Re: Tanker drivers

On 18 Jun, 17:07, "Brimstone" <brimstone520-n...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
thagor2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jun 18, 3:16 pm, Conor <conor_tur...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you think it's a lot, there's nothing to stop you getting a
licence and driving a truck. Application forms are available at the
post office.

41K would be a lot of money for being a dustman. Doesn't mean I'd want
to do it as a career but it does make a mockery of pay scales in this
country when scientists don't earn that much and police & nurses &
many other somewhat more vital jobs than truckers ** don't come
anywhere close.

** Sorry , but if truckers all went on strike tommorow plenty of
people on car licenses could shift most of the stuff in transits and
7.5 tonners, not so if police or hospital staff walked out.

The skills involved in doing a job are only a part of the justification for
a given pay rate. Just because a brain surgeon goes through a longer and
more intensive training than a dustman doesn't mean that a dustman isn't
worth the same amount of money based on his contribution to the welfare of
society as a whole.-

In practice, the skills and qualifications required can bear a very
dim relationship to pay scales. As a lawyer, I earn considerably more
than I earned as a scientific researcher, despite the fact that my
training as a scientist took longer and was probably harder.
.

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