Peter Collins
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Know what you’re worth behind the wheel.

Three plain-speaking books for UK lorry drivers: work out what you really earn per hour, what the hours and licence rules actually say, and how to choose or build better work. Written in plain English.

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The British The Driver’s Bundle: Know Your Rate, The 15 Rules and The Seven-Day Pay Check
The gap that isn’t

“There is no shortage of drivers willing to work. There is a shortage of drivers willing to work for what is on offer.”

Drivers have said it for years, in cab chat, at truck stops and under every video about pay. The driving is rarely the problem. It is everything bolted on around it that eats the week.

  • Hours at the gateSat in a queue at a distribution centre, off the clock in all but name, while the booked slot comes and goes.
  • Rates that do not movePay that has barely shifted while diesel, food, rent and mortgages all went up.
  • Nowhere to parkNowhere safe to stop at the end of a shift, and nowhere decent to wash or eat when you do.
  • A cab that watches youTrackers, telematics scores and cameras, run by people who have never slept in a bunk.
  • The body sends the billLong days and early starts: the body takes them at twenty-five and pays for them at fifty.

If the gap is about willingness, a good driver has leverage. You just need three things.

What every hour really pays

Not the advertised rate. The real figure once every unpaid minute is counted.

What the rules actually say

Your hours, breaks, working time, pay for waiting, and the licence you are protecting.

What else is out there

Other firms, other work, agency, limited company or your own lorry, and what each one really pays.

Try it on your last week

The rate on the advert is not your rate.

Your true hourly rate is what you took home for the week, divided by every hour the job took, door to door, including the waiting nobody paid for. Put in your own numbers.

£
£
YOUR TRUE HOURLY RATE
£13.09

That is £2.91 an hour less than the advert.

Illustration only; nothing is sent anywhere. The Seven-Day Pay Check walks you through doing this properly with a week of real records.

  • Waiting at the RDCKnow Your Rate, Chapter 3: what the rules say about waiting, how to keep your own record, and how to raise it with the traffic office.
  • “A wait is not a break”Rule 8 of The 15 Rules: why logging a wait as a break costs you twice.
  • Periods of availabilityThe most misused button on the tacho, explained in plain English in Chapter 5.
  • Comparing job offersChapter 9 works out the true hourly rate of three example jobs side by side. The highest advert does not win.
What’s inside the bundle

Three books. One bundle. The whole job, with nothing dressed up.

One book to understand the job, one to change the habits, one to put a number on your own week.

292pages in all
20handbook chapters
15rules
7day workbook
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The three books of the British Driver's Bundle fanned out together
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The handbook

Know Your Rate

118 pages · 9 chapters

The pay handbook: what you really earn, where it goes, and how to change it.

  • Follow the money from shelf to cab: where your rate comes from, and whether the firm you work for looks healthy or stretched.
  • Hours, working time, breaks and periods of availability on one page, plus tachos, cameras, CPC and medicals.
  • Employed, agency, limited company or owner-driver, the twelve questions to ask before you sign, and the words to use when you ask for more.
  • Clean Air Zones and London permits, parking up safely, cargo theft, fuel that saves real money, and looking after your body and mind.
  • Going it alone: the O-licence, a full year of owner-driver costs, pricing a load, getting paid, and your exit plan.
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The habits

The 15 Rules

86 pages · 15 rules

The rules nobody teaches at training school, the mistake each one fixes, and what that mistake costs you.

  • Rules of Money: know your true hourly rate; if it is not written down, it was not agreed; never price a job you have not costed.
  • Rules of the Law: your card, your licence, your risk; nobody can make you run over your hours; a wait is not a break.
  • Rules of the Long Haul: sleep is part of the job; park for safety, not convenience; plan your exit while you are still earning.
  • Every rule shows the cost in money, licence, health or time, and what to do instead.
  • All fifteen on one page at the back, to keep in the cab.
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The workbook

The Seven-Day Pay Check

74 pages · one week

A one-week plan to find out what you really earn per hour, and what to do about it.

