Yeah, definately not get rich quick. I paid £1200 to get my C+E (artic. This is because you have to do the rigid licence first).
As I said in an earlier post I take home around £400/week (£500/week topline pay). What I forgot to mention is that I work about 70 hours a week (not just driving because of the laws but also on duty time). The extra money comes from a tax free night out allowance (£19 a night). Generally I do 4 nights out a week. Base rate is £5.80/hr, overtime after 8 hours is time and a half. Sundays are £16/hr.
So you see, it's not money for nothing. BUT if you want to save for your commercial, it beats sitting in an office and the work is there if you are a hard worker and don't expect money for nothing. Plus you spend hardly anything living in the cab if you don't mind pasta every night!
With regard to training, what you need to do is open the yellow pages and look under L.G.V. Training or Driving schools. They should give you all the prices etc. If you want to carry on after that you need to get a Provisional L.G.V entitlement pack from your post office. This will include a medical form which can be entertained by any G.P. Prices generally range from £30-£90. Once you pass that (you should if you're a pilot) then you need to send off for provisional entitlement to drive L.G.Vs on your car licence. Then you can start to train. You also have to complete a theory exam which is very much common sense! This all sounds like a pain in the a*se but it is all explained in the forms available from the post office.
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