.

boardsuser1

€13.60 for newbies, €17 for the established lads,that's the hourly rate

bigroad

Its all very mad Ted they pay their van drivers 13.60 and the artic drivers get 11.50 .,

boardsuser1

bigroad wrote: »

Its all very mad Ted they pay their van drivers 13.60 and the artic drivers get 11.50 .,

Yep I found that mad as well that the van drivers were on that money yet eddie stobart drivers are on €2 an hour less for a much bigger vehicle

dave1982

read somewhere some arctic drivers drivers on about 9 per hour

boardsuser1

dave1982 wrote: »

read somewhere some arctic drivers drivers on about 9 per hour

Fas advertised some at €8.65 a while back

SIX PACK

Slave labour exploitation. Race to the bottom comes to mind. This is why employees of these Big International companies need to be in a Union & getting a fair wage Health insurance Holiday pay etc.
The cost of everything in this country youd need to be taking home €500pw to have any standard of living

boardsuser1

SIX PACK wrote: »

Slave labour exploitation. Race to the bottom comes to mind. This is why employees of these Big International companies need to be in a Union & getting a fair wage Health insurance Holiday pay etc.
The cost of everything in this country youd need to be taking home €500pw to have any standard of living

Tesco are part of the mandate trade union in Ireland that may explain it

keysersoze0330

SIX PACK wrote: »

Slave labour exploitation. Race to the bottom comes to mind. This is why employees of these Big International companies need to be in a Union & getting a fair wage Health insurance Holiday pay etc.
The cost of everything in this country youd need to be taking home €500pw to have any standard of living

The market is flooded with drivers, construction workers and indeed all types of employees from all sectors. Unfortunately this means companies can pay what they like.

Puibo

SIX PACK wrote:

€10ph is okay if your single & don't have much living expenses .Rate should be €14 - €15ph giving the level of responsibility you have

What responsibility? Should fast food delivery driver be on 15 ph too?

Arbiter of Good Taste

The_Conductor wrote: »

Tesco loose between 14 and 22 Euro per delivery- the charges they make bear little semblence to the cost of providing the service. Also- far from them making billions- their profits are plummeting- and they have made a loss in Ireland in each of the past 2 quarters (which they are blaming on excessive use of couponing by customers).

Tesco are in fact in severe financial difficulty.

And is that before or after their little recent financial irregularities?.....

SIX PACK

Puibo wrote: »

What responsibility? Should fast food delivery driver be on 15 ph too?

Fast food delivery is part time job and usually a bit of extra cash on the side.

Arbiter of Good Taste

SIX PACK wrote: »

Fast food delivery is part time job and usually a bit of extra cash on the side.

Any idea what kind of money fast food delivery drivers are on? I normally tip, but if they're making €13 an hour, then Fvck that.

_Whimsical_

Armistice wrote: »

No offence meant but if Tesco drivers can get 600-900 per week as some suggest then thats very strange. There are many professional engineers, scientists and Accountants on less.

So what if an accountant makes less though? The market decides the value of a service, it's not always ascribed through a hierarchy of educational attainment.

Someone said they could theoretically earn 900 working an awful lot of extra hours.
11.50 agency/9.50 directly employed an hour was the sum quoted initially, you'd be going along time before you'd hit 900,particularly given that you are lugging big crates around a lot of the time. One guy told me during the summer that he brings 15 5L bottles once a week to a family living on the 5th floor of an apartment block where the lift has never worked. You wouldn't be able to put in a whole lot more than 40 hours in the week I'd imagine.

Anyway if Tesco ARE paying decent money they must be finding it worth their while. From what I've met they carefully select who they employ and paying extra for decent staff is worth it. You have one rough looking/ rough seeming guy coming into your home chances are you won't bother ordering again.

Newstreet

KC161 wrote: »

i'm a recently departed Tesco driver,the money is very very good to be fair

Do they recruit regularly for that work? I'd imagine there are few enough positions. Do you mind my asking why did you leave it? What kind of hours or shifts were there?

boardsuser1

Newstreet wrote: »

Do they recruit regularly for that work? I'd imagine there are few enough positions. Do you mind my asking why did you leave it? What kind of hours or shifts were there?

