Part-time driving job at 18? - Saxperience

Robin91 · 10th January 2010, 14:24

Has anyone ever had a part time driving job at 18? Where can you work, and what sort of driving? What's required for the job and what's the pay etc like?

I'm just trying to see what sort of driving jobs you can do at 18 part-time as I'd be interested in trying to get a driving job instead of my current job in a store! Would be much more fun imo. Main thing really is the part-time bit, ~15 hours give or take. Any ideas? E.g. What's required to become a taxi driver?

Preferabley driving in another car to your own (because of wear and tear etc.)

kcsaxo · 10th January 2010, 14:26

forget taxi driver as theres a lot of unseen costs to think of, ie: taxi hire / equipment hire in the taxi etc. only thing i can think of is pizza delivery on a bike or work part time delivering for a hardware company.

Robin91 · 10th January 2010, 14:32

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Originally Posted by kcsaxo

forget taxi driver as theres a lot of unseen costs to think of, ie: taxi hire / equipment hire in the taxi etc. only thing i can think of is pizza delivery on a bike or work part time delivering for a hardware company.

When you say hardware company, is that things like screwfix? (Sorry if that seems a stupid question!) Anyone done deliverys for a local chinese/takeway? If so what was that like?

And when they say you need '1 years driving experience', does that year include learning to drive ? I.e. I started learning on December 2nd 2008, passed on March 31st 2009, will I have a years driving experience already? Or do I have a years driving experience on March 31st 2010?

Cheers!

jordan1 · 10th January 2010, 14:33

Most places you need to be 21 mate, Hard to find a place which will let you drive at 18.

jordan1 · 10th January 2010, 14:35

I also done deliverys on a saturday night for the local Indian, got about 70 on a saturday

Robin91 · 10th January 2010, 14:37

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Originally Posted by jordan1

I also done deliverys on a saturday night for the local Indian, got about 70 on a saturday

How many hours is that doing? Was it a matter of they pay you a flat rate and you cover petrol etc? Or amount per delivery etc? Presumebly your average takeaway is going to be bothered about age/experience?

swampy · 10th January 2010, 15:25

As said most places will want a years experiance, that is of holding a full license.
Some will want 3year and others that you are over 21.
If you use your own car then dont forget to get business use added to the policy

Saxo-Gaz · 10th January 2010, 15:46

I work for a chinese delivering, fridays and saturdays and im 17.
You get payed for delivering, further away the more obviously, they give me 20 petrol money, plus tips and a free meal at the end of the night

Bickerton · 10th January 2010, 15:47

Tesco.com delivery drivers only need to be 18 now

Robin91 · 10th January 2010, 15:48

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Originally Posted by Saxo-Gaz

I work for a chinese delivering, fridays and saturdays and im 17.
You get payed for delivering, further away the more obviously, they give me 20 petrol money, plus tips and a free meal at the end of the night

You get £20 a night?

Robin91 · 10th January 2010, 15:49

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Originally Posted by Bickerton

Tesco.com delivery drivers only need to be 18 now

Yeah I was looking up about that as there seem to be confusion as to whether or not it was 21 or not, is it definitely 18 then? Anyone work for them part-time? What's the job like?

lakey_xs · 10th January 2010, 15:50

1 of my mates gets £140 a night sat-sun doing indian deliverys and in the week does couirer work on 1.2k a month

Bickerton · 10th January 2010, 15:52

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Originally Posted by Robin91

Yeah I was looking up about that as there seem to be confusion as to whether or not it was 21 or not, is it definitely 18 then? Anyone work for them part-time? What's the job like?

Used to be 21, is 18 now

Robin91 · 10th January 2010, 15:52

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Originally Posted by lakey_xs

1 of my mates gets £140 a night sat-sun doing indian deliverys and in the week does couirer work on 1.2k a month

£140 a NIGHT? Jesus christ that's good, how many hours does he do a night?

Lucas_LFC · 10th January 2010, 16:09

deliverig for a chinese, u usually get a flat rate of £20, then depending on how many deliveries you do, the more ££ you make

i.e. dont do any deliveries all nite, u go home with £20

Saxo-Gaz · 10th January 2010, 16:18

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Originally Posted by Robin91

You get £20 a night?

No thats petrol money they give you.

Robin91 · 10th January 2010, 16:21

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Originally Posted by Saxo-Gaz

No thats petrol money they give you.

Oh I see, thought that seemed a bit crap! How much do you normally earn a night?

Saxo-Gaz · 10th January 2010, 17:07

Around 40. But thats only doing like 7-8 deliveries since the chinese is pretty quiet :/

Matts-VTR · 10th January 2010, 17:09

Motor factors delivery driver but te excess on company insurance is a bitch @ 18 is well over a grand so just dont crash!

Robin91 · 10th January 2010, 17:33

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Originally Posted by Saxo-Gaz

Around 40. But thats only doing like 7-8 deliveries since the chinese is pretty quiet :/

Not too bad suppose. I would need to take home around £100+ a week for it to be worth leaving my current job, even then with the wear on the car + petrol it might be hard to earn that much ? Currently do 15 hours a week though.