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Liaising with customers is probably the only relatable thing to your job with mine. I'm a forklift driver/yard labourer for a builder's merchant.
I signed with an agency as I was desperate for work and in a pretty big hole I couldn't get out of. I worked 12 hours 8am - 8pm on a rubbish tip via agency. 6 months later I was moved to Travis Perkins to work temporarily until they got another yard lad. So I thought I'd apply for it myself as they seemed happy with the graft I was doing and they immediately accepted me.
So here I am under the name of a multi-billion pound company on less pay than when I was on agency lol.
My roles consist of load/unloading arctic wagons, 7.5t trucks, our hiab wagons and other flat-bed/tipper vans on the forklift. I also assist in loading customer's vehicles and writing out tickets of their purchase. I also control stock quantity and overall yard maintenance and presentation. We like a clean yard here lol.
Bro, I understand what you're trying to speak of. Believe it or not, but as a sole proprietor of a generic colored/coloured roofing manufacturer.
I do see the weekly earnings of a laborer under an agency, although from your side. You are what we would call as "Skilled". And I don't know why you're earning low in where ever you are from, but in our country. You have to be earning at least ₱350-400 per day and that is 7.50 per day, and that costing is pretty much from an agency.
But if you were from a heavy equipment company that markets heavy trucks, like boom trucks, fork lift, I forgot what that industrial truck that has a pointy edge that carries coils. You would be earning more, since you're literally the one who will play as the "Negotiator".
By far the only driver which I've never seen how much they earn are people who delivers outside the local provinces. But I every time I get to meet these drivers who does all the shipping, they're pretty whiny.