I was there almost 3 years,the only vacancy that arose in that time was the one caused by my departure, I had no option but to leave on health grounds those jobs are like gold!!! The hours varied, could be a ten hour day shift or an evening 4 hour shift a weekly roster is a combination of both,

SIX PACK

More vacancies on jobs.ie today they might be hiring in New year. Pity they don't check cvs that are already sent in.

boardsuser1

SIX PACK wrote: »

More vacancies on jobs.ie today they might be hiring in New year. Pity they don't check cvs that are already sent in.

They favour in store applications and family of current staff first, that's how i got in

Jesus Wept

SIX PACK wrote: »

€10ph is okay if your single & don't have much living expenses
.Rate should be €14 - €15ph giving the level of responsibility you have

No wonder their profits are up in the Billions.

The news is handy. There are social care workers in this country who are paid considerably less than 14-15e per hour, who take care of people with extreme and undiagosed mental disabilities, on nights - at times by themselves.

The_Conductor wrote: »

Tesco loose between 14 and 22 Euro per delivery- the charges they make bear little semblence to the cost of providing the service. Also- far from them making billions- their profits are plummeting- and they have made a loss in Ireland in each of the past 2 quarters (which they are blaming on excessive use of couponing by customers).

Tesco are in fact in severe financial difficulty.

Finding it hard to imagine they are losing 22 quid per delivery. Why do it? Aldi and Lidl don't deliver.

I haven't heard about the couponing thing, it was dodgy accounts practice going on. They also shouldn't be losing money on coupons.

As for their hiring policy, it's dire from What I've seen in the shops. The two van lads I dealt with were sound though.

braddun

11-12 euro an hour

ezra_pound

wobbles wrote: »

I dont think the drivers will get paid anymore than the regular Tesco Staff. Anyone on decent money in Tesco now will have been there 18 years+. New staff will have different contracts with increments after 18 and 36 months

Haddington road agreement does not apply to tesco delivery drivers.

Just to clarify.

boardsuser1

braddun wrote: »

11-12 euro an hour

Nearly €14 p/h

treklane

currently working for tesco in munster there 4 years rates vary a bit but im on 15.09e per hour time/half on sundays

JulesInKy

Armistice wrote: »

It's not exactly a 4 year degree + experience type job is it. Don't see why it should be payed like one. You are essentially, carrying plastic trays a few meters from a van and back, and then driving a van.

No offence meant but if Tesco drivers can get 600-900 per week as some suggest then thats very strange. There are many professional engineers, scientists and Accountants on less.

Husbands old job involved both HGV and delivery driving. It involves a lot more than your description. It's not all urban, but deliveries to rural areas, where the roads aren't even wide enough for two cars sometimes. On the road, drivers have to contend with all sorts of shenanigans - the guys out for a quick claim, less-competent drivers, jay-walkers. He was put in fear more than once on early morning runs by fellas fancying that he had money on board. The company truck was parked outside our house and broken into three times, as well as having the diesel tank drilled and emptied twice. It's all-weather, not sitting inside a nice warm dry office all the time. There's a lot more I could say, but I'm sure you get the gist.

I find it incredibly snobby, the insinuation that just because a person went to college and earned a degree or other form of so-called "higher education", that their job automatically entitles them to a higher rate than a skilled employee.

Twenty Grand

This thread is 4 years old.

JulesInKy

Twenty Grand wrote: »

This thread is 4 years old.

If there was a rule against thread necromancy I'm sure old threads would be locked. Doesn't make what I said any less valid. Why do people get so wound up about old threads being revived? Another forum I post in actually encourages you to check if the topic is already/has already been discussed.

Twenty Grand

JulesInKy wrote: »

If there was a rule against thread necromancy I'm sure old threads would be locked. Doesn't make what I said any less valid. Why do people get so wound up about old threads being revived? Another forum I post in actually encourages you to check if the topic is already/has already been discussed.

Woah there horsey, I just pointed it out in case you didn't realise it.