New YRC driver needs advice!

I would stay on the extra board..team driving SUCKS..The 15% paycut did us all in..3 years goes by fast...we should snap back to top scale in 2019..but you will get paid for everything you do here...or you could go sit in a sleeper truck at a truck stop all weekend long for no pay..Yea just hang in there.your worst day at LTL is better than your best day OTR....

 

When I worked for non-union YRC Logistics, I stayed on the extra-board and always refused bid runs. The other drivers were upset because I made a few thousand a year more than they did; it was none of their business anyway. I had an assigned sleeper and ran solo. Picked up the runs that were unexpected and the bid drivers weren't allowed to take them away from me. Loved it! I might get a short run or a cross country run; I didn't care either way.

I used to really gripe the other drivers when it was time to renew the bid runs. When the list was handed to me to pick a set of runs, I would hand it back and say,"Not interested, don't want the pay cut. I'll stay on the extra board."

 

Would you mind if I ask you what your starting payscale is?

 

I would say 17-18 per hour range maybe 44cpm..is my guess,I dont really know exact numbers in mississippi..

 

My advice is to run the other way screaming

 

And run to what ?

 

Any of the much better LTL carriers out there like ODFL, Federal Express, UPS, or Saia Motor Freight. I prefer to not be told when I can and cannot work, or giving a % of my earnings to a bunch of people who see me as a bargaining chip. Just my opinion, take it or leave it.

 

and how is it you anything about those companies based on all that one year of driving in your 22 years on this earth ? Wait I know ..you heard......

 

Just because I am young does not mean I have not been around the industry my whole life. My father has been doing this longer then you have, 33 years to be exact. Unlike most people, and I am assuming you as well I didn't just pick this job as a last resort. I have had from the time I was 7 till now of researching and reading and talking with my father's owner op buddy's and Co workers to come up with a pretty good opinion. And just like I said it was an opinion . No need to talk down on someone just because I'm young. If I would not have put my age on my profile would it have changed your response?