  • Day by day: gather your paperwork, log every hour, find the hidden unpaid time, work out your true rate.
  • Then check your rights, compare the market, and make your move.
  • Fill-in tables, a simple formula and a worked example. A notebook and your phone calculator are all you need.
  • Ends with a decision: ask for more, change job, or change how you work, with the words to use.

Sold together as one bundle. The three books are written to work as a set: understand the job, fix the habits, then audit your own week.

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In a nutshell

Count every hour. Compare properly. Then decide.

What the books help you do, in three short loops. The figures are examples, not promises. Your own numbers are the ones that matter.

1. The real hourly rateAdd the hours nobody paid for, and the advertised rate shrinks. (Illustration.)
2. Choose better workThe higher advert is not always the better job. Ask the questions before you sign.
3. The seven-day auditOne week of paying attention to your own time, one step a day.
Look inside

Real pages, not a mock-up.

Tables, checklists, worked examples and plain steps you can use on your next shift. Scroll across.

Page from Know Your Worth, Chapter 3: The Unpaid Day
Know Your Rate · Ch. 3The unpaid day: anatomy of a long shift at an RDC
Page from Know Your Worth, Chapter 9: Reading a Job Offer
Know Your Rate · Ch. 9Three job offers, worked out per real hour
Page from Know Your Worth, Chapter 18: Pricing a Load Properly
Know Your Rate · Ch. 18Pricing a load: the formula and a worked example
Page from Know Your Worth, Appendix A: Quick-Reference Checklists
Know Your Rate · Appendix AQuick-reference checklists for the cab
Page from The 15 Rules of the Road, Rule 1
The 15 Rules · Rule 1What the mistake costs you
Page from The 7-Day Pay Audit, Day 4
The Seven-Day Pay Check · Day 4Your true hourly rate, step by step

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Peter Collins
Meet the author

Peter Collins

Peter is a UK HGV driver. On his YouTube channel, Peter Collins, he talks about the job as drivers actually live it: the pay, the hours, the waiting, the parking and the pressure, and the viewers who watch it are mostly drivers too.

These books grew out of the questions that keep coming up there. They set out how the money flows, what the rules really say, how to compare one job against another, and what a truck really costs to run, in plain English, from the driver’s side, and fair to the good employers and honest hauliers who do things properly.

Knowing your worth is never about cutting corners. A driver who knows the rules properly is harder to push around, not easier.

The books speak as books, not memoirs: examples are illustrations and their numbers are labelled as such. Where law, tax or health is involved, they tell you where to check: GOV.UK, DVSA, DVLA, HMRC, ACAS, an accountant or your GP.

Watch Peter on YouTube

Before you buy

Questions drivers ask

Are these printed books?

No. The bundle is three PDF ebooks: Know Your Rate (118 pages), The 15 Rules (86 pages) and The Seven-Day Pay Check (74 pages). You can print any page for your own use.

What can I read them on?

Anything that opens a PDF: a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. No special app or account is needed.

How do I get them after paying?

Checkout is handled by Commas. As soon as payment goes through your download link appears on screen and arrives by email.

Can I buy just one of the books?

No, they are sold together as one bundle. They are written as a set: the handbook, the rules behind it, and the workbook to apply it to your own week.

Is it up to date, and does it cover my work?

It is written for lorry drivers working in Great Britain in 2026. The rules change, so every chapter shows the date it was checked.

Is this legal or financial advice?

No. It explains the rules and the money in plain English and points you to GOV.UK, the DVSA, DVLA, HMRC or ACAS for your own situation.

I’m thinking of going owner-driver. Is there enough on that?

Book one, part five, covers it: getting an operator’s licence, a year of owner-driver costs, pricing a load and getting paid.

What if it isn’t for me?

Refunds follow the policy on the checkout page. If something is wrong with your download, email us and we will put it right.

The job is worth more than it pays. Start by putting a number on it.

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