Ugh! Hauling Mail.

The work is easy, the driving is easy, the pay is good (enough), the hours are regular,,,,


BUT THE INEFFICIENTCY & BUREAUCRACY HURTS MY BRRRRAAAIN!!!

Load 1 truck full? When you can load 5 trucks 20% each?

*head explodes*

 

Your milage may vary,,,

In my case it was dumb luck. I got fired from a place and was desperate for the next available job, frankly anywhere even non-CDL work. Saw an ad in the paper (might have even been craigslist) company was an hour away but they were running trucks remotely from a facility 5 miles away. And I was comfortable running into NYC which apparently most of their existing drivers refused to do.

Went up for an interview and in the middle of filling out a huge application package there are W2's and other payroll paperwork.

Interview Friday, drive on Monday. Filing for unemployment took longer.

Also I should point out I don't work DIRECTLY for the post office. I work for a contracted trucking company. Their primary ops are general freight and OTR. this is just a consistent money generator for them (once they win a bid for the linehaul) from the looks of it, it's also the last stop for their equipment before the scrapyard. I've got a 13 year old Columbia that can barely pass a DOT. No a/c, and the passenger window doesn't open. The mirrors were once power but now they're broken and so they can't be adjusted much. Trailers are even uglier.

Mostly though it's more sitting than driving. I think I'll move on in a few years. I don't wanna do this long term.

 

Also we're small potatoes compaired to other trucking firms attached to the post office. We're a sub unit of a 30+ unit company only 4 dedicated postal units.

Other outfits have 10-15 trucks per night pulling into the same facility. Some just go back and forth from the air-freight terminal at the airport to the sorting facility. 20 miles each way, as many as they can do in a shift.

And NYC has these cool looking lowrider Mack cabovers with lowboy trailers. I've seen them in NYC many times and they also congregate at the Newark terminal I hit. They go through the tunnels into Manhattan.

 

Whether I stay with it or not depends on if I can get a 2nd job or my wife can work full time.

The money is there for bills and that's about all, I'm trying to find a 2nd job for savings & spending cash. If I can't I'm just going to go with another outfit with a higher bottom line.

The nicest part of this run is the stable hours.