RushmoreTrucker - Reviews

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Pros
$29-35ish an hour for super easy work (There's a weekend differential of $5/hr and a health insurance differential of $5/hr, but if you already have insurance and decline you just keep the differential money which is nice) Home every day typically (you can get unlucky if a postal load going back home your way doesn't work out for one reason or another)
Cons
Almost everybody's hours are getting cut They're increasingly forced to stay overnight Most areas are losing postal contracts No overtime Bad per diem for fly in drivers ($150/week. Construction companies will pay that PER DAY, you know, what "per diem" literally means. Per diem could've been a great way to boost driver pay untaxed and make everybody involved better off) Cameras in the trucks (which are unreliable and fail all the time. I'm not sure if this is a pro or a con)

When I first started, the job was fantastic. Super easy, hourly pay for all on duty miles. The one crack in this facade was that they had promised overtime pay but there was, in fact, no overtime pay. Then, as others have stated, I discovered that this operates like a union company without a union. The post office made them reorganize the routes, everybody rebid, and I went from 50-60 hours to less than 30 because I had the least seniority at the company. From $1500-1800 take home/week, down to $750-900. Night and day! It started off paying better than sysco for home every day dry van dedicated routes and now I'm literally part time. I'm gonna have to get a second job! There's no clear path for me to get back to six figures. Just pure luck. Even though 99% of gamblers quit right before the big win, I won't be taking my chances much longer. This place forced me back into food service.

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