If he gets a % of what the truck earns then I bet he gets a f*****g good wedge if the truck has a good week. My missus father owns his own rig. He does very well out of it, only works the summer.
I'm not moaning. Think I get a pretty good rate for the hours I do. As its agency, I can choose when I want to work and when I don't. Make more over a weekend than my brother in law does all week working in a warehouse. And I do the lot, trunking, multidrops, shop runs, shunting. At the minute working for a glass bottle haulier, so have to rope all the pallets individually. Done my fair