The advert adds: "The successful candidates
The roles are for 37 hours a week, with the first shift starting at 4.30am and the last at 1.45am.
The salary for the job is being advertised as between £19,259 and £20,355.''
I get far more than that in my current 7.5t job with more sociable hours.
That said I used to be a volunteer vintage tram driver in a museum and know about all the safety stuff that goes with it, driving for a hobby is quite different from driving for a living, you need to earn enough to put bread on the table and live comfortably, Blackpool tram driver salary wouldn't tempt me to relocate and give up a lot of workplace grandfather's rights, benefits and seniority a few years short of planned retirement.
On another tangent looking at the wider scope of the transport industry as a whole...
My workplace is actively recruiting with free in house training thrown in, we havenoticed a drop in driver's since CPC, Brexit many with 7.5t grandfather's right licences are being aged out and retiring, Covid has put the spanners in the works as well,
I have never been tempted to move to HGV as you drive stupid hours, forced to divert off the motorways when there's roadworks, you need to watch for low bridges on A roads in the dark and if you run out of hours you're stuck halfway across the country with time critical loads in the back for an extra £7,000 on top of my current salary, it's just not worth it, having a life is more important.
In the wider haulage industry, a lot of this is down to poor pay, you got the same money stacking shelves european drivers willing to work for less, being treated poorly by employers, DVSA fining you, CPC, it didnt have a good image and people don't realise that if drivers stops delivering in 3 days shelves will start to empty, 1 week you will have nothing, 2-3 weeks rioting in the street and panic buying, the Army Logistics Corps is on standby to fill the gaps if it gets that bad.