I am seeking to leave my current company Tyson. Tyson starts you off with 40 cents a mile with experience and getting 3000-3300 weekly, then about 3 months in you are slowly dropped to 2000-2500 weekly. They justify this by saying they cant help the long layovers at their own plants. Their excuses are not logical at all to me, but since I wont take the time to figure it. The health insurance for my family of 3 is $38 plus $8 dental weekly under bcbs of arkansas, so the cost and coverage limits are a great deal. But with the constant drops in miles for the last 3 months, my family and I cant afford to stay here. I am looking for a company with great pay, capability to have 3,000 miles or more weekly, great health insurance cost/coverage, and that actually cares about their employees in every way. I cannot take more of the sitting for a whole day waiting for paperwork or a load to be finished when the plant has sent the load to dispatch as ready, then there is no logical reasoning for why it was done in the first place.
I have read your website, other trucker blogs, and there was nothing negative there.
I would like to know if you all could be so kind to share your miles weekly on good weeks,slow weeks, home time, and breakdown weeks please. Also if you can explain what is the better pay plan to sign up for also. How long is the orientation and the exact pay for experienced drivers? I live in Dallas,Texas and read somewhere that there is a terminal near. Also what is your home time policy? I like to stay out a month at a time because I like to stay home 4 to 5 days. This is the best way to make more money 3 weeks out of the month and only get one small check a month in my opinion. What is the holiday and vacation pay like? What is the rule on coming home for holidays? I do not mind working any holidays, but I would love to be home at least for Thanksgiving or Christmas if possible.
Millis is always advertising on many websites and I figured without too many negative reviews out there, I have to look into them. At this point financially with Tyson, I feel like any company that gives plenty of miles is worth it as long as they are not paying less than 35 cents a mile in my opinion. Feel free to share with me any of your personal experiences that you feel that may help me out in the long run also. Any very honest positive and negative details would be greatly appreciated!
Also can someone share with me what mph are your trucks governed at exactly?Tyson is at 70 mph currently
Thanks in advance!
Weekly miles/health benefits cost/home time
Discussion in 'Millis' started by stl85, Aug 21, 2014.
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From what I understand, Tyson Foods has a reputation of being one of the best places in all of the United States of America that an OTR truck driver could possibly work for.
If I had a CDL and were a truck driver, I would absolutely positively be ecstatic about working for Tyson Foods hauling beef, poultry, pork, lamb, and frozen foods OTR to all 48 states.
The grass is NOT always greener on the other side.
You may want to continue to stay on with Tyson Foods. Your decrease in miles could be a temporary slump that may be picked back up again. Going through the forum, you may be hard pressed to find any trucking company that is equal to or exceeds Tyson Foods.
NOTE:
1) You mentioned that your mileage has dropped to 2000 to 2500 miles a week at 40 cents a mile. That is still $800 to $1000 a week plus your low cost health insurance benefits, along with your retirement benefits.
2) There are a lot of OTR drivers, married with children, who do NOT earn the money that you are earning, driving many MORE miles than you are driving.
3) Also, there are a lot of homeless people, along with minimum wage to low wage income workers, (other than truck drivers), who would be more than happy to trade places with you. Be thankful for what you currently have!!
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